Storm of Souls - The Journal of Nils Prepsel

  Session 8:  Empty Ruins and Dinner Parties 9/19/21 Grange 8: Seeing nothing else to do and with many of the group away from the keep, Squish, Elairiel, and I head back to the Old Woods to check the temple.   After teleporting to our usual spot, we first go to Rasp’s lair to look for any evidence of what happened.   The place was completely torn up, tree and all.    We spot troll footprints but don’t see any sign that they were still in the area.   The only thing I find in the ruined treehouse was a vial of thick purple liquid (purple worm venom) which I gave to Squish. We went back to the Temple and found the anti-magic field was still in place.   The bodies of the cultists that we dispatched were still there but there were five more bodies as well.   These showed signs of major blunt force trauma as their cause of death.   Possibly, the trolls were at work here as well The portal into Zehir was gone so we entered the temple. ...

  Session 7:  Into the Depths 9/5/21 Grange 6: When we arrived back at the keep, Squish was back, but they wouldn’t say where they had gone.   They seem… different somehow.   Hopefully we can talk about it later.   There was also someone else at the keep, a red-headed elf warrior in chainmail with a shield and morning star.   He introduced himself as Isaac Gelrek, a Paladin of the Order of Watchers.   He had been sent to help with problems in the area and had heard of our exploits.   The Menagerie grows! We gathered our things and headed to the Old Woods.   Rasp met us again and when we said that we were going to assault the Spore temple, he offered to help.   He appeared to be an archer of some skill.   As we approached the temple, all our magic began to fail due to some sort of anti-magic field.   The radius of the field was alarming, close to a mile across!   That should have been our first clue that something was ...

 Session 6:  Looking For Trouble, But It Always Finds Us  8/29/21 Duvin 55 : Things seemed to have calmed down for now, but today brought a whole new brand of chaos.     I started off with some shopping, first for some necessities like Healing potions and Pearls.   Elairiel and I purchased well-made breastplates from the armorer so we will be a little less conspicuous when trying to move around stealthily.   I also picked up my first spellbook that I’ve had in almost a decade. Ander also had a couple of very useful items that we purchased, Gauntlets of Ogre Power and a Lantern of Revealing. Sometime during this shopping spree, Squish wandered off.   As of writing this, they still haven’t returned.   I checked their room and everything seems intact, though Xopa has been busy filling the space with plants.   I really hope they are alright. I told Elairiel of my idea for how to deal with the curse imposed by Fire Crystal she received ...