Session Recap: Cormyr Goblin War Act 3, Session 2

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The first watch goes to Whitehead. Piper is largely unresponsive and ill looking. Feek dreams of a pleasant scene with the family, except it is not his, it is Proster Obarskyr's, now long dead. Hjalmar dreams of Clangeddin wrapped in a tentacle. Feek takes the second watch and spends the time talking to Nana Opal, who has rested only a little. She says she is going to her home and talks about the friend's home she watches over. Feek asks if this is Elminster and she says it is! And that she has had a good and congenial, and sometimes conjugal, relationship with the old mage since her retirement.

In the morning the party hikes a few more bells to the base of the ledge the College of Rune Magics sits upon. They decided to add it to their itinerary and begin the hike up the many stairs. At the top the encounter illusions and an old Rune Adept, Edwood. Edwood berates them and tells them to leave. They draw weapons upon him but decide he is not worth the trouble and promptly leave without exploring the largely ruined campus.

At the bottom of the stairs they find Nana Opal, who has caught up after their detour. She invites them to Elminster's Castle for a pot pie after their trip to Volkumburgh. But in conversation she lets slip that she is a retired member of the Zhentarim. After a heated exchange (only on the side of the Purple Dragons), they punch her in the face and continue on to the College of Shaping Magics.

At the top of the stairs Feek touches a runestaff embedded in the stone. He teleports to a round chamber with eight doors. The rest of the party decides to camp and see if he comes back. He opens three doors, is tossed around and the room starts filling with sand, before he opens a door to an old storage room. He finds four magical items. Another runestaff which does not do anything obvious, a set of leather armor as heavy as plate, and a tenser's flying disk that seems dysfunctional.

He then receives a sending from Hjalmar asking him his whereabouts. He responds and says it is safe. Everyone else touches the runestaff and meets him in the room before the head outside to the college campus. 

Once outside they quickly encounter undead denizens roaming the grounds. Five zombies and one wight, which they don't recognize, only notice its hateful glare. They are able to ward off the undead without any harm done.

As the shortly settle into camp, Hjalmar consecrating the ground, Stardust takes the first watch. The second watch goes to Feek who has been sleeping poorly, dreaming of a place of madness far from the material plane. He enjoys Selune high in the sky, the wind calm. When clouds cover the moon and her train of tears, a figure walks into came. It is a tabaxi. It does not deign to acknowledge Feek until he aggressively calls it out.

 The tabaxi apologizes, and says he is here to talk, calling Feek by name. He introduces himself as Stream Runs Dark and tells Feek his friends will not awaken. Feek tries to wake Hjalmar and discovers he cannot. The tabaxi then pulls out a yarting and sings a beautifully magical song. Feek is seemingly transported body and soul out of space and time, and sees a maddening and dark scene, full of loss and despair. The tabaxi stands and says he would like to speak again. Stream invites Feek to seek out Black Ice near Thunder Gap.

When the tabaxi leaves, Feek is shaken. He wakes Stardust and shortly everyone else and recounts what just happened. He does not sleep the rest of the night.