We begin this week’s session awakened, as our characters are ejected from the rope trick for unknown reason. Around us the terrain is full of crystals trees and fauna, we see the ground is moving and rotating in large (20’ – 40’) whirlpool-like areas. This region is well lit in the area of the ways. We have not had a full night’s rest.
Some of us are cut by tiny flying crystals that fly in the planar currents. This region borders limbo and somehow Aevum is able to discern that in the
movement of the ways and the adjacent planes caused our expulsion from the rope
trick.
Aevum spots the probable location of the rope trick about
100’ away. Arcanthorth casts levitate on Kron while the rest fly or ride campus
back to the rope trick.
The way was tense, Tena was almost pulled into a maelstrom.
We took some damage but made it back to the rope trick. Tena heals us including
a critically hurt Binki. Eabrossi also heals the small chimp even more.
We are able to finish our rest, we don’t know how much time
has passed but we feel completely rested. Time flow seems slowed in this area.
September 20th.
Before we leave the rope trick Tena casts Lucky Break. When
we exit upon the crystalline terrain we hear a beautiful music. On one of the crystalline
masses is a tall man playing a flute.
The piper notices Campus and announces, ‘friend or foe- I’m
not alone’. Incredibly beautiful man with pointed ears bids us closer.
Eabrossi returns the instrument play and the man bids us ‘come
closer to Kailius- I will teach you a song and provide food’
The area he is in is about a 30’ area in the midst of a constantly
moving canyon-like landscape where reality from adjacent nodes create a tidal
flow of material around us. In the distance there is a large draconic shape in
the sky.
Magic is deployed to get us closer to the area Kailius occupies.
He has a rapier on his hip and moves gracefully. He seems unbelieving of our
presence. He doesn’t know where he is and is confused. He described other
creatures we have fought and paranoia from most other travelers.
He is alone and does not know how he got here or how long he
has been here. He is from Elysium, one of the goodly planes.
Our characters invite him to travel with us as our path
seems to lead toward the dragon shape in the distance.
We travel on when our new companion realizes we are getting
closer to the dragon in the distance.
Along the way Kailius talks about encountering dwarves who regarded
him with sadness. “said I was from off the path.” We consult Arcanthorth who
looks pale and nervous, he simply says “I’m Eabrossi’s manservant.”
Strange thing to say.
In the distance the dragon shape dives into the ground, crystalline debris flies in all directions
Closer to us, crystalline worms burrow out of the ground- these creatures have a natural confusion effect. These are void worms.
Along the way Aevum is becoming more confident as our
characters traverse the Ways and his sure we are becoming nearer.
We come out at a high ridge above individuals trying to
avoid the dangerous fauna. The individuals medium sized, probably human half
are men wearing chainmail armor or better and the other half being women
wearing robes.
Our path will take us near them but they have not noticed
us. The men have sinister skull symbols on them.
Arcanthorth gives a subtle word of warning to Tena. We travel
down the slope and the 8 individuals notice us and react. Tena recognizes a
Summon monster 5 just as 2 rhinos charges.
As this happens a large dragon burst out of the ground. One
of the rhinos immediately disappears and half of the fighters attack each
other.
The dragon attacks the group and ends his movement near us.
The dragon is strange and riddled with void worms. Kron kills the havoc planar dragon.
This kill grants Stormbreaker a bane against dragons. Kron and Aevum each take
a horn and a tooth. Kron vows to add a jewel to his tattoo crown each time he defeats a dragon
Our characters turn our attention to the other group. In the
crystalline landscape we can see reflections of the group but we have lost
sight of them As they have fled.
Our characters travel onward until we come to a wall of darkness and a border in the ways. Concerning because there is a reality current flowing here as well. Aevum’s amulet activates, and an aperture opens in the darkness.
This next area still borders Elysium with some differences. We
all avoid the mythic slow, our first indicator of the mythic quality of this
area of the Ways.
We enter a chamber with faded murals of orc battles. The
walls are scarred in this chamber that echoes with various strange noises. This
location has been lost in the ways.
We are set upon by large horrific destrachan beasts with mouths for faces and orcish wrath priests and giant slayers in the distance. We defeat the destrachans and gain a mythic trial and emerge back at the solarium on the evening of September 18th at 9 pm. The second mythic trial comes from being in two places at once (mythic achievement).
2 comments:
The monsters were "destrachans , not distraction beasts
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Noted BC and changed. Thank you
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