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<blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 7590012" data-attributes="member: 6776887"><p>The heroes decided that despite their misgivings about being given orders by a fiery talking head, they needed some rest. They decided to skip the tower for the time being and found shelter in the abandoned village. They spend an uneventful night there and searched the village the next morning. Many personal possessions had been left, as if the whole village fled suddenly. Most of what had value had been taken, but they found a strange necklace. Upon putting it on, Byron found that he could only speak and understand Sylvan, a language that no one in the party understood, including him.</p><p></p><p>Continuing to the eastern edge of the village, the heroes found a strange stone tree with a path that came up to it and various decorative stones set in a circle around it. As they approached, a pair of ghasts dropped from the branches and attacked them. Torrent ran forward and attempted to turn the undead. She failed in that, but the magical energy radiating out from her opened a secret door in the base of the stone tree. After the heroes dispatched the ghasts, they found a journal on one of the creatures. The ghasts turned out to be a husband and wife pair of druids. When the forest started to burn, a number of children became separated from their families by the flames. The druids took the children to a cave for shelter. When the food ran out, the druids turned to eating the children. The final pages show a descent into madness as the curse of undeath took them over.</p><p></p><p>Shaken by the revelation, the heroes decided to investigate the opening in the tree. Inside they found a deva standing guard over a shrine as well as two bodies. The deva welcomed the heroes and explained that it had been sent in response to the dying wishes of the dead elf. The shrine was constructed in honor of the elvish woman Anyariel, a hero of the elves of Innenotdar. When the angel arrived. Bhurisrave, the first elf, was already dead, and the second, a Shahalesti soldier, was alive and burning with the indomitable fire but unresponsive in a state of suspended animation. A broken display case was on one side of the shrine. A magical mace lay next to the dead elf, and the heroes decided Dro'Marri could make the best use of it. The deva told the heroes that its duty was to stay here to guard the evidence of crimes that had been committed and found the shrine in this state when it arrived. It did not know what information the soldier held and did not have the ability to release the soldier from the magical coma. Also lacking the means to revive the soldier, the heroes left the shrine.</p><p></p><p>As the heroes exited the shrine they were again visited by Kashyk who started by placing his glaive down and backing away, saying he just wanted to talk. Untrusting of the bearded devil, the heroes told him to speak quickly. He told the heroes that he had been visited by Indomitability as well and had received the same request. While the he or the heroes could simply kill the fey in the village to the south or find some other more boring way of getting them to stop singing, he proposed a simpler plan.</p><p></p><p>Kashyk had signed a contract to hunt down the heroes, get the Ragesian intelligence from them (what they had) and ensure they did not leave the burning forest. Indomitability had described itself as being trapped on the bottom of the lake next to the village to the south. The heroes could simply swim down and kill it while it was trapped. Without Indomitability, The fires should then extinguish. If the heroes also parted with the information they had, Kashyk figured that his contract would be fulfilled as the forest would no longer be burning.</p><p></p><p>Suspicious of this arrangement, the heroes agreed to get Kashyk to leave. He said he would but cautioned the heroes to honor their agreement for he would be watching from the forest.</p><p></p><p>The heroes had a choice: south to the fey village to release Indomitability or north to the victims headed at the mouth of the white river. Before deciding on a direction, they wanted to investigate the tower next to the bridge. After dealing with the magical protections on the entrance, they walked into a time capsule from before the days when Innenotdar was on fire.</p><p></p><p>Inside they found the desiccated bodies of two elvish guards. The bodies had no marks of injury. The storage for the ground floor of the tower had various weapons and armor for the two guards. Continuing on to the second floor, they found a holy symbol to Pelor on a table next to a war map set up to analyze ways to defend the village. A journal lay next to the map and holy symbol. The journal, written in Elvish, was written by a cleric of Pelor named Bhurisrava. Much of the journal was unremarkable, but the end of it cataloged a crisis of faith for the cleric.</p><p></p><p>In the journal, Bhurisrava wrote that after the Ragesian army took over Gate Pass 40 years ago, a group of goblins who lived under Innenotdar started fires throughout the forest. Some were captured and explained that they had been hired by a Ragesian orc. They were found with a pouch of something Bhurisrava labelled "dream seeds". The goblins said that taking a seed would allow them to talk to the firemaker but that they were poison. After trying one and experiencing no effect, he filed them away for later study. </p><p></p><p>The fires could not be extinguished even through magical means. A woman asked the cleric to help her find her boyfriend. They found him and several other elves in the shrine of Anyariel on the East end of the village. The man had gone to the underground shrine to curse Anyariel, but the fires seeped in through the roots of plants and reached him and the others underground. They now existed in a perpetual state of combustion and agony, but their bodes were not consumed, and death did not come. The woman ran in horror into the burning woods, and the cleric never saw her again.</p><p></p><p>Bhurisrava, faith crippled by the suffering he was witnessing, decided to take the victims north to the start of the White River. He hoped that someone would someday discover what he had hidden and figure out how to heal his homeland.</p><p></p><p>While the heroes read the journal and headed upstairs to investigate the third floor, Byron made another copy of the five pages of Ragesian intelligence he possessed, subtly changing minor pieces of text.</p><p></p><p>Upstairs, they found living quarters and a storage closet. Within the closet was a small pouch with goblin markings on it. Inside were the dream seeds, but nobody took one as they did not really want to have another conversation with Indomitability.</p><p></p><p>Their search was interrupted by the screams of a woman outside the tower. Running to a window, they saw a human-sized woman with six wings running from a group of similar creatures.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tormyr, post: 7590012, member: 6776887"] The heroes decided that despite their misgivings about being given orders by a fiery talking head, they needed some rest. They decided to skip the tower for the time being and found shelter in the abandoned village. They spend an uneventful night there and searched the village the next morning. Many personal possessions had been left, as if the whole village fled suddenly. Most of what had value had been taken, but they found a strange necklace. Upon putting it on, Byron found that he could only speak and understand Sylvan, a language that no one in the party understood, including him. Continuing to the eastern edge of the village, the heroes found a strange stone tree with a path that came up to it and various decorative stones set in a circle around it. As they approached, a pair of ghasts dropped from the branches and attacked them. Torrent ran forward and attempted to turn the undead. She failed in that, but the magical energy radiating out from her opened a secret door in the base of the stone tree. After the heroes dispatched the ghasts, they found a journal on one of the creatures. The ghasts turned out to be a husband and wife pair of druids. When the forest started to burn, a number of children became separated from their families by the flames. The druids took the children to a cave for shelter. When the food ran out, the druids turned to eating the children. The final pages show a descent into madness as the curse of undeath took them over. Shaken by the revelation, the heroes decided to investigate the opening in the tree. Inside they found a deva standing guard over a shrine as well as two bodies. The deva welcomed the heroes and explained that it had been sent in response to the dying wishes of the dead elf. The shrine was constructed in honor of the elvish woman Anyariel, a hero of the elves of Innenotdar. When the angel arrived. Bhurisrave, the first elf, was already dead, and the second, a Shahalesti soldier, was alive and burning with the indomitable fire but unresponsive in a state of suspended animation. A broken display case was on one side of the shrine. A magical mace lay next to the dead elf, and the heroes decided Dro'Marri could make the best use of it. The deva told the heroes that its duty was to stay here to guard the evidence of crimes that had been committed and found the shrine in this state when it arrived. It did not know what information the soldier held and did not have the ability to release the soldier from the magical coma. Also lacking the means to revive the soldier, the heroes left the shrine. As the heroes exited the shrine they were again visited by Kashyk who started by placing his glaive down and backing away, saying he just wanted to talk. Untrusting of the bearded devil, the heroes told him to speak quickly. He told the heroes that he had been visited by Indomitability as well and had received the same request. While the he or the heroes could simply kill the fey in the village to the south or find some other more boring way of getting them to stop singing, he proposed a simpler plan. Kashyk had signed a contract to hunt down the heroes, get the Ragesian intelligence from them (what they had) and ensure they did not leave the burning forest. Indomitability had described itself as being trapped on the bottom of the lake next to the village to the south. The heroes could simply swim down and kill it while it was trapped. Without Indomitability, The fires should then extinguish. If the heroes also parted with the information they had, Kashyk figured that his contract would be fulfilled as the forest would no longer be burning. Suspicious of this arrangement, the heroes agreed to get Kashyk to leave. He said he would but cautioned the heroes to honor their agreement for he would be watching from the forest. The heroes had a choice: south to the fey village to release Indomitability or north to the victims headed at the mouth of the white river. Before deciding on a direction, they wanted to investigate the tower next to the bridge. After dealing with the magical protections on the entrance, they walked into a time capsule from before the days when Innenotdar was on fire. Inside they found the desiccated bodies of two elvish guards. The bodies had no marks of injury. The storage for the ground floor of the tower had various weapons and armor for the two guards. Continuing on to the second floor, they found a holy symbol to Pelor on a table next to a war map set up to analyze ways to defend the village. A journal lay next to the map and holy symbol. The journal, written in Elvish, was written by a cleric of Pelor named Bhurisrava. Much of the journal was unremarkable, but the end of it cataloged a crisis of faith for the cleric. In the journal, Bhurisrava wrote that after the Ragesian army took over Gate Pass 40 years ago, a group of goblins who lived under Innenotdar started fires throughout the forest. Some were captured and explained that they had been hired by a Ragesian orc. They were found with a pouch of something Bhurisrava labelled "dream seeds". The goblins said that taking a seed would allow them to talk to the firemaker but that they were poison. After trying one and experiencing no effect, he filed them away for later study. The fires could not be extinguished even through magical means. A woman asked the cleric to help her find her boyfriend. They found him and several other elves in the shrine of Anyariel on the East end of the village. The man had gone to the underground shrine to curse Anyariel, but the fires seeped in through the roots of plants and reached him and the others underground. They now existed in a perpetual state of combustion and agony, but their bodes were not consumed, and death did not come. The woman ran in horror into the burning woods, and the cleric never saw her again. Bhurisrava, faith crippled by the suffering he was witnessing, decided to take the victims north to the start of the White River. He hoped that someone would someday discover what he had hidden and figure out how to heal his homeland. While the heroes read the journal and headed upstairs to investigate the third floor, Byron made another copy of the five pages of Ragesian intelligence he possessed, subtly changing minor pieces of text. Upstairs, they found living quarters and a storage closet. Within the closet was a small pouch with goblin markings on it. Inside were the dream seeds, but nobody took one as they did not really want to have another conversation with Indomitability. Their search was interrupted by the screams of a woman outside the tower. Running to a window, they saw a human-sized woman with six wings running from a group of similar creatures. [/QUOTE]
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