The Tuesday Game

Date April 25th 2017

Character Level: 12th

Summary

After retreating from the Scaled Cliffs as they tumbled into the ocean below, the party traveled back to their town to consider their next steps. They spoke with the old wizard teacher about potential ways to survive in different elemental sitatuons. Rorgak decided to go through the portal to speak with the wizards at the college they had saved half a year ago.

When he walks through the portal that connects their town and the city-state of Zekarna, he smells evil and sees that the city is burning. Calling his friends to his aid, he rushes into the fray. The party make their way to a town square where most of the fighting seems to be happening. They see the Daragoulian man who had threatened Illistair there along with a dozen knights, all doing their best to fend off demons who are appearing through portals that show up at random every few minutes. Illistair magically binds the Daragoulian man and one of the stronger demons takes this opportunity to teleport him hundreds of feet in the air. The man survives the fall and Illistair demands that he be the one to finish him off. The demon acquiesces. Illistair is able talk the demons out of their attacking and they transform into human forms and disappear off into the city to go "do business". The Daragoulian man is stripped of all useful things. Illistair finds his severed tail from his childhood and a horn that looks suspiciously like his own.

They inform the mayor that the demons won't be conducting an all out assault on the city anymore, but they haven't left either. From there, they look into how to survive on different planes of existence and find that they are able to protect themselves from fire with a ritual requiring a lot of strange and hard to find items. They gather some potions of water breathing and set off for Jid, the Halfling desert, in order to find someone who knows more about earth manipulation. On the way there, Umi and Illistair portal back to town to continue working on their various projects. Umi keeps having strange flashes of memories that are definitively not his and eventually he is able to separate them from his own enough to gather some information from them.

He sees a strange forest and an orange sky above it. The sky suddenly turns pitch black and he begins fleeing through the woods. Along the way, he sees an Arkxa hunting with a strange firearm. When this Arkxa sees him running, it looks to the sky and begins fleeing as well. As the vision ends, he realizes that he can reach out mentally and form a telepathic one way link with the other party members, but chooses to remain silent for now.

The party arrives in Jid and heads to the only major city in the land, Kirala. It is a city carved into the base of a mountain. The arrive and notice that many of the outer houses are empty and that only the inner area near the mountain itself seems to be inhabited. They are greeted by a swarm of excited and curious halflings. One of them pipes up and takes charge, welcoming them to Jid and asking them for what they've come. They say they're seeking a man from Rorgak's past named Ijij. This halflings knows who that is and send a magical message out to Ijij. The party goes to a bar to wait for Ijij. When he arrives, they speak for a while and eventually convince Ijij to help them when the journey to the plane of earth. Nimble wanders out to the bazaar and begins shopping around. He finds a vendor selling something that helps people breathe in sandstorms and barters some of his cold arrows and a pile of other assorted things for enough of the stuff to give the entire party several hours of protection.

Notes

• Umi gets a vision of a strange place
  • The vision contains a glimpse of an Arkxa
• Umi can connect mentally with the party members, although they cannot speak back
• Nir's severed forearm has turned entirely into crystal

• Illistair slays an old foe and recovers his severed tail and a horn that looks suspiciously like one of his

• The party learns how to survive in the planes of fire, water, and earth