LongestRoad Run3
11 Horse Moon, 1372
This time I shall be keeping notes on our travels, as opposed to lich-boy. This group needs more of a non-animal-centric view anyway. Ahem.
Well, another exciting outing with my new allies. This time I was mercifully not covered in demon excretions. No, we just decided to take a merry jaunt across the planes.
Perhaps I should go back a bit.
We spent a day with the raptorans. They sure do have nice orchards and groves. Very decent people. After a short rest the guide we'd been sent to find met us. We managed to convince him to lead us to the infernal plane where we may find this whatchamacallit that the dragons have misplaced.
Well, at least I shall be able to gather the knowledge I need while there.
12 Horse Moon, 1372
Anyway. Evatheef or whatever his name is pulled out this twirly shiny thing with many rings and used it to plan our route. Ezel looked like a bee spying an apple blossom. Magi. I ask you. After deducing the best path, we set out and soon were on the Astral Plane. The lich (did I mention Ezel is a lich?! Because he is. At least he hasn't tried to...do any lichy stuff..yet.) and the sorcerer were having a grand old time zipping around like bloody dragonflies, until this great big pirate ship came out of the clouds. A Githyanki pirate ship.
The ensuing battle was unremarkable, but I feel I must mention a handful of things:
- Do not bother Sil if she ever seems overly grumpy. Well, more grumpy than usual.
- The same goes for Jeralyn.
- Liches are good for herding.
- I love spell-casting in the astral plane!
- Next time I summon an ally in the astral plane, it should be smarter and therefore more than a glorified burning target for siege weaponry.
And of course Evatheef spent the whole time hovering at a safe distance, with those red-and-gray dyed wings of his spread wide. I suppose that guides have inter-planar neutrality... Must be nice.
So now we had ourselves transport. Ellowyn used his charm on the ship, which is actually some semi-intelligent construct, and took over as its captain. He's named the ship 'Kevin'. Despite that, his mind must be something amazing, because we just sped along to the next portal. I spent the journey healing us all, then trying my best to repair the wounds of battle with my woodcarving kit. The rest of these people went exploring in the hold and found some valuables. Sil was very excited about the gold, and Ezel had himself a nice time with a bat cloak. We parked the ship in this... thing... I am not sure what it was, exactly. A mass of three rocky bodies in repose. Evatheef says that they are the remains of dead gods. Creepy as anything, but the ship'll be safe.
13 Horse Moon, 1372
And with that we entered the plane of air. Leaf and bud, I hate this place. There is no down, and nothing growing, practically! I think I was nauseous the whole trip to this... little blob of dirt and rock. Thankfully, it had grass. Lovely lovely grass. I hugged it.
You know... if all the planes are going to be like this, my spells to call nature to our aid are not going to be of much use. What a pity...
We were having a nice rest on the grass when Sil and Oraine ran up and informed us there was a green dragon with many shiny things. Well, of course there are shiny things, it's a dragon. At any rate, we all got ourselves together and destroyed this evil creature. There were shiny things to divvy up, which was nice I guess. I however was mighty pleased with some delightful scrolls... Mmm... Ahem! Sil found an silver egg in amongst the green dragon's clutch. If I didn't know better, I'd say her maternal instincts just became active.
And after all this excitement, we set off for whatever passes as a proper settlement in this benighted plane. I hope we can finally get some decent rest there.
