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TOPICS // RAMBLINGS
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Session 12 Febuary 10
- With the temple guardian and interlopers dispatched, the main group was able to access the computer core and find the location of Esperion. Unfortunately, it would take over a year in Kain’s ship to reach it and only several months in a larger Odin military vessel.
- With Derrigen’s group safely aboard Kain’s pink ship, they carefully warned the main group about the fake Ateros without alerting the fake.
- Once everyone was back on Kain’s ship, the fake Ateros was quickly defeated and restrained. It surprised almost everyone by returning to its true form of a doppelganger. They were among the races supposedly left behind on Esperion, but rumors had circulated that they appeared occasionally in various places.
- The doppelganger was able to tell them that it had been receiving orders from both the Champion of Light and General Graviss, and it wasn’t able to tell if they were two different people. The general wanted Derrigen out of the way while he took control of the Imperial government.
- With their escape from the dying star system, the group is contacted by Prince Helene, who they had completely forgotten was “chasing” them. It seems when Anika tried to teleport to Kain’s ship, she had instead teleported outside the system and into the second seat on Helene’s ship.
- Helene was able to make some suggestions on the best course of action once they reached Odin. Esperion was just too far away to go to dump the God Plague and the girl Olivia that Derrigen’s group found was supposed to have some connection to the cure for it.
- Rather than spend a month getting there in Kain’s ship, Anika devised a way to teleport to Odin. Ateros would take the ship and deliver the dragon orb to the Crimson Codex.
- Arriving in one of the parks on Odin, the group discovered that martial law had been declared and quickly split up to elude security forces. Blade, Kain, Lyra, and Olivia made their way to the Imperial palace and eventually found the location of the queen and younger nobles.
- The classroom they were being held in was a trap. The Champion of Light was waiting for the group and activated a protective barrier around the room.
- At this point the group found out the horrible truth of the Champion’s survival, it was able to turn ordinary people into copies of itself. This made the fight very difficult since one Champion could keep the group occupied while the others used the children in the room to make more Champions.
- Olivia proved to be of no real help in the fight; she simply didn’t know what to do and had no useful abilities herself.
- Kain was eventually able to wake up the queen, who was of some help. All it really did was move the fight to around her bed.
- Eventually help arrived in the form of Anika and Darcon. Anika broke the barrier down and Darcon gave a blue sphere he had found at the Wellspring of Knowledge to Olivia.
- Whatever Olivia did to the Champions had no visible effect on them, but the group was still able to eventually defeat all of the Champions.
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Doppleganger (pretty darn rare) |
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Olivia (former girl-in-a-jar, might be the cure to the God Plague) |
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Session 11 Febuary 01
- With the groups split up the focus concentrated on Derrigen and his group consisting of himself, Darcon the dark knight, Lyra the slightly pungent undead, and Ateros the real one. Having just escaped their exploding ship, the group wasn’t quite sure where to begin looking for the cure to the God’s Plague.
- At this point the tops of several surrounding mountains shook loose and revealed crystal focused energy weapons that took aim and fired at the sky, hopefully at the Duke’s interloping ships.
- Ateros noticed another build up of energy underneath a mountain that had not revealed a weapon. This buildup seemed to peak and then start draining away with no noticeable effect. As the only lead the group had to go on, the group began making its way towards the mountain.
- Before getting very far, one of the Duke’s ships landed within sight of the mountain. Apparently the crystal weapons had either not been aiming at the Duke’s ships, or had just missed.
- Having had luck with this in the past, Ateros attempted to hack the ship’s computer systems and take it over. However, rather than finding a security network or AI, he ran into a plant. The network was apparently an add-on to supplement the living ship.
- Ateros was not able to make much progress talking to the sapient plant other than to determine that the plant mainly wanted to ensure nothing bad happened to its crew.
- At this point the purpose of the crystal weapons became evident as the system’s primary started swelling and color shifting to red. The star was going to explode and there wasn’t much time to find the cure and get out.
- Teleporting to the base of the mountain the group found an ancient entrance to the complex inside it. Ateros was able to interface with the computer network but wasn’t able to get very far because it was distributed and the parts controlling the security systems were isolated and unreachable, teleporting was also blocked or hampered throughout the facility.
- Ateros began disabling the security systems we encountered as Darcon simply barreled through them to let Ateros know where they were.
- The group didn’t get very far before another group caught up with them. Consisting of Avanos the summoner, Mo-tep the telepath, and Abel-le-roy the tanks.
- Derrigen quickly dropped Mo-tep, who spent the rest of the fight unconscious. Avanos proved much harder to deal with since it was able to turn invisible and insubstantial as it summoned Devastators to wreak havoc among the group. Darcon kept pressure on Abel-le-roy, preventing him from doing much during the fight.
- After driving the opposing group away Ateros continued attempting to disarm traps, but accidentally set off a teleport trap that dragged him away just as the Duke’s men came back for a second round. He quickly extricated himself and disarmed the remaining traps as he was harassed by one of the guardians of the complex.
- With the traps disarmed, the group quickly left the Duke’s men to deal with the guardian. Finding what looked like a teleportation portal of some kind, the group managed to make their way deeper into the complex.
- The next part of the facility had suffered considerable damage since the time it had been constructed. Parts of it had fallen into deep caverns and were flooded by underground rivers. This didn’t hamper the group much since everyone either didn’t need to breath or had equipment to allow them to breath in water.
- The group split up to follow several branching paths of the river downstream. Derrigen’s group eventually fell over a waterfall and found a large medical tank that appeared to be where the energy spike Ateros had sensed earlier had come from.
- The tank held a confused young woman with no memories who wanted to be let out. Ateros was worried that she was dangerous, but the rest of the group figured if she couldn’t get out of the tank on her own she wasn’t a serious threat to them. Derrigen smashed the tank open and grabbed the girl before the group made their way back to the surface.
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Avanos (artificial being and summoner) |
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Mo-tep (combat telepath) |
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Abel-le-roy (energy draining brick) |
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Girl (Girl-in-a-jar) |
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