Idealogue

Semi-Amphibious Elves Large black eyes/ Grey alien-like looking. Semi-webbed hands. Live in large alpine pools along waterfalls.

Some use webbed wings to jump from pool to pool. One (legend) Elven warrior rides a beast (local apex predator), the Mole Scorpion, which suckles nectar of local poisonous flower, stores in sac. Squirts poison blobs in rhythmic fashion.

Local Mind-Flayer imprisoned in mountain cell with astral arm-band.

Imprisoned by larger, scarier cosmic beast, stored for later use. To escape he needs something untethered from the astral plane. MF has been warping Elves for eons, trying to escape, giving Elf shamans bits of magic. ********** Bridge of Gollinar (ancient hero warrior-king) Crumbled ruin of bridge over a vast chasm/canyon. Leading from the ruined onion domes to the back side of the mountain. Still has partial automated defenses (magic). Need a mage to get past them. A long causeway for combat on. The mountain's valleys are tropical rain forest/cloud forest but the rugged mountains above are frozen wastes where snow-ghouls prowl. *********** Session 2: Howling (Shrieking) Face-Suckers

Tropical climate. Eyeless reptilian. Green and scaly. A cry like an eagle's with a flutter. A large group of them shrieking causes minus initiative. Proboscis. Fingered claws. A chicken-like reptile that grapples and sucks your organs out.

Magic Staff A staff with a magic item: a cracked crystal, malfunctioning. A spirit inside (elemental) whose life drains out like a battery. Imperfect clairvoyance. Cracked-Crystal staff (air/water elemental/spirit) is found in null-chamber, a static storage lockbox in a wizard's tower, preserving the last days of life of the being inside it. Elven Archer's Sled/Glider.

A smallish, elegant vessel (Needed to get to high place in mission) One person vehicle. (2?)Foot stirrups. (Needs running start? Works only for Elves?) ************************** 3 beasts loose within walls. 3 Wooly Mammoths w/ breath attack They roar and their opened throats release rays of a small, blinding sun-ball. Dazzle Attack

************ Character: Gnome Barbarian Barbarian Shaman

Half-sized humanoid with a strange misshapen castle on his back. Gives him a strange profile when he appears, shuffling, out of the haze from the sun. A symbiotic relationship, a colony of gnat-sized intelligent beingslive in the castle on his back. Fairy/Elf-Mutation?/Elf-Insect Hybrid? They possess some potent magic and possibly an artifact but have adopted mutual aid with club-wielding mini-barbarian. They appear as glowing sparks when they fly. (Party needs something: object/knowledge) Castle has telescoping legs to release carrier like a backpack. Baroque architecture encrustation like a seashell growth done with magic. ******* Potion: Heals All Wounds Brings subject to maximum health, healing any/all injuries, erasing scars. Missing limbs regrow. Adds 1-2 points to Charisma. Does not restore those close to death but can forestall it. ******** Creature: Uber Shambling Mound A giant stupefied creature with an (abandoned?) village on top of it. The size of a small mountain. The creature moves unpredictably. One of the host of Mogari menagerie. Dangerous/criminal. Creature exhibits 'snot-rockets': toxic geysers which spurt occasionally from the paralyzed creature. **** MF godling was worst prisoner of prison ship crash. Put in make-shift cell in mountain. Uber Shambling Mound drugged to semi-sedate state. Small wizards outpost built to guard the area. Over time becomes deserted. Guardian in Corpse Tree is last one and things are unravelling.