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Sun 9th May 2021 08:32

The Next Steps - More Exploration

by Shyrene Windheart

We set out in our new flying machine. It was odd to travel that way, but we covered great distances in very short time frames. Tom spotted a slightly unnatural tunneled entrance in the swamp that we stopped to investigate. Geode used a new spell and was able to determine it was a dragon lair (Adult Black, possibly Ancient) so we skedaddled.
 
We landed for the night at the Two Shells lizardfolk village on the shores of a large lake. In the morning, we were impacted by odd magic surges and were directed to the villages' medicine woman, who said our humours were out of alignment and gave us a potions to take to fix it. Then we set out in the dragonfly in boat mode to look at an abandoned ruins across the lake. We took our potions and rested and set off in the morning into the ruins and were ambushed by hydras!
 
After dispatching the hydras, we searched the rest of the ruins and found an odd pool of black liquid. Umlilo tried to identify it, but was teleported way up into the air. After that, Himo threw a branch into the liquid and a huge, dead willow sprouted into being and a astral figure of a minotaur appeared.
 
He was a king in ancient times who spoke with us and Himo took the lead. He did a puzzle and then spoke at length about the past and Yuan Ti. He was impressed by Himo's view point and revealed to us the chest that had been hidden in the liquid. We found several useful items in the chest, and another set of chain mail.
 
We forgot about the dragon lair apparently after taking the potion.