Session 43 - The Claw of Vulkoor

General Summary

25-30 drow still on the road
Main road
I swig some marching powder
Ok so all the nerds are trying to chase after the jock drow.
Nothing is going well
Deborah, being carried by Illalai’s gargoyle, spots a suletar ship in stealth mode heading towards the gathering ground.

Deborah swaps with me and I fly above the canopy. I barely manage to hit them with a fireball, they ignite their engine and abandon stealth.
Rakki tires to follow up with a guiding bolt but is too far behind.

The suletar appear to be dropping napalm
I was wrong they summoned fire elementals.
The fight seems to be going well. I’m sort of soloing the sulatar while the others deal with the fire elementals. The vulkoori aspects are helping me which is nice.
After an extended bullshit wizard’s duel I am knocked out.
Rakki tries to call to Balinor to help my unconscious ass. Balinor does not like me. No wait it seems like he does.
Illalai makes his Gargoyle kamikaze the ship and deals a buttload of damage.
Wrathful manages to do what I couldn’t and kills the wizard. The Sulatar are trying to flee. The monk has threatened to dart me if I don’t let them go.
Rakki blows up the second elemental with a guiding bolt.
Deborah blows up the airship and unleashes the fire elemental which escapes.
Makhad takes the monk and telports away using a spell like ability.
Mafaldine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBqFIa_Q4Bg
Hunter is fairly young.
The Wrathful is an older woman
The aspects seem happy with our efforts.
Rakki, the wrathful and Shiv are interrogating the archer.
Old ruins up in the mountains, sulatar are holed up there and in the volcanic plains nearby.
The archer’s name is Tolka.
I loot a spellbook, a jar of spell ink and some minor valuables.
I try and steal the ink for myself but Rakki has FUCKING 22 PASSIVE PERCEPTION.
He then yeets me into a tree after I stomp on the dead wizards face.
I brush myself off and walk into the bone hut and start identifying the sword.
There is a place 2000 miles away called the basalt citadel, this is the main sulatar base. Six months out of every year they have to work for the leaders. This year they had an expedition to this island. Tolka volunteered for it. Makhad runs the ‘cleansing embers’ a raiding party. They have been trying to puzzle out the sulat league artifacts. Adaxus had a laboratory in the mountain.
There was a weapon there he was working on. It’s linked to the doors of the promise apparently. The Unburned, has immunity to fire damage, she’s in Adaxus’s lab trying to access the weapon.
Only Makhad is stealing children. The other raiding parties don’t take them. Makhad almost certainly has taken Talrentath’s kids. Tolka thinks that Makhad is selling the children. He also seems to stockpile magic items and gems.
Tonight’s attack was to grab one of the leaders and use them as leverage/ gain information from them.
Rakki convinces Talrentath not to Kill Tolka, instead questioning her for the sulatar base’s whereabouts.
There is a Greatsword and a Dagger in the Hydra’s head. Predator (sword) and Spite (Dagger), they belonged to the wraiths of the west and the south. There are trials to try and earn them. A very old tradition, south in the kraken river. In the marshlands there is a spawning group of hydra. A ten headed hydra is a record. If we get the hydra to have 11 heads and kill it we get both the weapons and carapace armor. They currently don’t have a wraith of the east cause there kinda isn’t a ‘east’ for them.
Scorpion wraiths are only of Vulkoor.
Vulkor likes only those who are dedicated to vengeance.
The ritual resumes. They have accepted us into the fold. We are welcome here, now and always.
Talrentath begins to sing and many join him.
Tal will help us however we can in trying to beat the Suletar.
We share a drink with him.
The southernmost Penninsula of the island has a SHITLOAD OF UNDEAD. They apparently sing.
Ok it’s party time.
Apparently, the orchid’s are a reasonably common gift. The suletar are very good glassblowers and weave slight enchantments into them. Usually gifted to someone you care for.
Oh shit it’s big ritual time. It’s pretty literal there is a 10ft monument of black stone rising from the river. It is shaped like a giant scorpion claw.
Deborah is not the best cook but hey she tries.
Shiv warns me about the permanence of acquiring power from Vulkoor.
Apparently, a weapon from the mountain has wounded the world. She has been in pain for 1000’s of years.
Rakki and Illalai are talking to Kevra about the visions Illalai had in the caves.
I don’t get rejected by Vulkor but nor do I get fully accepted. Vulkoor prefers those that take vengeance for others and not themselves.
Sathem stays put for a few days.

Report Date

20 Mar 2020