Oaths & Ash
Runtime Break start 4h 21m 2h 17m
Where we last left off, having traveled to the island of Evaterena (within the Shattered Teeth) in pursuit of the still-at-large mastermind and villain Ludinus Da'leth, Bell's Hells and the Mighty Nein found themselves split between the physical world and a spiritual layer between realms, their crews scattered, seeking answers. Divided as they may be, they found an ally in the mysterious Ethel Rivergold, a being who straddled both layers of reality with one crew climbing to the peak of the time-locked and sundered mountain, the other delving within its spiritual depths. Bell's Hells and the Mighty Nein discovered a nightmarish entity that was corrupting and spreading chaos from both realms. Upon the entity's destruction, the two separated Ethel Rivergolds became one and returned to their true form as the very spirit of the island.
Both teams now restored (and walking the physical realm once more) they now stand at the mountain peak staring up into the dense clouds of the Shattered Teeth above, hoping to follow their lead to Ludinus' hideaway floating somewhere in the sky, just out of reach.
As everyone sits (still recovering from the recent forays with these massive boss-like entities), you watch as Imogen (crackling with energy) rockets off into the clouds above, vanishing into the gray. Imogen, as you cruise upward (the winds trying to batter you, but the very field of your psychic energy buttresses them from your body and you continue to push), upward, upward. You hear the breaking of the sound barrier as she emerges from the darkened clouds up into a full freshly sunset sky (the blues and purples are just beginning to vanish and cascade beyond the horizon). You can see the rest of the cloud bank that seems to surround you at all angles to the infinite horizon and the shadow of two distant sky whales just barely cresting and breaching before vanishing below. And maybe 200 feet above you, you see a rocky landmass hovering there, locked in place through some unseen magic, and the outline of what looks like a small structure.
