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The group next headed back to Feathergale Spire. They needed that key! LiKi fidgeted with the feather-patterned golden ring set with five fine garnets that she had received as a gift from Thurl Merosska for delivering the death blow during the manticore hunt. She wondered how the lord commander of the Feathergale Knights would respond to such a direct (and specific) request.
Alexander's spirits were up. He was excited to reacquaint himself with the Feathergale Knights with whom he felt an affinity despite their lofty pedigrees. Leopold was much more skeptical. Kahntun remembered the aarakocras' suspicions.
When they were about a half mile away from the drawbridge, two knights on hippogriffs sailed by, thirty feet overhead. LiKi felt a rush of excitement, wondering if she would get another chance to ride into battle on such a majestic steed.
Captain of the gatehouse guard, Savra Belabantra
Captain of the gatehouse guard, Savra Belabantra
They were greeted as heroes by the captain of the gatehouse, Savra Belabranta. Her enthusiasm suggested that it might be difficult to seperate her from the order as Sildar Hallwinter requested. Depending on what happened, her noble family in Waterdeep might have to continue to wait for a reunion.
As Savra escorted the party up the spiral staircase to the observation deck on the top level, she informed the party that:
- Feathergale knights had been monitoring their progress
- Merosska is greatly pleased with their victories at Rivergard Keep
- The order of knights have been working very hard to keep Red Larch and the surrounding areas safe from the cults
- Our heroes are going to be asked to join the order of Feathergale Knights
- They were to be initiated that very moment
Lord Commander Thurl Merosska
Lord Commander Thurl Merosska
Thurl Merosska greeted the party and elegantly recited a fairly accurate accounting of their deeds. He hailed them as worthy of joining their noble order and made other pronouncements; Leopold yawned, yet Alexander felt a mixture of both awe and pride as his acts were described in such elevated language.
The only thing the party had to do to join the order would be to "take a leap of faith" and step off the tower, plummeting to the valley floor. They looked over the edge and noticed that the entire valley was obscured by a thick layer of fog stretching out at about 300 feet beneath the stables of Feathergale Spire. This was when Leopold, Kahntun, and LiKi looked around and noticed that there were about twenty air cultists staring at them intently. Thurl continued to smile, gesturing with his hand for the party to take their plunges. "The prince of Air, Yan-C-Bin will guide you gently to your new lives as masters of the wind! You will be perfectly safe."
Alexander was about to go through with it, despite Leopold's grumbling. But before he stepped off, Thurl asked Alexander to set his sword down. This was more than Alex could take. It broke the spell.
Suddenly Thurl's welcoming smile twisted into a cynical sneer, then a cruel laugh. "To think we would let vermin such you to sully the name of our majestic order, our prophet, and our prince! You disrupted the plans of Jolliver and his filthy lot down at Rivergard Keep, and with that, your usefulness has expired. You were actually going to step off weren't you? That would have been a sight, but finishing you off the old fashioned way will be even more rewarding! Attack!"
What followed was a long, complicated fight that occurred on multiple levels of the tower, both in and outside its sturdy stone walls! Here are the adversaries the party had to deal with:
6 Feathergale knights, including Savra. They fought with swords and crossbows.
These 8 waifish initiates swarmed our heroes, helping to grapple and tie them up.
2 hurricanes attacked, grappled, and bound both Kahntun and Alexander. Kahntun broke free, but Alexander was thrown over the edge.
Fight Highlights:
Fight Highlights:
- Thurl levitated thirty feet off the ground, commanding his warriors from this vantage
- Leopold lit his pipe, releasing four smoke mephits which he directed to harass Thurl, biting and belching up embers and smoke
- Kahntun was tied up, but he escaped
- Alexander was tied up and thrown over the edge
- Savra was upset and didn't seem to know what to do
- Kahntun was grappled again and carried over the edge
- LiKi had been trying to calm a giant vulture, hoping to gain access to an air mount
- When she saw her companions disappearing, she used her scroll of invisibility and vanished
- Leopold also vanished, then cast feather fall on himself and stepped over the edge where he floated down a level and landed on a ledge just outside a large window
- LiKi descended into the knights living quarters
- Leopold contacted her using a message spell and suggested that she wait there
- Kahntun and Leopold plunged at terminal velocity through the thick layer of fog, fully expecting that the quickly approaching ground would be their final destination
- Six aarockra swpet in, catching the two falling warriors, armor, weapons, and all, then set them down on the ground
- They wanted information and to plan their next move, however, our paladin and fighting folk hero were desperate to get back into the action
- They were able to convince the aarockra to deliver them to the stable level
- They killed the stable guard then rushed up the stairs where the met the full force of the battle
- The fight on the stairs was fierce
- Kahntun cut Thurl's head off
- LiKi polished off several air cultists with a carefully-placed fireball
- It was fun
Kahntun and Alexander were unceremoniously cast over the edge of the upper-most level of Feathergale Spire!
Savra was delirious, babbling, and terrified. Her world had just turned upside down. Something appeared to have a hold on her mind. She seethed with rage at the party. They locked her in one of the rooms.
When the party searched the rest of the rooms, they found:
- A bunch of supplies (check the Players Handbook if you want something)
- Seven feathered cloaks
- 754 gold pieces worth of coins and valuable stones
- The fourth key!!
- In Thurl's quarters, they found a potion of heroism, scrolls of beast bond and skywrite, and note from someone named Aerisi Kalinoth (see below)
Some context? Another mystery?
Some context? Another mystery?
TL;DR
TL;DR
- The party returned to feathergale spire to see if they had a key.
- Thurl pretended to initiate them into the order.
- The party killed all the members of the Feathergale Knights who were in the tower, except Savra.
- They locked Savra up.
- They searched the place, found the key, and a not to Thurl from Aerisi Kalinoth.
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