Time for a druid meeting with Justin. Let's see what Fripp wants.
Ah, dad moorland came too. Elizabeth quickly told him this is druid business and he'll have to leave. Poor guy
I took Justin to the secret stone circle
Almost immediately as I got there, Fripp told Justin he was under arrest and thanked me for apprehending him. Excuse you sir I was under the impression we were gonna help him?
Apparently the druids don't trust that Justin was tricked, they think he's actually evil, so they'll be locking him up. Great.
We soul riders tried arguing his case after they had taken him away, but Fripp quickly distracted us. He has information on how to save Anne!
She's been located in pandoria, and she appears to be much deeper than Lisa was. Far too deep for the Sleeping Widow to help again, that's for sure. We'll need a portal to pandoria. For that we'll need a keystone that's kept in the stonecutter's vault in Dino Valley. To get to Dino Valley faster we'll need a portal there, and to get that portal we'll need another keystone. That keystone is just kept by Avalon, though. Much easier to get to
Avalon struggled to find it among all the other junk he keeps in his pockets, but I got it eventually.
Back in the stone circle, Fripp instructed me on how to set up the portal
Pretty keystone
And then Linda and I were told to go through and find the stonecutter's vault and ask for the pandoria keystone. This should be interesting, since I have yet to unlock Dino Valley on this account.
I took a lot of pictures of this inbetween worlds place and I'll probably post them in a different post lol
I'm in Dino Valley and SSO isn't yelling at me to get out of a closed off area, so hopefully it's fine. Poor Chance isn't a cold tolerant horse, though, so it looks like we'll be taking this slow
Linda said she could feel strong magic and to follow her. Off through the creepy dead tree forest we go
Until we came to a minecraft ice spike biome
oh look there's even an igloo. think we'll find a villager and a zombie villager inside?
Linda said the magic she senses is coming from here. The door must be hidden by an illusion. We used our moon magic together and revealed...
it's just a hole, nothing exciting
inside, on the other hand, is very pretty
we found this ghost guy who says he's Magnus Steinar, Jon Jarl's stonecutter, and we must prove our worth before he'll let us pass
I gotta find the missing pieces to this runestone. Easy enough. I did it pretty quickly just running around the maze of corridors. I don't see how this makes me trustworthy
The Stonecutter said he probably should've given us a more difficult test, but he's a man of his word, and he opened the door for us.
I love this room, it's so pretty! And right under the tree is the keystone for the pandorian portal. Time to head back to Fripp
Fripp told me how to set up the pandorian portal
He said he needs the other soulriders to stay and help power the runestone, I'll have to go alone. Oh cool, I'm sure this will go great.
This inbetween space looks much more spikey. I'm sure that's fine...
finally, Pandoria. This place is so pretty but honestly, and I like pink, but it's too pink.
Anyways, I followed the trail and eventually found...
I bet that's Anne. Yikes, she does not look so good.
I tried to talk to her but she just told me to leave, that I'm wasting my time, that Garnok cannot be stopped. Oof.
And then Darko showed up out of nowhere
And he summoned these tentacles, which I think are supposed to be Garnok himself?
Anyway, Chance and I decided we're no use to Anne dead, so we noped outta there
Cue a stressful race where I was avoiding tentacles and mushroom spores and shadow seekers along with the normal race obstacles.
and yes the tentacles were still after me through the inbetween
im surprised i didn't fail this race tbh, especially we me taking pictures lol
Finally, I'm back. Fripp was confused where Anne was but interrupted himself to say something's coming and I need to close the portal quick!
Too late! Darko and maybe Garnok followed me through! Darko put some sort of spell on the other soul riders so they could move, and then ran to the keystone to take it for himself
The thing about keystones that I didn't mention earlier? You need to remove them carefully, or the portal could destabilize and explode, possibly sucking people into it. So when Fripp saw Darko grabbing for the keystone, he ran to stop him and
The keystone exploded very pink and Darko was sucked back through the portal, along with those Garnok tentacles, but Fripp...
Well, Fripp doesn't look so good. He managed to say something about talking to someone named Evergray, before Elizabeth showed up. We told her what happened and she said Fripp must've taken in all the pandoric energy from the keystone himself. The druids will be able to heal him, but it'll take time.
She took him away and I was left with the soul riders
I told them what happened and we agree we have to save Anne, and this Evergray is our only lead. We decided to go ask Avalon who Evergray even is
Avalon seemed very reluctant to tell us much about Evergray, let alone have us meet up with him. He's an ex-druid who was exiled and he lives up north in a place full of witches.
We told him it was Fripp that told us to find Evergray and that finally convinced him. He said he would send word that his exile is over and he can come back. He'll let us know when Evergray has returned.