G17 - Mel Kite

Date: Planting (4) 22nd Sunday 760

The white dragon that Jimmy Sprockets observed landed soon after the giant fell. Speaking in common with their booming voice asked for them to surrender all their belongings and live another day or die. They hesitantly gave the dragon anything valuable, all their coins, gems and magic items. Satisfied, the dragon left them.

No one expected what happened next, Olar came back about 200ft off the ground, this caused the bag of holding that was holding his clothes to explode. As a side effect, Olar fell down to almost his death, the dragon got teleported to a different plane of existence and all their stuff was forever gone.

In the meantime as Olar appeared, the rest of the party got teleported to an unknown place, it was a battlefield, some kind of war between werebeasts and Elves. The party saw three elves covered in blood, one of them called out "Olar?" In the background, an elf was mercy killing werebeasts. A second later, they went back to the Forbidden Forest.

The party stood confused and stunned, while Mel rushed to assist Olar. Aka Noone was especially affected since everything was gone. After they regrouped, Jonom sent his war bunny North. To increase their chances, Mel wanted to fly above the trees but at the same time didn't want to lose the party, so she borrowed rope and became a flying kite of scouting. While flying, she realized the party walked too slow to make much progress.

The party started to slowly realize that they are trying to find Mel's parents, but Mel doesn't know their names, what they look like and has never been to Winterspire.

The war bunny signaled Jonom that it found something, but wasn't sure if it was a friend or foe. A few minutes later, the war bunny came back to the party with a giant carrot followed by three sleds. Two sleds have a couple of white kobolds each, the leader was a female ELf, Vellyne Harpell with two zombies.

They made quick friends with Vellyne, mainly because they were desperate, cold and demoralized. She gave them a sled ride, and led them to a tent about 20 minutes away. There, an elder by the title of Speaker was tending the fire.

Finally, the party was able to rest, and eat a warm meal. Mel announced that she found her ring that the dragon had taken. Vellyne told them she is from Winterspire and there are two parts, Upper and Lower Winterspire. She was also waiting for her Elf war party to come back from an expedition against Duergar dwarfs. The group was more interested in going to sleep, which they did.

The next day Jimmy woke up having realized that whatever parasite was in Mel is probably in Jonom. The frog egg he was carrying with him was now a tadpole. Jonom tried to vomit the tadpole out with no luck. Regardless of Jonom's fate, Olar wanted to help Vellyne to go look for the war party that hadn't come back yet. At least the Speaker gave Jonom an elven longsword to replace his pick.

The elven war party had gone to attack a fortress that Duergar were inhabiting and attacking nearby areas. Vellyne led the party close to the fortress with her white owl and wished them luck. Bravely, and stealthily, the party approached.

Their first obstacle was a strong double door, that they eventually decided to shrink in size to enter. To their surprise, the door didn't make a lot of noise as it fell in the snow. After that, they had to overcome a portcullis, which they also reduced in size. Unfortunately for them as they entered the main hall a guard spotted them through an arrow slit. A fight broke out with multiple Duergar guards. The party learned that they are able to turn invisible or large.

The fight laser for a while, but through brute force, a bit of luck and some well-placed spells the party won. While the party was fighting, Aka Noone and Olar took turns trying to throw a rock through an arrow slit. Their little rock throwing game helped slow down 2 of the 9 duergar by making things bright.

With the guards dead, the party surveyed the area, a hallway on the right branches off in two directions. Who heard the fight? Are more coming? Where are the elves?