Land Ho!
We learn that the dragon that made off with the stone at Kyuss' temple later became the powerful dracoliche Dragotha. Lashonna informed us that members of an ancient circle called the Order of the Storm disrupted Dragotha's attempts at ressurecting Kyuss and stole the liches phylactery. The phylactery has since been lost and the Order purged it from thought and history.
There may be one place where the knowledge yet remains, on a remote island where the Order kept a repository of all their knowledge. If the knowledge of the location of the phylactery is anywhere, it would be here. The island is engulfed by a terrible storm.
Lashonna admits that others have found out about the location of the island and casts a scrying spell to allow us a glimpse him. A man, Heskin, is strapped to the mast on a ship that is floundering on the enormous waves. We catch glimpses of the others on board; a pair of fiendish origin, probably tieflings, a massive fire giant, a kenku, and a being in blue robes who seems to possess the Hand of Vecna. He spots the scrying senson and he reaches out and touches Heskin on the forehead and Heskin spasms in pain before he perishes.
The scrying link broken we realize that we don't have much time. They are near the island and we cannot let them find the phylactery. We quickly devise some plans of cutting through the terrible storm as fast as possible. We decide on pacting some enormous water elementals to carry us beneath the stormy waves to the island.
Upon arrival on the storm bashed beaches we encounter the orcish sailors of the enemies boat. They have been stranded upon the island left to fend for themselves. We question them and promise to offer help in leaving the island for information on those they transported here.
We then proceed into the maze of rubble hoping to cut in front of the others.
We eventually find a huge obsidian stone with three sockets. Our warlock manages to coerce the magics to let us travel without possessing the keys. We find ourselves on a different island. This one much larger and populated with all sorts of wild animals.
We also find four beings stepping out of nearby trees. They introduce themselves as the guardians of this place and that they have four tasks for us to complete in order to gain access to the knowledge that resides on the island. The first of the tasks is to Retrieval of the Golden Belt of Krathanos. Then the trials of the Silence of the Doomshroud’s Mournful Song folowed by the Death of the Thorn Vale Nightmare amd the Harvest of the Living Feather of the Roc King. Then will we be able to access the repository of knowledge.
Ready to begin right away we decide to head off to the east and look for any signs of this Krathanos fellow. Windwalking across the sky we reach the eastern beach, so we swing to the south and travel near the coast. We spot a building with some large creatures flying above it. We land a ways from the building and proceed on foot.
Four huge displacer beast leap from the undergrowth and launch themselves at us, but their meal has turned against them. As we are wiping the grime from our armor several large gargoyles land near us and request that we follow them to their master. We proceed and are met by a massive titan named Krathanos. He is a follower of Kord and desired to rule over everything within his grasp, but the Order of the Storm inprisoned him here and obolished his ability to leave this plane. Unwilling to free what must be a dangerous being upon the world at large we decide to demand his belt and if he resists, to take it by him with force.
We learned the terrible might of an angry titan. Fortunately we were able to bring him down. The mouldering acid from eldritch blasts eating gaping holes in his flesh. As we are about to relax and investigate his lair more thoroughly we are reminded that we are not alone as up on the ridge above us perch the gargoyles armed with bows.
There may be one place where the knowledge yet remains, on a remote island where the Order kept a repository of all their knowledge. If the knowledge of the location of the phylactery is anywhere, it would be here. The island is engulfed by a terrible storm.
Lashonna admits that others have found out about the location of the island and casts a scrying spell to allow us a glimpse him. A man, Heskin, is strapped to the mast on a ship that is floundering on the enormous waves. We catch glimpses of the others on board; a pair of fiendish origin, probably tieflings, a massive fire giant, a kenku, and a being in blue robes who seems to possess the Hand of Vecna. He spots the scrying senson and he reaches out and touches Heskin on the forehead and Heskin spasms in pain before he perishes.
The scrying link broken we realize that we don't have much time. They are near the island and we cannot let them find the phylactery. We quickly devise some plans of cutting through the terrible storm as fast as possible. We decide on pacting some enormous water elementals to carry us beneath the stormy waves to the island.
Upon arrival on the storm bashed beaches we encounter the orcish sailors of the enemies boat. They have been stranded upon the island left to fend for themselves. We question them and promise to offer help in leaving the island for information on those they transported here.
We then proceed into the maze of rubble hoping to cut in front of the others.
We eventually find a huge obsidian stone with three sockets. Our warlock manages to coerce the magics to let us travel without possessing the keys. We find ourselves on a different island. This one much larger and populated with all sorts of wild animals.
We also find four beings stepping out of nearby trees. They introduce themselves as the guardians of this place and that they have four tasks for us to complete in order to gain access to the knowledge that resides on the island. The first of the tasks is to Retrieval of the Golden Belt of Krathanos. Then the trials of the Silence of the Doomshroud’s Mournful Song folowed by the Death of the Thorn Vale Nightmare amd the Harvest of the Living Feather of the Roc King. Then will we be able to access the repository of knowledge.
Ready to begin right away we decide to head off to the east and look for any signs of this Krathanos fellow. Windwalking across the sky we reach the eastern beach, so we swing to the south and travel near the coast. We spot a building with some large creatures flying above it. We land a ways from the building and proceed on foot.
Four huge displacer beast leap from the undergrowth and launch themselves at us, but their meal has turned against them. As we are wiping the grime from our armor several large gargoyles land near us and request that we follow them to their master. We proceed and are met by a massive titan named Krathanos. He is a follower of Kord and desired to rule over everything within his grasp, but the Order of the Storm inprisoned him here and obolished his ability to leave this plane. Unwilling to free what must be a dangerous being upon the world at large we decide to demand his belt and if he resists, to take it by him with force.
We learned the terrible might of an angry titan. Fortunately we were able to bring him down. The mouldering acid from eldritch blasts eating gaping holes in his flesh. As we are about to relax and investigate his lair more thoroughly we are reminded that we are not alone as up on the ridge above us perch the gargoyles armed with bows.
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