When I awoke, I found myself floating in grey cloudy void without any of my gear, completely nude, but shrouded in a colorful aura (ooc, think of the transformation sequence of Sailor Moon and you’ll know what I mean). I look in every direction, but there is just more clouds.
Out from the clouds with Scotch on the rocks in hand appears the Dream Man. He looks to his glass, swirls its contents for a moment, before fixing his gaze on me.
I ask him where we are, and he replies “My realm. The realm of smoke and shadows. The realm of dreams”.
I ask him why I’m here. He simply states “I pulled you here with the crystals as a test. A test to see…”
The waves his free hand over the space beneath us, clearing the smoke and revealing the 4,000 people missing from the town. Running, screaming, panicking.
“…if you were willing to make a deal. I’ll free these people, if you kill one person of my choosing when I call upon you.”
I look at the Dream Man in disgust. “You’re a powerful person, correct? Why can’t you just kill this person yourself? Why do you need me?”
The Dream Man takes a slow sip from his glass, then states “This person exists where I’m not permitted. I need someone capable of going where I cannot.”
Before I could respond, Sunshadow and Staab appear behind me, flailing in the clouds with the same colorful aura.
The Dream Man looks to them and says “Looks like you’ve been given more incentive to decide quickly.”
Tag: Riolu
The Diaries of Riolu Ungart: Part 7; Kobolds and Dreams
Upon exiting the sewers, we find the town with a population of 4,000 was now vacant. Upon further investigation, only organic beings were taken. Golems, salt, and the like were left unaffected. I took a salt shaker, and Sunshadow put a lit candle on his right shoulder. Staab looked down on us for this, as he found it dumb.
We found these glowy-purple crystals all around town, but were distracted by a short figure in a hooded cloak with a limp. We tailed him and discovered he was a red Kobold with a slew of various coloured powders. Each powder resisted a different type of damage (red resisting fire, yellow resisting radiant, etc.).
We questioned him about his role in the missing people, and he just kept trying to get away. We realized we weren’t getting anywhere, so we just stealthily followed him as he met up with another of his friends. The red and blue kobolds led us into a gauntlet town that was full of traps. Rolling boulders, swinging logs, lighting that FRIED ALL 16 OF MY GIANT OWLS AS SOON AS THEY CAME OUT WHAT BS IS THIS?!?!?!
After spending 20 minutes trapped behind a gate (we just needed to lift up), we ran into the kobold and his 4 friends.
Staab dropped to 0 hp TWICE that battle, taking one of my Cure Wounds and Sunshadow’s healing pool.
Just as we were about to take down the kobolds, one of their mages teleported them away before their leader could go down.
We went back to town, still empty. Sunshadow and Staab went to an Inn, but I had another idea. The crystal called to me, and I did my long rest next to it. That was my first mistake.
Diaries of Riolu Ungart mini summary: part 6.
Sunshadow jumped to the second story of a building, scared a scholar, jumped down, didn’t stick the landing.
Sunshadow broke his foot and temporarily replaced it with a javelin.
We went to a guild with a bunch of shops. I bought a bag of weird plants, a bottle of Absinthe, and a pretty rapier.
We began escorting a lady to the next town through MORE DEAD WOODS.
Strange noise in the woods. Couldn’t discover.
The lady was a succubus and accidentally turned us on one another.
We finished escorting her, and got a job getting rid of a hag in the sewers.
Riolu got a set of Marvellous Pigments.
Harvest Guardian 