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Dunmari Frontier - Seeker Solo Session 2

Crystal Peak Chaos: in which a wild magic storm is quelled

Featuring: Seeker, Raven, Spirala, Mikasa
In Taelgar: Oct 03, 1748 DR to Oct 12, 1748 DR
On Earth: Saturday Nov 05, 2022
Crystal Peak in the Feywild

Seeker and his companions subdue a wild magic storm at Crystal Peak, receive mysterious gifts, and set off for further adventures.

Session Info

Summary

  • Seeker and companions, Raven, Spirala, and Mikasa, venture to Crystal Peak to tackle a wild magic storm.
  • The party ascends Crystal Peak, encountering a rolling stone and a crater leading to a cave with a crashed geode.
  • Seeker vanishes using a spell and discovers Illaran, a fey master of the mountain who reveals the cause of the chaos.
  • Illaran leads the party to confront living spells and a petrified creature whose destruction by Mikasa ends the wild magic storm.
  • With the storm quelled, Seeker receives mysterious crystalized magic from Illaran as the party prepares to continue their journey.

Timeline

  • Afternoon, in the feywild: Seeker meets Raven, Spirala, and Mikasa who are also coming to help solve the wild magic storm. 
  • Slightly later afternoon, in the feywild: Seeker, Raven, Spirala, and Mikasa travel to the Crystal Peaks, where the wild magic storm is growing; enter the mountain; meet the strange fey creature Illaran; fight off animated spells; and stop the wild magic storm.

Narrative

We begin in the court of the Chanceweaver, as Seeker meets his companions who will venture into the wild magic storm: Raven, a Winter Knight from Shimmersong, also bordering the wild magic storm; Spirala, a light cleric from Shimmersong; and Mikasa, a samurai from a distant fey realm, who is helping in exchange for passage home from the Chanceweaver. Raven and Spirala know the way, so the party sets out from the Chanceweaver’s court towards the Crystal Peak, at the center of the wild magic storm.

Crystal Peak

After some time traveling through the wonders of the Feywild, the party approaches the Crystal Peak, a mountain entirely made of gems and crystals. Between Spirala’s flight, Raven and Mikasa’s ability to scale sheer walls, and Seeker polymorphing into a dragonfly getting to the top is easy. Except for when Seeker casts Polymorph, something breaks off from the top of the mountain and a giant round stone comes hurling down the mountainside. Raven and Mikasa are able to dodge out of the way, fortunately. 

The top of the mountain has a giant crater, as if something crashed into it, leaving an open gash that leads down into a cave structure below. The cave is almost like a massive bubble in the mountain, and at the bottom is a crashed geode, split open. Descending to investigate, giant dragonfly Seeker is swarmed and attacked by an animated cloud of crystal fragments. Raven and Mikasa run down the walls of the cave, trying to draw the attention of the clouds of crystal fragments, while Spirala and Seeker fly down. 

As the party deals with the crystal shards, Seeker casts Catapult to try to break one of the swarms to pieces, and vanishes, appearing in another cave, that looks inhabited. The rest of the party manages to deal with the crystal fragments, and find their way to the room Seeker is in, on the next level down.

Here, the party meets Illaran, a strange fey creature with wild hair, a multicolored frizzy mess, and clearly a master of this crystal mountain domain. Illaran is somewhat shifty, and not completely straightforward with the party. But it seems that after the crash, which leaked some kind of uncontrolled magic, Illaran summoned a creature with a nose for gems to help, and it ended up swallowing the shards of the geode. After which things started to go heywire, and magic got weird. Illaran tried to kill the creature with magic, but it fled, deeper into the mountain. Somehow, the creature needs to be destroyed, and the geode shards retrieved and destroyed, to end the chaos. Unfortunately, Illaran admits, the spells he cast came alive (some aftereffect of the geode, he thinks), and might be waiting for the party. Still, it is the only way, he says, so the party proceeds.

Illaran leads them to another cave, with polished reflective crystal walls, where they find a portal to the deep cave where the creature, a xorn, can be found. The creature has been petrified by the chaotic magic, turned to a statue of stone - surrounded by living versions of all the spells that Illaran or the party cast in the mountain, which immediately attack. While Raven, Spirala, and Seeker try to hold off the wild magic, Mikasa lunges for the statute, attempting to crack it in two to shatter the magic crystal and end the wild magic storm. 

Spirala manages to temporarily paralyze one of the spells with Dispel Magic, and Raven holds off a number of smaller, weaker spells, along with the echo of the giant dragonfly Seeker polymorphed into. However, Illaran’s lightning bolt and force hand, as well as Seeker’s catapult, are real trouble. Fortunately, Mikasa is able to crack open the statue. As it cracks, the room vibrates for a moment, and with a last wild burst of chaotic magic energy, the storm ends and magic begins to rebalance.

We end as Seeker, Spirala, and Raven continue their journey to Shimmersong and beyond, in search of the fey crossing that will reunite Seeker with his friends, as Mikasa returns to receive her favor from the Chanceweaver and go home. But not before a grateful Illaran gifts Seeker fragments of crystalized magic, from a mysterious source, to do with what he will. 

The source of the geode, which caused the wild magic storm and the living spells, remains mysterious; and Illaran won’t reveal where he came by or created the crystalized magic he gave to Seeker. But, at least to Seeker’s eyes, they seem unrelated.