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Axe's schmoozing (rumours!):
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A reed-collector who grew up near the headwaters of the Great River, claims that she got lost one evening after watching some swans, and was out along the edge of the river as the moon rose. There she saw from a distance a beautiful elven maiden, dressed in shiny silken robe that reflected the moonlight. She moved with a haunting grace, and was preceeded by strange fog.
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You encounter a merchant who once traded at the Palace of Mute Contemplation. He described it as some kind of monastery overlooking the upper part of the Great River. It was surrounded by weird totems, and it was freakishly silent. The monks there made him trade in a special cart made of wood, and they communicated with writing and hand signals.
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A woodcutter recounts a tale where he had to shelter from a storm while near the mountains on the south side of the Great River. After the storm cleared, the full moon emerged, revealing the peak of a mountain that is almost always shrouded in clouds. But he saw the clear outline of a large castle, sitting near the summit! No one believes his tales though, and he is made of fun of whenever he recounts it.
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Gwenda - does she want to meet the party?
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other notes around Sir Effington's castle?
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Ködel
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what's going to happen on the other side of the moonpool?:
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Warfire killed one mirrorman
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Axe had 3 Int sucked out by mirrorman, showing youth, who then dissipated
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Explored mushrooms
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Warfire ate Ythoth mushroom, gained level, dreamed of other worlds (hot jungle in cold mountains, slave on space ship)
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used second sight to explore other shrooms, got some misinformation, poisonings
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found hollow mushroom, chopped hole, summoned kith raiders
Entering the wierd pool, the scenery shifts, transforming into some weird mushroom jungle under a reddish sky, the androgynous creatures shifting into strange mirror-skinned beings, floating off the ground. They attacked FireBeard and Axe. FireBeard stabbed on in the back and it seemingly shattered, it's shards fading away. The other revealed a youthful face to Axe, stunning him, stealing away part of his soul (and 3 points of Int), before it too shattered. The party then began exploring the effects of the nearby mushrooms, with FireBeard tasting one that put him to sleep for a while. Upon awake, he had lived many lives in distant worlds; one as a king of a people who lived in a hot valley amongst cold mountains; another as some kind of slave on a gallery that sailed through an infinite black ocean. Another sampling of mushrooms ended with the party poisoning themselves. As they explored the hollow of one tree by cutting it open, the noise generated seems to have attracted some attention, and they find themselves being surrounded by a band of humanoids.