F&F C2-E59 - How to Make Bug Stew

The Captain of the Harper’s Fury got the Tempests settled into their three week training schedule before departing for High Tide. Halfway through their training, they were given a day off to go visit the Kadali Ruins upon Vanera’s request. Otus took the party up to the ruins and left them to explore on their own. The crumbled walls and remaining statues were overgrown with vines and moss, except for a central pedestal with an empty golden basin on top of it that seemed untouched by the ravages of time. Within was a spherical indentation that seemed to beckon one closer. An urging to place something within. A certain something that was on Vanera’s person: the metallic sphere that had been given to them by Qhiph’aks who assumed the Tempests had dropped it during the fight with the Mushroom Tender so many months ago. Vanera was able to shake off the temptation, the draw to place the sphere into the indentation and promptly checked the pedestal for evil hoodoo-voodoo. A smoky entity was twisting and writhing from the basin, just out of a normal person’s sight. Vanera was able to repel the creature and promptly reached out to Cadall for advice.  The god arrived with thunderous clouds and a great deal of anger. Taking the orb from Vanera, Cadall revealed that they had narrowly avoided a great disaster. Something about the orb releasing a great evil. Things were happening behind the scenes that even he could not foresee and the Tempests were supposedly in the middle of it, foiling whatever plots were underway. He then revealed that these plots had led to the supposed death of Valkyrie, Goddess of the Frozen North in Rokasing. While Zaan proceeded to take his frustrations out on the remaining architecture, Cadall placed his hand on Vanera’s head, telling her to “Learn from the past, so that the future may be saved.” then vanished. Otus came at their call as the skies cleared and brought the party back to Harpermere, where he noticed that Vanera had a horn. A horn that had previously been invisible to all but the innocent. Confused about Cadall’s parting words, the Tempests went to their Wagon home to think about their next steps, wherein Brick asked if Vanera had thought to look at her book which had previously been illegible.   If you'd like to join the community to chat with the Fools and other D&D aficionados, considering joining our discord! https://discord.gg/bWSgjAdMbp If you like what we do and would like to support us, consider donating to our Ko-Fi page at https://www.ko-fi.com/foolsandflagons You can catch us live every other Friday on Twitch at: https://www.twitch.tv/foolsnflagons/ If you'd like to see our past adventures, you can check out the VODs on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoolsNFlagons