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 ======The Land of Exilis======
 //Campaign 3 - Sam DM// \\
-[[c:loe:summary|Story]] - [[c:loe:start|Technical]] - [[c:loe:sessions|Sessions]] - [[c:loe:calendar]] - [[c:loe:secret|Secrets]]
+[[c:loe:summary|Story]] - [[c:loe:start|Technical]] - [[c:loe:sessions|Sessions]] - [[c:loe:Calendar]] - [[c:loe:secret|Secrets]]
 ===== Session 1: Right Place, Wrong Time=====
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 Bursting out of a pile of sand, //"Venenum Amicis in your presence."// he proudly, or smugly announces out loud.
-There is knocing from a crate
+There is knocking from a crate half buried on the shore, inside a warforged well soaked but functioning. It introduces himself as Unit N11, but after hearing it said back he decides on a more personal name, Lekgalo.
-Ravi missing, Ravi’s note book a ticket out of exilis?
+Robert scans the shore for the familiar blazing red of Ravi, confirming she is not here, Did she go on ahead? was she lost? did she een end up on the shore to begin with? however his questions are quickly answered when he finds a thick notebook tucked in his bag, no mistaking its Ravi's book he had seen her write in multiple times. It details a few things about their location.
+With the party up and about the group take in thier surroundings. a starless sky blazed with luna light of a shattered moon. Te ocean black as the abyss, and as still as a mirror. tossing a rock in shows it behaves like water as the rock splaces and sinks. but te ripples disipate quickly and the water returns to its still silence. The land before the is familiar, coated in dark green grass, rocks and roads carved from frequent foot traffic. the shore seems to be covered in footprints much like thier own. a warm light off in the distance reveals some sort of settelemnt. thats the first stop.
 Town of begining
-Exilis Shore.
-Exilis train
-introduction to Exilis, moon, lights, fragments etc
 ===== Session 2: Adjustment to an Unforgiving Situation =====
-The Party have learned the gravity of thier situation, in a strange unforgiving land shared by ancient evil and old gods alike. the party work in thier boot taking a job or two. otherwise failing the job they do learn of a lead and make for the capital. the journey is tense but uneventful as they meet bandits and have a first look at an old God. they arive in the city of Valefor after a few days trip.
+After spending their time in town getting their bearings and learning their situation. the party spend some time amongs themselves planig their best course of action. \\
+Running blindly into the unknown seemed like a poor choice but time was an urgency. Yet coming to realise that time may not work as fairly as it did being them all from different areas of the world.
+Their supplies low from what ever brought them here, some didnt bring anything, some lost much of what they had during the event that brought them here. But normal gold coin was worthless here to most. so they would have to trade something else
+Some things were familiar at least, Finding a tavern and Job board in this town seemed rather straight foward. Two tasks jumped out to them, a missing child and a beast prowling the outskirts.
+to find the child the party journeyed into the nearby woods, yet just approaching them felt unsafe. like passing an invisable border te temperature drops sharply but not enough to snow, the trees They rustled and swayed in the wind, only there was no wind they could feel. \\
+Getting closer the trees didn't seem normal, the canopy of the woods made sight difficult but closer inspection revealed humanoid shapes witin the trees. Dread washing over as the party realise the trees were people that had somehow grown into the trees of these woods. Amicis remembers stories of such a forrest found in Aethien. Mishapen Forest, but how could it be here.
+Although the party failed to save the child, the job was complete, returning for payment the 'father' seemed unphased by the news, whitteling away another of the same figure, a malformed scarcrow in fine detail, Payment was taken but nobody felt good about it, aside from mayve amicus.
+The party decided to bury the feelings of dread by tackling the next job, an unknown beast stalking te outskirts, They were ready for a fight
+The sky seems to move then they all catch a glimpse of it. something unspeakable.
 Taking a few jobs
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   *Rewards, leads to nabhilhime
+The Party have learned the gravity of thier situation, in a strange unforgiving land shared by ancient evil and old gods alike. the party work in thier boot taking a job or two. otherwise failing the job they do learn of a lead and make for the capital. the journey is tense but uneventful as they meet bandits and have a first look at an old God. they arive in the city of Valefor after a few days trip.
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 **City of Nabilhime** \\
-The Party head off to the capital following thier strongest lead. they eventually end up in the city of valefor
+The Party head off to the capital following their strongest lead. they eventually end up in the city of Nabilime
+Their journey was interrupted when coming to a river crossing. like before it seemed as if there was an invisible border they crossed as the grass changed and the temperature also. the path changed from dirt to stone, Robert recognised this bridge, it was the same small bridge he would cross every day when journeying in and out of his home town when e was still a  child.\\
+The Bandits appear normal at first, a breath of fresh air for the party but some were suspicious, which was founded when their first attacks phased through the bandits and their true forms were revealed. \\
+Humanoid bodies hung on nooses that stretched high into the dark sky vanishing into nothing, hairless, sunken strangled eyes, missing teeth and shrivelled limbs. \\
+Bodies impaled on a large stake and tied to it, heads replaced by a horses. they moved uncanny, hopping on the stake of wood like a pogo stick as they grumbled and roared in horrid horse noises. \\
+spectre like figures, a heavily rotted dress tattered at the ends, no limbs visible bellow the material, the head shattered like a glass mirror but all the fragments floating around the neck of the spectre. yet the fragments make no sense, too many eyes, too many mouths. it utters a shriek that chills to soul.
+During the camp, during Robert's watch his head is filled with whispers once again. the rest of the party asleep or in rest mode. this time they are louder and Robert turns around to see a figure in the dark, His eyes wide and his hand grips his weapon sub-consciously, a primal fear deep in his gut says to run, but the whispers are starting to make coherent words, he approaches.
+Robert had herd of this city before in his home land, but it had been destroyed millenia before his time. Venum had also herd of this place but it was a small town not the huge city that layed before them, Zonotar and Johm had also herd the name but it was the name for a forge of the Fire Jotun. \\
+Though the town was here it lacked its original inhabitants it seemed, The people here having mad makeshift alterations to various buildings and locations to suite what ever their needs were, It seems the location is it its physical representation alone and not the culture of te people who built and lived here.
 Journey to Nabilhime,
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 **Great Sea Spire** \\
-The party is given an important mission to find the goblin they had originally captured on the seas, it leads them to a place very few tread.
+The parties time in Exilis leads them to track down a goblin who seemed to have been with a Red haired tabaxi some weeks ago.
-Lead on Ravi brings the party here
+Robert recognises the goblin as one of the crew members on the ship, they interrogate the goblin and learn on Ravi's location as well as a few more bits of information including some stuff about Parker, the old gods church
-Drowned Beholder guard, sneaky sneak
+The lead on Ravi brings the party to what the Goblin referred to as 'The sea Spire' yet when the party get there its less of a spire and more of a ruin. however a drowned Beholder seemed to be on guard so there was something up. The party manage to sneak past the beholder with a few clutch movements, when getting inside sure enough the stairs up stopped were the rest of the tower had crumbled away, but there was a set of stairs leading bellow.
-Journey down into the spire, something is watching
+There isn't much time to survey the area, with the Drowned Beholder still nerby and could still catch them if they don't move quickly the party hurried down the stairs. Journey down into the spire, something is watching
-Find and Ruin Stem's office serching for information, find some, kill baby terasque by accident
+Find and Ruin Stem's office searching for information, find some, kill baby terasque by accident, Find documents relating to people trafficking, a contact named 'Knight' supplies stem with test subjects for payment. as well as some plans written in a language none of the party can decipher.
+Deeper into the spire things are getting horrific, creatures parts incased in jars of liquid, rusted medical tools, needles and mysterious glowing fluids. constant groans and cries from the walls, rooms and deeper bellow and the rattle of metal above them like something was following them but every time they looked up there was noting they could see. \\
+The party find a large double door during their decent with a concerning amount of noise from behind. still unable to see te bottom they decided to enter to see if they can find out more information. \\
+Its a active medical ward with several beds lines up in two rows, many of them had humanoid figures tied down to the beds wit various intencities, most were still, some were breathing and mumbling phrases or words repeatedly, some were thrashing, twisting and screaming not in pain and insanity. Some had become mutated from whatever they once were and some lay deathly still, having died on the table who knows how long ago.
+At the back of the medical ward is a room is a monstrous figure of oceanuric description, octopus tentacles and many eyes, yet hey did not give off any meancinging aura, she had not noticed the party yet and they took the opportunity to hide, this deep in unknown territory against unknown foes the party agreed an outright fight would not be the best move before knowing more. \\
+Ize Losefka \\
+After the figure leaves the party get a better look, it seems the creature is feminine in nature, possible once humanoid that has mutated though she seemed rather intact as she held a medical plate with several tools and bottles of potions or samples. the room she came out of was left open as she disappeared down a hall. \\
+inside the room was another figure tied intensely to a chair chair with a horrible wrinkled bloated head covered in slumbering eyes and space small tendrils.
-Journey deeper to find test subjects with livion virus, fight incues
 Meet Professor Stem
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 ===== Session 5: Faith of the Old Gods=====
-The party survive the ordeals in the spire and turn in thier quest, getting another lead and heading off to the church of the crawler. they end up in a pickle then meeting a librarian
+Escapoing the sea spire with knew leads, knowlage and am inert Ravi who is barely able to stand after whatever expirements were beforemd on her. the party make a beline back to the nabilhime city.
-Reach City of promise
+They had lost Venenum to the creature in the sea spire but the ordeal was done, they had no reason to return and finish the job but some feel like there is more to the tower.
+Spending a few days restocking and talking about thier next move, talking about the loss of venenum. with the knowledge they learned Robert reconis its connected to his brother and they should persue it. Zonatar reckons the cult may have a way out from what was learned in the tower. arguments are had about the best course of action. but they do agree to spend time trying to Get Ravi back on her feet.
+This time is spent doing some odd jobs and learning a bit more about the area. \\ Ravi becomes better but still not fighting fit and it seems something is changing in her body. \\
+Johm starts to talk about the power of the virus, seeing it first hand in the tower, he desiers that power be living that's the way to escape.
+Lekgolo is mostly along for the ride with no urgency to get back home he is mainly there to help the others how he can, though he preverse voilence so any plan involving a fight he is openly agreeing too.
+Eventually the party decide to go to the church. Venenum mentioned that he reconised the name when it was mentioned
+During thier journey they have to pass through a forest where they quickly find themselves drenched in thick mist. hours of looking around in the mist and the confirm they are lost. they start running into the creatures they have learned are lost, sprites of black huminoid shape with swirling white eyes and outline. They seem passive but the party have encountered them before and know to stay away and not provoke them.
+They catch a glimpse of themselves in the mist, from an hour or so ago it seems, Lekgolo approches and interacts with them causing a ripple in space time as the party suffer imence pain from the laws trying to correct themselves, the party agree not to do that again.
+Zonatar realizes this is the same forest as the one near her homeland. she reconises a carving she made in a tree. and it all clicks but is also muddled with confustion. knowing how to escape she tells the party to simply walk backwards for a while without looking back and they should find themselves out.
 Restock, rest, reevaluate. Gather information
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 **Broken Promise** \\
-The Party find themselves in a brilliant city of hopes and desiers. but end up destroying it.
+The church agrees to arrange a meeting with Robert's brother but the party must escort a pregnant maiden dressed in white to a set of ruins known as 'Starstrike Loft' \\
+There are immidient red flags flown and the party mostly disagree on the spot, aside from Jhom who tries to convince them to go along with it. \\ //"would you rather leave her here with the creepy cult?!"// \\
+There is a huddle as the party discuss this weigh the situation, the possible outcomes and the morality of it all. The cult leaders are being rather cryptic about the actual reason for the maiden's escort and the maiden herself seems aloof and in her own world. \\
+Ravi only adds that she dosnet see another option right now, but there may have been something she missed as she is still groggy, but ultimately its the parties decision.
-Zonotar tries to save the sacrificed maiden
+The maiden is no mere uman. she seems close to 12ft tall
+The party notice some similarities to the maiden and the aberration woman they encountered in the research hall depths of the Sea spire, But those similarities are brushed up to coincidence or perhaps they are long lost twins? \\
+When the cult leaders had left the room the party ask the maiden some questions such as her name and family. however she is so aloof that its difficult to et strait answers and the cryptic answers she does give just raise more questions. Not getting anywhere the party drop the questions and begin preparations for travel.
+Arriving at STarstrike loft it seems it was a massive curche with high towers however a meteor has struck through the building reducing most of it to rubble. however the location the cult mentioned was visable. yet percarious. \\
+Jhom attempts to fly te maiden however her shear size make that impossible.
+Zonotar tries to save the sacrificed maiden but Ravi stops here out of regards to Zonatar's safety.
+The party return to the churche with heavy hearts,
+Returning to the curche they find a majority of the cult members horribly disfigured with heads stretched to impossible lenghts, mouths agape as they all are on their kneews in pained positions forzen. only one remains in the middle of the room, thanking the party for carrying out thier task, and that a meeting has been aranged in the stock house a little outside the church
 Robert kills parker of his own choice not Dominion.
-Party see livion marching towords the city. Talk and speak but ultimitaly decided not to get involved as getting out of exilis is priority
+Leaving the church area the party catch a glipse of something happening in the far distance, like water running through a dry riverbed a cepping pink & purple mass slowly spreading along the land heading right for a major settelemnt, the major settelemnt in the land they had been able to see the light from since they arrived in Exilis. \\
+With Remington freed from Parker and Saphira back in flying shape the party decide to take the trip by air to see whats going on. only a few hours of flight that would have taken days by foot.
+the head of the spread was a creepign mass of rithing flesh and infection, anything organic it toched was convereted into some alien-like form of itself, trees became stalks of pink flesh baring strange fluid filled fruit. creatures would be absorbed into the land or become the smae insectoid like creatures they had encountered a few times. however there seemed to be no sign of the cause. flying further back they found a large draconic alien figure slowling making its way through the already infected land. as soon as they approached from the air the party feel a pressure in thier mind as something begins probing and serching it
 ===== Session 7: Above the Waves =====
 **End Game** \\
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 Return to the sea spire
-Journey mcuh deeper.
+Deeper into the spire the party encountered much of the same things however they are able to avoid all combat. reaching where they once stood when they were here last, rescuing Ravi, now part of the lab had opened up leading down even deeper.
+decending down into a pitch black area with nothing but speck of light floating around like dust. stairs lead down but they were diccult to see in the blackness, a lit torch allies easier sight.
+lower and lower until the light from the above entrance disaperead, soon after a new ligth appeared bellow, some sort of door way.
-upon the shores once again.
+Going through the door way the party find themselfs on a coulourless shore, similar to when they awoke but the ocean was grey, the sand was colourless, and cloud covered the sky in bright overcast. it seemed to stretch on forever in both directions, the sea was unlike the Abyssal lake, this gently lapped at the shore and was naturally wavy and disturbed like a normal ocean. Looking into the ocean it was abnormally shallow, only reaching ankel hight and never getting deeper. but looking through the water the party could see glipses of Blue sky and clouds, and in other places night sky with the twin moons of felwind and constellations of stars they recognized. it seemed this place was a border of some sort.
 Zonatar and Delta fight.