Journal entry 10.2024.1.7

23 Eco?
We’re fighting a dragon turtle, “Carl”. Everyone that went down in the steam breath attack becomes conscious one way or another. The coatl is very helpful. Darien destroys two of the zombies; the third is well nigh invulnerable and lasts far too long. Grasshopper finally kills it. We use fireballs (don’t work as well), lightning (work better than fire), and everything else we can throw at Carl, with various party members bouncing in and out of consciousness. Dalden in particular has several naps and has delightful dreams of paradise. The turtle goes under water. Hergatz casts control water to create a trench in the river, removing the water. We finish the turtle with some spirit guardians from Darien. There is a tremendous amount of treasure at the bottom of the river.
 
[56000 gp, 28000 pp, six 2500 gp art objects: a fine porcelain vase adorned with gold and a unicorn in relief (2500 gp), a lacquered wooden scepter set with diamond (2500 gp), a petrified serpent engraved with a labyrinth (2500 gp), a silk brocade merchant's cap trimmed with ermine (2500 gp), an electrum censer set with jacinth (2500 gp), an electrum torc inlaid with ornate orichalcum scrollwork (2500 gp),A +1 maul (Loghain’s maul) and a jasper chicken (figurine of wondrous power) that can turn into a giant chicken. ]
 
Two kuo toa approach, claiming ATLT as their new god. We prod them for information. They are new disciples of ATLT and follow him.
We meet a woman Betty and two men Lud and Brack at an upriver camp site with a large box. They are headed to Skullport, hailing from the City of Tombs (Shadowfell, along the Sea of Tears). Ferzith talks with them in Undercommon. She claims to be fleeing dhampyr hunters from the Court of Varleth. When questioned about the Rain trade, she said the Rain traders are not nice people. [Rain produced from Lucian Moss from the Shadowfell]. We do not discover what was in the box.
 
We reach the waterfalls and climb up in stages, which takes two days. We reach the top and enter the Red Fens of the Shadowfell. It appears to be a river delta region, with water falling into the sinkhole leading to the waterfalls. Flying party members scout the area and observe sea to the east, forest to the north, a city to the south along the coast (presumed the City of Tombs), and high rocks to the west. We discuss our next plan of action, intending to disrupt or end the drug trade route. We abandon the Shadowfell, which reeked of swamp gases and despair. [Despair effects will cause exhaustion.] We travel back to the river, back to the sahuagin fort.
 
We hear bangs, which Vectis informs us sounds like musket fire. At the sahuagin fort, we find a lot of Grants along with Ding Dong, following a fight where they killed all the sahuagin. Ding Dong and the Grants are glad to see us, since we cleared the river of the dragon turtle. I would like to kill them all. The others want to talk.