The party is brought to Gantra for a precursory exploratory mission during a short period of time where the weather should be mostly cooperative
They are part of a team with Isaiah and
Steve McSword, while Caelus and Jack lead another team going in the opposite direction
With approximately 3 hours of decent exploration time, the party is told to go as far as they can for the first half, then return promptly to the voidship, collecting samples and taking notes on their observations
They head off into the swamp, Nox and
Klarna keeping an eye out for trouble while everyone else starts investigating the local flora
Myrrha and Kip manage to collect some decent samples while Sahbirr is entranced by reeds that make pspsps noises at him, eventually failing to attack them as his feline instincts get the better of him
A sample of the reeds is taken too, and the party continues forward for a time until Steve, Nox, and Klarna all pause, Nox shoving
Klarna out of the way as a massive creature dubbed the Corpse Conglomerate rises from the swamp along with a few zombies
The Conglomerate- made up of mud, plants, and corpses -attacks, and the party manage to slay it and the zombies thanks to
Klarna's Spike Growth, but not before it nearly kills
Steve Samples are collected until
Steve gets an urgent Sending from Caelus that says they need to get back to the voidship immediately, and the weather begins to turn for the worse
Kip leads the way forward, having made a map and marked the way, but he does fall into a sinkhole and get attacked by a two-headed crocodile on the way, the latter of which he promptly kills with some Scorching Rays
The party make it back to the voidship in the nick of time, Caelus teleporting themself and Jack onto the ship right as the captain tries to fly away and leave the rest of the second Voyager team behind
Kip, using his experience flying voidships, manages to buy enough time for the other team to scramble on, helping the captain fly up and out of the storm that threatens to tear apart the ship
As they sit in the voidship, they all look out the windows to see a massive tear be ripped into the Aether itself, and Gantra get dragged through it by some kind of mysterious force
Myrrha manages to catch Caelus mumbling something about their patron while this happens, but keeps that information to herself for now
Silence falls over the ship as everyone realizes that Gantra is now… missing. Gone without a trace.
Further investigation into the area shows no sign of where it went, or if it will ever return.