Session 92 "Into the Asshole"

Session 92 recap: Into the Asshole

Having set a true course, The Brought Forth had found the ever raging mega-storm known to sailors as Umberlee’s Asshole. With little time to prepare, Bucky cast water breathing on a number of allies as the sky turned dark, the wind began to rage, and the sea churned. With deft skill, Gram took the helm of the ship while most of the other crew, including most of the members of The Lucky Seven, got to work shoring lines and shortening sails. With Miriam’s help, Rensig deftly set a course through the storm. Hour after hour you incredibly were making headway, doing the impossible, until the unthinkable happened, a huge swell almost capsized the ship, the majority of the crew was flung overboard. With incredible acts of heroism, The Lucky Seven managed to save yourselves and most of your allies, however three members of the crew, Ben Sylvan the first mate, Zug the boson, and the tabaxi Fresh were lost at sea. This left boson duties on Rhys’ shoulders and it was not going well as the ship sustained more and more of a battering from the storm, but Tuk was right about The Brought Forth, it was fairing incredibly well given the intensity of the storm. With Leonis using his control over the weather he added a great bit of help fighting back the elements, but said something unnatural was creating the storm and it was well beyond his power to end it.

After a very grueling and death defying day and a half using skill and magic, you made it to the other side of Umberlee’s Asshole. With the ship badly battered, but apparently not beyond repair, you dropped anchor in an alcove where many ships in much worse shape lay.

Ageis, who was thankful to you all, said that this was his homeland, this was Thylea, and then spoke to a suspicion of his. In this land it had long been prophesied that heroes from the outside would one day breach the maelstrom and arrive to help relieve the suffering and strife. They would be accompanied by a great magician, Damon who had accompanied the legendary heroes The Dragon Lords, a group that had in centuries past come to Thylea from beyond the storm in its time of need. There was a great oracle who was known across Thylea, that had predicted this and their visions were almost never wrong. Processing this, Bucky and Grin road out over the forest the abutted the shore to scout this new land and found about 10 miles north there was an inn at a crossroads, but it was amidst some very rough looking farm land, battered and trampled with dead livestock scattered about.

After their return, although Ageis was eager to join his civilization again, you decided to spend the night on the ship as many of you were exhausted and the thought of venturing through an unknown forest in the last few hours of daylight daunting. Bucky for the second time tried to contact a being from beyond that was connected to the Codex Drydalus and this time was successful. Asking five questions, the main take away was that Damon was indeed amongst those that had come through the storm on the Brought Forth and was not Gram or Hlam. Hlam, known to you up until now as The Old Man, you realized was the founder of the Order of the Even Fist, the legendary Monk from Waterdeep. Given that Grin had saved his life, he agreed to help out in your war against the Devils and would lend the support of the Order of the Even Fist to your noble cause.

That night Rhys had a prophetic dream seeing a goddess, Mytros, who seemed to have some connection to Lathandar welcoming him to Theylea. In the dream she reinforced some of Ageis suspicions and even helped Rhys unlock a new level of power from The Phoenix Feather Blade which Rhys promptly used to attack Grin.

After Grin had properly retaliated for Rhys’ surprise sparing session, The Lucky Seven along with Ageis and Ezree made your way through the forest towards the Inn while the remaining crew of The Majestros, along with Chadwick, Dutch, Bibble and Yuk Yuk stayed behind in order to secure and repair the ship. After some trepidation about entering the Inn known as The Sour Vintage, Ageis walked in as Rhys cast detect magic. Immediately he detected powerful divine magic emanating from within and when he entered and followed the source, it lead to a beautiful raven haired woman with piercing grey eyes and a white dress staring directly at all of you. She waved you over and introduced herself as Kyrah, saying that she was an agent of The Oracle and that you were all expected. She told you that she believed you to be the heroes of The Oracle’s Prophecy, but to confirm you would have to be the ones to slay the great boar that had been terrorizing the country side. With a desire to speak to the oracle to gain more answers about where the pieces of The Rod of Seven Parts might be, you agreed to terms and now we pick up, on a misty pre-dawn morning outside of the Inn.