ToA: Session 17

The creating of wondrous Items
Through the hard work of Daedalus and with the help of The Halfling many wondrous items were made. The many items we found in the jungle were made into amulets, armor and the like.

A new Core was made for Bucket enhancing the Engine that produces Divine energy.

For Neb a new gorget that guides him to avoid blows and strengthen his resolve.

Fargus was given a crystal, embedded in his arm, that made him almost inhumanly agile.

And Daedalus forged himself a new armor, a self cooling Half-Plate.

The Chamber
While this was happening Bucket met with his contacts from The Chamber. They had acquired information of a secret meeting happening on the airships circling overhead.

This was a meeting between the Archmage Syndra Silvane, the Merchant Prince Wakanga, someone named Xandala and Valindra Shadowmantle (a Red Wizard).

The Chamber wanted to find out if what was happening could affect The Dragon Prophecy. And they believed that this meeting would tell what was planned, with the gathering of so many powerful individuals and adventuring groups in Xen'drik.

However, Bucket had information they did not, so he quickly turned the meeting around. He told them of the party’s belief that this new disease was spreading from the mythical city of Omu. The Chamber has now sponsored The Desolation Squad, and Bucket can use this local group of The Chamber if need be.

Meeting the Assholes - Or meeting fellow Adventurer's
When the group met up with Ibnin to go meet with Syndra he was not alone. Beside him was two groups of adventurer’s. While these did not look like they were used to the heat and humidity, they did look quite experienced.

They also clearly did not think much of The Desolation Squad. But on the other hand that feeling was very much shared among the D-Squad!

Notable adventurers: A compulsive stealing halfling thief, A large early model warforged, a pompous noble, a Dwarven Cleric, and a very scantily dressed Tiefling Sorcerer (Bucket adds: First target in a fight. Might be able to remove Darkness).

The Party and the Meeting with Syndra
The one airship that was circling around came down to pick up the many adventurers to take them to the Party that was going on up high above Port Nyanzaru.

Up there a few airship had been linked together, and between them a Party for the rich and powerful from Khorvaire and Xen'drik. Here, Merchant Princes were mingling with the dragon marked houses, Archmages, and even local celebrities from the Dinosaur Races!

So the adventuring parties were now introduced to them, both as an opportunity for the adventurers and as a talking point for the rich.

After a few hours of socializing they finally got to meet with Syndra. She had been in a meeting with the ones The Chamber mentioned earlier but now had time for The D-Squad’s debriefing.

Here they gave her a very detailed book on the local mythology and shared some of their triumphs in the jungle. And many of these quite surprised her.

In the beginning she was skeptical of their claims of having been in Nangalore, and of the resurrection of Daedalus in Kir Sabal after his petrification. But when they showed one of the famed Black Orchid from the gardens any such thoughts were quelled!

But as impressed as Syndra was she shared that she could not renew the Contract as she was dying!

'''Find out next time on The Tomb of Annihilation if the Death of Syndra can be Stalled! And if they will ever be paid!'''