Session 70

The party continues their search to recover Sors. To do so, they must combat a number of enemies they weren't expecting to have to deal with. 
== Summary ==
The party decided that their chosen method to deal with the odapi would be to attempt to cast Banishment on it. Kiono used the Tome of the Eternal Seeker to temporarily learn the spell while the rest of the party takes a short rest in preparation for the upcoming fight. After three attempts to banish the odapi, the spell was successfully used to banish is from the material plane. One danger down, Kiono then sent her familiar through one of the holes in the door to attempt to scope out the area beyond. Through the tressym, she was able to see the forms of bodies beyond the door. It could smell Sors' presence, but was quickly eaten. A voice complained that the familiar was not very tasty. The miasma presented Sors, jamming her form against the door so they could see it. It threatened to kill Sors if they did not open the door, releasing it from its prison of several centuries. The party did not debate long before Teer and Ephemera moved to open the door. Their weapons of a divine nature, the seal was broken almost immediately, and miasma began to pour out. The dark figure within dropped Sors and attacked the party. 
Ephemera moved to stay beside Sors, who claimed to be out of magic and healing, while the rest of the party dealt directly with the miasmic creature. The creature pondered the concept of dying dreams, implying that it consumed the hopes of its victims. The remains in the room were those of Estalar and his beast companion, Kukay, and Atalamay, all of whom were raised to aide the creature over the course of the fight. Eventually, Teer, Miren, and FOUR were able to take down the creature, which took most of the zombie adventurers with it. Atalamay's zombie refused to fall away, choosing instead to continue attacking in some desperate final grasp at the power he thought he had failed to achieve. He was ultimately defeated, though not before Ephemera fell in the combat. The various powers that were holding the tower in its strange, disjointed state dispersed, the tower began to shake dangerously. The party escaped to safety by means of various uses of beast shape, , and Dimension Door. 
After escaping, they determined that it was safe to return, finding that the island had returned to a more normal state. The bushes outside, which had previously been hostile, had returned to a presumably more natural non-sentient state. Inside the tower, the strange brokenness of the stairwell had returned to a normal state as well, albeit still without stairs. After some exploration, the party discovered that a magical elevator of sorts existed, which could be mentally commanded to rise to the various floors of the tower. Content that things had reached a more stable point, the party relocated to the beach to take a rest. 
After their rest, the party decided to take a walk before returning to the tower. They divided into two groups: Teer, Ephemera, and Kiono in one group, Renn, Sors, and FOUR in the other. Teer moved the Mote of Destruction from Renn to Sors, and the groups split up. Once apart, Akaros informed Teer, who then told Ephemera and Kiono, that he no longer had truesight. Further, He was not certain that Sors was actually Sors. She had a different feeling and, though he had never tasted her before via the Mote, something felt off. Uncertain of how off "off" was, they decided to follow behind the other group in case anything happened. 
Meanwhile, Renn and Sors attempted to pray to Ephemera, using a knock-knock joke as their prayer. Ephemera was surprised to hear the beginning of the knock-knock joke from Renn, but was unable to respond. Assuming the lack of response meant failure, the girls and FOUR decided to look for herbs and flowers to press in Sors' book. FOUR was assigned to look for 300 of a particular flower. Renn, though instructed by Sors to look for flowers elsewhere, followed Sors instead, enforcing the buddy system. During their investigations, Renn found a thin silver chain in the remains of the stable; Sors found a single aurora orchid, an incredibly rare flower; and FOUR found a field of flowers from which he gathered as many flowers as he could hold. 
The party regrouped shortly after. Sors handed out flowers to everyone from FOUR's collection. Ephemera told Renn that she had, in fact, received her prayer. The party split up once more. Teer and Renn decided to ride the skybike around the island, Kiono turned into a cranium rat and rested on Sors's head with Ephemera watching them both, and FOUR wandered back to the tower for his own exploration. From the air, Teer and Renn discovered shortly that the island was in fact a giant turtle with a tower built onto its back. After further investigation, Teer realized that the tower actually went into the turtle's shell, and they also learned that the turtle appeared to be undead. Teer also used this opportunity to tell Renn what Akaros had said about Sors. 
Kiono convinced Sors to play a prank with her, suggesting perhaps that she cast Command on FOUR in order to make him do a silly dance. They convinced Ephemera to go with them, and they left for the tower in pursuit of FOUR. Meanwhile, FOUR had already reached the tower, searching the basement for interesting things. He found a passage in the basement that led even deeper into the turtle, its insides having become a large cavern system. He found the remains of a magical circle, and decided to return to the group to report his findings. 
As Ephemera, Sors, and Kiono went in search of FOUR, Sors revealed herself to be something other than Sors. It used a claw to pierce through Kiono's Polymorph, and proceed to attack the wizard. Ephemera, unable to help in any capacity, ran for help. Kiono used Polymorph to turn herself into a T-rex and attacked the creature that had been masquerading as Sors. She defeated it with relative ease, killing it as Teer, Renn, and Ephemera returned to the tower. She discovered that the creature was an undead extraplanar entity called a Visage. They took the form of things they killed, meaning that it had killed Sors. 
With this confirmation that Sors was dead, they could do nothing but perhaps look for her body. FOUR returned, and they decided to investigate the basement. The broken circle he had discovered appeared to be a summoning and binding circle, presumably the one Atalamay had used to summon the nightmare creature. Something had gone wrong, resulting in him losing control of it. 
The group decided then to rest for the evening. They returned to the beach, where Teer decided to use the Crystal Ball they had obtained from Atalamay's rooms. He Scried on Sors, hoping to locate her body. Instead of the young girl he expected, however, he saw an entity that looked similar to Sors, but was in her late 20s. She was suspended in a dark green solution, her entire body wrapped in bandages. Small constructs crawled over her body, apparently rebuilding her damaged limbs. Hedemora stood beside the glass, and Teer heard him say that this attempt was going slower, but smoother. Hedemora then dismissed the scrying sensor. 
Shortly after Teer had relayed what he had seen to the others, Lysaro appeared with Sors by his side. He explained that Sors was a revenant of sorts. She was somehow projecting a portion of her mind to them, but in a way that had a tangible form. He further explained that for some reason, Hedemora and his cult were working to repair her body, but as the followers of the God of Rot, healing was not something they were particularly good at. 
The party asked Lysaro if he would be willing to remove the enchantment that kept the sun from setting on the island. He agreed, but also removed the other enchantments that protected them from the elements. The sun suddenly set, and a storm was raging around them. Kiono, having just started resummoning her familiar, remained on the beach. The rest of the party decided to wait with her while Ephemera walked with Lysaro back to the tower to ensure that it was cleared of all enemies. 
== NPCs ==
=== Returning ===
* Atalamay (zombie, deceased)
* Estalar (zombie, deceased)
* Kukay (zombie, deceased) 
* Hedemora (scried)
* Lysaro 
=== Mentioned ===
* Nox
== Items ==
* Crystal Ball (Nemrtvá Želva, by Renn and Sors) 
* Silver chain (Nemrtvá Želva, by Renn)
* Aurora Orchid (Nemrtvá Želva, by Sors) 
* A ginormous bouquet of flowers (Nemrtvá Želva, by FOUR) 
* Ooze (Nemrtvá Želva, by FOUR)