Part 4: The Frozen Grotto

Session 16: Journey to the Ice Queen

Evening, 25th Summer Prime, 498 CE
  • The party arrived at Ambermoor.
    • They noticed that the town had become far more militarized since the last time they left.
  • Revana found a guard to ask some questions.
    • The guard mentioned that, on order of the Countess, Ambermoor was recruiting more citizens into its guard.
    • There was also a curfew, and taht citizens weren't allowed to wander the city at night.
  • While Ekhart, Revana, and Remy went shopping, Sanglant headed to Ambermoor.
  • Sanglant met up with Dame Ira Royn, the Master-at-Arms of Ambermoor Keep.
    • Dame Ira mentioned that Count Adir, along with Albert, had been summoned back to Naveria.
    • Amelia, Count Adir's middle daughter, had been appointed acting Countess in his absence.
    • Zara, Count Adir's oldest daughter, left without saying anything a few days ago
      • Apparently, the Golden Guild had also vacated their headquarters.
    • Duke Renys Baerd, Duke of Fairwyn, and his sister Marion, the Dowager Empress, had some sort of disagreement.
      • Duke Renys has claimed that the Emperor has moved to Hallowfel,
      • while the Queen Regent claims that the Emperor is still in Naveria.
      • Apparently, the plot to have Albert kidnapped, the child that the party saved, was originally orchestrated by Renys.
    • Sanglant and Dame Ira went to see Lady Gwendalyn, and the two of them shared a pleasant evening.
Morning, 26th Summer Prime, 498 CE
  • The party set out for Riverpond.
Afternoon, 26th Summer Prime, 498 CE
  • In the Midnai Wilds, the party once again met Agabane.
    • She created another Never Ending Potion for Remy, and Remy and Sanglant purchased additional potions for the brew.
27th Summer Prime, 498 CE
  • The Party continued traveling to Riverpond.
Afternoon, 28th Summer Prime, 498 CE
  • The party arrived at Riverpond.
  • Remy left to meet with her father, Elai Dane.
  • Sanglant, Revana, and Ekhart entered the Faerealm.
    • Selina, the Water Fae, was gone, and the entire area was instead covered in snow and ice.
    • Hundreds of little water spirits were frozen in the ice.
    • Remy and Ekhart used their fire magic to free one of them.
  • The spirit told them about Selina.
    • Selina would occasionally go into bouts of depression around the anniversary of her sister, Syndra the Fire Spirit's, death.
    • She had been gone for a few days, though, which was very unlike her.
    • Usually she would only be gone for a day, at most.
    • The spirit told them that they could find Selina at her home, near the waterfall that fed into the river.
Evening, 28th Summer Prime, 498 CE
  • The party, plus Remy, followed the dried up river to its source.
  • They once again entered the Faerealm, and found a giant frozen waterfall, and a staircase that twisted up it.
  • They climbed the waterfall, and eventually reached a platform that lead into the mountain.
    • Around the platform were 4 blue-skinned goblins, similar to the ones Sang had met before in the Faerealm near the Midnai Wilds.
  • Remy used her fire magic to melt the ice that sealed the door and the party entered the Frozen Grotto.

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Session 17: Battle with the Ice Queen

Evening, 28th Summer Prime, 498 CE
  • The party entered the Frozen Grotto.
  • They found a goblin butler frozen in ice, and thawed him out.
    • He said his name was Ollo, and he was Selina's personal assistant.
    • He mentioned that the Water Spirit arrived, was very sad, and everything froze.
  • The party moved from the foyer of the grotto to a large atrium with several closed gates.
    • There were two goblin guards, that Ollo didn't recognize, as well as an Ice Elemental and two smaller Ice Spirits.
  • After dispatching them, the Ice Elemental turned into a spherical key, that the party used to unlock the other doors.
    • In the door to the left, they found Selina's treasure room, filled with treasures from the physical world.
    • While helping Ollo clean up, they found some gold, a potion of spider climb, and a Feather Token.
    • In the door to the right, they found several goblins hanging out in Ollo's personal chamber.
    • Ekhart dispatched of 4 of the goblins, and then set the last remaining 2 to try and figure out how to open the last door.
  • After a bit of lucky guessing, the goblins (named Beepo and Jojo), managed to get the door to Selina's chamber open.
  • The party instructed Ollo to keep watch on Beepo and Jojo, and entered Selina's throne room.
    • There, they found the Goblin Queen, that claimed that she was the new Water Elemental.
    • The party then proceeded to fight her, and defeated her.

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Session 18: Selina, the Water Elemental

The Darkness, ??? CE
  • Ragnar, Moira, Maeve, and Marcus had been traveling through the Darkness for around a month.
  • They have developed the ability to see in the dark, and could now clearly see the monsters that surround them.
  • During one of their meals, the found a mysterious note telling them to dowse their fire.
    • The note claimed that the fire was drawing the monsters in, and also agitating them.
  • Without any other options, the group dowsed their fire.
    • The monsters that remained around them seemed to become pacified at this, and leave.
  • The party eventually noticed Chaaya, a young ashenkin girl.
    • She said that she was the one to leave the note.
    • She also offered to take the group to her village.
Night, 28th Summer Prime, 498 CE
  • The party searched the dead body of the goblin queen.
    • On her person, they found one of Selina's Tears.
    • Ekhart took the tear and touched it to Selina's frozen body.
    • This caused Selina to thaw and become free.
  • Selina greeted the party joyously.
    • She told Sang that she missed him and that he was her favourite human.
    • She exclaimed that she hadn't seen Remy in forever and that she had grown so tall.
    • She said to Revana that she hadn't seen an elf in a very long time.
    • Upon seeing Ekhart, Selina said she hadn't seen a Faeling for even longer.
  • The party told Selina what had happened to her, and that the blue goblins had tried to usurp her.
    • This made Selina fly into a rage, killed the two remaining blue goblins they had captive.
  • The party and Selina then began talking about their missing and about the nature of the spirits.
    • Selina told them that there are many spirits of each element (except shadow, where there is only Uun, the Shadow Spirit.)
    • The Elemental is the only spirit that can make people a champion of that element.
    • The Elemental is the spirit that currently most embodies the nature of each element.
  • Ekhart asked Selina, who had noticed that he was part Wind Spirit, who the Wind Elmental was, but Selina said she didn't know.
  • Selina thanked the party, gave them some of her boons, and Sanglant became Champion of Water.
  • Everyone left the Frozen Grotto and rode the giant water spirit Leviathan back to Riverpond.
  • The party bid Selina farewell and Sanglant brought them back to the physical world.
  • It was the middle of the night, so the party left to Remy's house to sleep.
  • The next day, the party left to meet with Baron Vanden.
    • At the baron's manor, the Lion's Troupe, aka Egren, Bayden, and Tavian were all there as well.
    • Vanden told the party that the Lion's Troupe had delivered the information about the church's doings to the Duchess of Voltana.
    • Sanglant filled the Baron in on what they had been up to as well, and that the world was in danger from a demon.
    • Vanden told them to continue their mission to stop the demon.
    • He also sent the Lion's Troupe on a mission to kidnap Daedrin Falstani, in fear that Ortelai will try to push his claim to the thrown.
  • The party and the Lion's Troupe bid farewell, as the party left north to Mae Relian.
Evening, 3rd High Summer, 498 CE
  • The party arrived in Mae Relian.
    • Upon arrival, Ekhart made contact with his mother via a twinned page.
    • Delrune told them to meet them in the Upper Court, outside of the Maer's Tower, tomorrow at noon.
  • They booked a room at an Inn in the Outcity called the Duke's Fancy.
  • Revana and Remy left to explore the city.
  • Ekhart and Sanglant traveled to the Faerealm.

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