Storm Watcher

OPERATION “Storm Watcher”
Issued: 30th December, 5594

SITUATION

The Deepwood-Drotingdomr war is over. Treaties have been signed and hostilities have been buried…
…but Nochtli Xarta has not.

OBJECTIVE

Gather all your resources for this last mission (see attachment from your handler).
Destroy all remaining Xarta copies at Temiqui.

COMPLICATIONS

Temiqui is in the Deepwood Veil’s Capital Basin behind colossal mountains and the densest jungle on the continent.
The war is over, and Husav Ulver refuses to move against it due to the aforementioned jungle.
This mission is strictly off the record, so you will need to gather personal support for it.
Strike fast, waiting no more than a month, before Xarta can regain too much power.

CLOSING
I am proud to have worked with all of you. One could not ask for soldiers
more tenacious and vicious than you. Go forth with my good wishes, if not my
outward approval.

Your ally.

Preparing for operation Storm Watcher:

Take one month of relative rest in order to prepare
1. This constitutes 2 downtime activity phases.
Finish whatever step you are on in any major personal projects.
1. Vayle and Dosk have long term projects which will generate an off-session sometime in the next few weeks. If someone would like to join them, that can be arranged.
Pick two of the following to do during main sessions:
a. Resolve Acatl’s nightmares (loyalty mission).
b. Assist Horman Grant of Fifewood in his research (loyalty mission).
c. Enter the Nightmare of Sbil-Dam (special rewards).
d. Defeat the “Nightmare of the Young Wolf” for Helix and Greyks (loyalty mission).
e. Help the Wardens of Pholtus reactivate the black pillar in the Field of Falling Stars (loyalty mission).
Speak with anyone who you want to wrap things up with.
Develop a battle-plan with your NPCs.

Downtime

Preparing for Storm Watcher

Spealdom

Mission Begin

#session
Date: 2025-06-08

Planning

Day One
Tatical Advisor: Horman Grant of Fifewood
Reargaurd Sentry: Maevsael Berdihert

Day Two
Tactical Advisor: Gimar of Firthmet
Distraction Squad: Greyks and Helix - Golemancer Priest
Facility Infiltrator: Halfdan Tornson
Saboteur: Acatl
Comms Infiltrator: Pasta
Reinforcements: Tezeral - Messenger of Vreesar and the Inud Conspiricy

Day One

We travel up Blood Mountain and start walking through the snow.
Ayxan uses rituals to hide our tracks
Vayle also uses traveler's camoflouge and we continue up the mountain quietly

This ends up to be a +7 to stealth
our footprints are also harder to track.

Endure elements also protects us from the biting cold

protection from elements -50 to 140F for us and our equipment

A snow ambush

The Kenasi monks claim that this is a blood feud
Ayxan and Polaris are not involved in this feud.
it is related to the blood feud of Calin Tilea, which the party.

Vayle went into melee with a Blood Mountain Kensai to give combat advantage with Ayxan

Skill Challenge

Character	Check	Result	Note	Check 2	Result	Note
Vayle	Arcana	Success	Creating googles to protect our eyes	History	Success	Remembers the history
Ayxan	Endurance	Success	Forging ahead with endurance	Dungeering	Success	used the dragon bones
Ezra	Arcana	Success	Find a few elemental spirits that help	History	Success	The moutain has battle history. This stopped about 20K years ago
Polaris	Intimidation	Success	A large, icy spirit, slinks away	Athletics	Success	Polaris takes point.
Titus	Religon	Success	Two spikes of rocks guide us	Endurance	Success	forms a line behind polaris
Dosk	Athletics	Success	He pushes though	Arcana	Success	Melting snow
The results are a critical Success

The Silent Pass

#chester_logs
The sound completely stops in the pass.
We are attacked by undead, but are spontaneously gerated by an acient curse

Vayle heals Ayxan again

Soldier of Heaven reaches into his chest and blows on his horn.
The silent pass is no longer silent
the sound echos against the mountains in the distance

The sounds of battle dim, and the silent pass is silent once more.
#ehnet7 presses forward.