Party Present: Galliard, Rahn, Kilgore, Kulu, Seraphina, Elgard, Kanye, Zyldi, Nor
Party Missing: None

The party all enters the second level of Firefinger Spire. The room is empty save for a corpse in the corner. Kulu searches the corpse and gains some goodies. She sees a glimpse of something on the ceiling, but is too distracted by the shiny objects on the corpse to pay much attention. Nor calls across the room for Kanye, and the party quickly learns what was lying in wait from above.

Sturge
ENCOUNTER – 9 Sturges
- The sturges sink their disgusting proboscus into some of the party members: 2 on Kulu, 2 on Galliard, 2 on Kanye, 3 floating in the air
- Galliard goes unconscious from the sturge attack
- Rahn quickly cleaves the two struges on Galliard
- Kilgore kills one of the sturges on Kanye
- Kulu murders one of the ones on her chest – piercing it with her dagger
- Seraphina rids Kulu of her final sturge
- Elgard casts Minor Illusion to look like the wall of the cave to prevent being blood sucked
- Kanye runs into the wall chest first, smashing the sturge still on him
- Zyldi goes to Galliard and casts healing word, she back away
- Nor readies an action in case a sturge tries to attack Kanye; he doesn’t wait long as as sturge immediately lunges for Kanye. Nor murders the bug beast
- Galliard rallies and attacks the sturge that has sunk into Seraphina.
- Dragle kills the final sturge
The party decides to send Kanye and his tied troupe out first to navigate the precarious edge of the spire. Galliard assists by casting a crosswind to counter the wind whistling around the tower. As they go, Zyldi decides to turn into a spider with wild shape. She climbs swiftly to the 3rd floor to scout. She sees 4 pterafolk sitting hunched around a fire and 2 figures bound as prisoners.
Zyldi quickly scurries back to the party and spins a web that spells out: “Kanye” as she wants to speak with him without changing out of her spider shape. After much debate, we realize that Rahn can also speak with animals, and she tells him what she saw on the 3rd floor.

2hrs later….the party has made a plan on how to infiltrate the 3rd floor. First, Kulu will go in and assassinate as many of the pterafolk that she can. There is no need to tell any further of the plan as Kulu ASSASSINATES ALL FOUR PTERAFOLKS in about 30seconds.
Now the rest of the party ascends to the 3rd floor. This is largely uneventful save for Elgard. The wizard manages to get halfway up the ladder, loses his footing, and falls. Nor quickly reaches out an arm and swings the wizard back onto the ladder below himself. Elgard is probably appreciative, but you wouldn’t know it as he promptly loses his footing yet again. Rahn half-heartedly puts out an arm to see if Elgard will land it in. He doesn’t. Rahn shrugs. Seraphina, still on the ledge, sees what is happening and swiftly snatches Elgard from what would be guaranteed death. They decide instead to tie a rope to Elgard, and they haul him up.
While everyone was climbing the ladder, Kanye and Kulu release the prisoners. They are a Halfing Monk and a Birdman. Kanye: “We found a baby halfing, and it is really smart!” The Birdman is named Nephyr who was captured while out on patrol. The Halfling is Eridor Redknuckles. He and several of his friends had been captured by the pterafolk while out one day and were forced to work the mines as slaves. Recently, they managed to escape but were once more captured and brought to this tower.
Eridor is worried about the fate of his other friends. He wants to quickly get to the 4th floor to see whether they are still alive and need help. Zyldi heads up to the 4th floor to scout. There are 3 pterafolk out on patrol, and 6-8 others milling about. There is not much room at the top. She also sees a chest in the room where the flame shoots out from the top of the spire. She brings this news to the party. They make a plan to distract the pterafolk, steal the contents of the chest that hopefully contain the mask, and then flee.

Elgard, Eridor, and Galliard are the main players of this plan. Elgard casts Minor Illusion to look like one of the Pterafolk. He takes Eridor and starts to make a show of throwing the prisoner off the top of the spire. While he is drawing attention, Galliard sneaks to the top and steals the contents of the chest. He victoriously returns to the rest of the party.
Elgard sees Galliard’s success and starts to backpeddle with the crowd. He had managed to stave off the opposition from “the boss”, but is now trying to say maybe the bossman was right, and it is best to wait to eat the Halfing. “The Boss” suggests they eat the birdman instead. Elgard disagrees: “I don’t know about y’all but I don’t like eatin’ dem featers.” He is slowly backing away through all this to get himself and Eridor back to the chute that they came up. Boss: “Why don’t you fly him back?” Elgard jumps down the chute with Eridor.
While that is going on, Galliard hands to mask to Azaka. She is grateful.
The pterafolk are suspicious of the Elgard character and three of them decide to come check it out. They are swiftly and quietly disposed of by Kanye, Eridor, and Seraphina. The parties escape plan is still undecided




