Remnants – Year 2, Spring

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    Mananan
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    Raolla
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    Ysill
It has been a season since the insect attack on Lemrock.  A servant of Vistevador, the head of the port authority, approached Nitmoss, Mananan's bearer, about procuring a rare blood lotus for his employer.  Although the blood lotus has medicinal properties, the rogues know that it can also be used as a poison to cause massive paranoia.

The rogues set out from Lemrock to find Stagcoast’s hidden graveyard somewhere to the northwest of the small coastal village.  It is rumored that a blood lotus can be found at that graveyard.

As the rogues travel through some craggy lands, Ysill notices a cave and the wind blowing out of it shows that the cave has an exit elsewhere.  The mist begins to grow heavy and Mananan splits off to get a better view of the cave.  The rogues fail to notice that shapes are moving while shrouded in this mist.  These creatures were sent by the vengeful tribal spirits in the area.  Raolla becomes distressed as she now feels cut off from feeling the Pouri, the ever-present life force.  The last time she felt cut off from this was the first time she experimented with the powerful hallucinogen hoor-tongue.

Bulber, Ysill’s grub mount, seems startled at a sound emanating from the mist.  The sound of snapping mandibles.  Bulber quickly shuffles sideways, knockin Ysill down and pinning him to the ground.  Raolla reveals her strange mechanical arm when something grabs a hold of her leg.  Nitmoss holds Mananan up high, scanning for danger.  A large mandible emerges from the thick mist and grabs Nitmoss by the wrist.

Ysill struggles to push Bulber off of him and free himself but a giant ant appears above the pair and takes a bite of Bulber.  Ysill slaps Bulber with the flat of his blade and Bulber moves but Ysill feels weak as the mist fills his lungs.  He wonders what can clear the mist?

Raolla is pulled off her feet and she screams as she is pulled deeper into the mist.  Another ant grabs Raolla by the arm and the two ants begin to pull in opposite directions.  A purple, glowing blade emerges from Raolla’s mechanical arm and she slices through the ants holding her.  Another mandible strikes at the mechanical arm, causing the glowing blade to disappear.

The mandible around the wrist of Nitmoss squeezes tighter, crushing the bones in his wrist.  Nitmoss is violently pulled the ground and Mananan falls a few yards from him.  Nitmoss disappears into the mist while an ant explores Mananan with its steely mandibles.  The ant begins to crush Mananan into a gnarled ball and swallows it.  The ant then moves over and grabs Ysill by the neck.  Mananan’s eyes begin to glow as it learns Ysill’s true name through connection with the insect god.  The god’s power flows through Mananan into Ysill.  Ysill lets out the screech of a thousand cicadas.  The ants begin to curl up in pain or run around chaotically and forces them to withdraw away from the rogues.

Nitmoss crawls back towards the group and discovers the gnarled form of Mananan.  Nitmoss picks up Mananan and suddenly Nitmoss’s wrist heals.

Raolla looks at a display on her arm and can see the position of all the giant ants in the area. She sees a large hole in the ground and she leaps down.  Raolla then emerges from the hold with a shiny, amber ball.  She believes that this is the cause of the disturbance in the area and the attraction of the ants.  She rolls the ball towards Nitmoss and Mananan and urges them to destroy it.

Nitmoss slams the head of Mananan down into the ball.  The amber balls is destroyed in an explosion of light.  The once gnarled Mananan is now reformed as a proper staff, complete with a shiny, new amber coil.

Later on, the rogues emerge from the cave but the mist has continued to stalk them.  Ysill scouts ahead and is gone for hours but returns with news that he has located the graveyard on a small island in the middle of a lake.

Now on the shore of the lake, Raolla knows trying to swim the lake would result in the death of everyone.  She enlists the help of Nitmoss in the collection of materials to use to build a raft.  The rogues then embark towards the island with the aid of this bowl-shaped vessel.

As the rogues step foot on the island of the graveyard, a strong wind begins to blow and the mist creeps ever closer towards the island.  The rogues search the island for the blood lotus.  Nitmoss plants Mananan into the ground and Mananan’s eyes begin to glow and then casts a beam of light illuminating the hard to see blood lotus among the other plants.  The mist is pushed back with a loud screech from the staff.

Raolla had taken some of the hoor-tongue when she arrived to the island connecting her to the life force.  She then walks into the water and calls forth the life of the lake.  She leads some of the fish into the bowl-shaped boat and pulls the boat onto the land with her.  She begins to cry as she struggles with wanting to keep the blood lotus for herself but she fights through it and allows the party to keep the blood lotus.

Ysill whispers into Burrower, his amber sword, causing the larvae to pulse out.  These larvae feed on Ysill before crawling off and nesting themselves inside each of the blood lotus.

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