Hidden Gems

Part 1
The party had chartered a boat and sailed up the river from Inkbury towards Brooktail to meet with ‘Garnet,’ a man who reportedly predicted the South Gresham massacre. They had dealt with some pirates and Damien discovered his ring somehow allowed him to speak with the spirit of KY.

Sailing onwards, Blomf and Blitz discuss his warning vision from Valkur and Damien asks KY for more details about the tall green skinned woman who attacked South Gresham.

The party come across a coral reef and pass over it, but quickly encounter the same reef again further on in their journey. Intrigued by this moving reef, Damien lowers himself overboard tied to a rope held by Blomf and Cassia. Underwater he discovers a gigantic turtle leg attached to the reef and realises that the entire reef, about a mile long, must all be part of one gargantuan creature.

Damien is then attacked by two reef sharks, with one taking a bite out of his arm as he is pulled up by Blomf and Cassia.

The party arrive at the port of Brooktail as soon as they step off the ship it casts itself off and sails away on its own. The party head straight to the city prison where the warden agrees to let them speak to the prisoner known as Garnet.

Garnet is revealed to be a former child of the watcher, with tattoos and a shaved head. He has also carved out the magical stones from his palms. He reveals that as a child of the watcher he was privy to the knowledge of what was to happen to South Gresham but he broke his oath of non-interference by warning people of the calamity. He agrees to tell the party all he knows if they allow him to see his son, Willow, one last time to explain and say goodbye. He warns them of traps set up where his son is that guard him and, in order to get past the traps, the party decide to break him out with an invisibility spell and leave Alice in his place taking his form.

Part 2
Exiting the prison with an invisible Garnet and leaving a shape changed Myria in his place, the party make their way to the safe-house where Garnet’s son, Willow, is holed up. Leading them to an alleyway and through a dirty tunnel beneath a building, Garnet disables the traps that guard the safe-house and the party emerge into the hidey-hole. Garnet and Willow embrace and share an emotional moment before Garnet tells Willow to go stay with a woman named Miss Reinbach as he has to go back to prison. Willow appears to know thieves cant (ASL) and after conversing with Flightless somewhat Flightless conveys that he wants to go with Willow.

The party tell them to wait there as they go get Alice so she can say goodbye.

In the alley outside the safe-house the party question Garnet. He reveals that the Watcher gave him knowledge of an alien being not native to Aurelia that fell from the heavens near the Amber Cliffs a few months ago and that it was weakened by its arrival and would drain the life-force of the continent.

Malik recalls the visions they saw from the Myconids in Opaz of a large boulder falling from the sky. Damien theorises that the deranged Myconids, the unsettled animals and people of Mokupuni and this being that decimated South Gresham are all connected and that the being is affecting the minds of Aurelia’s residents. They also come to the conclusion that the creature’s attack on South Gresham was to drain magic and life energy to restore its own power.

Meanwhile in the cell, Myria, unprotected in this form, is plagued by visions of shadowy sillouhettes once more that whisper to her about a ‘wall’ with the names of the dead.

The party return Garnet to his cell and retrieve Alice and promise to try and get Garnet released through legal means though he believes this is the fate he deserved. The party head back to meet with Willow and Flightless and Alice and Flightless share a heartfelt goodbye.

Leaving the young duo with Miss Reinbach, the party head to an inn where they can discuss the revelations of the day and spend the night. Blitz reveals Valkur’s warning visions of this ominous otherworldly creature and Valkur and Mieliki’s conflict with it. The party discuss whether to head to Mokupuni or the Amber Cliffs next.

Quotes
“Reef sharks are cute” - Katy as Damien is repeatedly savaged by them