(Game Date: May 17th, 2015)

The Planeswalkers set out from the Bastion of Last Hope, following their magic compass in the direction of Mount Orthrys, the Palace of the Titans, and the portal to Colothys that eventually leads back to Sigil.

As they trekked through the swamp, they stumbled upon an abandoned stilt-house village, and a blind and scarred old man wandering within it. The Planeswalkers made camp in one of the houses, giving the old man food and water. He wove a tale of being kidnapped and tortured by the residents of the village, petitioners of Carceri, until the village was raided by “horned knights” who came from a fortress at the base of the mountain nearby.

Predictably, the old man turned out to be a liar and a traitor, slipping away from the encampment at night to summon monsters and throw them at the party. Following his trail, and being assaulted by summoned fiends all the way, the Planeswalkers eventually found his house hidden in the swamp. After a brief battle with more of his summoned creatures and his Quasit familiar, the Planeswalkers took whatever supplies and riches they could salvage from his home and headed back on the path.

Soon they came to the base of Mount Orthrys itself. A path of white marble steps meandered around the slope of the mountain, leading up to the top, where the tip of the mountain touched the tip of another mountain stretching from a neighboring orb. Where the tops of the mountains touched, a speck of white was visible; the Palace of the Titans.

But the path was blocked at its base by a large black stone fortress… the home of the Horned Knights, flying banners that matched the brand on Martigan's hand. Not wanting to deal with an entire order of hostile knights, the Planeswalkers instead opted to scale the slope further along the base of the mountain, hoping to eventually reach the path.

Using their rope, the party scaled half of the distance to the path, but their progress was interrupted by a monstrous fiendish spider that emerged from a cave in the side of the mountain. Using its natural ability to climb, it harried the party until Helga launched herself onto its back, stabbing it to death and nearly tumbling down the mountain with its corpse to her own demise.

With the threat removed, the Planeswalkers took rest in the cave, before finally making their way to the path and continuing their journey to the top.

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