We started by leveling up to level 4. Quelenna Amastacia also got some new Circle of the Stars Homebrew including a new cantrip, starmarks.

The session itself started with the entire crew still in the water after having defeated the fire-elemental and the fire sprites. Gendithas Firpride is almost dead, and everybody needs to heal. As they stand there, they see the shadow of an airship cross above them, above the smoke, casting a shadow below. They hurriedly made for the forested shore, where they took refuge from any searching eyes deep in the trees. Gendithas was immediately snoring, and out. He slept all day. The other three took their turns, and after a full, long rest ending about 6:30 at night, they all got up and eat some rations and start to head out. There is no sign of the airship.

They cross over back on to the peninsula, and Quelenna Amastacia finds that her eyes have gone weird – they’ve turned black, with glimmers of stars dancing in them. As they make their way a across the water, she – and she alone – starts to see faint glows of light. Blue, White, Green, and White. They followed her to the first – a blue light – where she could see the blue light sitting basically on the ground. They then started digging. Down about 2 feet, in hard, charred dirt that has been on fire for …. centuries. They finally reached the top of a pillar that had a symbol on the top (the symbol represented water). They tried to dig the pillar out, but were unable to. They left it, and moved on the the next – a red / orange color. They repeated the process, and found a pillar (this one represents fire). On to the third (earth), and then the fourth (air). As they contemplated this, Quelenna Amastacia decided she wanted to try something. So she blew on the pillar of air – and it sunk into the earth and a beam of bright light shot up into the sky. With actual glee, she raced to the blue – and dumped water from the waterway over it. It sank into the ground, and a beam of blue light shot up into the sky. They raced to the red pillar, and she cast produce flame, and was greeted by a sinking pillar and a pillar of light into the sky. They ran to the green, and couldn’t find any actual soil or earth to use. Reo Grayrlock ran back across the stream and brought back soil – which they dumped over the final pillar, causing it to sink down into the ground and a pillar to shoot into the sky….. And in return, a fifth glow, a deeper red, coming from the center where all points intersected.

They all walked over to the point of the new light, and started digging, this time a little deeper. They found the fifth pillar, this one with a hand print. Quelenna crawled down, and leaned down into the hole, and placed (reluctantly) her hand in the print – and all the air around her evaporated. She was pulled down into the pillar, and blood rushed to her hand – and then through her hand, into the print, activating the magic. She saw visions, again – of the locations of the rune stones. She saw a vision of 4 additional pillars (on the temple)

– One is hidden in the base of a tower above a waterfall. 
– One is hidden in a specific wall block of a dark castle.  (this is the one they found on the airship)
– One is hidden in a deep pond in an underground temple.
– One is hidden with Her

At the end of the vision, she saw the look of concern cross her ancestor’s face and then she saw creatures attack her and then things went black.

As the vision ended, she sat in the hole and recovered herself. All the lights from the element pillars (including the 5th with the hand) had gone dark.

Once Quelenna Amastacia was released from the stone and was able to see and hear again, she filled the crew in on what happened. Then they covered up all the pillars they had dug up, and they headed towards the other end of the peninsula where they came across the old temple. They circled the temple, and eventually noticed the glowing writing around each of the pillars – in Sylvan. It reads:

“When what was stolen is returned, help may be found”

They also saw the glow from marks way up at the top of the temple, so they climbed the stairs. At the top they found a recess where the stone they had from the airship fit. The other pillars had a similar recess with markings for stones they have not yet located. The top of the temple is a square shape, with a step down into an area that is round. Around the outside of this area are the elemental markings; in the center is a giant circle, which has (among other things) those same markings – but they are turned out of order.

They decided to see if the rune stone that they had from the airship did anything when it was matched to the correct pillar. They dropped it in, and it immediately fused itself in to the pillar where it fit – and it started to blizzard and freeze at the top of the temple. In just a couple of moments the top of the temple was covered in snow and ice.

Seeing as how it was almost 2am (???) they climbed back down the temple steps to Elitacee and Gendithas Firpride, and that’s where we left off.