2022/07/06: Phoenix Clan Hunt Report
General Summary
Knight, Ruby, Sith, Sunderfury, Buzz, Eldrin, Budo, Reela Su, Kenju
Rescued woman is 5’7”, light brown or dark blond hair. A little panicked. Can’t remember her name, but “Ditzy” (which the crew has been calling her) is apparently similar to her name. She has weird vision. The lizardman crew has been using her as an intermediary. She doesn’t remember anything from before she woke up, at least not beyond pain and darkness and sharp black mist. She’s not feeling well. She’s badly beat up and her vision is fuzzy. (We know she’s mechanical.) She thinks she used ranged weapons, but has no particular specialties or combat skills she can recall.
Ruby went to talk to the cabbage salesman. He says four wizardy guys (though one was more a bird thing) showed up. High and mighty types. Pulled out a glowing green lamp, pointed it at the tower, and the tower went up like a firework. They got injured by it, then they got to arguing, then they did some magical things over away from the tower, and then reality got weird and the upside-down pagoda appeared. And then the weird phoenixes showed up gradually. One of the phoenixes roasted and ate a deer.
We went back to pick up Sunderfury, Kenju, and Budo and get our gear from the fox village. Then we went to cut our way into a parallel dream world and kick the door in from the other side of the wall between realities.
We discovered that the cabbage salesman is some sort of powerful dragon like Budo and is cheerfully disguised. (Found later that he’s the elder fire dragon.) We were able to make our way past the dream of the intact Tower of Flying Cinders without being detected, and then Knight cut us a way into the pagoda. We found ourselves in the hallway just inside the entrance, and immediately got in a fight with a horde of emerald terracotta warriors and several greater demons.
The fight escalated into a battle with all four adventurers in their various special forms and protections. Sith, Sunderfury, and Reela Su got sucked into a soul-stealing gem by the enemy thief, but not before Sith placed a Wild Zone over the entire center room. This ended with two of the enemy mages trying to brute-force their way through the “meddling/counterspells”, and ended up polymorphing and genderbending everyone in the building. By then the thief was dead and the mage that was playing phoenix was still stuck outside, so when the transformation crushed one of the mages to death inside his own shield, the other ran for it. Knight hacked his way through the crushed flesh of the shielded mage and retrieved the Emerald Lantern, and then Budo turned everyone back to their original forms.
Now we need to help the city, release the trapped souls, help Budo fight the terracotta army, apply the Emerald Lantern to things to fix the continent, show the Emerald Lantern to the Unicorn Clan, and take the Emerald Lantern to the Black Samurai.
While changing everyone back, Budo noted that the amnesiac woman feels similar to Knight, but in a sort of artificial way. We need to research her more to figure out what’s going on with her.
Rewards Granted
Missions/Quests Completed
Retrieve the Emerald Lantern
Report Date
06 Jul 2022
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