The Quarter Crucible

Expedition

The Bonner Boys discover a unique dungeon that connects the elemental planes to the material in separate instances they must brave as one.

Daryl and Birinj fly at the storm surrounding the Isle of Dread. The dragon breathes lighting into the storm and the dragonborn joins in. They break through the storm barrier and fly over the largest landmass in the entire Plane of Water. At the highest plateau of the island they find a small ruin with a doorway on a patch of land in the center of a crater lake. Daryl sees an indent in the center of the door that’s the size of the gem he picked off of Gith’s staff years ago.   Danger and Jett emerge onto the surface of the Plane of Earth. They find the exact same doorway in the side of a mountain. Ia'Affrat surprises them both with an attack from behind.   Indigo flies to a massive earth mote, but at its lowest base stands the same door. This one guarded by a wind duke by the name of Aerisis and his adopted son Windharrow. He suggests Indigo honor his banishment and go back to his mote.   Mirian’s ship docks back on solid (but still burning) ground. The crew all say goodbye to him except Vanifer. He finds her in their room. They share a tearful goodbye and say they love each other. She gives him a Scroll of Teleportation.   Daryl approaches the door with the gem and rests it in the indentation. Behind him, Lizardfolk ride in on a Spinosaurus. Birinj fights them off. The gem is filled with a black color and the door opens. It opens in the Plane of Earth too while Danger and Jett are locked in combat with Ia’Affrat. Ia’Affrat encircles Jett, binding her, and tells Danger to call upon the Devils to defeat the Fey Lords for him. Jett tells him to go and he enters through the door. Daryl grabs the newly filled black gem and enters through the door.   The door opens on the Plane of Air. The wind duke recoils, nervous that this means something could enter their plane from another. Mirian teleports to his own door and finds it wide open. Indigo says goodbye to Windharrow, vows to make things right, and enters through the door. Mirian enters through his own door.   All four move through a dungeon where they are all in different instances of the same rooms. There are some crazed Gith trapped in instances who appear to have been trapped inside for some time.   Finally they all step into one room together, seeing each other for the first time in five years. Daryl places the gem in position and the darkness is expelled to become an attacking Voidling. Their fight explodes out onto a field in the Material Plane. They’re home. They easily work together and destroy it. They grab the gem, now the centerpiece to an Amulet of the Planes.   Indigo reconnects with Braes but Daryl can’t find Cerulean on the plane at all. Braes is in human form and tells the party to come meet him at his resistance base, but they must travel covertly. The Fey Lords have taken over the country and if they learn the party has returned there will be no stopping them.