5/1 - Back to The Cockatrice Den

We met with a robotic man of metal in the Inn as we were having dinner. He didn’t speak at first, so Fritz took the opportunity to inspect him. Hard metal plates connected to an underlining frame. He didn’t seem to be able to speak. But the machine agreed to come with us

Fritz did some research and found that with 100 gold to purchase another crystal, and the Teleportation Circle spell, he could possibly enchant the Portal in the Cockatrice Den.

Kaia realized that the magical necklace continues to hold at bay her transformation back into stone. Taking the necklace off seems to resume the infection.

While walking back to the Cockatrice Nest, we discovered a smaller nest out in the wild where a mother cockatrice was protecting her young. Eldon kidnapped one of her chicks and the beast attacked us. He was bitten several times by the little birds and felt slowed. Tankbot took another cockatrice hatchling as his own.

Back In The Nest
L’Kot discovered a waterfall plunging into a pit with the sounds of rushing water below. We lowered him into the pit, where Eldon explored deeper down the tunnel. He discovered two individuals in the pit having a conversation in a language he couldn’t understand. We met with a stranger in the morning, his mouth never moved, but we could hear a voice seeming to emanate from the ceiling. I recognized him as some kind of fiendish creature. He offered to trade one of our party members as property in exchange for information on the portal’s crystals. The creature started to make ultimatums about this deal, at this point Fritz reduced the size of Geoff, who may have been acting as the creature’s thrall.

We battled with Geoff the Thrall, at some point Fritz and Eldon heard whisperings in their ears that seemed to affect our minds. A tiny demonic creature suddenly appeared behind us and stung Eldon with a strong poison. After I struck him with fear, this creature appeared to run back into the portal. At this point the portal seemed to start working again. After killing Geoff, L’kot discovered a sealed tube emblazoned with a seal. Inspecting it, Fritz realized that it’s a symbol of the ancient races that fought in the great war long ago. Fritz believes that some of these peoples were involved in the ancient Equinox Library he read rumors of in the Westlands. Opening it, Fritz discovered that it was a spell scroll containing the Revivify spell.

Through The Portal
Fritz was pulled through the portal while probing it with his staff. He appeared on the other side in a pristinely kept town square where various races of peoples walked the streets with blissful smiles on their faces. A set of fiendish looking thugs, the same race as the thrall Geoff, attempted to capture Fritz before he jumped back through the portal.