Day 178 to Day 180 The Death of Mladris

With Isabel watching, Malik hunting, the RNV heads west to the coast of the elven lands, to skirt the coast in an attempt to catch the "Beta Team" before they can get to Galen and the Elven King

They fly on over the day, sailing north along the coast.  Even overnight, with Boz at the controls, the RNV flies on.

The morning come, Isabel is sure she sees kingly magic to the south, but an investigation flight finds a curious collection of hexagonal steps, and a curious magic cloud of mist that conceals a huge humanoid shape.

Boz tries to pull the RNV back, but he fails, and the figure leaps from the cloud on the shore into the sea, and swims to wards the RNV.

He turns out to be the last of his kind, a Giant named Benandonner, who fears the kings and makes his way fishing.  A quick Communicate Mind from Malik sets every straight AND discovers that the Elven King's ship sailed past here and into the great bay to the west of here, which makes a good goal for exploration.

If they can find where the Elven King has been, they might be able to communicate with him using a temple if one is there.

Sailing into teh great bay on the 179th night, they see the ELven King's ship, lolling about in the bay, unnaturally aged, perhaps by the Wight King's breath.

But then Isabel spots, far to the south, TWO kingly magics.  Could they be the two pieces of regalia, the Crown and the Sword?

The regalia to the west is headed south, and the one to the east is headed west.  Simple, no?

ANyway, the plan developed is to fly an intercept on the westbound relic, which works great.

Boz finds a secret compartment in the RNV all filled with missile weapons, which provide much merriment, until they are interrupted by Galen!  Yay! Galen!..... but wait...

There's no one else around, except a couple of aimless elves, and there's a major source of magic concealed under the campfire

It doesn't take long to determine that this is not Galen, but Mladris, and a fracas ensues.

In fact, it becomes clear that Mladris is undead

Boz realizes this first, and cuts his bowstring.

Malik entombs one of the Stirling twins, but she escapes at some point during the fight.

The Stirling twins make a minor impact but escape, Mladris is killed killed killed and Odo Tinyfoot is rescued, and begins to follow Olo around..

Using Olo's icebreath, they disarm the trap under the fire that is protecting the Crown of the High King, and

All that remains of Team B at this point are the Stirling Twins.

Overcoming the foils, accidentally thwarting the awesome trap built into the bottom of the fire, and then exhuming the Crown of the High King

Day 175 to Day 178: From Maccul's Island to The lighthouse island

Olo stops the scorpions with his Will, and Boz is able to get the RNV airborne before anything bad happens.

They do leave a healthy colony of scorpions behind to infest Maccul's Island, however.

They fly west to a human village that is in an old Trondsheimish fortress on a tidal island, and warn the men there. Olo plants the first seeds of Bayleen the Great and Powerful

They also pass over a group of Barbarians looting an abandoned village, and they warn them, too.

Flying west to the sea, they encounter mechanical difficulties and have to return, landing on a small island off the south west tip of Maccul's Island

They shelter in an old abandoned boarded-up lighthouse, visible here:

Someone took his own life here, and left behind a magical suit of armour, with the words "Return to Owner" written on its wrapping.

A book explains that the man, dead, hid here from people who were searching for the armour.

Malik scouts the eleven coastline, visible from here, and sees a keerdah-infested elven castle.

A quiet two days pass while the ship is repaired before heading out over the sea, so it's off the elven kingdom