Session Eight: Sho me the Maelstrom and save the elves.

So, we're 2 days into our boat trip. We've just defeated a mummy spirit. Well, Leland did, but Tempest thinks it was him instead, and they are arguing about it.
 
I guess our boat was taken out of a place called Longhorne. Morpheus thinks this is his boat and he invited all these people. Lyra reminds him that this our boat and she asks what is going on. They stop at a place called Sho and everybody gets off. Morpheus is like, "Hey, I'll help you sail this boat, BUT you gotta give me the boat. You'll never survive this trip without me." We tell him there is a second boat in Mithral Hold and he can have it when we get back, but he has to take us on free boat rides." He gives us a red stone so we can summon an imp named Dexter who can help us find Morpheus if he is ever in the rift.
 
He tells us that further south, there is a giant Maelstrom that will destroy us, so we will have to go into the rift to bypass it and go around it.
 
We stop by Sho and do some shopping. There are really colorful tents and merchants everywhere. Lyra talks to a grape merchant and buys some grapes for Faenore. She also learns about a festival called the Zircon festival here where everyone wears white and throws colorful powders on each other. The merchant also gives hers some Ignus Edulous A fleshy seed from a pod that tastes like vanilla.
 
Leland finds an herb shop and looks for stuff to make sleeping powder/liquid and also napalm. He also gets some herbs for the apocathary back home to trade for information on herbs and shit. The merchant there is a real creep to Lyra. Leland gives him the evil eye but makes his purchase.
 
We learn that the mummy was brought on the ship by the tiefling who was killed by the mummy. Lyra tries to channel the tiefling spirit that died. While she meditates, the tiefling appears and pulls Lyra's spirit from her body. He tries to pull her towards the rift, but she convinces him to stay on the boat with her.
 
She learns that the tiefling was looking for the Great Rune Forge. The mummy had the location of a city now under water called "NObody KNows" where the elves that dwelled there used to work with the Rune Forged Dwarves. If we resurrect the the tiefling we may be able to find out more.
 
Lyra mentions that he tried to pull her into the Abyss, and Morpheus mentions that some spirits are called to it. The tiefling is trying to resist the pull.
 
Everyone settles down for the night. A storm starts to set in. The boat starts to approach a huge wall of darkness where spirits and demons seems to be shooting up into the sky. Leland looks behind us and sees an elvaan fleet approaching us. It's Lyra's dad's fleet. Lighting is striking down behind that fleet. Morpheus says it's too late to turn around to go save the elves. Lyra pushes Morpheus away from the helm, and he falls and hits his head knocking himself out.
 
Tempest helps Lyra turn the boat using the maelstrom to try and turn us around so we could try and save Lyra's father. Tempest crits while steering the ship. Tempest is leading the crew to raise the sails while Faenore and Leland fix a rope that is wrapped around a log of wood. They untangle it, but the rope flies away. Leland grabs it just in time and goes flying through the wind. Faenore climbs up the mast, slides down the sail and grabs the rope trying to swing it around. He uses a grappling hook to try and get them in the direction they need to be.
 
Tempest is able to use the rudders to turn them around. Faenore and Leland make it to safety. However, as things are going so well, Tempest runs to the helm. He tries to tie the wheel, but fails. Leland and Faenore go flying off the crows nest. Tempest casts Gust of Wind creating a hole through a 200 ft wave. Lyra is able to steer through. Leland lands on the boat, but Faenore flies into the ocean.
 
Lyra jumps into ocean to go after Faenore.
 
After a really hard fight, Tempest was able to use the Maelstrom to turn around and and now facing the fleet of ships that contain Lyra's dad.
 
Meanwhile, Lyra swims to FAenore. She sees fish people chanting and casting a spell underneath the maelstrom.
 
However, as she grabs onto Faenore, she starts to sink along with him quickly. A shark starts to encircle them. A group of dolphins swims over to us so we can grab onto its fin and they scare off the shark. The dolphin takes Faenore and Lyra to Lyra's father's ship.
 
Meanwhile, Morpheus wakes up and is impressed that Tempest was able to navigate the ship so well through the maelstrom. They notice that Lyra and Faenore are missing. In the distance they see a huge Leviathan pulling down the ships into the ocean. Leland sends people to man the cannons to prepare for battle.
 
Meanwhile, Lyra and Faenore see this happening from under water and the dolphins refuse to take them all the way. They end up going back to their own ship. Leland throws a javelin with a rope on it and Faenore and Lyra climb up. Morpheus is able to sail everyone closer to the sunken fleet quickly with Tempests help of Gust of wind.
 
We get to the sunken ships and it it is really shallow so we get out on a rock? Tempest and Leland note that this stone is fresh from the bottom of the ocean and this water wasn't nearly as shallow as before.
 
They see no bodies nor people floating in the water. Lyra leaps into the water to see if she can find anyone. While she's looking for survivors, she is attacked by several Sahagun.
 
Faenore, while searching one of the broken boats, he sees something shiny underneath the water and a little blood float to the surface. He jumps in and sees Lyra severely injured. He immediately starts attacking the Sahagun.
 
Callun joins the fight and kills a sahagan. Tempest notices that the Leviathan is nowhere to be found and jumps up on the ship. he finds webbed foot prints on the boat. He also sees a piece of a broken trident in the water. It appears to be cold iron.
 
We defeat the group of sahagan and Lyra swims up to the boat to tend her wounds.
 
Lyra and Faenore tell everyone about the sea creatures chanting under the maelstrom. Faenore recognized that those creatures were NOT Sahagun like we just fought. Lyra also recognized that the ritual they were casting was very druidesque. She wonders if the giant serpant Leviathan may have been summoned by them and wants to see if her father and his crew were taken there.
 
on this broken elvaan ship, we see 2 broken bridges that connect to other ships that are not of elvaan design. As Callun starts to cross one, he immediately falls into a whirl pool. Leland ties a rope to Lyra and she leaps in afterwards Callun. She grabs onto him, but ends up pulling Leland in with them. Faenore tries to catch the rope and gets pulled in. Tempest catches the rope holding onto everyone. Faenore climbs back up to the ship. Tempest is able to hold the rope tight, BUT due to the turbulance, Leland and Callun let go of the rope and are sucked into the whirl pool. Lyra unties herself to go after them leaving Tempest holding an empty rope.
 
A current pulls Lyra, Leland, and Callun. It pulls us to a precepace where on one side is an old elvish city and one side is an old dwarvish stronghold.
 
We all start to swim toward the stronghold, and see one very large eye looking at us. It's a huge shark coming right for us. In front of us is a 10ft wide 100ft tall wall of jellyfish.
 
Faenore opens up a small hole for us to get through the jellyfish. We fight the shark and defeat it. We swim up to the entrance and above the door is written: Khazad'Ankor
 
Tempest tells us that the dwarves here were renounced blacksmiths. Nobody has made weapons as good since. There was a famous dwarf here who make cold iron from here. His name is Duran Stoneforge. This is not the Runeforged Forge. His method to making cold forged iron has been lost to time.