In our last episode, in an effort to explore the rest of the Museum of Old Dominion, the party solved puzzles with their usual Grace and Twits, or lack thereof. Whelen muscled through swinging blade traps, Kaleister leapt over flames, and they turned into a bat to avoid everything. They ended up in a library where the floor didn't exist. Our adventurers today are Keerin, who plays Whelen the Barbarian, Max, who plays Polaster the Monk, David, who plays Ichabod the Wizard, and then wondering what my skeleton looks like.
Theron, who plays David Ruiwid. Why just fill your beans? And our DM, Hazel. Solid non-high fire.
Welcome fellow travelers to Legends of Chill. I'm pretty sure we ended with me dangling my feet through the invisible floor. So that is where you currently are. You're in the library.
I believe Day looked at a book, and there is a door leading from the library to somewhere else that you have not investigated. Okay, I want to open up the document with all the loot in it. Hold on a second. Sure.
I just want to know if I still have a ten foot pole, because I keep ripping them off of the room of useful items and abandoning them. I don't think we've used something yet. Yeah, there's still a ten foot pole. So I'm going to take that last one off of there and just sort of carefully look around for other illusory floors as I head over to the door.
Oh, that's smart. Make an investigation check. Okay. I got an 18.
Yeah, you tapped the ten foot pole out in front of you, and you do not find any more illusory spots. It just seems to be that spot right off the stairs above the snake pit or a snake pit, spike pit. And I guess I wouldn't want people falling down into the actual, like, display cases and stuff. True.
So then I'm going to go and check out that door. And I will be right next to her. Did we have a goal here? I think we're trying to learn as much as we can about clean margline from all of the museum stuff, all of the museum's resources, I guess.
So you step or you open the door to another room. The walls of the room are covered in dark purple wallpaper. There's a plush black carpet and a black ceiling. There are glowing mirrors of gold in celestial along the ceiling.
And in the center of the room is a small round table with a crystal ball at its center. Around it are four dark colored chairs padded with velvet seats and backs. Also there's a person standing in here. Oh, there's a person.
Okay. That changes things a little bit. Yeah, I guess I won't ask what the ceiling says just yet. Who's this person?
Is it someone we know and recognize? It might be. David, would you like to describe how Ichabod looks currently? Sure.
I'd be happy to. It tells that you may recognize the staff with the glowing blue gem, certainly the robes, the general appearance. But there's something you can't quite put your finger. I know what it is.
His flesh is now translucent and you can see the skeleton underneath. Oh gosh. What? As you enter, I say, it's day.
It's wiggling. It's a minotaur. Hi. I think that I squint suspiciously at you and poke you with the ten foot pole.
I look up, what does the ceiling say? I'm just like, I need more information. What ceiling? Oh, I understand.
The pole does contact the translucent flesh, so it doesn't go straight to the skeleton, sadly. And I said, you're reacting. I get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
How are you here? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. That makes a lot of sense.
Well, I don't know if you know, but Mark, Khan, and I, we took a little jump over to the Feywild and we hung there for a while. And then I was able to track down this orb that allowed me to jump to the top of this tower. I left the orb up there because I was trying to figure out where I was. And now I'm here.
Hi. Oh, and the skeleton thing is just a cursed necklace I put on, but I'm going to get better. I'm almost sure of it. Take your hand over your face.
Like, why do we keep finding cursed necklaces? You follow too? Oh, this is your friend that you guys are looking for. Oh, I stand up, doctorate.
Like, oh, right, sorry. But later, this is our friend, maybe Ichabod. He looks a little weird and might be an illusion. I'm not sure.
I give him another couple of pokes at the stick. I get that a lot. I understand. How long have you been like that?
Well, it's kind of hard to tell time in the Feywild. I would say anywhere from a day to 20 years. I'm not really sure. That's a narrow range.
Oh, man. Maybe 19 years. I don't know if that helps. It really doesn't.
But it's good to have you back in some capacity or an other way. I mean, if you've been wondering what my skeleton looks like, ta-da. I can't say I had that. Oh, oh.
But that enters the... Questions? Yeah. Shit.
I put these rules, ya'll. So, yeah, can y'all read the writing? I can read celestial. Yeah, I can too.
There's always a language that one person can't read. Here in this room, the four reunite, a friend once lost returns, a minotaur of Clan reforged, but still sporting telltale red horn, a farmer with the blood of Michelle, with wings of light, and scythe that fells, a druid with a name as bright as the sun, reluctant perhaps, but still they come, a learned mage with a translucent bod, a weapon for name, and just a bit odd. Together, they sit and stare at the ball to learn their fate and to save us all. Harold Elizabeth Reichen.
Well, guys, guys, that sure does sound a lot like us, doesn't it? Uh, yeah? I don't know about the odd thing, but most of it looks right. Pick a bod.
Have you looked at him here lately? Oh, yeah, you're still on that. I understand. Oh, that was covered in an earlier portion of the prophecy, so...
The odd thing. The last time we saw Crystal Ball it attacked us, so I'm a little bit cautious how that is. The words didn't say it was going to attack you. They didn't say it wouldn't.
It just is to learn their fate. Our fate might be to be attacked by another Crystal Ball. Possibly. Oh, is there another way out of this room?
There is. There is a door which Ichabod knows goes to a stairwell that leads up to the top of the tower. And that's the way up to that orb that transported me here. It does have the ability to transport you.
You just don't know where you're going to wind up. Oh, boy. But so far, in all the times I've used it once, it didn't kill me. Well, thank you for answering the question before it came out of my mouth.
Well, if there's nothing else up there, then I don't see. I'll start walking over and pulling out a chair to take a seat. I guess we do this. You sit in the seat and you do not immediately get attacked by a Crystal Ball.
Okay, I'll sit across from him. I will take a seat. As will I. Okay, with the four of you sitting, you see a message scroll across the Crystal Ball.
It says, please sit in proper station in order to receive oration. Then against your back, you can hear this click and you can feel something changed back there. Okay, I'll look at the thing. Okay, it looks like a panel flipped over.
And the chair you're sitting in now has a symbol on the back of it. I look for the piece of wheat. I look what's on the back of my chair. So there is a trapezoid, a ring, an octagon, and a vertical rectangle.
Oh, this looks pretty obvious. I'll let you guys work it out. Is it a c'mon? Can you say again a ring, a trapezoid, an octagon, and a vertical rectangle?
Does it matter? I don't know. Is there anything in the poem that identifies shapes for each one of us? Let's see.
I don't think so. Maybe the shape has something to do with our symbol? If that's the case, then maybe they should sit at the ring and see if anything happens. If a ring could be representative of the sun.
Okay. We probably won't activate until each of us are in our proper positions. Probably. We'll give it a try.
The ring being the sun is the only thing that I thought of as well. So I'll also sit in the one with the ring. Can we know what chairs we were in to start with so we at least know for sure that that pattern doesn't work? That's a good idea.
Sure. Okay, so we know that this for sure is not the correct combination at least. Correct. Okay, well, I will try and sit where Whelen currently is at the ring because the circle being the sun is also the only thing I got from the poem.
I was thinking that maybe a telltale red horn, which I don't get, means something, but I don't know what it means in terms of these shapes. So yeah, I don't know. Does Pileaster have red horns? No.
I think I might have an idea. I mean, I as a player think I might have an idea, but there's nothing that Pileaster I think knows. So I don't see any reason why you should restrict your ideas because Pileaster might not know when we're solving a puzzle, Max. Sorry, can you say one more time?
I did not quite. What's your idea? Don't restrict yourself based on what you think of Pileaster when we're solving a puzzle or else we'll just be here forever. Oh, I mean, there's nothing that coordinates to the shapes.
I just think I might know what the red horn thing could be, but it's nothing that correlates to the shapes. Cool. Okay. So day is sitting on the ring, Whelen's sitting on the octagon, Ichabod's sitting on the trapezoid, and Playstra is sitting on the rectangle and a message scrolls across the crust of all.
And it says, zero people are sitting in their proper station. Oh Lord, we did it. Okay, so now we learned something though. So let's all like rotate one to the left.
Sure. So I meant like clock clock clock counter clockwise. Get up awkwardly shuffle around the table and sit back down. Okay.
Thanks getting all over again. So a message scrolls across the ball that says two people are sitting at the proper station. Which two? Good question.
Pileaster yells this at the crystal ball. And then it says, day has found her seat. Oh, nice. Okay.
So day doesn't have to. Okay. Why is the octagon for day? Because she's a fighter.
You're gonna get in the octagon. Or days all about stop. That deal. What if...
I mean, I do tell you all to stop a lot. Try having playstra and Ichabod switch. Well, no, because when I was at the rectangle, it said no one was in the right place. Oh, then...
So maybe... Me and you should switch. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Might be.
Or wait, weren't you in the ring to start with? Yeah, but it didn't tell us how many people were in the right spot or not. Okay. Okay.
You are now successfully in your right spots. Oh. And I can explain the shapes to you if you want. Yes, please.
Yes, please. So octagon. Day is often a spider which has eight legs. They also has eight wolves.
I do. Oh my God. I can't believe I didn't think of that. The eight very good boys.
So the trapezoid kind of symbolizes an iron ingot which is supposed to be confusing between whalen and playstra. Or is supposed to be mostly thinking that it's whalen. I was. And I was playing the playstra for iron hoof.
The vertical rectangle is just a book. So that's right. The book. Basically everything good.
And whalen has an angel. It's a halo. That's a halo. That combat evolved.
It's a halo combat evolved. My friend, Master Chief. I also did think about the merry thing too though. So those are my symbols which I knew you would never understand what they mean.
I thought it very unlikely. But I did them anyway. And it is a few long. So congratulations.
Yeah. Okay, so is the crystal ball doing anything now that we're in the right place? Oh a book. It is.
It starts to vibrate and hum. It kind of lights up a bit. And then you hear a voice talking aloud coming from it. So I will read it and I'll also copy and paste it into chat.
Oh and poem. It says, in Dominion's realm, Margwen fought, defeating the dreadlord but corrupt in her heart. Until vermin rise causing citizens to flee. Margwen distant, hidden, where none see.
Three adventurers come from the land of Chell, a fourth returns to them from the Feywild as well. They meet here in the museum and this advice is for the four of them. Do not trust Dominion, he'll lead you astray. Don.
Reject his offer and save the day. To kill Margwen, place to his whim. Free her instead is the only way to win. A punk pleshen shall give you a boon.
Your wish will be granted if you free her soon. Prophecy provided by Lord Demeter, Winterbright, may their soul rest in pleat peace. Rest in peace is Demeter. And then a message just plays on the screen afterward.
Prophecy ended. Replay. So, a message appears on the screen that says, anyway, it's the same thing it said before. Right.
Please stay in proper station in order to receive the oration and you fill the panels flipped behind you again. Why? Why would it do that? Fucking technology.
I don't think we have to do it again. I don't think we do. No, I think that I remember the important part is that we're not supposed to kill Margwen. Good thing we already said no to him.
Right? Did we? Yeah. We didn't want his, we didn't want his offer.
We rejected his offer. We said that we were going to kill her, but we said that to the hags too and we ignored them. Okay. As I say that I like look at Ichabod, like, oh, you have no idea what's going on, huh?
Yeah, I spent some time in the Feywild. This is nothing new to me. Oh, Lord. But we should probably catch him up.
Yeah. Yeah, I like it. Yeah. So who's the minion?
The ruler of this realm. Kind of the former. The depar was tyrant of this realm. Yeah.
We are in some sort of pocket dimension or demi- Fanny-Fanny. Right. Right. That's what we're saying.
Fanny-Fanny. So we're in like a demi-flain that is called Old Dominion. It used to be run by a big scary tentacle monster that we recently met called the minion. There's pictures of downstairs.
Yeah. Now it's run by a driver called Queen Margwen. We actually were here thinking that we were going to kill Queen Margwen because she's when she took over, she did something to the way the throne works. Everything is backwards when you're fighting.
Like if you lay on the ground, you get better. Yeah. And if we can convince her to fix that or kill her, which is what we were thinking before. But now we're not.
Then people will stop going through the portal into chill and will stop having the problems that we've been having that caused us to go on the quest in the first place. Yay. That's what I thought. I'm hoping.
I'm hoping. The layster is helping because they're nice. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
We kind of rescued them from a castle that was slowly eating them. Yeah. I totally saved you guys from the castle that was slowly eating you. Yes.
That's exactly what happened. I've even got the hydro teeth necklace to prove it. I just got my hydro teeth necklace. I don't remember if I ever told you guys I got.
I don't remember. I had it made when I was out clothes shopping. We came up into a library room before this, right? Yeah.
Did we manage to search through that yet? I don't remember. We looked a little bit, but we didn't find much. Okay.
I think we learned more on the first floor in the actual museum than we did in the library. Yeah. I think they looked in the library and found a book. It was kind of like a journal, I think, which told a bit about Marguerite's history before she came to this realm.
Did it indicate if Marguerite has always been a driver, at least at the writing of the journal? Is that a new development? Oh, crap. I feel like it did talk about that.
I don't think it's entirely clear. The stuff that we've learned, I don't know if it was from the book, but we've learned that she was corrupted somehow. It's not clear if she's always been a driver and she just became an evil driver or if she became corrupted and that changed her form. It did say that something about her writing out on a dark steed, so that kind of implies that she was not a driver.
Right. Yeah. One night she wrote out on a dark steed, summoned from the hills themselves. Oh.
See the way I interpreted that was someone didn't know what was actually going on and she was a driver anyway. I think I might see very well. Yeah. I thought that.
That's what I was looking at before because it wouldn't be, it wouldn't be a strange sight to see her. Right on a dark steed. Yeah. Right.
Okay. How do you change someone's form back? That's a question for you guys. Well, you have that sword.
Does that just kill her or does that free whatever is up with her? I don't remember how it works. I think the sword of severance is supposed to kill her. Let's look.
Helm of the roaker's spike. Rope of the Larter, Man Fraser, and the four of the four is just be your sort of severance. A sword of severance is a powerful magical weapon designed for one purpose, to free a specific from a powerful curse corruption or possessing spirit that has rooted in their soul. The sword is crafted with this purpose and person in mind and cannot be turned to another target once made.
The name of the individual is carved into the hilt and a personal item is used in the crafting, though this may not be visible. It does become a plus three magic weapon that does extra radiant damage when wielded against her. Oh shit. I guess you have to get a crit in order to remove the darkness.
Cool. Oh, okay. Hopefully we don't kill her before that. I don't think that we can kill her.
It's more hopefully we don't die before that. Okay. In my thought, she's a big fuck off spider. Well, in that case, I think I'm just gonna attune to the sword of severance, like right now and swap over the charm.
Vampirism? Okay. Don't know when that happens. Yeah.
We can put your side of the bag of hold. Yeah. Make sure to slide the edge guard onto it. So based on the information that you've gathered, it appears that the sword targets the corruption, but isn't built to kill her.
I mean, we obviously could go the route of targeting her, but I think the sword is specifically there to target the corruption. Yes. As far as as far as I can tell. And we don't all get one?
No, just the beefy boy. I mean, there are two beefy people here. I appreciate that. Is that a pun?
Yes. When you get to Queen Margotan, you could just all attune to it, just constantly pass it around. And just throw it back in time. Just throw it back and forth to each other.
That would be hilarious. Yeah. I guess we just keep doing what we were doing, right? Except now we know we're not supposed to kill the queen.
Yeah. It's too bad that this order doesn't tell us how to get there. Other than that, they were just taking the ride from the astral manta thing? Shit.
Yeah. Walking. Walking. You know, our good buddy, Joaquin.
I think the pay extra to bring a kabod. I hope not. Joaquin seems pretty gel. We got the money.
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, we just dreamed you. You know what else we've got? What?
We've got the beef. We've got the beef. Oh, that too. Even better.
Thank you. We have the meats. That too. I love Arby's.
This is devolving. All right. Let's get out of here. Yeah.
Well, are we going to look at the orb at the top of the tower? Yeah. Do you want to take the orb? Why did you leave it behind, Aqobud?
It seems like it might be a good emergency. Can I have a jail free card? Yeah. It was just so pretty where it was.
But we can go back and get it. Okay. So we're going to go up and... Okay.
So you go up to the top and it is very bright up there with the orb glowing brightly in its stand, shining out through the glass pained surrounding the top up here. Oh, so it should be here. Is that what you're implying? Days like this.
Is it the light of the lighthouse structure? Yes. Why just build your beans? Maybe we should leave it here then.
It is producing a light that you saw from outside. Oh. And it has a little stand that it's sitting in. It looks like it fits it pretty well.
I mean, it would not be hard to remove if you was to remove it because it's just sitting there. I don't know. What if we need to find our way back to this place? It'd be pretty hard without the light.
How did you activate the orb Aqobud? Did you just touch it or...? Yes. I touched it.
And after examining it, I realized how it was going to work. And so I said, Mike Abies de Marcon and activated it. And it traveled here with me. Oh.
Hmm. But you said you can't control where it goes. Right. You activated it and crossed your various digits.
Hmm. Can it take more than one person or is it just the person holding it? Um, it is anyone who is touching it when the activation words are said. So yeah, we form a happy little circle and then someone speaks, the person who's attuned to it speaks the command phrase.
And you have the choice of either bringing it with or leaving it behind when you jump. Hmm. Huh. I wonder why you would leave it behind.
Well, I mean, it's in the past. Don't cling to the past. Was it in like a lighthouse structure when you found it too? No, I actually found it in a cave.
So I am ambivalent about this. I have more attuned magic items than I know what to do with. So I think everybody does. Yeah.
I think I might have just filled my last slot with the pendant for fighting the raft or whatever. But I think, I don't know, it seems like it's where it's supposed to be. Okay, we can leave it. We can just head back down to Joaquin.
You head back down back through the prophecy room, back through the library, down the stairs, navigate your way through the spike pit and the rest of the rooms. And you find yourselves outside and Joaquin is just kind of laying on the edge of the island, taking a nap. Give us a good description of Joaquin because I think Joaquin is going to like him. Joaquin basically looks like a very large manta ray or skate.
He is a driver for Ray Butifle and... Hand my new best friend. I think he's got like a seat strapped to his back, right? Yeah.
Okay, so we walk over to him and I say, hey, we found a friend. This is Ichabod. Ichabod, this is Joaquin. Oh, nice to meet you Ichabod.
Yeah, you're all alone by yourself. Yeah, just hanging. I've been on my own a lot too. I just kind of wander around like adventuring and stuff, you know, just fly about, see what I can see.
That's why I'm not working. You know, a lot of times I just do a local traffic over in... What's it called? What's the place called?
Three-D-I-Start-In-Station Five. Station Five? Yeah, just do a lot of local traffic over in Station Five. It's not my favorite, but you know, I get around and every now I'm going to get flying up to another station.
Somebody wants to travel to another station, try to get out another portal or whatever. And yeah, I just like flying around. It's nice when I get those jobs. No, it's everyone to come out here before, so it's nice to get out.
You know, I'm the only one who knows how to come out here. I've been out here a couple times, I guess. And it's just always a nice time. This is fantastic.
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