Legends of Sha'oghal S1E9 Dark Pass

The Legends have left a strange group in the past and now head towards the glaciers in search of their first rune stone!

Player Characters Present
Mata, Daffodil, Jynx, Friz, Rex

Synopsis
The Legends prepare for the night. Jynx and Rex first talk a little bit about shadows and Jynx describes the shadows figure she sees every now and then. She also speaks to him about the bottle that fixed itself and appeared full in her bag. Rex identifies that the bottle has an attachment, most likely an entity and it does not like him. Rex takes the first watch. Sitting down to study he starts to hear whispers surrounding the camp. Not able to fully locate the source of the whispers and only seeing shadows move beyond the campfire light, he tells O.S.C.A.R. to warn the others when he gives them the sign. Right before Rex’s watch ended, so did the whispers and the shadows.

Waking Jynx up and telling her about his experience Rex lays down to sleep, but stays awake, pretending to be asleep. Jynx’s watch starts with a familiar shadow to her. The shadow approaches the camp, standing across the fire from Jynx. She tries to speak to it but it never responds. Rex, seeing this shadow casts light on a small rock and throws it at them. As it skittered in front of them, the shadow looks at Rex and then vanishes. Rex gets up from his sleeping bag, setting off a trap Friz set. Telling Jynx to head back to sleep and that he will take the rest of her watch. Shortly after Jynx falls back to sleep the whispers start again and the shadows begin to move beyond the campfire light. They stop when it is time for Daffodil to wake.

Rex does not tell Daffodil of his experiences at first, Only when she decides to head off into the darkness as a nocturnal creature would, does Rex speak up. Upon hearing of this Daffodil sends her shadow familiar, Shania out to see what's happening. It is at this point through the eyes of Shania, Daffodil see’s a hand, standing upright from the wrist. Another hand can be seen 5 feet to the left and 5 feet to the right. Sending Shania around the camp reveals that every 5 feet there is another hand every 5 feet circling the entire camp. Rex and Daffodil assume this is some sort of ritual, gather all of the hands, which were staked into the ground and burn them. Minus one which Rex carved the symbol of Oghma into and kept.

The rest of the Legends awake to the smell of… cooking flesh! After a quick discussion about the night's events they agree to leave the area quickly. Rex finds one singular eye sitting on the seat of the cart. Quickly inscribing the symbol of Oghma onto it and placing it into his bag they set off towards the Westmore Mountains to find the mountain pass. After a few more days of unexciting travel they finally make it to the base of the mountains and quickly find the cave to pass through. Friz recalled he had family that helped carve out this cave and that they had planned to run the train through here but abandoned that for some unknown reasons.

Approaching the cave they start to hear shuffling and moaning from inside and Friz is almost hit by a shard of ice from an icy water elemental in the river beside the cave. The group then go head to head with some undead coming out of the cave and an elemental in the river. Rex decides to hide behind a structure and read while the rest take care of it. Easily bringing the undead down Jynx gets attacked by an unknown creature. A cloaked figure appears from the shadowy cave unleashing dark shadowy tentacles on the group. The undead now all gone and some of the group going down but being healed. Hope is being lost when Rex spots a caravan heading their way, some figures on horses running full speed for them. Hopefully allies to help defeat this cloaked figure.