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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2379835" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON06/25/05SEGMENT 084“THE WAY HOME”[DM NOTES:  Half of the players could not make it today and we were wrapping up the last adventure.  So instead we “fast-forwarded” it to prepare to the next adventure and allow down time to upgrade armor / weapons.  Two weeks we begin the mammoth adventure “Drogan’s Trap”.]The party begins their walk home.  They backtrack towards the crash site.  Once there they hope to follow the rail to the border of Karrnath.  Then follow it’s border to Aundair (they are forgetting about the bridge under repair) and finally to Fairhaven.Along the way his new summoned animal companion surprises Taskerdoo.  A small dinosaur is seen scouting their campsite.  Taskerdoo has to stop Black sands from smashing it.  He befriends the small dinosaur and quickly become friends.  Black sands still thinks he should have killed it.Once they near the site they spot a large airship tethered to the rails.  Becoming cautious they circle around the site looking for any more details.  Cedious spots a House Cannith flag.  “Which Cannith?” asks Taskerdoo the druid. It is difficult to see much from the ground.  It is 350 feet from the ground to the rail and another fifty feet to clear the treetops.  The ship is nearly 450 feet in the air from them.  They begin a slow climb using vines, branches and at times ropes they find from the rescue crews and possibly the Cannith crew.  Taskerdoo reaches the top and two guards are there with their weapons drawn.  “Identify yourself”.  From behind them they hear “Cedious”.  The two spin to locate the voice.  They turn back and see the large grinning face of a dark skinned ½ giant coming over the edge.  “It is them.” They agree.Thirty minutes later, the team is on the Dragonhawk II and on their way back to Aundair.  They are asked to join Captain Samuel Halley in the office.The first thing he wants to know is what happened to Beth d’Cannith.  Taskerdoo tells him what had happened with the wraiths (he leaves out that they had to her as a wraith also).  After explaining this he wants details about the destruction of the Cannith car.  As feared, he learns that Bludgeon did most of it while battling War Forged and the Wraiths.  Finally he asks about the journal.  Cedious pulls it free from his pack and hands it over.  Halley opens it and looks it over.  “Code, gibberish and whatever else.  The Cannith code breakers will go through it. In the meanwhile- enjoy this food and drink.  Use this room as your own.  I’ll have bedding brought in.”The trip takes several days as they fly high in the air.  The trip takes them through Talenta Plains and over the gray mists of the Morning Lands.  Even high in the air you can see no openings in the mist.  It stretches seemly forever to the south.  Then you cross Thrane. And the waters of Galifar and you dimly can see the bridge where the warforged and Emerald claw fought you on the rail.  As you cross onto land you are in Aundair.  The air has a chill to it as autumn has arrived.  The leaves are bright reds, yellows and oranges.  The fields are being cultivated and prepared for the winter coming.Finally you reach Fairhaven and dock.  As before, you are offered room and board.  They want you to be prepared to retrieve any pieces mentioned with a location within the journal.  In the next few months they run small errands for the house.  In the meantime, the party trades or upgrades their weapons, armor or other goods.  Some training is done also. Finally after 3 months of going through the journal and other resources the party is called in for a meeting.Trevor d’Cannith is the head of the meeting.  His two assistants, the twins Khim and Whim aid him.  “We believe we have located a piece of the Schema we seek.”Black sands cracks his knuckles in boredom.We had broken it down to three locations within the Eldeen Reaches. We had reduced it to three locations using the term “Dragon”.    He quotes the journal now- “The schema and other artifacts are under the protection of Dragon within the Great Forest.”  The great forest is of course Eldeen.  However the term Dragon escaped us.  It was only when we conferred to the security team that we learned of Dragon.”“Drogan is/was a bugbear of incredible magical talent.  He also had an affinity for traps and dimensional traps.  He has created several of what is known simply as a Drogan Trap throughout Khorvaire in remote areas.  By using this information we were able to center our efforts to three areas within Eldeen Reaches.  For the past three weeks we were trying to decide which of the three it was.  Our contacts (Spies thinks Cedious) within other groups that wish to locate this schema have suggested a team of adventurers are going to area SW Eldeen near the Byeshk Mountains.”“What can we expect for dangers there?” asks Sharshek.Whim steps up.  “This area has many natural dangers.  There are Dire creatures here along with some Giant-kin.  So long as do nothing to harm the forest, the druids should leave you alone.   There may be groups that believe they are protecting the world by keeping you away from the Trap or at least protecting yourselves.”Khim steps up as Whim steps back.  “The contacts we have are from Cannith South.  They are preparing an expedition into this area.  You can expect them to interfere.  We have also heard the Emerald Claw is seeking retribution against your group.  The embarrassment you have caused by defeating them several times has alienated their leaders.  It has become personal with them.”She steps back and Trevor steps up once more.  “The warforged you mentioned that flew over you I believe is there from either the Aurum or Merrix.  If he is what I believe he is, be careful.  He is a polymorpher, a transformer if you will.  Very dangerous.“When do we go?”“Now”And thus the next big step begins…..</blockquote>

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