Episode 3: "A City, Returned."

“After a restful night in **Greyspire**, our heroes awoke to a town wide breakfast. The town had come out in full force to help the returning displaced victims of **Azamon**. The breakfast itself was a large-scale casting of *Heroes Feast*, which the party took part in, gaining the benefits of such a powerful spell. During this breakfast, **Father Bramble** visited them and rewarded them with a large sum of gold, as well as official ***Adventurer’s League*** armor and extra upgrades for Engel; ***the WRBF (Warforged Repulsor Based Flight)*** and the ***KreichKannone***.

The party descended to the basement of the League building where they accessed the teleportation circle that sent them to the attic of **Fulbar Nimblefingers’s** shop, **The Commoners Power**, in the city of ***Cloud Gate**,* a large mass of connected floating land masses. After descending into his shop, the group browsed and purchased an assortment of *Common Magical Items* from Fulbar such as the ***Wand of Wonder***, ***Cloak of the Manta Ray***, and the ***Armor of Gleaming***. Tellan also had Fulbar enchant his Scythe to hit harder and even deal extra radiant damage.

After visiting with Fulbar, the group headed swiftly to the airship known as ***“The Fulton”**,* to make their way to **Silvershard**. The group discovered that The Fulton airship only makes landfall once a day for three minutes. The reasoning behind such a quick journey is due to a horrible beast known as ***The Hodag**,* which nearly destroyed the town years ago and is the reason they are in the sky. Because of the Fulton’s routine schedule, it is unable to make the nearly 28 hour journey north to Silvershard and be able to be back in time for the next departure.

In a bold decision, the party made a deal with the Captain; If they managed to find and kill the Hodag, the Fulton would take them to Silvershard, missing a single day of landfall. The Captain found this proposition very amusing and decided to go along with it for fun, even covering the cost of their tickets down to the surface.

After arriving on the surface, the party found a sign for the former town, **Lake Gate** with a grim warning that this was Hodag territory. Entering into the town’s ghostly remains, the group found massive craters of where the town left the surface of the earth and into the sky, ruins of houses and shops that faced the Hodag’s wrath, along with many scratches from the Hodag’s claws and teeth. Tellan cast *Decompose* and put some of the bones to rest in the earth while Malchar decided to let out some provoking hollering. That provoking paid off as the Hodag appeared in the town, choosing Malchar as its first snack, swallowing him whole. On the outside, Tellar and Engel dished out some heavy hits, with Tellar again getting the killing blow, vaporizing the Hodag.

Taking an evening’s rest at the site of the Airship dock, Malchar spent a lot of time using the ***Hundred-Sided Stone*** to summon a variety of trinkets, a hobby he had picked up the day prior.

The crew and passengers of the Fulton were incredibly shocked when they arrived on the ground to discover the gorey remains of the Hodag. The Captain told the party that they needed to come back to CloudGate as soon as possible and inform the mayor of this historical news. So with that, our heroes boarded the airship and began their ascent to CloudGate.

While on the ascent, Tellar decided to cast *Speak with Dead* on the two urns that Malchar had summoned into his bag. The first urn contained the ashes of **Stryker Sawdust**, a noble hero who hailed from **Holly Woods** on the west coast and said that he would appreciate his urn being returned to his home. The second urn contained the ashes of a noble paladin who was happy to be summoned once again. However, this was short lived as Engel, who understood that it’s customary to scatter one's ashes in the air, threw the urn over the side of the ship into the great beyond as the Fulton arrived back at CloudGate.”

*And now, we resume…*