- Fellowship of the Penguins
- Just before dawn, Caleb catches Timothy (eyes still black) attempting to sneak out of the room. His mom is asleep in the corner.
- Caleb stops him and asks him where he's going, but he just says he wants to wake up. Caleb tells him they are going to try Greater Restoration ("Wizard Stuff") in the morning.
- Finally everyone wakes up. and Timothy's mom says there isn't a jeweler in town, The apothecary has just enough diamond dust on hand for Poetry to cast the spell on Timothy.
- Timothy and his mother had come with, so Poetry does the spell. He comes back into himself, but he can still hear It.
- It is pissed because it thought it would be woken up, and It is basically is screaming in Timothy's head.
- Caleb connect mentally to Timothy and it sucked into a void space with a small Timothy curled up in the corner with a tall Slenderman-like being towering over both Timothy and Caleb.
- The being is Nhalzarek. It wants them to break the obelisk to wake it up.
- Nhalzarek's physical body is deep beneath the earth beneath the obelisk.
- The sleep is its prison and it was put there by mortals.
- The hags are users who maintain the slumber and steal Nhalzarek's power.
- Destroying the hags would also wake Nhalzarek.
- Timothy is stuck because he is the only one for whom the communication goes both ways, so Caleb asks that Nhalzarek at least make the void space less frightening for Timothy, and the void space becomes the inside of a circus tent. There are clowns and Nhalzarek becomes a bear with solid black eyes and a party hat.
- Timothy is still freaked out, but maybe less?
- Caleb exits Timothy's mind, and Nhalzarek lets him go.
- He comes to sitting on the ground with a beginning to panic Soliana gently tapping his cheek.
- The Keepers buy incense off of the apothecary so that Soliana can cast Legend Lore on the obelisk to see what she can learn about Nhalzarek.
- They go back into town and Soliana casts Legend Lore on the obelisk.
- Soliana has the following vision of events:
- She sees a group of people like a small army of elves and humans made up of soldiers and a group of mages or wizards engage in a battle with a creature that looks like a large floating orb with a wide mouth full of creepy teeth, but it doesn't have eye stalks, it's just covered in eyes. The soldiers distract the being by attacking it with their weapons while the wizards cast a group spell that pulls the eye-covered orb's eyes shut and the earth parts and it is sucked underneath, and then the obelisk is constructed.
- The obelisk is left, but then a town grows up around it. Soliana can sense the magic emanating from the obelisk, but it weakens over time and the creature, Nhalzarek, fights the binding. Sometimes there is a shudder as Nhalzarek fights to wake up.
- Soliana explains everything, and they all figure out that the hags are feeding children's ability to sleep and their hopes and dreams into binding spells, and then during this process connects the person to Nhalzarek and the hags then use that link to siphon power from Nhalzarek for their own purposes.
- As an experiment Soliana goes to the general store and uses Detect Magic to see his tether and then uses Dispel Magic to break it. The general store merchant is completely unchanged by the breaking of his tether.
- At the obelisk, Poetry casts Locate Creature (Nhalzarek) and can sense him, so he's within 1000' of the surface.
- Niniel tries to cast her Lightning Lance spell (which only requires a creature's name, not line of sight) and determines that he is beyond 120' below the surface.
- Poetry casts Move Earth and starts digging a tunnel. She digs a tunnel 240' deep. Soliana uses Polymorph three times becomes a giant mole, and Zemma uses a shovel to help dig and they get to 300' depth today.
- A rope barrier is erected around the hole opening to prevent people from falling in, and everyone returns to the inn to sleep.
- Zemma has nightmares again.
- 3,000 XP ea for 88,000 XP total ea.
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