Dernard's Notes: Time elemental

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Friday, September 12, 2025

Had made it back to the village tavern
- Met Dominic who wanted to join our mission
Next morning interviewed Surin
- He knew basically nothing but that we should capture Dustin
Returned to the tomb
- Surin didn’t recognise anything
- Things had reset here
- “Armadillo” monsters rust metal when they touch you
- Kaya and Dominic lost their armour
- Managed to lure them away with a bunch of metal
- Went down the stairs and heard a voice “Awaken”
- Re-encountered the black slime
- Fireball dealt with it without collapsing the corridor
- Found a room with lots of gold
- There was a glyph of an hourglass under the gold
- Didn’t manage to figure out what it meant
- Dust motes appeared, so we fled
- Had Dustin returned? Why?

Opened coffin
- The whole floor gave in
- Nothing of value was here
Continued down the stairs
- Encountered a black slime monster
- It split apart when attacked
- Seems to have been fed by the armadillo monsters we sent down the stairs
- Fireball became necessary
- Collapsed the staircase
- Dasid could get through the collapsed area, but it was too narrow for us
Discovered that the fourth statue could boost your wisdom if touched
- Not sure if something bad could have happened
Somehow the tomb had reset
- Floor in the coffin room was back
- Armadillos were back
Discovered a swirling mass of dust (we called it Dustin)
- Lead us towards a secret passage in the coffin room
- Lead to a hidden room with a casket
- Dust became aggressive
- We distracted Dustin
- Ryan threw the casket down into the pit
- Found a broken ring and a corpse
Took the corpse back to the statues room to revive it with the second statue
- Surin got revived
- Told us about the elemental of time (apparently that’s Dustin)
- Dustin escaped the tomb
- We left the tomb to find a place to rest and plan our next steps

Met Inesh who had come to the tomb for some reason
Threw coal from brazier into water
- Water turned to normal water and we could pass
- Took the hourglass with us
- Left a rope behind to climb up
Found a room with four statues
- 1. A young boy
- 2. An adult man holing a book
- 3. An old man holding a staff
- 4. A very old man holding a cane
Found a cave with some dangerous ledges
- Made it to the other side
- There were three doors
- Of course we managed to open the trapped door first
- It was a wind trap that would have blown us down into the cave
- Found a golem workshop behind one of the doors
- Found a sarcophagus with a golem behind the next door
- Defeated the golem and got some treasure
Returned to the statues room
- Nothing important happened and we found a secret door
- There were some strange armadillo like creatures in the corridor behind
- They approached, but fled from our torchlight
Found a room with a coffin in side
- Session ended before we could open the coffin

Returned with Travis to the palace
- Moss was growing on him
- Handed him over to the court wizard
Joined the princess in an audience
- Learned about an issue in the village of head-woman Larna
- Things seemed to age backwards
Followed Larna to village Redfill
- Stayed at the “Singing Serpent” tavern
- Searched for cause of reverse ageing
- Learned about the tomb of a sage
Searched for the tomb
- Found a marble dome with some columns on a hill
- Roots had damaged the dome in areas, presumable breaking a seal that caused the reverse ageing
- Near the dome was night, even during the day
- Inscription on a pillar: “Here lies Surin of the order of the disciples of the bygone sage”
- Entered the dome
- Found an hourglass that moved backwards
- Turning the hourglass had no visible effect
- Somehow got rid of a magical barrier
- Fought some animated statues near to a fake door
- Tried to get past a water elemental guarding a passage further down