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• Crystal guy is back
• Dex save, Lya and Mariana took damage
• Dude went back into sand
• Aster turned the crab to face the crystals
• Dorian moved Quill's body (yoinked the cat) 
• Quill got healed by Maeve 
• Quill and Aster are inside the crab
• Aella is on the crab
• Meph and Lya are driving the skiff, Dorian and DD are also on the Skiff
  • Meph is directing Lya is driving the skiff
  • Meph noticed a group of people off to the right, it doesn’t seem like they have a skiff like the reavers
  • Looks like a small group, definitely more than 1 less than 10
  • We are going to go towards them but are going to try to go carefully but be able to leave quickly too
  • Quickly approaching 4 people of varying heights, they seem like a group of adventurers but they have a common livery about them, the primary color standing out is blue
  • Lya waves and the shortest one raises their hand back
• We hear thunder in the distance and a huge chunk of rock falls through the sand
• The team to meet the people is Dorian, Lya, DD and Aella, they are taking the skiff closer
• The crab will be within 60 feet, the skiff will be within 30 feet
  • Definitely 4 individuals dressed for adventuring, two in more prominent armor, in the front is a halfling or gnome flanked by one other dwarf and one taller individual. They seem to all not only be dressed in clothes that are blue but also somewhat blue in complexion
  • They seem to just be standing in the sand at the top of a dune waiting
  • As the skiff approaches “Hail!” is heard from the group and Lya waves again and so does DD
  • “Reavers I presume, Tandos Nyeduga, speakers of Sonoth” definitely a halfling, they have blue scaled freckles 
  • Meph is readying an action to throw a bomb if two or more of the group have weapons out to attack, Quill is readying an action on if Aella gives a signal, Aster readies ray of frost if any of their party members attack, Mariana and Maeve are just looking at stuff
  • Tandos has not heard of Dorian, Dorian walks forward to shake this dudes hand, as he gets close, he starts seeing something in the air before him, as Dorian approaches it Maeve can see that the energy concentrating around Dorian as he walks closer, Dorian stops as he notices the energy barrier but Tandos notices him walking forward and walks forward through the barrier and shakes Dorians hand
  • Tandos steps back again to stand behind the barrier again
  • Tandos says that Sonoth has become aware of our trespassing and that's why his group is there
    • Aella insights: Tandos delivers 'trespasses' with a wince, sort of sorry, there is no venom but also no regret, the rest of the group has not moved, the two that we would imagine are the primary fighters, the dwarf with the morning star and the human with a fighting pick appear relaxed(like guards) Idle but not unready. The person in the back most, they seem tense, can't see them too well, it seems like the tenseness that comes from inexperience, they are probably a caster of some kind. It doesn't seem like any of the people are responsible for the barrier
  • Tandos is here to tell the information that he is supposed to, he didn’t seem to want to hear our story for a bit but he offers for Dorian to explain it
    • He holds up his hand, he offers a word of advise, he is both a speaker and a listener, basically just said consider what you say, he essentially could be wearing a wire
    • The morning star comes out of the sand up and onto a shoulder “Is that all?” from Tandos
      • It seems like it was most primarily adjusting for comfort, the backline seems relatively uninterested, Tandos is enjoying this to some degree
    • Though it is inconvenient for us, Tandos recommends we do not come back
    • Tandos curtsies
    • Dorian asks for a reference for the edge of Sonoths territory, for now the Armide is not Sonoth’s territory
  • Pieces of warped sandstone start appearing in the distance and shortly after the Armide comes into view
  • Aster casts Disguise self on themself and hides the glowing freckles
  • Most of the Skiffs are out and not present
  • Of the skiffs that are used with regularity, two are here
  • We go in the entrance chamber, it's exactly a we left  it, we clean ourselves off of all of our stuff
  • The main chamber, there are 5 people present, immediately upon entering, Kaviah looks up from the box and goes “you’re alive, good”
    • Kaviah, Gog, the Satyr, the Dwarf guy and the drow
  • Only Aella feels the air around her get  much hotter and she smells burnt wood and Formaldehyde so she looks around a bit to see if there is anything on fire, there is not anything on fire that she can see
  • Mariana experiences the same thing 
  • Daisy Daisy also felt this too
  • Kaviah is giggling. She says that she is not the one doing this
  • Quill experiences this too
  • Aster then experience this too
  • It's Arthur!!!! 
  • Kaviah knew they were here, she can see them sometimes
  • Aella is having a conversation with Quill
    • She brings up the rings, we need to get the one that Mist has so someone can use them
    • She puts a hand on his shoulder and says how sorry she is and that she will do her best to support him as best she can
    • Quill goes and grabs the ring
      • The hobgoblin and halfling are in the flower room and they are sleeping
      • He goes to the cauldron room
      • He sits down for a while, he is gone longer than he should be sitting in silence
      • He starts talking out loud about what has been going on
      • He eventually grabs the ring and goes back to the group and hands Aella both of the rings
  • Lya goes to get Vasalor
    • She knocks on the office door, she tells him that we are back and that we have the orb thing
    • He is sitting in a chair not behind the desk with a book and Coraz is under the chair
    • She updates him on the fact that she is Rorange now but that it is still Lya
    • He says good and that we should come to him when we are ready
  • Tila comes over to Lya and asks how it went
    • Lya says that it was pretty good but also pretty bad
    • Tila called them Lee
  • Aster feels a tap at the back of their left leg, its Gog and Kaviah is there
    • Kaviah said she did the box thing and it was weird and it looked weird
    • She asks if she should keep doing it
  • We are going to talk to Vasalor
    • Vasalor is seated at desk, he has a piece of paper spread across it and Coraz is slowly climbing up the desk
    • Vasalor wants to see it and he thinks he might know what it is somewhat from stories The tomb of Domnathor
      • The Digit of Koaus
    • He asks Gelvrever to see it, Gilli pauses a sec then looks at Mariana briefly communicates hand and the orb appears
    • Lya mentions that we can change its size
    • Maeve tells Vasalor that Aster died and that Dorian used the orb and that Aella lost her sight 
    • Vasalor said that it doesn’t change our plans
    • Reaches over and moves Coraz so he doesn’t go over the paper
    • He turns to the paper
      • On it is depicted two things
      • It is one large piece of paper, one thing bottom left one top right
      • Bottom left is a pair of curving spires emerging from the sand
      • We are now in possession of an object that the Morkoth might like enough to allow us to leave
      • The other side of the page is depicted something squid esque
        • Part crab part insect part a pile of rubble and part squid
    • We are specifically in need of a shard of the crux
      • We only need one, there just aren’t that many and those that are known are very well protected
    • Aella asks if we would have to pass through Sonoth’s territory and Vasalor asks what was said, we dont believe he knows what was taken form his territory
    • There is some amount of safety with all of us being with the Morkoth because we are all together but that also means that there are more of us that the Morkoth might want to collect
    • The Morkoth should not be able to use it and would not have any reason to
    • The Shard of the Crux can essentially define
      • It could almost certainly bring someone back from the dead
        • Vasalor thinks it depends on the size of the shard but it apparently didn’t shatter very small so the size shouldn’t be an issue
    • Dorian said that the Orb wanted the core of who he is, it didnt take it
      • Vasalor said that it shouldn’t take the core, it only wants to know it
  • Vasalor is showing something, he thumps his desk and a book emerges from the shadow of his hand, it is a book with the title Vasalor’s Diary
    • It is immediately legible at a glance but upon looking at it more, it doesn’t mean anything
  • Vasalor had not been told about Arthur
    • Running across Vasalor's face is him trying to figure out how that can be useful
    • Kaviah didn’t tell him
  • Whatever we do, don’t push the last button until we are absolutely ready and it would be best to not do it at the Armide