Hi everyone, my friend found a bunch of prep work someone had left behind on an Amtrak train to Chicago from Champaign this weekend. He doesn't use reddit so he wanted me to post to hopefully find the poor DM who lost their stuff!
What was Found: a barely-used large sketchbook with some monster sketches, and a neon green case with character sheets, etc.
When he summons those totems in phase two they are NOT for decoration! Destroying 2 adjacent totems creates a safe zone for his phase 2 ritual. You have to engage the boss mechanics people!
I just lost 500 points and fell out of depth 4 because our scholar didn't know this fight's mechanics. Please know how the fights work ESPECIALLY if you are playing on higher depths!!
ETA: for people saying 'break them yourself', that's what I always do anyway. But it's useless if the other two have no idea to stand in the safe zone, which was the case here.