Chapter 3, Part VI: Glades of Ruin

Zara Trouble

    Written by Sean

GUESS WHO'S BACK, FYNALI!! If you guessed your favorite raccoon, Trouble, you'd be right! Friend Zara learned a spell she can use to speak to me, so we talked a lotta stuff out at the big tree. We have a plan now and we're partners we're like super official badasses now. Next thing we knew, partner Zara and I just poofed into this cold forest but, it felt wrong. Felt creepy. We talked to the angry buff rabbit guy, the nerdy human, and Rox Lord Drama (RLD) who all told partner Zara and me about how the forest is super evil and making friends fight each other.

We walked through the creepy forest for a while and we found a lotta dead people, looked really bad, not like the stuff you see in the wild. They just killed each other to kill each other cuz they were so mad. The forest was shooting out these big wooshes of energy and that was what was making people angry. It took hold of the angry buff rabbit guy but, it doesn't make much of a difference, that guy is angry all the time... he's kind of a jerk, honestly. We walked a lot, it was kinda boring till we had to fight stuff. A creepy dragonborn guy and some snotty looking booger things and a creepy flesh tree.

It took us some time to make it there but we got to the center of the creepy forest. We found the guy we were looking for and he seems pretty tough. I'd say wish us luck but we're not gonna need it. This is Trouble, signing off!

Louie Dahlia

    Written by Sean

So, we backed Aurelius into a corner by trapping him on his ship. We had burnt up the sails of his ship which basically left it crippled and moving at a snail's pace. We called the Void Queen to pick us up, the Archon and the King hopped on with us to chase him down, I'm concerned about having them tag along but, they're both capable warriors and I can't exactly tell those people what to do it's just that they're way too important to risk doing something like this. When we finally caught up to the fucker, Theo scoped out the boat with his little bird, and found out the piece of shit lined the boat with barrels of black powder. He planned on luring us onto the boat before setting off the bombs. I got an idea to do something pretty risky and stupid but he teleported off of the boat to the center of the Northreach Glades.

We weren't about to give up so we went after him. When we landed in the Northreach Glades, the soldiers on the ground there had only just gotten the orders about the cease fire and we showed up with the Archon and the King. It was honestly kinda funny to see the looks on their faces when they saw us all together.

Theodore

    Written by Justin

We give chase in our ship, King and Archon with us

I send the familiar to follow them

There are some barrels filled with explosives

Aurelius has a plan to teleport off the boat

We come up with a hare brained plan to send Louis in flight to try to blow up the boat

Mind Spiike tells me that Aurelius has teleported to the Northreach Glades so we abandon the explodey plan

We are heading to the Northreach Glades, DOJO join us, FPC boat is going to take care of the explodey boat

Long rest, portent are 18 and 14

We land in the Northreach Glades, approaching an Evervalian encampment that has both Evervalian and Crystalian soldiers working together

Odd stuff going on in the forest, neither army is responsible for it

One guy came back from approaching this thing, he has gone kind of crazy?

The madness is a mixture of something magical with some garden variety madness

Ford trying to get through to him soldier to soldier

"Forest moves, it thuds, it ruins, the fire catches, the fire catches, it thuds, it ruins, the forest moves, the fire catches"

He went in to the forest to scout, 8 or 9 of them, it was confusing, took a break and sat down for a second, and everybody started killing each other

They ate Deryk?!?!?!

Like something buried a seed of anger and every so often it gets watered and grows a little bit, until it was overwhelming

Forest was moving? Big thuds? Forest would randomly catch on fire

I have a Sending Stone from the Archon to give them the go ahead once we get through the insanity forest

Zara joins us for the sake of having another body

We come across Deryk's "body" and three others. It appears the other three ate Deryk and then stabbed each other

We go South and a pulse comes across us, Wisdom save, Louis fails and burns a rage

Our next save, Myself and Ford fail, anger starts to set in

We find a hut with a bloodbath outside, these aren't soldiers, these are bandits, singing and laughing coming from the hut

Some freaky ass thing in the hut

We take him out, in the house we find

Shortbow, +1 (to Zara)

Dagger, +1 (to Zara)

Potion of Healing (to me)

Potion of Greater Healing (to Ford)

A Circlet (I notice a Brawlmart logo on it) (I'm holding on to this)

Ford tries Divine Sense, Celestial presence is coursing through the vines

ON a Nat 20 there is something else here, mixed in with the Celestial, feels reminiscent of the monsters we found under the Brio temple

We continue on and a big smoke thing hits us ,but opens a new path that we choose to follow

Final (?) fight vs Aerelius' bitch ass next time