- Having concluded our conversation with Fizzle, Ellette leaves to affirm that Rasp not eat him - Steve wishes to speak with Moggie about baking a pie - Moggie stands on a stool making a stew, with the Meep looking into the pot. - Moggie convinces Steve that it would be more meaningful if she makes a roast herself - He needs garlic, potatoes, lamb and a green veggie - Steve meets with Erin to ask after these ingredients - Erin provides Steve with two cloves of garlic and two onions in a bucket - She also offers a block of tofu - Next, she gives Steve a bag of potatoes - For the final ingredient, she gives Steve two large green carrots - Having finished with Steve, Erin meets Droxic for the first time - learning how she communes with the stars - Steve and Graxen then speak with Droxic, learning about the nature of speaking with stars - Droxic asks Erin about the tree growing into the keep. Erin identifies this as the Karrut tree - Erin: "No, no Karrut with a k" - Steve: "Sweetie, I'm illiterate" - Graxen dispells the worries of the group by assuring the others that he came from a regular humanoid birth - At the Lucky Gryphon, Steve approaches Quincy seeking lamb - Quincy is unable to help, having no lamb to offer - He then speaks of Fizzle being "set off" - and in the process of brewing more potions - Fizzle charges after us as we leave, brandishing two different colour potions - but is unable to catch up to us before the doors close - A goblin runs up to the group - the one Graxen earlier saw stealing cutlery. He speaks of a "big thing" in the water - He specifies "big boatsis" - He leads us towards the dock - where a massive ship is just offshore. We recognise it as the vessel of the Five Pirate Kings of Luskan. - A small tugboat approaches the shoreline, where Squeeb stands guard with his crew of ducks. - Two figures are visible in the boat - One of the figures calls out requesting permission to dock to deliver a message of parlay from the five kings. - As the boat gets closer, we see that the one steering the boat is skeletal. - The messenger is a smoking hot half elf - He introduces himself as Corvath Dreglar - He has been dispatched to request our assistance in restoring Luskan - The pirate kings have been protecting the seas - He speaks of two white dragons fighting a kind of territorial war, attacking the ships in the ocean - The pirate kings claim to have been defending Luskan against the advances of these dragons - Ellette expresses a distain for the kings and their lack of presence while Luskan was attacked - Dreglar is confused at the mention of Zargathax, believing the town was attacked by one of the white dragons - Dreglar speaks of a dragon falling into the remnants of Luskan after being shot from the sky - Ellette bargains for support from the five kings should we deliever on their terms - Graxen asks about the wizard's tower, learning that the plummeting dragon crashed into the tower on its way down - Dreglar mentions a 10,000GP bounty a piece on each of the heads of the wizards - Graxen: "Oh....assholes....we have those in Barovia" - The kings cannot dock in Luskan as the waters have changed - a crystalline growth forming below the waves - Dreglar mentions it has been six days since they shot down the dragon, and he is almost certain it is still alive - Dreglar offers us an advance payment - the skeleton approaches with two bags of coins. - Squeeb draws his pistol, aiming at the skeleton. Dreglar draws a sword in response - Ellette disarms the situation - with Dreglar then confirming himself to be the only messenger currently reporting to the five kings, making his survival paramount - The skeleton offloads his two bags. - We have been paid 40,000GP in advance. - There will be a further 40,000GP upon the completion of our goals in Luskan - Dreglar also asks which materials we require to be included in the bargain - As we continue to talk, a goblin appears behind us - the teal one who enjoys fishing - Dreglar agrees to speak with Zoltan and Evette to learn what may be required in the keep. - He asks if the fishing goblin is one of ours, seeming perterbed by her perpetual staring - Graxen attempts to disarm Squeeb but gets stabbed in the leg for his trouble - Dreglar enters the keep - followed closely by Squeeb and his crew of ducks - Graxen departs the keep to hunt a deer with Rasp - in place of lamb for Steve's pie - This proves difficult owing to the effect of Squeeb's numbing poison on his legs - Despite his difficulties, Graxen manages to return with a deer - Moggie is confused, but agrees to cook with the ingredients we have scavenged. He continues to insist that he'll make a roast - He hands Steve a small mallet - asking that she tenderise the meat - Steve aggressively "hammers" the venison with the hammer shaped object - Steve spends time with Big Guy while Graxen reconciles with Nissa. - Droxic finds the single apple that grows on the Karrut tree - as mentioned by Erin - Torvek continues to practice in the training arena - Ellette mingles amongst the refugees - Droxic eats the apple from the Karrut tree - Having spent two hours to ourselves, we begin preparations for departing towards Luskan - We leave for Luskan the following morning - On the way, Torvek holds out the stone previous thrown at him by Steve. - He uses Elemental Sculpt - creating a small clay man which he then gifts to Steve. - Arriving at Luskan, we hear no sign of the fallen dragon - We hear the faint sounds of mettalic scratching - which is both quiet and echoing - We proceed towards the wizard's tower. The first bridge has collapsed, forcing us to use the second - passing through Blood Island. We catch a glimpse of a wing on the other side of the bridge. - Using Arcane Eye to look under the bridge, Ellette finds a large number of the spiders that previously attacked Graxen - all are now dead. - The Arcane Eye approaches the wing. It is covered in the crystalline growth and appears to have been torn from the creature's body. - The rubble of the wizard tower lies next to the severed wing - Graxen uses Grim Pyschometry, touching the wing - and perceiving a vision through the dragon's eyes as it fell to the ground. - He feels a tear in the creature's body. After it collides with the wizards' tower, he can see a number of robed figures standing over it and gazing down as the dragon loses consciousness - Touching the wing has infected Graxen with the crystalline growth - Proceeding onwards, Droxic uses Elevated Sight - catching a glimpse of a large dragon with three wings soaring above us - A large dragon lands in front of us, with two wings on one side and a single wing on the other - The dragon immediately attacks - During the fight, the dragon uses a Command Word to make Graxen dive into the nearby water. Unable to resist, he is compelled to dive beneath the freezing waves and swim - After a gruelling battle, the dragon dissipates into mist. In this form, it kills Droxic and Torvek before evaporating entirely - Using Arcane Eye, Ellette sees shadowed figures with red eyes hovering above the town. All of these figures flee when they realise they are being seen - but one remains above Torvek - This creature appears to be lingering, haunting Torvek's remains. Ellette calls out to it, brandishing her sword - The spirit bears down on Torvek - seeming to grasp at him. Ellette hacks at it with her blade - The spirit splits in half, with one of the halves disappearing inside Torvek's body - Panicked, she chops off his leg as it appears to blacken. Small, black tendrils extend from the wound. The severed leg, also growing tendrils, scurries into the water - His flesh turning an ashen grey, Torvek's eyes flicker open - Graxen lifts Droxic's body onto his shoulder, hearing ghostly whispering as he does. Sharing Ellette's panic, he charges towards Steve - Steve sees the spirit clinging to Droxic's body - The spirit slithers inside Droxic's mouth. Her eyes glow red, her leg also growing the black tendrils - Steve swings her axe, but fails to sever Droxic's leg. The growth continues, taking the first leg and growing onto the other. - The tendrils burst from Droxic's leg - protecting itself as Steve continues to swing - The tendrils grow over all of Droxic's body - rearranging her bones with a crunching and cracking sound. Her colouring is rendered a pale teal - and her sunken eyes also flicker open