Outpost Santa Barbara: Episode 02

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==Recap==
===Day Nine===
The Town Council of Santa Barbara are on Anacapa Island, inside a cave next to a magically floating trident. Daehkcarc has convinced Lieutenant Po Tato to snort some of the ground up earth elemental rocks. After snorting them, Po Tato is unable to see the rest of the party. He attempts to pick up the trident, but receives an electric shock like Governor Daffodil.
Two dolphins arrive in the waterway of the cave. Kanon D. B'aal casts "Catapult" in an attempt to move the trident. After the trident almost moves off the pedestal, there is a magical reaction. Some of the cave collapses as an earthquake starts.
The naked Daehkcarc climbs out with his rogue skills. Amber swims outside. Governor Daffodil takes Kanon's Floating Disc, pushing Kanon off. Kanon goes back into the cave and saves the drugged out Po Tato on another disc.
The party get back to the fishing boat. The two dolphins follow them. They notice a swirling cloud has appeared above Santa Barbara. The party sail back towards Santa Barbara. Kanon names the dolphins Apple and Banana.
After sunset, they get back to the mainland. The clouds are spiraling over the Goleta Slough to the east of town. Kanon suspects it is an air elemental. The party go to rest.
They are awoken a few minutes later with bells of alarm from town. The Governor sends the rest of the party into battle, healing himself instead of the heavily injured Po Tato. Kanon pressures Daffodil to come along, but he stays behind with seven guards. He sends one guard, David, with the party.
The party encounter an air elemental which moves towards the party. Daehkcarc climbs up a tree. The air elemental picks up David the guard and throws him into a tree, which impales him. Everyone opens fire. 
Somehow Dave survives the seemingly fatal blow, and pulls himself off the branch. Governor Daffodil orders the seven town guards to join the fight. The air elemental appears to ignore everyone and move towards the fort, knocking Kanon unconscious.
Four guards charge at the air elemental and two are viciously thrown back. Po Tato and Daehkcarc check up on David as he marches back into combat. After being hit by a magic missile, the air elemental turns around and moves back in Kanon's direction. As it gets close to him, he hits it again with a magic missile. The air elemental is injured and reduced in size.
Daehkcarc snorts some of the earth elemental crack rock. He sees everyone disappear. The air elemental's true form is visible to him, a humanoid in the middle of the wind. He opens fire with his short bow and hits true.
The weakened air elemental knocks down Kanon and then moves into the town. Daffodil heals Kanon and everyone gives chase.
In town, the elemental enters the already damaged Sandshark tavern. Kanon hits the elemental with a firebolt, igniting it and starting a small fire in the tavern. Daffodil uses Dissonant Whispers to finish off the air elemental. Daehkcarc sees the humanoid shape of the elemental shatter apart.
Everyone helps put out what little fire there is. Daehkcarc finds remnants of the elemental on debris from the tavern and a mug. He stripes naked and screams at the sky, still high and unable to see anyone around him.
After the battle, Ranger Amber shows up. The party explain what happened and rest for the remainder of the night. Daffodil sings the following song:
:Oh we went on a trip with this useless ranger
:And when we got back the town was in danger
:Who saved the day? Well he is no stranger
:It was an elemental made of thin air
:But the governor, oh, he did not care 
:He yelled at the creature, 'you'd better say your prayer' 
:And he vanquished it with style, grace, and flair
===Days Ten to Seventeen===
There is a meeting the next morning. Po Tato is put on suspension for a week for not helping with the fight. David is made acting Lieutenant.
After the meeting, Po Tato goes to Daehkcarc for some "sleepy-time tea". Daehkcarc gives it to him, but it is cut with 25% earth elemental, to see what it does to Po Tato.
Kanon tests some of the earth elemental rocks and finds that they vibrate. Daehkcarc finds that the earth elemental rocks also react to the air elemental remnant.
Kanon looks for a 100 gp pearl in the Goleta Slough to use for an Identify spell, but doesn't find one. Daffodil then just gives Kanon 100 gold from the town funds. Kanon casts Identify.
Kanon learns about the links between the rocks and The Elemental Planes. He puts them into vials of potions to drink.
Governor Daffodil walks around town, doing the rounds. One day, he overhears the story of someone who went hiking in the Santa Ynez Mountains and spotted an unseasonable oasis. 
===Day Eighteen (Sunday)===
A new meeting is called. Lieutenant Po Tato is reinstated as Captain of the Guard. David is promoted to Sergeant.
Daehkcarc predicts that the town will soon be attacked by a fire elemental. Kanon talks with Ranger Amber and becomes very suspicious of her and her possible connections with the elementals.
The party head out to investigate the oasis in the Santa Ynez Mountains. David is left in charge of the town. Kanon tells David to keep an eye on Ranger Amber. Po Tato gives David the drugs that Daehkcarc gave him a week ago, telling him it is a potion that he should drink before combat.
The party head out into the Santa Ynez Mountains as a slow casual pace. They camp for the night with bedrolls.
===Day Twenty===
The party venture though the mountain pass. Governor Daffodil almost falls off at one point, but catches himself. Kanon is injured by a cactus plant.
The party arrives at the edge of a avocado jungle. Daehkcarc is convinced that they are fake avocado trees that are secretly monsters. Governor Daffodil asks Kanon to open fire, and Kanon shoots a firebolt at one of the trees. A shrieking sound comes from the forest from 50 feet away, followed by mirroring screeches from further away.
Lieutenant Po Tato leads the party into the avocado jungle. They see no sign of trouble around them, so Po picks an avocado. When he goes to pick a second, some spears are thrown by tasloi into Po. The tasloi continue to throw spears at the party as they defend themselves.
Governor Daffodil casts Faerie Fire at the tasloi, revealing the five tasloi's hiding spots. Kanon kills one with a firebolt and Daehkcarc backstabs another to death. Three remaining tasloi flee from the party.
The party head further into the jungle and spot a river in the distance. They head up river to find its source, a bubbling pool of water. Governor Daffodil orders detect magic, but Kanon detects nothing. Daffodil then orders Po Tato to swim into the pool to investigate. Po swims into the water but doesn't open his eyes underwater.
The party make their way back towards town.
===Day Twenty-Two===
The party get back into Santa Barbara. They show the avocados to the fort staff who say they are export quality, and the avocado jungle is full of them.
Sergeant David reports that Ranger Amber and her rangers left town an hour after the party left and returned a few hours ago. She reportedly went north to Hollister Ranch.
Governor Daffodil calls a meeting on how they can secure the avocados for export.
Kanon wants the party to pretend to leave town, but Kanon then folslosw after Amber while invisible to find out what is really going on.
===Experience===
550 exp each
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