2x15: Chains

The Saints sailed to the southern edge of the continent, and entered the Rifenmist jungles, looking for the family of Holly. They navigated the rivers flowing through the dark trees, and after a few days travel met up with the Shadow of the Stars, a Tabaxi village under the shadow of the Stormpoint Mountains. They were told of a great evil that was lurking in a cave to the east which had caused the disappearances of a few of the tribe. The party went to investigate, and Holly revealed that they believed this to be the same cave that had once eaten their tribe long ago. Inside they found a large chain golem, and an undead Mindflayer who had trapped the tabaxi's family in a periapt of undying, siphoning their life force to keep itself alive. Holly was pulled into the gem, and found Moon Among Stars, the former leader of the Singing Wind, who was being possessed by the wraiths of cannibalized illithids. The group was able to rescue Holly from the gem by killing the alhoon they then found inside the expelled items, a wizards cloak holding an ancient wand, one of the vestiges they were seeking. Moon stayed behind with the tabaxi tribe to recover and the group marched south towards the hobgoblin empire looking for the next vestige. They came upon a hobgoblin fleeing a large dinosaur in the forest, and rescued him, discovering him to be a son of the hobgoblin emperor. He thanked them by informing them that his father, who possessed the gauntlet, would be at a hunting festival for the next few days, so they set up an ambush for the hunters. After a skirmish with hobgoblins and undead creatures, they recovered the gauntlet and ran off into the forest to return to their boat.