Hi,
Wow, your going after a Tear of Life?
I wonder where THAT could be? Popular Ruins you say???
Further, our "visions" adventure finished...
The visions were caused by a powerful mage (narsi) trapped inside a Cyrstal Skull and kept alive by it. He was trapped in a magical area to prevent escape, that was effectively under the devastation area and thus bypassede by it (or the artifact made its RR and thus survived, keeping the Mage trapped....)
Nevertheless the mage, after several hundred, maybe thousands of years, went completely insane...
Due to several other areas, the artifact, and a confluence of areas, the Visions were HIS memories - basically what he remembered of the area. The people walking the area were the people missing from the city of Belynar that we were sent to investigate (sort of... it gets REALLY complicated at this point)....
Apparently my harper was supposed to touch the skull, being the least magical (yeah I know) and stupidist (yeah, again, I know), and the least likely to survive (yeah, I know......)....
But the Paladin, used Long eyes and went through the areas and managed to get into the area with the trappe dinsane mage and the artifact. The long eyes 'touched' the skull and a RR will ensued and failed, resulting in the paladin going into the same area, and physically touching the skull, and fragments of memories of the narsi mage being absorbed by the paladin when his Skull was "replaced" by the crystal skull...
And, yes the result was painful and explosive but he apparently survived and is now effectively immortal....(permenant Lifekeeping in the skull, although you still have to heal any damage taken - and DOMNT get eaten by anything huge you might remember it!).
After the skull was absorbed, we sorted out the adventures end. The GM had four different stroylines and events all occurring at once and partially criss-crossing, which made for a good and very interesting adventure!
Now I am GM and I am leading our group to those self same Ruins.... But they have to survive getting BACK into Sefnar first! (LOL!)