Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
Frozen Sick
D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Basic Rules (2014)
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Put your spoiler here.Once before the end of this adventure, that character can blow the whistle to summon the three pixies. This effect functions as a conjure woodland beings spell that summons only the three pixies and doesn’t require concentration. The pixies fly away when the spell ends after 1 hour.
Being the musician, Piccolo takes the whistle, then bows as if they have bestowed them a great honor.
“Thank you very much, does someone else want to take it” Sam says
For the record, they gave it to the one with the most interesting explanation. As it happens, it's using it as a cudgel, so Picollo, but she can give it to whomever she pleases.
Continuing on, you come to a hillside. Cozy torchlight radiates from a cave in the wooded hillside. Twenty feet from the cave is a tree with a weathered sheet of parchment nailed to its trunk. The parch went features the hand-drawn image of a boy with the insceiotion: “Bring me this imp alive and unharmed, and I’ll bury you up to your neck in silver.”
Noting the torchlight, you surmise someone is inside the cave, most likely. If you should announce your arrival,
you'll hear an old man invite you inside the cave.
If you chose to enter
Put your spoiler hereInside the cave, a wizened old man wearing a blindfold sits at a spinning wheel, surrounded by piles of gold. As he spins, he reaches down and grasps handfuls of coins, which transform at his touch into gleaming gold fibers..
"Hello there! My name is Trisk, what's yours?"
Trisk calls out to the old man.
"Can you tell us where we are?"
"Where are we? Who can say? Thither. Afar of Waterdeep." the man let's out an exasperated sigh.
Detect magic reveals an aura of conjurarion magic about the piles of gold heaped on the floor.
"I’ve led a cruel and heartless existence. I earned these riches by exploiting my tenants’ misery, buying up condemned property and renting it out for an exorbitant fee. Granny Nightshade is helping me to make amends. I told her I wanted to put my bad deeds behind me and my ill-gotten gains to good use. She cursed me to dwell forever in this cave, spinning my gold into useful items for anyone who comes my way.”
Nib offers to craft a gift for each character. Taking up a pair of knitting needles, he swiftly knits his gold yarn into an object that retains a golden luster or some amount of golden color in its design.
Any requests?
Uriel:
"I do appreciate items of Elven design, and I could use some powerful arrows or a magical quiver to contain them," responds Uriel, "though I don't see how this helps you make amends for your past misdeeds."
Gerrard Feldren - Human Noble in Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Kerric Brightblade - Elven Warrior in "Apocalypse"
(Has Piccolo heard of Nightshade, a witch or demon?
the tiny girl does not enter the man’s house. She looks at him and the surroundings for signs of illusions or traps as she ponders the name Nightshade. (Perception 15)
Drain:
Drain will enter the cave. "So, do you know where we can get a unicorn horn?
to the others...."And did anyone think to ask the pixies?"
"I suppose that makes two of us." Notes the tall, rake-thin, elderly man without urony. He wears a blindfold to avoid glimpsing the apparitions that curse him, but their presence still unnerves him. His threadbare finery and housecoat suggest a life of luxury long since left behind.
He speaks in a trembling voice, “I seek atonement. I was the worst of Waterdeep’s slumlords: ruthless, miserly, and coldhearted. I suppose I’d better do some good before I die.” he says. “My spinning wheel is the key to my redemption. I truly believe it, but, cursed as I am, haunted by those I've wronged, I cannot do enough to atone, yet I cannot depart this accursed place. as long as Granny Nightshade remains in control of Thither.”
I know of only one unicorn in Thither: Lamorna who dwells by the wayward pool. I can tell you how to get there.
<Here's a map. Nib can tell you how to get to anywhere in Thither.>
Fey creatures often use aliases and nom DE guerre. I don't think Picollo specifically had met her. But Nib certainly has. If asked, he could describe the woman.
Granny Nightshade has a key protruding from her back that indicates her mood by how fast it turns. When she’s happy, the key turns quickly. When she’s upset, the key turns slowly. If she loses her temper, the key stops completely.
Many children toil away in Granny Nightshade’s workshop, crafting toys. Granny Nightshade delivers the creepiest toys to children on other worlds—to fill their heads with nightmares, one assumes. The hag makes her deliveries on the back of a flying rocking horse.
Granny Nightshade is obsessed with capturing Will of the Feywild, a boy who helped a handful of younger children escape from Loomlurch. Will of the Feywild’s motley group of rascals is known as the Getaway Gang. The gang is protected by a treant named Little Oak. (Nib’s curse prevents him from leaving his cave, but he can point characters in the direction of Little Oak’s favorite glade.)
glimpse one or more apparitions lurking behind him. These apparitions take various forms, from a grubby child peering over Nib’s shoulder to a gaunt coachman looming in the shadows at the back of the cave.
A long-faced woman dabbing at her tears with a handkerchief and a rail-thin waif wearing an eye patch. Quick as a candle’s flicker, one apparition vanishes, and another appears.
Nib explains the nature of his curse:
“I am haunted by my own words: as long as my ill-gotten gains were put to good use, my bad deeds would remain behind me. You are beholding the restless apparitions of those I hurt. They lurk behind my back, tormenting me with pokes at my ribs and whisperings in my ear. I can’t bear to look them in the eye, not after what I did to them!”
Gold spun gifts:
Drain 2
Picollo 4
Sam 4
Trisk 7
Uriel arrows
Nib imparts to his guests various items, each with golden luster or elements evident in the design.
Drain - cloak of protection
Picollo - bracers of archery
Sam - amulet of proof against detection and location
Trisk - bag of holding
Uriel gets a quiver of the Elven archer (efficient quiver).
Drain:
Drain nods at the description. "We did indeed see someone who matches this description at the palace."
Piccolo bows to Nib in thanks. (OOC: Will the bracers work with her thorn daggers?)
In fact you saw her use a plane shift spell as she departed. She might not be in Prismeer at this point.
Drain:
Drain compares the cloak with his current one, and likes the black fashion he has on better, however he doesn't let on to this fact and he bows in appreciation. "Thank you good sir, and I hope that your curse may be cured one day."
Once they leave, if anyone wants the cloak he will offer it....(he already has one)