Story 1/16/2021

The session started off with the group having just escaped the labyrinth underneath the Gewalo vaults. They didn't stop to rest, and opted to flee into the larger tunnel network to escape before any more guards showed up. Near the end of the tunnel, a clearing above them opened up and The Gambler appeared through a locked grate.

He thanked the group for providing enough distraction so his team could raid the other Vice-Den leaders vaults, and that he had been preparing for this operation for weeks and had been emptying his own vaults. At the same time, he said the group could keep what they found in his vault, and that they were square. As he started to leave, Beorn called back that they could up the ante even more, and if The Gambler agreed to spread rumors that the group was killed (thus getting Zandyr Medda off their back for a bit) they would agree to throw the Orange Robe Crew off of The Gamblers trail as much as they could. The Gambler thought about it for a bit, and eventually agreed, dropping a pair of magic cheating dice down to the group, signaling that he was moving on from his life as The Gambler and would likely go into some form of hiding after clearing their name.

The group continued to the end of the tunnel, summoned some celestial steeds, and started to ride north to where they thought the last urn piece was located. Along the way, they could see that the city of Gewalo was in turmoil, with numerous fires. They also crossed paths with a regiment of Dragonborn soldiers on their way to sack the city. Khaelis realized he had seen a vision of this before via the Serevictus, just after the group had defeated the Avatar of Orcus in Miradore. In his vision, the Dragonborn were attacking Miradore not Gewalo, but it was very similar. He also got strangely interested in Erevan for a bit, but eventually let that go and went to talk to the leader of the Dragonborn regiment.

After mentioning that he was Baliarth's son, the Dragonborn commander talked to them, but most of the regiment seemed eager to attack the group. They learned that they were indeed on their way to sack Gewalo, and that Thalstead would be next. The group decided to take their leave, and continue to search for the last urn piece. They were troubled about the whole situation though, because now Miradore, Lumence, Kanotanga, Gewalo, and soon Thalstead had all erupted in violence. It seemed as though the entire continent was descending into chaos.

The group eventually made their way through dense forest heading towards the urn piece, which led them directly towards the Ruins of Augalire. About 30 miles out from the ruins, they ran into a very weird situation where a group of bears seemed to be distressed. Lunashe used a spell to communicate with the animals, and learned that they were stressed out and frightened by an evil man. Beorn additionally went up to them and attempted to communicate. The group noticed around the same time that other animals were walking towards the urn piece, seemingly in some sort of trance that didn't effect the bears.

The group continued on, and eventually found Arkilius from the Orange Robe Crew standing in the forest, with the urn piece around his neck. Underneath him was consecrated ground of pure evil, literally killing a small area of forest around him. Beorn scouted around for illusions, and Lunashe, Khaelis and Erevan went up to Arkilius after checking out a wolf that seemed to be entranced by him.

Arkilius told them that they were too late, and that the Orange Robe Crew had already won. He said they were free to kill him and take their urn piece, it wouldn't change anything. Lunashe grabbed the piece, but when she left the consecrated ground, it dissolved and returned to his neck. Arkilius put his arms up, as if to accept death, and a cadre of entranced animals appeared around the group. Crocodiles, bats, eagles, boars, tigers, spiders, snakes, and giant rats all attacked, and any time the group damage Arkilius, he would siphon life from the animals to prevent the damage.

After a hard fought battle that included stacking acid damage from the spiders, bats that could echolocate Beorn, and giant rats that were unnecessarily gross, the group defeated the animals and Arkilius, and claimed the last urn piece.

With all the Artifacts in their possession, they could now travel to the Runs of Augalire (the city from the Kianarack spell scroll) and complete the ritual to gain planar changing abilities, and finally confront the Orange Robe Crew...

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