THE LEAD LINED BOX WAS GREAT
Vaelmir rolled a really high con save to grab onto the Shadow Amplium and keep it under control. His wild magic surge made the amplium shard morph into a Shadow Blade cast at level 3
Absorbing its power while he tried to control it GAVE HIM A LEVEL IN SORCERER !!
He was able to determine Sir Morden's memories from when HE tried to control the shadow amplium. The Celestial he is working for said he was NOT ready for it, and that she needed More Ethereal Amplium
She is trying to create her own little DREAD REALM to get dominion over ghosts!! and is using the Ethereal Amplium to forcefully grow a nightmare forest to claim as her own. The children were taken as lures for ghosts to bring them in and trap them in the Nightmare Forest
Vaelmir takes a bunch of psychic damage from this but now we know what the PLAN IS FOR
We have three places to search for the children: the Temple of the Silver Flame, Vaelmir's dad's house, and the Prison
Our rogue friend Shara is going to disperse the info to the Dutchess to take down the political rivals keeping her away from her throne
We KNOW the Trapped Celestials are in the prison so we're going to the Temple first, and if we get arrested there. well. we were going to prison next anyway
THE TEMPLE IS NOT AS SMOOTH FOR VAELMIR
Nat 3 luck check from Vaelmir
Nat 1 save to not immediately magic surge upon walking into the church. The wild magic surge he rolled? A LARGE RAVEN APPEARS AND STARTS SHOUTING PORTENTS OF DOOM
IF WE WANTED TO AVOID LOOKING LIKE RAVEN QUEEN FOLLOWERS WE DID THE WORST POSSIBLEEEE JOB
NAT 20 TO ESCAPE. This die loves a narrative
We are trying to pretend to be Sir Morden and his Acolyte to see where in this temple the children might be held. Ah fuck it's the part of the church that Vaelmir blew up when they tried to exorcise him as a child. God damn it
We are..... immediately spotted and this guy kNOws we are up to no good when we try to break into Sir Morden's rooms