MTG: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms

"My gianty friend, you are looking a little run down, let me help you."

"Naralis Analor, I call upon your aid spare this soul from deaths embrace until it is his time to meet the darkness." The rabbit girl's hands glow and dark tendrils sooth the pain from Hamish and sew his wounds closed.

Channel Divinity for 45hp healing on Hamish the giant.

"Thank you, new friend.  That feels refreshing.  It has been a long day.  Csn I offer you a snack?" He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a handful of several full sized trail rations, which fit easily into his hand, which he hold out in offer.

<feel free to roleplay this further, but I am going ro keep the game play moving forward now>

... once the spider webs have been burned away and the Stone moved aside by the galeb duhr, who animate the huge rocks, then rolling off in their own, a 30ft wide cylindrical well is revealed.  Other than the light cast by the ball bearing and the small bit spilling in from behind you, it is completely dark.  The ball bearing, by the way has rolled its way to the center of the ... ceiling?  Looking at the design of the art, it's clear that that roof if the space, where the ball now rests, was designed as a floor. 

<Most of you already know this space.>

Something was held in place on a plinth down/up there, but now it's gone.   At rbe center us a 10ft metal seal (it looks to be silver).  There are also several *3 metal arms protruding from the sides of the well, but whatever was held in the center is now gone.

The shaft is co strutted if neatly cut and placed stones.  Aside from from entrance Hamish was guarding, there are 2 other cusmbers off of the central shaft: the snakes den, and the entrance under the Shrine.  By this point you've been to both if those locations and the ceiling/floor.  Assuming the hawk flew 'down' down, it's now at the opening you observed earlier, but can't see in the darkness. 

<Here's a map.  No initiative at the moment, so anyone and everyone may post at will>

"So where are we trying to get to?" Tauzin asks. "The far end I presume?" 

Tabaqui will begin the climb past the snake chamber to what appears to be an opening in the 'ceiling'.

Acrobatics 11

(edit- yikes!)

Angus will follow the rogue, climbing the wall (Is it acrobatics or just a dex check?)

Marlyth seems delighted by the fact that her wild companion is unharmed, and she will transfer the Hawk to the pocket dimension. Then she will use her 'Wildshape' feature to assume the form of a Giant Lizard and help everyone climb down the well.

Walks follows the group as best she can

Athletics 16

As the rest of the group moves,  Tauzin follows in climbing towards the opening.

(Acrobatics: 28)

The walls in the well are easy enough to climb, the stones being magically placed, they are so perfectly regular that they almost feel like the rungs if a ladder 🪜

As you near the hole at the bottom of the well, you look down to see light reflected back, as if rhe surface is wet.  In fact, yiu csn see gentle ripples on the surface if the pool.  Despite the fact that it is above you,  relative to the pull if Gravity, or whatever it is in thus well that pulls yiu skyward, the water overhead does not fall upon you.

"Heres the tricky part" Hamish offers, *You gotta kind turn and twist like this." The huge giant contort himself to flip around at rhe mouth of the cavern.  Hanging from the ledge, he plops down adjacent to the pool.  In this areas, gravity is pulling the same as it did on the surface.

The floor here is hidden in a dark-red liquid with the consistency of thin mud. Something like algae clouds it, too. A musty, slightly sweet pond-scum smell fills the air.

This area is within a walled structure.  Being underground seeming to obviate the need for any sort of roof. You stand in what appears to be an inner court of a small castle.  Looking around a bit, you find what appear to be living chambers and one ornate ceremonial chamber.

The former is eerily empty. A layer of rock dust and stray earth blankets the space. Nothing has moved through this area in a long, long time.

In the ceremonial chamber: a stone chair is the only furniture in this colorful room. It stands in the center of the space, beneath the peak of a vaulted ceiling. The walls are hung with once-lavish, rotting silks and abstract tapestries. The vaulted ceiling is painted with a flaking mural across four sections, portraying a tale of humanoid figures and a black slab of stone marbled with gold. From the ceilingwhere the four sections join, someone has hung a single metal chime on a simple cord.

Walks examines the mold to see if it is dangerous.

Nature roll 18

Survival roll 24

Angus will investigate the chair, and if he finds nothing too traplike, will sit in it.

Investigation 17

The water is 2 feet deep and the bottom is covered with pieces of broken statues.  Walks sniffs at the moldy water and decides its probably poisonous.

As she kneels to examine the pool, Walks notices something glittery at the north edge of the water, amid lose rocks on the ground.  It's some kind of brooch, stylized in the image of a snake.

Angus sits on the stone chair, finding it rather uncomfortable.  Presumably it once had a nice cushion atop, but alas, no longer.  As he looks around rhe room, eventually he glances up at the ceiling and gets a good look at the mural overhead.

The ceiling depicts four pieces of lore about the Stone of Creation:

• First, the Stone was placed inside the sphere, depictedby three wizards raising it magically into the grip of the three copper arms while a white male human and a green-skinned gorgon look on.

• Second, the Stone is carried away by tall figures, possibly giants, as depicted by figures that make the human and the gorgon look small by comparison.

They appear to be carrying the stone to a lake or inland sea.

• Third, the human and the gorgon are struck by a curse depicted as green flames that surround their bodies and replace their eyes.

• Fourth, the Stone is shown breaking into pieces by lightning, fire, and wind where a simple silver tuning fork touches it. Beneath it, towers turn to smoke.

Walks casts light on a javelin in order to see better then uses it to fish out the broach from the scum pond.

Tauzan steps over to where the metal chime has been hung.  He takes a close look at it without touching it.  (Investigation: 10)

Lizardlyth will climb up to examine the mural on the ceiling depicting four pieces of lore while attempting to remember any type of magical tradition/religious ritual that involves the exposure of green-flame and transformation of eyes.

Intelligence: Arcana/Religion 8

"Hamish, do any of those murals mean anything to you? recognize anyone?  Seen any silver tuning forks laying around?" wonders Tabaqui, as he gazes up at the ceiling.

"Does anyone recognize that lake?" asks Angus

Marlyth doesn't recognize anything of significance in the murals.

Hamish replies to Angus.  "I wonder if it's Highstar Lake?"

<He was frozen before Waltarn died, so he's never been to the tomb.  You have though, and yiu saw a painting of a big lake there. Also there was one in one if Sylvenes hideouts.>

<since we have new players, and not all DMs run magic item discovery the same way, I'll just tell you:>

Walks feels the brooch has something peculiar about it, perhaps it is imbued with some kind of magic*. 

*it's a brooch of shielding so if you attune to it, you know what it is. Likewise if you've figured out what it is, you're attuned to it.

Tauzan discovers: It's a chime.