Revelation Rock Hunting Grounds

Revelation Rock Hunting Grounds
Date	8/2/23-8/11/23 (PBP)
Storyteller	Indi
Tier	Trainee, Medium
Player Characters	Aleth, Damian Brooks, Explosylva, Lunaris Nightbloom, Disorro Saur
Rewards	40 gold, quillshard (non magical off ley line)
Result	Not a failure
Author	Disorro Saur

Log

After joining a team that would scout for the Quillshot - it can apparently launch quills through trees - I find myself in a party with Damian and Aleth again, as well as new neighbors Luna, and Explosylva - owner of the local icecreamery. 

We ride for a day in a borrowed wagon with Huntmaster Kjac to the small town of Rams Gate. From there it was a few hours' walk to Revelation Rock.

Luna takes the lead, but we make slow progress along rocky outcroppings and cliffs. Aleth forages for us to stay nourished. Damien and Explosylva kept their eyes peeled and found a clue as to what we're looking for while I made sure our path was clear for a stealthy approach.

We continue on and Aleth finds food for the next day and comes back from foraging to find us smelling like we're missing something. The plants are attracted towards us too. She sprinkles some aether she found while foraging - it is soaked into everything here - and we blend in with the local smell again.

Luna leads us to a clearing and at the top of a nearby ridge - 40 feet up a sheer cliff - there's a cluster of glistening red flowers saturated with an excess of this... aether energy. We struggle to climb it, butAleth makes it to the flowers and extracts 2 samples worth of the aether before making it back down to us. As we look for a place to make camp, Damian spots something shining in the sunset – a 2.5-footlong crystalline spike sticking out of the ground. It is quite imbedded. It is one of the "porcupine spines" - nearby there's a hole through a tree that it likely sailed through.  

Luna notices that the root of the spike has a small ball-shaped opaque area from which tiny vein-like structures extend. There is a liquid in the veins that hasn’t dried yet. This quill is only a few hours old. Damian suspects the shard – and the animal it came from – is in resonance with the ley line we’ve been told about in the area. Explosylva can tell this quill grows very quickly at first before slowing - we break off shards of the obsidian-like material and feel this Quillshard is a little more familiar than it was before we started our hunt. 

A little further along our trek, Luna finds an underground burrow – it’s far too massive for a normal woodland critter. There’s three bushels of blue berry with wintergreen leaves and two silver puffball pods – very unusual flowers. Explosylva pokes her head into the burrow and sees the tunnel end in a broad chamber under the rootsof a large tree. No clues about the animal that made it and no recent signs of life. We bunk here for the night.

In the morning, we receive a message par avion - we must return. Another group lost a party member.

At Ram's Gate, Huntmasater Kjac confirms that Vreal died to a farslayer artifact. We are warned that the shard will lose its powers if it leaves the ley line we are on.  Before we leave, Aleth eats a few berries. She should not have eaten the berries, but the effects wear off in about an hour.