Started about 6:15. They started off talking outside the temple. The decided to go up to the top of the temple and examine the circle they saw from before. They studied the top of the temple, closing paying attention to the circles on the top. They immediately noticed that the three smaller circles had symbols of constellations in them – the archer, the chalice, and the dragon. The four in the party were able to manually turn the giant stone disks to align correctly. Then a hand print was revealed in the middle – Reo pulled Quelenna Amastacia over to it and put her hand on it – and the larger circle started to spin until it too was aligned correctly, and all the symbols of the elements lined up with each other. At that point, to the sounds of grating and clanking, the top of the temple started to sink down into the temple itself. It dropped roughly 10′ down, and aligned itself to a platform against one wall. That landing was the top of stairs that followed the walls all the way down the base of the interior of the temple. As they walked they noticed that there was a break in the wall that sat at about 8′ high, and stayed at a constant distance from the stairs all the way down. There were also sconces every 30′ along the walls. Reo reached over and stuck her torch in the wall, and flame shot both directions, lighting the oil that was in the recess, and lighting the sconces in the walls.

The inside of the temple is covered with vegetation; vines climb the walls to the very ceiling. As they descended the steps, they found that the steps were covered in moss and vegetation and was slippery. The party made their way down to the bottom of the steps. At the bottom of the steps they found a recessed nook, with the bust of an older elf druid. Draped over the bust was a set of pants and a top made of what appeared to be a very fine dark green silk. Quelenna Amastacia decided to try the clothing on, after examining the nook for traps. As she donned the clothing and then got dressed again, she had a feeling of peace and security that she didn’t have before.

While this was happening, Elitacee was absolutely enraptured with the central pillar that extended from the floor of the ceiling up to the ceiling (shy 10′, where the ceiling dropped down to). Something was calling to her from the pillar, and she couldn’t break her concentration. Reo Grayrlock noticed at the far side of the temple was a raised dais that had some sort of arch on it.

Elitacee started walking to the pillar, and Reo Grayrlock and Quelenna Amastacia joined her. They reached the pillar, and walked all the way around it. Quelenna Amastacia noticed some writing on the far side of the pillar, written in ancient elvish. This was the prophecy :

In the whispers of forgotten groves, where ancient trees sway to the rhythm of time’s eternal dance, there echoes a prophecy veiled in the mists of ages past.

“A trio of unlikely kin, bound by threads unseen,
One who reads the stars, one of metal’s gleam,
And she, a monk in guise of feline grace,
Seeking redemption in the shadows’ embrace.

Together they tread the path of strife,
Amidst the chaos of the mortal life.
In trials small and great, their strength they’ll find,
As shadows loom and allies wane in kind.

But as the tempest rages and darkness falls,
Their spirits soar, undeterred by fate’s cruel calls.
For in their unity, a power unseen unfurls,
To shape the destiny of worlds.

Through trials untold, they shall endure,
As allies rise and fall, in courage pure.
In their hands alone, the world’s salvation lies,
A beacon of hope beneath darkened skies.

So heed the whispers of the ancient boughs,
For in this trio, destiny vows.
In their journey’s end, the world shall see,
The light that blooms from unity.”

As she was reading this, Elitacee was focused on a point about 8′ high. She circled the pillar multiple times, finally reaching her hand up and trailing around with her hand on the pillar – eventually pushing her fingers hard enough to cause sparks across the pillar and leave char marks. She noticed her chest was getting hotter and hotter; there appeared a pulsing glow from up in the pillar, and a door slid open. Reo Grayrlock looked into the cavity that had opened and saw a 2″ metal ball that had crystal “studs” poking out of it. The ball was starting to spin and vibrate; Elitacee jumped up and grabbed the hole in the pillar and pulled herself up, and reached in and grabbed the metal ball, which felt warm. Unsure what to do with it, Elitacee placed it in her chest cavity – and nothing happened.

The party decided to move on and examine the dais. They spent about 10 minutes walking over to it, and found that it was raised up, had large willow trees at each corner, and at each end of the dais is an arch that is covered in some sort of writing or runes, but not any that anybody in the party can read.

After spending some time examining the dais, they decide to go see if they can find the source of the water that they are hearing. They walk along the outer wall for about 15 minutes and they find themselves (after having pushed through dense foliage and plants) standing at a crystal clear small lake, with a waterfall that is falling out of the temple wall.

From there Elitacee realized that what she had found was a docent – and that she needed to attune to it. So the crew decided to take a short rest to give her that opportunity, and to give Quelenna Amastacia the time to really examine her new clothing..

At the end of the attunement process, Elitacee heard a voice in her head, introducing Samuel The Docent to her. The crew spent some time getting to know Samuel The Docent, and attempted to have him interpret the writing on the arches, and then on the pillar, which he could not do. It however turned out that much of the writing on pillar was in druidic, which Quelenna Amastacia could read. The writing was a history of the war between He and She, and recounted battles and details far too numerous to get in to.

They finally decided to go explore the other end of the temple, where they had not yet been. They did so, and found an underground cavern that went down underneath the edge of the temple, and contained a library that was in amazingly perfect condition. [NOTE THAT I NEED TO FLUSH OUT BOOKS AND MATERIALS]

Leaving the library the decided to go back to the pond and waterfall and follow it through to see where it led – which was around the entire temple. down the wall in the corner they found an arch that led down a ramp under the temple wall, with a cave in of rocks blocking the way – they decided not to dig through that.

they returned to the library to see what they could study and find. And that’s where we left it – about 6 in the morning.

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.

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.

The session started out in the hut in the myconid colony. They spent 3 days resting and investigating all of the items they’ve acquired over the various locations (this took QUITE a lot of time)

They ended the session traveling with Myconid escorts through the tunnels and up to the surface, where they spent the night in a cave.

We met after Reo’s track meet; Quelenna Amastacia showed up about 6ish. We sat around and chatted about everything and anything and ate a chicken dinner about 7:15, which we finished over conversation about 8.

From there, we got in to things.

The group revisted the past session and refreshed our memories on what happened.

They talked to Sporeglow, and eventually left to return to the hut they had spent time in previously. They left off in the hut.