The Maelstrom Campaign - Chapter Eight

The 

Arcanic Wastes

Skaemon, Skye, Jessica, Teleran, & Coil

648 Post Maelstrom

As the party exits the greenwood in the final moments of the sunset before it dips below the horizon. The earth is gray here, as though the color and life has been drained from it. The ground is webbed with cracks that leak glowing purple arcane energy from within the land itself. This is the barren landscape that has absorbed the eastern half of the continent, surrounding the city of Ishti Thalore.
The Party rests. During the rest Coil does some scouting discovering a stone temple nearby. When the party wakes up and realizes a storm is moving in, and the storm turns out to be extremely dangerous, the party decides to shelter in the temple.
While hiding in the temple a room in the back of the temple opens and a secret room is revealed. Coil find a mysterious upgrade to his crown in the other room in the bottom of a pool that only he can reach. After a time the storm passes and the party leaves the temple. The continue heading through the Arcanic Wastes towards Ishti Thalore.
The party travels for the remainder of the day through the wastes arriving at the city just as another storm began to roll in.
Teleran, Skye Liuna, and Jessica head for the Archives of Jahthalas. Skye and Jessica each find a book of exceptional value to them.
Coil and Skaemon head for the market in search of rare goods. Skaemon finds a magic item vendor and overpays for a bag of holding. Around this time, the rest of the party leave the archives and head for the market as well.
Right as Skaemon and Coil go to meet with the rest of the party they run back into them in the market. At the same time, they run into a situation between a city official and a street urchin. The party is able to calm the situation and get the child away. Jessica takes her back home where Jessica learns she was just trying to help here sick brother. Jessica heals her brother and then tells them both to leave the city. The rest of the party goes to get a bag of holding and Skaemon buys another one.
The party gets a room above a bar called The Mercenaries Toilet - Tavern. Afterwards Coil and Skaemon do some recon on Skaemons old house in the city. At the same time, Jessica seeks out the magic item merchant and get a bag of holding for herself at a reasonable cost.
Then the full party goes and searches the house for Skaemons old gear. They find it pillaged except for Skaemons old staff, The Ebony Staff, and a gemstone that didn’t belong to Skaemon. While they are searching the house, Jessica keeps watch outside with Skye. They see someone watching the house from the building across the street.
The party returns to the inn to rest. Except Coil who doubles back and followers the person that was watching the house. Coil watched as the mysterious spy followed the party back to their Inn, but only stayed nearby for a short time before returning to his house. Coil waited outside for a while, but ultimately decided it would be best to wait. Coil returns to the inn to rest with the party. While resting he has a dark vision from the Crown of the Immortal Shadow. A new power is obtained, but who knows what the God of Shadows could be whispering...