10. Into Avelis (Part 1)

==Intro==
Sophia is Father Time and 50% of the cast have a cold. Father Time wants some Mucinex from Kat but she has run out. As they fall to the deaths, the party levels up to level five and the players are afraid of Kat and her DM powers.
==Lore Dump #1: The Ascent==
Kat tells us the story of how the Goddess met the beast gods and gained her power.
Thousands of years ago three beast gods roamed the Great Forest, fighting as it pleased them. One day, a young girl was left as an offering to the wolf god Fenrir. Instead of killing the girl, Fenrir took her into his pack and taught her the strength of the wolves.
Soon she came to encounter the two other beast gods. The deer, Cernunnos, who taught her how to harness the magic in the natural world and the crow, Muninn, who showed her the world and taught her to survive it.
As a woman, the girl brokered a peace between the three clans. Over time, people began to seek refuge within the united forest, fleeing the warring gods outside its boundaries. When the world was set ablaze, the woman begged to be lent the powers of her godly hosts. With their power, she lifted the Great Forest and its inhabitants into the sky. They named their new haven Estra and knew that nothing had survived on the world below.
==Three Guardians and a Goddess fall to the world below...==
===Wet Dog===
Because Fran cast Feather Fall, the Guardians and the Goddess are falling slower than the rubble. But in the chaos Laika, who is still holding the Goddess’ unconscious body, gets seperated from Fran and Corbin.
She manages to avoid getting hit by the worst of the rubble but Feather Fall wears off quickly. Laika cannot see what they are falling towards, only a glimmer in the moonlight. When they hit the water, The Goddess and Laika are seperated. It is icy cold, deep and when Laika opens her eyes they sting. In the few moments before Laika begins to drown, she sees the Goddess’ begin to glow.
===Sand Bath===
Fran and Corbin fall together. They can’t see what they’re falling towards, but great dust clouds rise up from the pieces of the island that land before them. Just before they hit the ground, Fran casts Feather Fall again and they land safely. As they look around themselves they see only sand and a storm rages around them.
Fran casts Leomund’s Tiny Hut around them and Corbin heals himself of the arrow wound. Fran begins to have a panic attack and Corbin fails absolutely at consoling her.
==Lore Dump #2: Torva Did Have Sexual Relations With That Snake==
When the world had finished burning, the other gods began to take notice of Estra. However they tried, none could find worship upon the island. Torva, the Conqueror, became smitten with the Goddess, wishing to marry her and join their powers in a war against the Forces. As an offering, he gave her the sword of Bellius. She used his gift to kill him for a short time.
Torva swore his revenge against her and his alliance with Atum the Snake created the Castra. They hid it’s egg in the Goddess’ chambers and when it hatched it used its venom to steal her immortality. Although Fenrir killed the monster, the damage was done and the death of the Goddess’ meant the falls of Estra. Refusing to let this happen, the Goddess bore a daughter and passed her divinity onward, beginning her cycle of reincarnation.
==Wet Dog x3==
When Laika wakes, she and the Goddess are on top of a very high cliff on a small island. She is exhausted and cannot get the Goddess’ to wake up. In the distance, Laika sees a shore line but she is unsure if she can swim through the gap while carrying the Goddess in her current state.
While attempting to climb down the cliff with the Goddess on her back, Laika falls into the ocean. Laika makes the split second decision to try and swim for the shore line and manages to make it. Looking out across the land, all she can see is sand. While hiding the Goddess in a grove of trees, she remembers the alarm amulet that Zarun gave her.
She crushes it but nothing seems to happen. Looking out across the ocean, Laika sees a piece of Estra in the distance and hears faint screaming. She wants to go and help and begins to cast Summon Steed to make swimming easier. Instead of an aquatic animal, and to Laika’s delighted surprise, Gingie appears before her. After a brief reunion, they begin to swim out towards the screams. Halfway there, Gingie spots Zarun struggling to stay afloat in the water.
==Land Shark==
Corbin and Fran have been in the dome for hours and outside the sky is becoming lighter and the sandstorm is easing. The sand underneath the dome begins to shift as though something is tunneling beneath them. Suddenly there is a young half-elf yelling at them to let him in the dome, but before they can react, a bulette leaps from beneath the sand and eats him.
The bulette begins to try and dig beneath the dome. While it cannot actually get inside, it’s constant digging is making the Guardians slowly begin to sink beneath the sand, meaning that when the spell eventually ends, they will be buried.
The Guardians leave the dome and begin to attack the bulette. Fran gets in a good hit with Scorching Ray before the bulette gets her in it’s jaws and begins to shake, making her pass out. As the bulette begins advancing on Corbin, he casts Healing Word (the word being ‘Tater-tots’) on Fran, stabilising her. Kat rolls a nat twenty on the bulettes next attack; it scoops Corbin up in it’s jaws and begins to chow down, but just as Corbin is passing out, he hears a loud horn and sees a group of sled riding orcs emerge from the storm and begin to attack the bulette.
==A Message to Chantel==
Sophia: So in place of our Message to Chantel this week, we have a message for our favourite person: Brandon. Hey Brandon? You’re on brand.
Kat: That was a hundred percent an excuse just to say that, wasn’t i-
Sophia: [Gravelly voice] Brandon.
[Various bad nicknames for Brandon]
Kat: Brandon, please don’t take your five dollars from us. We need that money for chicken nuggets.
Kaitlin: Brandoooon.
Noel: We love you Brandon. The Brandon agent is active.
[Giggles]
Kat: Go!
==Featured Characters==
===PCs===
*Fran
*Laika
*Corbin
===NPCs===
*Maeri (Totally unconscious)
*Gingie
*Unnamed half-elf boy
*Bulette
==Featured Locations==
*A Very Big Ocean
*A Very Big Desert
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