Session 4: The Hurricane

General Summary

Moving out from the Brackish pool, they explored to the coastline from there and continued along it.
After spending the night along the coast, you continued through the day foraging as they explored.
While the exploration efforts were bot effective, they did come across a boar grazing along the coast. They engaged and killed the beast. Grik with his knowledge of boars and his steady hand expertly butchered the beast providing a significant amount of meat.
Being not far from Hemsun, the party decided to return with the meat to help feed them, as well as to smoke some of the meat.
After debriefing Dranon about their findings and the fate of Simcha, he assisted the party in the smoking a the meat and making dinner. The mood around camp improved greatly as a result of the fresh meat and those around camp seemed to think better of the party.
Heading out the following morning loading up first with the supplies they had stored aboard their ship.
Traveling along the river until they reached the tree landmark before crossing to the south side of the river heading for the marked location on Simchas map.During that day, the winds did not blow, and the heat sweltered.
As they approached the market the jungle grew thick and difficult to get through. After finally hacking through the brush, they arrived at a large opening with 3 pools constantly flowing cool clean water. Besides the largest pool is a large fruit tree with 8 large apple shaped fruits. 1 gold 7 red. Grik Mala'Molzor decided to test the fruit. The Red apple granted a unique insight granting +5 on a knowledge check. The golden apple granted a cast of augury.
After Returning to the river the wind began to pickup once more. As the sun began to set, the wind continued to worsened. Charles could now see the storm cloud rolling in.
By sunset the wind was now blowing dangerously, it became apparent shelter must be found by any means. So began the trek to find a small mound Grik had spotted along the way. Making their way back up the river as fast as they could. They quickly became separated as some had issues making their way through the wind.
Charles Drake managed to bolt ahead, being used to the storms from his time on the ship. Dodging flying debris and expertly navigating the terrain, he managed to find and reach the small hill that was use able as cover. Getting there considerably ahead of the rest, he then used the combination of an alchemical cartridge and some extra black powder and cotton wad to form a make shift flair. Firing it into the air, signaling to the rest where they need to get to.
Keilana Vyshaan had some difficulty at first getting knocked around in the wind and taking some debris injuring her slightly. Once Charles fired the flair she was able to reach the protection of the hill.
Grik Mala'Molzor had great difficulty in the wind, deciding to stick to a slow methodical movement forward. The debris began to hammer grik, consistently getting caught offguard and taking increasing damage. Losing all sight of his allies he desperately tried to continue forward. Heavily wounded, in a last ditch effort attempted to brew himself a cure wounds potion. Successfully brewing it, as soon as he raised it to his lips a large tree branch hit him square in the face and he fell unconscious.
Unconscious and alone, Grik continued to get battered by the storm, with no way to avoid the damage consistent damage was applied to him resulting in a serious concussion resulting in some memory loss.
After not seeing Grik for 5 additional minutes, Charles decided he had to go back to try and find him. Slowly searching the jungle in the darkness, aided by a lasting light source provided by Keilana. Charles managed to find Grik right as the eye of the storm passed overhead. The Temperature dropping, but the wind and rain stopping temporarily. Giving Grik a healing potion he was awoken once again, bruised and bloodied, but alive.
Together they managed to survive the storm once again and reach the mound safely. Where they met up once again with Keilana who had found an opening in the side of the hill, and setup a small fire in the entrance way. After some time evaluating Grik's state, and some mention of Potato people, out of the darkness of the cave a large black panther lunged at them.

Report Date

20 May 2018