Prologue

Prologue:

We gathered up and discussed our options for getting off the island. None of us had any teleportation or gate spells. In the end Enalo came up with the idea we decided to try. The next morning he would summon another djinni. The djinni could cast the plane shift spell and we could travel to another plane then immediately cast another plane shift spell and land us as close to Sharn as possible. We all agreed that this was the best option. The plane we decided to travel to was the astral plane. I thought there must be a better plane than the astral plane but someone explained that the astral plane was huge and if you were off by anywhere between 5 and 500 miles if wouldn’t matter in the infinite space of the astral plane, it sort of made sense. Enalo cast his summoning spell and explained the situation to the djinni. We all joined hands as the djinni cast the plane shift spell. The Astral Plane is a vast plane of emptiness. I couldn’t see anything around us all I could feel was a wind blowing by us as we continued holding hands. Looking around at each of I thought I could see some kind of silver-like cord sticking out of the back of each persons neck going up in the void above them. I could only see the cords extending at most three maybe four feet before they just sort of disappeared into the nothingness that surrounded us. And then it happened the djinni cast the second plane shift spell. We all appeared on solid ground. That was one of our concerns we could end up inside a mountain or somewhere out in the ocean. Enalo and Argent made a few checks and guessed we were probably somewhere about 80 to 100 miles northeast of Sharn. We figured if we head south long enough we would find the coast and then we could start heading east and we should arrive in Sharn. I didn’t say anything, but I would feel better if we met someone and could ask directions to Sharn. Enalo released the djinni and we began our trek south. Luck must have been with us we only had to travel half a day before we found a road (really little more than a wagon trail heading southeast). We camped that first night in hopes we could reach Sharn the next day by having Enalo summon two djinnis and having them cast Wind Walk on us. In the morning we packed up and Enalo summoned the two djinnis. They cast Wind Walk on the five of us and we became clouds. I felt strange floating around and found it difficult to move around, but once we took off we moved extremely fast. The five of us soared towards the southeast and after two hours we could see Sharn. Twenty minutes later we landed on the upper platforms of the city and became solid again. The first person we sought was Prechrysler. We knew, when last we saw him, that he was a student of Morgave University. It only took thirty minutes to find Prechrysler’s place. He had a small place not to far from the university that he shared with our other former traveling companion Othokent. We spent most of the night celebrating our reunion and telling of our exploits. We also came to the conclusion that our adventuring days had come to an end. We each had different places we all wanted to go. As for myself, I need to go back to Vintage and see my father. Maybe we could put all our problems behind us. Otho and Prechrysler let us stay the night at their place. I figured I spend one more day in Sharn then catch a train back to Passage, buy a horse and ride another day or so back home.