Session 36: Matters of the heart in Ardenia

Hazel, Lufir, Tempest, and Lyra are in Ardenia and their plans are to find out about the teleportation circle and try to gather an army, BUT that probably won't work out because the invaders are already here.
 
Faenore has just woken up and found the note that Lyra left. He's sad, but he and Leland decide to head out towards Forgestone.
 
While traveling, they come up on a somebody lying face down on the ground.
 
They help him and learn his name is Jaran Silverleaf. He's looking for his friend Brotar who is in Ardenia. He got lost and is now going in the wrong direction.
 
They tell Jaran that Ardenia has been invaded. Jaran asks if they would like to invest in his business, but Leland and Faenore decline. They all get some rest. They travel a total of 3 days without much incident.
 
Meanwhile....
 
It's Ravenqueensea 13th 12pm
 
In Hazels room, she confronts Tempest about never bring her flowers. At that moment Lufir offers a flower from his staff for Tempest to give to Hazel. It's really sweet. It's a yellow daffodil.
 
Tempset bring up that Hazel's mother wasn't in the throne room as asks where she was at. Hazel says theyll find her, but first she wants him to meet someone else.
 
She takes Tempest down to the kitchen and she introduces her to one of the cooks there. They bake some refreshments. Hazel introduces Tempest as her husband and the cook seems shocked about it.
 
She learns from cook that Hazel's mom is in "The Tower" Cook advises her against it, cuz her mother be crazy. Hazel is like, I'm gonna do it anyway.
 
Lyra notices that the color of her skin has faded to a less bright red and her horns are getting shorter now. Is this because she has separated herself from Faenore?
 
we all go to the tower to meet her mother. Hazel introduces Tempest as her husband and that she is carrying his child.
 
This infuriates her mother. Tempest and the mom throw insults back and forth at each other for a while. She tells Tempest that he will be hanged for his crimes. She says the guards are going to come for us soon.
 
As we are descending the tower, we are approached by 11 guards.
 
Meanwhile...
 
Leeland and Faenor continue their travels.
 
When they get to the mountains they are approached by a red dragon.
 
Both groups respectively fight their foes.
 
Tempest ends up getting decapitated and his head getting thrown off a balcony.
 
Leeland and Faenore don't kill the dragon, but they do scare it away.
 
They complete their long rest.
 
Lufir summons a giant eagle to fly us away, but Hazel insists on going to confront her mother. Lyra convinces her that this is bad idea and that we need to focus on getting Tempests body back. If Hazel chooses to go confront her mother, Lyra will not be assisting, as she cannot risk losing Tempest's body or getting into a situation where we can't get him back.
 
Hazel agrees to fly away with us. We get Tempest to a temple. The priests at the temple refuse to pray to Lathander as it is forbidden. He no longer has his power from Lathander.
 
This angers Hazel. She nearly kills the guy, but Lufir tells her in the morning he may be able to revive Tempest, but we have to leave and he needs to rest
 
We fly and find a cave that has a large metal structure in side. Shaped like a cone with 7 different layers.
 
We decide to avoid this for now and go get some rest somewhere else.
 
After we long rest, Lufir casts Reincarnate on Tempest.
 
A half orc body shows up with Tempests spirit in it. This INFURIATES Hazel. She eventually settles down, but is still horrified. Lufir says we can try again tomorrow and every day. until we get it right...BUT we would have to kill him again to do it.
 
It's Ravenqueensea 14th 8am
 
Leeland and Faenore part ways with Jaran Silverleaf. Faenore gives him a letter for Lyra in Ardenia when he gets there.
 
Lyra, Tempest, Lufir and Hazel decide to sneak back into the city and find the teleport circle there and see if it's in service and see if they can use it to get to Forgestone. We disguise our selves as best we can and sneak back into the city. We meet Hazel's wizard friend Albert. He has a teleportation circle in his house that will send us to Temperforge.
 
Inside Albert's house is Light Lockmarch? He's looking for a way to teleport out of here...so I guess the invaders DO know about this teleportation circle? We learn Light wants to leave, because he believes Thandius wants to kill him and raise his daughter up to lead Adenizeal.
 
He wants to go to Segraven. WE discuss what we want to do. The plan was for us to protect this circle so Leland and Faenor could bring in an army. We have an old man wizard that can help us. Hazel and Light Lockmarche are giggling and talking.
 
Meanwhile....
Leeland and Faenor see a group of Verdeau soldiers walking through.
 
They approach them. They learn they are going to Frogestone because they want to talk to the Magnus dwarves who would know how to infiltrate the secret passages in Galvania to get to the castle. If they can take it back, they think that it will tip the balance of the scales of this war. The dwarf Magnus's were the ones who built the castle in Galvania They speak about the Magnuses and how they are vampires that were driven out of Galvania by Tremon Belridge.
 
Meanwhile...
Hazel tells us Light Lockemarch is joining our team. Tempest and Lyra are like fuck no he's not. An argument kind of breaks out about it. Lufir sneaks up on Light and attempts to knock him in the head with a tuning fork and send him to the Far Plane.
 
However, Lufir misses. Tempest then opens up a portal to the fire plane and manages to push Light into it. Lyra tries to stop this but fails. She does manage to help pull him out of the portal.
 
Light takes a defensive stance and doesn't actually attack us back. Lufir and Tempest attack him anyway. Lyra ends up using dimension door to get Light out. He thanks her, but this may have made things worse...we aren't sure.
 
Lyra gets back to find Hazel and Tempest having a huge fight about all of this. Hazel is like, you can't just kill people because they can't be trusted, or because they say mean things or make you feel paranoid.
 
She thinks his orcish skin is turning him into a monster.
 
She ends up leaving our group. She's so angry with Tempest. Lyra tries to convince her to stay, but Hazel has made her mind and she leaves.
 
Lyra scolds Tempest for being so heartless and tells him that he should go after Hazel and fight for her.
 
In the meantime, Lyra tells Leeland and Faenor that they are actually going to leave Ardenia and meet them in Forgestone.
 
Turns out the teleport circle here is actually just a destination point. Lyra makes a sketch of it.
 
Tempest finally does run off after Hazel. He tells her that he's actually less psychotic when she is around. She asks him what made him do what he did. Tempest explains that Light was trying to manipulate her. She says she can take are of herself. She tells him that if he is to be the King of Ardenia, he cannot just go killing people he doesn't like, and he has to admit when he is wrong, which he does not believe he is wrong right now.
 
Tempest tells Hazel that she's trying to protect her people, and he's trying to protect his people. He believed Light was going to collect information about invading the dwarves, and that is why he did that.
 
the conversation isn't going anywhere. Hazel tells him she will come if he will just consider that he could be wrong and he cannot attack anyone else unprovoked.
 
Hazel rejoins us. She also gives Lyra a letter that Faenor gave to Jaran Silverhand that somehow got it here.
 
We end up teleporting to Tempursforge. Tempest, in his half orc form is staring at Leeland who just seens a half orc with his brothers hammer.
 
this is where we end.