Session 9 – The Crystal Heart

We try the Garden of First Joy next, and this time Kargrath is completely overwhelmed with joy. Felric again goes to save him, but gets stuck in there with him.

The others go into the other gardens, and the main chamber opens.

Kargrath and Felric are joined by a young boy who challenges them to a game. He will jump across a stream and step on certain rocks. We must follow him exactly.

Both Felric and Kargrath succeed early on but fail toward the end. They both lose memories that they had — Korgrath from both sides of his heritage, both ork and civilized. Felric loses the knowledge of his first invention.

-1 die to Knowledge checks the rest of the session.
-1 die to Culture for the rest of the session.

Celestiah has true love pulled away from her, but she realizes that all of the memories in the place are connected and are powering the crystaline heart.

Max gets emotional whiplash — he must make a test when he speaks or he will say the opposite of what he means to.

We go down into the main temple and there is memorite in the walls, where we hear the echoes of memories stored in them.

At the bottom all of the stairs there are five crystaline hearts floating above five pedestals arranged in a circle. In the center there is another heart, which we think is the true one. The floor is in the shape of a mandala.

Celestiah pulls out her spyglass and sees that the one in the center is shining very brightly, so bright that she has to turn the lens away. The other five are connected to it by energy.

There are five pressure plates in the floor that we might need to

Max realizes that this is a music box, and the song is based on the journey through all of the rooms above.

We step on the stones on the floor and the heart is released. We grab it and head for home!