Fight against oblivion
After a rift appeared just outside Frostpine Village, from the awakening of the Sleeping King, six brave heroes travelled to the village to aid the Verdant Light and the Appeasers in their quest of destroying the rift. Thea, Morvull, Nyra, Aramil, Azrael, Price took up the call.
Upon reaching Frostpine Village they were shocked to find the village hidden behind some kind of massive metal fence. Price recalled that the last time he visited the village for the guild roughly two months ago, they were in the process of constructing a new wooden wall around their village to help with the mutated wolf issue they’d been dealing with at the time.
Inside they met with the village elder Rolan who heartily welcomed the first-time visitors, and Price’s return to the village. Rolan introduces a stoic human in silver armor and robe as Liora from the Appeasers, a rather moody elf from the Verdant Light as Fenven, and a gnome in leather armor from the village as Breena Folknor. Standing next to Fenven against the wall was a woman that most of the group didn’t need an introduction for – Anastasia. A woman with silver hair that they saved from Finley’s Manor a few weeks ago who’d recently joined the Verdant Light. Azrael tried to insist Fenven shake his hand as it was customary, but Fenven sneered at him and polymorphed him into a sheep until Rolan begged him to put him right.
Rolan explained that the plan was for Liora to work on dismantling the rift, as it was something that only an Appeaser could accomplish, the Verdant Light would protect her while the guild would deal with any threats that came out from the rift or if the members of The Awakening were to intervene.
The group left the building and followed Breena to the rift. The rift made the group uneasy as reality itself seemed to be blurred and distorted around the rift, the group could see evidence of trees having been uprooted near the rift and there was no snow on the ground nearby. As Liora was getting ready Azrael tried to send his shadow clone through the rift with disturbing results and Thea threw snow at it to determine a safe distance around the rift where they wouldn’t be effected.
The group noticed that there were some strange footprints leading from the rift to a nearby cave. Leaving Liora with the Verdant Light, Breena and Aramil’s owl familiar, the group headed up to the cave.
They went into the cave and started exploring it only to come across three giant humanoid toads - Slaads. The group fought the creatures and defeated them, but Price had been infected with two different diseases during the fight. Azrael and Thea managed to cure him of both before they left the cave. The group could hear more sounds and movement further in the cave, believing more of the creatures had escaped the rift, but before they could continue Aramil’s connection to his familiar vanished. Fearing the worst the group left the cave and went back to the rift. When they arrived, they could see that the Awakening cult had found them and was trying to stop Liora from closing the rift; Liora was badly injured but was still focused on her task, Fenven was unconscious in the snow, Anastasia was grappled by a large barbarian woman and Breena was fighting a cleric. In total there were 4 strangers, and they were all wearing grey robes over their armor.
Seeing their allies in distress the group attacked. It was a tough fight that nearly cost the lives of three of the guild’s adventurers, but they all made it through, defeated most of the Awakening cult members, finished destroying the rift and returned to the guild.
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