campaigns:latitude_history:adventures:return-to-the-sickened-sky-stone [Ron Helwig's Viking World for D&D]

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====== Return to the Sickened Sky-Stone ======

===== Party =====

  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:agnar|Agnar]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:bjorn-vigrasson|Bjorn Vigrasson]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:knut-asgeirson|Knut Ásgeirson]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:kol-gulkin|Kol Gulkin]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:sally-swift|Sally Swift]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:vigr-steinthor|Vigr Steinthor]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:wavesia-fjordmist|Wavesia Fjordmist]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:xieren-cathera|Xieren Cathera]]

By the time refugees from [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:thydal|Þýdal]] had reached [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:nidaross|Niðaróss]], stories about the fallen sky-stone had changed. The first expedition had already brought star-metal back to [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:thydal|Þýdal]] before the village fell, but the crater itself had not become safe. [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:asgeir-axelson|Ásgeirr Axelson]] heard that goblins from the great army were moving toward the old meteor site and that [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:draugrveiki|draugrveiki]] was spreading there. At a town [[culture:thing|þing]], he called for volunteers to learn whether the sickness could be stopped.

The party set out northeast toward the old crater. On the second day, they found the remains of a hunter's camp and a bloody trail leading away through the wild. Six wolves attacked while the party searched the scene. Some had already become [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:draugrveiki|draugrveiki]] beasts; others still showed the earlier corruption of the disease. The fight proved that the danger was not rumor.

A diseased hunter came near afterward and warned them about the wolves. The party killed him to stop the spread before learning anything more from him. Then they pressed on toward the crater, rested near the site, and found the goblin investigators who had come to study the same corruption.

The final battle began across open ground, with goblins running down from rocky crater slopes while the party moved from a grassy hillside. The enemy force included artificers, a tracker, a slinger, and goblins already changed by [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:draugrveiki|draugrveiki]]. They were not simply survivors picking through old wreckage. They were trying to understand how the meteor's sickness could be turned into a tool.

After the fighting, [[campaigns:latitude_history:characters:wavesia-fjordmist|Wavesia Fjordmist]] cleansed the meteor area with her water elemental powers. That act ended the crater's role as an active source of disease and closed the second sky-stone expedition. [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:nidaross|Niðaróss]] had sent volunteers into a poisoned wound in the land, and they returned with the wound cauterized.