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, Luna, 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 aetherbefore making it back down to us. As we look for aplace 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 oneof the "porcupine spines" - nearby there's a hole through a tree thatit likely sailed through. Luna notices thatthe root of the spike has a small ball-shaped opaque area from which tinyvein-like structures extend. There is a liquid in the veins that hasn’t driedyet. This quill is only a few hours old. Damian suspects the shard – and theanimal it came from – is in resonance with the ley line we’ve been told aboutin the area. Explosylva can tellthis quill grows very quickly at first before slowing - we break off shardsof the obsidian-like material and feel this Quillshard is a little morefamiliar than it was before we started our hunt. A little furtheralong our trek, Luna finds an underground burrow – it’s far too massive for a normalwoodland critter. There’s three bushels of blue berry with wintergreen leavesand two silver puffball pods – very unusual flowers. Explosylva pokes herhead 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 oflife. 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.