Season 5 episode 2 - Shake n wake the team faces a few more lightning strikes into the freshly-created chimney, and with each arrival, more storm soldiers arrive. The first had none the second had 3 that the team stabbed a lot until feng lobbed one down the river hole where it essentially dispersed and disappeared. A water elemental investigated the hole and lightning but feng outsmarted it into staying clear of the hole to avoid lightning damage.. the next wave of storm soldiers arrived in a group of 3 but thunder knocked them into the river via thunderwave.... shorting themselves out and audibly hurting the elemental lurking below. Another wave 5 strong starts making this an issue.. after cleaning them up they seal off the chimney and one lightning stroke later the packed earth fused into enchanted stone. after a short rest Feng and Gang recover strength while faeris continues the ritual of wish > earthquake to start tearing up the terrain. The first quake tore though the river below, disrupting the river's flow suddenly the second earthquake tore a fissure to the surface of earth where another lightning strike discharged, sizzling 5 storm soldiers instantly as they hit the river water churning through the rough terrain the team tears out of the earthen gash on Feng's back as a dragon dodging the lightning patterns while faeris maintains his focus on the earthquake, the target area of river and circle is ground up like hamburger-- air elemental with a flight of storm soldiers rides the torm's winds into combat range where gang and chuck nuke it down while feng unloads gouts of dragonfire into the formation of storm soldiers. Once the earthquake runs it's course they high-tail it out of th region to find a safeplace to otiluke some rest Once they've refreshed, Faeris permanizes gold dragon on Chuck and rituals it to himself as well-- a scry from Chuck pinpoints karl sheltered int hewomb of a guardian elemental flanked by two other wind spirits -- the last contingent of storm soldiers merging into the magic circle -- Gang gets the timing after a round of the team burping fire all over the lightning spirits and knows the lightning strike is next round. the wind spirits start closing distance as Chuck takes flight to intercept the incoming lightning botl. Chachow! full blast of lightning to chuck fuses him with the lightning, extending down into the circle like an antenna. Feng is shared by the lightning discharge as he wags his tail through the tropps, attempting to knock them away. Nat 20 dispel wand off gang's hip purges the fused stone from Chuck, leaving him covered in lightning script across his body Faerin man-sizes to spell Feng free of the lightning bonds, though the druid shapeshifts himmself free with some willpower feng dumps created water all over the fused storm soldiers to see what happens when the lightning hits water like in the crevasse while Chuck and gang get elevation to focus on Karl directly. Faeris triggers a free movement buff to himself while feng shifts to gold dragon and they wing to follow. Chuck with mirrored images rushes past the elementals as they grab at the dragon's form and gang atop-- missng their chance as the two heros rush past. Now they are in pursuit with only a guardian elementa between the two and the Bishop of Woe. Karl the Bishop sat in his lotus pose held aloft by his guardian 800 feet in the sky as he chants the unknown ritual to the storm -- eyes closed in concentration towards the pulsing lightning in the sky snap open as the team draws near. Grinning broadly, Karl cackles maniacally- "The ritual is complete! Kill me now and no one will be able to temper the Devourer's arrival-- do you want the world to end?!!"" The ground begins to rumble as the titan stirs.... 11 hours spent in game 2/3 to level 19