Tough As Dirt #6

Tough As Dirt finished off the remaining skeletal undead on the island and found a metal hatch that lead down into the earth beneath

• Gideon and Moor discovered the giant skeleton that was hammering at the hatch was none other than a lost chieftain of Vad, High Chief Tudor Haymann, who left Vad centuries ago in search of elder dragons to bring back to their homeland, only to never be heard from again

  • The group took his gold horns and armor with them

In the hatch they found Babbitt Galloway, a halfling woman invested in understanding the divine flow of energy around Vault

Beneath the island they discovered she was harvesting "brain juice" to use in a potion to protect against mind altering effects, and realize the island itself wasn't just shaped like a skull, it was an actual skull of some massive long-dead creature

• Babbitt claimed it was a weapon used in the Constellation War, though there is no record of them existing. These creatures don't even have names. But the Arrowhead Isles are supposedly home to many of their remains for some reason

• The group showed Babbitt their inert dragonstones and she claimed they were fully dead, more than likely due to the new patterns of divine energy flow

  • She went on to explain in detail than a few months prior, the flow of divine energy throughout the world shifted, altering the normal "leylines" of power, causing upheaval in the divine power of the world -- it was mostly undetected since the gods are already so powerless, but she had tracked it

Babbitt also claimed a dangerous necrotic cult group known as the "Daughter of Eve" had come through here, and it was they who were responsible for the skeletons wandering the island that Tough As Dirt had dispatched

• Babbitt figured they had moved on to Cypress, which is where they had last been sighted, and even though she didn't believe they were the cause of the divine disturbance, it was as good a place as any to start digging into what was happening with the dragonstones

The group brought Babbitt aboard and set out for Cypress to track the Daughters of Eve