Day 4, A Forcoil in the Road

We made it to Forcoil, but it wasn’t the what I expected. We awoke to the smell of something burning. We could see smoke coming towards SunnyVale, and soon an enormous ram made of fire charged through the fields headed towards Forcoil. The fields caught fire and spawned Flame Beings that burned me badly. We fought them off and helped Lokgan with the fields until he told us to take his no-horse carriage to warn Forcoil.

The cart ride was … intense. I had to charge it with my lighting and Maja and Tsip took turns peddling. At one point the cart slowed and Rhaelyn and Janna jumped out. I ran after to make sure they were ok (plus Rhaelyn had our intro letters to Vendt and Brayhlm). Eventually we all got back in and sped off again, finally making it to rows of backed up carts and then to the walls of Forcoil.

We tried to warn the guard, but there was no one to be found. The ram arrived and charged the walls of Forcoil, but we were able to stop it ourselves. Janna turned into a lizard beast and pounced on it! Rhaelyn curtly left the group with the letter for Brayhlm; he seemed upset, but he helped heal me after the ram charged into me.

Guards finally approached led by Captain Ellis Gail. He escorts us and the carriage through the wooden gate and into Forcoil. We saw the giant Skybloom Tree in the center of town with bridges connected to it. The town was full of carts and scared people, then Mayor Smythe gave a rousing speech about defeating the Wailing Wind and folks seemed to get back to work. Ellis leads us to the Tall Tree Home Inn (run by Laran, Lokgan’s friend!) and asks to meet him at Council Headquarters.

A journalist named Milos came and said hi. He took us to his room to clean up then we joined him in the restaurant. We reserved some rooms and told Milos some of our story. Twyla invited him to join us for the Council meeting. We met Smythe’s small dragonborn assistant Girilen and then the council. Some of them seemed interesting, but Veth the Arcane Archivist Veth was a jerk. He kind of interrogated us and made us answer if we were part of the Losca Regara, and when we left he burned Milos’ notes! We did learn that the flame ram was something callen an echo.

Next we went to the Mayor’s house for dinner. Smythe was nice. He gave us some supplies and asked us to look into some unauthorized miners. Maja and I spent some time in his library, she is so interesting. Finally we went back to the Inn. Janna announced that she is a lycanthrope, and so is the Mayor. Echoes, carriages, councils, and lycanthropes; what a day!