Kuthona 22nd, 4712
Today we extinguished the storm tower. I just have to hope that these creatures never make their way down to Iqaliat. I have never seen beasts like this before it was truly an experience to remember.
The wind was howling to the extent that using my longbow was not even possible in parts of this tower. There were times during the assault on the tower where the others didn’t really need my help and I was wondering if they even needed me here at all.
After fighting undead at the entrance of the tower we found a tree that tried to kill us. This was a vicious tree that grabbed Qatana and then kind of spit her out in some type of pod. While the others were working on killing the living tree I ran over and started cutting Qatana out of the pod. I later found out that it was using acid to finish her off. After the tree was dead I think they said something about the tree being carnivorous. I am not sure if I will every look at trees the same way after this.
We found a control panel and Radella spent some time trying to figure out how to make it work. She was finally able to get it to work well enough to get us to the second floor. The worms on the second floor were vicious. I spent the entire battle running from or trying to escape from the worms. Both worms ended up dead at the hands of the others but I really couldn’t tell who killed which worm from the vantage point of inside one of the worms. Upon the death of the worm holding me I was thrown out and made a perfect landing but I was still invisible so no one witnessed my great feat.
We found another control panel that even Radella couldn’t figure out. Luckily for us Qatana had a spell that could cut holes into stone. These fascinating crystal creatures inside used some type of teleport magic to move around and attack us. One by one we destroyed these crystal creatures but they also had the ability to cast the spell—
“Qatana what was the spell those crystal creatures used on Olmas and Sparna? It’s for my journal. “
“Tooch of idiocy”
“How do you spell that?
“Oh you said ‘touch’. Thanks”
Touch of idiocy
Qatana, Kali, and Sparna figured that these crystal creatures were somehow have been keeping this
“Qatana what did you call that blue crystal thing in the room? ‘Machine’, right.”
Machine running for hundreds or maybe thousands of years. It only took Qatana and I about 40 minutes to pull all of the crystals out of the walls. 4 of the crystals radiated magic. Kali seemed most concerned with the two that could cause blindness but there were also two crystals that will protect us from the extreme cold.
In the meantime Radella was working to get the platform to go up to the third floor. I am not exactly sure how she figured this out as it was very complex. Before going up to the third floor Kali sent an elemental up to see what was up on the third floor. With the information that there were undead she sent a fireball up to the third floor that exploded with boom. She next sent up some earth elementals and less than a minute later two of the undead bodies went flying by.
With resist energy from the wand providing electric and cold plus my hide from undead we head up to the third floor on the platform. We all moved off the platform. There was a blue female creature with wings up on a platform 50 feet in the air.
“Qatana what was the name of that blue woman?”
Oh guess since Qatana isn’t here anymore I will have to just refer to her as the ‘blue woman with wings’.
The blue woman with wings looked tough and everyone but Kali and me flew up to engage her. This is the first time I have ever used hide from undead so I did not realize that as soon as someone attacked the blue woman with wings that it would break the spell. I suddenly found myself unable to move after being hit by one of the undead. From my vantage point I watch as Sparna flew down and vanquished one of the undead before he himself was unable to move. Things got worse as I heard a thud to my right. I wanted to turn and look by I was just not able to clearly see what it was, It definitely didn’t look friendly.
I was able to break free from the paralyzing hold this creature had on me and dashed over to Kali and Sparna to recast the hide from undead spell. This provided us with some time. I was able to free up Sparna and watched as Kali headed to the celling and surprisingly blocked the strong winds.
The battle finally turned in our favor as Sparna and Radella converged on the blue woman with wings and ended her reign of terror. Once all of the undead had been allowed to pass onto the next life those that could fly smashed the blue crystals bring calmness to the tower of storms. Clearly this is no longer the tower of storms.
We looked over the gear and her headband looked really nice. Qatana, Radella, and I all had interest in the item but in the end both Qatana and I kind of decided that it may not be the right item for us so Radella will be the one buying this from the party.
After some time Radella figured out how to make the platform go down. Seems like we could have saved time by just jumping. On the first floor Radella wanted to check out the control panel more and Olmas wanted to pick mushrooms. As it turns out the mushrooms byte back, well at least the invisible ones do. Olmas was showing off when the sword granted him the ability to see invisible. It must have been funning to anyone watching us swing at nothing. A few minutes after killing a mushroom creature it became visible. Parts were gather and we headed back to the caravan.
Since leaving Iqaliat I keep having the same dream. I am looking down at a group of undead. Right after Kali casts her fireball I cast this mysterious spell. As the spell goes off all of undead are attacked by pastel light pink and blue butterflies with imagines of stars, suns, and moons upon their wings. In what sounds like Koya’s voice I hear
“Desna’s wrath affects those farthest from her the most while those deemed worthy will be spared her wrath. “
So clearly the spell that I asked the gods for is not the one they chose to give me. Koya just tells me to trust in Desna’s wisdom and that I should have let her dance at the wedding. Turns out people in a small town can’t keep a secret.
Sesi when you read this I admit that your suggestion that maybe we should wait for my friends to return would have been the correct thing to do. After watching everyone go through the struggles of adjusting to the high ice I can see where a party would have been good for them.