And Away We Go - March 24, 2017

- Nintendo Switch

- Wonder Woman Cosplay

- Over the next week, Sharai learns Greater Invisibility, Rory's Telepathic Bond, & Scrying from the Dwoids

- What S learned: the spell that destroyed Lellzutho just blew him to bits, making a huge mess, and leaving parts. There are some notes about another spell that might be able to capture and contain Lellzutho, but it's so different from any other magic or magic style or magic spell she's ever studied or even that she can't make heads or tails of it. There's also a note that a spell that altered reality might also do the trick (i.e. Wish).

- Early one morning, Sharai hears Gerard's voice in her head, "If you still live, you should know Lellzutho is whole again. Daganth is dead. Main land likely under attack. I fear we are lost."

- "We're still alive. We'll contact you with more information soon."

- Sharai hunts down Thessalie and give her the bad news as bluntly as ever.

- There is much sniffling.

- A few hours later, when it's actually time to get up for the day, Thessalie again begs Mishakal to destroy Lellzutho, and something actually happens this time. There's a bright light and T is filled with a momentary feeling of peace and removal of all stress.

- She tells her friends about her experience.

- S asks about Dwarven teleportation circles. She learns the one for Muhlhorn and a possible one for Lagendorf, though Lagendorf is an unknown situation. FST can now transport between Mistverge, Gerard's cave, Monalotsoa, Muhlehorn, & Lagendorf.

- FST pack up their stuff and Porter Unit 4 shows up with packages from Ulfgrim. They also get magicky stuff! Wand of the War Mage +3 for S (+3 to Spell Attack Rolls, ignore half-cover). Ring of Regeneration for T (Regain 1d6 HP every ten mintues, can regrow limbs). Cloak - Wings of Flying for F (Fly speed of 60ft for 1 hour, can use again after 1d12 hours), then the girls go thank and bid farewell to the Dwoids. There are steely hugs from Ulgrim and sheepish waves from Beinier. 

- S activates their Teleportation Circle to take them to Gerard's, book from Dwoids as present to Gerard

- T sends to her brother Eldon, "Eldon, are you well? Has Mishakal's Intervention returned you to yourself? Where are you? Do you need help? I will come to help if needed."

- There is no response.

- T sends to her mother, "Mumsy, this is a talking spell. How is the family? How is Hedrimond? Eldon found a bad thing. Making it right. 25 words to respond."

- Cora responds with, "Thess, I'm so happy you're well. Arandale was attacked. Things are bad I hear. I'm glad your group is helping Eldon. Please take care of yourself."

- 3,100 XP ea for 82,990 XP total ea.

The Dwoids We Were Looking For - March 3, 2017

- Exhaustion Level 1 for CMT
- Poor Wyatt
- Banana phone
- Gluten-free pretzels
- ABC birthday book!
- Why are boys fascinated by poop? Can someone answer me this?

- Skillz Challenge to get up the road, past the guardians, and into the city of Meuhlehorn
- T uses religion and radiant energy to create a reflective bubble around the trio distracting the mechanical sentries (Success!)
- F scouts ahead and helps lead the S & T around the next sentry (Stealth - Success!)
- S tries to lead along a gully, but steps on a rock and it rolls down the hill. There's a cranking sound and then the whirring noise starts to get louder. (Survival - Fail)
- T heals her twisted ankle (Medicine - Success!)
- F takes a quick look around and realizes there's one behind them and one coming in from their right (Perception - Success!)
- S sends F & T off while she runs toward the one on the right, then when it starts to chase her teleport with Misty Step to her friends (Arcana - Success!)
- The girls dash to the city wall, and there's all this rubble, and T tries to parkour around and over a series of large boulders, but slips and splats against the side getting the wind knocked out of her (Acrobatics - Fail)
- F dashes over to another area to make a loud noise to distract the mechanical swarm they can hear nearby, then Stealths back to her companions (Stealth - Sucess!)

Win!

FST are now backs to the wall hidden behind a bit of rubble next to the closed gate. The city is built half into the side of a cliff on a mountain such that the walls arch out of the cliff and come to this obvious gate. The wall isn't pristine, but it does look maintained and all the construction and patches look like a consistent construction type. The gate has no obvious hinges or seams.

F throws a rope with a grapple so that it catches the top of the gate, then they all take turns trying to climb the rope. Unsuccessfully and hilarious. Finally, while S is trying to climb she accidentally starts swinging and bonks bonks bonks against the door.

A person-sized portion in the middle of the gate lowers into the ground and a 6-foot tall mechanical man wearing a metal top hat steps out and looks at FST. He is Porter Unit 4.

T says they just want to see the library. F Persuades him that they need to access library for a vital mission involving Lellzutho.

PU4 bring thing another mechanical looking man who is about 4-feet with a metal beard and six cylinders, three silver & three brown, that spin intermittently. He is Beinier, the Assistant Record Keeper. He leads them to the library. There are recognizable books, manuscripts, and scrolls, but also crystalline structures and many of the brown cylinders stacked.

Ulfgrim is the Record Keeper. He looks much like Beinier and is very surprised to see visitors as it has been 274 years since the last one.

Storytime with Ulfgrim:
- Showdown with Lellzutho creature. It was a dwarven sorcerer who summoned him in the first place.
- The plague that killed the kobolds is what killed all the dwarves when they brought the Lellzutho sword back to the castle as a trophy after his defeat.
- When the disease set in, the extremely mechanically magic minded dwarves built mechanical dwarves and recorded their brains into these Dwarven Androids. Dwoids if you will.
- His catalog log is damaged and T Mends it so that he can remember where the Lellzutho information is stored

- Ulfgrim says there is another Dwoid who was damaged by falling rocks after a minor quake, and wonders if her spell could maybe help fix her. T agrees to try.

- 3,100 XP ea. for 79, 890 XO total ea.

A Conundrum - February 24, 2017

- Prime Rib Roast - Nuh uh!
- Troublesome sisters-in-law
- Birthday shoes!
- Beware of mint
- Mattress troubles

- Felosyal disappears off down the tunnel. The last Tunneler is still tied up, so she murderizes it easily and collects the claw.
- The giant lets the girls hold onto the rope then just lifts them out.
- Back at the giant's village, Gromnir's grandson answers the door. There is some 'splaining.
- Gromnir is impressed.
- A Surfacewalker will accompany them to the City of Machines the next day.
- T asks a random giant in the hallways how long Giants live. Answer: Between 250-300 years.
- The next morning, T is roused (The elves still don't sleep.) by a loud thumping knock. S invites him to enter in a welcoming voice.
- Hugrug is a giant with stony protrusions coming out of his chest and back.
- FST say goodbye to Gromnir, and then head out to meet Hugrug and his cart, which is entirely made of stone and is pulled by two very large bears.
- H helps the girls into the back of the cart, and they set off.

- CAKE BREAK (Apple Pie Cake - Happy Prime Number!)

- F really like Hugrug
- The next few weeks pass without much happening. Events of note:
          - A week and a half in S hears a low growling, then a large cat-like creature jumps out at the bears, but Hugrug looks into its soul stopping it from attacking, then he touches it, and it starts to turn to stone, then he sticks it onto his back where it becomes another protrusion.
          - Divine Intervention does not remove Lellzutho from the world.
          - Hugrug tells them that the city is "contaminated by contraptions"
- After nearly a month Hugrug stops one afternoon and point up a hill into some brush telling FST that this is the path.
- The narrow way soon becomes a narrow path that soon becomes an old degraded road. The elves both hear some whirring, mechanical type noises. They look around and see a metallic looking claw coming over the top of a pile of rubble. S whispers "Hide!" to T and then they all dart behind rocks.
- The claw thing climbs over the rock and it looks like a giant ant without the big thorax, then FST all realize that there's another one behind each of them where they are crouching behind their separate rock piles.

- Better Buggy Battle
- Mechanical Ant1 breaths fire at FST. T takes 26 fire dmg, S takes 13 fire dmg, F takes none.
- S stumbles back across the rocks and casts Leomund's Tiny Hut such that the girls are all in, but neither of the MA's are in.
- MA2 moves around and chitters.
- T casts Tongues on herself then sticks her head out and says, "We don't any harm, please!"
- MA2 says "Intruders must be eliminated!"
- MA1 says "Provide appropriate access codes."
- F readies an Attack if the Hut disappears
- S yells at the ants to go get their leader. "Intruders must be eliminated!" "Provide appropriate passcode."
- A Swarm of Mechanical Insects flies in
- T casts Thaumaturgy to make her voice boom loudly, "Go away! We don't want to hurt you!"
- FST decide to make camp in their Tiny Hut for a few hours to see if something more intelligent than these clockwork beings will show up.
- After about half an hour the Swarm buggers off. Nearly four hours later the two MA's also wander off.
- The girls try to hide in the bushes and rubble and creep up the path.
- After only ten minutes, T hears that whirring noise again, and there are two of the MA's charging her
- S immediately casts the Hut again
- Upon closer inspection, the construction of the insectbots resembles the Goldfish Bauble that S found, and it also seems to have some of those glowing crystals from the tower / rhinoceros buried deep in its abdomen

- 2,500 XP ea for 76,790 XP ea.