167: Seeking the Sign

LEVEL UP 28

Synopsis

• Narra, Christopher, Relic, and Diana
• Becoming Reacquainted
• A lesson on how Diana deals with rejection... (not well)
• Relic's Lab
• Sol Engine
• The Elder Sign (and the tomes of forbidden lore): Knowledge to repel, banish, imprison, and even kill things as powerful as royal djinn, archdevils, demonlords, and of course Yth.
•  The Tomb of Abdul Alhazred
• THREE false entrances? Really...
• An Elder Seal: A combination of holy symbols, clan shields, runes, sigils, heraldry, and esoteric knots spanning Loranna and beyond.
  
• A failed Yth breach through the underground river...
• Writings on the Wall
• Names of the 41 Ythlords 
• The Complete G'harne Fragments

•  Failed Apprentices: A trap that kept on growing in power with the souls of those who would follow the Mad Azerbadi for the wrong reasons, power-hungry apprentices, undisciplined scholars, tomb raiders, etc, etc...
  
• Blessings of the Damned, and Merciful Release

•  The Well of the Wise

•  Tyvis, Caiphon, and Eilessa
• The Church of Starry Wisdom
• Ythian Madness
• The Yth Artifact: Shining Trapzeohedron 

• Interrupting the Ritual (with a tornado)
• Encasing the hedron within stone
• Then Things Get Weird...

• Tyvis  
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• Caiphon and Eilessa are transported to 'New England' (1920s), just outside Providence, where the majority of their powers were neutralized through a very weak spectrum of power sources
• Encountered bootleggers in the woods, then taken to a cabin hideout at gunpoint. 
• Yth had infiltrated this world, as well, and some nameless hunting aberration chased Caiphon and Eilessa through the woods (after their deftly overcame the gunman through a little seduction and a knife).
• After finally opening the rift between worlds with her sacred bolt, two boyscouts appeared on the scene, in imminent danger with the hunter lurking about. Caiphon pulled them close and Eilessa bombarded the Yth with  attacks, not least of which a javelin through the chest, before it went still.
• Caiphon clasped Tyvis's outstretched hands and returned, and after comforting and motivating the conscious boyscout to go and find help for his friend (in shock), she returned as well.

166: Together Again

165: Unspeakable

Synopsis (Partarm 15th, 21st Year After Shalraza):

Prologue: An Archdruid Redeemed

Aboard the Tesseract
Hastur, City of Tombs
Behold, The King in Yellow
Carceri's Destruction, and the death of a friend
Isabella's Sacrifice
The Dragon Reborn
The Merciful Night

Objectives: Complete the Legacy by retrieving its missing pieces: Blackheart and the vessels of both the Maelstrom and Heaven. Bolster the last lines of Yg-Raya's defense by whatever means necessary. Avoid Nyarlathotep and its agents at all costs.

Level: Currently 27

163: The Guest in Yellow

Synopsis (Patarm 14th of the 21st Year After Shalraza):


Diana

Meanwhile,

Endymion apologizes

Eilessa recognized the crystal ball

Drelzna arrived with Diana, Ireena, and Grigore in tow. Caiphon immediately recognized the babe as a star child and rejoiced, quietly informing the goddess. They thought to keep it to themselves until Ireena, at Drelzna's behest, revealed the child's potential to the delegation. The Prince of Hastur's eyes transfixed on Grigore.


Dasein recognized the potential threat, as did many in the party, and feigned his rejection of the peace offering in hopes of distracting the Yth-agent and providing plausible excuse for the attendees to find safe distance. It worked, to a point, as Dasein cast a quick spell which ejected everyone from the curtain-enclosed council table. All, save the Azerbadi prince, who stood slowly and let the great, crimson shroud fall over him. It quickly stained ochre...

The Prince of Hastur was in fact the King in Yellow. Even the most advanced psychic, divine, and arcane detections could not expose it, though the party had a growing suspicion since first laying eyes on him. Isabella provided a magic pearl and instant means of escape for Drelzna, Ireena, and the precious star child, though the Ythlord assured her "nowhere is safe". 

Narra quickly teleported the deserving delegates out of immediate danger (and maybe a few undeserving), though the infamous Divine Inquisitor Valdemar Volker was not one of them. His face melted off as his mind was turned inside out from the growing impossibility of the Ythlord's presence. 

Dasein dropped the illusion, revealing himself as Highking Gloriandel, joining Endymion and the party as one of the most powerful congregations that could possibly be assembled in the light of Yg-Raya.

Sufficiently wounded, the aspect of the Unspeakable One retreated back into Loranna. The planet's destruction seemed imminent. Endymion agreed to help complete the Legacy, Narra's secret weapon involving the hearts, ships, and helms, while Gloriandel decided to dispatch the lesser Ythlord in the Wyld- despite Tyvis's warning of the fragile balance it created with the Green God. Of all people, the emperor agreed to teleport Tyvis to Sev in hopes of salvaging a powerful potential champion- though he couldn't vouch for what happened afterward. Giving Craius proper instructions, the Archdruid again braved the unknown, finally meeting with his antithesis.

Narra took the others to the Tesseract, where she would reveal the details of the Legacy.


Objectives:

Experience: Level Up 27!