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After speaking to Laeral Silverhand the party sees X10-N enter the fort holding two heads of Keanu Reeves, the assassins that scared Blue Eyes into taking the toughness feat. He happily shows the heads to the group stating he ‘found’ them in the woods near Fort Redmont. Nathaniel offers wisdom: great job, X10-N, next time…just leave the heads in the woods please. But the heads come with a prize, a lot of gold: 80k per person.
The same afternoon Vanniya talks to Haha Ki and with her help the party is teleported to The Field of Giants in the Fey Wild where they find an huge giant defending his waterfall. He is guarded by his goblin archers. In the ensuing skirmish the party eat a lot of dust when the giant stomps around the battlefield and there are “prone-issues” around the place. Nathaniel is shot down by one of the archers only to be healed by Blue Eyes. Vanniya and Cereen together manage to slay the giant. And from afar the assassins are burned to pieces.
Again: a lot of loot: 500k gold totals, see party loot for the items and a potion of level-up to 19…
After a short rest the party enters the secret waterfall tunnel where they are immediately greeted by insanity itself (in the form of some insane laughter damaging the mind). They follow the tunnel inwards and find a huge ritual chamber of sorts and they meet Whitmore, the self acclaimed highest priest of Cyric inviting them in his sanctum. Behind the party large iron gate falls down and blocks the exit. Behind Whitmore King Azoun IV and George Thistlestrider are bound by the hands and feet surrounded by a forcefield of sorts and a whirling storm of red and orange haze. Next up: initiative.
The fight ensues. Demons are summoned, thrown to the ceiling, slammed to the ground, clawed by dragons, iced and fireballed and sent back to where-ever demonic lair they came from. Next up a dragon and his warlock fight it out with mr dragon himself, Cairon Artax, Blue Eyes and Vanniya. Also iced, clawed and again iced they bite the dust. In the meantime, amongst the chaos and insanity of combat, Nathaniel Malorn calmly walks the battlefield and nullifies all magic and combo’s with Cereen massive strength with the plan to bind the main agressor and slowly pummel him to his death. This succeeds and after a few rounds of “stop trying to hit me and HIT me” Nathaniel slams his fist with Helm inspired temperament through the chest of this high priest of Cyric.
All bonds of King Azoun IV and George Thistlestrider are freed, there is rejoicing and loot and a level up to 20. Which is scary, but fun, but did I mention scary?
Standing over the dead gnoll butcher with her sword still dripping from the blood Cereen Malorn sees a new threat teleport next to Steffy Firemane who is still bound by time magic. The new mage quickly recognizes the group and vice versa, this is Davina. She stops time and creates a magical dome and darkness around herself and finally reanimates the now undead gnoll. Cereen and Nathaniel Malorns flying sword hack this abomination to a bloody pulp. In the meantime the mage does large amounts of damage to Cairon Artax and Nathaniel who almost died where it not for Cereens soft healing hands. Vanniya dispells more magic than ever before and Falkyon finds a way to turn the bitchy necromancer-girl into a frog. In a ‘quick’ discussion it is decided that Nathaniel will drop his castle on her head and that all will ready an action to finish her off and by Cereen’s sword she dies. There is rejoicing and loot (Loot: 50k gp, 10k gp in art-objects, spell scroll 8th lvl, 3x spell scroll 9th lvl, potion of storm giant strength). The group sleeps at the mansion of Vanniya’s father Elroreth Galvros Nillendil.
The following day there is a meetup at Fort Redmont. Laeral Silverhand, Chris McGrath, Alexej Romonov and Steffy Firemane are present with the party in the throne room. Laeral and her group have discovered the location of George Thistlestrider. He is probably being held in the fey wild on the Field of the Titans, this is familiar territory for the party. Vanniya is concerned that restoring the timeline might do more harm than it prevents, why not let the battle unfold and defeat Cormyr and be done with it. Nathaniel communes with Helm and receives a vision of the future in which the world lies in ashes and Cyric devotees appear to have taken over the world (what is left of it) and he sees a TAMO fight for his life near Fort Redmont which is blackened and battered by war. He calls on Helm for help, an angel is sent to fight on his side, but she is quickly overrun and killed only slowing the pursuit by a few seconds. Next he sees TAMO entering the control room and opening the stargate and entering it. He sees a vision of a place and TAMO quickly scurrying in the bushes the stargate closing behind him. Nathaniel then communes again with Helm for more follow-up questions and learns that restoring the timeline will save lives, but finding the one responsible for merging the timelines will yield greater results (meaning: more lives saved). Helm is positive on the chances that Laeral will be able to restore the timelines to their ‘normal’ state. Furthermore Nathaniel seems now convinced that battling Cyric himself in this merged time will prevent him doing harm in all the timelines. So….simply put: next stop is the Field of Titans in the Feywild to rescue George. After that hopefully restoring some timelines and then maybe live happily ever after? Or is there more to it?
Level-up to 18.