Chapter 60T Bird Brain Report

General Summary

Last we saw our heroes,   The party found themselves engulfed in an instant mountain of Nimbus and Cirrus Clouds within the Ice House. The latest birdbrained scheme cooked up by The Amazing Dr. Grackel nearly drowning the pink haired gnome woman who caught his eye. It ultimately falls to a quick Tiny Hut from to save the party from dying on a golden hill of their own making. Digging their way out, the party quickly takes to the task at hand, attaching the spun together clouds to four points on middle isle of Cloud City, The Storm Peaks.  

  However, four winches must be created big enough to attach the cloud to the main roots of Jack the Beanstalk which are denoted by sites A, B, C and D. Luckily, the storm giant blacksmith Thestrus was among the 8 air genasi who protected the Electrum mint from both the giant rebels AND the orc raiders. Thestrus agreed to help after Randal expressed his doubts about the plans Dr. Grackel cooked up and inability to refine the materials for his parachute scheme. Thanks to some help from Brigit’s Air Elemental form, the 8 priests were able to weave the cloud together into the right shape. Thestrus bent the raw metal he had saved from his shop at the Storm Peaks. The plan was back in business. While they finished their work, they party was freed up to scope out the different sites.   They started at Site A. It just so happened to be in the middle of a battlefield between the newly arrived Aarakocra Militia led by the self titled Sargent Professor Edwin Forebeak. The military history professor from Booksworth Academy agreed to clear a L-Z for the mission. Understanding the need for haste after watching a few of the students fall to the orcish raiders who were drawn to the island after the party fled there with one of their shamans, Firekeeper Morn Loregramar. They returned to collect the first sites parachute and prepared for battle.   Flying in with their Aarakocra squadron, Varys and Fen opened a barrage of arrows. Their efforts, two out of the three students survived the attack. Kid Hawkins, one of the survivors, was the falcon aarakocra who originally witnessed the party entering the city through the large pine tree in the middle of Laputa Town. Only then did the party come to realize how nearly impossible this task would be to repeat 4 times correctly. Nevermind how difficult it would be to get to the sites, bond the cloud to the roots, and wench up the cloud parachute. The real challenge will be keeping the enemy from destroying already limited size parachutes while they are setting up the next site.   Luckily they were able to speak with the roots to latch onto the parachute, however unluckily, the massive silhouette of Volcanis the Red, now rushed towards them, blazing a trail through friend and foe alike in his warpath to the party.