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• A duplicate of the twin spires stands near where we came from with the same blood dripping through like what we encountered before, it is closed
• The ground around us in some ways resembles Dorian's plating, it has a similar ivory platin but instead of gold filling the cracks, a purple crystal fills the cracks
• Dorian sees off in the distance a reddish naturally carved stone tower, that should be worked out of a cliffface but the cliff face is not here (a tidebreaker tower) There is a tower collection around it, relatively close to the spire Aella was looking at
  • Dorian has seen some of the newer ones be built
• There is an observatory, nobody recognizes it, it is more mechanically involved than the one Aster remembers from home
• We hear leathery wings, there are many of the big forehead dudes flying around
  • Quill has seen one of these things before under the arena. He has also encountered them before, they are burbalang, creatures that are said to be able to speak with the dead and learn the life stories of them from their bones. In the stories he's heard, they are known for having their home in the astral sea
  • We see a group of 4 flying overhead, roughly away from the tower section, they seem to just leave this area and head off towards another island
• Lya doesn’t immediately see anything that reminds her of home specifically. There is not a lack of architecture that she would not consider from there. There is an impression of a wall that reminds her of a description of one of the cities of night. She also notices that the Burblangs were flying away from something
  • It looks like a small pod of shark, like actual weird looking sharks
• Initiative, sharks
  • There seem to be 2 very large ones and 6 or so on the smaller side, and they are descending from about
• Lya sees 2 of the smaller ones are taking a dive towards the group and the rest are sort of circling above, she fires at them with cantrip thing then hides
• The 2 diving are within 15 and 20 ft, the rest are within 50 and 100 ft(?)
• Dorian casts aid on Lya, Aster and Quill
  • Summons a music stand, taps his baton and starts with golden threads of light shooting into the people he cast it on
  • Inspiration on Quill too
• The fish dodged its bomb
• The bigger ones the dots on them start to move away from the body and form sort of lamprey like creatures that start swimming near us, 5ft long eel like creatures
• We don't know whether we should run or fight
• DD moves to near Lya, they throw Sunder at the one Lya hit, it hits and hurls them into the floor and the shark has a hard time for a bit trying to start swimming again
• Maeve spiritual weapon, it looks like a trident sort of, it gets hurled at the one not on the ground. It is launched and it scrapes against the outer carapace but does not find a place to strike. Toll the dead, it is slowed
• One big big boy 50 ft away, one 70 ft away
• Quill is going after big boy, slayers prey on 50 ft big boi, both shots get sunk directly into the huge mouth, a reverberating bellow comes from the big boi. Quill runs
• The second of the smaller ones has picked either Aella or Aster as its target, it comes level almost exactly over the ground as it shoots towards them and opens its mouth swimming at them with its mouth open, it’s gonna try to swallow them whole. she is able to get out of the way of the mouth but its teeth scratch her dealing 14 damage
  • The other smaller one rights itself and swims towards Maeve in the same way, same thing, she ducks and rollsout of the way but it catches her leg as it passes
• The 2 that just attacked go back to the sky 40 ft away and 3 more come down, one eats an eel and doesn’t do anything else
• Mariana goes for the big boi, misses but brings tentacle and it hits
• Aella is near a small shark and 2 eels, she makes a fog cloud around all of us, everything has disadvantage
  • She runs and pulls Aster 15 ft towards the edge
• Gelv goes towards one of the descending ones that is leveling out and approaching Quill, he slashes at a shark three times with a sword
• Aster runs a bit ahead to leave the fog cloud and hits another one that is diving towards the group
• Eels are approaching, they tried to bite Gili and don't hit, another comes around by Quill and tries to bite but it doesn’t hit
• One of the eels in the cloud bites Lya, another tries to bite DD but fails, another bites at Maeve
• Lya runs out of the fog, she summons mage hand, hands water skin, which is full of blood, to mage hand and sends the waterskin up to it to see if it is just hungry, it passes it, passes it and then eats the hand and the waterskin
• Dorian pulls a fun little thunder wave on one little shark and 2 eels, the shark gets pushed and the two eels just explode
• The largest one, the one that was hurt by Quill, has decided to descend towards Aella as she is the farthest towards the blue and the blood, it hits Aella, it gets hurt by Aella as well as it bites her and it is decidedly hurt
• The other big boi deploys eels and descends and eats one of the injured sharks
• Quill epicly kills the big shark that hit Aella
• One of the small sharks having eaten an eel and a waterskin full of blood leaves happily
• Maeve is inside the mouth of one of the brown sharks, she is in throat part, another brown shark goes and starts eating the dead one
• Mariana successfully gets the shark to spit Maeve out
• Gelvrever cuts open the flank of the big shark that is already dead as he runs towards the rest of the group
• There are 2 sharks left, one is eating a dead shark and one is circling above
• Most of the eels descend on the large dead shark and start wiggling inside of it
  • Some try to go for Quill, then leave once it doesn’t work
• Lya casts minor illusion to create a 5 foot meat cube then she drags Meph 30 feet leaving DD behind, can't grab 2 people at once
• The big one remaining leaves
• We want to try to keep moving towards the blood and also look around while we continue walking
• We move briskly through the ship section, except we don’t, Aella immediately stops trying to see if she notices her ship or her mothers ship
  • She notices several ships that seem like normal types of ship, she notices an arvenderian ship that typical operates in other waters
  • Aella realizes that the lance fired once that backfires because it was missing some of it, it makes sense that this spire was from that time
• There is a Hallow tradeship as well
• Most of the ships are damaged, possibly in transport, but they could be theoretically still seaworthy, there are some that seem like they could have been yanked from the bottom of the ocean
• After a while, the blood trail connects with one of the cracks so we follow
• Its kind of felt like we have been under observation the entire time we have been here, it feels like we are going the right direction
• As we pass the window section, the fissure in whatever the white stuff is forks, the blood widens a bit then continues in neither direction, the blood feels like the right direction
• The blood gets somewhere
  • The slope that we are following, we see it very suddenly dipdown and there is like a tunnel that it descends into and on the other side of it we see 
  • Seems to flow into a tunnel that sinks into the ground and there seems to be a ridge at the 
  • The blood runs down a 45 degree ramp for about 20 ft then it becomes a pool, there are some structures around the pool 
    • The buildings seem very bubbly, very porous structures that don’t seem to adhere to the typical rule of they need a floor, these seem to be structures that were designed for people that live underwater, they are built for movement in all three axis
    • Lya has no idea what this is
• DD and Lya are leading, Aella and Aster are next, Meph and Gelvrever, Maeve, Quill and Mariana
  • Lya is slinking, sneaking behind DD
• We begin making our way down the slope
  • Its really steep Lya falls and slams into DD and the two fall into the pool
  • When Meph realizes they dont surface she runs into the pools and takes Aella with her accidentally, Aster follows and Gelvrever takes it like a slip and slide
  • Maeve and Mariana are trying to be careful, the rest of us slide towards the pool
  • As we slide towards the pool bracing to impact the pool but it doesn’t come, instead the ramp continues, it slowly increases in slope until we make it to the bottom which we eventually hit and it's like we had been falling for 20 ft
• There is like a red mist hanging in the air now that we are under the surface
• The chamber we are in has a lot of purple crystal scattered through it, along the ceiling as well, they contain lots of non humanoid creatures, there is no motion inside the gem
  • Quill notices a humanoid near the end, the first, it has a long snout with tusks, it is looking at him and makes him feel afraid, not magically
    • Quill begins to hurry up a little
• We keep the same marching order as before, we hear a motion in the next room over, the thundering of large motion
• Mariana joins the front of the marching order and Quill walks with Maeve
• As we get closer to the next room, we can see motion, something large and with many tendrils move very quickly from one side to the other
  • As we begin walking towards the doorway, a face/ form fills the opening “one moment, almost ready”
  • “Alright reavers” we wait a second not knowing what to do and a tentacle comes into the hallway and makes the follow motion
• Lya goes in first
  • The room is like elliptoid, there are pieces of treasure and many other things around the room like a massive sword, all around the room are more of the gems filled with many things, mainly humanoids, in the center there is what could be described as a nest where the Morkoth sits
  • The left wall is roughly flat and has almost holes in it, three primary holes
  • There is another tunnel on the opposite side almost the same as the one we came out of
  • All around the room are tentacles slightly rearranging things around the room
  • We are in a skull and we just walked through an ear, Aella becomes more aware of the presence she’s been feeling this entire time, she knows whose skull this is
    • Aella gets pale, her pupils get so small, she looks down at the floor and is keeping her head down
• The morkoth looks at mariana, says she is a princess of avreandare but still a reaver and that she would belong in the princess section, a tentacle wraps around her waist and moves her over to the princess section and places her gently
• Dorian tries to tell him that we are trying to make a bargain, he gets placed by someone he recognizes, Kirk Watts, younger than Dorian remembers him being last
• Lya asks to be categorized, he asks what her common color is, she doesn’t know
• Mariana says we really need to talk to them, it twirls around to the center again and sets down 2 gem statue things, one is a large BLUE baby, it is roughly the size of big blue, and the other is a tall skinny humanoid with 4 legs, it feels wrong that it is here, it has somewhere that it should be but it is here instead
• It looks at Meph and goes “Hmm, artificer” it moves her to a different place, Aster recognizes the person next to Meph