Session 6 Recap

 The party awoke suspended in rainbow colored water with a huge cavernous roof above them. On the shore stood Feathertip, perched on a rock, sitting next to a hulking King Kong sized furry beast. The party swam over to the shore and met their friend and his scary companion. 

However, this was no scary beast at all, but the gentle hearted overseer of these Waters of Life, the Beast Lord Draffut. This dog-like hulking beast presides over these waters keeping them safe from intruders and evil doers. Feathertip told them all about what happened in the three months that had passed while they were being nursed back to life. Rolnar took what happened as an act of war and lay siege to Tradetown, starving them out until they gave up. He sacked the city and claimed it for his own. 

Draffut, understanding their peril, gave them some gifts that he had been given over the thousands of years he has been alive, yay magic items! He also told them of some Beast-men to the south that might be of assistance. The party now found themselves some 50 miles west of Tradetown in the Black Mountains.

They learned that these beast-men were suffering from a demonic incursion. Demon spirits coming out of the Dunes of Zapernoth, the Demon Lord to the west were being summoned to the Tower of Onyx, a spire that sits on top of one of the mountains, which was lit with a purple flame. 

With newfound purpose, the paladin took up a new oath, an Oath of the Ancients. The party headed south looking for these new friends. They came across two of them fighting off some demons, they helped them and these beast-men showed them the rest of the way to their town of Coalfell. 

Coalfell sits between two closely positioned mountain faces, a town suspended in mid-air by rope. Think an Ewok town, but in the mountains instead of trees. They met Burlock, the bear-man leader of these people. He filled them in and enlisted their help. With a guide, they made their way to the Tower of Onyx where found where dead beast-men were being possessed by demonic spirits and being turned into Gnolls. They came across Golden Idols depicting Zapernoth - the left hand of Orcus, the Eternal Sovereign - the right hand of Orcus, and Orcus himself. At the top of the spire they also found another blue skinned mage who had IV's all over him that were hooked up to the same canisters of purified magical essence that the party found back at the Toxic Alchemical Sump!

Rightfully scared, they high tailed it back to Coalfell and next time will devise a plan to put a stop to this mage.