Danger From Above -12.11.24
General Summary
recap mostly for jareds sake: After defeating the treant, Fritz discovered a small chest that emitted a golden glow when opened, very unsubtly he tucked it away and refused to answer further questions from the group regarding it. After a couple days of travel up a slow incline, a vista appeared. In the distance, a small farming village, one of the many you know to dot the Brookstone Vale was visible. There were two paths before the group to make it to the village, down some rocky peaks and across a large open field or continue up the mountain path into the snow capped peaks before descending- a quicker, but seemingly more precarious option. Ilyn was vaguely able to note the presence of some magical tethers or something arcane like that up the mountain pass, but the group decided to first travel down the mountain and through the fields to the village. Once level with the fields, two very large birds, one a Golden Condor and the other a Silver Winged Griffin, savaged a group of antelope like creatures before flying back into the sky. As they hunted both birds seemed to communicate in a language unknown to the party. There were many indications of similar aerial attacks scattered throughout the fields, but the party decided to move forward with no other preparation. Quickly, the group was absconded by a gargantuan bird of lighting and booming noises- a Thunderbird. Reacting to the attack with more violence, Perritt eventually was lifted into the sky for a moment where he witnessed many flocks of birds, both ordinary and magical all flying and communicating in a language he again didnt know. they seemed to focus centrally on a regal, enormous Eagle. Perritt was dropped and eventually safely landed on the ground as the group heard more and more growing bird chatter and the skys grew dark and cloudy around them to end the session.
From the start of this session, Ravinia decided to turn in to a giant Roc to meet with the many birds over head to learn that it was a sea of birds with a hierarchy of larger with many birds surrounding them, as they were part of a great hunt. The one she talked with was Queen Zellethra, the moonlight queen, who is also a Roc. She is offended that we disturbed the hunt and didn't offer up any tribute or offerings for disturbing the hunt. She was put on a task to deliver something as penance. This was relayed in the form of a letter delivered to Ravinia, but in her bird form she couldn't read the letter and dropped it. The rest of the team recovered the letter but many of the letters in the text were lost and missing. We estimated that it said "Creatures of fire and Lightning and more importantly a moongaze stag"
There were other birds of note such as a golden eagle known as King Winston Cornelius. We were given 36 hours to hunt and bring the prey to the queen in order to get free passage through the hunting grounds, otherwise we will be killed.
At the end of the session we were trying to work on a plan, and headed towards a river in hopes to find creatures that would need to drink from the fresh waters.
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