Episode 9: Some Druidic Bullshit

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**July 15, 2020**

The group began in the mouth of a mysterious, windswept cave.  They had found an air elemental outside, and shifting ancient druidic runes on the walls inside.  As they very sneakily made their way through the cave, they found more air elementals popping up in response to their presence.  They were able to sneak by and distract these without having to fight.  They eventually made their way to the end of the cave where they found a 6in. Circular hole in the wall with a flowing druidic script around it saying “voiceless cry, wingless flutter, toothless bite, mouthless mutter” in a ring.  Koko Dotharl blowed into the hole, Rhistel spoke the word “wind” in druidic, but nothing happened.  Unable to make anything happen, they convinced Rhistel to shift into a snake and go check out the inside.  He obliged, and did some reconnaissance.  Inside, he found another windswept chamber with a pedestal near the back wall.  He slithered up to see there was an amulet sitting atop it.  He attempted to grab it with his snake body, and did so, but triggered some sort of response as the cave started to shake and the wind to swirl.  A large air elemental appeared and a fight began.  Rhistel ran.  He slithered back towards the chamber where he’d left his friends, but to no avail.  The air elemental quickly passed him and blew him back towards the chamber.  The rest of the group on the outside could hear something happening inside and could feel a gust of wind from the hole.  They continued frantically to figure out how to get inside.  Dienaar Josephine recommended they try blowing into the hole again, but this time with some magical assistance she used prestidigitation to summon a wind, and this caused the writing around the hole to light up brighter and brighter until eventually the wall was consumed in light and then disappeared.  They were able to get in, and inside they saw Rhistel battling with the air elemental.  Rhistel was then knocked unconscious, but with the help of his friends and his goodberries he was revived.  The others continued to battle the elemental (during which Ridgely had a particularly inspired left-hand strike), and as they defeated it, it began to reform into a smaller one.  Again they battled, and again upon defeat it reformed, but into two even smaller elementals.  Finally, after a long battle, they were able to bring the last of the small elementals down.  Silence.  They recovered the amulet, which the final elemental had tried to protect, and saw that it had the same words in druidic inscribed on it in a circle around an empty gem setting.  They made their way out of the cave, the other elementals having disappeared, and found the bodies of some Kirogate guards who were fairly long dead.  They climbed back up to camp, having had a very long day, and went to sleep.  In the morning Ridgely and Muud debated the merits of fixing up the ship versus just making their way back to Kirogate on foot/horse.  Muud suggested that they would probably need help to fix it properly, and Ridgely agreed on that point.  The last thing we see is Koko going to Rhistel and giving him the white fey cloak that she found in the dream.