Chapter 6: The Druid’s Task

During the break, Agnarr performs tasks for the druid grove. In Darkmoon Vale, the standard of living has clearly diminished, and after holding a meeting about this with Hiip, Agnarr returns to Sandpoint to gather adventurers together to investigate this phenomenon. The phenomenon seems to somehow be related to the former dwarf monastery.

August 21

The group buys supplies and heads toward Darkmoon Vale.

August 22

In the morning, there is a dark fog and visibility is only about five feet or so. The group waits for the fog to clear, as Agnarr claims it will disappear in a few hours. A couple of hours later, Agnarr suddenly notices that a stone is coming toward him straight from the sky. He manages to dodge it. The next stone almost hits Neiia a couple of seconds later, but she dodges it. Next begins a really heavy stone rain. Neiia and Ertak dodge their stones, but both Agnarr and Kieron get a couple of rather large stone hits. One of the large stones hits Kieron’s hand, and her fingers become completely unusable. At the same time, the pain disappears, and a magical effect is visible on her hand, and the hand is restored. Simultaneously, Kieron learns all kinds of useful things.

The stone rain ends, and Neiia decides to fly up and see where the stones are actually coming from. She reaches a height of about five yards when the stone rain begins again, but now the rain is clearly purely magical. All the stones glow with a purple color. Both Neiia and Agnarr are hit by several stones, and both glow purple, and the injuries that come disappear immediately.

Neiia forgets the elf talent and some more difficult-to-detect traits. Agnarr forgets a pile of skills, forgets the Logar language, slows down, and learns the talent to hit powerfully. Ertak received a big bunch of new skills, learned cultural knowledge, learned Magic Missile, and discovered that he has a permanent job in the church. Kieron forgot her Minstrel knowledge, including her beautiful voice and a few languages, and learned some languages instead.

Two stones are coming toward Ertak, so he tries to command the first stone, “Don’t hit,” the stone gets excited and calls more friends to hit Ertak, so in addition to the next two hits, two more come, of which Ertak heroically dodges zero. Five magical effects, ta-da.

The stones fall in the middle, and around them forms a strongly magical area.

Neiia tries to figure out what the stones are doing, and a critical luck activation succeeds in channeling chaos energy from the stones, which is about to come toward her. Fortunately, with the help of Shape Earth, Neiia manages to turn the stones enough that the chaos energy is channeled in another direction and hits Ertak.

The others flee further away, Agnarr casts a small 30 yard radius Purify Air in the middle, which kicks back a bit and cleans the air to be transparent but damn foul-smelling. After this, Agnarr begins to create a forest in the area, over a notably large area, first the forest, then forest animals and other essentials. At the point when Agnarr creates forest nymphs in the forest, a large 50-yard-tall humanoid appears on the scene, who says in a loud voice that it’s better if you don’t do that very often. Ertak recognizes that this humanoid is the angry form of the chief god Kuor.

After this, Neiia goes to the middle and casts in about 15 seconds with full time an hour-long spell (Analyze Magic), and analyzes the Sidheron Medallion.

After this, the group estimates that those stones are powerfully magical power objects, but taking them with them is difficult, and they conclude that we cannot take them along. They decide to continue the journey. In the middle of the camp remains the stone-crushed corpse of Kieron’s dead pack horse.

They arrive at Falcon’s Hollow, and when they get across the river, a very bloody and exhausted person runs/trudges to the scene, complaining about an attack and falls unconscious. Kieron casts magic to wake him up and asks a bit more, and identifies the person as one named Condlan. Apparently, there was an attack at the sawmill last night, Condlan fell unconscious and has now arrived at the scene. After a few moments, Condlan falls unconscious again, following which the place’s fat boss, Turin Kreed, arrives on the scene, who says he is the devil himself, but that outsiders are not allowed to kill/beat his workers. They are his responsibility, even though he is the Devil himself. “You look like adventurers, go find out what happened and kill destroy everything that kills my men. I’ll pay a good reward for this if you do it efficiently and kill them to death to the last man, woman, and dog.” He commands his assistant and a couple of others to accompany them, who can show the way to the right (new) sawmill, and watch that the task is performed correctly. In response to Neiia’s question, he promises 40 gold as a reward. Kieron translates the matter to Agnarr because he has something against puppies.