Discord Summary: 2025-W41 — Distilled
Date Range: 2025-10-13 to 2025-10-19
Status: ⚠️ Some entries truncated — source data needed
In-World Knowledge
Creatures & Threats
- About 50 years ago, a group of the late Lord Burdock’s men-at-arms climbed the cliff face to explore Arden Vul ruins, encountered a huge green dragon, and 10 of 12 men died including three knights. The only survivors were two young men who were kept back to hold horses, and they lost most of the horses and baggage as they fled. Lord Burdock then forbade any more of his subjects from going up the Long Stair to the ruins, lest they anger the dragon further. He also discouraged outsiders from using the Burdock Valley as a base for exploration of the ruins. So there was apparently very little exploration of the ruins until his death 25 years ago. [#Dragon | 2025-10-17; town-rolls | 2025-10-17]
- Bands of lizardmen exit the Halls via a cave halfway up the cliff face, to the left of the waterfall. They lay fiendish traps along the Swift River and take unwary captives back to their lair to be eaten. (Source: Thorcin fighter named Roscoe, who claimed firsthand knowledge.) [#archive | 2025-10-16; town-rolls | 2025-10-16])
Items & Gear
- Map discovered in Prior Jacobus’s room. [pc-notes | 2025-10-17]
- Jacobus gave the party a single key found inside a hat in an armoire; the key had not been looted previously. [questions-for-gm | 2025-10-18]
- Larel’s Sack (Bag of Holding): holds 500# or 70 ft³. Second Bag of Holding found by party holds 1000# or 150 ft³. [questions-for-gm | 2025-10-18]
- A standard 10’ ladder (2’ wide, 1/2” thick = ~10 ft³) fits inside either bag but occupies significant space. [questions-for-gm | 2025-10-18]
- Chrysalis tested her pebble’s return properties: arrives warm if heated, but not wet from water or dirty from mud. [questions-for-gm | 2025-10-18]
Locations & Geography
- The western pit in the Hall of Judgement is less than 12 yards deep (bottom visible with Continual Light from the top). [questions-for-gm | 2025-10-19]
- The temple of Thoth has been trashed to the point it no longer has High sanctity (if it ever did). [questions-for-gm | 2025-10-19]
Spells & Magic
- Hallow (Meta-Spell): Area spell, Base Cost 5, Casting Time 1 hour, Duration Permanent, Prerequisite PI 5. Increases Sanctity (cleric) or Nature’s Strength (druid) by one level, max High Sanctity or +3 Nature’s Strength. This may only be cast in an appropriate area, such as a temple of the appropriate god for a cleric, or a particularly nice natural area for a druid. [#NewSpells | 2025-10-19; questions-for-gm | 2025-10-19]
- Hallow only works for the caster’s own deity (clerics of multiple gods may choose). [questions-for-gm | 2025-10-19]
- Sanctity can be destroyed by utterly destroying a temple; mere desecration reduces it over time (centuries of no worshippers may suffice). Hallow accelerates restoration. [questions-for-gm | 2025-10-19]
- Druids prefer finding areas of strong Nature’s Strength over creating them, as such areas are typically hundreds of miles into wilderness. [questions-for-gm | 2025-10-19]
NPCs & Services
- Giant wheelbarrow order delayed — vendor went on a trip to see giant sharks and gather colorful seaweed. [archive | 2025-10-16; general | 2025-10-16]
✅ Source Data Resolved
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Distilled: 2026-03-18