C2 Session 23

General Summary

They continue sailing on, Koin senses a storm on the horizon
  • The skies are clear
  • They crest a wave and see an armada of seven ships off in the distance, around 50 miles away in a dark fog
  • They turn all the lanterns off as to not be seen
  • The formation of the fleet indicates that they are heading in the same direction as the group
  • Koin decides to go around the fleet and the storm, managing to handle the ship through the darkness and the waves
  • They continue sailing, making sure any non-fighters are below deck and on-deck crew are prepared
  • Koin notices the fleet split in half, one half turning towards them, the other mirroring their movement
  • Xodon peers down the way and sees that all the ships are well equipped with dinghies and weapons
  • The flagships name can be seen: the Starlit Lotus
  • Whitefang asks Xodon if he saw the name of the ship, Xodon tells him
  • He laughs and plants his feet on the deck, yelling out the name Nema
  • Koin inquires about her, and he says Nema is Captain Waydrane’s sister
  • A large boulder is hurled at the ship
  • Koin attempts to catch it and throw it back, but only catches it and injures himself a bit
  • He is covered in dolphin fat and oil and is on fire
  • Xodon attempts to tackle Koin and put the fire out, but Koin slips out of his grasp, they are both on covered in napalm
  • Koin begins attempting to move the flaming rock off the ship, but the fleet is closing in on them fast
  • The rain above them begins to amass into a humanoid form, landing on the deck and attacking Xodon
  • Koin and Xodon are grappled by the water creature, struggling to breathe
  • Almost immediately after, they both break free and ready themselves to fight
  • The elemental grapples some other crewmates, but Adrezill saves them
  • It then attacks Koin, who continues burning and is knocked unconscious
  • Adrezill heals Koin and he wakes up to see the elemental fading away into a real person, a woman
  • She looks at them, her vibrant red hair flowing, and summons a large beam of sunlight down on them all
  • Koin goes down again, and Xodon is blinded, although his senses give him a vision of his immediate surroundings
  • The woman, assumed to be the captain, begins transforming back as the elemental latches onto the rock and turns into a fire elemental
  • Whitefang harpoons it and hits it hard
  • Xodon heals Koin up, and Koin wakes up to more burning, but doesn’t go back down
  • Adrezill tries to speak with Nema, but she doesn’t respond, so he throws a lightning bolt at the elemental
  • Oil is spilled out in a ten foot radius, barely landing the bolt in its intended spot
  • The fire elemental is bloodied by the blast
  • Druids and mages begin fighting the other crew members
  • Nema drops her elemental form, and runs up the helm, casting a spell that begins shooting stone from her arms, turning the ship parts into stone
  • Adrezill attempts to counterspell it, succeeding
  • A green mist shoots out from the spells clashing and strikes Koin, poisoning him
  • Xodon shoots  his bow at Nema, Koin heals himself a small bit and neutralizes the poison
  • Adrezill throws another lightning bolt, but Nema almost instantly counterspells it
  • One of her eyes flashes and is now glossed over purple
  • She transforms into an earth elemental, and it also has the purple eye
  • They look over to see a flash of radiant lightning hit one of the other ships, they have no idea how the rest of the fleet is doing
  • Xodon runs up to Nema with Zandriens blade, slashing her and cursing her
  • Koin attacks with his sword and fists, punching it
  • Adrezill firebolts the elemental, and it begins flying before quickly dissipating
  • The elemental burrows down to the anchor, attacking it and sending it through the ship and dropping it
  • Suddenly it is very quiet before a horde of grung begin battle crying and ripping and tearing
  • The elemental doesn’t seem surprised, and the ships begin sailing away, as she disappears and the enemy fleet makes their getaway
  • Koin continues to burn, being knocked unconscious once again
  • The situation has been deemed a “fight fire with fire” scenario, but hitting him while he is down would kill him
  • Xodon uses his last healing potion and he wakes up to Adrezill about to slash at him
  • He dodges, but he slashes again and hits, knocking him out but also knocking the flames off of him
  • They sail for multiple days, the most interesting thing they encounter being a small whirlpool which they maneuver around easily on the fourth day
  • The next day they encounter a much larger whirlpool that they failed to spot earlier
  • It is over 150 feet in diameter, and is very strong
  • The whole fleet is captured by the whirlpool
  • They begin maneuvering ships and with a bit of struggle they make it through
  • They sail on and eventually spot land
  • As they get closer, Koin realizes that the flagship is on a collision course with the island cliffs, and he has to stop that
  • They figure out how to and approach the island, docking the ships at the beach
  • The city of Zamboza is filled with bridges and nature, and Dara mentions that there could be a diamond on the island somewhere that they could use to revive Henry
  • They walk into the city to find goblins, humans, tabaxi, and many other races all gathered throughout the streets, a mix of cultures that shocks Koin
  • Whitefang splits off to look for ship supplies
  • Koin joins Dara looking for a diamond
  • They ask a nearby vendor who introduces himself as Azar, and he points them in the direction of a goods store that could have some jewelry or gems that they might need
  • Koin and Dara make their way over there and ask the goods vendor if he has any gems
  • He pulls out a tray of scattered gems, but Koin inquires about a diamond, but says he has none
  • Koin infers he has one but can’t tell him he does for fear of getting robbed
  • Koin slips him five gold and the man has him follow him to a door that opens into an underground staircase
  • It is very dark and moist in the environment, and when they get down there the vendor asks him who told Koin that he had diamonds
  • He says Azar did, and the man nods
  • He walks over to a bench and opens a large metal case, he digs around and pick out two rings with diamonds, one bigger and one smaller
  • Koin buys both of them for a large sum of money, and goes back up where he and Dara go back to the ship
  • They open the door to the room of Henry’s coffin, where they find Rafwar thumbing through Henry’s journal
  • He says he was just reminiscing on his friend’s life
  • He asks if they knew what he was working on, but they don’t
  • He says that Henry was on the surface of discovering information about magic that nobody ever had, he had more information than anyone else
  • Koin mentions that he may have another chance, as they are going to attempt to resurrect him, which confuses Rafwar, so he leaves them to their business
  • They all stand over Henry’s coffin, and begin the ritual
  • Dara begins the ritual, placing the diamonds on the table, drawing her circle and beginning to cast
  • Koin begins speaking about how Henry needs to accomplish his goals, that he can’t die now and must live on to fulfill his life
  • Xodon also speaks to Henry about how he is distraught on the next steps, and he was a type of leader
  • Koin tells him that he was a very powerful mage
  • There is an inferno of platinum light that turns red, a pounding on the coffin, louder and louder
  • Henry emerges, but something seems off
  • He grabs his bag of stuff and looks around at them, breathing heavily
  • He jolts and reaches for the bag of holding, grabbing it
  • Koin tries to dodge, but Henry quickly casts a powerful spell
  • Adrezill tries to counterspell it but henry stops it and Koin vanishes
  • Henry gets the bag of holding, casts a seventh level spell which they have never seen from him, and he disappears
  • Xodon could very easily tell that although it was Henry’s body it was not Henry
  • Koin reappears, and all he saw was Henry reaching for the bag one second, then him and the bag being gone
  • Report Date
    04 Aug 2025


    Cover image: by Joe Kitchen (Ai)

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