"Aisha spoke the magic words, and the team was warped to a strange place. Elk thought we were on the otherside of the island, but the strange color of the sky made me think we were on another plane of existence.
While fighting through various fish and mollusks, we walked around wet, rocky cliffs that eventually turned into ice. As you'd expect, the sliding was a pain. And it was quite the climb up. Several stories of ice! It was manageable, though, until we reached a staircase. It didn't seem safe, even if we could get more than two steps up, so we continued deeper in on another path. This was a lock and damn walkway that turned into a maze. We had to raise and lower pathways, blocking water flows along the way, to reach the otherside and the lower bowls. In that upper area is a long ice path with ice shoes at the end. We could now dance on the ice like nothing and even climb those stairs. This new place felt familiar, but I can't recall where. Water fell from somewhere higher up and tried to push you into holes that led to a bottom floor. The falls weren't very strong, and the narrow sides were good enough to traverse. And at the end of this...
O-ballon was more talkative than the others. Dogi asked above the Winds, and the dragon indicated that destruction was a good thing.
The test against the long water snake came in two parts. He came in and out of the holes in the rock wall. While he slithered around them - or around us - we had to take potshots at various parts of his body. He liked to nestle in a hole and shoot eye beams at us, but we just hid in the corner. We eventually grew tired of waiting and chased him in. The room was flooded during this point, but he drained it for part two. The floor froze, so we had to switch out the gods' charm for the ice boots. And all we had to do here was wail on his head while dodging his weird hair. After we passed the quiz, his final words to us seemed to indicate that Tia's plan, the Ritual of Demise, was a planned thing. Everything turning to dust is good. Did he say "cycle"?
We returned to Altgao to see if Ciarus found anything about the moon shrine. Before finding him, we checked in on our injured friends.
Ruad was watching over Maya. It seems the girl, ignoring her pain, went for a walk. She collapsed outside of Old Town, and Raud brought her back. Maybe he's not so bad. Oh, Maya.
Mustafa wanted to talk to Dreisen, but the general was still out. He had many questions, and Cruxie was upset that he hadn't forgiven their father yet. Mustafa explained that he just wanted to ask questions. The role of elder was thrust upon so fast and without explanation, but Mustafa knows Drisen did it to save Cruxie. Being the general let him get his daughter the medicine she needed.
Sigroon was still sleeping, so that's good.
Ciarus was nowhere to be found. Fatima informed us he had to rush back to Iska, and one of Geis' fairies flew in to tell us why. The makeshift shrine in the village is glowing! We warped there, and the light was eerily calming. We supposed that beating the other four dragons triggered the final one to welcome us in. But how do we get there? We need an incantation, and Tialuna is unlikely to help us. And then Dogi reminded me that we found Tia's Hairpin. I held it up to the altar, and the path opened! Ciarus thinks it housed a "manifestation" of a previous elder, seeing that it has been passed down for so long. And that magical Jehoshaphat did the trick. So it's on to see the Moon Dragon!
- Adol"
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I'm gonna cry over Maya, aren't I?
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