Valkor

Valkor:
"...Of course, the first step was to figure out which portal was which. From talking with Red, I was able to prepare just the right spell for the task. I haven't yet perfected the spell, but it was at least able to allow me to figure out the command word for one of the portals. Stimpy crazily spoke the command word out loud and leapt through. I started to cast the spell again, in hopes of learning more, and seeing if it would be dangerous to follow. Fortunately, he emerged moments later, no worse for wear. He told me of a mysterious place, full of chaos and entropy. We decided that this wasn't the portal we wanted, and examined the next one."

"Again, I was not able to figure this portal out completely, and rather than experiment by walking through, we camped out a day while I rested so that I could prepare the spells again. This time, success -- I was able to determine that the other side looked like a large ocean. We walked through and emerged in a wondrous and strange location. It looked like we were floating in midair. Beneath us were calm seas. It stretched out as far as we could see, curving upwards at the edge of sight. I had expected maybe a pocket of air several hundreds of feet in diameter, a few miles at the most. But this place must have been at least a thousand miles across!"

"Moving in this place was disconcerting at first. But we eventually got the hang of it. Needless to say, such a large place was quite daunting, and since we couldn't tell where to go I suggested that we should go back and talk with Red. We did, but he wasn't able to offer too much advice, other than telling us to explore a bit more there. He told us to note that the other portal on our side would be pouring water into the plane on the other side. We returned to the site, but we saw a mass of rats there. These things bit into Stimpy as he went forward to try and calm them down. Diplomacy was obviously not working, so I trapped them in a mass of webbing, and the others went and slew all the rats. It was quite heroic, and Edmund seemed especially proud of himself."

"With that out of the way, we entered the portal again. Stimpy threw a stick into the water below, and noted that there seemed to be a slight current in one direction. I don't know how a single river, however large, managed to affect the current in such a large body of water here, but I was thankful that there was any sign at all. We traveled against the current a bit, and eventually came across what we wanted -- something that appeared to be a large downpour in midair. We charged through, fully expecting to come up to a very surprised water elemental. But instead, we emerged in the middle of a large fight between humans, lizards, and the huge water elemental."

"We immediately leaped into action. Even though we had just helped out the lizards not a few weeks ago, they still attacked us. I summoned a monster from the lower planes that made short work of two of them. I also blinded the water elemental overloading its senses with a spray of glittery dust. It was a furious battle, but it was quickly becoming apparent that our weapons weren't doing too much, and that it would be able to make short work of us once it killed our summons. We retreated, and resolved to come back to kill the beast the next day."

"We couldn't convince the remaining human soldiers to return, but we came back the next day well prepared. We first lured it it out of its hole, before trapping it in a large web, blinding it, and having our summoned monsters pound it into a watery puddle. Just as we cheered in victory, we saw several lizardfolk approaching. I tried to hail them, but Kat quickly interjected with 'we just killed this water elemental, and we can kill you...' That woman..."