Orhan 3 Day 48 TE 6063

Imre meditate for a bit and gets the impression that the owl won't appear unless we prove ourselves sufficiently epic.

Hmm..... there were no owl shaman or elves or anything in the groups we brought back.

We decide to abort for a while and then go look for bear.

It's in a deserted cave. We go and meditate in front of the totem. Meditation reveals that the bears are all out on a mission.

Alynna meditates before the totem and then casts Commune asking what the bears are doing? "They are trying to find an important enemy." If we help, will they come with us to the new camp? "Yes."

So, OK, that's the plan. Find the bears and help them. Haeraan notices a bunch of bears come in and face the totem, and then march out of the cave about three days ago. Off they go to find someone.

OK, we follow the bear tracks. Except Haeraan loses them.

After some arguing about teleporting bears, Imre follows the tracks some father. Then he loses them.

Alynna summons a wolf to track them. We follow for a while. Hmm... it looks like they are going towards the dragonlord. The one we promised not to bother.

Sadly, as we track for a while, we start approaching our 25 hour deadline for Alynna. Hmm.... We mark the location. Then we start fussin with our maps.

Haeraan and Imre start teleporting to get ahead of the bears. We look around and see a dust cloud off the ground and some trails. We head towards the dust cloud. As we fly over there, we notice that the dust cloud is caused by a bunch of bears in a giant pit. Well, amybe there aren't any bears. The pit is more of a quarry and the dust cloud is coming from it. We land and surveil. There are a bunch of workers chipping away at the wall of a quarry extracting some giant form from the quarry wall. The guards are wearing dragon lord colors and the workers are lugraki. We theorize that it's a giant warmech.

Sadly, when poking around with detect invisibility, we get noticed, and bunch of alarms go off, and we bug out.

At our waypoint, we destabilize the essence to hide our teleport signatures and retreat.

We turn Imre into a bear. Sadly, doing so summons Blinky. The bear spirit takes over Imre, and tries to destroy the abomination that is Blinky. Imre holds it back, while we send Binky away. or at least, we try to.

So, having seen Blinky, we are all driven mad. Once Blinky leaves, we all turn into bears, let the bear spirit bless us and teleport back to the pit of lugraki. On arrival we summon the dozen bears in hiding and the giant bear phalanx charges the pit. We go! It's grizzlymonium!

Lugraki die left and right, guards are confused as to why bears showed up. It's madness. We kill a bunch more guys, but then Blinky shows up again. Twice. He demands fate points from everyone, but no on egives him any. So, he goes to one of the fallen guards and asks for a fate point from him. The guard complies, and is fully healed, empowered and given vast new stats. The fight goes on. We kill him.

We destroy the supports on the scaffolding and it collapses to the ground, covering several lugraki corpses.

The destruction complete, we all galumph into the sunset. The bear is a little difficult in his negotiations, but he agrees and we all return to Quellborne, bear totem and all.

We get the bear to tell us about the owl. He's the watcher. He only cares about watching. If we can prove that we can see him, he will respect us.

So we head back to the owl after deciding not to be bears anymore. Oathar uses his dark seeing of the unseeable mojo as taught by Tethior. The owl questions if he can actually see him, and Oathar answers a bunch of questions carefully and the owl conceeds that Oathar is worthy and allows him to teleport the owl totem back to Quellborne. The elves rejoice and swear to support us in our quests.

Alynna wishes us good lives and prepares to return to the other side. Imre, however, has other ideas. On the way to the afterlife, Imre steals her soul. Or at least, he tries to, but he bounces and her soul gets away.

Alynna goes back and gets questioned by Cay's servants about what she learned. She's sent back to try again.

Orhan 3 Day 49 TE 6063

Alynna shows up in the god construct again. Leather armor, daggers. She's got a dark cloak. After some questioning, we find out what Alynna is. She seems to be a Holy Dabbler of Cay!