Tonight we catch back up with our party as they locate what Tamiel was searching for, a magic eater. Some curse, creature or consequence that searches out sources of potent, concentrated magic to fuel its own twisted life
So grab a coffee, suppress your mana as we look into tonight’s adventure!
Magic Eater
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The party waited for the door to open as patiently as they could while listening to someone obviously up to something. With the help of Sal they were able to locate the room that Jake lodged at. He hadn’t shown up to work that day due to the apparent stress that had overwhelmed him after Tamiels murder.
But unfortunately he was the last and only person to know what the tiefling mage was looking for. As they heard a quivering voice from the other side ‘Jussst one moment. Oh why me, be strong Jake. Murderers don’t knock on doors’. The man that answered the door looked a sad mixture of confused and caught mid performance. Glancing around and out the door he straightened up and cleared his throat.
‘Sorry I thought you may have been from the Magus College. What can I do for you?’ he added instantly sounding recovered from what ever had over taken him from before. As the party explained how they found him, why they did and such the realisation of where they looked familiar dawned on him. ‘Look, I will tell you what I know but don’t tell the magus college folk about this. I just needed some time off and thought it was a good chance to take time off with the murderer now in the college itself.’
Inviting the party into his small room he closed the door behind them. ‘Ever since magic using folk started dying across the city they have had a strong focus on stopping what causing it. The first deaths started in ally ways, in a few inns and taverns and such. But then middle of market places where the body was found amongst tents and carts. Now in the middle of a busy library where there were no witnesses. You know it kinda freaks me out.’ he said as he sat and sipped on tea.
After pausing for a bit and listening to the party he added. ‘About the tiefling. He wanted to know where he could find information on the City of Derja. So that’s where he was as we have a book about the ruined city. That’s all I know and unless Sal has more information then that’s all I have sadly.’ he paused before adding. ‘Oh, if you do see Sal. Tell her I’m sorry but let her know I was helpful in your investigations yeah?’
The party arrived back inside the Magus College and followed the trail back to where they had found the body of Tamiel. Scanning through the books they eventually found what they were looking for ‘The City of Derja‘. Flicking through the pages where there was more lights they came across what appeared to be a series of journal entries form the scholars that investigated the ruins. Deeper inside the city itself they came across a sealed vault that was mechanically not magically sealed.
After employing dwarves and gnomes to investigate its artifice they were able to open the door and reveal what was inside. The walls were lined with a dark metal and those few people who were mages found themselves unable to conjure spells or connect to the weave itself. The walls to the small chamber were lined with runes and imaged depicting the rise of the city but also the fall, a great whirlwind appearing to rip down building, people and even the earth itself.
Derja was rumoured to be one of the most magically gifted cities, civilisations even, only second to some of the high elven ones during its time but what they had discovered as a place with little to no traces of magic. In the centre of the room was a large vase that was sketched as being made from some kind of dark metal but time had seen it corrode and crumble in sections.
The next few pages described removing it from the room and the strange disappearances, a haunting of the city that preyed upon the members of the scholar team and the mages that guarded them. A curse of the city that targeted those who stole its treasure and flaunted their magic in a place that as now stripped bare from it. The journal entry changed hand writing for the last few pages and explained that any one who had any form of connection to magic had been found dead, still and any of their trinkets, totems, wands, rings, staffs or anything that was enchanted was found near the body of the mage, no longer enchanted and as still as the mage that would have wielded it.
The journal mentions that the artefact was to be taken to the nearest city for study and safe keeping but that the city of Derja was to be treated as a cursed place due to the malevolent spirits that hunted mages for disturbing its treasure.
Thanks for dropping by for another night at my tabletop. Don’t forget as we passed the midway point we have maps and monsters, well creature stat blocks left for this week. So make sure you don’t forget to come back the last few remaining days this week to stay up to date with what’s happening at my tabletop. And lastly, as always, don’t forget to roll with advantage,
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