Do You Have 1 More Point in the Back?

We find ourselves in Wave Echo Cave. RC relays over to the group what he learned from Halia. We make our way further into the cave heading right towards the underground lake/ water portion. Inside, we see that the Rockseeker brothers and others have done a whole revamping and revitalization of the cave, getting it ready for its soon to be grand opening. 

We come up with a plan to have Baptiste jump into the water to see what we’re looking for. As he does, he is met with a steep wall in the water. As he does, he is attacked by creatures under the water. We ready actions and ways to fight off whatever is happening. After a brief moment, Baptiste is able to climb out after a Bless spell from Pearl. 

The party is attacked and has to make intelligence saving throws. Brylwynn fails the saving throw and she sees a vision that the ground around her is disappearing, tricking her into wanting to jump into the water. Glittr is harpooned into the chest which he rips out. Caulkin shoots arrows into the ground but misses. Pearl uses the Wall of Light to illuminate the water, highlighting 3 creatures. These creatures attack the townsfolk (NPCs) with mental attacks. We take down the harpooning creatures and then the stronger creature.

• During the battle, Brylwynn continues to see visions that the cave floor is collapsing as she screams out and asking for help. Pearl asks Brylwynn about her experience and she tells us what she was feeling at the time and experienced.

We look around and don’t see an obvious Shadow Shard. The 4 NPCs here are two of the Rockseeker brothers, the mayor, and (someone else). They say that the monster was saying “its lord has returned and no one was welcomed here.”

While he is in the water, RC notices that the water has stilled. This happened right after the creature was killed. RC jumps back into the water to investigate the creature. It doesn’t seem to have anything on its person and there are no other creatures around that RC can see, based on the light provided to us by the wall of light which was cast by Pearl. Off in the distance, RC spots an area off in the distance in the back of the cavern. We should be able to swim out to the platform.

• We briefly heal up as Pearl ritual casts Water Breathing on us as we prepare to make our way over to the other side.

We begin swimming out, and as we get closer and closer the light fades away. We see about 200 feet of water out in front of us. Brylwynn uses dancing lights to light the way. To get onto the land we saw, it isn’t a climb. We see carved earth, almost like stairs. There are iron brasserie on the back as well. They are lit up.

• Caulkin investigates the earthen steps and doesn’t detect any traps or anything else abnormal.

Pearl and Caulkin investigate the steps, but they see advanced darkness. 

 We stand on a 50 foot platform with 6 brasseries on each side. Glittr uses sacred flame on the 6 on the left which light up and Pearl uses chill touch on the 6 on the right which glow purple.

• In the distance, a beacon lights up and we hear a voice call out “welcome! You thought you finished the job, but I am still here.”

• Standing before us is a Lich and his phylactery.