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Felicitas wakes up a little late from the others but soon catches up to what has happen. She recognizes the creatures as Comozant Wyrds. Comozant wyrds are most often encountered in the hearts of the greatest storms. They are incredibly rare, and almost always solitary; no sightings on land have ever been reported.
Because they are so rare and their natural environment makes detached study improbable, few creatures even know of comozant wyrds, let alone understand their nature. Citing their command of storms, some speculate that the wyrds are infant forms of an unknown breed of storm elementals, but others say they are fey spirits, born in the moment they appear and existing only for the brief time they shine.
The flames that illuminate others are a form of communication, it allows the creatures to empathically connect to the creature, transcending the language barrier.
They are incorporeal, and made of plasma, immune to cold and electricity. Not to mention they are forms of elementals.
After a short conversation, Nemis is realeased from the fire without harm. The conversation with Toctep on the other hand, seems to turn not so well. In the silence, suddenly you a see a lightning lash swipe, Toctep dealing him electrical damage. It seems to hurt him a little but does not look fatal.
The fires engulf you but do you no harm, it creates an emphatic link with you. You communicate in feelings that transcend the need for common language. They creature imposes a feeling of guilt and shame on you. They attempt to establish dominance over you in their interaction.
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As soon as Nemis is released, Fung steps up humbly without hesitation. Just when his senses are overwhelmed by the creature, however, he seems to notice some struggle that Toctep is having. All his attention, however, is soon focused internally.
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Nix looks concerned and somewhat alarmed, in reply to Belinda, she tells her. "I've not seen that before, they typically don't stir up much trouble if complied with."
A few moments later, Fung steps out of the fire, similar with Nemis unscathed. But the other side, the Wyrd seems to grow increasingly frustrated at Toctep stubbornness. To a point that everyone is able to realise that hostilities will likely ensue.
Electra moves forward and attacks the red one, flanking with Belinda.
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Fung steps out of the cool fire, only to suddenly see a fight break out Uncertain what has happened, Fung stands nonplussed, unsure how to act. Finally, he grabs his dagger, steps closer to the creature to flank it with Toctep. He then slashes at it, not with the intent to injure but to distract it sufficiently to give some aid to Toctep.
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Xuan Fung attempts to help out Torcet by creating a distraction of sorts, however the creature heeds no attention to Fung as it has a much more scarier threat in front of it. Toctep, never backs down! And again in his stubbornness shows the funny looking creature's who is boss. He brings in two strong and clean strikes. The creature barely looks like it is able to stand on it's own anymore. It clearly made a mistake attempting to subdue Toctep through it's mindless bullying.
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Realizing that he is clearly on the lower end of things. The wyrd hastily retreats itself diving off the flying ship, leaving his fallen comrade behind at the pathfinder's mercy.
Nix walks around from the captain's wheel, seemingly relieved and impressed. "Well, what dya know, good job ending that. It could have got messy if they killed you." As a thank you for sorting out the mess, she retrieves from her quarters a Scroll of dimension door and Wand of glide (5 charges) as a token of appreciation. "Guess the sky's not that save, we better make it to port in double time." She suggest with concern.
"Well at least we are not seriously wounded! But this area is for sure not safe!"
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Nix walks up to the creature and nudges it with her feet. "Throw it off the ship! Kill it or not, don't really care, as long as it's off my ship. We can't have it when we arrive at the port."
Captain Nix heads back to her station and hit a bunch of switches, causing the ship sail along with the currents faster than it was previously.
After two days’ travel to Port Eclipse, the airship arrives at a gigantic island adrift in the elemental currents. The windswept voyage across the Plane of Air ends at a large island adrift in the endless void. This barren rock doesn't bear any different resemblances than all the other rocks that you've past along the way. Nix pilots her airship around the island several times before steering her ship into one of the larger caverns. The journey inside takes about a half-hour, about 10 minutes through, you lose all sense of direction as the ship loops, turns, and does all sorts of fancy manoeuvres in the caverns.
Nix’s airship coasts into a world turned inside-out. What must be Port Eclipse clings to the inside wall of a great, hollowed-out stone sphere, its buildings dotting the outer edges like unnatural growths. The cavern housing the settlement is nearly a quarter of a mile in diameter. Airships jut out at all angles of the spherical city, connected to a latticework of docks resembling a spider web.
"Well, here we are! I'll be right in, in exactly 7 days. Keep a low profile folks, Port Eclipse is a rough town, and anyone who can’t defend themselves is likely to end up beaten, enslaved, robbed, or dead. " She says as she drops you off. She hastily makes preparations to leave again, as her ship drifts off she points you towards a squat building half a hemisphere away. "It's a good starting point!" She shouts over the roaring winds.
Felicitas quickly moves to Belinda and uses her healwand on her three times.
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Gazing at the magnificent city and architectural wonder that is Port Eclipse, Khalib can't help but fall into a daze. When he finally snaps out of it: "Amazing! By Nethys, this city is impressive! Let's ask around to find out if we can pick up clues on Jamila's whereabouts."
Khalib then wanders around Port Eclipse, trying to get answers.
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As Khalib leads and wanders through the city in search for answers, the first curious building you run into is a little map shop. Inside a female elf seems to be working on some, with no surprise, map routes. She sells air current charts and djinn shipping route map. When you attempt to speak to her in common, it may seem she shakes her head as she no longer speaks the language, but she is perfectly fluent in Auran. She explains she's been so long here, she might as well be a native now, her skin even has a tinge of light blue oddly enough. With enough convincing from Khalib and Belinda, she seems to remember something.
“Hshurha’s agents arrived 5 days ago, looking for a janni. The whole port saw them blow into town. They came riding in like a little storm—air and lightning elementals, whirling around and making as much noise as possible. Must have been at least a dozen of them. They were flying all over the place, shouting about some janni woman who the Duchess wanted.” She mentions in reference to Jamila. You thank her for the information and bid her farewell.
The next curious building you run into is known as Port Eclipse's finest gambling den, the Sweet Tooth. You run into a man dealing cards, Cookie, a sylph card dealer. "Oh, so you be wanting information on a Janni? Can't say I remember, but tell you what, if you play my game and win, my memory will surely come back. What do you say? Wager is only 10gp."
Felicitas puts 10 gold down and smiles."Let us start!
Carefully inspecting her cards she selects two and replaces them.
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Toctep guards the game carefully, but it seems that the game is clean. Felicitas pulls out some cards and shows her mad card playing skills.
"Well well, lucky we have a winner then. I'll tell you what I know. But you didn't hear it from me. They’ve been shaking down businesses and watering holes. After that grand entrance they pulled, the Duchess’s minions started roughing people up looking for information. They probably hit-up every bar in town before they started shaking down businesses. Whoever they were looking for must be real important to risk causing this much trouble.”
The next persons of interest after enquiring around, is a female sylph dockworker by the name of Klarh. Klarh is a wiry old sylph with a slight hunch to her back. Her exposed skin, including a bald head, is covered in faded, swirling blue tattoos. Klarh makes a living loading and unloading the many airships passing through Port Eclipse. Locally referred to as “chuckers,” Klarh and the other dockworkers are all former airship sailors. As you first approach her, she starts telling you a long winded story. Klarh claims she spent weeks adrift in the great expanse after her ship was smashed in a storm that appeared out of thin air. As she tells it, the storm took her crew over 2 months to break free from. She’s quick to mention how much she misses the companions she lost to that storm. It might be 20 minutes and her story has still not passed.
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Before leaving the gambling den, Belinda asks.
"Are the Dutchess's minions still about? Who would be good people to avoid, to stop having our questions getting back to her or them..."
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At Klarh Belinda gently helps with prodding for information.
"I don't suppose one of your crew was a Jaini? We were hoping to find one here.. one in particular..."
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"The lot of folk here aren't so keen on the Dutchess, that's why this place is so hard to find. But that don't mean they don't want no trouble in this here parts either. You play your cards right, and everyone's an ally, play it wrong. You might be screwing yourself over, you know what I'm saying?" The dealer provides some advice.
Klarh stops his story meets Nemis with a cantankerous glare, "I see." he replies somewhat coldly. But then turns to the Belinda, he thinks about what she just asked.
Looking at the speaker Felicitas puts on her most charming smile and adds.
"It would be highly appreciated. And not forgotten!"
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Although the dockworker finds herself with some bad first impressions, Felicitas manages to calm the mood down with her sweet talking, she shares what he knows about the Janni.
“The Duchess’s thugs were in town for two days before they put out a 50,000 gp bounty on the janni they were after. Made a big stink of bringing them the janni-woman alive, too. Bad time to be a janni living in the city, if you ask me. This town likes to keep its secrets, but with a price like that, people were dragging any janni they could get their hands on. Bounty was barely out a few hours before word got around that someone claimed it.”
The next person of interest is Maren, a female undine. She works at a little potion store, word has it that she left the Plane of Water to hunt rare ingredients and knowledge for potion crafting in the Plane of Air. However, some of Armun Kelisk's strict laws forbids sale of some types of potions, especially excotics ones. Her coloration is a similar tint to the many sylphs around the settlement, but her webbed feet and green hair give away her aquatic heritage. She greets you in a fairly friendly manner. "So, you are looking for information on a Janni? That's very dangerous questions you ask there. Hmm. I'd be incline to share if you have something interesting to offer me."