Orhan 3 Day 48 TE 6063

We head off to the next totem. The hawk village. Sadly, Detect enemies indicates there are about a half dozen iron wind in there somewhere. Oathar turns into a hawk and heads up to talk to the hawk spirit. He's on board if we take out the iron wind first. Sadly, Oathar, still in his hawk body, gets possessed by the hawk spirit and attacks preemptively. Craw!!! Well, at least it's a good distraction, as all of the iron wind attack Oathar giving everyone else open shots. Alynna opens up on them again. One runs away. Oathar (the hawk spirit) burst into flame and attacks again! A great claw attack! We fight! Finally, we slay them all!

We head off towards the totem of the seal spirit. Wehn we arrive, we find the totem floating in the water off shore, with the water strangely bubbling. On the shore are a quartet of robed figures chanting at it. They appear to be doing a complicated summoning ritual says Imre.

Fireball! says Oathar. We attack. Suddenly a maw rises up out of the sea and tentacle sstart pulling the seal spirit totem towards the maw. Other tentacles attack Oathar. Battle against the tentacles is joined. It's a mess. Alynna summons some squid to grab the totem and keep it away from the maw. Then it's all tentacles all the time. Oathar turns into a Shuluri and dives into the sea with his trident. The fight drags on. Imre severs many tentacles. More come up from the depths. Oahtar determines the coe is a corrupted Shaal-ian enforcer from the depths.

We fight!

The thing slowly gets taken to the maw, but we fight on. Eventually, we drive it into the deep.

We get the seal totem transplanted to Quellborne.

Time to get the owl and bear totems.

We head in to investigate where owl was reported to be. It's supposed to be in this clearing. But the clearing is there, and the totem is not. Haeraan does his vision behind and looks for it. The owls in the trees vanished at the same time. Alynna can't even summon one, they're not here.

We totally see the owl totem sitting there with our various hyper-weird sense modes, but it's not coming out to acknowledge us at all. Haeraan meditates and it ignores us.

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

Hmm.....