Eleventh letter to home.

Dearest Mother,
 
We started our new mission to find some missing soldiers. We got some details about the mission. We were told a location and that they had the Golden Fleece. We were told that they needed it to gain more power to be able to free the prisoners that we freed in our last mission. The army had not heard from them in over 2 weeks. Our job was to find out what happened. If they are alive, we are to bring them back. If not, we are to bring back proof.
 
We quickly got into our spelljammer and flew over to the base of the mountains in the north. Once we got into the cave we found all but one of the dead and he was missing. There was an alter in the room that was broken and a dead woman on it. We found parts of the Golden Fleece but it had been destroyed. As we looked around the room I saw something I read about back in Strixhaven. It was a Dweomer a magic eating creature in a cage. I quickly backed away from it and told everyone to be careful of it. We felt sorry for be because it looked like it had been starved. Ser Wyn put it out of its misery.
 
We learned the alter was to a great ancient evil called, “The Worm That Walks.” We surmised that the last person in the group that was missing had gone through the portal and we feared that he was trying to free that great evil. We discussed going through the portal. Erik got very close and Severus and I pushed him through. We all followed and we ended up in a strange new world that was scary. We ended up on a island with lots of skulls to warn us of danger. We headed towards an obelisk following the tracks of the last soldier.
 
Scree cast speak with plants as we approached a great lake. They warned us of worms that like blood in the lake. Scree used mold earth to cross at a narrow point. We got attacked by 5 leach walkers. These are creatures that look like they are made of leaches and they were very dangerous. I lighting bolted some of them and used my silvery bards to protect Severus from them. A few of our group got hurt a little but we managed to get past them with little harm.
We crossed the marsh full of bugs. We kept getting bite and scree even got sick from one of her bites. Thankfully, Severus had the right spell to cure her of what she contracted. We came to a village called Wormcrawl Island. There were a lot of dead people in the water there. We got attacked by several undead known as Blessed Span of Kyuss. Scree turned into an ankylosaurs. As we fought them, we learned that they released wormed that borrowed into the skin. It was a difficult fight having to kill the worms and kill the undead. Scree even knocked Ser Wyn and his horse over. After we finished them off, she stated as the ankylosaurs and we moved on. As we moved on, we found maggot person that told us if a sphere of annihilation was put into the obelisk, it would free The Worm That Walks. We quickly hurried up towards the obelisk.
 
We reached the moat made of tar that is about 1,000 feet across. We debated how to get across. Scree turned into a flying dinosaur and carried most of the party across. She had a little difficulty with the horse. He is starting to prove to be a bit of a hindrance but Ser Wyn truly cares for the horse so we keep him around. We got attacked by some creature that came out of the tar. It strayed some acid at us we flew up. I decided our best bet was to fireball the creature and fly higher. I set the tar on fire and there is no telling how long it will burn.
 
We went through all of this only to arrive as the last soldier was pushing a sphere of annihilation into the obelisk. We quickly started attacking the soldier and we got worried we would not be able to win a fight with that great evil. I blinded the soldier and then remembered from Strixhaven that I learned that a portable hole and a sphere of annihilation would destroy each other if they were placed together. I quickly told Mason that he would not be happy but that he needed to do it to save the world. Erik cast disintegrate on the soldier and he turned to dust. Mason sacrificed his portable hole to save the world and destroyed the sphere of annihilation and stopped the great evil from returning. I know I failed you and father by being kicked out of Strixhaven, but the time I was there has come in handy many times and this time, it saved the world.
 
When he did bring those two objects together, we created a hole in space and we got teleported into some strange room with a talking mouth that told us to drop all our magic gear and weapons into a cart and prepare for an obstacle course. We were not sure if we wanted to do this or not. I decided it was time to do a company vote. Three people in a group wanted to do this but thankfully, they got out voted 5-3 because of ability to cast an extra vote and to vote for people that are not here. We dug through the ashes of the old soldier and we found a lot of really strong magic items. I found a spell book and Erik removed my curse in exchange for the spell book. We also found a ring of protecting, bracers of defense, ring of fire protection, mace of smiting, mace of turning, and gloves of missile snatching. Because Erik has freed me from my curse, I offered him either the ring of protection or the bracers of defense. He wanted the ring so I took the bracers.
 
When we left the room, we realized we were in a dungeon of sorts. Ser Wyn buffed his way past some hobgoblins telling them he was a new hire for the dungeon. They believed it so we decided we would keep up the act and try to get out. We found a room with more hobgoblins and two fire giants sorting some medal. When we tried to convince them we were new hires, we mentioned that people had been leaving and they asked if leaving the dungeon was an option and they started to leave. We quickly followed because we thought this would get us out faster. We started going up and there was a small passage that had a gap that needed to be jumped. It was only five feet wide and the giants got over it easy but the hobgoblins did not. They fell to their death and we saw that there were people down there asking about what was happening up where we were. We quickly rushed past and to try to reduce their numbers in case they attacked us, I dropped a fireball down on top of them. We tried to kill the last one that served the fireball but we kept missing him with ranged attacks and we closed up the whole with mold earth.
 
The fire giants we were following got ahead of us a little. We rushed to catch up to them but we found them dead in some webs. We decided to go a different direction then they did. We quickly found a room with six minotaur skeletons in it. We started fighting them and two of them went through some peelers in the room and disappeared. We all kept clear of those peelers. The fight was going well until someone cast darkness on the room. We dispelled magic on the darkness and saw four drow entering the room. They cast darkness again and Erik decided to summon another demon. We made short work of the drow and some other drow that we found in a nearby room. There was a little debate on what to do with the demon. Erik pointed out that once he released it, it would stay around for a short time and could be dangerous to us. I said I could banish it back to the Abyss. So we did that and decided to take a long rest.
 
We debated on how we could get home. We surmised we are on another planet with no way to get home. I realized it was time for me to learn a new spell and I thought hard on if there was a spell that could get us home. I remembered that I could learn the spell Dream of the Blue Veil. It is a very powerful spell that lets a group of people travel between planets. The only problem is that once cast. Everyone must stay asleep for six hours. If anything happens during that time, the spell fells for that person. We thought about it and knew we could protect most of us using Leomund's Tiny Hut. But there was still a problem. Ser Wyn has a horse and he would not part with the horse for anything. He was even offering to stay in this world and let us go if it would cost him his horse to leave with us. We thought of every plan we had to make it work. But in the end everything we thought of would fell. Finally, Scree had an idea. She would cast polymorph on the horse and we could all fit inside the hut. In the morning we will try this. Hopefully nothing can get through the mold earth blocked doors we made before taking a long rest. If everything goes right, by midafternoon, we will be in Frandlyn. I need to rest now mother. It has been a very long day and there is no telling when I will be able to deliver this letter to you.
 
-Your Son,
-Fip Goldscale.