Catch-up

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Since Session 63

Session 64: The Door Begins to Open

The party escaped the Gauntlight by avoiding the grave knight, checked in with Otari allies, learned more about Doriana's new powers and the Rajani/Nidal thread, spent a full day on shopping and rune work, researched Uravian and the grave knight, then returned to the warded door. Abbas inspected it with prayer and detect magic, and the runes lit as the door began to open. [S64 · 00:01:05 · turn 0011 · scene 001]

New threads since then

The GM did not finalize broader spell access changes. Needle darts and other non-initial spell options can be researched, but immediate replacement was deferred.Latest cited [S64 · 03:16:00 · turn 3856 · scene 007]
The party still has an adamantine chunk and a tetsubo idea, but the adamantine weapon plan was deferred because local crafting and cost were not practical right now.Latest cited [S64 · 03:26:12 · turn 4068 · scene 007]
Veve received a letter from an Absalom friend, but the contents were deferred.Latest cited [S64 · 03:32:18 · turn 4235 · scene 007]

Updated threads since then

Aravian/Uravian, the contract devil one floor below, remains the gatekeeper to the deeper route. Session 064 confirms Carman does not know why Aravian wants him alive, while Dawnflower research identifies Aravian as a dangerous contract devil with protected contracts, fire immunity, holy weakness, silver-relevant resistance, and high-level scrying.Latest cited [S64 · 03:52:31 · turn 4611 · scene 008]
Carman/Carman Rajani: Rose Guard descendant, recovering blacksmith, and Rosa Argentis's family heir. He is sober under probation and remains a town ally, but Uravian/Erevian apparently wants him brought alive into the vaults; Carman does not know why, and session 064 points toward possible Rajani/Nidal royal-bloodline stakes.npc Latest cited [S64 · 01:40:26 · turn 1922 · scene 005]
Doriana, freed of the denizen of Leng, is now stable and secretly manifesting telekinetic/psychic gifts. Veve knows and encouraged practice; the GM indicates the power was likely preexisting and may explain why she was targeted.npc Latest cited [S64 · 00:54:06 · turn 1030 · scene 003]
Each PC's Menhem reward item remains pending: the offer is one item of 7th level or below from Absalom, and session 064 clarifies the order still needs roughly five or six more in-game days.Latest cited [S64 · 00:49:51 · turn 0944 · scene 003]
The grave knight of Nimbaloth/Kalido Harovex is hunting the party — a cursed undead far above their level that sees through invisibility and can only be permanently destroyed by breaking/obliterating its armor. In session 064 the party avoids its metal footsteps, researches grave-knight traits, and later sees fresh signs near the warded-door route.Latest cited [S64 · 04:07:16 · turn 4869 · scene 009]
The Greater Folding Boat is destroyed. Venris bought three water-breathing potions in session 064, but future water traversal still needs a replacement boat, consumable plan, swimming solution, or another workaround.logistics Latest cited [S64 · 02:42:23 · turn 3138 · scene 007]
The party holds four of five silver pentagram/amulet shards for Aravian's door, but in session 064 the warded door began to open when Abbas inspected it with prayer and detect magic. Whether the four-as-five workaround succeeded, whether a fifth shard is still needed, and what waits beyond remain unresolved.Latest cited [S64 · 04:14:33 · turn 4973 · scene 009]
Older active threads (160)
Side rooms scouted but deliberately deferred: a tomb-jelly/slime room and Zebub/devil routes remain unresolved, while the flooded cavern component has now been handled — the hydras were killed and the deeper water encounter yielded the fourth shard but destroyed the boat.Latest cited [S63 · 03:08:57 · turn 4149 · scene 007]
A gug — a sixteen-foot man-eating horror — lurks behind one door (with another in a nearby chamber). The imp warns the party not to mess with it. Unfought; a dangerous pending encounter.Latest cited [S62 · 01:02:14 · turn 0503]
Sizek the imp was left alive and locked in his room. He desperately wants Aravian dead so his contract ends and offered to answer further questions if the party returns. A potential recurring informant/ally — or a loose devil thread to resolve.Latest cited [S62 · 01:03:19 · turn 0513]
The hellforge anvil must be destroyed to deny the enemy a supply of hellforged weapons, but doing so requires holy water (one drop = a large blast of evil energy or the forge exploding). The party left it intact and plans to return with holy water after a trip to Otari.Latest cited [S62 · 00:02:57 · turn 0026]
The route deeper (the elevator down to the 'farm' and further floors) is sealed: Aravian blocked one path with magic and stuffed another with a wall of rubble that would take days/weeks to clear. The party can only descend once they deal with Aravian.Latest cited [S62 · 01:10:21 · turn 0567]
The summoning chamber (behind the slain philosopher) holds Belcorra's summoning circle/altar powered by a pit of fire, granting access to hell. Flagged as a possible first destination but left unexplored — a key lore site tied to how the devils got here.Latest cited [S62 · 01:06:00 · turn 0532]
A drill-chamber elevator is sealed behind a high-level Wall of Force, overlooking a massive dark cavern/dome the party believes accesses the Darklands. They plan to return with a disintegrate spell (~level 12) or to brute-force the wall, then explore below.Latest cited [S61 · 03:35:17 · turn 1911]
A running backlog of unidentified or unattuned magic items awaiting identification in town or via downtime: vials, scrolls, wands, the compass, the fear talisman, the spyglass, the monocle, automatons, the songbird ring, the magical pickaxe, the undeath lantern, the snake-arrow, the Everlight crystal, and the Cloak of the Huntress.loot Record through S58 · Latest cited [S61 · 03:11:02 · turn 1715]
The Darklands cavern below may hold a temple of Nimbaloth, tied to a note in Bulcora's journal about the enemy finding and trying to expand to an underground temple. The party could not confirm it from memory and would need to re-read the journals.Latest cited [S61 · 03:33:51 · turn 1901]
The enemy is amassing destructive war supplies (the prison-cell cache, the mass-produced hellforge weapons) for an 'inevitable assault on Otari.' This raises the stakes for the town and ties the vault delve to a coming attack.Latest cited [S61 · 03:08:28 · turn 1693]
The watcher chamber (where the Oscelus stood guard) has a far door the party has not yet opened. They chose to stop and hold there to avoid progressing without Veve's player fully present.Latest cited [S61 · 04:44:24 · turn 2540]
Venris's transforming clockwork arm (hunter's brooch → silver ghost-touch blade) 'isn't working well.' A quiet hook for a repair, craft check, or upgrade — possibly at Carman/Rajani's workshop.Latest cited [S61 · 04:41:50 · turn 2521]
An elevator at the end of the straight path leads down to a drow city / necropolis full of drow and bioluminescent fungus (per Sinemi). The party flags it as a future destination, deprioritized behind the forge door.Latest cited [S60 · 05:00:42 · turn 2539]
One of the two will-o'-wisps escaped — it fled invisible up a staircase that connects back to the tavern level. It may resurface there.Latest cited [S60 · 03:08:03 · turn 1561]
Sinemi the tiefling bounty hunter was freed, fed, and equipped (light hammer + steel shield) and sent off, warned away from Rajani. A friendly NPC now loose in the vault/world; she said she might see the party in Absalom one day.Latest cited [S60 · 03:45:53 · turn 1884]
The Drover's Band (~600 gp) Venris looted last session remains unclaimed; the party needs to decide who takes it or whether to sell it.Latest cited [S60 · 00:11:03 · turn 0077]
Venris absorbed the recognized bloodletting kukri into his clockwork arm; recovering/swapping it costs a 3-action release. A small loose thread about the arm's capacity ('another high expensive loot absorbed in the void that is Venris').Latest cited [S60 · 04:56:20 · turn 2504]
Where are the four lenses? Vollok wrote he 'recovered them' and would 'keep them safe.' They are not in the empty cupola (checked twice). The party suspects they are hidden far down the tower's beam path, and debates whether they are physical objects or a magical/teleported construct (since hauling them up thirteen floors seems impossible).Latest cited [S60 · 00:08:11 · turn 0053]
Corloc the Barbazu and his groffleet squad were cleared this session, opening up the lower vault floor for exploration (the party's stated reason for the fight). The witch-fire floor 'creepy guy' and other lower-floor rooms remain to be explored.Latest cited [S59 · 04:19:39 · turn 2391]
The bound Rose Guard souls: Otari's ghost senses fragments of his dead comrades' souls in the party's relics, though they never crossed the river of souls and a check says they are not literally inside the relics. To read the book's magically locked final pages the party must either find their maker or sever the binding. Where the whole souls actually are is unknown.Latest cited [S59 · 00:02:42 · turn 0019]
The identity and threat of Belcorra (Belcorra), 'the Lady of the Light' / the Ghost Queen the morlocks worship: the dark sorcerer the Rose Guard defeated, whose spirit is sensed deep in the vaults growing strong enough to return to life. She is confirmed alive/aware of the party and is the campaign's central antagonist.mystery Record through S58 · Latest cited [S59 · 01:53:41 · turn 0959]
The unexplored room behind the fire-door — where the Corloc fight began — is still unchecked. Entering risks ongoing sickened Fortitude saves from the bile splattered across the area. The party debated pushing in versus backtracking to heal, leaving it for next session.Latest cited [S59 · 04:30:13 · turn 2498]
Pending visit to Otari town and follow-up with Wrin (Rin / 'Rune Fulcora'), flagged as possibly the one person who could explain the bound souls and the Gauntlight. The Otari-town trip is the party's stated next pending objective.Latest cited [S58 · 03:52:55 · turn 1816]
Permanent memory loss inflicted by the furnace ghosts (Cid forgot his mother's name and priesthood; Abus lost soldier/vault lore; Venris lost backstory details), and the lingering rot-paranoia 'Pull of the Void' afflicting Venris and Cid with ongoing will saves. Downstream character consequences to track.character Latest cited [S58 · 02:42:40 · turn 3190]
The 'I was Otari, save me from below' wall message and the green ribbon of light. Revealed: town namesake hero Otari Ilvashti died inside the keep and his bound spirit pleads to be saved/leads the party downward. He remains a ghost quest-giver who cannot pass on; what frees him is unknown.mystery Latest cited [S58 · 04:06:07 · turn 4677]
The boastful sauna-dwelling 'Champion' luchador (Mershon/Mission), a boxer-gladiator with handwraps of mighty blows who wants a fight with Bashar/Ashari of the Warped Brew and asks the party to relay his challenge. A small silver-banded chest sits under his bench, spotted but unopened. The party intends to return as a full group to beat him and take the chest.npc Latest cited [S58 · 00:37:27 · turn 0323]
Unexplored areas flagged for return: the Rado reservoir / grotto-with-water, the prisoner-processing/torture chamber, the route toward the Darklands, and a dining-room portal (with a poltergeist) that was never activated. The party suspects they may have missed things and are now better at searching.Latest cited [S58 · 01:07:09 · turn 0570]
Vollok (the drow), his obsessive one-sided fixation on Belcorra, and the Borbo/Mr. Beak immortality scheme to create soul-bound dolls. A recurring vault-villain whose name appears repeatedly; Vollok is later confirmed active and the leech/worm 'Volo' is named as another sentient enemy. By session 37 the party still carries the empty soul-puppet (its soul stone destroyed); the GM points back to Mr. Beak's soul-gem doll as the clearest example of a soul imbued into an object — likely foreshadowing how the Rose Guard companions' souls might be bound.mystery Latest cited [S58 · 04:07:24 · turn 4705]
Why could Otari hear Belcorra's scream from a floor below during the Rose Guard's assault, when he insists it should have been physically impossible? A dangling clue about the night the Gauntlight fell and Belcorra's fate.Latest cited [S58 · 03:43:39 · turn 1747]
Why the Gauntlight lighthouse lit up after lying dark for years, and how to shut it down. It is revealed to be a 'door'/beacon and a weapon built to raze Absalom that teleports monsters into Otari; the party deactivates its upper portion but the deeper power source remains active.mystery Latest cited [S58 · 03:18:39 · turn 3839]
Zarmavdian's/Madvian's recipe book hides unreadable writing in its 'blank' pages, magically locked to the ghost Otari alone. An unseen, angry enemy (the grave knight) had been hunting this journal. Otari, memory-addled and bound by the Gauntlight, promised to recall the concealment method; the party set up an out-of-game homework loop to remind the GM. By session 37 the answer is: to read the pages the party must find the 'magic witch'/wizard who locked it, or sever the connection binding Otari to the mortal plane.mystery Latest cited [S58 · 03:54:25 · turn 4458]
Pending Otari-town errands gated on availability: the priest Otari (run by absent player Dan) still owes the party answers about the book and the grave knight and was not ready, and Venris asked the shop to buy back a Ring of Wizardry he previously sold there — both deferred with 'come back tomorrow.'quest Latest cited [S57 · 00:38:53 · turn 0333]
Several vault areas remain unexplored per the map review: the kitchen/storage/pantry off the tavern, the caves, the reservoir, the torture chamber, and a moved portal chamber. The party flagged these as next-up exploration targets.Latest cited [S57 · 00:38:23 · turn 0328]
The Gauntlight beacon's lens/lattice is missing from its mount, and the tower-top haunt and prior bloodstains are gone. Unexplained — a possible clue about the Gauntlight's state or someone having removed/disabled the beacon.Latest cited [S57 · 00:32:07 · turn 0273]
The pending tavern / War Brew run (and a re-visit to its owner, who 'seemed busy' last time) was deferred to next session along with the Otari follow-up.Latest cited [S57 · 01:16:51 · turn 0686]
The recurring magical bloodstain and its bound blood-ghost (an image/remnant of a stronger spirit) that reappears after being cleaned. Linked to the Gauntlight's haunting and the grieving ghost. By session 36 the old haunt/ghost room is silent and the blood stains are gone, but a still-unresolved ghost lingers in the arena-overlook viewing room reached by a hidden stair.mystery Latest cited [S57 · 01:00:28 · turn 0533]
Nimbaloth, the Empty Death (outer god of despair, ghosts, and swamp) venerated throughout the vaults: shrines, altars, the soul-devouring theme, the void glutton intermediary, and the rot/empty-death affliction. A recurring lore spine behind the vault's horrors.mystery Latest cited [S56 · 02:17:00 · turn 2700]
Rin Sivinxi's star/omen readings owed to the party: a critical-success omen pending reveal, readings deferred when fog rolled in, and her evolving willingness to become more directly involved in the Gauntlight despite her claustrophobia.npc Record through S58 · Latest cited [S56 · 03:38:00 · turn 4600]
The 9th-level witchfire (a hag Belcorra burned alive with green flame) patrolling the prison-vault catwalk. The party first timed its patrol and snuck past, then later returned and destroyed it. Note: it may regenerate in a couple of days, bound to the chamber by rage; Abbas prayed over the burnt pillar to try to prevent its return — whether that worked is unconfirmed.mystery Latest cited [S56 · 03:50:21 · turn 1957]
The central prison chamber holds many dangerous monsters frozen in time inside transparent pillars (a dryad, gibbering mouther, gugs, a gogiteth, gippits, a drider, etc.). The only apparent release is to shatter a pillar (it breaks like glass); the party considered breaking some as an escape tactic but declined. Their purpose and whether/when to free any remain open.mystery Latest cited [S56 · 04:10:08 · turn 2128]
The party is waiting on an absent player (Vol) and will meet up the next in-game morning to plan their next move; shopping is deferred to the following day.Latest cited [S56 · 04:13:11 · turn 2144]
Unexplored leads left behind in the vault: the two locked double-doors with the 'weird keys' upstairs, a Barbazu (bearded devil) commanding lesser creatures behind a closed door, and the one-way-mirror observation room. The party retreated past all of these.Latest cited [S56 · 02:37:18 · turn 1287]
A door near the wisp room was never checked; the GM explicitly flagged it as something not to forget on the way out or next time.Latest cited [S55 · 05:04:42 · turn 2223]
Cid's player was absent and out of contact (two weeks). For now the other three control Cid in combat with no active roleplay; the table plans to look for a sub during the week or decide on a longer-term arrangement. A real-table continuity thread to revisit.Latest cited [S55 · 00:04:55 · turn 0041]
Out-of-game party-roster churn: the GM repeatedly asked players to have/roll up next characters (sessions 20, 22), implying replacements or additions, plus an out-of-game shift to every-other-week Saturday-morning sessions.table Record through S57 · Latest cited [S55 · 00:30:15 · turn 0270]
Push deeper now vs. retreat to camp/Otari to refresh spells: the party is undecided. They fear an 'old JRPG' soft-lock — overextending on resources and getting killed by the witch or drilling enemies on a bad retreat. Tentative lean is to handle the witch then regroup.Latest cited [S55 · 05:05:46 · turn 2229]
Scouting peepholes revealed enemies ahead the party has not engaged: Dreshkins (flesh-warlocks with mechanical pieces) drilling deeper, a large muscly chakram creature (Mulvental-shaped) in an open prison cell, and blue electricity flashes. These are pending threats and possible retreat hazards.Latest cited [S55 · 04:59:11 · turn 2176]
The magical black-and-red diamond/V fragment from Doriana is part of a larger multi-piece object (room for two more diamonds). What it assembles into, and where the other pieces are, is unresolved.Latest cited [S55 · 01:05:13 · turn 0541]
The mushroom-eyed people (myceloids) who drove the mitflits out of the dungeon level and overran Boss Crog/Graugus's underground home. The party promised to reclaim it and accepted the snake-boss's quest to bring back the head of their king. By sessions 34-35 the party sights fleshwarp Morlocks with mechanical pieces and a caged chakram creature ('Moven Talk') through peepholes near the Witchfire room — still unexplored.quest Record through S56 · Latest cited [S55 · 05:03:28 · turn 4833]
Venris's lingering empty-death / Pull-of-the-Void effect is worsening, now manifesting as vivid nightmares of a consuming void in the vault. Recall-knowledge turned up nothing concrete; the party plans to ask about it. A slow-burn threat to track.Latest cited [S55 · 04:48:06 · turn 2078]
A recurring pattern of combats paused mid-encounter when session time ran out, each resumed from saved board state the following session (morlocks s6, acid slug s14, banquet skeletons s21, leech-creature in darkness s22, void-creature s31).table Record through S55 · Latest cited [S54 · 05:01:50 · turn 5658]
Cid/Cidolfus's personal quest: find the Mulon regicide culprits and his stolen family sword/heirlooms, and obtain a hero/family weapon. He courts Rin's omen-readings to help; his backstory parallels Carman's. Drow holy prayer beads later found on Vollok connect to one of Cid's old masters.character Latest cited [S54 · 01:34:02 · turn 0703]
The cluster of Otari town side-quests and contacts the party has accrued and largely deferred: the Osprey Club thieves' guild favor, Rowdy Rockfish's missing son Lazda, Bandy Vanderdash's missing adventurer party, Morblint's rare-tome list, the garrison bounty board (nine posters), the flume sabotage job, and Calino's market jobs. In session 33 the party rediscovered a forgotten Discord quest log (a kobold/trap cave, a book delivery in progress, a missing party of clerics/assistants); these are now trivial given the party's level, and the rescued missing dwarf Lazza is already resolved.quest Latest cited [S54 · 02:07:53 · turn 1030]
The fight with Yazongleer is unresolved — the session ended mid-combat with him reaching for a hidden item behind his back and a possible Cid reactive strike pending. Resume the fight exactly where it paused.Latest cited [S54 · 03:55:09 · turn 1905]
Unexplained intruders and watchers in and around the keep: tracks of someone passing through the Gauntlight entrance, an armored sword-wielding intruder hacking the cupola walls searching for something, and Venris repeatedly feeling watched/followed in Otari with nothing found.mystery Latest cited [S54 · 02:17:39 · turn 1096]
Yazongleer's lair contains a fire-lit map of the Inner Sea / Otari and he was seen casting on his own mirror 'reversed' Ruby — a twin to the party's. The significance of his map and his reversed Ruby is unexplained.Latest cited [S54 · 01:19:44 · turn 0571]
A four-prong round key was looted from Jafakai's body. Veve suspects it is the key she needed during an earlier 'hacker-man' lock attempt. Worth testing against that mechanism.Latest cited [S53 · 01:08:12 · turn 0600]
Jafakai the flesh-warper and the bargain mummy spellcaster were both killed this session; their flesh-golem machine and research notes were destroyed/confiscated to keep the flesh-warping knowledge contained.Latest cited [S53 · 03:40:07 · turn 1964]
The mummy spellcaster's corrected map reveals the true location of the portal chamber (center of the floor, up by the kitchen) and that the laboratory connects via the upstairs stairwell. The portal chamber is a clear next destination.Latest cited [S53 · 01:51:54 · turn 0968]
The party is nearing the end of the Abomination Vaults (a ~10-level campaign) and reached level 8 this session. They need to finalize level-8 build choices offline (e.g., Venris checking whether his thrown-rock damage die improves) before next session.Latest cited [S53 · 03:43:41 · turn 2003]
Veve has 'learned' three spells from her former spirit but cannot currently access/use any of them. She needs to look into why and how to unlock them.Latest cited [S53 · 01:20:54 · turn 0727]
The Otari flume was damaged by fire (apparent sabotage — 'somebody lit it on fire'), with a dozen logs spilled and crashed; it has been dammed and shut down. Unresolved cause and a sign the town's troubles are escalating.Latest cited [S52 · 00:57:14 · turn 0443]
The party holds three keys (E5, F10, F20) and a newly identified 2nd-level wand of illusory creature; F20 opened the lab. The other keys (and any further locked doors) remain to be matched up.Latest cited [S52 · 03:57:08 · turn 2133]
The party owes the mummy Jav Cam a Sagathi head and is on a hard clock — he leaves for his native Osirion at midnight (~9 hours from the parley). They have not yet delivered a head; whether they finish the bargain or heed Bryn/Ryn and stop him from leaving is unresolved.Latest cited [S52 · 01:17:34 · turn 0633]
Unexplored area remains on this vault level: an unactivated portal in the safe room (noted but not used), a cluttered storage room with possible treasure left unsearched, and additional doors/passages the party skipped while racing the clock.Latest cited [S52 · 03:51:35 · turn 2084]
The captive Sagathi — a servant of Al Thor (Nimbaloth) — is expected to leave the Gauntlight in about a week. Rin is very worried about releasing such a creature into the world (it could grow stronger / become 'a whole campaign'), but defeatedly accepts she can't sway the party. The party is undecided whether to let it leave or try to stop it.Latest cited [S51 · 01:32:24 · turn 0750]
The letter to Veve's wealthy theater friend in Absalom, seeded with cult keywords ('Void Breck' / 'dead side') and the Zarmavdian angle, fishing for scholar / priest-mage / cult contacts who might know about Nimbaloth and the empty death. Sent off; awaiting a reply.Latest cited [S51 · 01:17:39 · turn 0624]
The Unguent of Timelessness's save bonus on Venris lasts about a week; the party has the formula and can remake the (rare) item for ~150 gp of materials from Absalom. Reminder to track the bonus's expiry and to restock the Unguent.Latest cited [S51 · 00:57:14 · turn 0462]
Venris's dangerous spellbook: he admits he has learned little from it (only 'one thing that knocks me out'), and the table treats it as a 'nuke.' Whether it is the same book being sought as the fourth relic, or a separate dangerous tome, is unclear and unresolved.Latest cited [S51 · 01:16:55 · turn 0620]
Scheduling: the GM proposed moving sessions to 9pm so the table can reliably start on time. The players were asked to think it over; no decision was reached. A real-table logistics thread (private).Latest cited [S50 · 00:16:11 · turn 0136]
The 60 gp Cid paid for the Locate scroll is to be charged back to the mayor/Menhems (Abbas repaid Cid up front). A minor accounting/IOU thread to settle with the wealthy Menhems family.Latest cited [S50 · 01:15:36 · turn 0629]
A second flesh-warp Sgathi-type 'arena' threat remains: the research tablets list many unencountered specimens (a drider, a greater shadow, a plague doctor, a manticore, etc.) and the GM hinted at a 'statue ability' creature with 'aggression exceeds utility' that the party noted acting strangely — open dungeon threats still to be cleared.Latest cited [S49 · 04:37:43 · turn 2392]
The Leng ruby (focus used to extend Denizen-of-Leng magic) is now in the party's hands but inert. Its nature, whether it can be used or traced, and the broader Denizen-of-Leng threat to Otari remain open. Wrin warns to keep it away from the child.Latest cited [S49 · 06:35:50 · turn 3387]
The party still hasn't descended the stairs / double-door hallway deeper into the level (toward the devils, hydras, and the spiraling tunnel down to Yildaris). Falksy invites them to find him in Yildaris if their quest takes them below.Latest cited [S49 · 04:22:06 · turn 2258]
The three freed prisoners (Falksy the drow, Jadzeli the one-handed skulk, and the deep gnome warrior) were escorted out and parted ways; the drow returns to Yildaris and the gnome takes the skulk into his care. A standing invitation/relationship thread to revisit them in the underdark.Latest cited [S49 · 04:23:16 · turn 2266]
CLIFFHANGER: Venerus's F10 key fit the eastern plinth and the sealed, handleless laboratory door began to open as the session ended. What is behind it, and what does the western four-hole plinth key to?Latest cited [S48 · 07:01:46 · turn 3819]
The Bloody Barbers of Absalom are introduced as a major thieves'/barber-gang via the looted journal and wanted poster (a 30gp red-haired tiefling bounty, Cinemy, with island leads on the back). The GM explicitly flagged this as a potential whole side-campaign or side-quest if the party wants to pursue it.Latest cited [S48 · 03:25:12 · turn 1840]
Tracks in the old prison/rooms reveal a large (4-cell) worm-creature that patrols in and out of 5-foot passages, with both fresh and much older trails — an unencountered threat lurking in the area, possibly related to the Sonic worm-with-teeth the party fought before.Latest cited [S48 · 05:23:27 · turn 2940]
Unresolved table-process tension: the stealth-vs-initiative rule (Manny wants it changed; tabled for an out-of-session talk) and the question of when the party may discuss tactics without it counting as in-game/metagame noise. Both were explicitly deferred to later discussion.Latest cited [S48 · 04:41:16 · turn 2587]
Behind the double doors: a long hallway with two sets of double doors, the only way the Sagathi come in, connecting to the deeper/'whole' complex. The party pushed through here as the session ended, with the spider bodyguard closing the doors behind them — combat or a major area is likely next.Latest cited [S47 · 03:31:32 · turn 1836]
Established friendly contacts: Rita the rat and the rest of the band are now firmly allied with the party after the performance win, and invited them to stay/return. A reusable ally/info source inside hostile Sagathi territory.Latest cited [S47 · 03:24:10 · turn 1760]
The elite miss stalker still lurks in the water by the Otari beach on the cave-to-town route. Venris avoided it on the way back, but it remains a hazard for future overland trips between the vaults and Otari.Latest cited [S47 · 00:49:55 · turn 0438]
Un-acquired temptations in the tavern: the +1 striking battle lute (and other instruments) in the dressing room, and the steel lockbox Cid noticed behind Vishari's desk (presumed cashbox). Left alone for now, but flagged by the players as targets.Latest cited [S47 · 03:08:32 · turn 1620]
Venris's broken Shifter Prosthesis arc was resolved this session — Carman Rajani fully repaired it after the party's own attempts failed. Lingering thread: Venris still wants 3rd-rank mending scrolls (none available in town) so the party can repair magic items themselves going forward.Latest cited [S47 · 00:48:10 · turn 0421]
Venris's heritage was clarified in-fiction and at the table: he is a cavern elf (remastered drow), surface-raised and 'whitewashed,' sharing language and ancestry with the Darklands creatures but not aligned with them. The GM offered to expand his backstory; the player deferred. A potential future roleplay thread among the evil-leaning subterranean races.Latest cited [S47 · 02:50:57 · turn 1472]
Winning over Vishari, the tavern owner. She threw the party out of her office, but the band hinted she cares only about keeping the place running and is short on supplies and good ale. A clear goodwill/quest hook the party openly discussed pursuing.Latest cited [S47 · 03:15:10 · turn 1687]
'Belcorra needs the eye.' A dying Urdefhan invoked War Chieftain Gerfell and said Belcorra needs 'the eye.' The party explicitly flagged it as a mystery. What 'the eye' is, and why the Urdefhan serve Belcorra, is unresolved — a fresh hook tying the Darklands warmongers to the campaign's antagonist.Latest cited [S46 · 00:42:00 · turn 0441]
A large worm-shaped creature was glimpsed slithering across the lower-arena's observation gallery after the sester-chan fight. Unfought and unidentified (at least large-sized, worm-shaped); a dangling threat the party noted before wrapping.Latest cited [S46 · 05:31:16 · turn 3034]
The Red Holiday arena fight with the masked mummy host is owed. The party stalled him and promised to return 'in an hour' to participate in his bloody games for treasure. The fight has not happened yet — resolve whether they take it on and what the promised reward actually is.Latest cited [S46 · 03:11:51 · turn 1868]
Who is the masquerade host and what is his connection to the Gauntlight era and to Belcorra/Cora? He claims to have 'almost caught up to' Venris before and made himself a mummy to survive since the Gauntlight was active. His real name is unknown (a PC said it and forgot it).Latest cited [S46 · 00:59:10 · turn 0616]
A stone formation wall blocks Carman's old hideout; breaking through would take roughly 20 hours of labor (divided among the party) or explosives/gunpowder. The party floated using explosives but did not act on it.Latest cited [S45 · 00:55:17 · turn 0512]
An out-of-character table-dynamics thread: a player raised that the GM laughing at the party's bad rolls during a deadly fight hurt his enjoyment; he later apologized for over-reacting and the GM acknowledged his thoughts. Interpersonal, may recur; private context only.Latest cited [S45 · 04:09:48 · turn 2281]
One Nimbaloth cultist escaped the opening fight by fleeing and surviving a 40-foot fall into the poltergeist-room area; a loose escaped-NPC thread.Latest cited [S45 · 00:52:22 · turn 0486]
The arena's petrified statues are Basilisk victims posed as a mock audience; two intact ones hold a unique-looking chakram and a composite short bow, and Basilisk blood can un-petrify them. Abbas chose NOT to tell the party about the weapons. Possible future loot / rescue thread.Latest cited [S45 · 03:54:34 · turn 2128]
Venris's loaded-coin gag was exposed by Abbas; an honest re-flip settled the vote and Venris kept (or pocketed) the trick coin. A minor recurring character-trust thread (the party recalls he's tried to rig coin flips before).Latest cited [S45 · 04:05:25 · turn 2240]
The cultists + will-o-wisp random encounter is unfinished. The session ended mid-combat (GM had to leave); the four cultist priests and the level-6 will-o-wisp need to be resolved at the top of next session.Latest cited [S44 · 03:46:32 · turn 2106]
The music floor below: stairs lead down to the next floor where lute/violin/drum music plays from a band, but with no performer present the party declined to descend that way. A future point of entry / mystery (who is the band, where is the performer).Latest cited [S44 · 02:55:34 · turn 1628]
The shadow assassin fight (Cora/'Siora') and the pair of poltergeists were both resolved this session — the shadow and its spawn destroyed, and both poltergeists killed by Venris. These haunts/assassins of the floor are cleared.Latest cited [S44 · 02:46:24 · turn 1544]
The Smuggler's Refuge: the long cave tunnel's cave-in needs ~40 hours of (divisible) manual labor to clear into a permanent fast route in and out of the arena level. It connects to Carman's old hideout cave. The party noted it but has not cleared it.Latest cited [S44 · 03:03:03 · turn 1700]
Slashed corpses on the stairs were examined and compared to a similar corpse seen back at the library; the party deferred investigating the connection ('we'll check it out later'). A dangling lore thread about what is hunting/slashing things in the vault.Latest cited [S43 · 00:35:36 · turn 0213]
Table-level: a working agreement to NOT relitigate house rules mid-session (lock the ruling, play on, discuss after) and to document house rules in the Discord channel. The Venris player and GM still owe each other a calm out-of-session talk about the ghost-touch precision rule (and the broader GM-style/rules-heaviness tension). Sensitive table context - private review only.Latest cited [S43 · 04:00:09 · turn 1241]
The ghost-touch precision-damage homebrew is unresolved: does Venris's Ghost Touch rune let his rogue precision damage hurt ghosts/shadows? Agreed to lock the GM's ruling for the running session and re-decide out of session, documenting it in the Discord house-rules channel before the next (Sunday morning) session.Latest cited [S43 · 04:44:40 · turn 1428]
The laughing tengu/raven illusionist spellcaster is still loose. It escaped as an illusion last session; the party returned to its hallway but did not re-encounter it. A dangling threat/mystery in the vault.Latest cited [S43 · 02:16:44 · turn 0768]
The shadow fight in the portcullis hall was left unfinished when play stopped for the table discussion. A shadow ganked Cid and spawned a clone of him; resume this encounter next session.Latest cited [S43 · 03:16:19 · turn 1055]
A deep pit/shaft (~30 ft) in the far wing was investigated but not descended; the party judged there was no gear worth climbing down for. Combined with the big staircase that leads down to 'the laboratories' / the next floor, the way down remains an open avenue of exploration.Latest cited [S42 · 01:19:54 · turn 0469]
The cackling jester-stalker has been captured alive (Venris tackled it after long-jumping the pit) right as the session ends. Unresolved: interrogate it, fight it, or release it? This is the immediate cliffhanger going into next session.Latest cited [S42 · 03:46:04 · turn 1388]
The chain spirit's regeneration only fell once the silver trait was re-added to Cid's Rosa Gentis sheet mid-fight. Bookkeeping reminder: make the silver trait permanent on the sheet so future regenerating/silver-weak enemies aren't a scramble.Latest cited [S42 · 03:32:34 · turn 1298]
The mummy's lead from last session is unexecuted: 'Victoria is in the Coliseum,' and the awakened portal can be thrown from the Coliseum to reach her. The party hasn't acted on the Coliseum/Victoria/portal plan yet.Latest cited [S42 · 00:03:08 · turn 0013]
The party set out to 'get Abbas' at the start of the session, but it is ambiguous whether the cleric was actually collected/present on the battlemap. Confirm Abbas is with the group next session.Latest cited [S42 · 00:06:39 · turn 0040]
The specter / 'spirit ghost' and the regenerating chain spirit were both defeated this session, clearing the lit room and the chain-trap room. The room of crafted statues was deliberately left untouched/untriggered — a deferred thread if the statues are animate.Latest cited [S42 · 01:08:25 · turn 0389]
The blade trap is now fully disabled (all six plates), and the party has Chafkin's dungeon map. Several unexplored routes remain on this level: stairs going down, the side hallways, the prisoner/gladiator rooms (one holds oozes they chose to avoid), and a secret door / cave-in back to the skeleton room.Latest cited [S41 · 03:10:21 · turn 0965]
Venris spotted a 'spooky shadow' / something down a hallway near the portal room during downtime and watched it covertly while steering Veve away from it. Its nature is unidentified and the party never investigated or told the mummy about it.Latest cited [S41 · 04:37:49 · turn 1383]
Veve and Venris each earned a half-level and a couple of hero points at session end; the party levels up. Applying the new level (Venris noted he's training out of trap finder into Quick Draw at rank 2) carries into next session.Latest cited [S41 · 04:44:38 · turn 1442]
The Empty Death lore deepened: Nimbaloth feeds through 'the mouth' at a place Belcorra found that touched her, per her journal; Tarnak's journal describes 'her touch' (a ring of seven shallow pits where no plant grows). The party is piecing together how this connects Belcorra, the corruption, and Venris's arm.Latest cited [S40 · 00:38:31 · turn 0194]
The party wondered at session end whether they leveled up ('Do we feel stronger after those two?') after clearing the night's fights — a pending bookkeeping item for next session.Latest cited [S40 · 03:16:57 · turn 1213]
The strange light seen coming from the keep (the Gauntlight) when the party left town is noted but unexplained — a hook tied to the dungeon's state on their return.Latest cited [S40 · 00:02:52 · turn 0012]
Table/meta loop: the GM is to set up a town shop restocked with new items each week; the players pressed for it to be 'ready' so it exists next time they pass through. No level/XP was awarded this session, deferred for later.Latest cited [S39 · 03:01:12 · turn 0896]
Tarnak (son of Otari, founding-family ancestor) knew about Sefna's condition and built 'something that helped' with it; his ~300-400-page journal is now borrowed and unread, and the legendary Thresholds of Truth book is being read. These are the party's leading cure-leads — read them for what Tarnak built and what the empty death is.Latest cited [S39 · 01:44:43 · turn 0463]
Venris is mid-retrain into Quick Draw with Carman (about a week of training), and Abbas's stupefied recovery spans downtime days. These downtime tracks run into the next stretch before/at the Gauntlight, which the party plans to leave for early.Latest cited [S39 · 02:44:56 · turn 0800]
Monster prep for returning to the Gauntlight is partly done (Hydra regenerates heads; black ooze may be caustic, testable with a copper coin) but the named 'Sugati' still needs research at the Gauntlight library — flagged as likely more dangerous because it has a name. The return trip itself is pending.Latest cited [S38 · 03:56:32 · turn 1141]
The fungal rot was cured this session by Abbas's heightened Cleanse Affliction after a failed first attempt; Venris is no longer contagious. Whether others (the priest 'Avis'/Abbas himself, or townsfolk) remain exposed is largely closed, but the broader fungus-source at the Gauntlight is unaddressed.Latest cited [S38 · 02:09:36 · turn 0648]
The mummy-guy's account named the creature/race that betrayed him (a name like 'Yafiki'/'Jafar' — ASR-uncertain). Identity of that betrayer is an open lore thread tied to the catacomb mummy.Latest cited [S38 · 02:57:47 · turn 0877]
The NPC priest Bandy was so frightened by Venris's condition that she fled ('went nuts'). Veve tried to soothe her. Her state afterward, and what exactly she saw, are unresolved NPC threads.Latest cited [S38 · 02:11:59 · turn 0660]
The priests confiscated Venris's leather armor to disinfect it and burned his clothes; Venris worries a +1 rune may have been destroyed and floated a possible retcon. The fate of the rune/armor is an unresolved bookkeeping thread.Latest cited [S38 · 02:17:22 · turn 0699]
Venris's 'empty death' / dust-turning curse is uncured and the central threat. Per Father Thalos it killed his apprentice (corpse to dust in two days); Venris is progressing more slowly but worsening, with nightmares he cannot remember. The party is racing to find a cure in Zarmavdian's journal and the Thresholds of Truth.Latest cited [S38 · 03:23:00 · turn 1000]
A DIFFERENT, more dangerous servant of the late Belcorra now controls these floors and imprisoned Shakim. The party flags this rival servant as the biggest current threat and the likely 'boss' of the level. Unseen and unidentified; a major dangling threat to investigate next.Latest cited [S37 · 04:00:36 · turn 1191]
Logistics: a player requested the shop be available off-session (over text) so the next Wednesday game begins with shopping already done and new gear ready to use. Pending GM enabling.Latest cited [S37 · 04:46:45 · turn 1449]
Out-of-character table thread: a player feels it was implied/'coded' that helping Carman Rajani (the blacksmith) would unlock custom crafting of cool gear (Cid already has a custom-crafted sword), and is disappointed the GM has ruled custom crafting off the table. Open question for the GM: what does Rajani's debt to the party actually grant? Player asked only for acknowledgment, not a fix.Latest cited [S37 · 04:49:51 · turn 1461]
The party identified a magical one-way scrying wall and an eye-motif star painting tied to the vault's surveillance/teleport system (Belcorra-era). They believe these were used to spy on rooms/prisoners. The full extent and current operator of this surveillance network is unresolved.Latest cited [S37 · 02:56:46 · turn 0855]
The sealed, runed door (containment magic, stakes driven in from inside) was deliberately left undispelled. Shakim is the prisoner, but the party suspects there may be more behind it / that the wards were built to contain something dangerous. They will not open it until better prepared.Latest cited [S37 · 04:05:55 · turn 1222]
The super-loud, empty room the party passed (reachable from another route) is theorized to be a coliseum / gladiator arena. Unexplored; a dangling location thread.Latest cited [S37 · 04:33:19 · turn 1390]
A room on the seventh floor flickers in and out of existence (it 'disappears' when Venris enters). The goblin-mimic fight happened around it, but its nature/cause was never resolved.Latest cited [S36 · 05:22:58 · turn 1984]
Abbas (Visigog) is near-encumbered carrying both Zarmadvian's book and the Whispering Reeds (each 2 bulk). The party floated leaving a book behind but did not. A pending logistics/decision thread.Latest cited [S36 · 03:57:15 · turn 1361]
Dangling lore threads raised but not pursued: what happened to Ballroy and Acessna (a Rose Guard story where one killed the other), and what was found 'with Morland.' The party noted they don't have full information and would ask later.Latest cited [S36 · 01:53:20 · turn 0466]
The seventh-floor cavern holds unexplored features: holes/levers in the floor (Cid drops a corpse down one), alcoves that may be more holes below, and a dim red light glimpsed at the bottom. The party noted it as 'somewhere we don't want to go' and pressed on without descending. Unexplored.Latest cited [S36 · 04:43:19 · turn 1729]
Town errands resolved this session: Venris paid the mayor 300 gp toward repairs and reported the recovered relics. This closes the 'return the relics / settle the bounty money' thread carried in from the previous sessions.Latest cited [S36 · 00:53:25 · turn 0244]
Venris's Kalin/Calino skeleton key is broken (loses its item bonus until repaired). He fell back to the Thieves' Toolkit Infiltrator. The key needs repairing.Latest cited [S36 · 03:27:52 · turn 1122]
Out-of-character, the table discussed whether the campaign continues with the same characters after this dungeon. The GM suggested a likely break and the option to retrain characters between campaigns. A meta thread, not yet decided.Latest cited [S35 · 05:06:13 · turn 1582]
The party now holds all four relics (key, rapier, cloak, book) for the locked door back at Otari. The obvious next step is returning to use them on the door — the payoff of the relic-gathering arc.Latest cited [S35 · 00:34:56 · turn 0219]
Veve befriended a wealthy, dying old man in Absalom, refusing his coins to make a connection and (apparently) securing a future invitation/contact. An unresolved relationship thread — the NPC is unnamed.Latest cited [S35 · 01:21:36 · turn 0468]
Veve never finalized her free archetype, leaving Dandy, Celebrity, Oracle, and Familiar Sage on the table. The GM nudged her toward Familiar Sage or Oracle (which would let her cast with Charisma across occult and divine lists). To be resolved before next play.Latest cited [S35 · 05:15:29 · turn 1646]
Hans's hook: he asks Cid/Abbas whether he's heard what 'Alyra' has been up to the past few years and invites him back for a story. An unexplored NPC thread from Cid's church backstory.Latest cited [S33 · 02:12:14 · turn 1005]
Road threats around the island: a werewolf (possibly the one from the vault) howling under a full moon, the decade-old 'Shadow of Thornwall' menace to the northwest, a red-haired tiefling, and a petrification that turned Alauria's courier to stone on this very road. Dangling threats the party did not engage.Latest cited [S33 · 01:20:48 · turn 0599]
The town is on a clock: the corruption ('she,' tied to Gunfor/Go Clara, possibly Velkorra) is back and growing stronger, attacks will worsen, and the leaders want the party to secure Absalom and return quickly to push toward the Gauntlight keep via the Thresholds of Truth.Latest cited [S33 · 00:09:30 · turn 0064]
The Menhemis/McLani family crypt below Otari: vanishing bodies, the rot/empty-death corruption tunneling between sarcophagi, the contradiction that A Sephna killed Bulrajani, the void-creature in A Sephna's tomb, and Veve's possession by the crypt spirit. The possessing spirit and the 'foul cancer' were resolved in session 32, but the crypt's defilement and corruption source remain.mystery Latest cited [S32 · 03:51:44]
The Whispering Reeds, a priceless and dangerous Nimbaloth tome tied to the empty death. The party recovered it; Abbas began using it (risking madness) while debating destroying vs. selling it, and antagonists (the Aurora, a hunting dwarf) are also seeking it.mystery Latest cited [S32 · 03:28:24]
A running set of deferred/'put a pin in it' table house-rule discussions: in-game timing of out-of-combat actions, hero-point reroll minimums, Terrain Stalker vs Feather Step stealth, the Aid action, precision-damage vs ghosts/swarms, bard spell handling, and integrating Speaker D's homebrew notes.table Latest cited [S29 · 01:50:23]
The Field/Filth Fever outbreak in Otari, spread via the shadow infestation: Cid was infected, library patients were cured, and priests trace further cases. A likely larger breakout looms and the party owes a large treatment debt.mystery Latest cited [S29 · 02:08:40]
Hints of a deeper power directing the Gauntlight's horrors beyond the named villains: the void glutton 'answered to it,' the Aurora and Vollok serve a greater scheme, and the Gauntlight's never-awakened true power binds the spirits. The ultimate authority behind the campaign remains unrevealed.mystery Latest cited [S28 · 02:38:22]
The interlocking werewolf threads: Calino/Calino's bounty on werewolf Jaul Mesman (aka John Long / Jal), the werewolf-hunters led by Lathenar inside the Gauntlight, the amnesiac werewolf 'husband,' and the missing-wife necklace. The party tracked and killed Jaul (session 25) but still owes delivery of proof/remains, and other werewolf bounties (Jasper) stay open.quest Latest cited [S25 · 04:49:51]
Intra-party trust fault lines: Venris repeatedly skims/pockets loot and flees combat, Cid distrusts him, and Venris and Veve concealed books/crystals/lanterns from Abus during loot splits. A GM-flagged thread that could split the party.character Latest cited [S23 · 02:16:46]
The leech-swarm boss/spellcaster who served a 'queen' (Belcorra) and worked on the Gauntlight, whose body dispersed into leeches ('you cannot kill us'). His journal is the party's lead to his identity and the resurrection plan.mystery Latest cited [S23 · 02:18:05]
The Otari graveyard uprising: who/what raised the dead and why most undead threw themselves off the cliff. Tied to the Gauntlight beam and to the leech-boss who called the dead the 'fertilizer for my master's return.'mystery Latest cited [S23 · 01:09:14]
The escalating Gauntlight threat to Otari: the beacon lit ~2-3 weeks before play began, the last invasion was exactly 30 days ago, monsters (scalathraxes, wisps) spawn over town, and the beam grows fatter over time, raising fear of a recurring monthly invasion cycle.mystery Latest cited [S21 · 03:40:07]
The morlock faction, their leader (Siddharth Malvin / Boss Scrug), and their worship of the Ghost Queen. The party betrayed the leader, was titled 'missionaries of the ghost queen,' and was tasked to wipe out the ghoul Cult of the Canker. The morlocks remain partly alive and the king secretly intends to invade Otari.faction Latest cited [S15 · 01:26:46]
An unnamed 'they' deliberately teleporting/feeding creatures into Otari via Gauntlight ('they sent me here to feed'); the worm-being reanimated below the lighthouse, and the broader teleport-monster mechanism the party seeks to stop.mystery Latest cited [S14 · 00:47:09]
The ghoul Cult of the Canker below the shrine, who/what 'the canker' they serve is, and the ghoul-cult leadership. Connected to ghoul-fever and the canker witch whose curse halved Venris's healing.faction Latest cited [S14 · 03:29:42]
Town disappearances and the fishery/dock cave network (former young green dragon lair) tied to cobalt mining and a possible back-entrance into Otari. The party judged these unrelated to Gauntlight and shelved them, but the underlying missing-people thread was never resolved.mystery Latest cited [S14 · 00:30:15]
The party's deal with Graugus (the snake/river-drake boss): bring him the river drake's head for a pile of treasure, while privately planning to turn on him and the morlocks. Tied to the swamp/boathouse dragon mystery.quest Latest cited [S7 · 04:31:05]
Yinyz Mara / barkeep Yasmer's missing overconfident employees, who went up to the keep seeking Rose Guard treasure. The party confirmed at least one was sacrificed at the morlock shrine (bird tattoo), partially advancing the bounty to find out what happened to them.quest Latest cited [S7 · 02:28:46]