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'''Elsewhere in the Wetlands/Bog:''' | '''Elsewhere in the Wetlands/Bog:''' | ||
* ''(Found a sword and a helmet in the middle of the bog):'' “That's a rather jaunty hat lying in the mud there - and a sword too. Someone must have been in quite the hurry to get out of this swamp.” | * ''(Found a sword and a helmet in the middle of the bog {{coords|-3|277}}):'' “That's a rather jaunty hat lying in the mud there - and a sword too. Someone must have been in quite the hurry to get out of this swamp.” | ||
* ''(Tried to pick a fruit from a [[Sunlit_Wetlands#Barbed_Bulrush|Barbed Bulrush]], pricked a finger):'' “''Ah''! Sharper than Malar's{{ref|Malar is a lesser deity, also called "The Beast of Beasts". More on him can be found at {{FRWiki|Malar|long}}}} fangs, these thorns!” | * ''(Tried to pick a fruit from a [[Sunlit_Wetlands#Barbed_Bulrush|Barbed Bulrush]], pricked a finger):'' “''Ah''! Sharper than Malar's{{ref|Malar is a lesser deity, also called "The Beast of Beasts". More on him can be found at {{FRWiki|Malar|long}}}} fangs, these thorns!” | ||
* ''(Found a slaughtered campsite on the riverbank):'' "Blood… I don't like where this is going." | * ''(Found a slaughtered campsite on the riverbank):'' "Blood… I don't like where this is going." | ||
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** ''(After the riddle is solved):'' "Well, down it is, I suppose..." | ** ''(After the riddle is solved):'' "Well, down it is, I suppose..." | ||
==== [[Underdark]] ==== | |||
'''At the [[Selûnite Outpost]] and around:''' | |||
* ''(Approaching portcullis, saw a [[Minotaur]] killed by traps):'' "There's danger underfoot. Best be on our guard." | |||
** ''(Responding remark):'' “My advice would be care and caution.” | |||
* ''(Felt the quake):'' "A bloody mess this. Something rather unpleasant went down here." | |||
* ''(Approaching myconid [[Rapport Spores (Condition)|spore-guarded territory]], [[Nature]] check):'' | |||
** ''(Successul):'' "Fungal spores... Must be myconids nearby." | |||
** ''(Failed):'' "The air here is rife with fungal spores. Must be myconids nearby." | |||
* ''(Approaching a group of petrified Drow):'' “These aren't statues. These are petrified drow!” | |||
* ''(Killed the [[Spectator]], Arcana check):'' “Spectators don't normally possess the ability to petrify. Something's not adding up.” | |||
** ''(Failed):'' “It's one thing to be sculpted, another to become the sculpture. That was a close call.” | |||
'''In the [[Ebonlake Grotto]] and [[Decrepit Village]]:''' | |||
* ''(Met the [[Myconid]]s for the first time, [[Intelligence]] check failed):'' “I've read about these creatures. They tend to be benign unless provoked.” | |||
* ''(Looking at [[Spaw]] planting spores into a corpse):'' “I read about myconids and the manifold properties of their spores. That duergar is about to rise - undead.” | |||
** ''(Responding remark to [[Lae'zel]]):'' “Yes. Myconids are more powerful than you realise.” | |||
** ''(Responding remark to any other avatar):'' “Indeed. These creatures are mightier than they look.” | |||
* ''(Saw a corpse revived as a Spore Servant):'' “Spores that can raise the dead... These myconids certainly are fascinating creatures.” | |||
** ''(Responding remark):'' “In such environs, their efficiency is to be admired. Nothing goes to waste.” | |||
* ''(Found the remains of duergar and myconids’ battle):'' “A battleground. There are duergar and myconids among the dead.” | |||
* ''(Approached abandoned camp in the Decrepit Village):'' “A campsite. Nobody's home, though.” | |||
* ''(Killed [[Glut]]):'' “Glut's ambition comes full circle: from foolish inception to foolish demise.” | |||
** ''(Responding remark):'' “A petty kingdom undone, already lost to history.” | |||
'''In the [[Dread Hollow]]:''' | |||
* ''(Finding Hook Horror markings, [[Survival]] check):'' | |||
** ''(Successful):'' "These are territorial markings and recent ones too. There are hunters around." | |||
** ''(Failed):'' "I wonder what these grooves are. Territorial markings maybe, but I can't say for certain." | |||
* ''(Saw a Hook Horror eating a gnome):'' “Hook horrors! Classification: monstrosity. Social behaviour: kills on sight.” | |||
* ''(Heard Hook Horror calling for reinforcement in battle):'' “In case you were wondering: it's calling the rest of its pack!” | |||
* ''(Saw [[Bulette|Bulette’s]] holes, [[Nature]] check):'' | |||
** ''(Successful):'' “These burrow holes have all the markings of having been dug by bulettes. There's trouble afoot.” | |||
** ''(Failed):'' “These burrow holes must have been dug by some creature. Most likely not a creature I'd like to meet.” | |||
* ''(Felt Bulette burrowing beneath):'' “What's that?” | |||
** ''(Succeeded [[Nature]] check):'' "A bulette... Best brace for a vicious battle." | |||
** ''(Failed Nature check):'' "Whatever that was, it looks mightily unpleasant." | |||
* ''(Bulette reappeared after hiding underground):'' “My, my. Second time's the charm.” | |||
* ''(Approaching the Sussur Tree):'' That's a sussur tree! These things drain away one's magic - shouldn't linger here. | |||
** ''(Feeling [[Sussur Antimagic Field (Condition)|Sussur Tree impact]]):'' "By Mystra, what are these accursed flowers? I can feel my magic ebbing away." | |||
** ''(Responding remark):'' “I had better watch your back then.” | |||
* ''(Found Myrna's [[Myrna|dog collar]] after digging out the grave at {{coords|-41|-212}}):'' “A collar covered with runes. Belonged to a wizard's pet I gather.” | |||
** ''(Responding remark, read [[Letter from Amarith]]):'' “Must have belonged to Lenore's pet, I gather.” | |||
** ''(Responding remark, hasn’t read the letter):'' “Must have belonged to a wizard's pet, I gather.” | |||
'''In the [[Arcane Tower]]:''' | |||
* ''(Approaching the entrance, saw scorched ground from [[Arcane Turret]]s):'' “Scorch marks. Hints of Weave too. There might just be trouble afoot.” | |||
* ''(Read any poem book in the tower):'' “Here dwelt a man blessed with impeccable taste in literature.” | |||
* ''(Felt Weave emanations from the [[Chest of the Mundane]], [[Arcana]] check):'' | |||
** ''(Successful):'' “Trickles of Weave radiate from that chest.” | |||
** ''(Failed):'' “I feel trickles of Weave, but what's their source?” | |||
* ''(Put an item IN the chest):'' “So this chest contains a field of transformative Weave. Delightful.” | |||
* ''(Took an item OUT of the chest):'' “Look at that: it transformed. Wonder what else it can change.” | |||
* ''(Interact with lights without activating [[Power generator]]):'' “These are no ordinary lights. Yet there must be a way to turn them on.” | |||
** ''(Activated Power generator):'' “Arcane lights. How delightful.” | |||
** ''(After powering up the generator):'' "Ingenious use of the magic in the tower's floral core. Though not ingenius enough to outsmart Gale of Waterdeep." | |||
* ''(Blocked lift in the Arcane tower, Arcana check):'' | |||
** ''(Successful):'' “This contraption is powered by magic, but its magic seems to be gone - or dormant.” | |||
** ''(Failed):'' “It doesn't look defective, but its magic aura is too faint for it to operate.” | |||
** ''(Try to trigger it second time):'' “It's still bereft of power.” | |||
* ''(Pressed the strange button in [[Lenore De Hurst|Lenore’s]] bedroom, doesn’t have the collar):'' “This button must have had a use once, but was it worth reaching so far down for?” | |||
** ''(Pressed the button, has Myrna's [[Myrna|collar]] in inventory):'' “I can feel the collar stirring in my pack. Something must be triggering the runes' magic.” | |||
** ''(Pressed the button, a party member wears the collar):'' “The collar stirs. Something must be triggering the runes' magic.” | |||
** ''(Pressed the button, got a [[Raw Steak]]):'' “Clever. Give a dog a magical food dispensing collar, and I'm sure it will eat.” | |||
** ''(Pressed the button second time): “This seems to have run out of food disappointingly quickly.” | |||
* ''(Put on the [[Guiding Light|ring]] obtained from [[Bernard]]):'' “Well, well, well. This ring is yielding secrets.” | |||
* ''(Sat down on the [[Stool of Hill Giant Strength]]):'' "My, not only is this chair comfortable, it imbues its sitter with power!" | |||
** ''(Got up from it):'' "Hmmm. So if I stand, the power's gone. Sedentary magic I suppose that's called." | |||
** ''(Destroyed the stool and took the [[Club of Hill Giant Strength|leg club]]):'' “Look at that. An unconventional weapon, but it might just be an effective one.” | |||
'''Collecting lore on the [[Adamantine Forge]]:''' | |||
* ''(First learned about the adamantine forge):'' “There's mention here of an adamantine forge. Such would be a rare and valuable find indeed.” | |||
* ''(Looted [[Flumph Mating Rituals|disguised book]]{{ref|Flumphs are a sentient race that inhabits the Underdark. They are known to reproduce themselves through a budding process, hence the bemusement of party members. More on these creatures can be found at {{FRWiki|Flumph|long}}}} from [[Xargrim]], Arcana check):'' | |||
** ''(Successful):'' “A spell of sorts is masking the book's true meaning. But I'm sure there's a way around that...” | |||
** ''(Failed):'' “What's this? 'Flumph Mating Rituals'. Acquired taste, I'm sure, but not mine. Nor a drow's I would have thought...” | |||
** ''(If already interrogated Xargrim's corpse):'' “Aha! This must be the book that hides a book within. Let's take a closer look.” | |||
** ''(The book transformed, the party knew it was disguised):'' “The magic veil has been drawn back from the drow's book on flumphs. Let me peruse.” | |||
** ''(The party didn’t know):'' “My, my. The tome on flumphs hid truer words behind its impostor ones. What a clever feat of magic.” | |||
* ''(Looted [[Filro|Filro’s]] records, not knowing about the forge):'' “Nothing in these notes but nonsensical run-on sentences.” | |||
** ''(Deciphered the record scroll):'' “What have we here? Adamantine forge... Mysterious guardian... Mention of a 'hot hammer'... A whole adventure in a nutshell.” | |||
** ''(If learned about the forge first from Filro):'' “These papers describe an adamantine forge hidden somewhere deep below. Such a forge is a treasure vault where the treasure's for the making.” | |||
*** ''(Responding remark, successfully deciphered drow’s records):'' “An adamantine forge is very much a treasure, and any good treasure is protected by a guardian. Looks like we can defeat it with a so-called 'hot hammer'.” | |||
*** ''(Failed to decipher the record scroll):'' “The reference to a 'hot hammer' is rather puzzling though. Whoever wrote these papers must have been rather delirious.” | |||
* ''(Second mention of the forge):'' “Further mention of the adamantine forge. Someone was dead set on finding it.” | |||
** ''(The party knows about it from Filro’s corpse):'' “Plenty more were looking for the forge it seems. The drow had competition.” | |||
** ''(The party knows about it from Filro’s notes):'' “Another reference to the adamantine forge. No mention of a guardian this time.” | |||
** ''(The party knows about it from [[Dhourn]]/Dhourn’s corpse):'' “The adamantine forge again. Dhourn, too, was looking to find it.” | |||
** ''(The party knows about it from Dhourn’s [[Memory Shard]]):'' “Another clue about the adamantine forge. Unnecessary now that the memory shard revealed its location.” | |||
** ''(The party knows about it from Xargrim’s corpse):'' “The dead drow spoke of a forge. Must be the same one.” | |||
** ''(The party knows about it from Xargrim’s disguised book):'' “That enchanted journal made note of an adamantine forge as well. I must be on to something.” | |||
** ''(The party knows about it from [[Skarjall]]):'' “Further mention of the adamantine forge. The duergar were looking for it too.” | |||
* ''(Third mention of the forge):'' “Yet again the adamantine forge is mentioned. Surely I'm on the right track.” | |||
'''Dealing with [[Mushroom Circle]]s in the Underdark and beyond:''' | |||
* ''(Found dead drow at the foot of the crag, [[Medicine]] check):'' | |||
** ''(Successful):'' “The injuries on this drow are consistent with a fall. A very deep fall.” | |||
** ''(Failed):'' “A dead drow - took quite a pounding, too.” | |||
* ''(Found illusory mushroom “ladder” leading toward crag top):'' “Can't trust one's eyes in the Underdark. Can't trust these mushrooms either.” | |||
* ''(Found illusory wall on the top of the crag):'' “There's no illusion without a reason to elude. Now to find the reason.” | |||
* ''(Approaching a mushroom ring, knows its purpose):'' “This fairy ring looks disappointingly dormant.” | |||
** ''(Not knowing the purpose):'' “A perfect ring of mushrooms. That can hardly be a coincidence.” | |||
* ''(Entered a mushroom ring, knows its purpose):'' “Hmmm. I must not be doing it right.” | |||
** ''(Not knowing the purpose):'' “Well... That was anticlimactic.” | |||
* ''(Activated the mushroom ring):'' “New colours, new destinations perhaps?” | |||
* ''(Teleported from the Underdark into [[Overgrown Tunnel]], [[Ethel]] is dead):'' “The hag's lair again. Sans hag that is.” | |||
* ''(Teleported from the Underdark into Overgrown tunnel, Ethel survived):'' “The hag's lair again. Better be careful while Auntie Evil is still around.” | |||
* ''(Teleported from the Overgrown tunnel to the [[Putrid Bog]]):'' “And so I'm back in the swamp. If only I could actually pick a destination.” | |||
* ''(Teleported from the Overgrown tunnel into the Underdark, hasn’t been to Underdark earlier):'' “This is no ordinary cave, no ordinary depth in stone. Good gods, this is the Underdark...” | |||
* ''(Teleported from the Overgrown tunnel into the Underdark, has been to Underdark):'' “Magical access into the Underdark. A shortcut to death one might call that.” | |||
* ''(Teleported from the Putrid Bog into Overgrown tunnel):'' “How lovely. A shortcut into the hag's palace of perversion and pain.” ''(this line is the same regardless Ethel was killed or survived)'' | |||
* ''(Teleported from the Underdark to the Putrid Bog):'' “Out of the black and into the bog. Hardly an improvement.” | |||
* ''(Teleported from the Underdark to the [[Sunlit Wetlands]] (Ethel’s illusion is still intact)):'' “Out of the black and into the wetlands. Quite an improvement.” | |||
'''Elsewhere in the Underdark:''' | |||
* ''(Looking at cave paintings, [[History]] check):'' | |||
** ''(Successful):'' “What interesting tableaus - clearly ancient too. [[lolth|Lolth's]] violent descent into the Underdark depicted with vivid detail.” | |||
* ''(Failed):'' “What interesting tableaus - clearly ancient too. Driders, mind flayers... Must depict some ancient battle.” | |||
* ''(Entering [[Zhentarim]] storehouse from the Underdark):'' "The mark of the Zhentarim. Bound to be more to this place than meets the eye." | |||
** ''(Entering the storehouse, descending from [[Zhentarim Hideout]]):'' "This is no ordinary storage room. This depth... This feeling of incomprehensible abyss... The Underdark." | |||
* ''(Found a Drow resupply stash at {{coords|71|-220}}):'' “Lolth-sworn drow passed by here, but it seems they never returned. Finders, keepers, I say.” | |||
* ''(Heard [[Baelen Bonecloak|Baelen’s]] cries for help):'' “A shout for help reverberating through the Underdark. That's going to attract the wrong crowd.” | |||
* ''(Killed all [[Kuo-toa]] in Festering cove, dissipating [[BOOOAL|BOOOAL’s]] magic):'' “Quite a bit less-than-divine for a god, wasn't he? With powers as fleeting as his followers' lives” | |||
==== [[Grymforge]] ==== | ==== [[Grymforge]] ==== |