Episode description
The game shifts away from the Boat Party, and towards a group that's a little... colder. Andrew Lee Swan finally joins the battle. Nick's trademark spell goes a little wonky. Art leads the party astray.
Contents
Love Letters
- Fantasmo receives 25 coin from the Council of Velas for his work as consultant on the mission to Eventide Island. They also request ownership of the book taken from Eventide, which Fantasmo chooses to keep for himself.
- Hadrian dreams of a crowned boy staring into the distance at some unseen future. He visits Prelate Lucius to speak of the dream and to hand over the crown he received at the Isle of Eventide. Lucius concludes this omen could be a sign of Samothese forsaking Hadrian and passes word of this dream up the command chain.
- Throndir contemplates his past and how the Council has offered him assistance in unravelling the mystery that caused him to flee his hometown Auniq.
Plot
The Council of Velas has requested the help of Fantasmo and Hadrian to investigate the Mark of the Erasure, a mysterious region of Hieron that is thought to hold answers of the origin of the Erasure cataclysm. The Council enlists Throndir, a snow elf that grew up in the surrounding Algid Pinelands, and his mastiff Kodiak to act as guides.
The group gathers supplies and sets off, dealing with increasingly cold weather as they approach the Mark. After days of traveling, avoiding a hunting party of goblins, and talking around the lingering tensions about the events that occurred on Eventide, the party is attacked by an Owlbear as they make camp.
A fight breaks out and after trying and failing to attack with Magic Missles, Fantasmo falls back onto his standby Invisibility Spell. As he lingers invisible, Fantasmo notices that his own distant surroundings start to lose their clarity and that the world around him has slowly begun to warp into a starfield.
Meanwhile Hadrian, an injured Throndir, and Kodiak dispatch the Owlbear, which Throndir notices has uncharacteristically traveled outside of its territory. The enemy defeated, Fantasmo calls out to the group, explaining his circumstance as he realizes he cannot remember how to undo the invisibility spell.