Beebos Bowlnanza

*Hired by*: Ophelia

*Mission Request*: Collect psionic crystals from lizards

*Rewards/Loot*: (Pending)

*Discovered Places*: Manastorm Spire (Cloud Tower), Duergar Larva Cave

*Caravan Allies*: Gromlo (antiquarian), Caliban (cook), "Bob" (alarm gnome)

*Monsters Encountered*: N/A

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## Summary

After the shopping spree, Eira played the magical flute and transported the party to the Manastorm Grounds warp point. They arrived at the Manastorm Spire, a large stone spire with fulgurite tubes deposited in the grey-red furrowed sand. The famous manastorms roiled nearby with colorful lightning flashing and occasionally striking the darker sand.

After traveling the strange colored sand for a day and a half, "Bob" shouted "words fail" as he alerted the party to the incoming storm rushing toward them. Every time the lightning struck the ground, strange changes happened to the immediate area. A rodent made of metal scurried past them and metal formations jut out of the ground. Raxis scouted ahead as the group tried to outrun the storm. He found a cave and quickly checked for traps before helping to usher the group in. Aster's giant pangolin, Arancini, got stuck at the cave entrance, but Eira was able to help her shove the poor creature inside just as the manastorm washed over the cave. Eira detected that the cave was Qhamuni in origin, roughly 7,000 years old. The storm raged on while the party explored the cave, Aster dutifully holding Beebo's leash. They found six dusty coffins with insect carvings on them and Qhamuni hexagliffs. Aster helped Raxis open the coffins and they found skeletons holding large mummified larvas. In addition, they found a couple relics and a Qhamuni rhombus. With her keen bird eyes, Aster found a secret door that opened with a torch being placed in an empty sconce. Six ceremic bowls lay underneath a large mural depicting two large rhinoceros beetles with a female humanoid figure floating between them wearing a beetlehorn crown. Eira was able to roughly translate the gold Qhamuni hexagliffs at the bottom of the mural to read "Transcendite." Beebo suggested putting the larva from the six coffins in the six bowls at the base of the mural. Raxis thought they may need to be set on fire for something to unlock, but Aster advocated for not desecrating the larva right away given the often-sacred ceremonies surrounding death and burial. Instead she proposed following through with putting the larva in the bowls and then having Eira speak the ancient Qhamuni word. After "transcendite" was spoken, a panel in the mural open above the painted female figure. Beebo clambered up the mural and reached inside and found a chiton paldron very similar to that on the woman in the painting. Gromlo assessed the paldron was very old but very powerful magic and had psionic echoes. Raxis skittered down the stairwell past the burial chamber and discovered a dark Duergar city. He reported back and the party decided to leave the city alone to explore another time.

During their third day of travel, the group came across a caravan of manastorm orcs moving across the land with remnite shards. Raxis offered to the leader, Zeusa, some food & water rations as well as his personal gold for all their remnite on hand. Zeusa also offered information regarding the remnite node clusters; they look floral-like and are quite rare. They also hold quite a bit of wild magical energy so he highly recommened not dropping a cluster if they ever pick any up.