Weather: Clear Skies and a Moderate Breeze
(Night Watch - Rest): Bobah has to pee. With no
options available, he wets himself.
(Dawn Watch - Travel to the Unknown): The next
morning Bobah crawled out his cupboard and stealthy crept over to Vladimir and
looted his corpse. Then running full out, he too bolted through the door was
with sludges in pursuit. He was promptly tacked and his shoes removed.
Retrieving them from the doorway, he climbed down the rope to the amazement of
Don Jon and Boren. Packing up camp they decide that they need to get some water
as they are running low. They head out to the east side of the volcano.
(Day Watch - Investigate ): Arriving at the
small stream on the eastern edge of the volcano, they encounter two more
castaways. Vermin was well known as a sneak thief and barely trustworthy.
Neville was always too smart for his own good and swore that he used to be a
wizard. They filled the canteens and looked around. Neville spied a large black
obelisk rising from the trees a few hundred yards away. Moving to inspect it
they found that the ground around it for 5' in any direction is burnt and
scorched. The obelisk its self was made of obsidian and resembled an 8’ x 13’
door. Its surface was polished to a mirrorlike finish, and features small
clusters of hexagons made from glowing red crystal, inset in a pattern that
resembles dancing flames. Investigating the obelisk, Vermin touched the
crystal. A pillar of fire erupted from the obelisk, burning with a heat that no
one had felt before. When it vanished, Vermin was gone, burnt to a crisp.
Despair has begun to
set in.
(Day Watch - Travel to the Unknown): After
witnessing the flaming demise of their close friend and bosom companion, Danny
Vermin, they party packed it up to head south. There wasn't anything to bury
anyway. They marched southward in the general direction they assumed the
location of the steam imps was.
After a few hours of
hacking through the underbrush they came across a huge beast, easily 30' at the
shoulder and twice as long. The creature eyed them, for a few minutes while
nibbling on some tree branches. Bobah walked up the trail and kicked over its 2
foot pile of shit to see if there were bones or fur in it. There were not.
Deciding the creature was not much of a threat, they detoured around it and
headed back on their way.
Meanwhile, in a
small room under the volcano, Danny found himself trapped with no way out.
One of the solid
obsidian walls was a single piece of clear sapphire nearly a foot thick,
providing an excellent view of the volcano’s magma pool. A 10’ hexagon of
glowing red crystal was inlaid in the center of the floor, and a large,
lifelike painting of a siren on all fours, wearing a leash and collar, hung on
the west wall. Three portraits of a red-skinned male efreet (laughing, killing,
and lounging in the nude) hang on the room’s other walls. A wardrobe a writing
desk, two plush ogre sized wing back
chairs and a slightly stained chaise lounge completed the room. After several
hour of climbing on things, poking them and generally jacking with everything
in the room (except the chaise), he found that by sitting still in the hexagon
crystal teleported him back outside. Looking around he saw that his best
friends in the world were gone. He knew they were headed south and began to
follow them as best her could.
(Dusk Watch - Explore a Location): The party in
the meantime had stumbled into a strange grove. Massive trees created a visual
barrier for a range of wild flowers and plant life growing in a large field. A
small stream wove through the area, winding past four large obsidian sphere.
Before they could investigate, they were set upon by boars! The fight was swift
and sudden resulting in three dead boars. Nervous about what else lurked in the
underbrush and thinking that perhaps the boars had a den, they undertook a
search of the area.
Lurking in the
underbrush was the remnants of a former adventurer. His gear was strewn about
the area not unlike his body. Searching around the found a large box of steel
engravings, some money, a sword, some chainmail and the parts to what would
later be found to be an easel. The den itself was mostly empty, but
investigating the engravings they learned that the skin of the boars on the
island were resistant to flame. Three skinned board later, they began to set up
camp.
While they searched,
Danny Vermin wandered into the camp, curious as to why they had left him
behind. Lacking any clear answer other than "you were dead," he went
off to investigate the largest of the four spheres. The southern side of the
sphere opened in a hexagonal fashion and no light would penetrate. Bobah tied a
sheet to Vermin and he crawled inside. Immediately the opening to the sphere
slammed shut. After a few seconds in the darkness, elven writing began to
appear on the walls. The writing read "Look within to find your peace and
freedom." then a large triangle on the wall began to glow with a distorted
version of Vermin, casting doubt on everything about him. After spending 15 or
so minutes inside the sphere, the entire thing began to glow and he found a
spherical pendant of clear crystal in his hand. The doors opened and he was
able to exit.
Finding the
fascinating, Bobah wandered over to the smallest of the structures and crawled
inside. He was in the sphere for several hours before he saw vision of massive
fire beast wrestling with a black flamed serpent in a vast sea of lava. The
vision faded quickly and he lost his concentration. The sphere opened up and
the elven writing read "Return when you seek peace."
(Night Watch - Resting): That night the party
rested. Several times they sensed creatures at the edge of the wood, but none
of them entered the grove.
