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Into the Jungle. Racharak and the Black Pilar.

Session
2021-05-16

It is about 43 degrees Celsius and rainy. 

As the group prepares to leave, Akosa mentions there's a river that could be used to travel up or down as it is not fast moving. But it will need a raft. 
However, there's a sort of wall about 50 miles to the east and south that they cannot cross, so until that's solved they won't be able to help us.

Akosa mentions there is a nomadic tribe of humans to the south called the "Elephant People". They are not kind to outsiders and have a bit of an attitude. 


The heat is unbearable. As the group reaches the area they've been warned about. They see smoke and ash coming up from the trees. 
This area is where the Ekujae can no longer proceed, and Krystoff heads up ahead to make sure they are able to go through. 

He tells the group that this is it. to prepare for the worst. And to stay behind him and also asks Bjørn to help him take out anything that gets back and 

Betty brings out her familiar and introduced it. He can feed us potions as we need. Andromeda squeals in delight. It's name is Gumball.

Krystoff walks through the "wall" unharmed and bids the group to follow. 


They reach a sort of plateau, cliffs in the distance about 60 feet tall. 

Andy and Bjørn see a flicker of light through the trees about 150ft away. And once he approaches sees Racharak hiding near the pillar. 
It is very low to the ground, and orange light reflects onto its eyes. 

Alosrin taps everyone's shoulder and has them wait. He summons a small rat and sends it forwards to scout. 

Bjørn then sees in the creature's eyes that it can see us. So Krystoff says "The time for caution is over" And starts rushing forwards. Bjorn says "I agree" and advances. 
Alosrin, in rat form looks back at them and rolls his eyes. 

As Andy rushed forward to cast a spell, the dragon pillar points at her and launches a beam from it's eyes, striking her blind. She shouts out "I can't see!" and Chorizo comes and drags her back. 
She then shouts "There's always time for caution!"

Betty puts away her crossbow and draws another one and moves forward. 

Bjorn drops his hatchet to pull up his Shield. And runs forward. 

Alosrin moves forward and attempts to cast Dispel Magic on the Dragon Pillar. 
As he taps into it and shut it down, he feels a shockwave through his body, much much worse than he would have imagined. 

Krystoff shouts out "Do not despair! Push forward!" and rushes ahead. 
Andromeda tries to heal her blindness but fails, and instead orders Chorizo to run ahead near Krystoff. 

The Pilar shoots its beams at Krystoff, hissing at the change he did to the Cinderclaw Gauntlet, but he manages to resist. 

From it's hiding spot, a Demonic looking Charau-ka appears, it shouts something in Draconic and runs forward, throws some obsidian at Krystoff, who doesn't block it in time, but his Ring's magic manages to protect him. The creature then hides behind a tree. 

Bjorn rushes forward and raises his shield. 

Alosrin rushes and casts sudden bolt. The creature manages to jump, but still gets hit. 
Krystoff keeps rushing forward, with his shield raised. 
Andromeda continues to attempt to heal her blindness and Chorizo rushes in to a flanking position of the creature. 

The pillar launches beams at Krystoff again, and he is blinded this time. The creature steps toward Krystoff and even with his shield blocking him, he gets savagely raked. 

Betty shoots at the creature, Bjorn rushes forward and as it's passing through the creature's area, he gets struck by it's tail and interrupted. 

Alosrin shoots some more spells at it (can't remember which one)

Krystoff, still blind, heals himself with Lay on Hands. And casts Guidance on himself. 
Andromeda finally heals her blindness, and shoots Ray of Frost, almost hitting Krystoff. Chorizo rushes towards the pilar. 

The pilar blinds Betty. 

The creature steps back and breathes a breath of fire at both Krystoff and Bjorn. 

Betty manages to heal her blindness. 
Bjorn rages, rushes the Dragon Monkey creature and smashes it with his hammer. 

Alosrin shoots more magic at it. And Krystoff heads in and attacks. 
Andromeda keeps using Ray of Frost on the creature, but is unable to hit it. Chorizo moves to instead attack the Dragon Pilar while Krystoff and Bjorn keep the thing's attention. 

The creature then went berserk, and bit and slashed like possessed at Bjorn, Krystoff defended Bjorn from one of it's attacks, but he still went down with the next one. He slashed at the creature, and then took a hit himself. 
The Dragon-Baboon then took some distance. 

Betty commanded Gumball to heal Bjorn with a potion, which brought him back up. And she shot her crossbow at the enemy. 
Bjorn chased it down, and Krystoff used a Heal spell to heal him from afar, but then moved towards the Pilar, hoping the Creature would attempt to defend it, as he was having trouble catching up to it. 

The Dragon pillar managed to blind Bjorn this time. 
The Creature rushed towards Krystoff and Breathed Fire on him, doing a severe amount of damage. 
Krystoff, near colapse, rushed at her, but was unable to land a finishing blow. And it was Chorizo who attacked and managed to kill it. 

The group then managed to take down the Dragon Pillar. Releasing a burst of magical energy.