Played up at Alderbrook house, started about 6:15

The team woke up with the dawn, and cooked some fish for breakfast. They left the mouth of the cave that they were in, having come up from the underground passageways and the myconid circle safely thanks to their two guides.

The moved towards the smoke. Thick, filling the air, and effecting both their ability to breathe as well as their vision, they proceeded to follow the coast line for a little over an hour. On occasion they could see some sort of bright light moving around, but little to nothing else. The heat from the ground was burning their feet and making it miserable to walk; they had each pulled a creature out of the bag of tricks to have available to them in case they were surprised, and they all felt pity for the feet of the 3 badgers that were trucking along with them (2 badgers, 1 giant badger). As the coast line started to turn, the air around them suddenly shifted, and they found themselves in the middle of gusting winds that seemed to suck the oxygen out of the air. Heat was exploding around them, and rushing out of the smoke came a burning light filled with rage. The crew found themselves facing a very angry fire-elemental, screaming at them in ignan. Since the adventurers were on alert and expecting something (although the definitely didn’t expect a fire elemental), the battle was immediately engaged.

Reo immediately shot at the elemental, and watched as her arrow burned in flame as it approached the heat; the head of the arrow continued its course and still managed to damage and irritate the elemental. Elitacee shot her crossbow from the other side of the elemental, with similar results. Quelenna Amastacia launched herself off the bank and into the water they had been following, finding it was only 6-8 feet deep. She quickly moved as far across as she could. Everybody else followed suit, plinking away at the elemental. Which followed them into the water, taking its damage on an ongoing basis in an effort to get to this group.

To be honest, I cannot recall every single thing that happened that day, with many of the actions of the heroes being lost to the sands of time. However, of note – Gendithas propelled himself out of the water and performed as powerful as a cannonball as he could muster, splashing water high up on the elemental. Elitacee grabbed his badger and in a feat of crazy strength through it 60′ high into the air, and it landed immediately next to the elemental on the other side, drenching it with water. Quelenna Amastacia ended up with the killing blow, and rammed a javelin straight through the last glowing ember of a heart that the elemental had – but not before he had done significant damage to herself, Reo, Elitacee, and Gendithas. And not before he had called two Fire Sprites to his aid, who joined the battle just as he fell. Since the sprites floated above the ground, they had less trouble reaching the adventures who were spread out all over the water. Gendithas managed to grab one and drag it to the bottom of the water before it forced him to let go and escaped – he took some damage, but it hurt the Fire Sprite more. Elitacee rushed over to Gendithas, who was sitting at the bottom of the inlet, and pulled him up. Meanwhile, the other sprite attacked Reo, and Quelenna Amastacia hacked away at it with her wicked sickle. Eventually the two weakened it enough that Quelenna was able to decapitate it. At the other bank of the inlet, Elitacee and Gendithas continued to battle the other sprite. Gendithas tried to drown it again, but ended up as close to death as he might, sinking to the bottom of the inlet and not moving. Reo rushed forward and threw her Covolt Dagger, with brutal accuracy and force (NAT 20) – the dagger buried itself into the Fire Sprite, with lightening bolts shooting into it from the dagger and burning it from the inside until it literally exploded. They hauled Gendithas up and looked around, finding themselves alone at the moment.

And that’s where things were left. It’s about 10am.