Teleporting rat / hidden-path guide
Guides the party from the paid three-star tour into the hidden master path.
Status: Hidden route source preserved
Knowledge: Players know Heathcliff is key to reaching the deeper route.
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Heathcliff
Heathcliff
AliveAnimal Companion <species>Teleportation
Bio
Heathcliff is a teleporting giant rat from the hidden master path beneath Aleklot’s Rest. Easily frightened but strangely useful, he teleports with whoever he treats as his current master.
Notes
Act 5: Ash used the Rat King Crown to speak with Heathcliff, who warned that people died on the legendary path. Heathcliff panicked around Ash and repeatedly teleported with Morgan, eventually revealing the concealed vertical drop where his former master, a woman in black robes, had died after teleporting into the hidden passage.
Session Appearances
4 linked appearances
Dragon-breath rat / combat asset
Is empowered by Morgan with dragon breath during the ambush.
Status: Heathcliff becomes active combat participant
Knowledge: Players know the teleporting rat can also be magically weaponized.
Teleporting rat / dead master survivor
Panics around Ash and repeatedly teleports with Morgan, eventually landing near a concealed vertical drop beside the skeleton of a woman in black robes, likely his former master.
Status: Heathcliff's teleport ability and tragic backstory revealed
Knowledge: Players know Heathcliff is more than a normal rat and has lost someone in the hidden route.
Giant rat informant / teleporting survivor
Tells Ash people died along a legendary path, leading the party toward a hidden, more dangerous route.
Status: Heathcliff becomes guide to true hidden path
Knowledge: Players know the rat is unusually informed and important.
Related Story Posts
Session Log / Meta / Aleklot's Rest arrival / Session continuity
Act 5 Episode 2 Session Notes
2025-12-04 / Session continuity
Recap StoryCurrent CampaignRecorded 2025-12-04 / approx. 2099 M.B.
This session resolves Ragefort nonlethally, adds Thunderlungs as a rescued passenger, reaches Aleklot’s Rest, introduces Al Ivers and the counterfeit-scroll discount errand, and ends with the party paying for a three-star dungeon crawl through the Aleklotson Inn.
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Act 5, Episode 2, Scene 21
The Rat Knows the Legendary Path
2025-12-11 / Dungeon entrance cave / storage side
Recap StoryCurrent Campaign2100 M.B. / recorded 2025-12-11
Ash uses the Rat King Crown to speak with a giant rat, and Maine alters Herman's memory so the party can take the master path with full loot rights.
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Act 5, Episode 2, Scene 22
Heathcliff Teleports When Scared
2025-12-11 / Dungeon entrance cave / concealed drop
Recap StoryCurrent Campaign2100 M.B. / recorded 2025-12-11
Heathcliff panics and teleports with Morgan to a concealed vertical drop, where the skeleton of his likely former master waits below.
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Act 5, Episode 2, Scene 24
Dragon Breath for Heathcliff
2025-12-11 / Lower hidden passage
Recap StoryCurrent Campaign2100 M.B. / recorded 2025-12-11
Herman is engulfed by an ochre jelly, maw demons appear, and Morgan empowers Heathcliff with dragon breath during the first hidden-route fight.
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Session Log / Meta / Aleklot's Rest master path / Session continuity
Act 5 Episode 2 Session Notes
2025-12-11 / Session continuity
Recap StoryCurrent CampaignRecorded 2025-12-11 / approx. 2099 M.B.
This session moves the party from the paid three-star tour into the hidden master path through rat guidance and Maine’s memory alteration. The route reveals older loot, a teleporting rat named Heathcliff, Jeremiah Shadowplay’s Aboleth/void connection, dragon-grafted humanoids, and a living young black dragon.
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Session Log / Meta / Aleklot's Rest resolution / Session continuity
Act 5 Episode 2 Session Notes
2025-12-19 / Session continuity
Recap StoryCurrent CampaignRecorded 2025-12-19 / approx. 2099 M.B.
This session resolves the Aleklot’s Rest master path: the party survives two phases of dragon combat, Herman Winger dies, Jeremiah revivifies Morgan, Oskar and Jeremiah vanish through a void path, Ash is blocked by a mind-flayer-like figure, Ash kills the young green dragon, and Victor Shaw’s time-cache rewards the group.
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Act 5 Episode 2 Session Notes
This session resolves Ragefort nonlethally, adds Thunderlungs as a rescued passenger, reaches Aleklot’s Rest, introduces Al Ivers and the counterfeit-scroll discount errand, and ends with the party paying for a three-star dungeon crawl through the Aleklotson Inn.
storyAct 5, Episode 2, Scene 21: The Rat Knows the Legendary Path
Ash uses the Rat King Crown to speak with a giant rat, and Maine alters Herman's memory so the party can take the master path with full loot rights.
storyAct 5, Episode 2, Scene 22: Heathcliff Teleports When Scared
Heathcliff panics and teleports with Morgan to a concealed vertical drop, where the skeleton of his likely former master waits below.
storyAct 5, Episode 2, Scene 24: Dragon Breath for Heathcliff
Herman is engulfed by an ochre jelly, maw demons appear, and Morgan empowers Heathcliff with dragon breath during the first hidden-route fight.
storyAct 5 Episode 2 Session Notes
This session moves the party from the paid three-star tour into the hidden master path through rat guidance and Maine’s memory alteration. The route reveals older loot, a teleporting rat named Heathcliff, Jeremiah Shadowplay’s Aboleth/void connection, dragon-grafted humanoids, and a living young black dragon.
storyAct 5 Episode 2 Session Notes
This session resolves the Aleklot’s Rest master path: the party survives two phases of dragon combat, Herman Winger dies, Jeremiah revivifies Morgan, Oskar and Jeremiah vanish through a void path, Ash is blocked by a mind-flayer-like figure, Ash kills the young green dragon, and Victor Shaw’s time-cache rewards the group.
storyAct 5 Episode 2 Session Notes
This session resolves the Aleklot’s Rest aftermath: the party handles Lawful loot declaration, hides the Ring of Absorption, learns more about Ash’s true tentacle-arm manipulators, buys a discounted Scrying scroll and caravan fuel from Al Ivers, finds an Aerobud near Bearfell, and returns to VQU for QUEST intake.
aspectTeleportation
Teleportation is an imported aspect from the Jericha Aspect Data sheet. Its full lore and named powers can be expanded here as the canon text is added.
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