%% date:: [[2023-11-21]] %% # [[112_20231121 The room of tentai frescoes]] ## Session Summary > [!tldr] [[112_20231121 The room of tentai frescoes]] > We climbed up over to the top of the dam, where we hurriedly hid to avoid a huge fire giant that came to let some of the lava flow out from the dam. We then tried to open the locked giant storeroom, but failed and decided not to continue in case we did something too noisy. > > We then followed the giant into the tunnel and towards a forge, where one other giant and two other trolls were working on giant- and human-sized weapons. Scura turned into a spider to scope out the only other exit, and we went in that direction (east), while using Silent Image and Invisibility to keep them from seeing us. > > In the next corridor, we followed the passageway north to some frescoes, which turned out to be an illusion hiding a room that seemed to be the giants' worshipping temple to some gruesome tentacled trio of gods that, judging by the frescoes in the room, accepted mass sacrifices of many different races of humanoids as offerings to sate their hungers. > > We left the creepy room and found a room that looked like a prison cell, and in it was a woman who claimed to be a noble woman, Sybell, from Rexxentrum. ^summary %% ## Video [Video](https://youtu.be/w6K59w0qRqc) [TWC video](https://youtu.be/GVneHsQWegk) Notes: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/ttrpgs/Temporary+White+Circle/112_20231121+The+room+of+tentai+frescoes 00:00:00 Recap 00:02:03 Start of game and climbing up 00:02:17 Andy is fixated 00:02:48 It's Andy's job to complain 00:07:44 I missed Andy's smart assery 00:09:04 We can't not do something 00:09:47 Andy tries to say it's not dim light 00:12:38 Everyone wants to know if Milla's wearing pants 00:18:00 View from the top of the dam 00:18:15 Andy's meat 00:22:10 Miming with my mouth full 00:25:13 Seeing the first fire giant 00:21:20 Charades 00:33:55 Scura questions Nika's motives 00:39:19 Big sample of shut the fuck up 00:43:37 Andy's done too much talking today 00:49:13 Strange buzzing noise 00:53:11 Wally's tool is too small for the hole 00:55:55 Blacksmith terms 00:56:26 Deep booming voice 00:57:42 Tyler is getting impatient 00:59:09 Andy didn't pay attention the first time 00:59:32 What kind of spell is that? 01:03:22 Andy got distracted by a... 01:06:04 Andy's accidentally made me roll at disadvantage 01:08:16 Andy tells me to be patient 01:08:35 Ooohs and ahhhs over the forge map 01:13:10 Wild shape to scout the forge 01:20:45 Scura spider token 01:21:20 Nobody's dissing the map 01:26:22 Andy fantasises about killing me again 01:27:10 Strategising with the party 01:32:04 Giant sounds while calculating time 01:32:46 Andy fantasises about killing me, make a fanfic 01:38:59 Holding hands with Wally 01:43:56 Milla holds hands with us 01:45:42 We run across 01:47:01 Wally takes Scura's damage 01:49:20 Andy thinks spellcasting is a nightmare 01:53:24 There's no fucking lava here, what? 01:53:50 Break 01:55:35 Giving Andy shit about the map 01:58:52 Are we still holding hands? 02:03:18 Wally makes noises when he moves 02:05:15 Prisoner sound effects 02:08:50 Milla's daydreaming about Wally's hands 02:12:11 The room behind the frescoes 02:18:10 Tentacles 02:23:51 Wally's not scared, Scura is 02:24:42 What if they're just pleasure chambers? 02:30:47 Sybil from Rexxentrum 🪄 The climb up the ladder to the dam had taken less time. ⭐ The description of the first time we saw a fire giant. It was so detailed and so memorable. I felt like I could really feel the heat from his beard as he brushed past me in the tunnel. ⭐ The giant and troll sounds in general added so much flavour! ⭐ Nika understanding the stupid shit that giants said, due to her speaking Giant albeit "with a frost giant dialect". :joy: ⭐ The forge map was really interesting. I also really liked the hand-drawn map too though. ⭐ Getting past the frescoes and wandering into some room where crazy shit was happening made me feel like we're just scratching the surface of the lore here. %% --- ## Recap ![[111_20231114 Come closer to Uncle Jelly#^summary]] --- ## Log The cavern is about 100 ft high. The dam itself is about 60 ft high. Each rung on the ladder is about 12, 20 inches in diameter. Each one is about 5 ft wide and 6 ft between each one. In the dam are what look like mephits in [[Kamordah]], but not quite. 18 feet tall giant comes by. Extremely muscular. Flaming beard. Smell of a blacksmith but with lava instead of coal. Bonfires for eyes. Glowing pattern on his belt that continues on his thigh. Array of giant smith's tools on his belt. Nika made a deal with a powerful wizard and he needs a sample of a giant's beard. When he gets all the spell components, he will cast a spell for her. She also wants to stop [[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/Desirat|Desirat]]. - giant's beard - hair from Nika - sample of boy born in autumn (brother, already covered) - elven father and son - blue skinned tiefling - hag's dinner - white dragon - dryad's tree The bottle with Nika's hair was labled V.A.A. We see a storeroom but we can't open it. We get to [[Vuthos#The Forge|the forge]]. - two trolls - We see residuum powder: residue of arcane energy, green dust. - Weapons in various states of completion: giant-sized axes, spearheads, armor, swords. But also human-sized something. - It's fucking hot here. That's the technical term. Wild Shape into a spider to scope out the place and avoid falling into the lava and/or getting spotted. - crates of [[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/Residuum|Residuum]] - no other exits than south where we came from and east. ![[scura-spider-token.png]] I put on my red cultist robes. We get past the forge using *Silent Image* and *invisibility*. North: frescoes South: some stairs The doors are all iron doors. 40-60 foot high ceilings. Corridors are 20 feet wide. Huge braziers that cast quite a lot of light and heat. Walls are not quite obsidian, but they're from heat-treated stone. Each of the two doors along the wall is wooden, with a high window. From inside, we hear the rattle of chains and moans. We pass by two doors and we hear a female voice and some male voices from the second door. [[Vuthos#Hallway of Grisly Frescoes]] Investigating the frescoes: they depict a giant king conquering a volcano and standing on top of it, and a giant holding a black cairn as a sacrifice to some sort of deity. I investigate the frescoes too. They are illusions! I see another room ([[Vuthos#The Obsidian Temple]]) - luminescent purple and lavender things are bobbing and making the whole thing difficult to perceive - polished floor of red and black stone - thin pillars of obsidian Middle thing is an entrance with wall of purple tentacles ([[Vuthos#Room of Purple Stone Tentacles]]. Looks like stone tentacles closing up the gap. The ping from the *Locate object* for the dragon eggs was through the middle bit but further down. We go through the frescoes and it's some sort of dark worshipping chamber. - Feelings of unease and memories of people we've lost as we enter. - About 120 feet wide, 130 feet long. - Looks like some sort of temple. - Walls show creatures submitting to [[The Tentacled Trinity|a trio of vaguely squid-like creatures]] with 10 hairy tentacles and are various shades of violet - Western wall: Mass sacrifice of different humanoids (trolls and elves and humans and dwarves and giants) to some purple tentacly thing. Those in front are being torn apart. - Wally touches the obsidian pillar and is almost frightened, but doesn't succumb. - This seems to be the giants' worship temple. There is also an altar at the end. We go to the first barred room and we see a woman who's lying there in clothes that are very dirty and disheveled but look like they were once nice. She flinches from the light. She says, "Is it time?" She's very scared. Wally talks to her and she says she can give us a reward if we let her go. Her name is [[Sybell]] from [[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/Rexxentrum|Rexxentrum]]. ^a2cbda