Session 2: Tomb of the Necrodancer

Nalu thinks for a moment, then responds.

"Well I've only ever known Fibrosa, all the other treants went away. Her roots are deep, and she can sense just about anything in the lands she controls. She's very strict, and can't stand it when someone does something without her knowledge. She's also pretty picky about what lives inside the forest, from what I hear."

"Oh, yes! I was told it was her idea in the first place. No way the elders would've done it behind her back!"

"Have you seen this, Fibrosa lately?"

Nalu struggles a little to answer everyone's questions.

"Ah, well she wants to move them somewhere else I think. She can be strict, but she's trying to preserve the forest in the middle of a wasteland. Though it's not as bad out here as you'd think... Seen her? Someone as low as me wouldn't be granted an audience, but I did hear her voice when the elders told me about my mission".

"Personally? No... But I know we've got guards posted to ensure no one accidentally wanders near the cave the are living in."

The next morning the party sets off a little before the sun rises, headed to the forest in the south west. The trip is about four hours of dull, sandy landscape. There's something in the sand here that makes compasses go crazy, and the whipping wind makes it easy to get lost. Thankfully, Peat's dung beetle senses keep the party traveling in a straight line. Eventually, the sound of rushing water and sand can be heard. Nalu takes everyone up on a good vantage point, and removes his goggles.

"These are the quicksands. Do you see the bridges connecting those rocks? It takes about two hours to make it across."

It's a massive, untameable deluge of sand. It looks like it's a few miles wide, and there's no way to tell the depth. Just like a normal river, there are areas of calm and rapid waters. There are also vortexes of sand that look positively deadly. The only safe areas seem to be the spears of black rock that jut out in the middle of the sands, and the rocky areas on the coast that haven't been eroded away.

"These rocks actually have ancient runes on them that protect from the sand. It is said that the fey and the yaun-ti worked together to build them a long time ago."

Nalu gives Rhograx a quizzical look.

"There are sandworms, but they are smaller than me, so they aren't an issue. There's not really anything living inside the quicksands, on the surface anyway."