11 of Auril – After restoring travis, the party made its way to red larch to investigate the abnormal events described by Martha the Firbolg Druid in Nari Lana. There, the party met a local woman, named Callessa. She asked them to find her red-haired brother Tarinn, who apparently got caught up in some strange business near the feathergale tower. Many in the town suspect cults are involved and they are stealing citizens for nefarious use.
12 of Auril – The party arrives at the feathergale tower and discovers that the local “knights” are not so knightly, but rather disguised oily bird creatures using illusory magic. The party does battle with them, takes over the tower and finds the actual feathergale knights have been killed and stashed away. The tower has been re-dedicated to some kind of primordial known as Yan-C-Bin.
13 of Auril – The party finds the feathergale cultists were investigating an ancient ruin named Tyer-Besil. The party decides to investigate and delves for hundreds of feet down, eventually coming upon the entrance to an ancient dwarven city. There, at the entrance, they meet a kenku child named Lily. She, in her own strange way of communicating, asks the party for help freeing her mom (Gili), Sister (Taure), and Father (Moroko) from the cultists that have enslaved them. The party did battle with a flying wyvern creature, its riders, and some kind of underwater golem.
14 of Auril – The party discovers that the dwarven city is being occupied by cultists. The leader of the air cult, named Aerisi, has set her self up as some kind of high priestess. The party explores the area and ascends to the top of a pyramid where they fought Aerisi, the high priestess of the howling hatred. Travis unwittingly kills Callessa’s brother Tarinn. The party also met Faesys – a green-haired firbolg who is a childhood friend of Tilia. Faesys was always “not very bright” and proves to be throughly indoctrinated. The party also met Ayatayir, an Air Genie appears to be bound to the service of any who wield his horn (currently Aerisi). He offers to help the party in exchange for their promise to set him free. Some in the party agree.
15 of Auril – The party dove deeper into the dwarven ruins, traveling through a worm into “the nexus.” There they fought harpies and several minotaurs before retreating up a winding staircase that ascends next to a obsidian monolith back into ancient dwarven ruins. Their, the party finds another cult devoted to an earthen entity. The party, wearing air cultist robes, quickly gets itself into trouble with the local denizen cultists. The party finds a woman being tortured by cultists (Erionne). Shortly afterwards, they fail to deceive the cultists and end up fighting their leader Marlos. As the party runs from Marlos, a medusa, they do some significant damage before Marlos inadvertently sees her own reflection in the obsidian monolith.
16 of Auril – The party awakes in Marlos’ chamber to the clamber of an earthquake and retreating forces (headed deeper into the earthen elemental node). The party unpetrifies, Jared the “sex worker” – an equisite, but horrified elven man. Apparently Jared works for the clasp (or is connected to them in some way). He was forced to serve Marlos. She had a fond habbit of unpetrifying him, then using him, and re-petrifying him. The last time she used him, he was almost killed. Apparently he is working to save his two daughters Vulwin and Ailluin. He gave the party a key phrase “Reality is nothing but an illusion” – he asked the party if they would go and tell the barkeep at “the bung hole” tavern in Dranseri (the front for the apparent underground clasp facility teal attempted to gain access to).
The party also met and “talked” at length with Erione, the individual who was being tortured the day before. Erione is a halfling priestess of Erathis. Her tongue has been cut out to prevent her from spellcasting. She was sent by Hamon Pazeiros (High priest of Erathis temple) and Ivaran Farthyra (Militant law enforcement division of Erathis) on a divine vision to investigate this area. The vision spoke of a fissure opening up across dranseri and consuming the continent in chaos. Pouring forth from the fissure was raw chaos that caused the governments to fall and the land to fall into a time of death and destruction. Erione was here with others of her temple, but the others were killed by Marlos.
The party also “unpetrified” the statue of Aliisza. She is alluring and desirable and claims to have watched the party. She seems to have a scaly, serpentine form to her and ultimately provides the party with a scale, should they need her help. She doesn’t believe in contracts – but does like helping one another.
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