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Monday Night Pathfinder: Resurrections

Kroop was quick to split the crew and get the Celestial Kyte away.  With Sandara as captain, the Kyte made for the squib, the bodies of Kyte and Durgen brought along.  Sheena, Victaerus, and the Druid were part of the Kyte's crew.  The plan was to get the Kyte repaired, supplies and crew for the Zelbinion, and find someone to help repair the magic aboard the Zelbinion and perhaps help strengthen the defenses of the Celestial Kyte.

Arrival at the Iceflow Squib was a bad sight.  The outer walls was in shambles, the old ruins, temple, and inn were in flames, and dead bodies of townsfolk and frost giants littered the town.  An ugly gunman with a handmade musket watched from the tower as the Kyte docked.

Giffen, the Aquarvan (Crocodile Man) barbarian jumped shipped, hysterical at finding his old squib friend Rickety Hake dead by the squib dock.  Sandara grabbed Victaerus and headed to the remaining temple -- a temple of Besmara.  Inside, three priests from the other temple fought with the Besmarian priestess as they tried to take possession of the remaining temple for their own, now homeless, flocks.  Sandara got permission from the priestess to bring her crew in, ignoring the protests of the other priests.

Sandara rounded up the crew and had them carry Durgen and Kyte to the temple.  The strange gunmen watched and waited.

Kyte was brought into the temple where preparations began immediately to resurrect her.

Durgen's arrival caused a stir, the three other priests immediately protesting bring a half-giant into the temple after the town was half destroyed by a frost giant onslaught.  Guards gathered and the crew tried to push their way into the temple.  Outmanned, the Druid had Durgen's body laid down and cast upon him reincarnation.  His body disentigrated as ashes that swirled and set into a new body, a dwarven body, naked and whole, and Durgen came back to life as a dwarf.  Durgen awoke with quite the stir, accusing the druid of having shrunk him.

Kyte awoke too, and Sandara provided them both with gold and told them to get some rest.  A large chest was placed near the front of the temple, an offering to the temple.  The crew was given leave and told to meet at the Kyte in the morning.

The strange human gunman, Jerico, made his was to the barracks, chatting with a small furry hamster hidden in his coat pocket.  There he knocked on the door, talking first to a guard, and then to a shiny-armored paladin that headed up the local militia.  For his contribution in bullets from the tower during the frost giant attack, he requested payment.  He was given 100 gold, not even enough to cover his ammunition.

The next morning found Sandara ordering everyone to get to work.  Kyte and Sheena were off to visit the old Wizard's privet island.  Victaerus was off to hire crew.  The druid found his water control a good fit for helping get the Kyte into drydock.  As he watched her being built, he noticed a tree nearby the squib, and with Sandara's permission, had it installed in place of the lost main mast, alive and intact.

Kyte and Sheena found their way to the old Wizard, strange things afoot as usual.  The wizard agreed excitedly to join them to visit the Zelbinion.  Victaerus gather new crew including the strange gunman.

In his impatience, the wizard fast-forwarded time a bit to when the Kyte was fully repaired and the crew was ready to get underway.  The Celestial Kyte looked as good as new with the new living main mast and a gun deck fully stocked with cannons.

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