A Test

A Test
Date	2/11/24
Storyteller	Narumi
Tier	Master (moderate)
Player Characters	Illiam Elro, Siltmean the Craftrat, Cyrus Leyvald, Aleth, Miles Ender
Rewards	250 xp, Aeon stone (black pearl), aeon stone (smoothing), aeon stone (pink rhomboid) 946 gold, 2 silver, 5 copper
Result	Success
Author	Siltmean
Downtime	2

Log

The Lead-up

• Each of us have weird dreams
• Dreams of meteor falling to earth
• Large blue crystal
• No reports of falling stars
• Nondescript person requested us for job
• Left money behind
• Disappeared before anyone could talk with them
• Need to go to nearby hamlet in woods
• Illiam's daydreams pick up balancing path to follow
• Aleth sees trail of magic to follow
• Cyrus sees cracks in sky
• Cracks are healing over time

Arrival

• Follow paths to the hamlet
• See large familiar crystal crashed to earth
• Despite stonework knowledge I cannot identify material of crystal
• Attacked by starving Caulborn on approach
• Faceless creatures with two elongated fingers
• Like to eat memories according to Cyrus
• Three together can scry apparently
• Can also planeshift at-will
• Why were they here if they could leave to find food
• Find corpses of farmers inside hamlet
• Minds drained completely
• Illiam confirms crystal is magic
• Needs to be touched to know more
• Illiam and Cyrus touch crystal
• Taken to void
• Met by figure of light
• Doesn't speak
• Implied request to speak instead
• Words are felt, not spoken
• Introduces itself as The Truth of Fleeting Dreams to Illiam
• Has always known them
• Disgusted at existence of crystal
• Wants this "aberration" gone
• 3 Adachros causing discord
• Astral Plane creatures born of failed demiplanes
• Tyrants with personalities based off the demiplane
• Try to force ideals onto others, by force if necessary
• Find echoes and stop them
• The Truth of Fleeting Dreams will be our guide
• Rest up for the night to prepare

The Hunt part 1

• We all touch the crystal to begin the hunt
• Feel three major emotions
• Sorrow, despair, uncertainty
• Head toward uncertainty first
• Forest, ledge with 20 ft drop to old buildings
• Cyrus partially disbelieves illusion of this realm
• Realm resides above the astral sea
• Nothing in village
• Cyrus detects Adachros underground, in basement of a home
• His mental attack on it provokes it
• Appears beside him and Illiam
• Cyrus stupefies creature severely, but it shakes it off instantly
• Reverses gravity
• I kick board inside roofless home to catch on walls
• Stand on board and shoot it upside down
• Miles digs hands into ground, fights using feet
• Aleth lets herself fly into the air, shoots from 120 feet up
• Illiam Flies on metal pole
• Cyrus imagines roof to stand on
• World is seemingly molded by your mental fortitude versus the Adachros
• Shards off creature mimic people from our past to attack us
• Lost my Jezail, but fanning hammer on Liar's gun finishes the Adachros
• Gravity drops
• Illiam helps Aleth
• Cyrus and I recover from falls
• Dream fades and we return to the 3 paths
• One path is blocked off, one is empty, one remains

The Hunt part 2

• Appear in middle of town
• Illiam imagines map of town
• Section of onadbyr apparently
• Cyrus finds monster the same way as before
• He and Illiam get pulled to town center as hang-ees
• Chaotic fight ensues
• Two Adachros and multiple Caulborn
• Civilians clear out
• Aleth turns fireball into chili powder gas bomb
• Illiam turns chili powder gas bomb into giant chili peppers
• Uses chili pepper as explosive projectile
• I detonate a chili pepper bomb to hurt enemies
• Cyrus alters spell to not hurt allies
• Clear out enemies, dream fades
• Return to reality
• Crystal is gone
• Find some items
• Payment for job done?