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Ithivellia 04 - Twiceborn
🕑 Added 2023-04-17 13:48:15 +0000 UTCSeek answers, seek the lab
Welcome back to Ithivellia, all! Our latest release is a doozy, with tons of music, a whole dungeon to explore, and some shocking revelations regarding the central mystery of the enchanted glade. Let's dive in!
Borough Guide
This document expands upon the strange creatures emerging from Ithivellia's mycelia. The psigarics are psychic little weirdos, and every adventuring party is going to want to befriend them, alien though they may be. Most of this guide, however, is dedicated to the archfae Uvis Twiceborn and his mysterious laboratory. If your players can fight and puzzle their way through the magic research complex, they may just uncover a huge hint about what the hell happened to Ithivellia.
If you're itching to run Ithivellia adventures ASAP, this document gives you enough information about the core quest to get started today.
Maps
Uvis's Lab is the epicenter of the mycelial outburst in Ithivellia, and that's immediately apparent from a glance. Black tendrils emerge from the lab to sap the ambient magical aura from the enchanted glade. As with all of our Ithivellia maps, this comes with variants for each of the four seasons, plus a misty variant. Note that this map slots in directly beneath map 1. Ithivellia is a 3x2 grid of maps.
This is one of the coolest interior maps we've ever released: a three-story dungeon with plenty of great spaces for combat encounters, some light puzzling, and epic plot twists. The interior maps for Uvis's Lab are only available for patrons at the Chief Courier tier and up.
Music
Instead of doing one track and one variant, this week Will tackled 5 tracks, one of which is a variant of a tune from Muc-Mhara.
- Manifesting - A spacey ambient track to put on during discussions with the psigarics
- Hadal (Twiceborn) - Crunchy music useful for light skirmishes or dangerous exploration
- Thus Far Into Forever - Haunting and beautiful music for calm, romantic moments
- Tulg Reemith - Badass fae combat music
- Uvis's Lab - Spooky dungeoneering music
Those last 2 tracks are only available for patrons at the Chief Courier tier and up. Hopefully this batch of music will help you to GM all of the different flavors of adventures you might have in this corner of Ithivellia.
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Get this week's files below!
Delivery Kid
Ithivellia 04 - Twiceborn - Delivery Kid Rewards
General Messenger
Ithivellia 04 - Twiceborn - General Messenger Rewards
Chief Courier
Ithivellia 04 - Twiceborn - Chief Courier Rewards
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This week's map variations:
Comments
Borough Bound
Great question! 5e is *weirdly bad* about offering high-ish level fey statblocks. Shockingly few options. Luckily, you can easily tweak an existing statblock so that it has that unseelie vibe. The exact answer will definitely depend upon what level your players are, but a good place to start might be the Fomorian. Just say he's Medium or Large, reskin the greatclub as a quarterstaff, and give him a few fey features (resistance to being charged, can't be put to sleep, maybe poison resistance). Using "Evil Eye" on a golem doesn't deal damage but instead charms them. Also, you can say that he would normally be able teleport but is blocked from doing so cause of the fungus. Honestly, you can follow those rough tweaks for a lot of humanoid statblocks. I quite like the free supplement "Outclassed" by William Rotor which gives a huge range of alternate NPC statblocks. Take any of those that feels right for Tulg Reemith (Eldritch Knight? Zealot? Kensei? Horizon Walker?), give it a quarterstaff and the ability to charm golems, and then you're done!
Mirunin
I'm currently running the setting in 5th edition and im not sure what stat sheets to go with for when Tulg Reemith fights them, his bit seemed rather brief despite being a combat encounter, any advice or specifics would be greatly appreciated.
Borough Bound
Hey, yep, the gif above shows previews of the three floors of the lab. If you can't see the gif, you might need to wait a second for it to load (it's ~25 MB).
Zach Reuter
I'm considering upgrading to chief courier, could we see a snapshot of what to expect for the interior of the lab?
