Soot's Journal: Returning to the Dragon's Boat

29th of Hammer, 1512 DR
 
After a nice long hibernation, I awake in the morning and head to the tavern with some guys for some breakfast and coffee. After some time, the girls came to join us at the tavern and we began to start discussing how we would spend the day.
 
Luna and Electra told us that they wanted to head back to the dragon's lair in order to retrieve her Psi Crystal that was taken by that dragon... I really did not think that this was a good idea, but sadly there was no convincing them from heading off in that direction, so I begrudgingly agreed and began discussing how we could proceed. We devised a plan to head back to the ship, and Luna and I would wild shape into small creatures in order to infiltrate the ship undetected and recover the crystal.
 
With that figured out, we head out on the road, and I began navigating the group in a similar direction from where we traveled last time around. After about eight hours of travel we eventually encountered a group of Goliaths that were camping at the top of a hill. This like super duper excited me, because I had not seen a clan of Goliaths in a long time! The group and I ran up to the top of the hill and I asked them if we could camp with them. Not surprisingly, they were a bit hesitant, but I was able to persuade them into letting us camp with them by challenging them to some friendly competition! They decided that we would compete in a game of Tug of War. So, they got their three strongest men and faced off against myself, Madu, and Dyleth.
 
It was a fierce competition, but after a few minutes of tugging back and forth, we eventually came out victorious! The leader shook my hand and traded us some food for tomorrow, as well as allowing us to stay with them for the evening. We had a lot of nice conversation over the evening and learned a lot about them actually! They said they were from the Wyrmwood Crag, and they are apparently in the middle of an feud with another clan of Goliaths elsewhere in the Ten Towns. They also mentioned a particular goliath they knew named Oyaminartok, who is a goliath and is also a werebear. She apparently can take the form of a polar bear or that of a hulking bipedal, ursan-like appearance, surrounded by snow! That is like super cool, and I would love to meet her at some point. Eventually, after all the conversation died down, we all took a nice long rest before having to set out again in the morning.
 
30th of Hammer, 1512 DR
 
When I woke up the next morning, the Goliaths were unfortunately gone, apparently I slept in past them leaving. As we were prepping to start traveling again, Luna handed out these delicious berries that looked like boysenberries! I immediately ate one and it made my tummy feel nice a full. It was like really nice. But, Luna yelled at me because they were apparently magical berries called Goodberries that could heal my injuries if I ate them! Whoops! Well it was delicious regardless, and I now only have 9 of them...
 
Any who, after some time we eventually made it back to the coast line and found the ship again. Everyone started trying to hide, while Luna and I began to wild shape into some animals so that we could easily sneak on board. I took the form of a small snowy fox and Luna took the form of a small snowy weasel! We snuck our way onto the ship and cleared the whole thing, checked to ensure that there were no more Kobolds on the ship and that it was safe to start working. I returned back to my normal form and began to examine the chunk of ice that our belongings were enclosed within.
 
Seeing the massive layers of ice that house the Psi Crystal and our stolen gems, I grabbed a torch from my bag and used my magic to light the torch and increase the flame into a large fire. I propped it up against the ice and then also pulled by Emberling Greathammer out, ignited it, and also propped it up against the ice. Once the ice began to start melting I put my fingers together and formed a thin jet of flame that propelled out into the ice. After a bit of time, I eventually melted through the ice and managed to retrieve the crystal and our stolen gems!
 
With the goods safely back in our possession, I wild shaped back into the form of a snowy fox and with Luna, we made our way back to the group. Luckily we managed to get back with everyone else before the dragon returned, and we high-tailed it off the ice and back to safe land.
 
Once we arrived, I gave the gems back to Dyleth and began to give the crystal back to Electra. However, she started mentioning her dreams again as soon as I held the crystal out. She wanted to take the crystal and immediately head to this strange tentacled ship. We started arguing back and forth, and eventually the whole party got involved with the discussion. She revealed that there were strange squid-like men present in her dreams that were calling her, and she was even willing to go there even it it meant her simply dying when she arrived.
 
I believe that I made a compelling argument to the group, and Madu was in agreement with me. I told Electra I would not return the crystal to her until I was sure that it was not effecting her mind. We devised a solution to this problem... since I was completely against the idea of going to this boat, and because I thought the crystal was evil and warping Electra's mind I agreed to attune my mind to the crystal... We decided that if for whatever reason afterwards my mind changed about visiting the boat or towards the crystal, it was because of the crystal itself.
 
Everyone agreed to this, and though it weighed heavy on my mind for some time, we kept traveling until we were about halfway back to Bremen. In the middle of the night, I awoke to Electra tying to steal the crystal back from me, and I scared her off... I hope it does not effect my mind the same way...
 
~ Soot Isbjorn