The Borodai mining company contacted me to ask if I would be willing to go check the storm node I had secured for them a few years ago (together with Sandrin, Rama, and Zivilyn). Apparently it was showing activity again after being mined out, but the first expedition sent to check on it had disappeared, and the second more havily guarded and including a purifier named Kestra Vaynleaf was forced to back off. Some mentions of horror taint were made.
As I was trying to figure out who would be up for a walk in the mountains under the rain, Azurea showed up with Thorkell, LaShana, and Reys in tow. Kestra had asked her to help with cleaning up the taint at the node. With the issue of companions solved, all that was left was the days of walking under the rain. At least that hadn't changed over the years, it was still just as wet and miserable as I remembered it.
We got to the node with no trouble, but it was guarded by some kind of cats made of lightning and Reys said some kind of spirit was where the node used to be. The spark cats sent a bunch of lightning to zap us, which proved to be more distracting than painful and then pounced on Azurea taking her down hard and fast almost before we could react.
They proved to be exasperating to hit and they managed to bring Thorkell down before we finished them off. I tended to Azurea's wounds before she came back to consciousness and found her Death Cheat charm used up. Meanwhile Reys started making contact with the spirit, some kind of huttawa spirit trapped in a circle of corrupted ground.
Eventually it manifested and Reys managed to get a dialogue going, we found out that the spirit had been summoned here, by one of Azurea's thread items, and had been trapped by some namegiver who had then forced it to summon its "sisters" and had taken them away.
After a night's rest we left to find these "sisters", following Tormentaleon's, the elemental, directions. Not even a day later we reached a chasm that seemed to emit light. As it turns out the chasm was full of storm wraiths and a fire wraith. And also another crazy scourge cultist. Those where like weeds, popping up everywhere.
We took the only reasonable course of action of charging through the wraiths to kill the cultist. Reys got the honor of feeding her to the sharks, while I got repeatedly tickled by the lightning. Somewhere along the line I also got hit by a fireball thrown by the cultist, I guess I now what the people hit by Moe's phantom ones feel now, it should help me make my fake reaction more believable.
After the fight we found the cultist's camp, her notes and correspondence and got back to the node to free the elemental, where Azurea did her Purifier mojo.Statistics:Posted by sigfriedmcwild — Sun Oct 18, 2020 11:03 pm
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