Realms S1E25 Lost in the Shadows

Torq and Burakubuu scour the sewers for their kidnapped friends. Why do the kidnappers want to sacrifice Denahi? And who is Jaren?

Player Characters Present
Jeidobii, Torq, Denahi, Burakubuu

Synopsis
Torq and Burakubuu warily make their way down the sewer corridors. Meanwhile, Denahi and Jeidobii find themselves blindfolded and bound as they are carried through unknown spaces by assailants who curiously exhibit no footsteps. After some time, they stop, and the pair feel themselves being hoisted aloft and for the first time can hear eachother, realizing they are still together. Jeidobii manages to shake the sack covering his head off and sees a grim scene: a number of serpentine creatures being commanded by a pair of disfigured humanoids. Below them, a bubbling pool of green acid. Denahi too frees herself and overhears them planning, for some reason, to kill her specifically. Both attempt to use their magic and find it ineffective. Even Aros is unresponsive within Jeidobii’s gauntlet.

Buu and Torq find their way o the same chamber and being an assault. During the melee, Denahi manages to free herself and swing to safety. When Burakubuu downs one of the humanoids and the other flees, Jeidobii finds his magic returned and frees himself as well, unleashing a furious rebuke on his kidnappes and it isn’t long before the reunited foursome has defeated all present.

They proceed into the next room where they find two chests and a closed door. Behind the door, Buu hears the humanoid who had fled speaking to an angry voice that the humanoid calls “Jaren,” a name that summons long forgotten memories. Denahi, however, recognizes the voice of the humanoid and it fills her with anger. Buu kicks the door in to try and save the humanoid from what he assumes will be a deadly strike from Jaren. Instead he discovers Jaren is present only in the form of a black mist, and from the mist Jaren calls to him. “I’ve been looking for you for so very long... “ The mist disappears. Buu attempts to question the humanoid, but the disfigured man-thing is suddenly consumed by some magical energy and he takes a new form, lashing out at the party. The attack is short-lived, though, as Denahi burns a hole clean through the tormented creature.

Jeidodii informs the others that one of the chests in the room is empty but seems to have previously held something powerful and magic. The party begins to make their way back out of the sewers when they hear a commotion down one of the alternate corridors. Inspecting, they discover a gathering of king’s guard plotting against the cerrotaur Maxtheald. Among them, a dwarf carrying a small chest around which Buu sees a powerful aura. Realizing this must be the very treasure they’ve been tracking, the party rushes the room, devastating the gathered guards in an instant and securing the small chest.

Within it, a magical crown tailored to a horned king. The party takes a brief rest before setting back to the Keep to inform King Max of all they’ve learned.