User:Lhynard/Projects/Imago Deorum/Campaign outline/Summary 6

Dates
Kythorn 26 – Flamerule 24, 1372 DR

Summary
The Daisy arrives in Port Nyanzaru after a pleasant sea journey. Most of the PCs suffer from the constant mosquitoes that first night, and the next day they all buy insect nets. They hire a guide with no arms named Losi and set off across the savannah. (Hakam notices that they were followed while in the city, but he keeps this to himself.) They see a wide assortment of wildlife, including dinosaurs, and arrive at the edge of the jungle at the village Binkwan. Losi tells them the legend of Uluu Thalongh. While passing through a dried-up stream bed, they are attacked by an allip, which drains the wisdom from Hakam, Mythlos, Nargroth, and Oma, before Jayce uses a countersong to stop its insanity-inducing babbling so that the others can destroy it with spells and magic weapons. As a result of the encounter, Hakam can no longer cast his most powerful spells, and Oma is permanently in an unconscious state. Their guide, Mim, ran off in fear during the fight. They continue traveling, and the party begin to suffer heat stroke. They spot a deer eating berries, and Leokas tries to shoot it for food, but it is scared off. A giant tiger then leaps in front of them and growls. Belvin used druid magic to speak with the beast, which then morphs and reveals itself to be a weretiger. He is angry that they scared off his meal, but eventually, he calms down and they ask about happenings in the jungle. He warns against tribes of Batiri and wild dwarves. As night falls, they arrive a a crater surrounded by statues of the same feathered lizards (deinonychi) Belvin and Kamil had seen in their dreams. While they wait for Belvin to return, Jayce explains his suspicions that this site originally belonged to the god Ubtao and not Thard Harr and proceeds to explain the mythology of Ubtao and how the other gods gave him free reign over Chult in exchange for his defending Toril from Dendar the Night Serpent. Belvin returns and discusses the cave painting with his companions. Then he takes time to pray. While he prays, Mythlos and Jayce request a gift for the Chosen One, and Roryn willingly hands over some gold ore, a diamond, and two green gems. Belvin is startled from his prayers by a commotion caused by his camel, Kamil, who has broken free. The camel runs over to the ancient altar in the center of the crater, and Belvin takes this as a sign from his god. The altar appears to be to Ubtao, not Thard Harr, as it is covered in grooves in a circular maze pattern. At the center of the maze is a hole. Belvin hops atop the altar and sliced his bicep, spilling his blood on the altar in large quantities, before having Mythlos use his sword to heal the wound. Belvin's blood flows around the maze and pours into the hole. Suddenly, darkness falls on the whole area, and Belvin is granted a vision that only he can see. A massive swarm of bats emerge from the cave and collectively take the shape of a giant dwarf with a crocodile head. This figure points to the west and shows Belvin a far-off island covered in snow. Then it points to the southwest, where a tyrannosaurus appeared. The giant dwarven form points into the open mouth of the dinosaur, and then all of the bats fly into its mouth, before Belvin is released from his waking vision.
 * Mick arrives in Teshburl, claiming his tattoo is causing pain again. Nargroth agrees to have the tattoo copied onto his own arm. Having done this, Mick's tattoo ceases hurting. They recognize that the tattoo is half a circular maze. Mick also delivers news of Mythlos' keep. He then departs for Calimport.
 * The next morning, they encounter a large band of lizardfolk, but they avoid conflict when they discover that they simply want assistance reading a map and journal they found. The lizardfolk also request some food, which the PCs share. Then they are allowed to continue. They reach the River Soshenstar and camp for the night.
 * The next morning, their guide Losi is killed when they are attacked by a giant constrictor snake. They learn that they must burn his body because of the zombie epidemic in Chult. Mythlos vows to return Losi's toe ring to his family.
 * They hire ferrymen to take them across the river to Nsibu, avoiding hippopotami and piranhas. They hire another guide named Mim, who will take them as far as TeeTee.
 * They place Oma's sleeping body over Cloud. Then they search for Mim and eventually find him.
 * That night, they are attacked by a pair of leopards, which they slay.
 * In the morning, Hakam finds that he has no magic with which to restore their weakened perception. Oma, having been asleep for a full day, wet herself, and they realize that she will die of thirst if they cannot wake her up to drink.
 * The day gets hotter, and they all grow weaker, excepting the camels, Mim, and Walker. As the weretiger had warned, they are ambushed by a band of wild dwarves and poisoned by blow gun darts. Belvin recognizes that they are wild dwarves and calls out to them the name of Thard Harr, his and their god. They stop their attack and seem in awe of Belvin. They wish to take the party to a sacred location blindfolded, and the PCs consent to this.
 * The next morning, the leader of this band of dwarves, Roryn, leads Belvin to a cave in the side of the crater. In the back of the cave, Roryn shows Belvin a large cave painting that inexplicably showed abstract images of three dwarves bowing down to an elf with a curved sword and a camel. The wild dwarves believe Belvin to be the Chosen One, because of this image which has been known to their tribe for centuries. Roryn does not understand why the Chosen One is an elf, nor does he know what Thard Harr intends Belvin to do, though he suggests it might be to "wipe [ the ] Batiri from face of Toril."