Cave Robbers

Gilmoira

Baqir

Zinli

Silvius

Avarice

Zovled

After wiping out the hobgoblin war camp, Avarice found a captive inside the war Chief's tent. Held in shackles that barred his use of magic. The hobgoblin captive introduced himself as Zovled, and said he was a priest of Sutahni. After a short conversation, Zovled convinced Avarice to let him join them. They gathered up the bodies and burned them. Zovled counted 33 slain enemies and said he now owed League Zero 33 dead enemies and one saved life, because this is what they had given him.

The group returned to Zero Base where Chaplain told them that he had completed his research and the next morning he gathered the group together to tell them their options.

They needed a jaunting device to reset them to the prime material plane to capture high builder Alcionne. Chaplain had found two possible options. The first option was to go to Mournfrost and collect shards of the broken fey stone there. With those shards they would create jaunting devices. Alternatively they could go to the plateau and search for the old Lab of Magog. Cloning tubes need jaunting devices to jaunt the ethereal soul back into the body and if the lab still existed, the jaunting devices would likely still be in tact.

After some debate, they decided to send Specter down to Mournfrost to see if it was a viable option while the rest of the group headed for the plateau. Most of the junior members stayed behind as this would be a more dangerous mission than fighting common orcs.

The group noticed the air around the crater where Magog's lab once was had fairly little air traffic from the local wildlife and decided on a directly downward approach. As they did this, a Teostra ambushed them from the trees below. Silvius managed to make the Teostra fall using Tasha's hideous laughter, but the damage was minimal. The creature shook the spell off quickly and rushed upward to meet them again. Phoenix steered Rodan directly toward the assailant, but did not account for the Teostra's breath weapon. Rodan and the entire party were bathed in flames and Rodan went from a dive to a free fall.

Everyone hit the ground hard and Gilmoira put up a spherical wall of force to trap the Teostra while the group quickly healed themselves as many of their party, including Zinli and Zovled had nearly been killed by the flames and fall. The The group finally managed to get the Teostra to the ground so Alto and Baqir could finally kill it.

After a short rest, the group headed down a massive crag in the ground in search of Magog's lab. They eventually found it in its millennia of disrepair. They found the old cloning tubes and Phoenix began to take out the Jaunting Devices. However as he did he learned they were trapped and the cloning tube ejected itself downward into the ground as Phoenix just barely managed to get out of the way.

From the chamber beneath, the Teostra's mate, a Lunastra leapt up and attacked the party. this battle was much quicker though and decisive. The battle damaged the cavern though and as Phoenix failed to notice another trap, he became trapped in the second tube as it collapsed in on itself and jettisoned him and itself down a level.

The second of the massive tubes falling caused the unstable lab to begin to collapse. Most of the party ran for the exit, with Gilmoira hasting Alto and Baqir as they ran. Gilmoira dimension-doored down to Phoenix who was trapped under the weight of the tube and drowning in poisonous goo. She dimension-doored him out and told him to get one more jaunting device before they left. This time as he sprung the trap she want in with him and dimension doored them both to safety as the third tube fired downward.

The entire group managed to escape and they left on Rodan to return to Zero base. Avarice contacted Specter who told him Mournfrost was particularly active at the moment and she recommended not going there.