Session 34

• Empty brumstone mine, protected because of some hidden danger nearby that scared away miners (CLOUD GIANT)
• Notice lots of troop movements, CLOUDSCAPE IS PREPARING TO GO TO WAR

MARK will remember he was being kept by Judai'aruk at the SKYVIEW Tavern, though if they investigate his room, will find a rug stained with mud and dirt, and tiny fragments of Brumestone (DC 22 for the check, will find some kind of mining HELMET)

• They are met by a BOUNTY HUNTER named Navarax (pretending to just be a friendly Air Genasi guy) who eavesdrops and offers to help them find their friends.
• NAVARAX Navarax Sheet
• JUDAI'ARUK Judai'aruk Sheet
• CLOUD GIANT Cloud Giant
• ENCOUNTER https://www.dndbeyond.com/encounters/912ead68-b40a-46d7-a36f-d94bc62c841c

CLOUDSCAPE

• Awake to find Mak'Ti Kidnapped, T'nin still unconscious, and a sheep in the room
• Mark "kills" the sheep to turn it back into Narinn
• Meet Navarax the bounty hunter who hears Narinn talking about Judai'aruk kidnapping Mak'Ti
• Group decides to team up with Navarax to hunt down Judai'aruk

• Mark takes them to Judai'aruk's room at the Skyview Tavern where he was held captive by Judai'aruk and the Construct
• They get into the room and investigate
• With decent investigation checks, they find dirt and bits of Brumstone, and a miner's helmet. Figure Judai'aruk might have a hide-out in the Brumstones Mines of Cloudscape

• Head to Brumstone Mines, meet with foreman named TORRID, who tells them public is not allowed near Shaft 42, as something dangerous is sleeping/lurking there
• Mark distracts him with some of the Hentai Porn, and they all hurry down the shaft
• Mak'Ti Interrogated by Juda'aruk, who takes the list of Components from his stuff
• Mak'Ti escapes using a spell, and breaking the jailcell with the KNOCK spell, which awakens the trapped Cloud Giant nearby
• Mak'Ti steals back the component list and all his stuff, plus takes the DIMENSIOONAL LOOP and 2 RINGS from Judai'aruk (ORANGE Ring of Spell Turning, and BLUE Ring of Psychic Resistance)
• Rest of the group arrives on the other side of the giant hole the Cloud Giant is coming out of

• Navarax single-minded in task to kill Judai'aruk
• Rest of the group just tries to FLEE, slowed down by Fog and the Cloud Giant and everyone teleoorting
• Mark almost dies twice, luckily Vrae always goes back to save him
• EVentually as they are fleeing, Judai'aruk teleports ahead of them, throwing a circle of death at the group (knocking down Mark again)
• Da'ath, low on options and desperate, pulls out. the SPEER OF SPEER and summons a SPEER member for aid
• SVADRI appears, demanding to know who Da'ath is, how he got the SPEER, and what is going on
• Da'ath and Mark try to explain, but its clear there is a battle happening, so Svadri casts MASS POLYMORPH on everyone, with only Mark and Judai'aruk resisting
• The both try to persuade Svadri that the other group is in the wrong, Svadri eventually sides from Mark and Da'ath (who they freed from his sheep form)
• Judai'aruk breaks a TCS Tablet and escapes into a teleportation circle, with Svadri knocking him almost unconscious with a Pyschic Lance as he flees
• Svadri then teleports everyone out of there

FIELDS OF FRITH

• The group arrives in a barn, with KEYRTH, BALDIR THE BOLD, and SVADRI
• Everyone is turned back to normal, Navarax sleathily escapes
• They share information about the Orrery, Keyrth concerned about Mak'Ti's involvement
• Much discussion of who Judai'aruk is and what part he is playing to send the Genasi to war
• No one sees Navarax go, SPEER is nervous he might give away location of base
• Da'ath VERY SAD he left his GLAIVE behind, Mark left behind his shortbow
• Keyrth eventually tells them King Alphanis is alive (through use of the clone spell) but is being kept safe for the moment