2 Ice Cream Cone & Magic Shop

General Summary

The party and Raven decide to travel together to Balgard, a nearby city where Raven says a rather powerful wizard lives who may be able to help them figure things out. At the entrance of the city, they have another encounter with stalkers who followed them from the cabin. They make their way into over to the wizard's tower, which is shaped like like an up-side-down ice cream cone, and they meet Wylandriah Steele. She is living there with about 20 survivors from the town, and is running low on dust to cast Wall of Force to keep the stalkers at bay. She suggests that while she doesn't know why the party is here for sure, they are probably being brought here by Aki, the single deity/caretaker of the realm. She says that she herself was brought here around 2000 years ago and 'it just be like that sometimes.' However, if the party wants to figure out why they're here, she says that she recommends they talk to a prophet. She has a portal that can take them to the temple where a prophet might still be alive, but before the stalkers came she had sent out some parts for repair to a nearby magic shop. The party decides to go to the magic shop and retrieve more dust for Wall of Force and see if they can find the portal parts as well. They get into the shop without incident, but they find the body of the shopkeeper, Trarick Quell, and find his necklace with the pictures of his family. All the magic items within the shop are kept within individual glass boxes. When one of the glass boxes is broken to retrieve an item, a clockwork guardian appears within the shop and attacks the person who broke the box as an automated security system. More than one clockwork guardian is summoned. Some of the party leaves the shop to escape the clockwork guardian, but a stalker has appeared outside. Menti, invisible, manages to mess with one of the stalkers and keep him from coming right up to the shop while the party starts ot make their escape. Solana uses her smoke form to get inside one of the boxes and get the magic item inside it without summoning ANOTHER guardian. Once they have what they need, they all hurry back to the tower, having retrieved the dust and parts and then some.

Report Date

03 Mar 2021

Primary Location

Balgard