volara: session 7 notes

Rivers had another dream; Jungle, stream of limbs, rabbits run toward the stream, bright white eyes, no pupils. Dear with the same eyes bows its head. The whiteness leaks out of its eyes. A voice says, "take care where you wander, traveler. You know not what lurks in the shadows....Give me your pain." Then there is a heart connected between two trees. It beats.

Crazy shit. The heart thing is the symbol of one of the Traitor Lords, I know.

As everyone awakens I tryed to teach Rivers and Kilfras how to meditate. I believed it could help Rivers to control his actions even in the height of emotion, be it anger or fear.

Lash came to visit us at the butcher shop. He had a message for Rivers, "Beware of the emptiness inside of you." Also he had some very nice tea.

So, we headed to Viorisa's to get the keys and continue with our plan to lock the forge / waterfall / gate. She was not home, but Joliee the Butler was there. We tried to eat breakfast, but no one said grace so a demon named Greg came in through the window and took all the food.

Curie told me a little more about his relationship with Ivan. They grew up together as orphans. They were like brothers. His father is still alive. (Is this Curie's father or Ivan's or both?) His name is Yeager. He is the leader of the Pale Hand.

It turns out that Joliee the Butler had the two keys we needed. He would go with us to the forge. He also carried a trombone case, the contents of which are a mystery to us.

We took a ski lift thing to the forge. Joliee, Ivan, and Clovie were with us. I could tell that Joliee is something more than he seems, but what?

Inside the forge, it was just the party. Everyone else left too do something else? Rivers saw a vision of me being eaten by some big armored thing. Great. Rivers sure has lots of visions.

So, we traveled through the forge fighting weird shadows, floating skulls, and creepy tentacle monsters. Then some spirits appeared. A man and a firbolg. They were not unfriendly. The firbolg was the spirit of Otenkrios. They said a bunch of things:

I brought your daughters back for you, if you can call them that. - Otenkrios.

I perfer you don't call them that. - human

(...other stuff I didn't write down...)

Very well. It was that or your daughters die. - Otenkrios

Then the party arrived at a room with a bunch of disgusting Dolgons sitting around a table. They were creepy as all hell. Rivers touched the food and they all turned to look at him. Then they chased us tearing through doors and junk we threw in our path.

Eventually, we found a round room with stones on the floor. It appeared to be a puzzle. I touched one of the stones and it compeled me to believe that I was in a stage production as the lead actor. As soon as someone guessed what I was compelled to believe, my mind was freed. The others, too had touched the stones and their mind alterations were guessed. The door at the other end of the chamber was then opened.