We resume the game with Brylwynn starting us off and Glittr in a continued freefall. Brylwynn, Calla, RC, and Bahmut take off running down the mountain. Pearl casts Fly on herself and Caulkin who take off down the mountain after Glittr. After catching up to him, Pearl recasts Fly on the three of them and their freefall descent stops. Caulkin takes the moment to look off into the distance while they are flying. He spots a beam of energy coming up from the forest floor too to the east. The beam is dark, red in color.
This is not in the same direction of the Grandfather tree, as this tree is to the north.
Pearl, Glittr, and Caulkin meet up with everyone else and the group shares a big hug. We think back and realize that the Rakasha is likely the same devil that attacked them previously. Brylwynn gets the sense that the Rakasha has gotten up close and personal to some of these people from Glittr’s past. It has been stalking us and learning things about us for quite some time.
Thinking back, Glittr gets the sense that the Rakasha was imitating his mother in Baldur’s Gate. The second time we encountered “his mother” was on The Great Dame when she was speaking a language we didn’t understand, when she was summoning monsters. The third time we saw her was in the road when we met #2.
He assumes that his mother got locked away in the Hells at some point and this is when the Rakasha started imitating her.
We rest at the base of the mountain near the mouth of the cave. The group shares heartfelt messages from being close and working together. Pearl tries to identify the Ki-Rin blood but the vial is unsuccessful.
We enter the cave after trading and exchanging magic items amongst the group. The cave is about 20 feet tall and we see sconces on the walls.
We examine the mouth of the cave. We see humanoid footprints, but they don’t appear to be boots like a human would wear. RC is able to recognize the prints as coming from Bugbear. Caulkin checks for traps (non-nat. 20) and sees nothing obviously. We move forward and see discolored sand on the ground, hinting there is a trap present. We try to avoid these as carefully as possible, but RC triggers one on accident.
Pearl carries onward and triggers a panel, she dodges one panel, but jumps onto another one. Falling into the hole, she takes acid damage as she sinks into the essence of a monster containing parts of past adventurers. She recognizes this as a gelatinous ooze.
**