Story 4/18/2020

The session started off with the group having just survived going into the maw of a Kraken that had eaten their ship. The group found that a small handful of the crew from their ship was alive, including the greenhorn (Reese), and the older man who told tall tales (Harbin). The captain was also alive, along with survives of two other shipwrecks.

Erevan talked to some of the other survives, and learned that they were also on-board ships that had been very recently eaten by the Kraken (in the last couple hours). Their ships also had few survivors, and the wreckage of the ships were scattered about the upper esophagus of the Kraken. Beorn talked to Harbin, and learned that his tall tales about Kraken's were fairly overstated, and that it was basically unheard of for a Kraken this large to attack, especially 3 different ships in the same day in a major shipping lane.

While the group was talking, a Revenant appeared seemingly out of nowhere next to them, and immediately

started talking to Klon. The Revenant's name was Cyrex, and he handed Klon a piece of Ecrozahr's broken urn (the bottom of it). This confirmed that the urn was indeed still broken, and that if the group wanted to use it, they would need to re-assemble it.

As the group talked to Cyrex, they got a very fragmented and broken story from him. He couldn't remember who he was in his first life before being resurrected by The Raven Queen, and in general he felt like it was a rush job to get him out. The Raven Queen appeared to be stressed out of her mind right now, and there was general turmoil and chaos in her Order. As she had worked to create Cyrex, she did a sloppy job, and he had a small handful of memories that seemingly weren't his.

The first memory was from earlier that day, and it was of a small gnome in orange robes standing on the edge of a sea-facing cliff. The gnome was muttering something and waving his arms, and suddenly the Kraken surfaced in the water, looked at him, then dove off into the water. The group surmised that the gnome was Desmond, and that he had awakened the Kraken to attack them. The second memory was also of Desmond, and it was of him smashing the urn and hiding the pieces (~20), seemingly in an attempt to protect himself from the urn being used against him.

Lunashe used Locate Object to determine that at least 1 more piece of the urn was inside the Kraken. The group instructed the surviving sailors to construct a makeshift raft with the remains of the broken ships, and descended further into the belly of the beast.

Lunashe summoned celestial steeds for them to ride, Beorn got a cow, Lunashe got an Ox, Shalara got a Crocodile, Klon got a Polar Bear, Khaelis got a Giant Badger, Erevan got a Boar, and Cyrek got a Pony.

As the group go deeper into the Kraken, they started to notice the air growing more and more acidic. So much so, that they started taking Acid damage every few seconds (although Shalara was only taking half).

After they got through the esophagus, they found themselves in the stomach (or one of the stomach's at least), and got attacked by a tape-worm like creature. The creature was immune to acid damage, and sprayed acid in every direction at the group. Thanks to a clutch spell from Klon, the worm wasn't able to do much on it's turn, and was dispatched without too many issues.

They found a soft wall of tissue, and slashed through it to reach the heard. They found that something or someone had placed tentacles as traps in the heart in 2 stages, and they would need to pass through them to get to the piece of the urn. The group spent as much time as they could testing and investigating the trap, but eventually only Khaelis and Lunashe broke through, and were struggling at that.

Klon took Midnight in his hands, and began whispering a desperate prayer to The Raven Queen. In a clutch twist of fate, his prayer was answered, and Cyrex suddenly came alive, and began to wildly slash and cut at the tentacles, matching a pace and ferocity orders of magnitude higher than what any of the group could muster.

He cut down the entirely of the trap, and before he collapsed and died, pointed at a fleshy spot of the Kraken that had a series of scars in the shape of a raven. Khaelis drove his sword into the spot, and found another piece of the urn.

The group then gathered around a weak spot in the heart, and slayed the Kraken just as it was approaching another ship to attack. They rode the steeds out, scooped up the survivors, and then boarded Captain Neyola's ship....

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