Episode 3: A Way Up

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On this episode, Lily, Siv, Fahima, James, and Uggo learn new secrets from the magical crystal and must figure out a way to get up to the castle in the clouds.

GM/DM Intro

As you know, it started with a simple dungeon run - get in, get out, grab the treasure. But the dungeon in question in this case - an abandoned Dragon's Lair - was home to another mystery, a magical item trapped in crystal. 

Our team, without the knowledge to break open the crystal, set up a meeting at a tavern with a powerful wizard named Torvalt the Timid. Unfortunately Torvalt sent his apprentice, Suth, in his stead, and when kobalds attacked the tavern and set it ablaze, Suth panicked and opened a portal back to back to Torvalt’s camp. Our team all managed to escape through the portal, but Suth, who was attacked by an unexpected additional monster, couldn't quite make it through and was beheaded by the closing portal.

When our team presented the severed head and arms of poor Suth to Torvalt there was no time to mourn. Torvalt informed our team of a critical investigation that he and his secret order of wizards, known as the Natural Order, were undertaking in the forest. Our adventurers agreed to help Torvalt and bravely set off to explore what was described as “a structure that didn't belong.” What they found was a fallen tower, one of the mystical lodestars of old, broken, and toppled.

Fighting many monsters, and adopting a baby Phoenix along the way, our heroes made it through the length of the tower to find a woman webbed and suspended high in the air by spiders. In freeing her she had but one urgent message, leading them over to a broken glass dome at the top of the tower, he extended one trembling finger and said hey, you must get up there, and then they saw it; a glittering tower resting atop the clouds. An active lodestar.

Songs that appeared in the episode:

"Lily's Fallen Companions song" timestamp (3:28:12)

This is a song of our fallen companions,

The men and the women we've lost along the way.

Though none have been women, I’m sure that will happen,

Here is a song to remember their name

ROLLCALLL!!!

First there was Phil, who began the adventure,

Before he was skewered in the face in a cave

Then poisonous rats all tried to bite us,

unfortunately for them I know none of their names.

We went to the inn where Rhal was the barkeep, Dufo sold perfume and Suth hurried in.

All were attacked by some blood thirsty Kobolds, I’m sure they had names, but I didn’t get them

Dufo and Suth, they died in a portal

Both cut in half on our way to meet Torvalt

Blink Dogs and lizards and spiders oh my!

Guess they all died but none looked in my eyes!

But this is a new addition right now

Nightmare Pegacorn did and then he said goodbye

These are the names of our fallen companions,

Their bodies are gone but their memory remains."