Liberace Strahd in an alternate universe. 'nuff said? The Yth are playing some dirty tricks, laying dimensional traps in key locations, seeking to confound progress made against them. As it stands, Cadavera has only a few short days, counted in hours, before the throneworlds of the invading Ythlords arrive and annihilate it. Real Strahd is quite adamant he'll survive and has bent every resource at his disposal toward aiding the party. Unfortunately, Narra wasn't having that, at least not until she could go with Tyvis, Eilessa, and Caiphon and supply a safer and more efficient means of approach. The Tesseract and Pyramid circle Xoth, the zombie apocalypse planet, where a corrupted Leviathan, Toben the Four Billion, a very uncooperative Blackheart, and whatever they cooked up as guardians have made a post-nuked planet their stronghold.
Meanwhile, The Doctor and one of Eilessa's Bast were found in brain cylinders installed in Alhazred's tomb. The former was freed and inhabited one of Relic's makeshift bots, helping the party overcome challenges and retrieve tomes. He'd apparently been looking for the same thing as the party, pieces of the Elder Sign, which he took to be a life-giving equation of such complexity it would confound even the Nestene Consciousness, something like a Yth which is wreaking havoc in his home universe. Along the way, he lost his sonic screwdriver and TARDIS, which he intimated was VERY bad if the wrong hands figured them out. With any luck, they're somewhere in the tomb... In fact, Christopher might have found a piece being examined by The Shrouded Man, some entity bound by Alhazred in the days he still breathed.
Creations front lines have been decimated. The remainder of the Gith fleet, the spirits, and the Primordials regroup now on the moon-base housing Legacy. The desert planet Garobus and the blood moon, Kali, have been destroyed.
And Diana's deep and cathartic mind-meld with the Bast led to her following Christopher Blackwing's wormy consciousness through tunnels in space-memory, somewhere dark in the Ethereal most likely, and vacate the cylinder... which caused the Voidpit to ripple... which might have accidentally summoned Nyarlathotep.
Objectives
Narra, Tyvis, Eilessa, Caiphon: Retrieve the Blackheart
Relic, Diana, Christopher: Reassemble the sonic screwdriver, reclaim the TARDIS, collect the pieces of the Elder Sign, and perhaps most importantly recover the rituals for binding djinn and angels (the more preferable means of collecting the Maelstrom and Heaven ships)
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