Epic D&D - Smeeters - Session 6

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Game 6 Recap

The Smeeters travel to a remote region of Monax’len, there to find the ancient ruins that Qest has kept his laboratory in. They, along with the other parties hired by the Uyanis, are there to find and destroy several foci that will allow Qest to wipe the memories of everyone in the floating city of Tsuran.

Entering through an underground river, the characters quickly found the a cavern where a hydra rested guarding the first foci. After a fairly brief battle involving Truffles turning into a shark, they defeated it and moved on.

The ruins opened to them, they proceeded inside to immediately encounter a group of flame and smoke mephits. These were easily dealt with when Pulsar cast Hypnotic Lights, leaving them unable to do anything at all.

Having finished off that room, they headed to Qest’s alchemical laboratory. There, they were confronted with a puzzle - a bubbling cauldron of acid, with a foci immersed at the bottom. The key was mixing together other reagents so that the acid would be neutralized. The group quickly got to work puzzling it out, and were joined by another group of adventures who happened onto the room. Things were made more tense by the release of some great monster that Aegon, their handler, insisted they needed to not face.

The parties put together their guess. Just before pouring it in, Pulsar realized that they were one potion off. Re-assessing, they swapped out the right bottle. The acid neutralized, they destroyed the last foci and escaped certain doom.

As they were leaving, though, Jad received a Sending that was basically 25 curse words. Then another. Sylwena, the elf that had offered to go into business with him selling a form of enchanted tulip she had cultivated, had followed them to Southfork as instructed. The characters had failed to mention, due to not knowing, that Southfork was sitting on a primal leyline. This had certain unexpected interactions with the tulips that the characters will need to deal with next session.