Outside firefinger the group was making their plans when Azaka was about to be jumped by a blakc cat with glowing yellow eyes that only Lindal could see. Lindal snuck close and caught the creature but Eddie Identified it as another Chwinga and so Linda befriended it by giving it his next to last scone. Meanwhile Eddie settled his nerves by taking a deep puff on a joint and blowing it out but then had a momentary flash of something blowing smoke back on him before he got utterly and wildly wasted. By the time he shook the effects the Chwinga was gone but Lindal had perfect daylight vision despite the lighting. Lindal had glowing golden eyes and anywhere he looked was basically fully in daylight for him.
Lots of dead around tower. Ricketty ladders. Party used ropes and climbed in groups up to the first ledge. The cave had a number of giant spiders that Seraph detected. The party stormed in and Azaka held teh front against the spiders until Kylorin relived her. Lindal, Celadon, and Freya wrecked spiders in the back passage way while Celadon lit up the spiders in the pit with magical light. A spider fled and Lindal chased it finding a shaft to the next floor.
The shaft was a long hard climb but the party climbed it using ropes and helping one another at the top Lindal used his enhanced vision to spot a huge collection of Stirges in the next cavern. Eddie walked in and torched the ceiling and Celadon walked in and slept the remaining stirges and they died raining down to the floor. The party then sent Eddie and Lindal out invisibly to scout. They found that the next level up had Pterrafolk enter and exit with food and that the ledge around the tower 150 feet up was buffeted by occasional gusts that threatened to tear folks off of the building. Eddie chickened out seeing this and the group went back to rest but were accosted by the Faerie dragon whom had been following them around who offered a couple questions in return for the entertainment the party had given it. The group learned that there is a lizard that spits out undead creatures ot the southwest and that there was a chimney up in the next level that was the best way for them to get to the top since there were no ropes the last 60 feet.
The party then rested in the stirge cave then headed out again early evening when the Pterrafolk settled in for the night. The group climbed up and was seen creeping into the next to top level. The Pterrafolk on the 3rd tier were a bit fragile and dropped quickly to the invisible Lindal and party. Lindal freed an Aarakocra warrior. The pterrafolk outside were a bit more scary but Celadon used a well timed sleep spell to send on diving pterrafolk to its doom and Freya held the hallway against the beasts until the hallway was literally blocked with their bodies. The group made its way to the back chute and waited for the Pterrafolk to settle down and the attempts to pry the group out of the cooking level slowed to a trickle as most of the Pterrafolk dozed off lacking discipline. The Aarakocra spoke in rough chultan that its elder knew the location of Nangalore and that it was the ancient seat of power of the Queen of Chult and the group got a rough location as well as a promise that the elder would grant them the gift of flight if they came to visit the Aarakocra in Kir Sibal. The party then readied to make the final assault on the top of the spire to face Nrak the Pterrafolk leader.
Inspiration
Celadon - best usage of sleep spell ever
Defeated
6 Giant wolf spiders x 50 300
11 Stirges x 25 275
Faerie Dragon. 200
2 x Pterrafolk x 200 400
4x Elderly Pterrafolk x100 400
The party earned 1575 xp with 2 allies (232 each => 1633 cumulative)
Treasure
15 gp
gold and carnelian ring (60 gp)
two onyx figurines representing chwingas (50 gp each)
5 doses of Kyoghotom's Restorative Ointment
Companions (not present):
Captain and Crew of the Brazen pegasus
Captain Ortimay
First Mate Grigg
Bonnie "Sky Turtle" Skytle
Seraph - a Psuedodragon traveling companion and his horde of 3 gp and 3 sp
Undril Silvertusk - A Lightbringer and member of the Order of the Gauntlet bringing relief supplies to Camp Righteousness.
Derrick - former pirate now sworn to Kasisi as temple guardian
Lenny - imp with a troubled history with the party
Azoka Stormfang - aggressive Chultan guide with a fierce relation with Celadon. Party promised to leave with her in seven days.
Hew Hackenstone - tough as the legend would have you believe.