Session 18

The Northern Elves & the Purple Flower (December 21st, 2018)

12 hours before the start of the session, Balor and Ignatius pulled the body of a red dragonborn from the wreckage of the Neptune’s Fortune. The dragonborn appears to have drowned during the shipwreck. On his body they found a silver bracer and a sword. A map was etched on the inside of the bracer, but Balor didn't recognize the location. Ignatius managed to remove a finger from the dragonborn without being seen, then the party constructed a pyre and burned the body. Altair showed the party the logbook he recovered from the captain’s chamber and Balor recognized the name of a passenger, Penelope Farnsworth, as the missing granddaughter of the librarian in New Haven Harbour.

At the start of the session the wood elves in Hyarmyn attacked the sleeping party. Though the PCs were able to kill many of them, the medicine woman Garmul called for reinforcements and demanded that the party leave the village. The party retreated into the jungle, but Ignatius, visibly shaken by the deaths of the crudely armed villagers, delayed his retreat to try to tend to their wounds. As more armed wood elves closed in, Garmul gave Ignatius another chance to leave and queried why “she” sent them.

The party recovered in Altair’s pocket dimension, and Ignatius insisted that they return to Hyarmyn to atone for killing the villagers; however, the rest of the party was in agreement that such action would get Ignatius killed. Ignatius argued that if they did get the jin's wish they would need to start acting like they were worthy of it. The party found safety in a tree for the night, but by morning they had been surrounded by boars at the roots, and harpies in the trees. During the ensuing battle Ignatius was knocked unconscious and fell from the tree; however, Tryx leapt after him and recovered his body before the boars could attack. Following the battle the party debated returning to the Ebon Hawk or completing their mission. They eventually voted to press on in the hopes of finding an Enimat flower to save Ignatius. After a cautious day of travel, the exhausted party came upon a meadow just after sunset. The meadow was devoid of animals and plant life, save for a purple flower in the middle. The party kept their distance from the flower, built a barricade, and then rested for the night in the meadow.