Episode 2 - Many Water

## **Episode Synopsis**

### **Recap**

The team arrived in Pokarok, a village at the base of a mountain. After impressing the people of the town with their musical talent, they ventured out to find and purchase an airship to help them travel around the world. They met up with Valentine purchasing various magical items and later met Asop, an old quirky individual who had a workshop within the mountain. Despite the doubters in the town, Asop had created a flying vehicle but before the team could get their hands on it, some Broodoyles attacked Pokarok. After defeating them, the team took to the sky in the airship however, the team were met with some stowaway Broodoyles.

### **Episode Summary**

Dariun and Norman head down the stairs to find the 2 Broodoyles Asop told them about. One of the Broodoyles is close to Dariun and the other is slightly further back but he sees they are both tearing apart the pipes in the ship. Dariun suggests they should lure them up to a more open area before drawing his bow and shoots two arrows, one missing but the other hitting the Broodoyle further away. He turns around and runs up to the top deck as they both let out a scream. The one closest runs up the stairs and runs into Norman and slashes him twice. The other Broodoyle climbs up to the top deck close to where Zippy is and pounces towards Dariun but he throws it back from where he came. Zippy points the ship upwards to increase its altitude.

The balloon start to inflate and the pipes begin to burst as the ship starts to incline at a rate it is not built for. Dariun is able to grab onto the ship to prevent him from falling but Norman, along with the two Broodoyles, start sliding. Dariun Fey steps to Norman and grabs him, preventing him from falling. The Broodoyles land on the glass encapsulating the steering wheel and Zippy uses befriend animal which works on both of them. Norman, still hanging onto Dariun, casts bane on the Broodoyles which affects the one who took Dariun's arrow earlier. Dariun controls a slide to get on the glass with the Broodoyles and uses his wind fan on them. The gust of wind knocks both of the Broodoyles off the airship and they go hurtling through the air and down to the ground.

Dariun yells out to Zippy to lower the ship but Zippy tells them it's suck. Norman tries to use mage hand to pull the lever but it still won't budge. They feel the speed that they are climbing is starting to slow down as it becomes weightless and their stomachs lurch. The airship stalls and they begin the dive down to the ground. Asop throws Zippy a blue vial to be thrown into the balloons but Zippy throws it out the window. Zippy hops to the left balloon and tries to talk to the air elementals inside but he only hears a rushing wind and can't understand the language. Dariun comes over and speaks primordial to the air elementals in the balloons. Norman heads over to the right balloon and casts dissonant whispers on the air elementals, one of which is affected and starts to move more causing the ship to steer to the right. Zippy gets Dariun to hold onto him as he cuts open the balloon, grabs onto an elemental and casts enhance ability on it and asks Dariun to tell them it is a gift from them. The gift is accepted so ZIppy casts mend on the air balloon to close the hole he made.

They feel the descent is slowing down but its movement is still shifting to the right as they drift towards the area they had seen before with the geysers and they smoothly crash land. Norman takes a look at the right balloon where there is a slit and no air elementals in it. They inspect the ship to see the damage and they assess minimal damage was done and Asop should be able to fix it up fairly easily. When they take a look at the right balloon, Zippy asks what happened and why they had left. Norman doesn't admit that he scared one of the air elementals but Asop tells them he did purchase the air elementals from a slaver so they question if the air elemental ran away. As they try to figure out how they are going to get back to Pokarok with only the two air elementals, Asop points and sees one air elemental, making their way back to the ship.

When the air elemental gets back to the group, he frantically tells them that his friend had left in primordial. Dariun steps forwards and tells the air elemental he is able to understand him. The air elemental tells Dariun his brother has run off and they need to help him get back to the balloon where he likes to be. Norman asks his and his brother's names and learns his name is Caine and his brother is Huri. Caine asks that Asop gives them the cup so he goes into the ship and brings out a chalice with incense in it which is a sensor of controlling air elementals. Asop stays back on the ship to do repairs as Dariun, Norman and Zippy follow Caine.

As they walk, Caine tells them they were both captured young and were sold to Asop but they at least now feel safe in the balloon. Zippy walks over to a geyser, puts his bottomless bucket on it and sits on top. He waits, then he feels rumbling and the bucket is filled with water. Norman looks around and reflects on a day he was in the library in the Calm Cloud Monastery. He recalls an off limits place in the library with old knowledge. Norman was able to take one book of with was about ancient history of the land. It spoke of an ancient civilisation in the north of Ome where the gods still roamed the lands. It was a happy and friendly group but the civilisation was wiped out in one night. Zippy recall the scouts of the Bramble Patch exploring the ruins to the north but they don't venture in this area as they feel it's not a worthwhile place to go.

Caine leads them to a mouth of a cave that leads down. Zippy questions if Pepper would be able to smell out air elementals and they learn she can. Dariun gives her a treat and she starts sniffing the floor and leads them into the cave just as Caine flies off back to the balloon. As they walk in, it seems the air gets a little more refreshing and the darkness isn't so dark anymore. All of a sudden, they reach a rock wall. Pepper jumps to the top and digs out some rock, revealing a blue like and jumps through the hole. Zippy, changes into a hawk fox and crawls through. Dariun uses Fey Step on Norman, teleporting him through then he Misty steps through, catching up with the team.

They see the cave path end and a clear, pool of water in front of them. They can see it leads into an underwater cavern that goes forwards into the wall of the cave. Around them are some skeletons and a bag. Norman grabs the bag with mage hand and he opens it to see some rope, spoiled rations, an old map of the northern part of Ome with a bunch of red X's and a potion with a label reading 'The Baron's Muddy Water'. Dariun recalls from his travels through Aurum that The Baron is a famous dragon born sculptor and is a free spirit a who travels all around Aurum. He also remembers The Baron was the one who made the golden statue of the three of them with Colm in Aurum. Zippy searches through a skeleton and picks up a rib bone. Dariun walks over to the water and looks in as Pepper starts to growl. He hears a echoing evil laughter coming from the pool, as a Moxi fish swims up to the surface.

Dariun grabs the fish and asks if he has seen an air elemental as he hold the fish out of the water. The fish says yes, gasping for air. Dariun puts him in and out of the water multiple times when the fish doesn't answer his question. Dariun gives into the fish and asks his name which he is very happy to oblige. The fish introduces himself as Dracken Gragast, the most evil sorcerer in the world, the destroyer of these lands who has lived for a millennia and now he is a fish. They ask why he is a fish and tell him they don't believe Dracken's story. Norman asks Dracken to prove it and asks what the place was one called to which he answers Wesnia. Dracken was allegedly given power from the god Aurella and he came to Wesnia, a once lush and beautiful area and destroyed it, killing thousands in the process.

Dariun grabs a bottle and tries to put Dracken in it but he evades him. Dariun asks if he could borrow Zippy's bucket which takes some convincing as Zippy doesn't want to feel he has wasted his spell. Zippy pulls out the bucket and slowly starts to fill up the bucket. Dracken is trying to get Zippy to stop and spits some water in his face, making his drop the bucket in the water. The lake mostly empties in the bucket and Dracken sits on top so Dariun puts him in the water bottle and attached him to his hip belt. The water splashes into Zippy which causes his eyes to light up and when he opens his mouth, a very bright beam lights up the cave. Zippy is freaking out as his eyes and mouth light up the cave.

As they walk through the cave, Dariun asks why Dracken is there. He explains was a grand sorcerer blessed with power from Aurella and came to this plane from the Fey to bring havoc on his own initiative. He destroyed Wesnia, a land beloved by the gods and after he was done, he was bored so he decided to become a fish. Dariun asks when Dracken spoke to Aurella and he can't remember exactly the time it was but tells him it was around the time of the creation of the planes as Dracken was one of the first Eladrin created, one of the winter court. Dracken tells them the water he was in is magic water as his magical power had to go somewhere when he became a fish so it went into the water, which is now in Zippy's bucket. Dariun informs Dracken that he deserve some punishment for being a Eladrin criminal which Dracken is very adverse to.

Zippy introduces himself to Dracken with a moderately long spiel but is cut off by Dracken telling him he will burn the Bramble Patch down when he can. Dracken addresses Dariun to which he expresses his disappointment to see a monster from the Fey Wild. They continue to walk into a more open area and they see a double doorways that lies slightly sideways. They are all pretty sick of Dracken so they throw him into Dariun's bag of holding. Norman uses thaumaturgy to open the door and they feel a rush of wind and they know they are on track to find Huri, the air elemental.

## **Quotations**

* Dariun "*Was that bane?*"
* Norman "*Yeah! What do you think?*"
* Dariun "*Think it's perfect!*"
* Norman "… *you’re perfect*."

* Midroll Seth "*Yes, I know. I'm a lot like you, I have three players that ruin my campaign too.*"
* Zippy "*We have many water over in Bramble Patch.*"
* Zippy "*Soon I'll be able to build a full skele-man… soon…*"
* Dracken "*What? No! punishment? ME! Dracken is the one who punishes! I am the one who kills!*"
* Dracken "*We're closer than brothers now! A boy and his fish, I like the sound of that!*"

## **Featured Characters**

### **Main Cast**

* Norman D
* Dariun Branch
* Zippy Westborrough

### **Returning Characters**

* Asop
* Caine (air elemental)
* Huri (air elemental)
* Pepper
* Aurella (God of the Elves) (mentioned)

### **New Characters**

* The Baron (mentioned)
* Dracken Gragast

## **Locations**

* Airship
* Destroyed land Wesnia (north of Pokarok)
* Wesnian Cave