2023-03-02 A Temple for All Seasons - Wik
Mar 26, 2023 1:02:06 GMT
Jaezred Vandree, Riah, and 3 more like this
Post by Wik on Mar 26, 2023 1:02:06 GMT
The Harmony Job
The Persona
Cechec Wulxan
Dragonborn. Golden scales, four horns.
Adult. 40 years old.
Dragonborn. Golden scales, four horns.
Adult. 40 years old.
The Mark
The Temple of All Seasons.
The Plan
A newly discovered temple should be full of artifacts that are just waiting to be sold to the highest bidder. Better yet: lost fey artifacts.
I'll offer my assistance in this, and if the opportunity presents to lift something...
I'm sure it would not be missed.
I'll offer my assistance in this, and if the opportunity presents to lift something...
I'm sure it would not be missed.
Points of Interest
A. The front door to the Temple of All Seasons. A stone slab with a carved mural of a dancing satyr playing the pipes. Below is an inscription in old Sylvan: "Open in the name of She Whose Song Embraces the Season's…" and "The Roots Remember..."
B. A carved mural of five fey kings and queens. The outer four represent the four seasons. The middle figure has had their face deliberately defaced. Above it hangs a beam of starlight that comes from an icon of Corellon.
C. A small cavern atop a cliff. Inside lies a stone key in the form of a goat head. The cavern is defended by a blue-white dragon.
The Result
- Artolos leads us (Cechec Wulxan, Mittens McKittens, Bella De Boskoop, Calla Prim, Raine Carroway) into the main area of the temple. Once the stone slab is removed, we slide down a small ramp into a bed of leaves.
- Artolos takes us into the second hallway on the right. As he does, another member of his research staff, Galan, comes through a set of double doors.
- Artolos takes us to a mural of the five fey kings and queens. The others investigate the mural. Cechec offers peanuts to Artolos.
- Artolos takes us into the main temple area at Galan's prompting. There is a large tree in the middle of the temple. To the side is a fountain, and to another side is a lake. The season is currently set to Spring.
- Artolos asks Galan to demonstrate the temple. Galan uses a large brass key to turn a sundial, and the season changes to Summer. To Autumn. To Winter.
- The party warms themselves by a campfire. An elf stares at Cechec. Cechec offers a peanut. The elf declines. The elf seems to see past Cechec. Galan turns the season back to Autumn. The party descends into an opening in the great tree in the middle of the temple.
- The room below the tree is set to Autumn. There is another sundial. The party spreads out to explore.
- Calla persuades brambles to allow her passage beyond. Mittens follows uninvited and is stung badly.
- Cechec calls to Galan to change the season to Winter.
- A blue-white dragon appears.
- The party fights the dragon, and discovers a goat's head key behind it.
- The party returns to the surface. The goat's head key is placed in a door at the far end of the temple that is engraved with a chimera. The party receives a vision.
Here, but not here.
Longing. Loneliness. Homesickness.
A shadow of a creature.
Antlers like a stag.
A bone-deep chill that burns like fire.
The door is open.
Longing. Loneliness. Homesickness.
A shadow of a creature.
Antlers like a stag.
A bone-deep chill that burns like fire.
The door is open.
