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Tempus Session 43

🗺 Scenes Overview

  • 🎭 Strong Start - Arrive at the Spring Court
  • Visit the Spring Court and meet with Faela Mossheart - encouraging, acknowledges growth and change
  • Visit the Spring Court’s tavern, the Moonlit Hearth, operated by Seraphina Moonglow
    • “Clarity in cups. Comfort in steam. Tell me what the road has left aching, and I’ll steep what mends.”
  • Travel to Spring Leyline Temple - massive flowering willow tree whose trunk contains the entrance
  • Plant seeds outside Temple to gain entrance. Each PC defines the nature of their personal commitment aloud.
  • Undead encounter in leyline crystal chamber

🔑 Secrets & Clues

  • Birds avoid the area around the Spring Temple. The ground is unnaturally cold. The only flowers blooming naturally are ones planted in the ritual location.
  • Cult of the Eclipse placed a Bodak inside the leyline crystal chamber of the Spring Temple, causing disruption to the barrier in the area.
  • Mocking note from Manus hidden in Bodak’s robes: Bodak Note
  • Skreek’s royal egg is being used as a Hollow Threshold anchor for a plane of air themed threshold.
  • The Ashen Shrine is a location where the Chained Library can be accessed - north side of Mount Vesithar

🗡 Monsters (Spring Temple)

Bodak x1 (CR 6)

AC/DC 15 | HP 58 (44-72) | Atk/Prof +5 | DPR 35 | # Atks 1 | Dmg 13

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Tempus Session 42

🎭 Strong Start

  • Enter the strange portal and deal with the beasts and strange magic inside.

🗺 Scenes Overview

🔑 Secrets & Clues

  • Hollow Thresholds are being created by the Cult of the Eclipse
  • Vael, agent of the Chained Library, is investigating the weakening barrier and the hollow thresholds
  • Chained Library is located beneath the “Tael’anore”, the central mountain in Elven territory
  • Skreek’s royal egg is being used as a Hollow Threshold anchor for a plane of air themed threshold.
  • The Spring Court is led by the High Druidess, Faela Mossheart
    • Theme of renewal and reinvention. change is part of life’s natural rhythm and that spring is the season where everything gets a chance to start anew.

Vael’s Intro

“I am a witness. An agent of balances long frayed. My name is Vael. Fifth Binder. Chainbearer of the Silent Vault. When minds shatter against what they should not know, we are the ones who pick up the pieces. Or burn them. Some truths are too dangerous to be carried, so we bury them in silence—where even their echoes find no ears.”

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Tempus Session 41

🎭 Strong Start

  • Use the leyline gate network to travel to the Order of Seasons Tomb via a nearby standing stone, encounter Hollow Threshold along the way

🗺 Scenes Overview

🔑 Secrets & Clues

  • Vidrir is much older than he seems and was the champion of the summer court that Skreek saw in his visions
  • Hollow Thresholds are being created by the Cult of the Eclipse
  • Vael, agent of the Chained Library, is investigating the weakening barrier and the hollow thresholds
  • Chained Library is located beneath the “Tael’anore”, the central mountain in Elven territory
    • “the roots beneath the seasons” / “vault at the world’s bloom.”
  • Skreek’s royal egg is being used as a Hollow Threshold anchor for a plane of air themed threshold

Vael’s Intro

“I am a witness. An agent of balances long frayed. My name is Vael. Fifth Binder. Chainbearer of the Silent Vault. When minds shatter against what they should not know, we are the ones who pick up the pieces. Or burn them. Some truths are too dangerous to be carried, so we bury them in silence—where even their echoes find no ears.”

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Tempus Session 40

🎭 Strong Start

Investigate the Weaver’s home and discover a leyline nexus and a standing stone that responds to the leyline gate ring. Patchwork Guardian reveals itself and shows them the way if necessary. Appears in leyline nexus otherwise.

🗺 Scenes

🔑 Secrets & Clues

  • Over 3 weeks has passed since they entered the feywild (1 fey day = 1 material week)
  • The Weaver’s home recognizes them as the new owners
  • Weaver’s home contains a leyline nexus and a standing stone that works with the leyline gate ring
    • A traditional teleportation circle is inscribed around the stone’s base
  • Summer’s Edge is sentient and communicates via emotions and vague visions (for now)
  • Hollow Threshold’s are being created by the Cult of the Eclipse
  • Chained Library is investigating the weakening barrier and the hollow thresholds
  • Skreek’s royal egg is being used as a Hollow Threshold anchor for a plane of air themed threshold

🗡 Monsters

Air Elemental (x2)

CR 5 | AC/DC 15 | HP 95 (71-119) | Atk/Prof +7 | DPR 35 | # Atks 3 | Dmg 12 (3d6 + 2)

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