So, we arrived in Farshore, and we’re not there five minutes before Kira snatches the note on the door that was meant for him. It explodes, and a huge black dragon appears! It seems to be polite enough, but it tries to eat Kira. Needless to say, we’re not having any of that, and we fight back. While Elora casts something I don’t quite see at it, I cast Mage Armor on myself and charge in front of it. However, it seems to ignore me and goes right for Kira. I don’t see everything it does- it’s a bit too fast for me- I know it gets in a hell of a gore attack and some kind of body slam. Iago runs up to Kira and Meric takes a moment to squint, say, “Dammit!” and runs for the dragon. Casidhe tries to disintegrate the dragon, though I think she mistakes me for it and zaps me instead. I can understand that; to some people, all draconic beings look alike. At least, that’s the excuse I used when I was in…well, that’s another story altogether, and in no way relevant!

“Sorry dragon guy!” Casidhe yells at me.

Yeferia also charges forward (do you get the sense of a common theme here?) and stabs at the creature, but doesn’t do much damage. Kira flails defensively at it, but can’t seem to hit it in a way that seems to matter to the big dragon. It seems fixated on Kira, and just doesn’t notice us for some reason (or at least, doesn’t seem to care about us). It is a polite dragon, and it’s speech is accented in some way I’m not familiar with. I move around to the other side of it, but I don’t do much good there, either. It ignores me when I run past. It picks up Kira in its jaws, and Iago runs away from it (a more sensible action than what we’re doing, to be sure!). Meric climbs on to the dragon, which seems logical to me. Casidhe seems a bit on the indecisive side, but winds up casting Dimensional Anchor. Yeferia once again stabs at it with her naginata, and manages to hurt it a little bit. Elora does something, and teleports to Kira, grabbing at him on her way to the ground, and teleports again. I’m not sure where she’s going, but I think she wanted to grab Kira and teleport away- but Kira remains in the jaws of the beast. Huffing to myself, I holster Magemasher and grapple onto the dragon’s big right toe. In response, it flaps its giant wings, shaking me and Meric off. It uses its wings in a burst of energy, leaping onto what’s left of Lavinia’s mansion, crushing it.

“Come back, you cowardly fiend!” I think Meric yells that, but honestly, I couldn’t tell. I was busy picking myself up off the ground.

With no effort at all, the dragon plucks off one of Kira’s wings with the sound of tearing bone and sinew, and it flutters to the ground like a piece of bloody canvas! Iago takes aim at the dragon with his bow, but misses completely. Meric looks at me, and casts his eyes back at the dragon. I think I get it, and nod and grin -well, all my teeth show anyway, and I hope it looks like a grin. Meric runs up to me and casts Bull’s Strength on me, while Casidhe tries to cast something, but instead opts to run to Yeferia. The elf paladin closes the distance, firing Tico’s new bow at the dragon (where’d she get that? Did Tico give that to her?). An arrow plants itself into the dragon’s scales. Kira, firmly in the dragon’s jaws, stabs his sword at its eye in stark defiance, but manages only to hit its eyelid plates.

Taking a deep breath, I plant my feet and grab Meric by the back of his chestplate, spin around, and fling him towards the dragon. I get some great distance, but not enough for Meric to reach the top of the dragon’s head. He pulls out his sword and axe, and digs into the side of Lavinia’s ruined mansion. The dragon clamps down on Kira, and grabs his horns and remaining wing. There’s a sickening tearing sound, and off comes the wing and horns, leaving gaping wounds that begin to cascade blood out of them. It flings Kira’s bloody mass off the roof, just as Meric calls upon some guy named Ramses, and we can all smell the flesh of the dragon burning. He finishes his climb up to the roof. Casidhe runs up to Kira, who seems to be going through death spasms. Yeferia does the same, shouting her rage at the dragon. Elora, back from wherever it is she went, casts her signature color orb of death at it, that I call the Kaleidosphere, and slams into the creature, but I can’t tell if it does anything to it. Startled, wanting vengeance, I take a running leap at the house, climbing up to the roof, just as the dragon smirks and tells us,

“Don’t mess with your betters.”

Leaving us with a very dead Kira.

Iago and Argyle conspire to bring back Kira. Iago shatters his orb, preparing a spell, standing over Kira delivering a long benediction to our fallen leader-by-default. Kira’s body body begins to re-corporate, and half of Farshore turns out to hear it. However, it seems to fall short of its target (there’s a lot of that going around today), and Kira doesn’t wake up.

A half-giant walks over, and begins examining Kira. She introduces herself as Meela Stormstomper, and I don’t know her- but oh man! I’d sure like to. But focus, focus!

Kira glows red hot, and even though Casidhe and Elora seem to know something, they’re not sharing. Meric walks over and picks of Kira’s weapon, and a funny look crosses his face. “Hey,” Meric says, “It turns out, Kira wasn’t crazy!” Is the weapon…talking to him? I just thought Kira was a nutjob, just like everyone else. Iago runs off with his henchman in tow, and I don’t see where they’re off to. Meric is talking to the katana and mentions going “into” Kira. Thinking about it, I think Walker (or was it the changeling guy? Even I can’t keep up!) wrote about this in the journal, about once going into an artifact and making some beast cry. It’s all about dispelling bad things in an artifact or space… but a person? Can it be done?

Mirri says, in short, that we have to go into Kira’s “soul refraction”, and that it’ll be hard. So what else is new? Since Kira is still currently dead or comatose, that means Yeferia is next in charge, and tells Meric we may get hazard pay, after he goes on and on about it. Meela decides to tag along, for whatever reason. I won’t complain much- the only eye candy we have is a half-naked elf and some girl who probably isn’t out of school yet (and I just feel dirty lookin’, to be honest), so I’m not minding that at all! Not that Elora isn’t attractive, but she looks like Meric, and they could trade off, and I’m just not into that at all.

“Let’s stop waiting around,” Elora exclaims, “Let’s go save the boss!” We all second it.

Mirri indicates for all of us to join hands, and Poth sits on Yeferia’s head, who has an orb.

“Please don’t tell me the verbal component for this is singing Kumbaya,” I say to Mirri.

She responds curtly with, “No.”

Poth, meanwhile, has a short conversation with Meric, and Spits the orb out at him. Meela hands some sort of kitty to Casidhe, who declines to go.

Mirri reminds us that we can’t come back unless we succeed. We all figured it was do or die anyway…none of us do anything halfway! A fog suddenly rolls in and covers everything, and…well, this is where things get weird.

Elora plays with the fog, and Meric suggests we think of Kira, and Mirri agrees. We decide to think of Angry Kira, but that seems to be a bad idea when a Balor almost materializes. I keep forgetting- when inside someone’s psyche, everything is metaphorical!

We discuss some other ideas. Lavinia, for one. She was close to Kira, and she may be able to help us out. That is, the Lavinia in Kira’s brain, not the one outside. Soon enough, we hear her boots clacking against the…something, dressed very much like a swashbuckler. She’s pleasant in manner and appearance, and we follow her to Kira’s Intellect, to a clearing. And there’s a ship captain here. They talk, and I’m a bit..lost? Something about a Leviathan killing Kira from the inside, and something about Self-Loathing and I don’t quite get it at all. I think the captain lady is talking about metaphors and feelings. She tries to explain it to me, but to no avail. If I can’t smash or love it, I don’t get it.

After the short visit, Lavinia and the captain lady take us to a tavern, and there’s a drunk guy waiting for us. He’s totally drunk, and admits to being a douchebag…but wait. This is in Kira’s mind, so there’s no telling if it’s true or not! He makes a pass at Meela, who threatens to pound him. Sexy.

“To the Flogging Room!” Meric exclaimed suddenly, and a huge shadow passes over us. We look into a pool of tears, I think, and we see Kira’s shortcomings with Lavinia, and her in some negligee. Cute. Not my type, though. She looks like if she misses one meal, she’s dead! But then again, a lot of the girls around us are unhealthy in their weight, I think. Mirri looks absolutely anemic- but then again, she’s an elf; she’s supposed to look like that. Sigh Oh well.

As we look into a pool, we see a memory of someone talking to Lavinia about Casidhe, but it seems not as geniune as the others. Could it be a plant? Meric suggests that we kill some of Kira’s negative attributes, which isn’t that bad of an idea. But instead, we seek a plan in Self-Doubt…but instead we find Yeferia. Well, another Yeferia anyway. This one doesn’t seem to speak a language I know, and something big comes swooping in and takes the half-naked elf before we have much time with her. So! Confused!

Failing that, we try to find Kira’s memory in an attempt to find Kira himself. We come to another clearing, and there’s nothing here but a huge block of holey cheese. There is also a gnome here, and someone thinks that Mirri did something naughty with that gnome on the outside. Who am I to judge? But, the gnome turns into a ferret (I didn’t know Mirri was like that I swear!), and it talks about the Leviathan, and Meela asks about Kira’s Loyalty. The ferret says they never met, but there is a good Pride and a bad Pride as well. We opt for good Pride.

We find ourselves in some kind of garden that has an old guy working the soil. There’s more talk of finding Loyalty, and Iago hits on Meela. Off to find Loyalty we go, but Iago thinks that we should kill Kira’s childhood, on the off chance that all his problems stem from those ages.

We find a grubby druid, that from Walker’s journal’s description, I can tell it’s Axtli. He and Yeferia talk about getting rid of Kira’s infernal heritage. Feeling there’s no other way to grab Kira, Axtli screams for help, and lo and behold, Kira shows up! There’s more discussion that goes way over my head, and he points to some kind of monster in the fog, or “mother” as Axtli puts it. He seems to think it’s Kira’s mother, but in this mixed up world, it could just be a cheeseburger or something!

Elora asks about how we can help, and the old guy from the garden shows up, saying that we could try to kill the parent or try to aid Kira in some other way. This plan, I like. Iago, however, says something to Kira about just giving up, which nudges Kira out of his funk and into action. After some argument (cough Iago cough), we charge the demon/devil/cheeseburger thing.

I leap into the air, cleaving pieces off the thing, and Meela charges in to do the same. Her twin swords bite deep, but the wounds close up almost as soon as they’re done. “Bitch!” screams Iago, and slaps her (the devil thing, not Meela). It’s the most macho thing I’ve ever seen him do, but it has no effect- if there was even an effect he was going for. Mirri casts Shield on Kira- if my knowledge of the arcane holds true- and Kira charges into battle, screaming something about that thing not being his mother. Well, damn. I guess we are fighting a cheeseburger. Unlike us, though, when Kira slashes into it, the wounds he makes stays around. Elora readies another Kaleidosphere, and it crushes into the creature, but doesn’t do anything to it. But…Kira’s blow landed. Perhaps we should try shoring up Kira’s psyche instead?

The other bits of Kira are there as well, and Lavinia seems uncertain. I place my trust in Kira instead of attacking, and Meela begins to sing all pretty like. Iago tries to shoot the demon, putting an arrow into her chest, which doesn’t seem to damage her, but it stuns. Just as well, if you ask me. Mirri pulls out a wand of true strike and casts it at Kira, and Meric seems to be dwelling on the battle against Khala. Elora does much the same. Yeferia also give Kira her vote of confidence. So empowered, Kira slices into the foul demonic-devilish-cheeseburger-thing, and sinks the blade in deep, though the other blade lands sharply at my feet! The creature itself falls apart in several sections. That’ll teach it!

Tico the dinosaur shows up, dragging some bulbous thing in its teeth to Kira. There’s a giant sword in its side, with a draconic rune that says “Duty” on it. Kira walks up and pulls the sword out of the lump, and Tico drags it away again, leaving Kira with the sword. I dare to hope that we’ve actually pulled this off. The Lavinia figment throws herself at Kira, and begins smooching him. He and Yeferia bicker, which ends in Yeferia violently expelling her clothes from her body. If only this were under better circumstances! Lavinia tells Kira to love her, even though he already does. Does she mean to give her love or return her love? It just goes to show you that, even though you may travel with a person, you don’t know all about their love life. For that, I just might be grateful.

We all suddenly find ourselves back, but Cass doesn’t seem to think that that much time has passed. When Kira comes out of the tent erected over his corpse that was dropped into the middle of the street, he is bald and wingless and hornless, and his scars give him a very painful looking appearance.

“You are no longer a child of Set,” Meric says. I don’t know what that means, either. It’s just not my day.

Kira tries flying, and Meela tries catching him when he falls, and they both just kind of…fail. However, he suspects that Vanthus (whom I discovered is Lavinia’s dead brother!), may be behind the dragon attack, and everyone including myself find this perfectly plausible. Mirri may try to scry on him later, but he could be readying a trap for such an occurrence. But, if this Vanthus is alive, he’s not counting on Kira being alive, which means we may have a shot at surprising him. Kira’s ship arrives in Farshore, and it won’t be long before we’re ready to move out.

I don’t know this Vanthus Vanderboren, but he’s hurt someone I care about. When I get through with him, he’s gonna wish he was dead…again!

today we had to save kira from himself we had
to enter his soul ..

days end
we enter your soul kira it was filled with
this white cloudy thing that looked alive
they called it fog i have no idea what it is
as i was playing with it i wondered to myself
what it tasted like it must taste like wood
smoke i was unable to try it as we sat in the
darkness we pondered what to do and inspiration
hit brother and i at the same time as it usually
does we began to think on moving foreword and
all it got us was back to the group in the end
we all decided to think good thoughts about you
and apparently the priest who i have trouble
thinking is truly a priest and not just a drunk
couldn’t keep his mind clear he brought up the
manifestation of balor we forced him to think
of happy thoughts and leveniah came out of the
darkness she eventually showed us to the path
that would save you we talked to many forms of
yourself we watched you eat your self doubt
and in the end we cheered you on as you fought
your wrath we comforted you and from the
sidelines i bravely shot into the darkness
trying to save us all but failing when
we came to the conclusion that we should think
happy thoughts my mind wondered to the
times we spent training you were at peace
while going through your stances with brother
i remember watching from the bench as i
read through my book over and over again
ha.. i remember slamming a rainbow orb your way
and you just dodged it and laughed boss your a
great boss I’m glade we saved you now we need
to save her to

To day was a bad day, but if you have read the title you already know this. Today started out so well, you know with Kira running up to the note WHILE I was saying “are we going to check it for traps…” So the Fiends that stole away his on-again off-again fiance left him more then a note. And they have learned about our ability to take on there more powerful demons with no problem, so they hired an outside source. That’s right, did a Balor pop out? A Palrethee? Hell even a Kastighur would have been easy, but no it had to summon a dragon, a big dragon, a BIG BLACK DRAGON! Dragons are not my forte, I have never fought one, I have seen the ruins of what a blue dragon we were never able to track down did, and it did not leave one person alive… This black dragon however did not attack a single person other then Kira, we tried so hard to save him… Even our dragon did… My sister even did a real flashy show of her magic that did not phase it… And mussel did NOT work where magic failed… In the end we had to watch as Kira was ripped limb from limb and then tossed down like garbage. I’ll admit I don’t fully like the guy, but he did not deserve that. Then our “priest” and I used the term lightly, for he is less of a priest then Kira himself is. Said he would bring him back if we paid him… IF WE PAID HIM! After all Kira had done to protect this priest and his land, after what ALL of us had done to protect this land this greedy priest says that Kira now owes him 10,000 gold… And worse yet he screwed it up, of course he screwed it up, priests are worth hardly anything, why do the gods give powers to people who understand them so little? I keep asking myself this… But yes, the priest screwed it up and we had to go into Kira’s soul, this is where my day goes from bad to worse. Inside his soul we find out that he is trying to beat out the demon that rests in his bloodline! Who could have known that we could cure the beats of there affliction!? I will have to remember this for the future! maybe someday our wold could be free from the ugly sin spawns of Set. But to focus on my story again we were in Kira’s soul: We met several people of whom I have never met, and who everyone else seemed to know. They were the images of Kira’s personality and we had to get all of the positive ones in one place with Kira to fight his Devil mother, After hitting her a few times with our own weapons we found that they did not affect the beast at all, but soon we realized that if we focused all our positive thoughts about Kira into our minds eye he would become stronger! And by Ra was it hard to think of Kira in a positive light! All I’ve seen him do besides fight is mope and yell and drink! So I resided to focus on the fighting, and with all of our help he managed to beat his mother down to a bloody pulp! And we were finally let out of the hell that was Kira’s soul, I tell you if that happens again I will be staying behind. Considering that its only just past noon I truly hope this day can’t get any worse!

And now, the rest of the story…

So, we’ve destroyed the Kopru, and everyone is poking around the chamber of hot mud to see what they can find. We find a metal coffer, with three emeralds inside. Somewhere, Tico finds a metal skeleton, which has a sword and a ring. Nobody, neither Iago nor Tico nor Meric know anything about them after a bit of study- all we know is that the sword is lighter than it should be. Iago wants Tico’s new ring, though I think it’s more because it’s something he could sell. I think Iago’s off his nut. He’s a good guy- more or less- but there are times when he just creeps me out. I do admire his persistence, though. As for me, I finish my mud bath and man, my scales look great!

We go through a tunnel and head north, but it’s not long before I hear something drowning or dying up ahead. I warn the others, and we magically buff up for whatever horrifying monstrocity will ambush us. When we come out of the tunnel, we find a huge pearl.

We also find the monster we are here to kill. I try not to pay too much attention to what it’s saying- it could have charm spells or something!- but it is well spoken for a beast. I hear something behind me, and I whirl around with my sword drawn and scream “Ahaaa…haa….aaa…ha!” That’ll teach ‘em! Or, rather, that’s when all hell breaks loose.

The light from the tunnel shined rainbow for a second, and I think I see Meric chopping on something ahead of me. All I hear is yeling and spells going off behind me. I hear Tico let off a short grunt of pain. The creature attacks Meric again; I plan on joining him up there rather than in the rear. Khala hocks a loogie on Meric, and it looks like acid or something. I surge ahead anyway, attempting to help Meric chop the strange monster into sushi. My blade doesn’t go as deep as I want it to. Kira come up behind me and has more luck. I hear Tico flailing away at another of these monsters. Sounds like it’s hurt, too. Yeferia’s also back there, hurting the creature. I can only see her footwear when the girth of the monster sways a certain way, but it’s heartening to know that someone else is chopping at the great beast.

Meric takes out his petrified dung beetle, and screams, “Ramses help me!” A giant beetle shows up! I don’t know what it says- I don’t speak Mulhorandi- but the bug starts bringing flame and pain to the thing in front of me. It tramples the Kopru-like beast spewing bright light everywhere. Kira and I decide to get out of the way of the giant beetle.

Behind us, Iago shoots some arrows at another beast behind us, pinning it to the cavern wall and killing it. Elora come up behind us, waggling fingers at the monster in front of us (while Khala taunts us). It seems…clumsier than it used to be, and it turns to fight the dung beetle, getting a bit of damage in.

Further into the room and ankle deep in water, Khala casts a summoning spell, and it seems to look like a giant spider. Kira calls it a Retriever and says it’s bad. Good enough for me. I stay away from it, instead choosing to approach big Khala and blow fire all over the hulking mass of demonoid muscles. Khala dodges some, absorbs some, but also takes some. It isn’t completely immune to my fire…thank goodness. Meric has a good plan to take the fight to the bad guys- let’s hope it works! I can see Tico flip right past me on her way to Khala, and it hits her. Tico looks weakened, too. I think Yeferia confronts the Retriever, but I can’t see what’s going on over there clearly. Meric turns to face the Retriever while the poop bug fights the other frog-like monster. Tico continues to flail at Khala; hopefully I can get there to distract it for them! The poop bug kills the skullven (I think that’s what I hear the others call it). I think the Retriever attacks Casidhe- wasn’t she invisible a minute ago?- and hurts her pretty badly. For me, it’s just a big blur back there and I can hardly see anything else other than the giant monstrosity in front of me, Khala.

Casting Haste, I give it to Tico by smacking her in the butt. Hey, if I die here, I want to be able to say I got a good feel out of it! Kira runs around to flank the Retriever. Tico gets in close to Khala and lightly pummels it. Meric charges ahead of me, missing an axe attack. A bolt of energy steaks past us, but doesn’t do much to it. I run to Khala’s flank, and I think Kira on its other side. Tico’s busy healing herself, though- she’s taken an awful lot of damage. Meric moves, having made himself larger, and keeps swinging at Khala. Casidhe fires off a ray of some kind, but it doesn’t seem to do anything that I can tell. I chop into demon flesh, and Kira rushes forward, daisho whirling. Tico resumes smacking it with her stick, which suddenly turns into a bow for no reason. What? Yeferia also rushes in. Meric changes stances ever so slightly and his sword is on fire. Whatever his sword is doing, it seems to be hurting Khala quite a bit. The monster’s heads looked about to Kira, Tico and Yeferia, and I hear Kira say, “Friggin’ gaze attacks.”

A pinkish ball of energy flies out, and it strikes Elora, doing nothing. Kira and I keep step with Khala carving chunks from his demonic hide as he continuously tries to back away from us. Tico seems to be fighting the influence of the creature, holstering her bow in favor of fists and feet. She doesn’t seem to be faring so well, from what I can tell. I hear Yeferia let out a warcry, and she continues to stab at the massive two headed beast. Meric steps forward, following Khala’s backwards movement as well. Elora fires a rainbow beam at the demon, but I don’t think it does much other than dazzle him.

Khala keeps moving backwards, and we who are close stab into him as he casts something that dispels magic. I continue to slice him up and I hear Kira on the opposite side doing the same. Tico bashes the thing with her fists to varying degree of success, and Yeferia uses her naginata to maintain a little distance while stabbing at the creature. Iago, whom I think was hiding behind Elora, runs forward, while Elora flings out another rainbow beam. He moves backwards, doing something to the pearl on the dais, and the demon falls! Tico shrieks and runs away. Iago heals Meric of Khala’s influence. Tico comes back and says, “Just kidding!” I do a victory dance, which probably looks awkward on account of the fact I can’t dance.

After some examination, the pearl is a Savage Tide pearl! It’s designed to explode and spread a sort of wave of madness in a certain radius, but this one is slightly defective, so its influence would only be felt for about…oh, a hundred yards or so. On the next floor, there is a giant mirror, It’s not on, though. We heal up as best we can. Tico digs around the dead body for her other stick. Instead, she finds an old Olman dead body, carrying around a holy symbol of Lathander (I think Meric worships Lathander, maybe), but not Tico’s old stick.

Casidhe prepares to teleport us to a vantage point close to the ongoing battle above us, but we have to fit ourselves into some magic bags. Yeferia is almost eager to hop in the sack, which I’m all for. I hop in the same sack as she does (but nothing happens you perverts!). When we arrive at our vantage point, it seems like our troops are holding their own, but one of the line’s is weakening. Even worse, it looks like one of the demons has her stick, the man-boobed demon that had taken it before. I think there’s a score to be settled here.

Though we were hurt badly in the last fight, we turn to our orbs to help. I never used mine before, but this seems like as good a time as any. Yeferia shatters her orb to give us a day’s worth of rest. Tico uses her to manifest herself in the sky as a giant lady.

“You will feel my wrath!” her image yells, “For attacking my people on my land!” A huge light shines out, scorching the demons where they stand. I can hear the shrieking from where I’m standing. I shatter my orb, hoping to teleport us into the fray. Kira burns a feather, and Elora burns with scintillating light, and her wings detached for a moment, and some Coatl that I think is named Tomato (which is Olman for Fear, I believe) joins us in the fight.

We teleport, instead, to the far edge of the battlefield. Bummer for me.

Good news is, there are these large, ugly birds doing a little dance, and we get to stop ‘em! Meric slides in behind one that is in front of him, and Tico lashes out at him. Elora casts an orb of force at it. Iago calls down a pillar of holy fire that clips Meric, who seems to be in a bit of awe. Casidhe hits it with a beam of energy, and I cut deep into it, killing the blasted thing in one hell of a team effort. That’s one down. The others…hardly worth mentioning.

In short, we slaughter hordes of the demons, coming to the demon who has Tico’s stick. Manboob casts a failed spell at Tico, and Meric charges. He doesn’t hit, but it seems to regard him as a danger just the same. Tico also charges, slugging it in the head with her other stick- but it bounces off. Elora hits it with a Ray of Clumsiness, and Manboob seems to slow down a lot. While Iago shoots it with a bow, Kira also charges ahead. I do the same, casting Haste on myself and Meric. Yeferia comes around and tries to stab it, and Meric slashes into it, screaming, “That’s for farting on me!” To be fair, Manboob did fart on him in our first encounter, and Meric was acting oddly for the longest time. If some demon had farted on me, I might feel the same way!

He half cuts off Manboob’s hand, but does not go all the way through. Kira attacks, cutting into it as well. Elora slams it with an orb of force…again. It bores a hole clean through it and two other demons behind it. Manboob the demon falls and combusts. “That’s what happens when you fart on a paladin!” I hear Meric yell.

After that, the battle turns in our favor. We all wade into combat cutting the rest of the demons to ribbons as they flee in terror. We wind up losing about twenty-five percent of our fighting force, and five percent more are injured, and the Coatl helped save them. Meravanchi is amazingly here as well and is also a hero by the sound of things. Apparently, he routed six of those dancing bird things, while losing his left hand in the process- so he’s kind of like our version of Manboob the Demon! Tico smooches him on the lips and says, “Thank the ancestors, we won!” I don’t hear what is being said after that…it’s just too weird that Tico smooches the guy that would rather knife her and leave her in the gutter and take over her organization but, I digress. It must be the nerves!

We establish a base camp on the plateau- it’ll take at least a month to flush ‘em all out, but for now, we’ve won the battle and the demons are on the run. We still have unanswered questions, but they can wait. It’ll be a victory march to Hymat, and somehow, the island feels less oppressive and more…pure. When we get to the fortress, Tico sends messengers in all directions- the war is over! Her people recognize her as the spiritual leader of her people, and she discovers that they won’t let her leave anymore- she’s too important to them! The day after, Kira disappears, and is found later in Iago’s enclave, drunk. Turns out, Lavinia left him a letter, breaking off their engagement.

Casidhe and Yeferia stage an intervention for the drunken Kira, who doesn’t seem very appreciative of their efforts- then again, it smells like he’s spent the better part of the day getting hammered on rum, which does nothing for his disposition. Kira and Yeferia argue back and forth, supported by Cass and Tico. Kira flies away, after giving everyone the finger. The joke’s on him, though- Cass sics one of the gryphons after him, and Iago uses his holy powers to sober him up. There’s more arguing back and forth, and I’m thoroughly confused, and Kira remains unconvinced. Tico and he argue, and Cass tries to get through to him.

Meric and I, figuring Lavinia is eligible, try to go to Farshore via Mirri- no, that’s not entirely true. We’re going to do our part of help,and along with Elora, we’ll go talk to Lavinia ourselves. If only to tell her what a dipstick Kira’s being.

Once we reach Farshore, it’s clear that something is wrong. The top story of Lavinia’s manor has been blown off, and there’s been a huge fight. On top of all that, Lavinia’s gone. We teleport to back and deliver the news. Debate rages; is Banthas back? It’s a stark maybe. Kira’s slowly stands up, looking strangely calm, for the first time in, well, as long as I’ve known him, which isn’t long.

“What’s up, boss?” Elora asks.

Kira walks out, saying to Casidhe, “Don’t leave without me.”

He comes back, fully dressed for battle and yells for Poth. The fat bird falls out of the rafters.

“Lavinia’s gone,” he says to the bird.

“You up for this?” Poth asks.

“Let’s go kill something.”

Kira affirms his relationship with his weapons, which strikes me as odd, but we all pledge to help just the same. To be truthful, I kind of feel sorry for whomever has taken Lavinia. We’ve freed the Isle of Dread, we’ve piled the dead high, and now we’re gonna carve a chunk out of someone else’s ass. When we find these guys…there will be hell to pay.

Today we place a victory notch on our swords. I have never witnessed battle before. I won’t lie I was horrified. I watched my fellow angels fall before me bleeding heavily dying, screaming, and fighting. For a moment, I was frozen in time I remembered what my brother had told me when we were children. He told me when I was scared, imagine the sun on my face its warmth covering me cradling me softly take that warmth in and breathe. It will be your courage.

The battle began to move slowly. I saw Tiko our fearless leader grow to an incredible size. She must have been 50 feet high. Her voice boomed loudly in my ears. She rallied the troops and a great light shone from the heavens. I thought to myself. It must be RA’s light coming to bring us courage. I watched the demons around us wail in pain as the light touched their skin. My blood lust stirred. I wanted them to feel my fathers embrace.

We fought for hours keeping the demons at bay. As my blood lust took over I cast many spells against the evil man boob demon and as the battle took centuries in my mind to finish. I cast my last orb of force into this hideous creature and created a large hole in his belly. The rainbow beamed brighter than ever as it hit a few other demons behind the demon dubbed man boob. He fell to his knees and breathed his last breath. I watched the surprise on his face as he looked into Tikos eyes may be for a second I could see his thoughts. He must have wondered how such a seemingly weak group could pull this off and live.

Tonight I sleep with a smile on my face

-Elora

We now stand at the base of the ziggurat. This is the base of Demigorgan’s general. Time to destroy him and help our army. We climb the steps, all the while Merric is counting. He says there are three hundred steps. That is exactly how many days are in our calendar. Interesting. Perhaps later someone can come and work out this little puzzle.
Finally the damned rain is abating. Hopefully this will make vision a bit easier. When we finally reach the top we can see much more clearly. At the center of this aspect, there is a huge stone block that is covering the entrance. Merric is on about some silly crowbar. Though I suppose it would be useful here, but he was griping about it even before we reached the top. What a strange man.
Merric and Baelon push the boulder aside and it goes crashing down one of the sides of the ziggurat. I suppose I should have been paying more attention because the entrance was a trap. It was a deep hole with no end as far as we could see and I fell right into it. Luckily the ancestors guided my reflexes and I was able to catch myself. Keira and Yeferia drag me back out.
Obviously this is not the way it. We do a bit more scouting and find the this temple is the same on all sides. Although on one side there is a mirror. Elora says it is now non-functional. Good. I hope we have wrecked many of their plans with out mirror smashing ways.
Eventually we find an entrance and go in. We move down the corridor to the North. At intervals we see statutes of Olman Warriors. Iago of course appears to be looking for something (more diamonds most likely). He gouges out one of the statue’s eyes and a door opens. Let’s here it for greed.
We follow this 70ft corridor to a dead end. There are some strange looking stones and I somehow manage to press the right one and the wall drops to reveal a small room with Olman writing in it. Once we enter the room the door shuts behind us (of course), but there are two other doors one to the left and one to the right.
I read the writing and don’t really like what it says.
May the blood protect the flesh
Ok, creepy. There is a small model ziggurat with a trough at the top. I cut my hand hoping no one sees my hand shaking and bleed into the trough. There is a loud thunk that seems to echo all around us. And then… nothing.
I try the doors. The door on the right is stone and does not open, the door on the left is wood and opens easily. This leads to another corridor with stairs leading down. We are about halfway down when Keira stops and says that someone may be scrying on us. So Baelon decides to moon everyone. Great, just what we need, demons, traps and now dragon ass.
Cassidy tells Keira that he’s getting old and then stalks away. Ahh, I fear the deep seated crush is over.
20 ft down the corridor there is another locked door and Yeferia tries to listen. She hears nothing, so Keira tells Baelon to knock down the door. He makes and attempt to and then bounces off the door to go rolling down the stairs. Dainty little Yeferia steps up and with a quick kick knocks the door open.
Her in this room there is an alter with a trail of blood leading to a doorway and down a flight of steps. Baelon trips, and goes tumbling down this flight of stairs as well. Poor dear, he isn’t very graceful. He lands at the bottom guarded by more Olman statues. There is a hallway to the left about 40ft long ending in a small 30’ X 30’ chamber. In this room there are 18 3’ tall urns. There are harpoons and low and behold a pry bar. Once again Iago goes in search of treasure and manages to break one of the urns. I take a harpoon and we follow a set of stairs leading down into a partially flooded room with 5 huge deformed and horned oysters. So, this is where they make the evil pearls. With demonic oysters.
Yeferia does her detect evil thing and sees 5 great evils and 5 lesser evils. Keira begins discussing these evil oysters. All I know is that I will never eat oysters again.
There are two more exits on the other side of the room. The water is about 2ft deep. One of the exits is 10’long and is semi-natural. It empties into another chamber where there is stone furniture and the water is now 4’deep. And of course there are Kourpurus in there. One of them makes Baelon it’s bitch, I mean thrall and orders him to attack Iago. The other 2 attack Merric and Keira. Luckily Cassidy removes the spell over Baelon and the battle rages on.
During this battle, one of the Kourpuru ducks under the water and swims away. No doubt to tell the general of our progress. We finally kill the other two creatures finding on them three sets of studded leather armor, 2 potions of…something, and I skin them with some satisfaction. We can make some decent leather armor and a couple of bolos.
Keira is a bit cranky afterward. He didn’t appreciate being grappled for most of the battle and kept out of the action. He gets very upset if he doesn’t get to kill something in every battle. I suppose I don’t blame him…maybe it is just part of his devilish upbringing.
We are unable to follow the fleeing Kourpuru and have to turn back to the other partially flooded room. The water here stinks and again is about 4’ deep. There are two exits and we take the North one. After some time there are tunnels that make the stench worse. As we walk down the corridors we are attacked by oozes.
I managed to fall into one, but fight my way back out. We hack and slash at them only to find that this causes them to replicate. Not a good tactic. Baelon breathes fire on one and gets rid of it, but there are just too many and we are on a schedule. So we run past them as they are very slow creatures.
We come to another room that again has water 4’deep. There are mosaics that are not of Olman design decorating the room. There is a door at the end of the room which would open outward. Baelon enlarges himself and pushes the door open. This causes the water to rush out dragging Keira, Alora, Iago and Yeferia out. Keira and Alora are grabbed, but Yeferia and Iago go tumbling out with the water and are washed down a flight of stairs.
Yeferia apparently landed safely enough, but poor Iago landed in a pool of hot liquid.
The air in this cavern is steamy and foul. The floor bubbles with mud pots, geysers and hot springs and contains mineral crusts. Steam makes vision difficult. There are a couple of pillars and some walkways.
Yeferia helps Iago out and he begins sloughing off the hot mud.
I use my staff as a walking stick, making sure the floor is solid, but still all around us the mud boils and pops and we are sprayed with droplets of burning hot, foul mud. As we make our way, Keira begins talking to himself. We realize that he is telling us that there are tentacle monsters in the mud and that they are much larger than Kourpurus.
We begin moving across the walkways toward a door at the far end of the cavern. It is very slippery and Iago ends up getting thrown over Baelon’s shoulder like a sack of flower.
We are getting so close to the door that we can almost taste it when 3 huge Kourpurus rise from their respective cesspools. Baelon creates 4 mirror images of himself carrying Iago.
One of the beasts sees Merric as the biggest threat and goes after him with a vengence. I am not too worried about him. Merric is a threat and a great warrior. He can best this monster.
One by one the tentacles crush Baelon’s mirror images. Probably deciding that this is not the safest place to be, Iago wiggles his way out of Baelon’s grasp to slide down his tail and land safely at the rear of the party. I’ve never met anyone one with as strong a sense of self preservation as Iago.
Probably still feeling a little cranky from his last encounter with the Kourpuru, Keira makes the one he’s fighting with scream and cry like a little girl.
Not liking this, the beast grabs Baelon and drags him into the mud pit. Baelon yells for us to tell him mother he got married. I don’t understand this and hope it was a joke.
There is more fighting and screaming and crying, and even a little dance number by Yeferia as she dances across the mud to do battle. But in the end the monsters know that they cannot defeat us so they summon 4 hezrou. We kill off the Kourpuru and then chuckling because we are especially good at killing demons turn our attention to the Hezrou. It doesn’t take us very long to dispose of that trash.
Although I have to say, during this battle, I became very irritated. This weapon isn’t as good as my holy weapon. And this is supposed to be the great weapon that will destroy my enemies? I want my other one back. I’m starting to get as cranky as Keira. Ok, so no one is as cranky as Keira, but I’m coming close.
But now that all the demons are dead in this room, it is time to figure out our next move.

“…So, here we are, we find ourselves in a very cobwebbed room. We find a pile of rings on the floor in the dank room, and wouldn’t you know it? Yeferia picks some up, and they attach themselves to each other- well, a few of ‘em anyway. When the elf drops ’em, though, Tico the Resticked Lady goes nutso…something about a two headed somethingorother. I don’t think I understand, but given that we’re here to deal with the forces of Demogorgon- I think- it’s understandable. Some people just have that kind of reaction to demonic forces…can’t hold it against her, really.

“Well, there’s nothing for it; we’ve gotta get across this room! Confidently, I began to stride across the room- only, I step on some of those damned slippery rings and fall flat on my face, and I grab Elora by the wing and take her with me on accident (That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it!). I get ‘em all over me, and everyone has a hearty laugh at my expense, even myself. I look ridiculous with all those rings hanging off of me; it’s too bad they’re not worth much, though, because I could use a few good rings. I give up trying to walk across the rings and just swim through them, using my tail to guide me.

“We find ourselves in a dusty old room, and everyone begins staring at the floor. Not sure why, something about footprints? I can make footprints, I just don’t stare at them all day. Moreover, I think there’s something on my boot. Is that a booger?

“We come to a door with a grinning Olman statue. He looks like a fighter; I wonder what he’s smiling at? It sort of makes me nervous. Just a bit. Tico the Resticked Lady opens the door- the hinges are on our side- and we discover that it’s raining pretty hard. I really hope the head honcho demon isn’t standing in that. We move on.

“Back inside, I think Kira looks lost or confused (or maybe both? It’s hard to tell with him). He says the footprints on the ground have been…switched. Bending down, I wiggle the dust around, smelling and tasting it. It tastes like fear- like tomatoes. We’ve been through worse. As we traverse this dust-filled hall, we come to a new area, and there are a lot of religious vestments here, or so it looks like. The smell is pretty powerful; it smells of rotten leather down here! Tico thinks it may have been a changing room of sorts. That would explain the foul scent- not that I’m going to look, but I’m sure we’d find a huge pile of underwear under all that leather.

“In any case, we get out of there pretty fast, and I’m sure I can’t smell anything else but rotten leather and underwear. It’ll take forever to get this out of my nostrils, I’m thinking to myself, when all of a sudden, a block slams into the ceiling so fast we can hardly take notice! It’s trapped us on this side, and Tico is nowhere to be found. I hope she’s trapped on the other side, otherwise…eww. Morbidly curious, I try to pull the block down with my perfectly rippling draconic muscles. I’m bracing myself for a pile of gore glued to the ceiling, and I think everyone stops breathing for a moment.

“Phew. No gore. That means she’s alive. Maybe.

“Somehow, the block turns, and we’re all faced with a door that looks old and wooden. Meric asks me to smash it, and I suddenly feel incredibly stereotyped. So what else is there to do? Baelon smash!

“And…there’s Tico, sitting at a banquet table and she…has she lost her memory? She’s shoving food into her face at top speed, and I can sympathize with that. After all, how long has it been since I’ve eaten or even used the bathroom? That I can’t remember sort of hurts my feelings! Anyway, Tico starts acting like a guy, and hits on Yeferia, not that the elf would notice (she’s too polite to notice something like that). I don’t get it- does she think she’s a dwarf? She talks like it. She swats the aforementioned elf on the bottom. I’m jealous. I must have checked out for a few moments-daydreaming I guess- because the next thing I know, Yeferia is giving Tico a lap dance! It’s kind of kinky, the sort of thing I’ve never seen before. I think I might like it. But then again, I thought I might also like spinach filled cinnamon rolls once, and I was wrong about that.

“Still.

“Suddenly, Tico vanishes and there is a hairy dwarf in her place, deepening my confusion. Kira lunges across the table (I think he might have flapped his wings first ‘cause he gets a lot of distance!) and grabs the little troublemaker before he can get away. The dwarf wriggles away like he just bathed in grease, and winks at Kira before he just disappears. I’m feeling a little lost lost here. First, Tico and Yeferia were up to shenanigans, and now Kira and a hairy dwarf? Do they know something I don’t know?!

“On pure whimsy, Elora (that’s Meric’s twin sister for anyone not paying attention!) pulls a “Do Not Remove” tag on the seat right off, and Tico appears in it, sitting in the small pile of hair he left behind. When Yeferia puts a hand on her, Tico pummels her, ever so lightly. Irony. There is some talk about something, but honestly, this whole experience has thoroughly befuddled me. I do see our restored partner and sometimes leader pulling on a door, which somehow makes a nearby wall move, rotating. We try to squeeze through, but know collectively that if we try to get by the revolving wall column, we’d pretty much be squashed. So we wait.

“Eventually, the wall stops spinning, revealing yet another door! We go on, and find ourselves somehow going up. I’m not sure how. Pulley system? Magic? Does it matter? As it turns out, the elevator opens out into the jungle that we passed some time ago. We trudge forward, because we’re adventurers and that’s what we do. At least it’s not raining!

“It doesn’t take long before we’re faced with an enormous ziggurat, bigger than anything I’ve seen before! None of us seem particularly anxious to continue on, but I know that we will- no question about that. The only thing in question is whether or not any of us will survive what’s coming…”

I seem to have been daydreaming lately. I hope it’s nothing serious. I had the unpleasant experience of waking from such a daydream in the middle of a battle. I have no recollection of how we got there, but we wound up fighting a gigantic fire elemental. It was the usual rigmarole: everybody was wailing on the thing, to limited effect since we’re equipped almost solely for fighting demons but come up short against everything else. Eventually we managed to inflict enough damage by overwhelming force that we drove the thing off. By the end of it, per usual, lots of people were badly injured. We looked around for a little while after that, but didn’t find much, except for a statue of what turns out to not be Demogorgon, but an avatar of his who seems to be running the show here on the Isle of Dread. It’s nice to know that we’re finally getting close to the boss. It’ll be nice to meet him and introduce him to my naginata.

All this is written in haste. We are at the moment rushing to connect with the main force of the assault. Things went a little out of turn, and the plan has gone awry, as plans usually do. The assault is far from a failure, but we’ll have to work a little harder to pull it off.

“Ah, what a wonderful day for a hike! We’ve found ourselves within some kind of savanna (I knew a girl named Savanna once, I think), and it’s just a lovely stroll. But, nothing good lasts forever, and soon we’re lookin’ at something big on the horizon, only to find out that it’s really a bunch of really big elk, or deer, or something that’s got horns. This is quickly looking like our lucky day- I love venison!

“Oh, but..what’s that? There’s something chasing them. It looks like…naw, can’t see it yet…Oh! Oh man, I dunno really what I’m looking at, but I can say this, it is the fattest- fattest- ape I’ve ever seen, ever! It has these really small wings that look puny, but if I’ve learned anything on the Isle of Dread, it’s that something can definitely look like nothing.

“I figure, what the hey? He’s just chasing down some food (like we should be doing….I’m hungry!), but Tico the Stick Lady charges at it and hurls a giant rock at it. She’s got a heck of an arm on her, too, because the boulder lands right behind the fat ape! Now she’s done it. It gets that “I’m gonna eat me some adventurers” look in its eye, which is a little frightening given its size. And then- get this- it uses its pixie wings to buzz across the savanna at us!

“Well, it starts spewing some kind of red mist or something, and Meric goes nutso on us. Maybe it’s gas the fat ape is using, but I can’t smell anything. I think my fiery breath has somehow knocked out my sense of smell. I hack at it with my blade, but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything to it, and it charges past us and right into Iago’s path. That’s a big mistake on the ape’s part- Iago’s some sort of priest, and he’s got a godly connection. But, Iago is merciful, and doesn’t use the power of his god to vaporize the ape. Good for him, using so much restraint!

“Just the same, though, I don’t want the ape to go through that agony, so I try to get by using my magic to throw my blade at it, which buries itself in its back. Tico the Stick Lady is going all crazy hands on it, though, and it doesn’t like that. I think she scares the ape, because it just vanishes- with her stick!

“Guess I’ll have to call her Tico the No Stick Lady from now on.

“But, we regather our senses and move on. We’re following Kira again, but I’m a little worried…that tree over there looks awfully familiar. It’s all good, though…we began skirting a huge lake, which is good because I’m a big fan of skirts. Not for myself (I don’t have good enough legs), but they look pretty on just the right girl.

“We make camp for the night, which is good because I’m tired and hungry. Time to see what’s in the ole backpack. Yum, I found a potato! It doesn’t take long to get me to sleep, though, and I’m asleep before my head even hits the pillow.

“I have a strange dream, and people were yelling, I think. I was wearing a sun dress in my dream, too, so that may have something to do with that. Either way, when I wake up, stretch, and ready my powers for the day, I find Kira’s girl in our camp- Casidhe is her name, I think. She looks more like a Cass, though. But! It becomes clear that something happened in the middle of the night, and all I’ve got to go on is that Meric and Tico the No Stick Lady are really apologetic, and Cass is in our camp. Hey, it’s all right, you two! What happens between the three of you in the middle of the night at camp stays at camp. I won’t tell a soul! Easy for me, because I don’t know what happened. I sleep through ALL the good stuff!

“But, focus must be maintained! There’s a lake to cross, and we’re gonna use some dead wood that we found just laying around- or did Tico the No Stick Lady chop it down? I’m not sure- see, I found this rock on the ground that looks just like Kira! And with that, We all head into the water, knowing there’s a giant sea monster waiting to eat us.

“Turns out, I can swim! I’ve never tried before; it’s a strange new experience. Then, Tico the No Stick Lady is lifted out of the water, and she’s on the back of the giant croc! I do wonder why it’s not really attacking us- but then I remember that Kira cast some kind of spell. That’s all the explanation I need right there. That’s one less thing to go wrong- even though it’s pouring rain on us, it’s not that bad. What I find stranger- stranger than even the localized storm- is that there is a massive pyramid in front of us. I’m pretty sure we need to get up there.

“That said, the croc barrels into a net, which triggers some kind of alarm. It’s no big deal, though, and we all make it safely to the dock, which rhymes with croc, which submerges into the water and I can’t see it anymore. Also scary, considering the size of the damn thing.

“So many steps on this pyramid! I’m in good shape, though, so I don’t mind. I think I see Elora falling a bit behind, but that doesn’t worry me. She’s got pretty rainbow wings. I wonder if the creature she took them from will want them back?

“Phew! We finally make it to the top, and there’s some statues around here. Time for some mischief! I tippy-toe around the statues that everyone is looking at. I think Tico the No Stick Lady is praying to one (or all of them). Just when I think she’s done, I jump out from behind the statue and yell “BOO!” at her. She slaps me pretty hard, which makes my whole day better!

Ahem Moving on.

“So, onward we press into this pyramid. There’s some kind of dark-ish hallway, and I’m not really sure what we’re supposed to be doing. I’m pretty much minding my own business when I hear several arrows flying through the air, and Meric takes ‘em all in the chest. Not that that stops him, though, he’s tough. He charges forward and begins hacking at these skinwalkers that are inhabiting this room where there’s a huge firepit like at home.

“When it’s my turn, I dash off to the left, and find myself a set of stairs to climb. There’s an awful lot of these skinwalkers running around, and we’re all pretty much knee-deep in them. I breath fire all over them, though, hurting some of them in the process- and burning Tico the No Stick Lady’s giant bug in the process. I think I broke it! It’s okay, if we live through this, I’ll buy her another. You know, she’s doing good, considering she lost her stick. I think that just made her more angry- she fights like a woman possessed! Of what…I’m not sure. Oat bran perhaps. Why, this one time, I had some oat bran…

“But that’s neither here nor there.

“We’re all just hitting our stride- I see Meric over there tripping a bunch of hapless skinwalkers and Tico the No Stick Lady bashing one’s face in with her less important stick- when they decide to run away from us. I guess we’re just too awesome!

“Or, it could be the giant ball of fire crawling out of the pit.

“Hoping for more of a challenge, I leap off the balcony, making myself grow larger in the process. When I land, the impact is enough to send a skinwalker staggering backwards into the thing, and it almost eats the skinwalker, which gets away. Pity, but there’s a few more that wind up getting toasted. We regroup, preparing an assault on the thing. I just hope my teammates don’t get toasted in the process.

“Did I mention I was immune to fire?”

~Baelon

• we fought a few demons posing as our friends
  they fought with no fear but as some of them
  lost their lives and as they did the enemies would
  change them into ghouls which we had to then
  fight off

• during the battle i got to use the spell
  demon durge and glitter dust for the first
  time it gave me a sense of empowerment
  maybe i will be as great as brother

• we managed to get deafened but somehow i
  was able to be immune for the moment it was
  amusing

• the outsiders tried to control my mind
  with feeble mind but luckily i was to great
  for their tricks

• as the battle went forth tiko smashed a
  demons head clean off its body
  and then talked smack to it as it lay
  there without a head it was somewhat scary
  i don’t know who would be better as our
  leader

• our healer blew off a demons arm he had a
  crazy look i wonder what he would be like
  sober

• yferia pulled a volpral long sword from her
  bags and wondered if we could use it we all
  stared at her as if she was crazy and
  secretly wondered why we forgot about it in
  the first place

• we need a plan to get the survivors home

• we have a portal we need to figure our
  what to do with it and how to stop demons
  from sprouting from it

• merek tripped a demon and it looked fairly
  surprised

• trying to impress the ones around me i
  do a chain missile and sadly miss ..the
  demons

• yferia prayed to her gods and they
  granted us a small amount of power
  to aid us

• i shattered a demon with an orb of force

• balen stood bravely as a demon lunged
  towards him before he could do much to
  hurt our hero it died mid air

• we killed them all

• we sat and pondered what to do now we
  decided eventually that we would make a
  dummy trail and split us up so we can lead
  the demons away from us

• as horrifying as it is yferia casted a
  detect evil on a couatle

• kira summoned a skunk into the face of a
  sloth … a giant sloth… the skunk was
  ett

• later on we found a half skinned giant
  sloth he was still breathing

• we find the footsteps of a balgora

• we found a massive crocodile and ponder
  fighting the thing i shake as i write
  this how much water would that creature
  have to be in to grow that large i
  cant imagine such a vast amount …
  where would the water even be held ..
  that much water would give any man
  the ability to be ten times wealthier
  than anyone i know
  we should try to find this water it came from….

• we find the base THE DEMON BASE

• we hear thuds near a well

• we disguised yferia as a spell caster

*we find the noise from the well is tiko
the rapter stuck in a well we cure her of
her sickness and find out she was taunted
with human flesh it will be awhile until she
eats meat again

*we find the kids