Eighth letter to home.

Dearest Mother,
 
A lot has happened since I wrote my last letter, when you should be reading just before you read this one. So when I left off we had just landed on Theros. We took a day to relax and recover from space travel. Theros is a very different world than ours. First off they do not know about other worlds existing. So we had to be very hush hush about us being from another world. Second, the gods are very active in this world. I mean yes I still very much believe and still follow Skerrit, which reminds me I need to try to find a temple to Skerrit soon and make an offering, but the gods of Theros are actively doing things in this world all the time and can be offended by the smallest things. For example Mason destroyed a tree and one of the gods of this land showed her disfavor by a bolt of lightning. Scree was in need of something and it materialized out of nowhere for her. Thirdly, there are a lot of gnomes here. This is something that I do not like at all but you would be proud of me, I did not kill or do anything to rash towards them. I am still upset about that one gnome that got me kicked out of Strixhaven but I did not take it out on the gnomes of this land. Fourth, the vegetables are more like fruit here. It is hard to explain but the vegetable that we tried had a citrus flavor and seeds in it like a fruit. This is a very strange world.
 
Anyway, enough about this strange world, I need to first tell you that once again I was never harmed by any of the enemies we faced. I know you worry about me mother but I am being as safe as a I can be. I still must prove myself to father so that I can be at yall’s side again one day. I hope knowing I was unharmed so far on this mission gives you some peace of mind. So during our day of rest, I made a potion of healing and gave it to our new friend Ser Wyn. The next day, a mind flayer ship crashed near where we camped. I was not ready for what came out of that ship. We find a mind flayer and 3 gnome ceremorphs. Think a mind flayer but looks like a gnome. It was the most disturbing thing I have ever seen. They attacked us with laser pistols. They are like fire arms but they shoot bots of energy that really do a lot of damage. This was a scary fight mother. One of them used a mind blast on the group and all 3 of our front line fighter got stunned. Scree was not stunned but somehow the mind blast separated her from Erik. We do not understand how this happened but we are glad for Scree that it did happen. We almost had some of our group’s brains sucked out of their head by the mind flayers. I used my wand of fireball to hit them very hard and finished two of them off 2 of them with summon draconic spirit. It was great to finally cast this spell that father showed me. He would have been proud to see me use this spell effectively. It was in this fight that one of the gods of this land gave Scree a costly spell component that helped us win the fight. We were very surprised at the end of this fight that Mason appeared. It seems that Mason came to this world also but was captured by the mind flayer.

We traveled to a camp to meet our contact. We found some books about this land and Temperance bought me one of the books. We have started to get closer after that long flight in wild space and the astral sea. I am not sure where this will go because she is very unhappy about my drinking habits. Went we got to a tent at the camp that was basically a tavern, she kept trying to push me to drink water. I think it might have something to do with her past about why she does not drink. Maybe one day she will tell me about this. So we find our contact in the makeshift tavern. We gave her the huge diamond we were given as payment for the information about the golden fleece. She gave us information that was different from what the person that hired us told us but that was okay. You know how second hand information is not always right. She told us that a tower dedicated to her nature god had been taken over by a mage of a war god. She told us that if we freed this tower of the corruption, her god would most likely give us what we came for. After eating and drinking a little, we left the tavern and you will not believe what I find. I found that blasted gnome that got me kicked out of Strixhaven. Everything inside of me wanted to kill that gnome. My friends convinced me not to. He was selling drugs still and was very much under the influence of them when we meet him. He did say he did not finish Strixhaven either. That night I attempted to destroy his wears but they were not at his stop and I decided he has fallen enough already that I did not need to get revenge on his at this time. He did sell some of this wears to my friends even when I told them not to trust them. Mason as a powerful mushroom. It made him hallucinate during the night and I stopped him from doing anything that could have damaged our supplies or get him hurt. I still greatly hate that gnome and all other gnomes because of him. Erik found some very powerful coffee like substance that when brewed is purple. Let me tell you mother, it has quite the potent kick to it. So we rested up that night and went after the tower in the morning.
 
We made it to the tower we needed to clear and it was a huge tree. There were a ton of minotaurs guarding the tower. We saw 9 of them at first watching the front door. As we carefully approached them, I tripped and altered them of our presence. One of them blew a horn. Erik summoned a demon to help us. Scree turned into a huge flying dinosaur. I quickly got up and fireballed 6 of them very hard. Mason attempted to cast hypnotic pattern to control 6 of them but only effected 2. I helped finish off most of them with a second fireball and the rest of our group easily killed the rest. We got attacked from the windows after we finished them off and I was able to get a lucky shot off at him before we all ran into the tower. One the first floor of the tower, we faced a small room with 5 more minotaurs. Scree once again used ice knife and hurt Nomag. We mopped them up quickly. On the second floor we find 3 gnome slaves cooking for the minotaurs. Our group let them go and they gave Scree a strange device that we still do not know what it does. Being a gnomish device I do not trust it. One the third floor we found 10 more minotaurs in a small room. Because we were inside a tree and warned not to damage it, I decided to be tactical and slowed 6 of them. Erik being a clumsy wizard, fell backwards when we first attacked them and went all the way down. Mason once more tried hypnotic pattern and did much better this time and got the other 4 of them. Nomag was very reckless and ran into the middle of the 6 slowed ones and did not go into a rage. He was hit very hard by one of them. He quickly raged after that and we dispatched them quickly. As we fought them, vines came from out of the tree and finished off some of them for us. I can only imagine that it was another act from the god we were helping. During this fight, Ser Wyn broke this weapon but Mason mended it. The fourth floor of the tower was empty.
 
On the final floor of the tower we found the mage we were sent to kill. He looked like he was alone but we found out there was 4 minotaurs hiding in the room to attack us. We quickly jumped into action to attack the mage. I once again summoned a draconic spirit to aid us and Erik summoned another demon. Scree had once again turned into that dinosaur. We had the mage surrounded at first. He attempted to cast a very powerful spell that could have been our doom, but I counterspelled him. That slippery little mage had some power to turn himself invisible and it caused us a lot of trouble. We had to blindly attack and we could not hit him. He attempted another spell and this time I was unable to counterspell him. He attempted to banish Nomag but he was very lucky and was not banished. Mason was very helpful in finishing this fight by casting see invisible and telling us about where he was. Scree swooped down at him but still missed. Erik cast ice knife this time and the shards of ice hit the mage and we could see him. This was all I needed to twin a chromatic orb and get my dragon to rush up and attack. Right after that, another member of our crew finished him off.
 
Once we killed him. There was another miracle; the golden fleece appeared in the room for us. Mother it was the most wonderful thing I have ever seen and I rushed over to take it. It is the purest gold I have ever seen and very soft. I know we were hired to bring this back to that guy but I do not think I can part with it because it has become precious to me. We returned to the contact and they advised us to leave quickly before too many question were asked and because the golden fleece has a habit of attracting people to it that will want it. I cannot let other take my golden fleece. Again, it is now precious to me. I think I will attempt to identify it tonight and sleep holding it in our ship. It is getting late mother and I need to look more closely at this fleece. It is truly the most wonderful and precious thing I have ever seen.
 
-Your Son,
-Fip Goldscale.