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Mon 25th Jan 2021 01:38

What Do We Do Now? Marjorie?

by Shyrene Windheart

We were returned to the Outpost tired and bedraggled and collapsed into our beds. We woke the next morning unsure of our immediate next steps. We decided to try and gain more insight from the memory crystals we had stockpiled, while Himo went to find out more about the attack on the sea-elf ship. The ship was attacked by a beast of the deep under someone's control. The sea elves commoners have been pulled back from the kelp farms, with only patrols remaining.
 
The memory crystals were largely last moments with family and loved ones, some more explicit than others. Towards the afternoon we see one from the perspective of a 8 year old girl who returned to the burial grounds heavily wounded. She tells a story of having escaped the Yuan Ti slave pens. She worked for a Yuan Ti Abomination who was creating the white crystal skull which grants power over life and death. It extends its power over the corpse lights, the bowls with the coloured flames, to control more. There was a green and black artifact created by other factions and the three factions fought against each other. The combination of these three artifacts would open the starfolk portal. Something in the three artifacts repel each other.
 
The white skull faction seems to be the faction in this area, and Mar Jurre (Auntie Majorie) was aiding them in the introductions to the Snake Tribe. The girl escaped because another faction attacked the white faction and she used it as her moment to escape.
 
We set out the next day and began surveying our way up the coast. We found a wild colony of Apians, were attacked by some flying kobolds and found an ancient abandoned Aarakocra settlement. Then we met Carfaelor, a high elf who had a free-roaming individualistic person who was a font of information with respect to info on the surrounding lands and the hag.
 
After the chat with Carfaelor, we made our way quickly to the bay and out to the island, as surveying the area seemed of less import given the terrain. While on the island we saw a kraken emerge from a cave and head out to sea. Geode made a sending to the hag and we were told to wait, so we did. For 3 days we waited, Tom and I surveyed the island. and at midnight a skeletal swan ship set out from the briar patch of the hag and a darkling delivered a hags potion that would take us to her lair. After a brief discussion, we all down the potions and were painfully teleported to cages in her cottage as koalas.