The Fortieth Session (Part 1)

After deciding on a series of actions to take, the Sentinels moved to infiltrate Procampur. They snuck through the trees outside the city walls, and then split up. Halrek and Aoth blinked inside the city to go search out the general to assassinate him, while Shag, Yief, Xochic, and Hanolin used water breathing to swim there. A storm had rolled in, so Yief was nearly pulled down from the tide, but was grabbed by Xochic. They swam to shore, where they saw the Bloodstone off in the distance. They decided to swim to it so they could climb to shore right where it was. While under the water, Yief saw two guards at the stone through the rain and fog. Shag cast invisibility on everyone, and they snuck to the shore. Hanolin stepped too hard, and one of the Warlock guards saw his footprints in the sand, and shot an eldritch blast at him, but missed, prompting a third soldier to appear from behind the crystal, clearly the general based on his armor. The guards all took defensive stances, but were unable to stop Yief from charging and attacking the crystal, knocking one of the warlocks prone in the process.

A battle ensued, in which Yief consistently kept knocking the same warlock prone and then resisting his magic, Hanolin banished the other, and Shag and Xochic fought the general. Revealing himself to be Xolax Baal who had sent the Shadowhunters, he revealed that he had hoped nullifying their magic would cause the group to come quietly, so he could offer them as trophies to "General Blackthorn," who would have wanted them alive to bend to his will. When Shag and Xochic began to get the best of the general, he attempted a last ditch effort to use Feeblemind on Shag, who managed to just barely overcome it. Xochic, furious with the attempt, cast it back at Xolax, succeeding, and causing him to lose all semblance of intelligence. Shag quickly killed him after that. Yief finished his opponent off, and they finished destroying most of the stone. The banished warlock returned, saw his fallen ally and general and the stone mostly destroyed, and used Dimension Door to escape.

Before they could fully destroy the stone, however, they heard an ear splitting roar and saw a massive silhouette in the sky. Landing on top of where they were was a colossal demonic looking dragon, who grabbed the remaining crystal shard. They saw it already had a much large crystal shard in its other claw, and saw the soldier from Delthuntle riding on its back. It roared again and took off, the force of its wings blowing everyone off their feet, and it began to fly toward the Free Lands.

Shag sent Melarra a warning, and Hanolin said he could teleport them all to Myth Drannor as he'd prepared a sygil ahead of time, they just needed to find Aoth and Halrek.