Tomb of Annihilation Session 22 – Journey to Kir Sabal

Here’s the write up from our latest Tomb of Annihilation session, in which the adventurers finally learned the location of Omu!

Begin here with Session 0 – Caves of the Cockatrice

---

21st Uktar, 1495 DR

The party continue their journey up the River Olung towards Kir Sabal. That afternoon, they spot a giant cooking pot bubbling away at the side of the river. Deciding they don’t want to risk ending up inside it, they paddle on, narrowly avoiding a confrontation with two hot and bothered frost giants and their winter wolf companion.

---

22nd Uktar

Nanna spots a crumbling stone statue of a cruel-faced man half buried in the muddy riverbank. A fist-sized yahcha beetle is rooting around the statue – the gnome stabs it with her rapier, storing the dead insect in her pouch in case anyone succumbs to mad monkey fever. Rhamash helps Nanna excavate the bottom half of the statue which has a snake’s tail. Meanwhile, Tharhul and the others climb the ridge to some vine-covered ruins, finding a malachite ring.

Blue mist rolls into the party’s campsite that evening while Nanna and Vorn are on watch. Eysleigh and Tharhul are slow to get out of the way but resist the mist’s effects.

---

23rd Uktar

The characters camp in a clearing with dense stands of red and black flowers. Eysleigh casts speak with plants and tries to persuade them not to give off soporific pollen so the characters on watch can remain alert. The flowers refuse, but fortunately the druid manages to keep his eyes open anyway when a group of putrid haunts, led by a peat mummy, stagger into the campsite. 

The putrid haunts vomit leeches and stinging insects over the party, poisoning Valdro. Eysleigh goes unconscious from a critical hit but is revived when Nanna pours a potion of healing down his throat. After a hard fight that leaves most of the party bloodied, the characters do some much-needed healing before resuming their rest.

---

24th Uktar

The adventurers catch sight of an enormous, 500-foot-tall tree, towering above the jungle. Eku tells them this is the 5000 year old Sky Tree, and there are tales that a wizard uses it as their tower. The characters disembark and trudge through the forest to investigate.

Eysleigh casts speak with plants and questions Sky Tree, learning about an island floating in the air above a river basin to the west, about a garden to the southwest, and a sinkhole containing the bones of a dragon to the east.

Certes casts fly and flies up to the top of the tree, avoiding the small angry-looking koala creature and the jaculi living in its branches. In the rotting remains of a treehouse, he finds a carved wooden box containing a potion of hill giant strength and six turquoise dinosaur figurines.

---

25th Uktar

The characters leave their canoes and head southeast into the jungle, hoping to find the sinkhole with the dragon’s bones. Signs in Druidic warn of danger ahead, and trampled plants indicate the presence of a large creature. Eysleigh casts speak with plants and is warned about someone or something called “Kapokroot”. The group decide to head south towards Kir Sabal instead.

---

26th Uktar

The characters reach Kir Sabal towards the end of the day. The climb to the monastery is narrow and treacherous, so Certes commands Vorn to wait at the bottom of the cliff while he flies up. The others ascend slowly on foot, climbing around and leaping over gaps in the walkways and picking their way gingerly across rotten planks. 

Eventually they make it to the Cleansing House where the aarakocra monks invite them to wash, don head scarves, and make an offering before continuing to the Monastery, where Certes is waiting for them in the refectory.

Rhamash, friend to bird-folk, greets Teacher, the ancient female aarakocra and head of the monastery, explaining that the party are searching for Omu so they can put a stop to the death curse. Teacher shows them where to find Omu on their map and offers to perform the Dance of the Seven Winds, a ritual which will give the characters the power of flight for three days, if they can bring her a black orchid from the gardens of Nangalore.

Teacher marks two other places on the map – Needle’s Bones (the sinkhole where the green dragon Needle was trapped and killed by Batiri goblins), and the Heart of Ubtao, an earthmote floating 200 feet above the Aldani Basin, said to be the god’s petrified heart.

She also confirms that the heir to the throne of Omu – Princess Mwaxanare and her brother Na – are in Kir Sabal under the aarakocra’s protection. 

As Teacher finishes speaking, there is a cry from outside. The monastery is under attack by gargoyles from Omu!

---

If you’d like to keep up to date with my Tomb of Annihilation campaign and other posts, please do join my mailing list – there’s a sign up form below and subscribers receive a free Parsantium supplement.