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[Ithillian Turambar]

Does anyone remember when we got a crystal earpiece that allows us to talk to Halwen lol

[HeavyHalfMoonBlade]

Lol. I was going to ask that. Maybe the same time Nyra learned to speak,hehe.

[Ithillian Turambar]

Where is nyra? I will have to remind the game next time we make a choice

[Ithillian Turambar]

Ok let's go back to the village for a rest and re-set

 

Story Update – Day 9, Late Evening
Location: Windrest Hollow – Guild Hall & Roosting Hearth
Status: HP: 26 / 26 | EP: 16 / 16 | Air Level: 5 | Spirit Level: 10 | Companion: Nyra (active)

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The wind carries you back to Windrest on silent feet. The stars shimmer overhead as the last light fades from the horizon. Near the guild hall, the soft flutter of wings lands lightly on your shoulder—Nyra, your Flicker familiar, reappears from the shadows of the cliffs. Her body glows faintly with residual wind-light, a sign she had been watching… perhaps even guiding the air currents with you.

“You handled that Zephyrite with care,” she chirps, curling up on your shoulder. “Didn’t even need claws. I’m impressed.”

Inside the guild hall, the bounty broker greets you with a nod and a jangle of coin pouches.

“Air elemental pacified, you say? Didn’t think we’d see one of those tamed. That’s worth a bonus.”

He slides 40 copper into your hand—30 for the job, 10 for the non-violent resolution, rare as it is.

+40 copper (Total: 110 copper)
Increased reputation with Windrest Hollow
Nyra’s trust deepens. She may now assist mid-battle once per long rest (Windflare or Spirit Echo boost).

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You rest at the Roosting Hearth under discounted lodging—thanks to your growing renown.

That night, your dreams echo with sky-lanterns and drifting feathers. Nyra hums quietly from her perch above your bed, keeping watch with flickering violet eyes.

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Current Stats:

• HP: 26 / 26
• EP: 16 / 16
• Elemental Strengths:
  • Air: 5
  • Water: 13
  • Fire: 10
  • Earth: 2
  • Spirit: 10

Inventory Highlights:

• Copper: 110
• Airglass Fragment (augment Air spell or sell)
• Flicker Familiar – Nyra: Active, now capable of 1/day mid-battle assist
• Earthen Reliquary Fragment
• Tarnished Offering Bowl
• Codex: Unified Elemental Bond active

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What would you like to do on the morning of Day 10?

1. Head to the Verdant Hollow (Earth Temple)
2. Visit the market to shop or sell materials
3. Check the new bounty board (seek another side quest or Air challenge)
4. Speak with Halwen about refining Spirit or hybrid spellcraft
5. Take Nyra for a bonding flight – explore cliffs for hidden caches or ruins

What would you like to do?

[Donchadh]

I think 3 or maybe 5 (which sounds fun and might offer intriguing possibilities). 

[Turin Turambar]

What?? We can fly with our buddy?

 

Yes please and thank you.

[Ithillian Turambar]

I'm so glad we found Nyra again. She must have been growing in the Roosting Hearth. I'd really like to go flying.

[HeavyHalfMoonBlade]

Yeah we haven't even taken her for a walk yet. 

[HeavyHalfMoonBlade]

Oh Light, I hope this isn't like that ghoul in Vampire Masquerade. Anyone else play that computer game? 

[Ithillian Turambar]

I have not. Sounds like it doesn't end well.

 

We take Nyra out to stretch her wings

 

Story Update – Day 10, Morning
Location: Windrest Hollow – Cliffside Skyrun
Status: HP: 26 / 26 | EP: 16 / 16 | Fatigue: None | Nyra: Active (1/day assist ready)

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You and Nyra rise early, ascending the steep trails leading to the Skyrun Cliffs, where the winds run wild and the horizon seems to stretch forever. With her wings spread and her glow pulsing in rhythm with the breeze, Nyra takes to the sky and beckons you to follow.

You meditate at a windswept ridge while she loops and dances above, drawing subtle patterns in the mist. Suddenly, she dives low, her chirp sharp and excited.

“There’s something here,” she calls, circling a rocky outcropping. “Old magic. Sealed beneath feathers and stone.”

You help clear the perch—and reveal a hidden cache wrapped in ancient silk bearing faded sigils of the Skyreach monks. Inside:

• 1 Skycarved Feather (can be used to enhance Air spells or craft a unique accessory)
• Worn Prayer Band (sells for 15–20 copper)
• Small pouch with 9 copper

Nyra settles beside you on the stone. Her usual flickering has steadied into a soft, rhythmic pulse. She presses her forehead to yours.

“We’re linked now. You trust the wind, and it trusts you back.”

Nyra Bond Deepened! She may now:

• Empower one Air or Spirit spell per long rest (free cost)
• Reveal wind-shrouded paths, illusions, or false magic once per day

+9 copper (Total: 119 copper)
Gained: Skycarved Feather
Gained: Worn Prayer Band

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Current Stats:

• HP: 26 / 26
• EP: 16 / 16
• Elemental Strengths:
  • Air: 5
  • Water: 13
  • Fire: 10
  • Earth: 2
  • Spirit: 10

Inventory Updates:

• Copper: 119
• Skycarved Feather (Air crafting material or accessory catalyst)
• Worn Prayer Band (can sell or study)
• Nyra – Flicker Familiar: Bond Deepened
  • New ability: 1 free Air/Spirit spell empower per long rest
  • Reveals wind-veiled secrets (1/day)

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What would you like to do next?

1. Head to the Verdant Hollow (Earth Temple)
2. Return to the village market to sell/trade items
3. Check the guild bounty board
4. Ask Halwen for Spirit spell assistance or insight into the Veil
5. Explore deeper into the Skyrun cliffs with Nyra (riskier, may uncover relics or rare Air sigils)

What would you like to do?

[Ithillian Turambar]

Ahh I thought we were gonna be able to ride her, like those things on Pandora.

 

This is still good though.  We are getting our air level up.

[HeavyHalfMoonBlade]

Yeah didn't Nyra used to be a Spirit familiar? She seems fairly tuned to Air now. Because we have been training Air ourselves? Shrugs. 

 

Yeah in Vampire the Masquerade at one point you can save the life of a young woman by feeding her your blood, but that turns her into your ghoul, your familiar. She is really annoying but keeps giving you stuff like the best body armour in game that you cannot get anywhere else, and kidnaps people and locks them in your bathroom for you to feed on. And the just when you are used to her and stop sending her home she gets brutally murdered right in front of you. It is such a shock and painful punch in the gut. But few things have ever felt so satisfying as unlimbering my fireman's axe and redecorating my apartment with the dudes that did it. The most brutal storytelling I've ever experienced in a computer game. 

 

Anyway, explore further? 

[Ithillian Turambar]

I guess a little more exploring. Then maybe sell anything we don't like, go to the market, check in with Halwen and learn stuff and THEN we might be finally ready to do the Earth Temple.

[Turin Turambar]

More exploring please

[Donchadh]

LOOOOOOOOTTTT!!

 

(aka, more exploring please).

 

[Ithillian Turambar]

Ok we go exploring

 

Story Update – Day 10, Midday
Location: Skyrun Cliffs – Upper Wreath
Status: HP: 26 / 26 | EP: 16 / 16 | Fatigue: Minor | Nyra: Active (Empower unused)

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You press further into the Skyrun cliffs, Nyra guiding you along narrow ledges and half-forgotten wind trails. The air thins as you climb, but with each step, your connection to the Air element grows keener—your breath steadying, your movement lightening.

After an hour’s ascent, the wind shifts—carrying whispers.

Nyra pulses beside you. “This place… it's not just wind. Something sleeps here.”

At the edge of a hanging ridge, you find the remains of an old monastic glider post, long abandoned. Scratched into stone is a sigil you’ve seen only once before—in the Skyreach Monastery, during the Air trial. It marks a site of binding.

Suddenly, the air stills. Nyra lets out a warning chirp.

Encounter Triggered – Bound Stormling (Rare Air Elemental – Dormant Woken)

From a broken shrine ringed in shattered glider talons, a Stormling rises—part cloud, part birdlike wraith, with crackling talons and lightning-laced feathers. It fixes you with glowing eyes and shrieks, summoning a squall.

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Combat Encounter: Bound Stormling (Air-Elite)

Traits: Fast, evasive, deals Air + Lightning damage, vulnerable to grounding or Water-based disruption
HP: Moderate
Special: May phase into cloudform (dodging physical attacks), empowered by wind tunnels

Nyra hovers beside you, awaiting command.

You must choose how to engage:

1. Direct Weave: Open with a powerful hybrid or Water-based spell to disrupt its stormform
2. Use terrain: Lure it into a narrow crevice where its flight is restricted
3. Nyra Empower: Use her new ability to supercharge an Air/Spirit spell (free EP cost)
4. Channel Weave Fusion (1/long rest – Ready): Create a new powerful 3-element spell to overwhelm it
5. Attempt Binding: Risky ritual to rebind the Stormling to the shrine using Spirit+Air (requires Will check)

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What is your strategy?
 

[Donchadh]

Choosing the risky option....yikes!

[Turin Turambar]

YOLO let's try to put it back.

[HeavyHalfMoonBlade]

Could we maybe choose 2 first? Or would that lure it away from the shrine so we cannot hind it any more. Perhaps Donchadh has the right of it. 

[Ithillian Turambar]

Ok we will try and bind it

 

Story Update – Day 10, Midday (Continued)
Location: Skyrun Cliffs – Shrine of the Windbind
Status: HP: 26 / 26 | EP: 16 / 16 | Fatigue: Minor | Nyra: Active

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You brace yourself against the swirling air as the Bound Stormling circles overhead, shrieking with elemental fury. Rather than strike it down, you reach toward the shrine—the broken sigil, the etched bindings. You recall Halwen’s teachings, and your fingers instinctively trace the Veil's currents through your Codex.

Spirit meets Air. Intent meets ritual.

“Nyra,” you murmur. “Hold it steady.”

The flicker familiar zips upward, casting blinding pulses of prismatic light. The Stormling falters mid-flight, its form flickering between cloud and feathered shape.

You begin the Binding Rite, weaving Spirit into your voice and Air into your breath. The shrine responds faintly—just enough.

Skill Check – Willpower (Spirit + Air): SUCCESS (Spirit 10 + Air 3 + Codex Bond)

The Stormling shrieks one final time before its body collapses into mist. But the mist doesn’t flee—it funnels, spiraling into the shrine’s sigil like wind returning home.

When the light fades, the shrine pulses with quiet energy. A shard of wind crystal floats before you, humming with captured power.

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Victory: Stormling Bound

• Gained Stormshard Sigil (Air Spell Catalyst – enhances Air spells with piercing effect)
• +1 Air Affinity (now Level 4)
• Nyra learns Gale Pulse: A minor windburst that staggers or interrupts flying foes (usable once per short rest)
• +12 copper bounty from posted reward (updated below)

Codex Insight – Binding the Wayward: You now know the ancient rite to bind elemental spirits when weakened or destabilized. Usable at aligned shrines.

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Updated Stats:

• HP: 26 / 26
• EP: 16 / 16
• Elemental Strengths:
  • Water: 13
  • Fire: 10
  • Spirit: 10
  • Air: 4
  • Earth: 2
• Inventory:
  • Copper: 82
  • Stormshard Sigil (Catalyst – equip to enhance Air Weaves)
  • Earthen Reliquary Fragment
  • Flickerglass Shard
  • Tarnished Offering Bowl
  • Scroll: Verdant Tether (learned)
  • Codex – Unified Elemental Bond (Legendary)

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What would you like to do next?

1. Return to Windrest Hollow and report in
2. Explore further along the cliffs (riskier zones, higher rewards)
3. Equip the Stormshard Sigil and seek a high point to test new Air spells
4. Meditate with Nyra – explore bond evolution
5. Camp nearby and rest (recover fatigue, refresh abilities)

Let me know what you would like to do?

[Turin Turambar]

Nyra meditation is usually good.

[Donchadh]

Also tempted by further exploration...but first, Nyra. 

[Ithillian Turambar]

We have a moment with Nyra

 

Story Update – Day 10, Late Afternoon
Location: Skyrun Cliffs – Windward Crest
Status: HP: 26 / 26 | EP: 16 / 16 | Fatigue: Cleared | Nyra: Active (Bond Deepened)

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You find a quiet ledge just above the shrine’s stone spire, wind curling in slow, lazy spirals across the sky. With the storm stilled and the cliffs now silent, you sit cross-legged and call softly:

“Nyra. Let’s talk.”

The flicker familiar flutters down from above, her wings shimmering with a faint pulse of the stormling’s dissipated energy. She lands gently in front of you, tilting her head like a curious bird.

You open your Codex, letting the Unified Bond glow faintly. The glyphs ripple—responding not to elements, but to companionship, to shared purpose. Nyra hums in reply. The air around you warps momentarily, just enough to let your minds touch at a deeper level.

Visions flicker: flashes of her birth in a realm between air and spirit, where stray thoughts become form… a tether of light that drew her to you during your first encounter with the Echoing Veil… the moments of trust built battle by battle.

Then, clarity.

Bond Strengthened – Nyra’s Flickerform evolves.
She now gains access to Whisperglide:

• Grants silent movement and a short-range blink once per encounter.
• Can carry a message or emotion to a target within 60 ft (1/day).

Her voice, faint but clear, enters your mind for the first time:
“You gave me shape. Now let me carry your will farther.”

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Codex Update: Familiar Bond – Nyra (Flicker Spirit)

• Active Abilities:
  • Gale Pulse – Wind burst that interrupts flying foes (1/rest)
  • Whisperglide – Blink + Silent movement; Message carry (1/day)
• Passive: Slight EP regen bonus when Nyra is active and nearby
• Emotional link now stable: You can sense extreme distress, joy, or warnings from her at any distance

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Your bond feels sacred. Not summoned, not owned—but allied.

Codex Insight: Spiritborne Kinship – You may now craft Spirit+Air hybrid Weaves that involve familiars or incorporeal motion.

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What would you like to do next?

1. Return to Windrest Hollow and report in
2. Search the upper cliffs for rare airspun materials
3. Seek another bounty target from the Stormwatch Board
4. Practice new hybrid spellwork using Spirit and Air
5. Use Nyra’s Whisperglide to send a message to someone

Let me know what you would like to do next.

[HeavyHalfMoonBlade]

Search again? 

 

And not wanting to upset our Battleship overlords, but anyone else notice our Air affinity was 5, we got a +1, and now it is 4? Did we have temp buffs or something? Not sure it is worth asking about incase we upset it. 

[Turin Turambar]

I think a little practice could be helpful.  Searching not awful. 

 

Also, how cool is our Nyra?? Too cool!!