Wholesome memories for the whole family

by Zar'ral Helvimtor

The behemoth pulls the ship to the floor, causing everyone who jumped off the ship to get hurt while the people who stayed on the ship are totally fine.

The behemoth massacres Vex's old crew, as happened in reality. It then runs away from Rex and starts smashing the village we were ostensibly trying to save.

I get back on the airship so Kupo can heal me and then gracefully go back down to the floor and nobody can claim otherwise.

Our resident danger-pogo-stick master gets REAL FUCKIN MAD and jumps into the clouds, crashing down onto the behemoth with the wrath of god. This knocks it down and brings it close enough to death that we can finish it off, but not before Vex returns to his default state of incapacitation. We're then kicked out of the vision back into the mirror landscape.

We try to rest and find that time and space is non-linear and sleeping gives us little benefit.

We crowd around Rex's mirror and get transported to the cave in which our beautiful abyssal champion was born just 4 and a half months ago. We see Rex kneeling on the floor in front of a short man in a gimp suit standing on a table, and I decide that this cult isn't for me. There's a dark mask floating around Rex while the short man chants, and after a moment it rushes towards ghost-Rex and forces its way into their mouth. The vision then loops again and again, and I fail to understand anything that transpires. We're then kicked out.

We crowd around my mirror and are transported to my childhood home in Beckton. I find myself standing before my parents, hunched over a table and discussing something frantically before a dark figure appears between them and stabs them both in the throat before taking something from the table and leaving through the window. My little brother then appears on the scene and tries to help our parents before realising the futility of it, then gives chase to the assailant. This moment alone makes all of this crystal bullshit worth it as my brother is exonerated from the murders.

The lighthouse decides to loop the scene, just in case I missed it the first time. Focussing on the assailant, I see that it is an unfamiliar female dark elf. She took some books on the table bearing a familiar seal which I neglect to mention to the others. I'm absolutely certain that this will never become a problem for us. We are then returned to the mirror landscape and I have a vision of a fortress in a volcano.

Having interacted with all our mirrors, we are pushed out of this realm and reappear in front of the lighthouse door. Vex falls down the stairs.

After we take a rest, we head south to investigate our bounties in Padstow. We take a brief detour to the orcs we ignored earlier and kill them after I scout out their camp. We then stop in Swynhill to claim the bounties on them before continuing south.