2026-05-03

  • The town has lined the streets for the party
  • Melu gives a letter to Phy to give to her family
  • Florence gets a job! Restocking vending machines for a local wizard
  • She also confides a few things:
    • There is a constant war over the Stone Thief's eyes, which have power to control the stone thief
    • The Cult of the Devourer wants the eyes to give back to the Devourer to give it back its power
    • The main temple (fortress) of the cult is on a floor called Onyx Catacombs
    • "If you're looking for good people, look for Dungeon Town"
    • Expresses that the ST can be destroyed, that some of the factions seek to contain the stone thief, and some seek to control the ST
    • Expresses that there's a secret entrance in The Grove that goes to deeper levels
    • Also notes that there are "middle" levels and "Lower" levels, but Deep Keep always separates them
    • Indicates that some of The Custodians are aligned with the ST, some of them aren't
  • Melu pleads with Telly to try and save people rather than not
  • Florence agrees to write what she knows further and meet them in the Bazaar, since her employment will take her there frequently.
  • The party heads back down to The Ossuary and quickly descends another level to a level of the Dungeon that's mostly forest.
  • Melu eats one of the fruits from the trees, sees a vision from the perspective of the stone thief, that it's going to consume part of the reef
  • The party sneaks around, sees the breeding pit
  • They go around it (over it), Melu touches the altar in this section of a druidic grove and grows antlers
    • Melu is now the guardian of this circle
    • The party speaks with the demon that seems to be trapped in the circle
  • Ceph summons a .. demon? To try and get the big beastie over to the circle.