Recap -
We were all haunted by a weird dream of a Sylvan Ogre. But that was just what it was. A Dream. We bury Grognog. We took his stuff, which included about 4K gold, and rope. We started walking to see DaDaryl - king of the elves. On the way Kamari saw something and started casting, by the time he finished his spell ( anti-magic sphere ) Malchia - the devil incarnate - was standing outside of it. Demanding the basket. He then noticed and recognized Chase. The killer of his only friend Nafario when he stole the Guardian of the Tide. So he demanded both, Chase and the Basket.
Not wanting to challenge the group in the sphere he pulled out a heavy crossbow and started shooting people one by one.. paralyzing them with poison. Gnickle volunteered once in the sphere that he was Dominated, and shouldn't trust him when the sphere isn't' there. That created and answered a few questions.... We planned an escape, Kamari moved the sphere forward and well used the basket to poof again. We apologized to Kamari for the death of a giant sloth..
We appeared at some tropical looking resort on the beach, 1/2 in the water. A drow in lounge wear approached us from one of the tents on the beach. We are in Magentia, and he knew the former members of the Guardian of the Tide. He was a drow so I really didn't trust anything he said. He did bring us to a cleric of Tfop, Tarson, who broke the Dominate on Gnickle and guided us a temple of Habastale ( The Great Palm ) and a powerful cleric who might be able to help us with the Basket. I don't have his name. He communed with Habastale and we found we need to being the basket to the city of Habastale to restore it's connection, which was broken when it was brought to Hell. After shooting down other plans, we hoped to use the basket to bounce aroudn the world hoping at some point to land close enought to make the journey.
It's not a great plan - it's more likely to get us into more trouble then closer to where we want to go. But we are all going to "Think" about habastle before we poof.
So Cordero says.
1. we are still fucked as we have no way to stop Malchia.
2. we now know his only friend was a blood sucking bat.
3. with the box and Gnickle free of dominate we might get a nap.
