CH. 03 - Dream Visions
Jun 19, 2021 19:26:31 GMT -8
Post by Daos on Jun 19, 2021 19:26:31 GMT -8
The next couple of weeks are largely uneventful. The party is escorted to the Eagle's Eyrie, where they are allowed to rest and recover from their endeavors at the tomb. The Eyrie is hardly a luxury palace, but the party is safe and cared for while in the Bladebright's fortress. During this time, Drezden enjoys spending time with other dwarves, Kendrivel explores the Eyrie and 'finds' a number of 'treasures' (some of which the dwarves demand back, like Narta's favorite tankard), and Zedd returns to Daggerdale to check on some friends and see if he can pick up any rumors about the location of Randal Morn.
Dallion, meanwhile, focuses on studying and practicing with the Sword of the Dales. It's clearly a powerful weapon, so much so that it's difficult to believe that a non-elf created it. With some experimentation, Dallion learns that what Lhaeo said about it is true. It does allow the wielder to breathe underwater and when the key word 'Merrydale' is spoken aloud, all chains and manacles within a thirty foot radius automatically unlock. The sword also glows a faint blue light whenever it is unsheathed. But perhaps most interesting are the strange and vivid dreams the bladesinger begins having shortly after acquiring the sword.
At first, they are fairly simple; he sees images of a strange and dark forest he has never seen before. Each night, the dreams become more vivid and more detailed. It's always of the same forest, and he starts to feel an urge to go there...like someone or something is calling out to him. Could it be Randal Morn, somehow reaching out to him through the sword? After a few nights of this, Dallion writes down all of the details and landmarks and asks around. One of the dwarves seems to recognize his description--Spiderhaunt Wood, a forest on the southwestern edge of Shadowdale. As time passes, Dallion becomes more and more convinced that is where Morn is being held. The others are of various degrees of skeptical; but no other leads come up. And it's clear that sitting around the Eyrie is not accomplishing anything. But when Drezden, Malavar and Kendrivel begin having similar dreams, as well, then it become harder to brush off as Dallion's overactive imagination.
And so the party says their farewells to Gimak and the Bladebrights, then depart from the Eyrie, making their way south, past Shadowdale. After a few days travel, they reach the border of the Spiderhaunt Forest and manage to find a partially concealed trail leading into it. Its late in the day by that point. After only a few yards inside the forest it seems as if night collapsed upon them in a crash. Trees press in on all sides, eerie pinpoints of light stare out from the darkness, and the canopy of branches overhead blocks out virtually all of the late-afternoon light that was visible when they entered the wood.
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It is now Mirtul 22nd at 19th Bell (7 PM). Casters may choose new spells for the day.
Dallion, meanwhile, focuses on studying and practicing with the Sword of the Dales. It's clearly a powerful weapon, so much so that it's difficult to believe that a non-elf created it. With some experimentation, Dallion learns that what Lhaeo said about it is true. It does allow the wielder to breathe underwater and when the key word 'Merrydale' is spoken aloud, all chains and manacles within a thirty foot radius automatically unlock. The sword also glows a faint blue light whenever it is unsheathed. But perhaps most interesting are the strange and vivid dreams the bladesinger begins having shortly after acquiring the sword.
At first, they are fairly simple; he sees images of a strange and dark forest he has never seen before. Each night, the dreams become more vivid and more detailed. It's always of the same forest, and he starts to feel an urge to go there...like someone or something is calling out to him. Could it be Randal Morn, somehow reaching out to him through the sword? After a few nights of this, Dallion writes down all of the details and landmarks and asks around. One of the dwarves seems to recognize his description--Spiderhaunt Wood, a forest on the southwestern edge of Shadowdale. As time passes, Dallion becomes more and more convinced that is where Morn is being held. The others are of various degrees of skeptical; but no other leads come up. And it's clear that sitting around the Eyrie is not accomplishing anything. But when Drezden, Malavar and Kendrivel begin having similar dreams, as well, then it become harder to brush off as Dallion's overactive imagination.
And so the party says their farewells to Gimak and the Bladebrights, then depart from the Eyrie, making their way south, past Shadowdale. After a few days travel, they reach the border of the Spiderhaunt Forest and manage to find a partially concealed trail leading into it. Its late in the day by that point. After only a few yards inside the forest it seems as if night collapsed upon them in a crash. Trees press in on all sides, eerie pinpoints of light stare out from the darkness, and the canopy of branches overhead blocks out virtually all of the late-afternoon light that was visible when they entered the wood.
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It is now Mirtul 22nd at 19th Bell (7 PM). Casters may choose new spells for the day.