Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
Frozen Sick
D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Basic Rules (2014)
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The doors swing open to reveal a crystal carriage hitched to a pair of glass statues shaped like pegasi. Folded silk butterfly wings are attached to the roof of the carriage.
The carriage’s doors are sealed shut, with no handles, hinges, or keyholes.
The carriage’s crystal structure is mostly opaque except for its windows. Anyone who looks through a carriage window spots an ornate glass key resting on the seat inside.
The wizard looks at the carriage with awe. “**wow, now this is a beautiful carriage. Probably magic. I bet it flies. Now that’s the way to travel in style. Not my style, but somebody’s. My sister would like this, whenever she is. I suppose we could try to see if it goes. Or keep looking for a way into the towers? . I am frustrated I can’t figure out the riddle. I’m afraid Im even more befuddled than I was before.. well whatever happened**.”. his voice trails off and he starts muttering words while staring intently at the carriage. “**open sesame… abracadabra, mellon, Alexa open carriage… heySiri opendoor** .”.
"Amazing! It's beautifully crafted but I don't see how we can get inside." Upon hearing Tesservett start guessing at magic words and phrases that night gain them access Trisk will look around the carriage searching for any runes or writing carved into it, and look through one of the windows. "Hey, there's a key inside. Only if we could get that out somehow."
Perception: 18
"Maybe whoever lives here will take us for a ride? Either way this isn't an entrance so we need to keep looking for another way in or go back to the main entrance." Trisk scratches his head trying to figure out what they should do or where they should go next and can't help but stifle a yawn. "And I need some sleep soon. I am completely knackered from that whole ordeal in the doom vault."
<tesservett realizes the key is in a place he can see>
<Cha!jil realizes the carriage is made of glass.>
From the outside you can tell the carriage house is between two turrets of the castle. Now from the inside you surmize those are the round walls of the carriage house. At the far corner are two more doors, one to the right, the other straight ahead. The doors are within 10ft of each other.
tesservett tries using Mage hand to pick up the keys and unlock/activate the carriage to try to get the carriage doors open. He also tries to open the doors
he makes an arcana check with advantage and gets a natural 20 (total 38).
he says to the group “what happened with the vaults? Im sorry I think i might have been dead or asleep for part of it. But i got better, I think.” He frowns and then has an epiphany about the carriage:
<both doors are unlocked>
If the key is held within 3 inches of the door on either side of the carriage, a keyhole magically appears on the door’s surface. Turning the key clockwise in the keyhole unlocks both carriage doors and animates the glass pegasi, causing them to stamp their hooves impatiently.
...if someone sits in tbe driver's seat:
While the glass pegasi are animated, reins made of starlight appear in the hands of anyone who sits on the driver’s seat, allowing that individual to steer the carriage. The pegasi can pull the carriage at a speed of 40 feet on land or 80 feet while flying.
... realization:
Turning the key counterclockwise in either door’s lock can be done only while the carriage is on the ground and not moving; doing so locks both doors and causes the pegasi to revert to inanimate glass statues.
“ahh brilliant!”. The wizard says as he opens the door and activates the pegasi, then turns it off. “this is a glorious use of magic… but we should probably keep moving”. He advances to the door on the left.
Tetrevess enter the room from the South
Running the length of this oblong room is a rug woven with images of thorny white roses. Each of the doors on the north and south walls has an alabaster pedestal standing inside the room beside it. Atop each pedestal is an alabaster vase that holds several long-stemmed white roses. Carved into the vase are the words “Take one” in Common.
To yoir left, a few feet into the hallway, there us a door with a symbol of a lion in silhouette, similar to the one with the hart on the front door. Another door, further down the hall and on the opposite side of the room from this is another unmarked door. (So that's 4 doors total, including rhe south door by which you entered. Only the left door is marked with a lion)
East Tower
The base of this tower is 10 feet higher than the garden floor. Stairs hugging the tower’s outer wall climb 10 feet to an unlocked double door. A bronze plaque above the door reads “Envy” in Common.
West Tower
The base of this tower is 10 feet higher than the garden floor. The double door to this tower is accessible from a 10-foot-high stone catwalk that connects it with the castle
<the east tower has an unlocked door you can reach by stairs directly from the garden>
Trisk follows Tesservett into the room with 4 doors and vases of white roses.
"Should we keep following the hart motif? It might lead us somewhere."
Trisk tries to stifle another yawn.
"I could use some respite."
Anyone going to take a rose?
Tetrevess will take a rose, sniffing it as he does, and then tucking it into the lapel of his robe.
Uriel Moonshadow:
"How long had it been? Two centuries? Three?" thinks Uriel, realizing that he had lost track of time during his many years aboard ship. That carnival came to Caer Corwell long ago, when he and Sapphira were mere youths, and that is the last time he saw his sister. In the decades since, Uriel had lived a full life. Rising through the ranks in the Gwynneth navy, the Sylvan elf had served well and effectively. Raising a family of his own in the picturesque Myrloch Vale, Uriel married and watched his family grow gracefully into adulthood. Still, the loss of his sister haunted him, and when his first granddaughter was born bearing her very image, now-Admiral Uriel knew he could no longer delay.
Retiring from his command of the navy after two hundred and fifty years of faithful service, Uriel set about discovering what happened to his long-lost sister Sapphira. Through many harrowing adventures, the retired sailor--still somewhat young for an elf--has ended up in the Feywild at the castle of the fey queen Xybilina. A last-ditch effort, perhaps, to use a powerful wish to reunite him with his sister. Still, there were rumors the carnival was linked to this realm, so who knows?
The lithe, unarmored sylvan elf carries a waterproof bag and a wickedly sharp and impeccably-balanced spear. He wears sturdy traveling clothes, styled in simple but high-quality elven fabrics and showcasing a nautical motif. His features are weathered from a life spent in the elements, and the first signs of middle age grace the graying hair at his temples. Heading first toward the pool with the interesting-looking crown, Uriel slips into the water with grace borne of long practice, cutting through the water with deceptive speed, eyes alert for any threats (Passive Perception 20).
Gerrard Feldren - Human Noble in Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Kerric Brightblade - Elven Warrior in "Apocalypse"
<It's like cutting through clay. Probably easier to walk on top of it.>
Willow trees encircle this sheltered pond. Lily pads dot the mirror-like surface of the water, and hungry dragonflies dart about, feeding on motionless fireflies that form an unmoving cloud above the still water.
The lake, the trees, and the fireflies are frozen in time, but the dragonflies are not. The pool’s time-frozen water can be handled and made to hold new forms as if it were soft dough, but any water removed from the pool takes on the consistency of normal water.
A delicate hand made of water, black as winter’s night, silently breaks the water’s surface. The hand clutches a crown made of silver needles. Below the hand, under the surface, a school of shimmering black fish takes on a vaguely humanoid form.
The rose smells wonderful: fresh and spicy, at first, then becoming sweet and floral, and finally ending with soft, rich notes.
Anybody want to try a door or something.
Just a reminder: you saw a dragon fly into this castle through the open roof.
Put your spoiler here.You still don't have a roof over you at this point in the castle. Obvious enough in the last room, since there's a flying carriage bigger than the door bybwhoxh you entered. Sometimes these details don't make it I to my descriptions.
Does Uriel take the crown?