Beware of psycho swords from beyond the veil.

We had a short meeting last night focusing on the two weeks of downtime before we reach Beluria. Missinget and the other casters spent a few days studying some onyx blocks we had extracted from the titan king's brain. As suspected, they contained memories. The memories focused of the destruction of 90% of the Atherton fleet some 500 years ago, the king's relations with a group of powerful elven spellcasters (whom we recognized as the liches we destroyed, and you can guess how the last memory was cut off), and the king talking with one Sethos. Sethos is an extremely powerful wizard known to the older party members who has not been seen in some centuries and has some rather nasty plans in store involving...I'm getting ahead of myself.

A couple of days after leaving the lich caverns, a screaming comet was spotted crossing the sky. Some time later we spotted a massive stone hand rising out of the ocean, smoke billowing from its palm. Aleistair flew over to investigate while the ship remained at a safe distance, and he discovered the very-unconscious-yet-alive body of Zerin! While ferrying him back to the ship, Zerin's sword demonstrated a mind of its own by making some rather threatening "keep going" motions. That is new. Also, along with Zerin was found an infant griffon, which Missinget found highly adorable.

Once he had come round, Zerin informed us that Vateo (his god) had personally hurled him across the planes back to earth (which hurt. A lot.) for a certain, very important task. Do you rmeember when I talked about the transplanar block? We learned that said block is being caused by a set of magical orbs which Sethos is after, and these orbs are causing Vateo to weaken and, if nothing is done, eventually die, which would have nasty repercussions of its own. Who cares about spellslinging undead, now we have to save the world!

On another note, Koslov's player is thinking of DMing a separate, evil-aligned campaign. I must go find out the details.

On yet another note, I have some things to figure out back in the real world. Various life aspects may be getting complicated again. Maybe not. I'll elaborate when I know more.

Edit: Never mind.