Adventure Twenty: Spirit in the Sky


 * Ruth pilots one of the VertiBirds with P0P1 and Vania through the weak point in the dome where the missile has hit the barrier. Earl and Alder lead a caravan of vehicles carrying the civilians through hole in the barrier that Reines opens at the ground level.
 * Upon entering the transit dimension, we see a landscape of green sky and sandy silver ground. The dome is no longer visible, just the indistinct image of the opening in the barrier. The VertiBird makes it through the opening but struggles in the strange gravity of the dimension. The caravan sees a temporary encampment of insect-like humanoid creatures and tells the other vehicles to halt.
 * The transmissions from the dome come through warped and extremely slowed down, indicating that time is passing more quickly in this dimension. P0P1 is able to alter the sound of our transmission to tell the rest of the caravan to stop and wait inside the dome.
 * Vania recognizes that this isn’t the Aklo transit dimension and sends a message back to Reines asking him to recalculate and send them into the correct one.
 * Most of the insectoids head back toward the main forces, which begin to move toward us. There are about 200 insectoid entities of varying sizes, accompanied by the tattered remnants of Almara, who is only recognizable by her unnaturally projected voice. She now has deep green skin, glowing yellow eyes, and clawed hands, and leans heavily on a staff. She grows larger and unfurls wings, taking to the air while ranting obsessively about how long she’s been trapped.
 * During the battle, the VertiBird is destroyed by a corrosive, smothering green fog summoned by Almara.
 * Earl uses a short-distance teleport, and while he is in the teleportation dimension he locates the remnants of Jack and pulls that back with him.
 * We are able to kill Almara and much of her army, then retreat to the portal that Reines recalibrates to take us to the correct dimension.