Saturday, January 8, 2011

95a: Childhood Hopes, Childhood Fears

Biosh 2nd
beware the boogeymen

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Experience: 2,567 xp (79,247 total )
Cloak Thieves, 1400
Boogeymen Battle, 8,400
RP Bonus + 94.5a , 5600


Treasure: Goodnight Tincture (level 16) x 2 [left over from the stranded boogeyman]

New Companions
Featherwing: Arinew's rummaging through his old room in the summer palace uncovered a stuffed riding horse with remarkably lifelike eyes- an old friend protected from the mass murder of the Summer Court those many years ago in the form of a hidden-away toy. Featherwing is a childhood companion of the summer prince, grown into an exquisite white pegasus with unique changeling powers. Hopelessly devoted to his friend and master, Featherwing now follows him wherever he goes, a worthy mount, a staunch protector and a loving piece of the bard's broken past.

Developing Hooks
Living Nightmares (was Bump in the Night, major): Tyvis and the others found a foe far exceeding their expectations in the boogeymen, those child-snatching shadow fey who'd been following the Dollmaker's packages to succulent victims. It appeared they came from some black, abysmal plane of nightmares and fear- Rogar having suffered it firsthand- and had the strange power to reduce their victims to fearful, vulnerable children, their preferred prey. Driven off through light and nursery rhymes, the window between worlds shut, could it be the nightmare is over? Have the masters of fear really been scared off, or has the party just made new and terrifying enemies?

Big (minor): After the encounter with the boogeymen, Tyvis, Arinew and Featherwing have been transformed into their six year old selves! The effects are not wearing off, suggesting some sort of lingering curse. Return them to normal!

Completed Hooks
Cloak Thieves (minor): The pear orchard dryads have been set straight, returning Raina's cloak thanks to Narra's insistence and an uncommon change in the genasi- a stormy one, complete with lightning flickers and distant thunder, the kind of stuff that terrifies tree-women. Add a name drop of the rumored prince-returned and that was more than enough to solve his little dilemma.

Next Session
96a: Narra attempts to dispel the curse of youth upon Tyvis, Arinew and Featherwing, with aspirations of then descending into the Feydark to defeat Nidhogg Nagar. Raina and Rogar explore their feelings for one another.

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Friday, January 7, 2011

93b: Enemy of My Enemy

Patarm 2nd
corpses, corpses everywhere

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Experience: 3,466 xp (83,672 total; LEVEL UP 17)
Larzarus' Counterattack, 3000
Tirgian's Legion, 6,000
A Thieving Minotaur, 1400

Treasure: Tirgian's sandals (Diana)
Coin: ask Renato
Loot: Tirgian's iron pentagram (Renato)

New NPCs
Larzarus (dead): The last legion devil survivor of the mustered offensive which stormed the senate chamber thinking the party responsible for the massacre within. He promised he'd be waiting for them all down below. His black blood proved poisonous to vampires, due to his immortal nature.

Tirgian Smythe (dead): The cambion evangelist who led a legion of armored devils against the party in the upstairs hall. His loyalty to the Lord of the Nine was absolute, convinced like the erinyes that Hecate was a figment and that the one true power in Hell was his master Asmodeus. He informed the party of a fiendish generator behind the barrier, supposedly operated by Asmodeus himself.

Templar Gargulos: A minotaur loyal to Asmodeus who was caught stealing from the Baron's treasury. He revealed that the soul barrier was built by the preeminent engineers of Hell, a clan of duergar led by The Architect of Misery, and that they also built the generator. To save his life, he offered the name of one who might help them bypass the portal, the resident necromancer Zentil Filtheater.

The Architect of Misery (mentioned): Leader of the premiere hellish engineers and builders, a clan of duergar who built the soul barrier as well as the Asmodean's mysterious generator. He's been known to work for all sorts of archfiends and now Asmodeus himself.

The Duergar Engineer (mentioned): Representative of the Architect's clan within the Baron's citadel, presumed behind the soul barrier.

Zentil Filtheater (mentioned): Resident necromancer of the Baron's keep and perhaps the only one inside capable of penetrating the soul barrier. Somewhere in the eastern complex.

Rimmon Damas: Not much is known of this royal fiend, suffice to say he looks terribly imposing at nine feet tall, with a scaly ogre's body and the amalgam head of a crocodile, goat and man, robed in fire and wielding a black, hooked mace. A clear foe of Mara and apparent ally of Flamen Pontifica.

Flamen Pontifica: The tiefling high priestess of Asmodeus, strange and ungainly with her fetishes, symbols and armor surgically installed into her jaundice person. She wields a grand staff topped with a pentagram and looks a match even for Mara. Ally of Rimmon Damas.

Sleria: A seductive half-succubus tiefling armed with a spear, masturbating to all the carnage of the eastern foyer.

Kinimo: A seductive half-succubus tiefling armed with a spear, masturbating to all the carnage of the eastern foyer.

Returning NPCs
Mara D'Amoria: The would-be exarch of Hecate is fighting for her life and the survival of the goddess's church in Ribcage against a slew of Asmodeans, his high priestess and a royal devil among them. Around her neck is the soul-stealing bauble...

New Hooks
The Souls Generator: A cascading soul barrier stands between the Dark Three and the mysterious generator, operated by Asmodeus himself if the evangelist is to be at all believed. Built by the premiere engineers in all the infernal realms, the duergar clan belonging to none other than The Architect of Misery, it stands to reason whatever this contraption does is very bad and devastatingly effective.

Next Session
94b: A fateful battle ensues between Mara D'Amoria, the despised would-be exarch of Hecate, against the combined tenacity of Asmodeus's lieutenant Rimmon Damas and his high priestess Flamen Pontifica. The fate of Ribcage, Isabella's soul, Hecate's church and the future of Hell may hang in the balance. Where will the allegiance of the Dark Three fall?

Sunday, January 2, 2011

A Wild Night (94.5a)

Biosh 2nd
the night before the delve

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Experience: -
Treasure: -
Coin: -
Loot: stuffed animal of Curck

New NPCs
Auntie Bellum: An elfin sidhe of middling age, dressed in fine robe and gown of deep green and rose red, a skilled geomancer with a master's control of plantlife, from a long line of geomancers who helped build Eglantine in elder days. She recognized Tyvis as Archdruid and was perhaps the only green fey met to truly understand the gravity of encroaching autumn.

Sproutlings: Mute, living vines not unlike pumpkin curls with blossoms for heads, the grown children of the geomancer Auntie Bellum and servers at The Tulip Lounge.

Ol' Finigandee: A surly leprechaun mugger haunting the outskirts of eastern Eglantine, a bit touched- making his own powers over wind and earth seem like invisible members of a pretend gang. He was soundly pummeled by Tyvis and made to swear on his buckles to change his ways.

The Dollmaker: A hunched, ungainly gnome with hands three times their proper size and a toted artisan in Eglantine's market. His business has fallen on hard times, as of late all his customers' children or dear little ones having ended up victims of boogeymen.

Boogeymen (mentioned): Hideous and horrible shadow fey that have been tracing the Dollmaker's toys back to their recipients, little children, then stealing them away into the black realm of nightmares to suck their bones clean.

Returning NPCs
Snurt (dead): The pig-headed tatooist died squealing under the fiery holocaust of canvas and buckled wood.

Fox (dead): The fox-headed phooka perished under the fiery holocaust of canvas and buckled wood.

Gnomish Ruffian (dead): The pavilion guard burned to death under the fiery holocaust of canvas and buckled wood.

New Hooks
Bumps in the Night (Tyvis): Tyvis agreed to help the distraught Dollmaker and his failing business by stopping the horrid shadow fey known as boogeymen from following his toys back to their recipients, namely little children, only to steal and devour them.