G8 - Promises Broken

Skull Mountain crumbled right behind the party, stopping the flow of the waterfall. Battered, but still alive, they looked around. To the West a cliff, on the South the Land of Goliath ruins, in the North unfamiliar mountains.

As they caught their breath, Posco heard a voice in his head, "WAIT", it commanded. A Lizardfolk rose up from the cliff, on one arm holding a gorilla they had met before, Albert, from the Ape Cartel. What was even more alerting than a flying Lizardfolk holding a giant gorilla by the scruff of the neck was all the flies surrounding him, buzzing around his body.

The Lizardfolk introduced himself as Kothar, and spoke directly to Posco, telling him that their master would be pleased, and led the party to Land of Goliath to rest. After debating Kothar's morality, they decided to follow along. While Albert headed back to Driftwood.

The group gathered various pieces of information:

* Gods are represented by star constellations. The Lizard God constellation of three stars disappeared that night
* Learned which constellation represents the Great Old One, the constellation is called The Squid
* The Great Old One is one of the original gods
* There are 24 real gods, and 23 (was 24) gods constellations appeared
* The stolen started around the same time the new gods appeared
* Nethtari's friend, is Kamashtu, a demon princess that kidnapped children, gnawed their bones and sucked their blood
* The Lizardfolk clans would be killed, and the Ape Cartel would be exterminated by Kothar

The next morning, Kothar bid them farewell, having to perform general genocide. Their boat was waiting for them on the shore.

The party debated if they should go back to Driftwood to fulfil their promises, but ultimately decided against it. Instead, they headed West, hoping to find Wickstead Empire. After travelling for a few days, they encountered Naval military vessels. Their sails and flags depicting a sun with an eye in the middle.

One of the ships moved to intercept. When they came close, they declared that the party must prepare themselves for inspection by the Auromen Holy Empire. Before that could occur, a gargantuan mass surfaced from the depths with a gigantic turtle head and took a chunk out of the naval ship. Shark fins appeared in the water and general chaos ensued.

Leaving pandemonium behind them, they followed the coast South and eventually West to reach Kobat Sang, a port city of Wickstead Empire. Multiple naval military ships are anchored here. Trying to get close to the actual ports, they passed by a tender boat with 4 skeletal oarsmen and a dwarf with a white sash on his waist like the ones Posco and Karlin have.

The port was full in all 11 piers, but they managed to find a place in the 8th port, by a ship named The Lost. Weary from their travels, wanting to get a warm meal, they found an inn after making arrangements for their boat.

Enjoying a warm meal, they got the general feel that war was coming. An ambassador, a highly decorated solider, is missing after going to a peace treaty delegation.

They asked who the CO was for Kobat Sang and found out there are two. Hasken Zzzxaxthroth, the Naval Admiral and Adrik Bigtoe, a Dwarven Army commander.

They also asked about a place of worship and got pointed to the temple of All Gods by the South Gate. Myrkul by graveyard. Alchemist on Kobold St, avoid alchemists in the market.