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Moonlit Hearth Tea Menu

Only one potent tea per guest between long rests. Effects last 1 hour unless noted. Teas don’t stack with themselves.

  • Moon’s Rest – velvety lavender & oat.
    You feel safely held. (Gain 5 temp HP and advantage on one Save vs. fear taken during the duration.)
  • Spring’s Breath – mint, willow-bark, dew gathered at dawn.
    Your lungs feel like open windows. (End the poisoned condition or gain advantage on Con saves vs. disease/poison for the duration.)
  • Dewlight Focus – rosemary, star-anise, lemon peel.
    Thoughts align like beads on a string. (You have advantage on your next Concentration save; if unused within 1 hour, the boon fades.)
  • Greenwood Step – nettle, young birch, a whisper of wild honey.
    Your feet remember deer paths. (+5 ft. speed and advantage on Stealth checks in natural terrain.)
  • Petal Pact – rosehip, apple blossom.
    Your words soften edges. (Advantage on one Charisma (Persuasion) check made during a single conversation.)
  • Ward of the Hearth – smoked chamomile, white sage.
    The room seems to lean in your favor. (Before the duration ends, you may add +1d4 to one saving throw or ability check.)
  • Starfall Memory – blue cornflower, elderflower.
    Old knowledge falls into place. (Advantage on one Arcana, History, or Religion check; if reading text, gain Comprehend Languages (written only) for 10 minutes.)
  • Silver Augury (ceremonial, 10 minutes) – moonwater, verbena, silent stir.
    The surface shows a pattern like spilled stars. (Once, within the next hour, ask Seraphina a yes/no about a course of action within 30 minutes; she performs a gentle Augury-style reading.)

Pricing guide: Common brews 3–5 gp; stronger effects 15–50 gp; Silver Augury 75 gp (or a favor sealed with a Moon Token).

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Tempus Session 47

🗺 Scenes Overview

🔑 Secrets & Clues

  • Hollow threshold powered by the royal artifact Skreek has been searching for.

Cold Open

The last thing you feel is the Winter Court’s forest—needles and frost underfoot, air so cold it makes your lungs sting, the hush of snow-dampened sound.

You’re standing just inside the shimmering portal or the Hollow Threshold, the outline of the winter woods still visible behind you. Cold air spills through the opening at your back, but it’s already losing the fight. In front of you, the air is heavy with pressure and primal energy, roaring with wind that doesn’t blow past you so much as reach for you, tugging at cloaks and straps like impatient hands.

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Campaign Summary - Post Chained Library

What began as a simple rescue became a fight for reality itself.

When four unlikely heroes met in a quiet village tavern, they could not have known that answering a blacksmith’s desperate plea would set them on a path to save the world. Tracking kidnappers into an ancient tomb, they stumbled upon something far more sinister—a dark ritual conducted by the Cult of the Eclipse, servants of a mysterious Lady promising that “darkness will descend once again.”

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Tempus Session 46

🗺 Scenes Overview

🔑 Secrets & Clues

🗡 Monster Stat Blocks

Stone Golem (CR 10)

AC/DC 18 | HP 220 (115-325) | Atk/Prof +10/+4 | DPR 48 | # Atks 2 | Dmg 24 (2d8+6 bludgeoning + 2d8 force)

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Tempus Session 45

🎭 Strong Start

🗺 Scenes Overview

🔑 Secrets & Clues

  • Skreek’s royal egg is being used as a Hollow Threshold anchor for a plane of air themed threshold.
  • The Ashen Shrine is a location where the Chained Library can be accessed - north side of Mount Vesithar

NPCs

Samaris

Samaris, an ancient tiefling with long black horns, is the oldest of the librarians. She despises every book in the library and dreams nightly about setting fire to the entire collection for the good of the world. Samaris mistrusts anyone who asks to read one of the books and sends agents of the library to shadow visitors after they leave, waiting for those guests to prove their corruption so she can order their assassination.

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