Session Forty Five

The forty fifth session of the Adventures of the Dragon Crag was on the 4th April 2023

Aleksi was a slag.

## Party Members Present

* Brandr Sigurdson
* Snorri Morgrimson
* Relnwe Adiath
* Aleksi Lehtonen

## Synopsis

### The Wellspring of Power

#### Auf Wiedersehen Libeckers

We found ourselves in a cave in the Rivet having just defeated a bunch of beastmen and rescued some peasants from Libeck. Unfortunately, we had not managed to save the waystone in the cave which now lay broken and covered in the blood of dead Libeckers. The surviving Libeckers had told us that there was another, much bigger, waystone atop the round hill at the end of the Rivet: the Wellspring of Power. As the sand storm die down outside of the cave, we decided that it was time to head there. We got the Libeckers to bury the bodies of their friends and asked Ranulf to escot them back to the dwarfen army camp. We also sent a message with a map conveying the location of the choke point we eventually intended for the inevitable field of battle.

#### Up the Round Hill

We quickly covered the small distance to the hill at the end of the Rivet at the top of which we could see a tall monolith. As we got to the base of the hill and began climbing, we all got a very bad feeling in our bellies, and this time it wasn't Snorri's eggs. Further up the hill, the rocks became jagged and, as we approached the monolith, we saw that it was a white obelisk with a black tip and bands of gold around it. As we reached the summit, the Hrukidron-Barag came to a stop and the Professor sat up suddenly. His eyes were completely black.

#### Visions of Hairy Men

Then, all of our visions went black. We no longer felt out bodies as we entered a black void. Then, a flicker of light appeardand we saw a dim torch. We seemed to each be in the body of a different person, following a figure wearing a thick fur coat. He was holding the torch. None of us were in control of the bodies we inhabited, but looked on as if we were the audience in some strange dwarf play. However, we felt their intent. The big man holding the torch was surely kislevi - he wore a silver necklace of lightening bolts about his neck. He spoke some orders to his follwers and they all charged forward. We saw then that they were all in a cave that we recognised - the crystal filled tunnels beneath the Flatland Peaks. We heard the sound of people mining ahead who turned out to be Norscans. Behind the Norscan miners was a man adorned in stones holding a staff. He fled whilst his men attacked the kislevis. The kislevis soon won the skirmish, but the man with the staff was long gone. As the battle ended, the scene faded away. We once again found ourselves in a black void, but the void was soon replaced again by another vision. The men whose bodies we inhabited were still in the caves below the Flatland Peaks. We came across a small campsite where there were obvious signs of recent activity. There was a huge pile of rocks and crystals and were all either carved or broken. Again, the scene faded to black.

#### The Experience of Death

We entered the kislevi figures again, just like Nikolai did Olga. They had followed a group of Norscans to the Wellspring of Power. Atthe foot of the obelisk, the dark figure with a staff held a crystal in his hand and tried to place it on the waystone. He ordered his minions to attack the kislevis. As another fight began, the dark figure finished placing the crystal over one of the runes on the waystone and he muttered a few words and it glowed. He then turned towards the fight and cast a mighty fireball spell. Then, he cast spell after spell of powerful magic that over powered our kislevi figures. One after the other, they fell until there was only the large kislevi with the lightening bolt necklace left. It was Aleksi who inhaited this body. He heard a voice in his ear speaking kislevi. He then launched a huge lightening bolt at the dark figure before bringing his axe down upon him, cracking his head against the crystal in the waystone, breaking it off. Then all faded to black.

#### The Great Waystone

We came round, all having just experienced death first hand. Fortunately we were all sturdy lads and lasses who did not fear Morr, nor the sun, the wind, or the rain. The Professor then said: "Dark wizard, dark wizard seeks unlimited power. Thought you'd like to know." before fainting in the Hrukidron once again. After looking at eachother and shrugging, we examined the obelisk which was much like the smaller waystones we had seen, but much bigger and more onate. Whilst on the other waystones there was only one glyph, on this one there were many. At the top were three large glyphs in a triangle each with a crystal - the bottom right one had been gauged out. At the bottom of the waystone were eight smaller glyphs: Ceyl, Cynath, Saroir, Lecai, Charoi, Sethai, Menlui, and Arhain. Of these glyphs, only the last two were lit up. Clearly, they represented the smaller waystones in the Rivet. We decided we had to find and protect them. Rel sensed magic and she felt a raging torrent of energy. It took a moment to control herself, but she could feel it flowing in from the south in a great torrent, but only a small amount flowing out.

### The Grove of Tor

#### Heading South

We headed back down south through the Rivet to find the two working waystones. We passed through the narrow ravine and past the pond with the swan but the strange man was gone. He had left a note saying that he had taken the princess back with him. We decided that he was just crazy. We proceeded beyond the great pyramid and the ruined town, through the flat boring desert, by the crashed gyrocopter and the giant stone golem and into the forest. Here, Aleksi heard a voice in his head very much like the one he heard in the vision at the Wellspring of Power. It said: "Come to me." Then a huge oak appeared in his mind.

#### Aleksi's Axe

In the wood we found burned beastmen corpses - they had clearly been charred to death by lightening. Proceeding on, we came to a lovely grove. No beastmen had managed to enter the grove, but their bodies lay about it. At the centre of the grove was a a piece of glowing wood. Aleksi went up to it and placed hsi mace handle into it. The glowing wood consumed it and it reemerged as a a beautiful axe. Aleksi picked it up and thrust it above his head and declared to the sky: "By the power of Tor!" Beneath the glowing wood was a stone with the glowing glyph of menlui. This was one of the smaller waystones that had been protected by Tor's hard wood.