Party 1 Session 1 Report

General Summary

Enazel Dak'ari, Sofia Elvan, Rachel Whiteeyes, meet all the members of the explorer team and explain where, why and how the Expedition would go to the great dark continent to the west. Why the landing was to the far western coast rather than near to Bavo'sand.   The Players got thrown together as the oddballs, the Wanderer Actino, along with the Leader of the Steel Fury body of men Shard, while his men would be mostly camp guard, he had negotiate a position of explorer for him and his hireling Bar-Rai the Minotaur. Robin of the Ebon Heart was assigned as a member that could be trusted by the City to maintain the job at hand.   They also got sight of their colleagues or rivals depending on how they saw it, The Family, The Saviors of Illran, The Bloody and the The Silver League, only the Saviors were know by name to the party the rest where groups of adventurers just like themselves.   Shard took notice in Venwynn of the Saviors as obvious person who knew about magical powers and could potentially help him understand what the accident at the Gate did to him.   3 Weeks ship travel to the The Great Expedition Campsite. (Player characters get to know each other as they were oddballs that were hired individually or in pairs and got thrown together.   As the initial landings took place something start draining magic away from those with the arcane powers, the more powerful you were the quick it was taken. The Leaders authorise quick deployment of the adventuring teams to investigate the surrounding areas for what could be causing this. The Players group was told to head along the coastline to see what they could find there, the leaders believe whatever was causing this was probably not nature and within a hundred miles of were they were.   The players discover and explore many natural caves on the way north, but a cave about 3 days north of the camp in cliffside of the sea that, was 10 feet up the cliff and went down was the most promising,   As they descent the cave, which was around 10 to 12 feet wide and high, They noticed some purply pink crystal that seemed to be scraped along the walls, floor and ceiling, which had a inner glow to them, as Shard touch them he got a shock of magical energy but nothing useful or dangerous.   At the bottom was a large cave with a metallic ball towards the back which was glowing Pinky Purple from a crystal held within side, with multiple large boulders of similar colour crystals along the walls of the cave. The cave itself was around 50 feet across and roughly circular.   There was a low level light from the crystals pulsing with an inner light. As they started looking round they saw a large water snake that scales had been crystallized, which was asleep towards the back of the cave, but as the noisy characters starting moving around the cave it woke up.   Shard tried to talk to the creature mind to mind, and it seemed to notice but didn't stopped, it tried to wrap itself round Actino, who it couldn't get a grip on due to the shell, after which it went for an easier target in Robin, while taking blows from the group chipping and smashing the crystal scales. In the end the party drove it off and made a quick exit with a number of crystalline boulders and the metallic ball being carry by Bar-Rai.   While journeying back they caught sight of a large reptile creature coming out of the jungle, which seeing the party it ran away as fast as it appeared. While travelling back as a group they discussed what the device could be, and where it came from. From an anti-magic weapon from a Ship to something that came from space, or was being transported in the air.   Back at Camp, Shard let Rachel (member of the crystal mages and one of the leaders of the expedition) know what they discovered, while the rest stay a distance back from the camp with the ball of magic draining,   Rachel with Yu Chen went to look at the strange device and Chen wide eyed and like a child with a new toy started going over it, she discovered the controls that the group missed and stabilised the energy draw so it didn't keep draining everyone around it.