%% date:: [[2023-10-14]] %% # [[051_20231014 Founders Day]] ## Session Summary > [!tldr] [[051_20231014 Founders Day]] > The party returned to town to find preparations for the Founders' Day festival underway, with [[Grumblebum]] joining them at [[The Rowdy Rockfish]]. They explored deeper into Gauntlight, encountering a chained blue humanoid figure and discovering a hexagonal altar with mysterious lights. After battling blue wisps, they found a secret passage leading to Belcorra's old sitting room and study, where they faced a powerful Void Glutton - a rare Will 'O Wisp that feeds on fear. ^summary %% ## Video [Video]() %% --- ## Recap ![[050_20230923 Continuing the fight with Volluk#^summary]] --- ## Log When we get back to town, the townsfolk are getting ready for some sort of festival. [[Brelda Venkervale]] is celebrating the Founders' Day festival. It's going to be in three days. There's also a continuing influx of adventurers. Including [[Grumblebum]] who is in the main room of [[The Rowdy Rockfish]]. [[Lazda Venkervale]] is there, talking to himself or no one in particular. He doesn't seem quite right from his experience. [[Dread]] arrives at the inn, looking for us. He's clad in full metal armour. He thanks us for saving him and [[Gears|Gears]]. He says he's not sure if he would have done the same. Gears wants to learn how to make guns like [[Jaspen Bond Callistair|Bond]]'s. We explore north on the fourth floor. There are three iron cages with spikes on the inside. There are blood-crusted manacles on the west wall. There's a stout wooden table with more manacles. There's a whip with blood-red leather and a silver handle. There's a humanoid figure covered in chains - chains are wrapped around its body and limbs. Its body is blue. It's currently playing with one of the chains around its fingers. She looks very bored - like she's been bored for centuries. ![[1697279425720 - Combat]] The party battled a chained blue humanoid figure in the torture chamber, though the details of this combat are not recorded. We go back to the [[Hall of Trophies]] where [[Ashnefrotty|Ash]]'s halfling body was. Further north is a hexagonal altar with lights. All the graves in the mural are open and empty. Carved images of shrieking ghosts go into the hungry pupil of a malevolent eye at the apex of the room, 30 feet above. There's a circular platform raised 3 feet on which an altar with an irregular rock rests. There are seven deep indentations like a huge, seven-fingered hand slashed through. Inside the indentations, there's a flash of light now and then, from deep within the rock. On the floor are hands cut off at the wrist (which we defeated previously). On the eastern side of the altar, five of the lights come out and hover over five of us. They are blue wisps. ![[1697280461419 - Combat]] The party fought against five blue wisps that emerged from the hexagonal altar, using coordinated tactics including tandem movement and dragon stance. - Z1: Tandem movement - A1: Dragon stance We go east. It leads to the centre of a corridor. To the north, after 40 feet, there are stairs that go up (for about 60 feet). After 40 feet south, there are stairs that go down for about feet. The staircase going up doesn't lead to the ghoul level at all. We go up. It turns east. It goes up again towards the far east. Grumblebum finds a secret passage. Finds four uneven spots and it reveals the south wall as a secret passageway. We see a room with an image of [[Belcorra]] as she once was. It used to be a sitting room with two chairs and a low table between them. Belcorra is meeting with [[Volluk Azrinae|Volluk]] the drow. No sound, but Belcorra is talking to him and Volluk is listening. The vision disappears. Everything is coated in dust. We open the door to the southeast. The next room has two divans. Belcorra is reading a massive book. Ash can't make out what the title is. The image vanishes. In the middle of the room is another wisp. But it's medium-sized. It's the source of the thought [[Zuhri]] sensed. It appears like a black hole with seven-fingered hands at the end of various tentacles. There are eyes floating around the hands and tentacles. ![[Pasted image 20231014133909.png]] ![[1697283526671 - Combat]] The party engaged in a fierce battle against a [[Void Glutton]], a rare and powerful Will 'O Wisp that feeds on fear and is immune to most magic. This is a Void Glutton, powerful Will 'O Wisp that haunts a site of misery. Rare wisp that is level 8. Feeds on fear. Immune to most magic. Throws ectoplasmic web, can fly, makes you afraid and then feeds on your fear. Monster parts!