Crystal Shadows

The servants of the Shade Crystal sail across Nystor's Path. On the way, the dwarven fishermen giving passage requested that Crush keep an eye out under the water for any sunken vessels that might have any lost goods. The Tortle along with Chupta's School of Familiars managed to locate lost copper shipments but nothing else major. The party split the find with the fishermen. The next day they made dock in Langdale placing the crew onto the Colonial Highway and the Cobblestone Serpent.

After acquiring Altomari's collection of Temperance Shards, the combination of shards doubled the quantity of Self brought back to the Shade Crystal. At the merging, Fozz's scrutinization of the shards causedpanic, hand grabbing harshly, whiteknuckled onto the chair next to him. With the growth of power, his discerning awareness once more picked up the faint ringing of chains similar to what he had witnessed in the liminal space of preserved death.   With the merging, the Shade Crystal's strength grew. While still not to a level that would allow free conversation, the party would now be able to call upon it's wisdom in discreet moments outside of the mergers. With the collection of Temperence Shards also came a gathering of memories. It seems that with each new addition to the collection, not only are new powers unlocked, but new memories as well, memories that had been lost with each Temperance Shard sent away. The entity's name was at some point Myskothema though it knows not when nor how exactly it had acquired the amount of power that it had. It is sure that it had to be taken from another for it cannot fathom something giving away such a vast amount of power willingly. For now, the party has agreed to call it Myska and have claimed the terms of Myska's Menagerie and Myska's Miscreants for themselves.

The following day led Myska's Menagerie out from the mountains and over the Ulgos Jungle. The journey over the rich green forests was simple, with continued training among your party members. Crush spent a day flying down among the jungle to witness large insects, carnivorous plants, and the territorial bouts of monstrous, metallic bulls causing the forest area to crumble to dust. Chupta expanded his powers by welcoming his companions into his luxurious ring for the first time. Crossing the jungle border by the second afternoon, the party began to see villages scattered in the distance.

Myska's Menagerie are tentatively welcomed into Dul Kag as their look for answers.

After Myska's Menagerie regrouped in Dul Kag and caught each other up on the happenstances of their weeks, they prepared for their voyage northward. Astrid just had one last appointment. She met up with the PI Mods to hear what the investigator had to say. Apparently, Torbjörn Sjöberg had been a lead in mining expeditions a handful of decades back. Low stuff, near the cusp of the underdark, During a collapse, he saved 17 people but didn't make it out himself. At least not immediately. Rather, a year and a half later he found his way back up and out, carrying on him his entire pieced together means of survival, everything from shelter to jarred oozes and caged critters for defense of the wilds below. He attempted to get back to life but the celebrity didn't suit him, the questions and prying eyes trying to figure out what his life had been first got him to shift from the mines to the smithies. Then they got him to pack up all his belongings into a mulehut and leave Dul Kag all together to find someplace else to live that didn't know him. Her answers gotten, Astrid was ready to join the journey northward.

Crush flies back home to find that his home isn't what it's supposed to be.  He finds his father tortured as a dark message from Scizzord.  If visiting Bactran brought answers about Scizzord, Crush visiting home brought a new booklet of questions.

Myska's Menagerie bring their stresses to Orwin Oreson, meet a new companion, and seek out a contact that may know where Scizzord is.

(Rajdeep Maichu, Maximilian Farwood, Orwin Oreson/Sicuro Altomari, Crush Tengral, and Scissord. If you were wondering.)

Myska's Menagerie learn more of their quarry and witness the first major fracturing of Altomari's confidence.

Myska's Menagerie make their flight from New Derth to Fowler's Mill and run afowl of roadkill along the way.

Myska's Menagerie root around an olding ghost town to see what they can find.

Myska's Menagerie negotiate  for the release of the Billowbluff hostages while navigating thicker threads.