Adventure 107 – The trip down void ally.

Tallinn – Dwarf: Fighter (lvl 12) + Cleric (lvl 1)
Othello – Gnome:  Thief (lvl 14)
Bone – Human: Fighter (lvl 14)
Gubikla – Gnome: Wizard (lvl 13)
Mightychondria – HalfOrc: Fighter (lvl 10)
Pete- Dragonborn:  Cleric (lvl 9)
Hammar – Dwarf: Cleric (lvl 11)

Does Cloverdung thinks he is isolated in his halfway house?

Has Kavis been thrown into the void?

At the end of Chapter 2 the party had decided to go to the circle of trees portal and try one of the paths towards a possible location of Isabils staff.  The Vorticinal Network map shows four red line stops to make it to the stop labeled “Isbils Rest”. This is where the party thinks the staff could be held.  They picked up Pete who had recently returned from his homeland.

While on the way to the closest stop.  The circle of Huge stone chairs in a circle with a column in the center and a lectern just north of column.  This circle is now in the middle of a clove of trees south west of Wyntbridge. Othello spotted some odd looking white birds that were not rooks. Perched on branches that look to have been withered.  As Othello was scouting ahead he circles around and tells the party. After some discussion Pete decides to approach the flock of birds and speak in tongues to communicate with them. As much as Pete tried to inquire of the large bird that flew down to him, it would just say “run”.  It pecked Pete on the forehead doing withering damage. At this point the party came in to fight off the birds. Talin, Mighty, and Bone rushed in while the rest of the party stood back and did ranged attacks. While the battle continued it was noticed that the leader bird was getting larger and Pete was getting smaller.  The party was able to kill the birds before Pete got to smaller than a browny. He was able to restore himself while the party investigated the withered tree limbs. As the birds turned into mist when they perished, so no one could get a better idea of where they had come from.

The party makes it to the Vorticinal Network node.  They find a pile of small skeletons in the center of the circle.  On investigating the skeletons it is determined that they are not Hobbits, Gnome, or other small humanoids races.  But look to be humans that were shrunk. Pete, Hammar, and Talin decide to bury the remains nearby. Othello investigates the stone chairs and finds some very worn script on the back of them but can’t make out what it says.  It appears to be slightly Elven Draconic, with some characters similar to Dwarven.

When everyone is ready they get into position and use the node.  They find themselves in a tunnel that has a leathery feel. They notice that they can go in two directions but decide to head in the direction they were facing when they appeared.  After a short period of heading down the odd feeling passageway. Othello found a faint shimmering field. Thinking it he was just getting close his destination, he put a star on the wall with some chak and kept going.  Talin seeing the start heads on after Othello. After Talin passes the shimmer a image appears where the shimmer was and a man tells the rest of the party that was still behind that point of the tunnel, “Passage on the vorticinal network has been forbidden on the command of Emperor of Illurian the 2nd of Jelbaga and beacon Schwimm.  Please evacuate within 10 seconds from the start of this message.” At two points on the tunnel one ahead of the main party and one behind the party started to get pinched off. Talin not knowing what is going on tries to jump through the one right in front of him. He gets his feet caught when the tunnel was closed off. Bone shoves Talin through but ends up with Talin’s boots. Gubikla cast a arcane gate that allowing everyone but himself and Bone get through before that section gets cut off and starts falling.   The air rushed out of the other part of the tunnel before disappearing. This left the party holding their breath as they were falling into a void. Some spotted a monster that looks to be a cross between a squid and a lobster. It appeared to be what cut the tunnel. Othello used a potion of wish to prevent the party from suffocating. Gublika sent the monster off to another plane. This let the party to funagle methods to collect the party by using rope and a few using the fly spell to maneuver around. Once the party was collected Gubikla managed to use his staff to supposedly teleport us to Isbils Rest.  Well at least falling toward a tower on a snall island in a caldera. Othello released from the party used his boots of Reverification to absorb the energy of landing on the tower. Of course this caused Othello to break through the floors of tower and tumble to the base. Once the rest of the party managed to awkwardly fly down carrying the party member that could not fly on their own. Some spotted flying beast around the edge of the caldara and large shadows swimming around in the water around the island.

When the party investigate the tower that see four large spears or lighting rods on the top of the tower.  There was a spool of spider silk and copper intertwined wire that was on the top floor but fell when Othello hit the tower.  It appears the spears went down to the 1st floor where there are cat like heads made out of copper. The months look to be designed to hold something.  The base of the tower looks to be marble and in the center is a square jade section that has inscriptions on it. It appears to have nine rows and nine columns of symbols.  With some missing. Is this a sudoku puzzle?

COD = Gulbikla for possibly getting us to Isbils Rest?