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• There was some conversation happening between Astraea, Rey and Dorian about how someone should have followed Aella
• Rey looks up from the conversation to notice that Aella is nowhere to be seen
• Last thing Aella said was to not touch the skulls and now she is not there, the skulls are no longer there
• (spooky theme) 
• Rey is the first to notice the skulls are gone, she thinks she should go find Aella, she wakes Daisy Daisy and Mariana and tells them about what is missing
• Mariana is looking to see if Aella left any footprints, she thinks that considering what has happened recently, she would try to get as far away as possible
• They are going to look around the inner perimeter of the sand wall
• They start searching around, shouting her name
• As they pass by the ruined temple, they hear soft sobbing
• At the foot of the altar, Aella is crumpled in a heap on the floor with shards of obsidian all around her, most likely, the shards are probably from the skulls, there are cuts forming on her hands that are probably from trying to do something with them
• Mariana goes up to Aella and puts her hand on her shoulder, Aella flinches and asks to be left alone
• Mariana pulls Aellas hands from the shards, Aella says she can’t so anything
• Aella thought that if she listened to the whispers, they might reveal how to unpetrify her party mates
• Aella talking about how mistakes are handled in her kingdom
• Aella tried to listen and the skulls shattered
• They think that Aster is back because of one of Aella’s gods
• Aella mentioned that her gods took her magic away, Rey reminded her that they let her heal Dorian, Mariana doesn’t know who that is
• Aella starts to get up, her arm tremoring as it has been recently, a mass of obsidian spills out of her lap
• Mariana checked if there is magic left in the obsidian, Aella poured alot of herself into the skulls but was unable to pour her magic self in which is why they broke(DM stole Mariana's player to explain more things)
• It doesnt look like the skulls will be useful for anything else
• There is still the dead body in the temple, Ullanor had said that it was a dwarven burial shroud but the body doesn’t look dwarven
• Aella tells the others to continue on, “inner corpse searching of myself” Aella doesn’t trust the body and wants to go look at it, she knows enough about burial practices and thinks its suspicious that this has been unfinished
• Mariana thinks they could be smart about tampering with things 
• Aella ritual casts detect magic, it works
• Aella notices that the shroud is magical, it is of dwarven design and same is the magic, it is almost entirely necromancy, gentle repose
• Aella goes to lift the shroud, she starts at the face, it is the face of an elven man that has been sliced in multiple place, as the shroud is pulled away, blood starts seeping from the wounds
  • The blood is not dripping down the altar
  • Aella tries casts cure wounds on the corpse but it goes off as if she didn’t choose a person properly meaning the body is fully dead
  • She pulls the shroud off completely
  • The body seems to have been thrown through a window, there are slices on every surface, peices are missing, cut up, there are some shards of a substance embedded in it
  • Aella doesn’t know what the person went through but it seems less like they died going through glass and more like it was standing too close to something that flung the glass at it
  • Mariana notices that the glass is not clear, it is slightly yellowish, seems almost similar to the glass that Aella was making on the way down
  • They fell almost a half hour walk away from where they are now and where they are looks like its been abandoned for a very longtime
  • Aella ran to the sand wall and tries to cast electric arc, she casts it, grabs the shard and runs back, she inspects the two glasses next to each other, Aella’s glass is darker, they are not the same
  • The glass in the body is a pure yellowish glass like it was fired
  • Mariana pulls the shroud back over the body
• Mariana pulls the cloak out to see if it is magical, it is not
• They are going to go take a closer look at the kiln
  • It seems like this is where all the mud bricks came from, it is made of not fired bricks, it is not a kiln that would have been used for glass or potery
• They turn away from the kiln and notice that Mist is unpetrified, the ointment must have done something
• Aella walked off to look in the hospital, she came back with 3 bottles of the ointment
• Aella now knows Mist likes her and Mist has been slightly told about what Aella did 
• Most people are going to the statues now to apply the ointment, Dorian walks out of the building and is meeting people
• Aella helps Rey put the ointment on Quill, it is much easier and they have leftover ointment, she puts the remaining on her cuts on her hands it heals them
• Aella also covers Orchestra with a bit left over, Aella gave the left over to Mist, she used one use to heal herself
• Aella pulled out the yellow gem then put it back realizing it might be best to save it
• Aella pulls out the pink gem she took from the skeleton
• Dorian looked a bit more at the barrel but is too small to get up and back into it
  • It can fit two people with combat spacing
  • The lever on the furthest right opens and closes the door, an apature that when it closes the people on the outside hear a hiss
  • There are 10 levers
  • If there was a lever made to destroy the object, it would be set apart from the rest and there is no one set apart
  • There are two in the center that are farther forwards as if to 
  • Going right to left
  • Lever 2, a grinding noise, everyone on the outside feels the vibration, the barrel starts to tip then levels
  • Lever 3, pushing it up, the face opposite the opening, two openings appear and emit light, the headlights
  • Lever 4, pushing it up, a thunk from the left side, nothing happens, pushing it down, a thunk from the right side, nothing happens. Something seems like it is out of place and not working correctly
  • Aella is now in the barrel with Dorian
  • Dorian and Aella are each holding a middle lever and pushing up, there is a series of clangs on all sides and a terrible screech of metal, on the outside, nothing is happening, a dent forms in one place
  • Lever 10, pushing up, on the outside, we see six hatches open and almost axes extend and the entire barrel rises on six insectoid legs. A tail also came out, a rather big tail
  • They used the middle levers again with the legs extended and it plows forward at 30ft, Mist get bonked a bit and went under it
  • Lever 9, pushing up, the front window opens, its a shutter, it has like grating on it
  • Lever 8, pushing up, two openings open on other side above the legs
  • Lever 7, pushing up, it doesn’t move
  • Lever 6 just makes a schreeing noise, going down it makes a worse noise
  • Lever 5 moves the vehicle
  • Lever 4 again, pushing it up, it turns left, pushing it down it turns right
• They ‘park’ the barrel Rey asked where Dorian was when he noticed the dust
  • He was sitting at home when sand happened, he lives in Ancord
  • He did also loose connection with people outside of his town, Dorian didn’t take note of the sky
  • Maybe Novas Arule was the center
  • Ancord wasn’t that far away from Novas Arule, Novas Arule stands on the northern cliffs of the Ancord strait
• We could try to fashion some way to let everyone be able to use the barrel as a vehicle
• We think it may be a good idea to stay in the area for a little bit to try to study the waystones and look at the wizard book a bit to learn about the area before leaving and trying to find other things as well