June 7th, 2025
Vita, Custodia 26th, 1194 (Continued)
There is an unveiling sensation in here and Graynor’s holy symbols feel warmer. Ishtar and Ralzer go skyward to get a better view of our area. They see a couple of black bark, huge creatures that are tree-shaped with skeletal looking arms and glowing runes on the,. They could be enigmatic arbors (resist fire, make people sick by being near them). Sigmund uses a spell to communicate with them. They’re not aggressive and would like us to remove the “ink”, as they refer to the outer planes encroachment; a stain on the land. It gives us a direction to a settlement.
We head in that direction. During travel, we see several dead fey. The causes of death range from constitution drain, to combat damage, to implosion. Eventually we find the remains of a tower.
A nearby cave looks to have been recently occupied within the last few weeks and an ominous hole in the ground goes very deep; we leave it alone.
The tower is in poor condition. Within the tower is a gaunt woman with ink-stained robes. She goes by the Thornveil. She is not surprised at our presence and knows that we are not from here.
She asks if our shadows have spoken to us yet. We tell her of our mission and she knows where a cyst is located and says that we must take care not to step where the mushrooms weep. A fey of great power, Virhilyth, resides there and is likely corrupted and he is attracting others to him.
She is familiar with the Sword of Dawning Light and tells Graynor, “The blade remembers you, even if you don’t remember it”. The warming feeling that Graynor is experiencing is the blade calling for him, as a member of Madri’s faith.
There is a larger settlement nearby that has been destroyed, and we get directions to it.
The creatures she describes as killing fey around here are the Kaajh’gor, and the pink horrors and archer Kaajh’gor that we fought in Halzer’s lab.
We send a sending to Caelia’s group about our next bearing to catch up.
On the way to the cyst, we are ambushed by several arcane tentacles. There are two new varieties that we haven’t yet encountered; a huge transparent one with red veins and two smaller tentacles, and a large one with four smaller tentacles. Ishtar can see a red aura, like the extra one on Ralzer, on each tentacle. We kill them and continue out travel.
During travel, we get a sending from Caelia asking where are are and that they’ve been waiting at the Rendezvous point for hours, which doesn’t match up at all with the current time.
Sigmund will cast find the path to get us to our destination.