Players
- Brandi- Atani
- David- Malik
- Ryan- Corvis
They come to awareness hanging 30ft from the canyon floor. Only a rope tied around their waists. Enough rope to finish rappelling down the canyon wall. They don't recall the previous dream immediately, but do have a sense of déjà vu.
Malik and Atani are not so graceful in their decent and take fall damage.
They all take a short rest at the bottom, and they realize that they've had a dream like this together before.
They can hear moans carried on the wind. Start to see broken weapons and armor/cloth scraps.
Come across a dead half elf Paritet warrior. Loot a short sword +1, dagger, 5 silver, spell scroll that they can't make out, only the world "thunder" as a lot of seems to be in Old Common and something else they can't identify.
They continue. The wind picks up more. Shaped swirls of wind start to become apparent. They are faint and non-hostile, but swirl out of control and then disappear, only to show back up seconds later and vanish again.
They find the source of moans: a near-dead human ranger. No Paritet insignia. He's babbling softly, not in modern common. Corvis heals the man. The man breathes in, notices the party, and jumps back snarling about Paritet. The party tries to calm him, but he overexcites himself and passes out. They prop him up on the wall.
Not far from him is a babbling Paritet wizard. Squatting and hunched, leaning forward on his staff. His body is warped; bark-like skin, mossy hair, his hands fused into his staff. Malik cuts his throat. No reaction; continues babbling nonsense words no one can make out as he bleeds out.
At this point, the canyon opens up dramatically and occasionally twisters will pop up. They can see the tiniest speck of blurriness further in.
They move toward it and notice the wind is very strong and making them a bit floaty. They encounter a human with a staff. No Paritet association. He takes a defensive stance between them and the blurry speck. Party tries to talk to him, but he snarls at them, making hard to understand statements about Paritet breaking the world.
They are unable to get him to stand down. He blinds Malik with a flash of color from his staff. Corvis (still struggling with getting his spells to work, each time they actually succeed they feel wrong and queasy) summons an illusion of himself. Atani starts floating around the man.
Malik punches the possible children out of the man. The wind is strong enough in the area that everyone is floating several feet from the ground.
Atani grabs the speck. It's a sphere (as close to a sphere that wind can be) of coalesced wind. The sound of the wind turns to a raoring scream around her and she realizes she's now suddenly underwater. She swims to the surface.
As she "swims", she rises in the sky, the strong wind and everyone else being lifted with her. They reach the top of the canyon, and Atani heads for the NW plateau where she can see a group of people waiting expectantly.
When they land, they are surrounded. No one in this group of people are wearing Paritet insignia, and their weapons are pointed at the party.
The party wakes in their homes.
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