Quest for the Teleportation Catalyst

Expedition

A large quest undertaken by multiple groups of adventurers, including our party, who were looking for great rewards and renown to turn Seconvale into a major hub of travel the world over.

Its a quiet day in the tavern when three masked and robed people enter the bar, telling everyone but the party to leave. To which even the bartender flees from them. The figures revealed themselves as drow, including Violets mistress, Espeaux. The party are informed of a great search for a bunch of identical crystals in order to make a transportation network between cities of the world. She hires on the party to find the crystal, and let the drow take the credit for finding them. The party is informed that others know of the crystals location in the nearby mountains of Tobar Vor. She informs the party that the crystal originally belonged too a green dragon atop the mountains, but after it was slain, the crystal was not retrieved, instead it stayed atop the mountains. Espeaux tells them that she expects them back in a month before she assumes them dead. After Espeaux and party leaves, Violet reveals to them a set of wings that she had been keeping hidden the entire time, a set of white feathered wings. The party heads out of town using a wagon they rented for the journey, and end up camping for the night. A pair of the party allegedly met some strange creature in the night, but they dont quite remember what it was, or what it looked like. The next day around mid day, the party comes upon what looks to be the aftermath of a war. 15 bandits are are laying, dead, with a purse of gold, some weapons, and some armor sitting in the middle of the road, amongst the dead. In front of the bag happened to be an 8 pointed star with whiskers coming out of it in lines in the dirt. Rea noticed that the marking is a holy symbol of Fifi, the god of pure courage. After another nights sleep, the party trecks up the mountainside, finding numerous corpses being left behind and looted of orcs. After traveling for a bit longer, they come upon a light stream trickling down the snowy mountainside, and attempt to cross. Suddenly, an ooze attacks them, having been perfectly blended into the surrounding water. The party attacks it over and over, but mostly just creates more slimes for them to fight. The party was a mess, even with Blaze attacking an ooze as it grabbed onto Rea, and shooting a crossbow bolt directly into rea, causing them to need to rest for the night to lick their wounds, and continue in the morning. After resting, the party continued their journey, coming upon a cave that nestled behind a frozen waterfall. They enter when suddenly they are set upon large ice creatures that resemble the local wildlife. After a brief combat, the party reins victorious, with the most serious injury being a dislocated shoulder from Kaelyn when she hit a creature too hard. Scouring the cavern, they find an old mummified corpse with a bit of treasure, they pocket the things and continue on. After continuing on, they manage to find a dwarf campsite, in this case, Eisfelsen. They get inside, grab a few drinks, and go to sleep. After a good rest, and food, the party makes their way further into the mountains, knowing that they dont have a lot of time to find the crystal and bring it back home. They travel and find an adventurer, his body beaten and broken, and completely frozen over. Thats when they hear chanting and a deep fog sets into place around the party. Spells fly, creatures are summoned, and the majority of the party gets shot up 50 feet in the air. But, the creatures get so annoyed with Reas armor, they ask her to leave, and so the party does. The party continues on, licking their wounds as they go, before they come upon a cave. The cave is only 20 feet deep, with what appear to be the splattered remains of some creature, that is unrecognizable with the body burnt so badly. Bones also line the inside walls of the cave. After deciding to rest there, the party hears wingbeaats of multiple creatures. A murder of extremely large crows appears before the mouth of the cave, feasting on the cooked flesh of what was remaining in the cave beforehand. The giant crows thank the party for the feast and hospitality, and fly away, leaving them alone to rest. After resting for another night, they continue up the mountain path, finding corpses, frozen in panic and fear along the path, along with great sheets of ice before them. Several of them looked to have been devoured. Continuing on, the party comes upon another cave, this one extremely large, with room enough to fit over a house should one desire to do so. Looking over the map, this was supposedly the location the green dragon was slain at originally. The walls shimmering with a beautiful light, from reflections deeper within the cave. Eventually they come upon a large entrence into the cave, and see a white dragon laying atop his hoard. The party attempt to get the dragon to get away from his hoard, but get into a huge fight with them. But after a long hard fought battle, with dragon trickery in full force. The party defeated the dragon, and claimed his hoard. They make it back to the campsite they were at the night before, and rest for the night. The party is rudely awoken by extreme wingbeats and an eagle cry so loud that it wakes everyone up with a start, nearly deafening them all. And they managed to get back to Eisfelsen without issue. They meet with a cleric of Rhamnasia, who tells them of rumors involving a hellgate have been heard about in the mountains. The party ventures out from Eisfelsen again the next day, making their way back to civilization. On their way back, they hear a scream from a nearby cave, the same one they cleared out only a few days beforehand. They investigate, and find that it is a Gauth, ready to fight mid meal. However, thanks to some lucky strikes, they quickly destroy the creature without further incident. The party arrive back in town three days later, and enter the tavern, triumphant at slaying a dragon. They recive a letter from the druid pixie. "Dear my great friends at this wonderful tavern in the city. HELLO! IM SO HAPPY TO REACH OUT TO YOU ALL AND THANK YOU SO MUCH! The Goliath and I have had a wonderful chat about the woodlands, about being homesick and he was more than happy to help. Asop has been a huge help in reclaiming the mines, and the workers are all safe and sound because we make a great team. Please feel free to visit at any time, we are more than happy to have visitors here in the forest, also if Lady Dai'Gishkin could send another druid our way, we still really need the help to turn the wilderness back into the way it should be and would greately appreciate support. "Also all the trees say hiand we hope you have wonderful adventures together.!" -Verna The party makes their way out of town, a few hour journey as the sun is just beginning to set. Approaching the troll cave, the party can see a large bonfire, and can hear music. Tamborines, lutes, and even a hudry gurdy can be heard playing throughout the large campsite. the party is in full swing as Drow, still wearing protective goggles, trolls, and even an ogre on the drums are enjoying each others company. Several people are dancing in the firelight and overall having a great time. The party meet with and speak with Espeaux, who thanks them for their bravery and speedy recovery of the gem, and gives them all rewards.