Lost in the Jungle

## The Child of Bombyx Mori

* Jaque brings the Party to the Elder Tree and introduces us to V, a Tygron that he worked closely with back in his Tyger Claws days. V has Shepherding abilities, and agrees to bring the Party to the location specified by the Arasaka contact only if we prove ourselves by killing an Arasaka agent that's staying in one of the rooms in the Elder Tree.
	+ Franz, Eli, Wan Ti, and Jaque go to the Arasaka agent's room and very messily kill him.
	+ At some point during their time at the Elder Tree, Wan Ti has a vision of a glowing fish that turns into a war between humanoids and dragons. An one-armed humanoid figure appears and all the dragons fall behind him and followed their lead.

* V guides the party to an Arasaka facility somewhere in the middle of the jungle. The outside of the facility is guarded by mechanical shooters, which the Party hastily dispatches. Upon entering the facility, the Party encounters a few militarized Sigil constructs, including one powered by a dragon tooth. After defeating the constructs, the party collect the following items: dragon tooth, repeating crossbow, 2 deconstructed construct heads and the tube with gold leaves.
	+ Deeper inside, the party finds a group of Arasaka scientists. They interrogate them about what Arasaka was up to at the facility. Eli uses the Helmet of Telepathy to look into his mind.
		- She sees a woman being brought in and all her limbs are removed. There's a red sun tattoo on her shoulder. Her face is obscured, but it looked like the scientists were taking off part of her face.
	+ Finally, the party finds Veginald Star tied to a chair, a chained up gnothic, and a baby dragon turtle trapped in a glass tank. They find out that the baby dragon turtle is the Child of Bombyx Mori, and the scientists were trying to use the gnothic to extract information from the child's mind.
* On the way out of the facility, the party gets attacked by a metal dragon. The dragon is able to use the sun to give party members heat exhaustion. They just barely manage to escape into the jungle via Kysona's teleportation spell, only to realize that they lost their shepherding supplies.
* V sends the party to search for ingredients to make a new shepherding potion. Veg antagonizes a multi-headed turtle, which attacks the party. This attracts the attention of 3 T-rexes show up, which additionally attracts the attention of a Sarlaac. The Sarlaac grabs onto V and Aelis and begins dragging them into its mouth. V manages to struggle free, but Aelis is having a harder time.
	+ Kysona tells his patron that he will trade his soul for help saving his friends. Aelis manages to escape the clutches of the Sarlaac, but not before being downed and developing PTSD.
* The party is saved by the appearance of Geronimo who plays a jazzy tune on his clarinet, calming the jungle and chasing away the Sarlaac. He leads them to a safe and peaceful village nearby where the party can recover from their latest traumatizing experience.

## Meanwhile Back at the Ranch

### A Farm out of Time

*Many months prior, immediately after Shahd's assassination*

* Damian Rourke teleports himself, Ivan, and other members of the Court to a quiet, isolated farm in the Outerlands. Ivan spends the next few days on the farm recovering from his fight with the rest of the party.
* Eventually, he begins exploring the farm and discovers an apparition his son Alexei. Alexei looks younger than the last time Ivan saw him, as if Ivan were looking at a past version of his son and not a ghost. The two are not able to speak to each other, but Ivan manages to communicate through body language. They can only see each other for a certain amount of time each day. In that time, Ivan teaches his son all he knows about archery and sword fighting. When the topic of the Court of Owls comes up. Alexei seems very enthusiastic about the Court and about Damian. Ivan warns his son off by carving an owl and then crushing it.
* One day, as Ivan is wandering around the property of the farm, he hears sounds from the forest nearby. He follows the noise and comes upon an old Protectorate fort from the Orc-Protectorate War. Despite the fact that the War "ended" years ago, Ivan sees fresh blood and recently deceased soldiers lying on the ground.
* He is inspecting the area when suddenly he feels a surge of magic, and time seems to reverse itself. Arrows fly backwards, buildings become undamaged, and the corpses on the ground become soldiers hurrying to defend the fort. The revived soldiers shout in alarm at Ivan's presence, but Ivan has no time to explain himself because in that moment a giant monster begins lumbering towards them. Every step it takes causes time to reverse itself. Attacks aimed at it are broken down to their components or absorbed. Ivan tries fighting back, but realizes that nothing can stop this monster, and runs away from the fort back to the farm.

### Soleste Joins the Dark Side

* Azrael brings Soleste to the Crypt of Fallen Angels where Asmodeus is staying. She meets Asmodeus who explains that Dol Arrah is blind to the problems with Arcadia and all Gods must fall. Soleste pledges her allegiance to Asmodeus, and as a reward for her loyalty Asmodeus gifts her some power, giving her 8 level-ups.
* Unfortunately, Asmodeus cannot go against Dol Arrah alone, and so he sends Azrael and Soleste to find the one person in Arcadia foolish enough to plot against Dol Arrah yet clever enough to find success. Asmodeus has reason to believe that that person is currently at Silverhearth and orders Pandora and Azrael to go find him.
* Pandora and Azrael cross a river of souls to reach the farm that Asmodeus identified.

### Introducing Matthias

* Matthias is traveling through the Outerlands carrying out justice in the name of Dol Arrah when the Church of Dol Arrah summons him and assigns him the mission of killing Ivan Kalnychevsky who is accused of assassinating Shahd and creating time-space disturbances at Silverhearth.
* Matthias crosses the same river that Pandora and Azrael crossed and sees a small farm with a half-orc resident.