cobalt d&d

We have been assigned a mission to investigate a derelict ship 2 days away from the Rock of Bral. They have been overdue for delivery for a week before they were spotted floating in wildspace with the duress flag flying from the mast by a transport vessel. You will be on the ship Flabberghast headed by Capt. Bohdi and thier first mate Dante and cook Willim. We will start at the dock house as you gather and look for Dante to take you aboard. 

Eledrith, Lyrian, Kyne, and Setanta met with Dante who gave them a short tour of the Flabberghast, a small schooner helmed by Capt Bohdi. Lyrian assisted the Cook Willim with preparing the evening meal of beef and peppers as well as loading the ballista in the event of pirates. Late into the night Dante and Setanta spotted shadowed movement in the distance and alerted the captain. Captain Bohdi, insisting they investigate to alleviate curiosity, continued to drink while piloting the ship whilst Eledrith observed the operations. The party split a watch schedule during the first night where they noticed the shadows were getting closer Dante relayed the order to fire at will where Lyrian and Setanta were able to harpoon the unknown creatures. The commotion alerting Eledrith and Kyne who head up discovered that the ships captain passed out drunk while still attached to the spelljammer helmet. Dante believing they were heading to crash into the creatures started to tie himself to the mast. Eledrith and Setanta removed the unconscious captain and Setanta attempted to pilot the ship away from its intercept course with what turned out to be space whales. Averting potential disaster, Dante took the captain to bed and continued to pilot the Flabberghast until the party arrived to the abandoned ship. As the party boarded the derelict ship, they felt a sense of glee with the decreased gravity as Kyne and Setanta lept to the highest point of the ship leaving Lyrian and Eledrith to search for the cargo. They found several bunks and clothings, but no crew or personnel aboard. The eerie silence allowed for all sounds to echo through the ship as Lyrian head down into the hold, Setanta and Kyne investigate research books and find an alchemy set. Setanta catches a small object or shadow creeping along the floor, but paying it little mind proceeded into the depths of the ship. Eventually Lyrian discovers the cargo laden with magic runes sealing the contents inside, but the remainder of the cargo hold empty. While in the hild Lyrian notices a bright blue light glowing through the ceiling as the party regroup to unlock a door where they find the source, an odd machine arching power forcing the party to struggle to move. Inside the room they find shadows cast along the walls of several humanoid creatures almost burned into wooden ship. Suddenly, Setanta hears bubbling almost like boiling water forming behind them into a black shadowed pool. As the puddle gets larger the party turn to the hallway and prepare for the worst. 

As the party defends against the forming slime, a rift opens in the machine room and a woman falls through. The party dispatch of the corrosive ooze and discover the ship's helm. They then loaded the remaining cargo onto the Flabberghast as Dante agreed to wait for them at the Rock of Bral until they manage to pilot the transport vessel. Lyrian inspects the machine that now lays dormant. Still of unknown origin or purpose he manages to unlatch a compartment below retrieving a darkened crystal. Eledrith and Setanta manage to pilot the ship with some effort after Dante helped repair a few functions to discover that it is an old repurposed warship dating back 40 years to the Vampire Incursion. He revealed that the Vampire Incursion was a sort of vampire revolution that unified an extremist group in ideals of superiority turning the strongest or foolish to vampirism attacking the free races of the wildspace. The remaining factions unified against them and in a concerted effort was able to push the vampires into deep space as several of their ships crashed on neighboring asteroids to be left to their own seclusion. While sailing along their way they hit solar winds that increased their speed so far that their cargo crane becomes damaged. As each member claims a particular part of the ship they set up a sleeping quarters, kitchen, and Kyne disassembled the mysterious machine and moved it into the cargo hold now a multi-use workshop. 

The party make it back to the Rock of Bral and meet with Dante as he speaks to the dock master regarding registering their new ship. After some shopping they meet Hakaplak Shanks (odds and ends), Botho Bloodmoon (potions and salves), Theodore Aurum (cloaks and leather), Dogal & Dogrix (Armor), and Nimgrindel (Sandwiches, toxins, charms). They are met with a new task asked by the dock master's brother Brawley who offered to fix up their ship if they take care of a particular lesser noble who is late on payments. A Marquis Desaade who is having a massive masquerade party hasn't paid up in 3 months for a ship he had commissioned. The task is to retrieve the back pay and convince the Marquis to honor the contract. They party get their dress clothes and masks in order and head to the party where they meet a strange halfing named Odekath Cherrycheeks who give them plenty of berry wine as well as find the Marquis on the dance floor. As the party move in, Kyne and Lyrian create a dance circle with expert footwork enticing the party goers as Lyra and Eledrith set up a love potion in a bottle of wine. The party manage to allure the Marquis and offer him a drink of Underdark Ale which he downs instantly and continues to dance, but suddenly as he spots Kyne and Lyrian...he speaks undying love to Lyrian. 

After pulling the Marquis away from the party, they convince them to take the party to a private room. The Marquis leads the party into a side room where he reveals a small magical narcotic and dabs some on his tongue. In response Lyrian also dapped his finger in the concoction and placed it into the Marquis mouth causing him to black out. The party then rummage the room and the floors above searching for anything they could use to make up the overdue bill from Brosley. After finding very little, Kyne came across a trapped book and was shocked causing his hands to become numb. After a few moments, one of the guards came buy to check on the Marquis and used to his lavish antics, finds the antidote and gives it to the party. The Marquis, dazed and confused is persuaded to provide money to the party, for what he believes is a contract with Lyrian to go sailing after the ship is done as an escort, but in his stupor forgets to have anyone sign. The party take the money and head back to Brosley as Setanta causes suspicion amongst the guards causing them to shut the party down sending everyone home. They head to the shipyard to pay off the dept and gavee the magically sign contract stating continued payment for the ship. In exchange the party agreed to install Sonic Thrusters onto "The Ship Formerly Known as Dreadnaught" so they can outrun potential harm along the wildspace. 

Meeting again with Brosley he agreed to affix bastillas to the ship in exchange go and investigate his brother's mine located in an unknown sector of space. They had been claiming ownership of adamantine ore and smuggling in small amounts, but for the past two weeks communication had stopped. The party sign in agreement a contract. When they arrived at the mine they discovered the two smalp transport ships were docked with nobody around. Kyne went to investigate the two ships and unlocked one of the cargo holds finding a black powder that was toxic to the skin. Lyrian sent his raven to investigate as well as Lyra's owl, but the owl after going into the cargo hold was attacked by something in the dark. Eledrith, Kyne and Lyra went to get a closer look where Eledrith fired upon and killed a creature that caused a sudden ignition detonating the black powder within the hold obliterating the ship. Taking minor damage from the debris they party moved inside the mines and discovered fire beetles, but they were behaving strangely. They found the beetles were feeding on the black powder and their blood could cause a flare igniting the blasting powder. Luckily, Lyra could conjure magical light saving them from accidental explosions and keeping the fire beetles at bay. They eventually discovered a dead dwarf who had raw chunks of adamantine stashed in his pockets, but concluded this was not Brosley's brother. They delved deeper into the mines eventually finding 3 more dead dwarves and a contract that promised each dwarf a share in all mined ore. 

As the party proceed deeper into the cave they see light shining through the stone and a shout from the other side of what appears to be a cave in. The creature identifies themselves as Bardock and that they were trapped because of the fire beatles getting into the blast powder. Lyra uses mold earth to form a sizable hole for the dwarf to escape in turn activating a curse within her bracelet causing her hand to become petrified. As the Dwarf climbs through Kyne goes in to look at the source of the light and discovers several additional bodies and a massive crystal. Against "Bardock's" wishes Lyra and Eledrith head through the hole as "Bardock" leaves. The party find several mysterious crystals and take samples as they hear an explosion on the other side of the mines, Lyrian gets blasted and thrown into a nearby wall as Setanta starts to dig a way out to chase after the treacherous "Bardock". Kyne, Eledrith, and Lyra see a rift open at the base of the pit as a giant fire beatle emerges and starts to attack. They manage to subdue to creature and just as Setanta makes a path through the cave-in. The party rush out of the cave being chased by all other fire beatles ignoring the light. As they make towards the entrance Setanta rolls a barrel of blasting powder and throws a torch buring the beatles inside the mine. They then hurry to their ship and give chase as "Bardock" had taken the remaining transport ship. The party using their sonic thrusters catch up to him and overtake the ship. They capture the dwarf and find out his name is Jeremiah and he was posing as Bardock to escape.

After forcing Jeremiah onto their ship they bind and tow the transport vessel that belongs to Bardock and take him below deck for questioning. Setanta attempts to spar with the dwarf who feels he is playing mind games and refuses. Then instead is taken up top to fish. Lyra attempts to pry into his mind, but is staved off by Jeremiah who starts to get aggrivated and after consistent reassurance from Setanta is not a prisoner, until the party attack and subdue him. When given a choice between sleeping the rest of the trip or remaining tied up, the dwarf opted to sleep and drank a potion that was offered to him knocking him unconscious. At this time Lyra starts to jump into his memories discovering that Jeremiah had killed several of the dwarves in the mines, but the memories were fragmented and distorted. Through the memories she saw a face of another Kalashtar who had also stepped through a rift causing dispute and havok within the mining camp especially with the discovery of the crystal. They party manage to make it to the Rock of Bral where they meet with Brosley and inform him of his brother's demise at at his request to turn Jeremiah into the authorities to face justice for his crimes. While they head to the guard estate building they see a young woman complaining to the guard about another issue that could spell dire consequences, but the guards say they have already address her concern as she storms out. After the part hand over Jeremiah they speak to the woman outside and agree to meet her at the Laughing Beholder at dusk.

The party visit Botho Bloodmoon and discover that a rare stone can be found at the Varkenbluff Museum that is needed to remove the curse from Lyra's hand. After they went back to Dugal and Dogrix's to retrieve the new armor and trade off several of the adamantine stones for weapons. Then moving towards the Paragon Temple they met Mardock and Deidra who could make a concoction for Lyra to temporarily treat the petrification.. The party then met with Dr. Darnell at the Laughing Beholder tavern where they met Luigi. Dr. Darnell told them of an artifact that is being held by the museum after her warnings that it contains an eldritch beast awaiting to be hatched, but was fired by the curator who ignored her pleas. Dr. Darnell knows of a way to seal the creature before it hatches and offers to pay the party 20gp each and her Bag of Holding to bring the egg back to her before midnight on the night of the Gala. After recieving a rough map, the party went to the Varkenbluff Museum to check out the guards and security to get a feel of general layout. Lyrian discovered that the museum has been hurting for money and started selling magical scrolls which he purchased a scroll of invisibility. Eledrith toured the place finding ancient plants and weaponry. Lyra, Lyrian, and Eledrith found the gemstone wing, but it was closed for renovations in preparation of the presentation in 2 days. The party then returned to their ship to devise a plan. 

The next day the party again case out the museum after obtaining their new weapons and Lyra retrieves a treatment from Deidra that will unpetrify her hand for a week. At the museum they discover that the Jade Egg has an arcane lock spell on it. They also discover that Nimgrindel had given the curator a special scepter/wand and is fuming at the suggestion that it was sold off. Lyrian teleports into the curator's office and comes face to face with one of the security measures, a manniquin attacks him as he grabs the ledger and teleports out. The party head over to Nimgrindel's who find her angry and reveal that all the legitimate artifacts have been sold off to a Baron Lazarus, to Nimgrindel's shock is one of the ancient vampires from the days of the Incursion. She is able to make a keycard that can circumvent some of the alarms and locked doors, but it has limited uses. Also she reveals she helped animate the doll and a few other displays for security purposes. The party decided to break in that night as Lyrian teleports into the museum through the sunlight and with the keycard makes his way to the gemstone display and disenchants the safety measures retrieving the egg before making his way out. Just before they head off to Dr. Darnell, Eledrith insists on finding the basement and also teleports inside the museum and discovers the basement full of artifacts and guards smuggling them through an underground tunnel using a horse and carriage. While still invisible from Lyra's spell, she hides and watches in hopes to discovering where the tunnel leads. 

Eledrith continues to monitor the guards who head off to patrol the rest of the museum. The two remaining guards unbridle the horses and began to feed them leaving the tunnel unguarded. After a while, Eledrith heads back to the rest of the party revealing the tunnel's existence and they head over to Dr. Darnell's place. In the dark of the night, the party awaken Dr. Darnell and to hand over the egg. They place it into a stasis crystal container as she seals it in. Grabbing her bags and the case she leaves for the port to meet with Dante and the Flabberghast to leave immediately. She pays the party and leaves the keys to the house in their care. As the party checks out their new house, they hear guards walking down the street presumably from the museum detail. They jump out the back windows and head back to their ship to sleep away the day. The next morning they hear that some houses were raided in the night with rumors of a creature on the lose and that the museum is still proceeding to present the stone during the gala. The party start to spread rumors of the creature confusing everyone on what it is capable of and causing general panic among the populace. They meet with Marlock at the Temple and find Dogrix and Odekath Cherrycheeks who has found what he claims is an undiscovered mushroom trying to temper Dogrix's interest, but is interferred by Lyrian who wants takes Odekath back to the ship to start experimenting after Odekath buys several alchemaic supplies. Back at the temple the party learn a little about the history of the Rock of Bral and the Convergence. Dogrix reveals that Nimgrindel asked him to look into Baron Lazarus while she searches for clues within the spelljammer's memories. Dogrix tells them that the most guarded books are kept within the Mage's Guild, which Lyra peaks intrerest. 

As Lyrian watched over Odekath, he notices an eerie shift in his complexion. The color from his body seemed to drain away. After asking Nimgrindel for help Lyrian sent his ravens to the rest of the party who were still near the Paragon Temple. After reaching them Lyra peeked into Odekath's mind and found herself in a desolate landscape of bone and rock. She discovers Odekath moving toward a cave system and after winding around shows him picking more mushrooms. On the way back Lyra is approached by a shadowing creature blocking the path and speaks to her. The creature showing their fangs attacks what Lyra perceives herself as a ball of light jutting around shocking her to jump back into her body. She reveals to the party what she say and Eledrith and Lyrian reveal that it must have been the Shadowfell. With this the party was able to piece together where Lyra and Odekath travelled which mirrored the material plane and showed that there is a sort of portal or passage within the museum that they can reach the Shadowfell. The party decide to attend the Gala that they had previously infiltrated. Lyrian heads downstairs into the basement and travels down the corridor and feels himself pass through, but headed away before speculating that a vampire could still be in the passage. Turning away from the Shadowfell he returned to the party as they all discussed their plans with Nimgrindel and tried to seek entrance into the Mage's Guild with letters of recommendation from a former shadow magic head master. The party are told what the entrance test would be like and went to prepare themselves for the morning. Meanwhile, Eledrith and Lyrian go to pray to the Raven Queen to tell her that vampires lurk in her realm, but are met with images and cries of pain as they can see the Raven Queen is pinned by a large magical spear disabling her from responding. Eledrith recognizing the spear from the museum a few days ago which she believes is the Spear of Eons. 

The party set off the next morning to the Mage's Guild to attend their trials. As they arrived they saw several other mage's lined up to register. They met one of the headmasters Andos at the registry who asked a few questions and started to call the potential students to their trials. The first trial ended in failure as the party heard screams coming from the next room and an unconscious mage being carried out. The second the mage did not return. Next was Lyrian who upon entering the chamber found a magical lute and began to play music, but upon struming his first note the floor began to collapse. Surveying the room, he noticed that the torches on the wall looked familair to a musical stanza and played the notes in sequence passing his trial. Then came Lyra who discussing with the headmasters the trial heard the headmasters conversing with someone. She was tasked with brewing a magic potion of luck through a series of riddles written by the inventor of the potion. Through a series of fumbles and confusion she managed to brew the concoction to the headmasters surpise and passed the trial. Thirdly was Setanta who was met with a curious hallway. Suspecting traps tied rope to his spear and threw it down the hallway only to be met with the spear piercing his shoulder. He discovered that about halfway the room became mirrored and attempted to walk down the corridor only to be turned around facing the door he came through. Thinking this through, Setanta started to walk backwards and found the exit passing their trial. Lastly, Eledrith was presented with two magically imbued paintings. Their task was to decipher the differences between the two paintings within 30 minutes. Luckily, Eledrith spotted a small tattoo on the figure's hand and recognized it as the infernal number 10 and was able to spot the 10 differences in the paintings. With all members passing their trials reletively unscathed, aside Setanta, the party found themselves in a massive library with all sorts of research and knowledge. The party spent several hours perusing the books and tombs as well as discovering an archive of magical items and weapons. However, not finding the answers they were seeking the party discovered a stairwell heading upwards into a massive tower that appeared to go on forever. Setanta ran up the stairs and eventually was met with Oleander, the headmaster of magical weaponry and martial talents. Oleander explained that the large library below was a trap to satiate those that just wanted a magical education, but not magical knowledge about the world. Those that were content to stay below would never be enrolled into the Mage's Guild. Oleander then imprinted a tattoo onto Setanta's hand which revealed the true nature of the tower as he began to see corridors, classrooms, and a roof. After Oleander departed, Setanta continued searching the area. Meanwhile Lyrian and Eledrith started to head up the stairs where they were met with a headmaster who did not give his name, but was a master of shadows, planar dimensions, and teleportation who imbued both with their own tattoo. As they walked up stairs Lyra seemed to take the steps a bit slower enamoured with the knowledge before her. Unfortunately she was met with something different. A figure with dark hair, pale skin, and dark robes approached her. Lyra recognizing this as the figure who appeared in the dwarf's memories as some Kalashtar wondering the mines is now in the Mage's Guild. He revealed that 200 years ago in Eberron, rifts opened all over their city with monstrous creatures attacking and ripping souls from her fellow Kalashtar. The mage unsure if Lyra was the cause explained during the onslaught he too ran through a portal to find himself among the stars and that he was researching a way home and to turn back time to before his city was ravaged. 

Fret with this knowledge Lyra went to the Headmaster's officer where she met Andos, a familair wizard wearing bunny slippers that she had met at the registration desk for the trials. He invited her to take a few of his advanced courses based off her indepth knowledge of the arcane. Meanwhile the rest of the party had start to wonder around the guild and found an outside arena where Setanta and Lyrian performed a bit of a show for the other students showcasing their abilities. Eledrith also met with a few other students in the cafeteria before heading down meeting Lyra along the way to discover a ruckus. After the crowd began to thin, the party collaborated and Eledrith and Setanta went to meet the headmaster in order to answer some questions while Lyrian and Lyra went to see Botho Bloodmoon to resolve her cursed arm. Eledrith and Setanta stuck a deal with the headmaster in being allowed to enter the history wing at the top of the tower where they learned about the past headmasters and the unusual history of the founding of the school and its relationship to Baron Bral and his children. They also discovered unsancitoned information regarding the Vampire Incursion specifically the Battle of Demon Crest where there was a parley and during negotiations the alliance turned on the vampires cripling them into retreat. Eledrith also researched cases and reports regarding vampire sightings or misgivings when she came across a story of derelict ships found along the wyldspace that found a young girl and man who was brought back to the Rock of Bral in its early days and the mysterious death of Mr. Morgsten. With her suspicions validated Eledrith believes that there is still a vampire hiding amongst the populace and seeks to hunt her down. Meanwhile Lyra and Lyrian discover the stone they procured from the museum was in fact a stone of curse transference and were able to remove Lyra's pretrification and stored it into the stone. With their new found item they headed back to the guild in order to attend their night classes. Eledrith and Lyrian met with their instructor Brathe Stormfist who coaxed them into a portal where they were met with a mansion in transdimensional space. Some of the other students wondered into the garden where they were attacked by unknown creatures where Eledrith introduced herself to the voices coming from the succulents. After a bit of exploration the instructor returned bringing them back to the guild and proceeded with the lecture. The party discovered new abilities on their path of learning and after Setanta's class in the morning reconviened. 

The party feeling low on funds headed to check back on the adamantine asteroid. Along the way they encountered a Thri-Kreen vessel who offered a trade ship part. They were particularly interested in the salvage crane in exchange repaired their resonator engine which could do several things with a core installed. In exchange they also offered a sapphire as a core to enable cloaking capabilities. After a hefty meal the Thri-Kreen satisfied they left. As Setanta headed to the helm and attached to the spelljammer the buzzing and whirring of the ship became overwhelming as all the programming of the warship became active suddenly after the crane had been removed. PA system, targeting, and autopilot have now become operational for the ship now called "Wing'n It". The party now with their new found cloaking arrived to the mine and found that four ships patrolling the asteroid belonging to the Prince of Bral. In an impressive maneuver they positioned the ship above the mine as Lyrian jumped off to perform some reconnaissance of what is happening since they last visited. Lyrian headed inside and found the bodies of the dwarves were gone and salvaged some adamantine into his bag before screaming could be heard down below. Soldiers in heavy fire resistant gear were being chased by insectoid like creatures. Lyrian ran outside followed by the soldiers who attempted to blow up the entrance. Unfortunately, the explosives didn't seal the entrance, but bottle necked it as the insectoids started to come out and attack. 

Lyrian fired an eldritch blast upon the creatures and teleported away as the soldiers started to throw flames all around to seal off the paths of the creatures. From above Lyra, Setanta, and Eledrith saw the explosions at the base of the cave entrance and sent in Lyra's familair to try to contact Lyrian via carrier owl and parchment. The creatures started to overwhelm the soldiers as Eledrith also jumped down to the asteroid to engage as the Soldiers called in a cannon barrage to take out the creatures. Also while still cloaked Setanta fired a ballista at the cave entrance to help Lyrian and Eledrith escape, but was also seen by the remaining soldiers who quickly began climbing in order to escape. As they climbed up the rope onto the ship the exhausted soldiers told them that they were investigating the mine when these creatures showed up and started capturing their members. Three were taken away and the other ships deemed it was too risky to try to rescue them. The party agreed to assist in exchange would be allowed access to land. The party reach the mine and head inside where the walls which were once jagged and rocky were now smooth. After treading some familair ground they realized there were insect eggs everywhere with a few of the insectoids caring for them. They found one of the insectoids making a rock like cocoon and Lyra attempted to read its thoughts, but was suddenly shocked to know the creatures were of a hive mind and many voices spoke out at once. After establishing a plan to isolate and kill each insectoid the creatures headed further into the mine and they investigated the cocoon. Inside they discovered one of the soldiers unconscious and injured. Lyra took his flamethrower and tank. After stabilizing the soldier and left them at the enterance of the mine they proceeded into the depths against these bizarre creatures.