Entrada
After the Day of Lost Heroes, we teleported to The Bastion where they are working on how to counter the elemental threat, while trying to also improve the army's morale.
Preparation
- Roshani Folkor gives the scholars notes on spells, Tahn'tok, and the Dimension Door construct remains
- Crephi Ritsworks with the disinformation campaign to improve morale
- Nocana meets with King Djodian to exchange information
- the Elemental Force has thought detecting spells
- infiltration attempts so far have failed
- the Elemental Constructs first appeared last autumn, but they weren't any worse than a t-rex or pteridactal
- the threats then grew more chaotic and overwhelmed them
Operation Hot Kraken
They decide to send several parties into The Wilds, with most of the parties traveling through another plane in order to bypass whatever is preventing scouts from getting back.
- Lumis Boneforge and King Djodian will use the cloud castle to go over the mountains directly and to draw the attention from the other infiltrators
- We will go through The Deep Ethereal
- Go'Kan will travel through The Fey Wilds.
- The five half orcs we teleported with will travel through The Shadowfell
- Petra and her party will travel underground with the help of a Stone Giant.
Roshani Folkor leaves a sending box with Aston and takes the paired candle with her so that she can send any findings over.
Traveling through the ethereal realm (1)
We then accidentally "summon" a ghost ship named Silverthorn and negotiated an uneasy alliance for the captain to guide us.
After spending a day on the ship, we encountered the Spirit of Amestown, which frightened off the ghost ship. Crephi Ritsk learned that the spirit of the city is her patron, not just the king. We convince the city to take us to Titan's Grave in the Wildcrest Mountains.
Giant Ritual at Titan's Grave (2)
We exit The Deep Ethereal near the Titan's Grave where there are a group of giants performing a ritual in an attempt to summon the dead Titan Vys.
As we continue on our way, we sense the completion of the ritual behind us.
Traveling through the wilds (3)
We spent several days trekking across The Wilds, through forests, shattered plains, wetlands, and alongside a huge lake. We see a number of giant beasts, and generally are able to avoid them. We did get attacked by a giant crocodile which was a bit rough, but more painful was a giant nullifying centipede who rudely tossed us out of our sleeping chamber into a swamp.
Partway through we explored an underground tunnel and met up with the Quintessence in a peaceful grotto beneath the river. They were pleased with our conduct through The Wilds and performed a Coven Ritual to grant us shared abilities.
They tell us that the Elemental Construct have a group of enslaved giants in a nearby encampment and that they will be leaving shortly to join up with a force to attack the encampment and free the giants.
They also describe a labyrinthine fortress that the elementals have been forcing the giants to construct to the west. This fortress started in the mountains to the southwest and has expanded northward. The encampment is about 2 days away, and the fortress is another day or two beyond that.