Desiring to reach the obelisk and recover a number of skulls that could convey the events that occurred during the failed ritual, the party used a portal to reach the temple of Lerelan before using a series of overlapping magical platforms to cover the rest of the distance over the Gray Forest. Once there they lowered The Haunted Blade of Sylvaneft through the razor sharp foliage. When he reported back that the area around the monolith was clear he was brought back up before Ryu’ Ve-Ke’rehl started to burn away the tree tops.
With the way clear the party descended into the woods. There they found a near perfect hemispherical clearing, with a radius of 30 feet, centered on the base of the obelisk. The hemisphere also seemed to be the bounds for a gray ash of come kind that coated the floor of the area to a depth of six inches. A closer examination of the gray substance showed it to be more like damp soil, but at the very least it didn’t appear threatening.
With most of the party staying on the disc, Marcus Vermithrax and the Blade of Sylvaneft scoured the floor around the obelisk, recovering skulls slowly but surely. Their efforts were interrupted though when a silt horror attacked. The aberrant creature rose out of the earth itself, knocking both Marcus and the Blade of Sylvaneft unconscious before it was finally defeated. Taking that as a sign that their search was done they portaled back to the safe house to recuperate and examine the skulls they had recovered.