[Alliance] Chapter Four: Session Thirty-Four

Appearing Characters: Aramar Thorne, Arthas Menethil, Daelin Proudmoore, Divinius, Elissa Cross, Heradus, Illidan Stormrage, Ishanah, Kor'vas Bloodthorn, Makasa Flintwill, Maraad, Medivh, Nobundo, O'ros, Remnii, Riff, Samaara, Seria, Tae'shara Sunwatcher, Thalyss Greyoak, Tol'vas Moonshadow, Uther Menethil, Velameestra Windrunner, Velen, Wynn

July 27th

During the day, before the dreams in the evening, Seria seeks out Uther--who is ruminating on Vel’s own berating. Seria throws a cloak over Uther’s head to block any reflections from his armor.

Uther doesn’t remove the cloak.

There’s a huge, annoyed sigh from Seria.

Seria shakes her head.

Seria shakes her head.

Seria is quiet for a long moment.

Seria opts to storm away, clearly frustrated and leaving her cloak on Uther.

July 28th

The group gets an early rise the next morning, and Wynn does what she can to cook a simple meal for everyone. Vel had come down off the roof and had seemingly put her makeup back on during the night after the dreaming she had done.

Remnii had taken some time to un-attune from the Exodar Lifestaff and joined the group with puffy eyes, as she had cried out the pent up emotions. Illidan, fortunately, did not wander off in the middle of the night. Remnii shares the updates she had gotten from Jarod as well.

Vel casts [Sending], targeting Tae’shara.

Vel blinks, and then promptly sends Tae’shara again.

Vel exchanges a somewhat incredulous look with Remnii for a moment and then opts to try sending Aramar next.

There is no response from Aramar.

She then sends Makasa.

Vel nods to herself and then looks at Remnii and Tol’vas.

Tol’vas grins.

Seria taps her staff in agreement, as she can easily turn it into a large tree if needed.

Tol’vas takes Seria’s scrying bowl from her and focuses on Makasa. Her image appears in the bowl in a dark chamber. She has a bottle in her hand that she takes a swig from. She stops, her nose wrinkles, and she looks around.

Vel hovers over Tol’vas’s shoulder trying to get a read on the location as best she can.

Meanwhile, Remnii sends Ishanah to inform her she will be scrying on her and to let it through.

Remnii then uses [Scrying] on Ishanah, and has Tol’vas look at it to get a read on the area. Ishanah is stepping out of a large, hollowed out tree. She is approaching another priestess, informing them that Remnii and her friends would be arriving. They can also see some curious figures--large, 7-8 foot tall bear-like humanoids. They don’t wear much clothing, and Ishanah speaks to them as well. Remnii is watching with a quivering lip and a large smile on her face.

Vel focuses on the sparse image she was able to take in her mind near Makasa, and she starts to channel the magic.

Medivh looks back to Vel and turns back into a raven, perching on her shoulder. In a pulse of magic, they vanish, and then they appear right on the cavern she had seen. Magic sparks around and alights the area, and they see Makasa not more than 15 feet away. However, they all lurch forward, the magic wracking their bodies, but otherwise, they’re there.

There are some small mushrooms lighting the cavern, and Remnii’s coughing soon turns into sneezing. Makasa seems to be squatting over something, having noted their arrival. There’s a smell in the air.

She gestures for someone to come over, and Remnii starts to clop over.

Velameestra approaches the crack she’s standing over, and she looks down--noting some sort of toxic fumes that are issuing forth.

Vel takes a closer look. It’s not a natural formation--it was made, not intentionally, but by something else. Something that was large enough to make something like this accidentally. The smell is also different--it isn’t like decay, but if you were to combine the advanced stages of decay with mulch. As if something was eating huge roots, and this was the scent of its excrement.

There is suddenly a trembling in the earth, and Makasa looks at Vel.

There is an intense rumbling, and a large, corpulent form passes beneath the crack. Then three creatures blast up from the stone, their jaws gaping and writhing. Tol’vas throws a [Mark of the Wild] on Uther, and Illidan grins as he looks around. He holds his arms out and his twin blades appear in his hands.

His tattoos flare to life, and a fire elemental spirit erupts into life next to him. Kor’vas runs to the creature closest to her and strikes into it, her warglaives slashing across its massive scales.

Makasa meanwhile rounds on the one closest to her, whipping her spear around and thrusting it into the creature’s body. The massive worm that Kor’vas had attacked bites her, and chomps down--attempting to swallow her, but she flips around its maw and lands on its head, jumping down as the worm continues to slither around the group. It swings its tail stinger at Tol’vas. He staggers, his body wracked with a powerful poison, and he transforms into his worgen form.

The other purple worm goes for Makasa, biting down on her and then swinging its stinger at Vel. Thick poison goes through Vel’s system, but she is able to resist the brunt of it.

Remnii gets out from under the purple worm and casts [Mass Flash of Light] to heal her allies and then casts [Mind Sliver] on the nearest worm.

Seria hisses as she turns into a scorpion, trying to tear away at the closest worm’s massive scales and pump it full of venom as she pierces its sturdy hide.

Tol’vas howls, having just been assaulted by one of the massive worms. He growls and starts to try and tear into it.

Vel quickly assesses the situation as she uses her bladesong and then starts to weave magic in the air.

She casts [Slow] on the two closest purple worms, the spectral chains wrapping around their bodies as she flanks around to the other side of the nearest wyrm. Elissa then uses [Consecration], the ground blossoming with holy energy over the two massive, slowed worms.

Illidan leaps onto one of the purple worms, and launches himself off, his glaives glowing with eerie light as he uses [Steel Wind Strike] on all three of the worms. He reappears next to the non-slowed worm and carves into it with one of the glaives again, an eruption of felfire burning across its thick flesh.

Uther shouts a battle cry and slams into one of the slowed worms with a critical smite. He hits it again, and then quickens a [Green-Flame Blade] as he wails into it again--the hammer uppercutting it into the jaw as it squeals and falls into a daze.

The fire elemental Illidan had summoned claws at one of the worms, which in turn bites Illidan--who explodes in a burst of fire as he is swallowed by the worm. The fires burn its mouth, his glaives impaled in the creature’s flesh, and the creature screams. The worm jabs Illidan with its stinger, poison pumping through his body.

The fire elemental disappears as he loses concentration, but Illidan drives his glaives into it again and again with a spiral of strikes that sends chunks of the worm’s flesh flying.

Elissa lands two hits on one of the slowed purple worms, and Kor'vas moves in on the stunned one--finishing it off with a flurry of blows as she leaps onto its head and drives her glaives into its skull. She then leaps to the second slowed worm, landing a glancing blow. Seria moves in on the opening, continuing to rip into it with claws and stinger.

The purple worm that Illidan had just nearly massacred looks at him, and then burrows into the ground as it retreats with a squeal.

Remnii turns to the still-feral Tol’vas and casts [Soothe] to bring him back into his senses. As he is claw and fang deep into worm ichor, he feels calmness come over him.

Tol’vas nods with a mouthful of worm flesh.

Uther runs at the remaining worm, quickening another [Green-Flame Blade] over the creature with a few small smites. It attacks Uther, and he is promptly swallowed by the massive creature as it retreats into the earth. Tol’vas jumps after it, using [Mark of the Wild] on himself as he drives his claws into the creature.

She slides down after the worm, using [Heart Strike] as she scrapes into the creature. Kor’vas tries to back her up as Vel slashes again and again, bright flashes of magenta raking through the dark tunnel as ichor spurts over Vel.

After she slices the creature open, Uther’s hands come out of the wound and he pulls himself out--covered in guts.

Kor’vas pats him on the shoulder as Vel just stares at him and wipes some ichor off her face and licks it off her finger.

Makasa laughs and Uther spits some ichor out of his mouth.

Uther holds his arms out.

She casts [Prestidigitation] to clear the gore off, and Tol’vas shakes, sending more ichor flying. Illidan looks at him.

Vel just stares at Tol’vas at that piece of information, and Illidan reaches up and puts a hand on his shoulder with a smirk.

Illidan chuffs.

Makasa looks at the large man.

She then looks at Kor’vas.

Kor’vas waves.

He gestures at Illidan.

Illidan just laughs.

Medivh had landed on the purple worm corpse, comparing its teeth to his size.

The group agrees and then starts to backtrack following along with Makasa. As they go, Remnii tries to send some of their allies, starting with Riff.

Remnii looks at Seria.

Seria clicks angrily.

There is no response.

Remnii informs the group Arthas is still running, but she did not get in contact with Tae’shara. She then uses her sending stone to reach out to Samaara.

Remnii relays the update to the group.

After about two hours, they get to the point where Aramar and Makasa had split ways. Makasa also informs them that she and Aramar had not been able to sleep. Vel immediately notes evidence of a scuffle on the ground. Vel immediately starts to search the area for anything that got ripped off in the scuffle, and she finds a piece of cloth that seems to have been singed.

It is quite dark, and it’s very rare there are any lights aside from the bioluminescent glows of mushrooms.

They continue back to where the group, Seria trying to lead the way. They get turned around for a bit, but are able to get to the spot, and Makasa explains that the Warden leading the pursuit seemed supernatural, taller, and flickered with darkness. They had tried to pull her attention in multiple directions.

Tol’vas starts to sniff around, trying to pick up Riff’s scent off of the feather of his that Seria keeps. He can almost see the trails as he uses his enhanced worgen senses. They find themselves in an expansive forest of mushrooms--perhaps the same one connected to the massive cavern of Illidan’s prison. They are dwarfed by the huge mushrooms. It’s hard to tell what time it is, but they had likely been traveling for about 7 hours.

Vel starts to look for signs of the reckless passage of a scared child. They get on Riff’s trail specifically, Tol’vas noting they have broken away from the remnants of Tae’shara’s scent.

Uther opts to make his voice really loud and shouts “DEATH ADDERS” to try and reassure Riff in the instructions Remnii had given him.

After some more traveling, they hear the scurrying of tiny feet running very very fast across stone. A figure enters into the periphery of their darkvision as a tiny mouse runs as fast as it possibly can. The mouse then leaps into the air and transforms into the long, serpentine form of Riff’s new form. Seria drops her form and hugs her child, crying with worry.

He wraps himself around Seria as Illidan looks on with a raised brow.

Medivh nods his raven head.

Illidan seems to roll the motes of his eyes.

Everyone agrees with her logic, and the group manage to find a suitable mushroom and Tol’vas uses [Transport via Plants], using the image he had seen second-hand, and opens a portal to the trees at the Timbermaw Hold. They hurriedly step through, and they see a very tall cavern with faint beams of natural sunlight that snakes through. There are a half dozen, nearly 8 feet tall furbolgs that all turn to the group--flabbergasted. Two are holding spears that are immediately pointed at the group.

Around the corner, a collection of other figures had emerged--five draenei in total. One of them is a tall, comely draenic priestess with pale, icy blue-pink skin and long black hair that is kept in a high bun. Her eyes immediately go to Remnii, and relief washes over her expression.

There is also a broad shouldered male draenei who is in full armor. He is incredibly tall, and his serious face seems to melt as he sees Remnii. He’s a vindicator, who Remnii immediately recognizes as Maraad.

There is also a krokul with them who has a cowl over his head that has woven tentacles emerging from the fabric, a man Remnii recognizes as Nobundo.

The furbolg grunt to each other and lower their spears as they make bows of apologies.

Ishanah runs toward Remnii, who had shot towards the other priestess. They embrace each other in a very, very tight hug. Remnii starts to laugh-cry.

One of the furbolg looks at the scene, and seems to d’awwww. They are immediately elbowed by another one so he doesn’t interrupt it.

They touch foreheads and Ishanah kisses Remnii on the cheek.

Remnii nods as they part, somewhat overwhelmed. She collects herself as best she can and tugs Ishanah forward--her tail wagging happily.

Her eyes flicker to Uther as she introduces Maraad.

She bows.

Remnii wipes away more tears.

Nobundo gives her shoulder a squeeze, and Remnii touches her forehead to his.

Maraad clears his throat and speaks in broken common.

He clears his throat again, offering a smile.

Her eyes fall on the two humans, and then to each of the others.

Makasa is already gone, running off in that direction.

The location is rather large, and there are draenei all over, and the sound is distant, but she hears the sound of naaru. Remnii also touches her forehead to Maraad’s.

She smiles and trots off after Ishanah to see her father. Meanwhile, the rest of the group is tended to. However, as the priests go to aid Vel with conventional healing magic, the vampyr stops them.

The priest blinks and exchanges looks with another priestess.

They leave Vel to her own means, though opt to speak to Remnii about the situation later.

As the rest of the group is taking their rest, Uther also starts to go off to meet with his grandfather. Maraad seems to be watching Uther more than the others with a curious look

Maraad smirks.

Uther looks a bit nervous.

Maraad smirks again and puts a big hand on Uther’s shoulder.

Maraad chuckles.

There is a twinkle in his glowing eyes and he gestures to some tents in the distance.

Elissa also joins him, and he starts to head towards the tents and sees a very Kul Tiran setup. There are a few kegs that seem to have somehow survived, and Makasa is already tapping them with a few members of her old crew. Makasa is smiling genuinely, clearly happy to be reunited with her crew as she has her arms around the taller man and the scrawnier of the two women.

Uther and Elissa wave at her, and Makasa raises her mug.

Uther continues on, and those from the Daelin’s crew salute upon seeing the sigil of Lordaeron on his armor. He heads towards a war tent, and inside he sees his grandfather--Daelin Proudmoore. He is currently leaning over a map, nodding and chatting with a few of the other sailors.

An incredibly tall and lanky human with a plain white bandana on his head notes Uther.

He immediately bows.

The commotion draws the attention of Daelin, and as Uther looks at him, he meets Uther’s eyes. Daelin should likely be older than he appears--but due to the time he spent in jail, he seems to be about five years younger than he should be. He squints, then rubs his eyes.

Uther smiles.

Beneath Daelin’s mustache, there’s a smirk.

The other sailors immediately make themselves scarce as Daelin makes his way across to the other side of the table.

He starts to laugh as he grabs Uther by the shoulders.

He pulls Uther into a hug.

Elissa immediately snaps to attention.

Elissa nods.

He laughs as Uther wiggles his ten fingers, and Daelin gets the pair pints of ale as they have a short while to just get caught up. Uther opts to fill him in on what’s happening in the Eastern Kingdoms--at least the good things for now. Such as how people are doing.

Daelin verbally kicks himself for only seeing Lianne once before he left. He wasn’t supposed to be gone this long.

Daelin sighs heavily.

Daelin gives Uther another solid grasp of his forearm.

Daelin laughs, thinking Uther is joking.

Meanwhile, Remnii is strolling with Ishanah as they head towards the area where Velen is meditating.

Remnii shakes her head, speechless for a moment.

Remnii’s shoulders sag with relief.

Ishanah smiles and leans over. The sound of the naaru is growing louder, and there is a small pinch on her cheek.

She can see that the lights above are naaru, just ambiently hovering overhead.

Her fingers slip into Remnii’s hand and she holds it for the rest of the walk. They make their way into the upper section of one of the huge trees, and there is a massive light inside. Remnii can see two tall silhouettes waiting at the entrance of this ironwood tree building--two of the Light’s Chosen. One of them is, of course, Divinius. She is comparable in size to Maraad, her brilliant glaive planted in the stone in front of her.

She sees Remnii, and her eyes meet Remnii’s. Divinius bows her head slightly. Remnii does the same.

Remnii smiles.

She looks at the Lifestaff.

Divinius looks to the other Light’s Chosen, Heradus, who had given Remnii a small wink. The two of them step to the side and allow Remnii to pass. As she steps in, she sees the brilliant light and the form of a large naaru. Its patterns are intricate and glorious, its colors a frosty blue that seems to ripple with blue and white. Beneath it, facing away from Remnii, is Velen.

The chimes of the naaru stop for a moment, and she can feel its presence regard her with warmth. The naaru is O’ros.

Remnii bows to the naaru.

She is filled with gratitude, warmth, and a hint of cheekiness--as Remnii isn’t here for him. The naaru shrinks his presence as Remnii’s eyes go to Velen.

Velen rises, and then steps, each step increasing with speed, and they collide in the center. He buries his face in her hair, and her face in his beard as he lifts her off the ground for a moment and then puts her on the ground again--not stopping the hug at any point.

His voice is muffled in her hair. Remnii’s grip shakes as she cries tears of joy. The Exodar Lifestaff had half-fallen from her grip when she ran, but had been caught by one of the Light’s Chosen.

Remnii laughs as she reaches up to touch Velen’s face with her hands.

She sniffles.

She laughs, dabbing at her eyes as she touches her forehead to hers.

Remnii continues to dab at her eyes.

He grabs each of Remnii’s hands with a smile, and Remnii clutches right back.

He brushes some hair from Remnii’s face.

Remnii nods.

Remnii exhales, tired, but heart-glad. They speak for a bit more, Velen stating he would like to meet her friends as well, in another moment. There is intermittent crying and laughing as they just spend time in each other’s presence.

After a while, however, he senses it is time for her to leave.

Remnii stands hesitantly.

Remnii gives him one last hug and then turns to leave. However, as she rejoins Ishanah.

Ishanah smiles and hands her own staff over.

Remnii starts to cry again.

Remnii heads back to the group just in time as everyone else is reconvening. There is puffiness around her eyes, and there also seems to be some redness around Vel’s eyes--though the elf isn’t acknowledging it.

Elissa approaches Vel, seeing the signs of crying, and puts a hand on her shoulder as she speaks to her softly.

Elissa squeezes her shoulder, opting to remain by her side.

Makasa also comes back, seemingly in a much better mood.

She withdraws a sketchbook.

She hands it over to Vel.

Tol’vas attempts to scry on Arthas, but nothing comes up. Tol’vas flips the water bowl upon the apparent failure.

Remnii scrys on Aramar and she can see him unconscious and sleeping. He seems to sprawled out in a bed of grass, laying up against what appears to be a mound of furs. There are some flowers around, and there is babbling water nearby with soft blue light nearby.

The bed of furs behind him is lifting and lowering. As she looks closer, she sees the ear twitch of a gigantic bear--whom Aramar is resting on.

Aramar is snoring.

Tol’vas also explains what happened with his attempt to scry on Arthas.

She casts [Sending].

There is no response and Vel sighs in frustration.

Remnii’s eyes flicker over at the curse.

He leans back in the grass, his hands behind his head.

Medivh shifts out of his raven form, which startles several furbolg.

Medivh casts [Teleport], a beautiful rose of ethereal blue energy appears in his hand, and he throws it on the ground. The group vanishes in a puff of smoke. There is another flash of arcane magic, and it seems that Medivh had redirected a lot of the mishap damage to himself. Medivh slumps against the wall as they appear.

They are standing about 10 feet away from Aramar, who is laying next to a wildkin. There is a waterfall nearby, which falls reasonably far into an underground lake. At the sound, the wildkin awakens--Aramar does not.

It immediately looks at them and shrieks, crawling protectively over Aramar. Tol’vas can tell it's trying to tell them it will not let them anywhere near the unconscious Aramar, as it’s protecting him on behalf of someone else. Tol’vas relays the information.

As the group prepares to move, they can see a figure moving up above. Two large antlers are the first thing they see, and then they see the face of an elk. It leaps down to the earth right behind them. The elk is beautiful with long, ornate antlers and mystically white fur.

There are baubles, feathers, and jewels draped from his antlers and body. At the front of his snout is a long extension of fur, like a beard.

It then looks at Tol’vas, and almost seems to smile. They are clearly a druid, and they then transform out of the form in a ray of beautiful moonlight, revealing a tall night elf with beautiful moonlit cloth that seems to be made of brilliant white silk. He’s a member of the Circle of the Antler, those druids who devote themselves to Malorne.

Tol’vas doesn’t recognize him at first.

Tol’vas nods.

He looks at the other druid closer.

The name clicks into place. He was a young druid that had come to join Tol’vas’s circle. They were friends. Thalyss closes the distance, and the wildkin looks on curiously as the druid pulls Tol’vas into a hug.

This page was last edited on May 24, 2023, at 06:55 PM

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