Session 24

Heroes: Meghera, Serghor, Vaako

The survivors leave the Feeding Pit, and travel north to Garond's nest. On the way, they meet Hoacher the Foul, a bladeling criminal that had been sold by the Mercykillers to the hunting packs to "spice up" their hunt. The fiend temporarily allies with the Heroes, hoping to find its way out of Carceri.

When they reach Garond's nest, they have to deal with Garond's mate, a vicious githyanki named Venia. After a violent start, the Heroes manage to talk their way out of trouble, and escape Venia's clutches. Hoacher is not that lucky, and remains prisoner of the green-furred hunters. Alas, Garond was not in the den, and the Heroes make their way back to Starkad with troubled minds.

Their dreams are also troubled, as they keep receiving visions of a cat-woman tormented by acid-covered fiends. Believing this must be the dream-hunter they need to travel through the nightmare-infested Beastlands, the Heroes travel south to the gereleth's lair.

There they face a few farastu fiends, and eventually find the dream-hunter, a tabaxi female named Meuronna. They also free another prisoner, the githzerai scoundrel Jerune. A third prisoner is in the same cave, but he's dead: the Heroes identify the corpse as Blander Mul, the Mercykiller paladin who was investigating the inmates' disappearances back in Sigil.

Meuronna

Inside the farastu cave, the Heroes find the portal that Garond's men had been using to travel to the Beastlands. When they cross over, they find themselves in Krigala, a few days travel from Signpost. Meuronna takes the opportunity to tell her tale to the Heroes.

She was helping the Sign of One faction with an experiment on the Beastlands - the dreamlink. A cutter they called the One wanted to reach the primal essence of the plane through dreams. But the tiefling hunter Garond came out of nowhere, using a spell to make her create an evil dreamscape and trap the One in it. Then she was thrown through a gate to Carceri, and captured by the farastus.

She now needs to find the One in Dreamheart, in order to enter the evil dreamscape (or send someone into it) and try to stop the dreams. The company travels to Signpost, and on their way they meet a group of Wylders, members of the Verdant Guild. Prying for information, they learn that Signpost has been abandoned, due to the madness spreading in town. They suggest they seek the centaur community of Skerrit's Glade, where Sarazh (the Signer high-up in charge of Signpost) has taken refuge.

Catlord

When the Heroes camp after a long day of travel, Meuronna protects them from the nightmares... but still they receive a dream! A female feline creature spurs them to seek her, as she's tired of being blamed for the dark dreams affecting the Beastlands and Sigil. The Cat Lord herself has come to their dreams, inviting them to her realm.