Game 23: Kallorhir

 Wherein our stalwart companions get dropped into the ruins of a settlement in Essard, that is revealed to be a place that was named Kallorhir. An old shipbuilding hub for Essard, with very few structures remaining. 

Our crew discovers:

Mutated eight-limbed creatures using dried mud for shells. And quite unhappy to be prodded and/or poked. Suldara almost died in the fight.

An Essari administration building, filled with a brood of lil' wyrmlings of some variety. One took a shine to Lady Raine.

An overgrown mushroom farm that extends underground an unknown number of levels

A strange voice appearing in Stone's head, speaking strings of numbers in Essari.

Slave's quarters, and a collapsed entrance to the Deep Roads of Old Essard

Game 22: The Totally Peaceful Waters of Essard

 Our Intrepid Heroes board The Midnight Squall and begin the expedition. Met the ship's crew and a peculiar silver-masked fancy lad named Aloysius, attached to the Ordinatus contingent. Also, his enormous construct, Vremma.

After a solid week of travel over shifting waters, they get to the Bay of Sha'Ira - their entry point to the island of Annasielle, and Essard. 

Things that were witnessed:

A Ghost Swarm - lost souls from Essard, haunting the seas and attracted by living voices

Dead seabeasts, rotting and drifting by as they were devoured by other sealife.

Mutated cuttlefish, known locally as Shodan. Fiesty and in big swarms. Also: hungry.

An Essari Kraken, which tried to eat several of the ships. Did cause a significant loss to expedition supplies, but it could have been much worse. 

Upon sighting land, the airship Poppy and Artisan Aloysius/Vremma flew inland to scout. They located a ruined above-ground group of structures only a few miles inland, and plans were made to clear the site.