Justin's Game Notes: DnD Monday #51(268) played 2019 02 04

INTRODUCTION

When last we left Team Food for Worms, Spiders & Mummies

They'd managed to get captured by a ghoulish alliance of

Giant Spider Constructs called "Retrievers"

(I wonder why they're called that)

And a gathering of hostile Mummies who seem positively hell-bent

on "convincing" the party join them in their bandage laden undead lifestyle

Let's rejoin the team, shall we, and see how that's coming along?

We revisit the fact that Andrea is "mostly dead", but not quite.
We tease E'ssl about becoming a Mummy
We experience a sudden total darkness, broken by a sudden light. We are suspended in darkness and find ourselves in a meeting with "the Triad".

Instantly transported to a gathering with the Triad (Tyr, Torm, Bohamut and Ilmater)

The universe, this universe, is in dire trouble
A powerful dracolich has harnessed a rare magic with the ability to chain together a kind of extended gate spell, enabling him to draw beings from multiple worlds to a single location on one world ... this world.
He's moving undead from hundreds of worlds to Toril
He's been working on this plan for centuries, partly under the cover of the Toril based Cult of the Dragon, allowing the world to think the cult had been taken over by the followers of Tiamat seeking her return, while actually going deep underground to continue its work behind the scenes to bring the reign of life to an end, replacing it everywhere with undeath, all lead by a society of undead dragons.
However, the chained gate magic has a weakness; their power is so great that, in sufficient numbers, their combined effect can literally tear the universe apart.
The dracolich has learned of this weakness and slowed his advances by reducing the number of attack gates he keeps open at any one time - now only one city at a time is assaulted, not several (was 6 or 7?)

This delay gives you the chance to get ahead of the invasion and hopefully find a way to stop it entirely before undeath does indeed spread over all Toril, as it has on several weaker, more primitive worlds.
The Triad will make help available to you as required in your times of greatest need.

The party has questions for the Triad:

You're not the strongest, but you've managed to get yourselves into the best position from which to effect change

We don't know as the nature of this new magic is yet unrevealed. You'll have to figure that out.

We'll drop you into the spot on Toril of your choice when our meeting is concluded
You MIGHT want to spend some time getting that revivitor artifact back. It's kind of key in helping you fight the armies of undead against which you'll be pitted.