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Mon 1st May 2023 12:18

Saving Alhood

by Delphi Crisdrith

With the help of Jarod, I managed to convince my friends, Adith, Catalyst, and Oakley to put the Horror to sleep. There was a tower that we needed to get to, the tower allowed a spell to be casted anywhere on the planet. We didn't have any ideas on how to get to this Tower and were just hoping we'd land close upon going through the portal but luckily the request for help from a Strixhaven alumni was heard by Kane a very talented man who is quite skilled with teleportation.
 
We arrived on the planet, there was tentacles and eyes sprouting from the ground pushing the planet apart. However the true Horror was a figure dressed in yellow and the clothing had tears throughout. The face was round a black face while the rest of the head was white. There were spikes coming off the back of their neck like a collar, even looking at them granted us with different forms of madness.
 
The tower was floating several hundred feet into the air, Kane managed to teleport us to the top. To my friends I had disappeared but to me the eyes of my friends were flat like they never had eyes to begin with. Catalyst had the experience of feeling like a body part of hers was missing, thinking the only way to be sure was to rip open her body and check. Adith was never affected by the madness but he has quite a lot of experience with space. Oakley had the worst experience of feeling like he was being ripped apart by Rats. Luckily Oakley is a cleric who managed to remove the madness on each of us. Catalyst also managed to get a curse which she refuses to remove that makes it so she can't go upstairs. Upon trying she teleports to a random location.
 
Kane and Jarod had to deal with a Elder Dragon while we went towards the tower. The Dragon was absolutely horrifying with the tentacles sprouting from their neck, I hope the dragons soul found rest in their respective afterlife.
 
There were some weird creatures that I've named the Enders who were previously people that resided on the planet but the corruption had unfortunately taken them. Their faces came down into a point, they no longer had a nose there were two nostril holes. They had long legs that came to a point where the foot would be. The Enders had quite long arms and large hands that hung down to about their ankle. They had purple magic floating around them that were like fireflies with they way they floated around but they didn't seem like actual creatures just magic. They could teleport around every time someone tried to hit them with a melee attack.
 
An Illithid that was casting magic at us that flew quite high into the air, they seemed to be the main protector of this tower. They put up quite a fight but we managed to kill them running into the room we needed to get to. My friends luckily buffed me up with Bard Magic, Cleric Magic and simply just assisting and I casted the spell putting the creature to sleep. Upon them falling to sleep we had to evacuate the tower immediately before it crashed to the ground. We polymorphed into Eagles and flew to safety meeting up with Kane and Jarod.
 
Now I'm unsure of how another planet would be successful in putting this creature to sleep because I don't think every planet has a tower that can cast spells anywhere. So you'd likely need to be directly in front of the Horror for the spell to work. This was a horrifying experience that we could've died during, but Planet Alhood is safe. They do need to entirely rebuild their society but I'd personally rather rebuild it than everything I know and love dying. Thank you to my friends for going along with my incredibly dangerous plan and thank you Carnan.