Game-Summaries:2/15/2020 Recollections

Recollections by Rezik

As I write this entry, I recognize that this wasn't my greatest hour - hopefully I learned something from this. Here's the story.

It started with a call to arms from Cassio, that Windy Bluff had not been secured. Ci followed behind him, through the portal holding the bodies of Amon and The Yellow - a sight I wasn't expecting at all. It turns out that the group had saved Windy Bluff from the Deathhorde, but not without heavy casualties.

Aside: I hope the Battle-wizards are not all lost, I was growing to like a few of them.

When we caught up with Cassio, he informed us that the seas were bubbling near Windy Bluff and that a Kraken was coming to attack. With that, Kaylorr, Zanna, and I joined Cassio and Ember.

We quickly passed through the portal and found ourselves at Windy Bluff. We took flight - I was on Gramph - and started to survey the area.

Ember noticed a small cultist ritual site nearby. When we looked further in the distance, we saw the Kraken chasing a few ships. The lead ship looks to be The Inheritor, led by Captain Price.

Ember and Zanna went to investigate the ritual site to learn more about what happened. It seems like the cultists had summoned the Kraken, but we're not sure why. Did they know about the artifact? Do they want it for themselves?

The rest of us fly out to The Inheritor and land on the deck. We see Captain Price right away. Cassio, in regular Cassio fashion, asks why we're fleeing from the Kraken and encourages them to turn and fight. Unsure, Captain Price defers to Cassio and commands the ships to stop and turn. The sea swell suddenly stops as well.

As Ember and Zanna come to the Inheritor, we see the Kraken rise from below.

The fight begins and we start attacking the Kraken. We're beset by tentacles and lightning; and Captain Price is flung from the ship to the depths.

Gramph releases her breath on the Kraken, but is caught by the tentacles. I try to use my spells to break her free, but it doesn't work - the Kraken has her held.

Cassio attacks the Kraken and wounds it greatly. It responds by vomiting acid from its Maw, along with a number of acid-covered cultists. We seems like we might actually be able to survive this.

The fight continues and suddenly I hear in my mind - "The death of your daughter heralds an age of kinship. The skies burn with fire and oceans turn to slime." - follow by maniacal laughter. In that moment, the Kraken pulled Gramph into the area and bolts of lightning hit her multiple times. She falls limp and the Kraken throws Gramph into its maw.

It's here that I made my err in judgement, I should have continued with my friends - instead of 'reacting'.

Suddenly the sky opened up as meteors flew down besetting the Kraken and our ship - warding our friends from the spell was easy, but I couldn't stop what was to follow. We fell into the water, where the Krakens lightning bolts shocked us. The meteors has deterred the Kraken as it retreated, but the damage to us had been done as well.

Ember transformed into a giant octopus to save Kaylorr from drowning, while the others followed her to shore.

I attempted to teleport to Windy Bluff, but instead of reaching where I expected, I've found myself in what seems to be another plane - maybe? I'm unsure where I am. It's dark all around me, and there's no floor below me. When I cast light, the light appears but doesn't expand beyond me. A familiar skeleton floats by me in the nothingspace I'm in....do I recognize it?

As I was contemplating where I was and whether I had died or been left in the void - suddenly Kaylorr and Zanna appeared.

We then heard in our minds a bellowing voice: "Side with me or side with him - choose".