With the ruins of the Last City of MAN scattered about in the dunes ahead, the party sets their sites on the closest ruin where a group of Ironjaw raiders are excavating. Two of the raiders meet the party before they can approach too close and tell them that they are free to explore, just not here. The party learns that this band of raiders is led by Red-Eyes, and they see them from afar, fully wrapped and protected from the blistering sun, dark goggles, and tufts of dark hair poking out of their armor and coverings. They also learn there is a group of Blood Harpies rummaging around in the ruin down a ways.
Seeing the dead end here, the party moves north to explore a stone amphitheater with 7, 20ft tall statues that line the top of the curved back wall. Each statue a large looming robed figure with a different item in each of their hands; a book, a staff, a wand, a box, an orb, a sword and a bow. Upon further inspection, this box is a cube with the face that faces the amphitheater actually being convex and inset a little. Sajin climbed up and deduced that these statues are indeed stone.
Moving from the amphitheater ruins, they approached the Blood Harpies and were greeted by a stand offish orc with a beaked face. He introduced himself as Tuskbeak and kindly told them to get lost. The party fed him a lie about the other local band of raiders actually talking smack about his Blood Harpies. The party was not able to determine if he bought it, but nonetheless, the party moved on to the only other non-occupied actively surfaced ruin, the toppled tower.
A bolder looks to have been carried by a storm and knocked in one of the walls, so the party entered and begun to descend the sloped wall of the ruin. Eventually they found where the tower toppled sideways deep underground and at they jumped down to the floor at the base of the structure and everything was oriented normally now.
Sajin went peeking around the corner and saw four medium sized faintly glowing red skinned salamanders with armor and weapons that looked to be patrolling around one particular passage down the long hall. They avoided them for now, exploring a side passage where they came across three crypts that had robed skeletons, each holding a different item, a sword and an orb, a staff and a book, each submerged a translucent non-Newtonian liquid and their multi-colored rainbow garments were in seemingly pristine condition. Naturally, they went fishing for these items and naturally, they got attacked. The liquid turned from a semi-solid to total liquid as these skeletons arose from their crypts. A fight ensued and Dredd, the paladin hit a divine smite crit and obliterated the first one. After a few more rounds the party was victorious and the exploration continued.
As the party went back into the main room with the salamander creatures they saw that all were injured and defending themselves from these smaller hunched over greasy haired dust skinned creatures with long arms that drug along on the ground as they walked each with crude weapons. The party quickly determined these to be goblins of sorts, dispatched of them, actually spent some spell slots healing the salamanders up and befriended the little guys.
With the help of the Fire Newts, the party navigated the ruins, avoided some giant stirges, found a full spell-battery as well as the battery recharge room where a handful of living spells were bouncing off the walls. After a tough battle with the living burning hands the party was victorious. The fire-newts actually showed them how to install the full battery into one of the battery receptacles, which powered up the room. On the longer wall of the room, there was a long stone console with four cylindrical holes and above that a metal frame the height of the room and the width of the console lit up with a thin blue semi-translucent film and what looks to be four empty bar graphs showed above each of the empty holes in the console. The party deduced that this is where the batteries needed to be recharged. On the other wall of the room, a mural of dots and lines engraved into the stone caught their attention as the dot near the center illuminated pink.
With that, the clock struck 9:00 and our session came to a close.
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