Session 40: Attacked by a Kraken and ancient civilizations discovered

It's Ravenqueensea the 29th 9am
 
WE are getting ready to depart on the ship Vesta gave us. The plan is get Galadrian and the others close to Seg Raven, then we will go around it.
 
Vest reads some yaro sticks for us saying It will not bode well for us.
 
She decides to want to go with us.
 
We detect that she has a path she wants to see come to fruition, and her helping us would ensure our success, or so she believes. We discuss what we want to do. It seems if we do not let her come with us, we cannot have the boat.
 
After like an hour of discussion and Vesta and Lyra throwing yarrow sticks and reading tarot cards, We all finally decide to let her come with us. Leland was completely against it and stood his ground on it the whole time.
 
Yole, Galadrian, Remish, Dura, and Lithil all decide she can travel with us.
 
Actually, Yole decides he's not going to be going with us, because Tempest and he get into family drama. Leland is like, "you dad, you have another son. You can't leave. " Yole is like, I'm not getting on a boat with that she witch, referring to Hazel.
 
As Lyra tries to talk him into coming with us, Leland throws a paralysis jelly fish in his face and paralyzes him. They force him on the boat. I'm not sure this is going to go well at all.
 
We promptly set sail and a minute later Mr. Magnus wakes up, and BOY is he pissed. Leland and Yole get into a pretty heated argument. Lyra is able to help calm things down a bit and Yole agrees to go, BUT Leland MUST treat him with respect. They hug it out in an uncomfortable way.
 
We continue heading towards Seg Raven.
 
We sail until the next morning
 
It is Ravenqueensea the 30th. 7am. Corellonember is the next month.
 
As we are travelling we encounter what we believe may be to be a Leviathan. Our boat starts to take crazy damage as a whirlpool starts to spin around us. Lufere summons a bunch of owls and most of us mount up. Tempest jumps into the water though to see what is going on.
 
He learns it's actually a Kraken. As everyone else is flying away on their owls, Tempest casts Banish on the kraken. It doesn't work. The Kraken attacks Tempest but critically fails both hits, missing. It's beautiful Brad fashioned luck.
 
Hazel leaps into the water to search for her love, Tempest.
 
Faenore tries using the wand of wonder, but it resists the effect.
 
Tempest then talks to it to reason with it. The Kraken asks to speak with Vesta to Parlay with.
 
It comes to the surface. Apparently the kraken is upset because the boat came into it's territory. The Kraken agrees to let everyone go if Vest goes back to tell the rest of them to no longer interfere in this area. WE are able to leave with our very damaged boat taking on water. We dock the boat on an island we happen to be near by.
 
While we are trying to figure out how to repair our boat, a paleosaurus approaches us looking for some fish. Faenore helps attract fish for it to eat, while we gather materials to repair the boat.
 
We find a cave to sleep in, but there is a strange carved crystal pulsating a color in there. Faenore remembers his dad telling him something about this once. There were stories of basically these crystals that contained an immense amount of arcane energy utilized by ancient civilizations. NObody has ever seen one. Only heard stories about it.
 
Vesta finds some prints that look like Mezaloth prints. They are human sized insect creatures. They are foot soldiers in the Ugaloth army. Violence and reward are their fundamental drives. If they are promised Violence or reward, they can be recruited. This creature is most certainly near by.
 
Meanwhile, Faenore wonders if we can use the crystal to power a moonpool. He gives it to Lufere, who is actually obsessed gems and will be difficult to part with it.
 
Lithil shouts out in abyssal at the mezaloth. We hear back what sounds like a whimper. Lithil asks if it's hurt and we all hear in common "I don't understand" His name is Drogus.
 
He is saying we have his gem, and he needs it back. He needs to enter the city again to find his friends. The underground city.
 
We ask him to come out and it is a mezzoloth....a very timid mezzoloth who looks terrified. He says he and his friends went down into the cave to find shelter, and they lost their minds. He thinks he is losing his own mind.
 
Lyra escorts Drogus out of the cave to get some fresh air and he is afraid of the moon. He thinks it's some kind of crystal moon like in the city. It is guarded by constructs. Drogus says a single elf lives in the city, and now his friends. The elf has grey skin and black hair.
 
there is a tunnel n the cave that goes underground. You get to a great gate that requires the crystal to open the door. He says he doesn't remember how he got here nor his life before.
 
He says he dropped the crystal a few minutes ago when he heard us and we startled him.
 
Faenor casts LEsser Restoration on Drogus. He is able to see that Drogus needs to be close to some kind of magical aura to remember things. As soon as he is away from whatever aura it is, he can't remember.
 
We ask Vesta to divine this elf, and she sees someone who is angry and lonely. He seems like he is ancient. Older than any elf should be.
 
Lyra tries to scry this mysterious elf, and succeeds, but just sees a mist and can't see past it. SOmething is blocking the detection. We suspect it's some kind of mythal.
 
We decide to go check out the gate. It's a couple of hours away. There is ancient sylvan text on the wall.
 
Lufere tells us that it's a recounting of a story where the gods erased the world through a flood. There was a magical war. There were very high level spells higher than 9th level that were used against each other. The gods destroyed the world and humanoids had to rebuild everything from scratch. This is supposedly a city that was beginning to try and rebuild the same kind of city with the same technologies and magic from that time.
 
Drogus tells us he found this crystal inside this city. They were hiding from the constructs, and his friends ended up losing their minds and attacking him. He ran and with the crystal was able to open the gate and escape.
 
He now wants to try and save his friends if possible.
 
Lufere casts dispel magic on the gate which dissipates the magic now. We use a crowbar to try and pry the door up as it seems to slide up. However, the door is impossibly heavy and big to open this way.
 
Dura and Leland are able to smash out a hole to walk through.
 
On the other side is a huge city with intricately designed stone building and bridges. The city seems to have multiple levels and layers. Underneath is a beautiful blue clear crystal lake. At the top center there is a cluster of crystals shining down a light over the city.
 
AT that time, a bolo comes flying out at Drogus. Lyra goes to push him out of the way, and succeeds, but Faenore sees that Lyra is going to be hit, so he intercepts the bolo with his sword and it causes him to disappear in a poof of sparkles.
 
The construct goes to throw another bolo and Lufere casts heat metal on it, causing the construct to die and not throw the bolo.
 
Tempest banishes Drogus causing Lyra to immediately attack him because Faenore now just died for no reason. She misses, and Leland grabs her holding her back. Tempest points out that Lyra still has her bracer on, so it must meant that Faenor is ok.
 
Lyra tries to scry Faenor. It succeeds, but it's just smoke. she can't see anything.
 
She carves out on her bracer "you ok" but doesn't immediately get a response. She starts to walk towards the center of the city.
 
We are spotted by 2 constructs. Leland is able to pull them off their towers with Eldrich blast, but they are able to throw a total of 3 bolos. Leland as well as Drogus disappears.
 
We make it to the center of the tower that is locked with a gem slot. Lufere dispels the magic and LEland and Tempest smash it open.
 
Inside we see crystal pod type things with vague shape s inside. There are 3 shapes. We determine that these are likely our friends.
 
Lithil goes to dispel the magic of this crystal and a grey elf with long black hair approaches and says "No! Don't do that"
 
this is where we end.
 
It is Ravenqueensea the 30th. Roughly 9pm.