8.13.22 - Ending the Abolith

Despite his betrayal Rhys was able to take control of Puddle, just with a little delay; however, She-Rah’s handaxe did not return when she called it. I set out above the water to get closer to Seedooloo, but before I could get there I was hit by a wave of water and was pulled closer than I had meant to be. There were also kuatoa rising to the surface of the water as Reaver let out a scream from beyond the wizard’s room. The abolith let out a thought that created a poison cloud like the one from the first time we had encountered him. However, this time Rhys was prepared and spent her time carefully moving it in a little bubble through the entrance to the room where the brain had been to trap it where it couldn’t harm us. She also sent a lynx to hunt down Reaver since he had stabbed her and also made her spell fail. Cannon chased after Reaver to try to snap him out of it while he waited for Rhys to move the poison out of the doorway. He managed to snap him out of the abolith’s control, and as he did that Seedooloo disappeared from beneath my blades. We thought he might have simply disappeared, but She-Rah confirmed he had teleported himself to a different plane of existence.

I figured I would take advantage of being able to breathe underwater to look for shiny treasures at the bottom of the pool. There was a heap of coins, but after the last time I took gold from here I shouldn’t because it would make Cannon mad. But, I didn’t take magical items last time so they must be fine, so I looked around after dropping my purple eyelids to find the magical trinkets scattered around the pile. Those I brought up from the bottom to show the others. There were a bunch of potions and a cool ring I gave to Cannon. We double checked that all the illusions had disappeared before we began to collapse as much of the cavern behind us.

Since Rhys and Cannon had used all of their spells for the day, we decided to rest outside the now collapsed cave in the jungle before returning to the village in the morning. Rhys was able to shelter us in her magical hiding space. During the night, we heard what started as singing but then I noticed that it was more like talking, so I warned Cannon that the bullywugs were around when I woke him up. In the morning, She-Rah communed with the nature around us to find out if we had really banished Seedooloo to a different plane, which we had. She also noticed that the water levels had gone down quite a bit, and the sliminess of the area had also decreased. With the help of a nearby tree she had gotten acquainted with, Rhys took us back to the forested area behind Reaver’s house in the Greenmist.

The village was clearly a different place because we could see both men and women moving around the roads, and there was distinct singing coming from the temple. We went inside the house after Cannon fed the goats, where I left a note telling him how to contact us again if he ever needed to and thanking him for helping us with the abolith. I left the others to relax in the house while I went to see what all the singing was about at the temple. There were no hags in sight, but everyone who was at the temple was praying to Elisande. When I got back to the house I told everyone what I had found and we should go to their house if we wanted to find the hags.

Cannon led us down the street to the house with no windows. It was a simple looking house with a porch that wrapped around the building and there were a bunch of windchimes hanging around the outside. When we stepped onto the porch there was an odd silence around us until I touched one of the windchimes that had a blue bird foot hanging from the center. Then, all the chimes started reacting as I moved it around. The door opened in front of Cannon as I tried to stop the chimes, so he led us in, leaving the chimes as they were.

Inside, there was nothing but pitch darkness, until we could just make out the blazing fire underneath a large cauldron in the center of the room. The fire illuminated the space enough that we could see the walls and floors were made out of mud with a small path of stones leading towards the cauldron. As we got closer we could see the hags sitting on stones behind the cauldron, adding little bits and bobs that smelled like fish to their pot. There were a wide variety of smells and smokes that filled the room until they noticed our arrival. They greeted us and promised that Elisande would be given a choice when the time came, but did we really think she wouldn’t want to join them? After all, they had prepared such a nice feast for her. Cannon took a step forward and let out a blast of destructive energy.