Editing Game-Summaries:10/19/2019 Recollections (section)

==Recollections by Rezik==
[[Zanna]], [[Dereth]], [[Kaylorr]], [[Loco]], [[Gramph]] and I decided we need to set out to find Coin to stop him from descending into madness. 

We started by finding [[Inugs]] and convincing him to join us. He was able to tell us a few things to started us on our journey. He wasn’t sure exactly where [[Coin]] was, but he said that they had parted ways on Mithaniel Marr. He said that someone named Gumtoe might know more and that he and Coin had visited him somewhere in the north east. 

We thought we should go to Wisakedjak to see if he would come with us. Sadly, he wouldn’t follow us on our journey, but he did recommend we visit the [[Seer]], that she had information about the underwater village Coin had described in his journals. He told us the Seer would be waiting for us.

We went to visit the Seer in her tower. We climbed her tower to the 8th floor and saw the Seer drinking tea, facing away from us. As we entered she said, "[[The Raven Queen]] and I are twin born, equal yet opposite. She deals in absolute & certainty, I deal in uncertainty." 

She told us the only way to get to where Coin, is to go through Mithaniel Marr. That we need to let go of the delusion of time. 

We asked the Seer about Yggdrasil, which she described as a metaphor for how the worlds are connected. That Yggdrasil is not a real tree. 

She also let us know that Gumtoe is not actually real, and that Coin had found something in the village but didn’t tell the Seer. She confirmed to us that the Libris Mortis is not real, that it’s everywhere, and that Coin is receiving it. 

We decided that Coin didn’t follow a physical journey, but that it was probably a spiritual or mental journey. 

Instead of actually going to Mithaniel Marr, we decided to go back to the Magistery and find beds to fall into a dream. 

When we awoke, it felt darker than it should have been. We appeared on a rocky terrain, with a large shadow in the distance to the east. We felt a light tremor in the ground almost like an earthquake far away. 

We began walking to the east, and suddenly the tremors got stronger. We walked for about an hour before we reached a stone facade. 

Suddenly, a giant beast came out of the ground and began to gallop towards us. We enter a cave that Zanna found. As soon as we entered, the beast crashed into the cave and caused it to collapse. We were stuck in the cave, in total darkness. 

We started walking through the cave and found ourselves walking through what felt like a maze. We realized that we’re continuing towards nothing and decided we should rest instead. 

When we awoke, we found ourselves at an intersection. We began moving east deciding that we’ll continue on always moving towards the east.

While we walked, we would find old journal entries from Coin. I wasn't able to save any of them, but hopefully someone else from our group kept them.

In some of the rooms we would find a drawing on the wall, images of Yggdrasil, with each image becoming more and more clear as we find the next one. 

After awhile, we finally found ourselves in a room  with a collapsed corner, that seems to be a tunnel somewhere. With nowhere else to go, we made our way through the tunnel. On the other side, we found ourselves in a mirror image of the room we were just in. 

We continued walking until we realized we've reached a dead end. There was an image on the wall, which seemed to be a key of some sort. We needed to solve the puzzle to open the door. 

When we looked at the images we realized there were hidden runes on the back of the scrolls we found. When we decoded the letters, it told us to remove the stone that was the Raven's eye. 

When we removed the stone it opened a door to another room. In the room, on the far side was a gaping maw. Within the maw we saw Coin throwing up black ichor. Next to him was a writhing black mass of tentacles, similar to the black ichor he was throwing up. 

We quickly made our way into the room and attempted to make sense of what was happening. 

We were unsure of if we should be attacking the the mass or if that would hurt Coin. We felt like we had already lost Coin - that was our first mistake. 

We started to battle the mass, and I quickly fired my most powerful spells. Gramph used her breath, but it was as if nothing had happened. 

Coin and the mass started casting death spells at us, bathing us in necrotic energy. It felt like we would never be able to win.

Dereth used Word of Recall to save us. We felt the pull and quickly followed it, doing what we needed to save ourselves. 

As we teleport, we heard a scream in our souls. We had lost Coin. We had failed.

I fear the repercussions are worse than we anticipated. It seems Coin is the third to fall to the Shade - first Gimble, then Danavus, and now Coin. 

It seems like Coin or the shade of Coin has resurrected a god, Nerull, the god of death. 

We'll need to be better prepared for the next time. It won’t be easier. I’ll need to create more clones for Gramph and I. We can’t be afraid of death. This failure will haunt me, there’s no undoing it.