58. Cock-a-doodle-doo Report

General Summary

14th Dravago, 999 YK

• They proceed into the Mournland.
• They send Zedd into the sky to watch and scout. The land is dead.
• They travel until they get tired, as they are struggling to track how long they've been there, or how far they've travelled. They can't see the sky.
• Warden left marks on the ground to mark their passing.
• It does seem to get dark in accordance to the day/night cycle, but it's much darker than it is outside of the Mournland. They still cannot see the sky.
• They hold watch all night, between Warden, Lozaal and Zedd.

• In the early hours of the morning, a lightning rail goes past them. What the fuck?
• An hour later they find an uneven circle of black glass shards disturbing the conductor stones, and in the centre of them, a human corpse.
• The corpse appears to have been hit by the lightning rail. Oops.
• Kalshana cuts her hand to see if blood is what spawns the black glass obelisks. It's not, and she also learns that you don't naturally heal in the Mournland, and has to be magically healed so that she doesn't bleed to death from a small cut on her hand.
• A couple of hours later, Zedd spots a ruined depot on the lightning rail line, and a small statue on the tracks.
• Zedd tries to move the statue off of the track, and gets attacked by a mechanical dog. Looks like they found Garundah and Errol.
• The party approach and attempt to reason with Errol, who attacks them. Lozaal occupies the construct while Warden sneaks around to examine the statue.
• Warden finds the tattoo, "Bravery Against Danger", written in goblin on her shoulder.
• Warden attempts to dispel whatever has petrified Garundah, which draws Errol's attention. It also draws the attention of several cockatrice that were hiding in the depot.
• The group fucking annihilates the cockatrices. Dax and Zedd are scary.
• Dax knows that cockatrice venom is only temporary petrification.
• They are unable to reason with Errol, despite being very persuasive. Lozaal is an artificer, and recognises that though Errol looks and behaves like a dog, Errol is not a real animal, and lacks sentience. It's just a homunculus acting on it's orders, which seem to be to keep people away from Garundah.
• Lozaal puts Errol down, knowing that Garundah can repair it or make another one.
• They loot the depot for salvage, and about 20 minutes later, Garundah un-petrifies.
• What will she say? What will she think??