Back into the mountains

The group has a celebratory meal with the Elven King & Queen of Surnoth. The following morning the High Cleric of Xeroxen teleports them into the mountains. He explains that something is preventing them from being sent directly to the crypt in the mountains. He gets them as close as he can.

The group arrives on the side of the mountain face in the deep cold. Gary suffers again from the cold and needs to be carried for a ways on the back of Panarus. They encounter strange lights ahead. It turns out to be the same floating crystals they encountered when entering the elven forest. Except this time they attack the group with some form of a magic missile. 

They eventually make their way inside the mountain and down into the crypt thousands of feet below the peak. They encounter more of these flying crystals and battle more throughout their journey to the coffin they seek. Eventually they come upon a chamber filled with hundreds of these crystals. Fyorn finally uses the Fireball scroll he has been longing to use. The fire drops the crystals immediately to the ground rendering them "Innate". Gary tells the group that we need to take these crystals with us. After much debate, they agree to take them.

They eventually reach the crypt where they initially released the soul of the creature that has been plaguing Gary. He gets into the coffin and the group realizes that the crystals fit perfectly into small indents all of the coffin. They use all of the crystals they have on the coffin and they come back to life in vibrant colors. The casket starts to float. Gary floats out of the coffin unconscious and the coffin closes and starts floating down the hallway out of the crypt. The place begins to rumble and the group decides to get the hell out of there. They pick up Gary's limp body and make their way out to the surface. Once outside again they encounter their old friend Drake. He quickly whisks them up just as the top of the mountain explodes. Something is wrong with Drake though. He has one of those crystals embedded in his chest. He lands safely within the Wyrmwood forest but falls unconscious. The group watches as what looks like a comet flying out of the mountain heads into the heavens out of sight. When the morning sun rises, the crystal in Drakes chest is gone, but he has a large hole now and is bleeding pretty bad from it. 

-Wetzel: I hope now that this "thing" is out him, maybe he will start to become more of a team player.