summary c02s04e16 - flower hole day 200 the team gathers at cragwar with 4 ships to reclaim their stolen merc ships; RaziR and Marlin. Commune verifies the ships are not at New Cyre; yes at the waterfall by the southern tip of Daruun. It takes 18 hours to get there. Offshore southwest Thrane east of Cragwar; a Draegoth Ship winds its way along the continent below horizon. It takes little to chase the little craft daown with a slurry of balistafire shredding its maneuverability. One Draegoth priest; two officers and a half dozen deck crew all cursed wtih Draegoth's Blessing. Removing the curse leaves the priest stunned and without recollection to what he had been doing until now. The captains and crew request that they be released... wanting to avoid an incident of war with the new "nation" of Draegoth, they release the ship and head onward. day 201 Tulips of colors cascading from purple to green line the waterfalls of Wyvern Rain. The Dhraksis' ranger senses picked up on the demonic presence lurking behind the caverns.. THX overclocked a find object spell out to 4 miles; locking in on the ships within. the two rangers explore ahead on seahorse... the caverns were filled with lily pads, salamanders, flowers and noisy screech mushrooms that exploded into wheezing protest when Rogar blows a natural 1. Dhrak finds sets of footsteps amid the ovegrown fungus caveswamp leaing deeper into the cavern. Eventually rising in elevation the cavern bends to the left, leading the team into warmek turrets mounted on mobile tripods nestled in the cavern ceiling nooks, hosing down the team with gunfire, the team shrugs off the damage until they are able to destroy the constructs and liberate the docents within. further in, the 100 foot wide passage dips down and fans out to a 500 x 500 foot coket cavern full of stalagtites and 'mites. at the opposite end rose a giant 300 foot wide dais raised 60 feet from the mite covered floor with carved faces rimming the edge-- the wall of the cavern showcased a 100' carved relie statue of some forgotten god of perhaps hobgoblin cult ancestry. the marlin and Razir both floated at the edge of the dais, anchored to the platform while dockworkers of some sort shuffled large cargo boxes from the dais onboard. The center of the dais was dominated by an enchanted magic circle etched in Electrum 100 feet across-- large enough for a merc ship to nest within. At the circle were two figures-- man and a woman with obvious demonic radiance easily felt 500 feet away in the murky entrance to the cavern. They all seemed unaware of the cannonfire from the cluster of gunpods near the entrance-- the team took advantage of it and the rangers movedwide flanking along the walls to get in position to cross-fire the demons.. they noticed construct pythons large enough to swallow a man slithering through the forest of stalagmites rising a dozen feet-- hundreds on the floor. the two rangers open up on the demons; sniping and smiting them before they have a chance to act. the female is concussed to the back wall from Dhraksis' Divine Rifle; Rogar lances the Male repeatedly, dropping him to one knee. Frank closes distance quickly; jump jets bursting as he pogos over the stalagmite forest; THX following at the rear. The male demon falls to the circle and triggers the magic-- a sheet of brilliance erupts from the enchanted circle and he's gone. In his place; a trio of Titan class seige mek roar to life and begin hepperig the environment with blaistafire-- shooting aimlessly towards where the rangers had last been before stealthing away to new positions. Frank closes the distance and begins carving. THX on deck destroys a dozen-some cyre workers aboard the two ships with mechanus radiance before they are able to fire up the ships' weapons The tanks are huge and have dense armor-- Frank whittles them down from underneath while the rangers keep up their barrage. The tanks are more concerned wtih keeping Frank clear of the circle than outright killing him-- they slam him off repeatedly like sumo wrestling until they're carved into pieces. Clear of enemies; THX identifies the magic circle as a planar gate... dhraksis chips the circle to prevent it from working further. Frank and Rogar search the fallen demoness-- and it's Frank's wife. Currently dead, but clean of any demonic influence. <end of episode> day 201 2/3 to level 17 Loot gained fiendish magic circle to the nether 3 turret docents 9 tank docents magic sword magic armor necrogun crates of demon grain 3 scrapped tanks