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Sun 29th Nov 2020 09:22

Leaving the Academy

by Shyrene Windheart

After nearly 4 months at the academy we set back out, heading in the direction of home. Midway through the first day barely into the trek, we heard the sounds of pitched battle to the southeast and made our way in that direction. As we approached a signal flare was launched, indicating the New Order needed aid, and so we continued through an increasingly blighted forest-scape.
 
We arrived on the scene and saw a new order soldier fighting a demon. As the battle progressed, more New Order troops appeared. We were informed we were fighting an Oinoloth, and that they soldiers had killed it several times now but it kept coming back. There were sigils carved in the rocks and seemed to have summoned the demon here. Geode disrupted the circle, and it destroyed the demon.
 
So it was that we met Captain Aleister, and some of his 10. Eliko (paladin), Hielka (Monk), Kiara (Wizard) and stayed the night with them in their fancy portable fortress. In the night, the bog zombies we've seen before swarmed the area the fight had occured. That brought on a discussion around Yuan-ti and our previous encounter. By the end of the revelations this brought, most of the full 10 were assembled and a number of oddities surrounding the return of the Yuan-ti. The Captain asked us to scout out the northern temples to provide advance information for him.
 
We secured teleportation back to Salvation's Landing as they were grateful for our help in defeating the demon. Sgt. Phillipe asks us to stay for dinner and we're introduced to Mitandre Fleke, a dream druid. The druid requires our assistance in a discrete fashion in surveying the finger of land to the north of our base. He wishes to establish mushroom farms there, but we know that area to be the Sea Hags home. We're going to survey it and talk to the hag at least, as she may know things about the Yuan-ti. We also learned that Mitandre had surveyed and claimed all the land between Salvation's Landing and the Hall.
 
On our way back to the Hall, we came across an excavation for a ship from the original expedition. We explored the ship and found the final logs... they were troubling.