The Crown of Fire takes a short rest, bandaging up what they can.
The Crown of Fire finds a blue potion on the Head Intern.
Balricstein recognizes the potion’s smell as a potion of Heroism.
Balricstein and Brumwik go down and out of the building to defile Thurl’s body.
Billy and Ulligul hang back inside in case anything goes awry.
Thurl has another ring on. A DOUBLE RING. MADE OUT OF GOLD.
Balricstein takes the ring, and puts it in his bag.
Thurl also has A SCROLL OF BEAST BOND and A SCROLL OF SKYWRITE.
Ulligul finds a desk, and starts to learn how to skywrite.
The rest of the Crown of Fire marches upwards to the next floor.
Billy opens the door SWAT team style, and announces the first room is clear.
Balricstein gingerly opens another door and sees that that room is empty.
Brumwik casually opens the next door, and finds the room is also empty.
Brumwik finds an ivory statue of a lady that is maybe associated with a lady?
Billy breaks the final door down, revealing an empty room.
The Crown of Fire continues to the next floor.
Ulligul continues writing.
Balricstein enters the first room of the third floor.
Billy shoulder-bashes the door next to Balricstein, revealing an empty, although fancy room.
Brumwik knocks on the third door. Nobody answers.
Brumwik opens the door revealing a super nice room with a chest.
Billy defaces the Feathergale tapestry on the wall.
Brumwik opens the chest. He finds 420gp.
Brumwik finds a smaller box inside the chest with a letter on top of it.
THE LETTER talks about the Black Earth cult, and is from a queen of the feathergale knights? Or something? They captured… an already captured noblewoman from Waterdeep.
A big ass 12 sided die entrances Brumwik, and he stares deeply into it, and it keeps drawing him in further.
He keeps going deeper until an orb of light pulsates toward him
Billy questions what the stone is and grabs it, he then is also drawn to darkness
Brumwik begins to see infinite possibilities of the world around him.
Brumwik gains inspiration and comes back from the darkness.
The entirety of the crown of fire gets into their wings suits and flies off the tower away from the sunset toward the Howling Temple.
Ulligul skywrites “FUCK THURL” so that it floats above his mangled corpse at the base of the tower.
INTERMISSION
The Crown of Fire lands amongst the trees just as dusk hits.
We hear hippogriffs making chicken noises. As is normal for hippogriffs.
Balricstein summons Kevin the Imp to go scout around while invisible.
Kevin the imp starts to scout around, while invisible.
Balricstein sees through his black eye to see what Kevin the Imp sees.
There are two guards.
Balricstein casts Crown of Madness on one of the guards, and has him attack the other guard.
In the flurry of confusion, Brumwik strikes true with an arrow for each guard.
Ulligul pummels one guard with Magic Missile, and the guard dies.
Balricstein releases the mental grip on the second guard, and then blasts him with mental energy.
Brumwik misses killing the guard, and the guard hides behind one of the vultures.
Billy runs up on the guard, jumping over a ray of frost along the way.
Balricstein blasts the guard throwing the energy under the bird legs.
Ulligul finishes him off with a magic missile.
Billy feels the energy force of Ulligul’s magic missile.
Brumwik sees that the hippogriff is Narla.
Billy feeds one of the vultures some goblin ears.
Billy throws a handful over to Ulligul and Balricstein.
Brumwik casts talk to animals, and while they talk to eachother, Billy feeds some goblin ears to them. They agree to join us.
The Crown of Fire mounts up and takes to the skies, the fourth vulture coming along for the journey.
The Crown of Fire lands in a cave.
Billy takes first watch.
Billy almost falls asleep.
Balricstein takes second watch.
Balricstein completely falls asleep.
Ulligul takes third watch.
Ulligul doesn’t notice a large creature approach.
A roar awakens everyone.
A black bear charges The Crown of Fire.
The black bear bites and swipes at Ulligul and Balricstein.
Billy disembowels the bear.
Back asleep, Balricstein envisions a scepter and flame floating in front of him. He grabs it, and the flame disappears.
He is now being worshipped by people?
A bunch of crazy bullshit happens?
It ends up at the very cave we are staying at…
And Balricstein wakes up and hears a voice in his head that says “reward”