Players Present:  Seraphina, Kilgore, Elgard, Nor, Kanye, and Galliard

Players Missing:  Zyldi, Rahn, amd Kulu

Day 5 Traveling through the Jungles of Chult

Wet and bedraggled, the party listen to the shrieking of the two pterafolk that escaped in the battle. They know that will not bode well for them in the future. Taking a short rest, they being to make their way through the jungle once more, but taking no more than a few steps, they hear a gnashing and snarling coming their way.

Encounter Highlights – 4 Ghouls who are then joined by 4 pterafolks

• Galliard blinds ghouls with fireworks
• Elgard does not want to be distracted from his reading and misses badly with a fireball
• At a later time, Elgard blows away 3 ghouls out of annoyance.  He then steps into the fray, still reading.
• Kilgore is grabbed by a pterafolk and brought 20ft into the air.
• Nor throws a grappling hook at the pterafolk and it grabs onto to the creature just below the wing
• Kanye jumps up and grabs the foot of Kilgore so that they are all now floating in the air.  Kilgore is not torn in half.
• Galliard throws holy water killing the last ghoul.  “Bad undead are bad. But there are good undead.” – Galliard
• 3 pterafolk run away
• Kilgore does not let the pterafolk that grabbed him flee.  He has Kanye launch him onto the creature and stabs it in the eye, killing it.  Vengeance was had.

The crew debates how they will travel through this jungle with the pterafolk continuing to decend.  This is when Q’washa decides to reveal that he is able to stealth them for 3 hrs a day with the spell Without a Trace.

They travel safely until evening.  While they are at camp, they are visited by a Chwinga.  This little creature takes interest in Elgard’s book, climbs in his lap, and reads with him.  Galliard and Nor are jealous. Seraphina tries to get a Chwinga’s attention with her pendant.  None are successful. The Chwinga blesses Elgard with 3 Dark Vision spells.

Day 6

The next morning, the group is able to see a tall stone spire with fire shooting from the top – Firefinger Spire. They also awake to learn they have a new companion in the group.

During the night, Galliard completed his new clockwork skeleton.  After extensive questioning, the group votes on the companion staying.  The skeleton is voted into the group – 3 votes yes, Kilgore votes no, Seraphina abstains.  Dragle is the new companion of the team.

The day of traveling is safe.

That night, the party plans an attack on Firefinger.  They will approach the tower at night as a group, and make their way up the ladder in pairs.  Azaka will come with, but Q’washa will stay behind with the dinos.

Before the party goes to sleep, they question Azaka more about her mask.  She reveals that it is important to her as it belonged to her mother.  The mask was stolen from Azaka by the pterafolk when she let her guard down one evening.  The mask allows the one who wears it to befriend animals.

Day 7

They approach the tower at night.  Kanye carries Kilgore up the ladder with him to allow Kilgore to attack with spells if needed.  They make it safely up, but they break several rungs of the ladder along the way. Ropes are needed for the subsequent climbs.  All of the party make their way up to the first level of the spire safely.

In the middle of this cavernous first level is a pit.  Within the pit, they encounter 4 spiders. They dispatch the spiders quickly…but with quite a literal boom.  In trying to be helpful, Galliard cast Thunderwave into the pit with the spiders.  However, this sends a 300ft boom out into the night, and shakes the whole tower. The party can only hope this does not alert the pterafolk.  It is slightly drizzling outside, and Galliard also casts Prestidigitation to create thunder like noise away from the spire in hopes to make it seem like it is simply a storm.  Success of this endeavor is still unknown.

They climb to the second level of the spire.