%% date:: [[2024-07-10]] %% # [[137_20240709 City of the attalwen]] ![[137_20240710.svg]] ## Session Summary > [!tldr] [[137_20240709 City of the attalwen]] > On the second day of the two-day trek to Uthodurn, the party came across a snowy lynx-like creature that spoke and seemed more intelligent than normal animals. Xenia encased it in a wall of force and the party ran away. Closer to Uthodurn, the party found a group of hunters struggling with a mammoth. They helped the hunters scare off a female mammoth and drive the male mammoth closer to the city to be slaughtered for his meat. > > The party were allowed to enter the city after saying that they bore a message for the diarchy. They got an audience with the king and queen, who read the message and asked the party to give them word from Palebank Village, with whom they had lost contact in the last week. ^summary %% ## Video [Video](https://youtu.be/xZ6DjXHHU2Q) [TWC Video](https://youtu.be/GtORAlHmLHA) 00:00:00 Andy has to check my notes to remember what he said 00:01:13 Andy asks for sounds, Tyler delivers 00:01:40 Recap 00:05:29 Start of game 00:09:57 Getting out of the mansion 00:20:55 Does anybody have a compass? 00:34:53 Snow lynx appears 00:46:56 Meeting mammoth hunters from Uthodurn 01:03:48 Roll for initiative 01:10:28 Two nat 20s on the cloud dice 01:16:20 Andy forgot how to grapple again 01:41:13 Andy sniffs the cloud dice 01:54:44 Entering Uthodurn 02:21:15 End of game %% --- ## Recap ![[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/136_20240702 Wally Swallowed#^summary]] --- ## Log %% Comments - Murthi, do you need help with Calendarium? - Absolutely no RP when Lulu and I are both gone. "What do you talk about?" "Here's my feature, what time is it" - Hilarious to spend five minutes trying to remember who has a compass and why - Wally has Hypnotic Pattern now?? All the spells! - Good thing Lulu and I weren't there to watch you help separate a mated pair of mammoths - Nika should have rolled Deception not Persuasion for the female mammoth! - Andy, you got THREE nat 20s on the cloud dice? - Andy, you forgot how to grapple again??? - Andy, Wally speared the mammoth in the butt and you said nothing? - Brigannock summoning and voices are awesome! - The mammoth thing could have been a great skill challenge instead of combat/initiative-based rounds - Is Eldin a Pallid Elf? - Nobody asked if anyone was hot. - You recycled the name Lyari for another elf?? - Did you get the jagged blades and the hidden hunters from Dune? - Milla, do you want to ask Sage to Send to your brother to make sure they're okay? %% In the middle of a snowstorm! Wally goes down this pit/hole and for some reason starts to see some Kryn faces and memories. A lynx-like snow creature apparates from a squall in a snowstorm. It's eyeing the party... Smoke tendrils drift off its form like dry ice. Black slits. It says "Not so much noise. Why should I go away?" It says it's still deciding whether to eat the party or not. It's Large. - It asks what everyone's doing here. It says it comes from "hither and there". It sometimes uses [[ttrpgs/Temporary White Circle/The Feywild|The Feywild]] to travel. There are rumours of winter turning into fire with the return of the Lord of the Nine. - It doesn't take sides. It just looks out for its herd and tries to survive. - The "hunters from the pit" in the valley ([[Uthodurn]]) don't give them much option. Xenia casts Wall of Force to encase the lynx creature. Continuing along the path. There's a dark shape on the valley, a pagoda shape. There are a few pinpricks of light there. There are trumpets and horns that can be heard from the distance. There are groups of humanoids with white fur. There's a large mammoth trying to defend itself against a group of five with torches and spears. There's a smaller mammoth that the hunters are trying to shoo away. They're a mix of dwarves and elves. The hunters say it's a female. They're trying to separate the two. They want the female to go back to her young so that they don't run out of meat. They just want the male to get closer to the city so they don't have to carry the meat back. Nika casts *Speak with animals* to try to convince the female to go away. That doesn't go well... The female is "strongly convinced" to go back to her herd. By damage from the party. The male has gored one of the hunters. Uthodurn is about a mile away. The male mammoth is Huge size. [[Eldrin]], one of the elves, seems to be the leader of the hunters. Eldrin asks everyone to do less damage to it and instead move it in the direction of the city. Nika summons eight brigannocks that cast *Animal Friendship* on the mammoth. Another hunter is gored and taken down. Eldin has light skin, like a ghost in the snow who's not seen much sun. Eldin Snowshadow. They've lost contact with Palebank. They usually have trade with them but they haven't heard back from any scouts. - Lyari is another elf - 3 elves, 3 dwarves. Approaching Uthodurn - out of the snow, out of nowhere, previously hidden soldiers with jagged glass-like blades appear. - Beyla is the head of the Watch here. Asks for what the TWC's business is. Uthodurn gates are opened. - Structured around three sort of disks. - Like the leaning tower of Pisa - watchtowers, stables - spiral staircase to get into the arcades around the pit. Downward spiral - Top level: Volition Disc, widest and oldest part. Lots of people living on the outskirts. - Second level - Central road: Auger Trail - Mining surrounding rock - Barracks at this level - Smallest disk: Deliberation Disc, also called "Liber Disc" - taverns, cooked food, people getting ready for the evening - Smell of smithy - Shopping area. - Dwarves dancing to elvish music. Elves smoking pipes. Mix of cultures seems weird to us. - Massive iron gates at each level - Bottom: Grand Disc - mines - Grandcast Citadel - where the monarchs are - inverse tunnel, like a frozen underground tornado. Audience with the diarchy - Two thrones on the same eyeline, female dwarf and male elf - Both are solemn and serious. They've heard of the TWC - Nika says her real last name. The queen recognises the surname and raises her eyebrow. - Queen mentions [[Archivist Demid Sunlash]] as someone Xenia might want to talk to from the Cobalt Soul. - Wally asks for passage north. He says the TWC are looking for [[Amandina Darkflame]]. The queen suggests Amandina is travelling by disguise. Queen also suggests the party go to the Liber Disk and ask if she's been that way. Interview anyone from the city with their blessing. - Elven man says Dwendal has brought the war to them. They've seen Kryn riding purple worms nearby, and some sightings from the sky. Wyverns are not unknown, but there are things that are much scarier. Maybe [[Gelidon]]. - Quest given: give them word of Palebank. - Dwendal also told the diarchy about Snurre. The queen says they're not allies with Snurre, but maybe their goals are compatible. - Queen suggests the TWC rest here under their protection. %% # Text Elements # Drawing ```json {"type":"excalidraw","version":2,"source":"https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/releases/tag/2.0.25","elements":[],"appState":{"theme":"dark","gridSize":null,"viewBackgroundColor":"#ffffff"}} ``` %%