Overview
We met up with [Tasha] again to travel beyond the door in the Void Between. All of us were able to stick (somewhat) together and get through the maze section very quickly, and arrived at the entrance of the Temple of Annihilation. The door is still open oddly, with it not having been reset since we came through the first time. The temple looks in even more disarray than when we arrived. Nox Lumios appeared out of the axe to vibe with us, and Venia immediately fell in a pit trap. She also found a locked chest, and found a book written by Lovitar, and some bottles. We investigated the skeletons laying around, and most if not all of them had horns. SP2-B2 walked into a random nexus on the lower level, so we had to chase them back to the Astral Library. The Corrupted Oversouls in the library were talking about what Annabeth found, which was an Aspect, which apparently would take years to hatch and would make the finality?? The orb that The Curator was in front of last time is an orb of pondering, and the Corrupted Oversouls nearby could hear whenever someone pondered the orb. The Shaywade maze and cave were seemingly untouched from the last time we were here. After a “quick” ambush of decayed nerds, we went back to the main area and opened a nexus to a ruined manor, which was filled of signs of fires. In the foyer, we were greeted by 5 figures which were only somewhat real, and a sixth… thing… which we could only see it’s eyes in pure darkness. After one of us touched one of the figures, the lights turned off and all the figures disappeared. We explored for a bit, finding one of the figures, touching them on the shoulder made them disappear and a boon appeared in their place. After finding a secret passageway to the basement, which houses some Corrupted Oversouls and a friendly Dark Strider. Going a bit deeper in the passageways, there was a Plane Scryer which we ran from.
Returning upstairs to explore around the manor more, we found the rest of the mystery figures which each disappeared, leaving their respective boon where they were standing.
When we collected all the separate boons, the shadow figure appeared at the entrance of the manor. Once we stepped closer to them, all of the doors around us immediately closed and locked, and we could hear footsteps from the upstairs. The shadow-covered figure then stepped down the stairs, uncloaking themselves from shadow, revealing their form, and started to attack us.
Lore Reveals
- Nox Lumios had a wife and daughter
- So does Gossamyr
Remember Scribbles
Look for “Abagail”- There was a box in the side room of the Astral Library, under a statue that could be activated(?) with the light or darkblade’s axe.
- Alistair used the gateway place as an arena
- Allison had some goggles of night and notes from Alistair in their old living quarters in the Shaywade Maze
- Charm Person & Fireball spell scroll