D&D ======================================== Sat 16 Jan 2021 06:08:15 PM EST Ed DMing me, Steve, and Scott on Jitsi. First session after converting to fifth edition. (We'll see how it goes.) - Resuming from last time, we're on the roof of the tower, having just gotten visions from the astronomical machine. - We mess with the pumpkin growing in the bathtub. It's non-magical, and seems to just be a pumpkin. - We go down into the tower through the trap door. Urns, debris. Open door to south. - Guy sitting in a dark room. Zoozeki detects thoughts. Guy wants to be freed. Vivek, prince of the eastern realms, Bindelon. Kristabell: why are you imprisoned? He once had an empire, but he was imprisoned after a rebellion. Powerful spells bind him. - Vivek is not what he seems. He _charms_ Martin. … No, Martin fakes being charmed! Martin gives Zoozeki _vigilent blessing_ (advantage on initiative). - Zoozeki fireballs Vivek as we follow him down the stairs. We don't immediately see what happened. - Smudge sends his owl familiar down to reconnoiter. There's a smoldering Aunt Beru/Uncle Own corpse. - In basement, gemstones in ceiling. Three carcophogai. "These saintly dead will be free to roam the heavens." Skulls with sparkling eyes. Two mummified corpses. - Vivek is not dead! Faking. An illusion. He might be immune to magic damage. - Smudge and Kristabell eventually kill him with physical damage. He was a Rakshasa!