Characters
Chace - Arceus - fairy druid
John - Lenny - Warforged fighter
Patrick - Mahlkier - Wood elf Ranger
Bill - Perra - Dragonborn Paladin
Stan - Samm - Human Fighter
Randy - Jedwin - Human Wizard
Brian - Whisper - Tiefling Rogue
John - Lenny - Warforged fighter
Patrick - Mahlkier - Wood elf Ranger
Bill - Perra - Dragonborn Paladin
Stan - Samm - Human Fighter
Randy - Jedwin - Human Wizard
Brian - Whisper - Tiefling Rogue
The party was summoned by the Wizard Merl, an assistant to Sihirbaz.
Merl's message to them:
Merl said “The fates are with us. This vessel has come to us just as we are in need of it.”
“I have received a distress call from Sihirbaz. He needs your help, and you will need that vessel to find him.”
“He and I are in the habit of scrying a wide range of places for potential threats to Fort Aralan. Of course you know that there is a rising force of Bahumati to the west. But Si has cast his eyes much further away than that.”
“In the night sky, you may have seen occasionally a red dot. This is not a star. It is another world. Like our own in some ways, but very different too. He gazed upon it with a spell that can peer across the Astral Sea. And there he saw an Adamantine tower.”
“Such a tower is known to signal the existence of a Gith settlement. Githzerai actually.”
“Do you know the tale of the Gith war?”
“Eons ago, well before anything that any of us has ever known came into being. Before the plague. Before the Four Kingdoms arose. Before the time of Trakas Wingsong by thousands of years. Illithids ruled thousands of worlds across the Astral Sea. They may have even ruled this one, though I have seen no evidence of it.’
“The Illithids used a race of green-skinned men as their muscle. These people were enslaved as soldiers and workers. One day a leader of these people named “Gith” lead a revolution. She toppled the Illithid order, killing most of them, and scattering what remained.”
“When the war ended, Gith’s people separated into two factions. The Githyanki thought it their right to rule all creation with an iron first, just as the Illithids had done. They formed a society made for war and conquest.”
“A separate group, called Githzerai sought exile from this. They used powerful magic to carve out a realm within Limbo itself. There they would be safe from both their GIthyanki brothers, and the remnants of the Illithid empire.”
“Githzerai rarely create settlements outside of their refuge in Limbo. When they do, it is for one of two purposes. If they find Illithids, they will come forward to destroy them. If they discover a Githyanki scheme to conquer new territories, they might come forward to put a stop to it.”
“The existence of an Adamantine Tower tells us that there are Githzerai. It may also signal the existence of Githyanki, or Illithids, or both. When the Goblin King launched his raid on our shop to steal the crown, there was a Gith wizard among the raiders.”
“This is the threat that Sihibaz has gone to investigate. And he is in trouble”.
“I have received a distress call from Sihirbaz. He needs your help, and you will need that vessel to find him.”
“He and I are in the habit of scrying a wide range of places for potential threats to Fort Aralan. Of course you know that there is a rising force of Bahumati to the west. But Si has cast his eyes much further away than that.”
“In the night sky, you may have seen occasionally a red dot. This is not a star. It is another world. Like our own in some ways, but very different too. He gazed upon it with a spell that can peer across the Astral Sea. And there he saw an Adamantine tower.”
“Such a tower is known to signal the existence of a Gith settlement. Githzerai actually.”
“Do you know the tale of the Gith war?”
“Eons ago, well before anything that any of us has ever known came into being. Before the plague. Before the Four Kingdoms arose. Before the time of Trakas Wingsong by thousands of years. Illithids ruled thousands of worlds across the Astral Sea. They may have even ruled this one, though I have seen no evidence of it.’
“The Illithids used a race of green-skinned men as their muscle. These people were enslaved as soldiers and workers. One day a leader of these people named “Gith” lead a revolution. She toppled the Illithid order, killing most of them, and scattering what remained.”
“When the war ended, Gith’s people separated into two factions. The Githyanki thought it their right to rule all creation with an iron first, just as the Illithids had done. They formed a society made for war and conquest.”
“A separate group, called Githzerai sought exile from this. They used powerful magic to carve out a realm within Limbo itself. There they would be safe from both their GIthyanki brothers, and the remnants of the Illithid empire.”
“Githzerai rarely create settlements outside of their refuge in Limbo. When they do, it is for one of two purposes. If they find Illithids, they will come forward to destroy them. If they discover a Githyanki scheme to conquer new territories, they might come forward to put a stop to it.”
“The existence of an Adamantine Tower tells us that there are Githzerai. It may also signal the existence of Githyanki, or Illithids, or both. When the Goblin King launched his raid on our shop to steal the crown, there was a Gith wizard among the raiders.”
“This is the threat that Sihibaz has gone to investigate. And he is in trouble”.
Departure
The party departed aboard their astral ship, bound for the red point in the sky.
The ship came equipped with a Modron pilot named "CP - Thirty".
With CP30 at the helm, they recieved a distress call and responded. Another astral ship was being chased by two large creatures. (re-skinned Aboloth's, which live natively in the Astral).
They defeated these creatures. They found the other ship crewed by a bunch of gun-toting hippo-men, lead by Captain Hurst.
Hurst's ship was damaged, and the party agreed to tow him back to the Minaru. In exchange he has promised to ferry them to the surface of the red planet below.
They met Narmak Rinrath of the Githzerai as well.
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