From the journal of Zil
The Enchanters guild asked us to collect a large supply of True Fire. I can detect True Fire, but I don't have the knacks for harvesting, handling, or transforming it. However I was happy to do what I could, knowing that my spells of protection would be very handy. Davarim, Dubin, Daldoror, Xevious and I were accompanied by two guild minors: Moroick Forgeforge and Elsec Cragheart. We took a great big circle around the entire Servos jungle. On our way out, we took the rivers to Travar, where I met some Travarian merchants of Davarim's acquaintance, they were the Firecairn brothers, Padimis & liminor Co-heads of house Dumorjen. After a day or two in Travar (a lovely and magnificent city), we took a short airship flight to just north of the Myst Swamps (30,23). From there we spent a few days hiking towards the Twilight peaks.
We spotted 6 sky raiders dropping down near us. I tried my Disarming Smile devotion, but one of my companions made the mistake of thinking that a Jinx was not a hostile act, and the penalty fell to us
! We still managed to easily subdue them, in fact it was amazing that only one of them died. When they awoke we said we would not harm them, but that we would release them unharmed if they agreed to guide us to the volcano on Mt Angrak(26.23) Which they instantly agreed to, and guided us faithfully. They told us that Mt Angrak still spew fire and heals the land with the blood of fire. It is known for it's many dangers, and crushes those of frail stature. (I suspect he might have been referring to me, but I think they all learned not to judge a person by their size by the time we parted.).
At the foot of the mountain we filled up all of our water skins, and the two small casks I got for Nanny to carry. The trolls lead us up the mountain on switchbacked paths, but some paths they suggested we avoid. As we ascended the air (and ground) grew hotter and dryer. We found no more springs or streams. We were glad to have brought so much water, but our supplies were diminishing rapidly. Whenever we stopped for a night I would create an Elemental Wind, which brings cool air directly from the plane of Elemental Air. Each of those were the best 2 strain I ever spend, since I am certain they prevented much more damage from heat fatigue. During the day my maximized Air Armor kept us from suffering the worst of the heat as well.
Finally we reached the ridge of the Caldrea and could look down into it to see the lava pools. I created another elemental wind at the ridge, and we left the bulk of our gear (and my goat). We decended into the caldra, and upon reaching the bottom detected 4 Deaths Seas Salamanders. These, surprisingly were not Elementals, so I could not banish them. I did however got off one of my best ever bolts of lightning. While fighting the salamanders, various members of the party were ambushed by 3 Bull Lava Ufghanti (which are kind of hydra headed lava creatures). We made quick work of all of these, and were able to quickly turn our attention to mining, In such a rich and virgin feild it took us a remarkably short time to harvest all that we could carry, we returned to our camp but did not tarry there, but immediately started down the mountain. Going down was much faster and easier than going up, and every mile was noticeably cooler, so much so that we hated to stop until we were exhausted. After a quick decent we said good bye to the trolls at the first source of water. We then completed our circling of the Survos by heading north, before cutting through the narrow part of the survose near the mine we first explored all those years ago. Statistics:Posted by ChrisDDickey — Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:48 am
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