Joel's Scattered Thoughts

Leaving the somewhat cleaned up shrine behind them, Lia led the way toward the tombs to the north. As the party approached the tombs, ghostly eladrin emerged from the tombs to repel the intruders. Lia tried to address them but was told “Back off you hick elf!” as the ghosts attacked. Combat barely started when Callie managed to talk the ghost’s leader, Thiran down.

When Thiran calmed down, he agreed that the party was not tainted with the stench of the undead that tore through the area. By way of apology for his attack, he offered directions to a bow he had hidden away while he was alive. Shadowbane was disgusted that the group let the ghosts continue in their undeath.

The party made their way through the Feywild to a cave entrance looking for Thiran’s bow. Trolls had moved into the cave so the party attacked. A pet basilisk tried to attack TheBeast with poison, but he shook it it off. Whyd’s Sleep spell disabled a number of trolls and the party moved further in.

After acquiring the powerful undead-killing sword, Shadowbane, the party decided to go do something about the incursion of undead into the Feywild. It didn’t take them long to find a rift from the natural world into the Feywild. As they approached it a gigantic elk emerged and headed directly east at a steady pace, not stopping for anything.

As they entered the rift, they encountered a green troll that used the anomaly as a hunting grounds. The party quickly proved too tough for it, despite having it fight it in an odd environment. They emerged into the Feywild proper and saw the elk’s tracks, a cluster of tombs, and a small structure.

The structure was a small shrine with runes recently carved onto its walls. Whyd and Callie determined that the runes were twisting the energies of the Feywild into a channel for undead power. Lia heard whimpering coming from inside the structure. Upon investigation, they found a young eladrin woman chained to the wall inside. jd4 rushed in to heal her while Callie and Lia tried to talk with her. As soon as they were close enough she whipped off her chains and attacked. They fought the false prisoner and her scarab swarms for a while before she dissolved into a pile of bugs and skittered away. Unfortunately they were unable to disrupt the runes and will have to venture further into the Feywild.

As the party lounged around the castle Emesha showed up at the head of a caravan. Using the tools the party had found in the zombie temple, she offered to rebuild the castle. There was some confusion as to whether she was rebuilding it for the party or just as an outpost of civilization.

Callie picked up that Emesha was hiding something. Dernan, one of Emesha’s companions, told them about a powerful sword named Shadowbane. The party managed to talk Emesha into writing a letter of introduction to Jhessail, the priestess in charge of guarding and studying Shadowbane. Callie talked Jhessail into letting them have the sword, so she led them to the sword’s storage spot. Shadowbane called to jd4 to take it up.

As the party entered the chamber, a rebellious group of protectors disabled Jhessail and attacked them. Summoning a group of battle angels, the protectors leapt into the attack. The party quickly subdued the protectors. Jhessail took the remorseful protectors back to begin their atonement.

Two large fiery dragons burst in and offered to take Shadowbane off the party’s hands. The party refused and another battle broke out. The sheltered temple was soon full of fiery fissures as the dragons blasted the ground. The party dodged around the fissures and blasts, but tendted to clump together and get blasted byt the dragon’s area attacks. By focusing their fire, they took down the dragons quite nicely. Jhessail ran in to find the source of the commotion. Upon seeing what the party had done to the dragons, she shakily agreed that they were definitely a better choice for keeping Shadowbane safe and using it for the best.