Synopsis:
Part 1: Preparations (Patarm 12-13 of the 21st Year AS)
Tyvis and Narra concluded diplomatic relations with the shexill queen quite amiably, even if the alien parasites nature and methods were a little gruesome. Narra gleaned that the majority of the Yth are mindless and easily led/ambushed, however two of their lords were terrifyingly clever: Nyarlathotep and the King in Yellow.
They attempted to beseech the Kr'llyand Leviathan for aid, but it was decided unimpressed. Ultimately, Tyvis and Narra decided to keep the planet out of the conflict for as long as possible given the peoples' primitive technologies and (outside the very structured Great Civilization) chaotic nature.
Eilessa and Caiphon learned a great deal about each other's origins, magic, methods, and the supposed nature of the star children, starry maidens, suns, and Life itself when opposed to Entropy and the forces of the Yth. Later on, Eilessa brokered bodies for her sixty-six wards with the vampire queen. Caiphon also introduced himself to the others, wretched though he was. Apparently there was a connection between Caiphon, wild magic, and perhaps Diana that could be explored in the future.
Isabella and Christopher concluded talks with Kaylan, while Diana took a magic bubble leaving trails of leaping, white rabbits and fluttering butterflies (oh, wild magic...) in order to investigate the state of her commissioned astral ships in Ribcage.
Isabella later provided initial funding into her royal mage's 'counterspell' research, using Christopher's universe's gestures and incantations as a guide. Three times the Dragon Prince questioned Ayasha's methods, though she only bristled for realizing his deeper understanding of magic (and her own limits in the process).
As days passed, the party slowly reconvened in the bowels of Castle Saspien to be whisked away to the heart of the Holy Nors Empire.
Part 2: The Imperial Summit (Patarm 14th of the 21st Year AS)
Jewel of Mankind, Noran, in the Crimson Keep...
Exhaustive list of delegates as follows...
Familiar faces...
Divine Inquisitor and Archbishop shenanigans...
Appearance of the emperor...
Objectives: In the immediate future, maintain peace at the imperial summit and make sure no one tries to use the delegation to enact something sinister. Help the Lorannans steer their world closer to peace and end futile hostilities.
In the long term, address the matters of Sev Torban, Shub-Niggurath, the Ythlord below Hastur, and various personal and secretive plots in anticipation for the eventual collapse of the Yg-Rayan front lines (currently Primordials and their archwardens, Primal Spirits, and the bulk of the Gith Armada slowing the approach of the Ythian throneworlds).
Experience: currently level 26
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Saturday, June 22, 2013
161: There is Good in This Universe
Synopsis:
Eilessa restored Tavishan's soul and, with the help of Nimue and sixty-six redeemed souls, converted Kostitchtie's Torc into her divine respite for the lost and weary. Nimue transferred her consciousness into the demiplane, becoming one of Eilessa's true angels and leaving the Pureheart vacant of a personality.
Tyvis and Narra traveled to Kr'llyand, encountered the reptilian xill, found a surprisingly insect-like society, and discovered the reason lay in their parasitic shexill queen. Survivor of The Great Civilization (destroyed by the Yth), the shexill queen had selectively bred the xill, cir'nak, quitiesh, and draan over the course of ten-thousand generations toward the goal of establishing a second Great Civilization. She made a few 'improvements' as well to immunize them from Yth attacks, including thinking and communicating through chemicals and pheromone clouds (impervious to most psychic attacks), and giving them a more aberrant nature to resist the strange warps and radiations of the Devourer and its ilk.
Narra agreed to link minds with the shexill queen in hopes of discovering some advantage against the Yth in her memories. However the queen herself seems rather Ythian...
Isabella and Christopher continued their visit with the prophet, the Dragon Prince being met with a surprising amount of grace from his alternate-universe mother. Their meal was interrupted by a very rude agent of the Solis, an ugly crone who claimed to have usurped leadership from Sleria. It was only in the last moments of the act that the women realized this hag was in fact Diana returned! A joyful reunion was had by all and minds set to new purpose, the emperor's impending summit and the remaining terrestrial and extraterrestrial enemies on their doorstep.
Objectives: see 159
Experience: level 26
Eilessa restored Tavishan's soul and, with the help of Nimue and sixty-six redeemed souls, converted Kostitchtie's Torc into her divine respite for the lost and weary. Nimue transferred her consciousness into the demiplane, becoming one of Eilessa's true angels and leaving the Pureheart vacant of a personality.
Tyvis and Narra traveled to Kr'llyand, encountered the reptilian xill, found a surprisingly insect-like society, and discovered the reason lay in their parasitic shexill queen. Survivor of The Great Civilization (destroyed by the Yth), the shexill queen had selectively bred the xill, cir'nak, quitiesh, and draan over the course of ten-thousand generations toward the goal of establishing a second Great Civilization. She made a few 'improvements' as well to immunize them from Yth attacks, including thinking and communicating through chemicals and pheromone clouds (impervious to most psychic attacks), and giving them a more aberrant nature to resist the strange warps and radiations of the Devourer and its ilk.
Narra agreed to link minds with the shexill queen in hopes of discovering some advantage against the Yth in her memories. However the queen herself seems rather Ythian...
Isabella and Christopher continued their visit with the prophet, the Dragon Prince being met with a surprising amount of grace from his alternate-universe mother. Their meal was interrupted by a very rude agent of the Solis, an ugly crone who claimed to have usurped leadership from Sleria. It was only in the last moments of the act that the women realized this hag was in fact Diana returned! A joyful reunion was had by all and minds set to new purpose, the emperor's impending summit and the remaining terrestrial and extraterrestrial enemies on their doorstep.
Objectives: see 159
Experience: level 26
Friday, June 14, 2013
160: The Importance of Being Epic
Synopsis: (pending side completions)
Tyvis met with several of his fellow archdruids in Eglantine, discussing strategies for the inevitable confrontation with Sev Torban. They also located the world tree Tyvis transplanted from the Siege to the Wyld, safely hidden in the likeness of an unassuming tree amidst thousands in the Silverwood.
Isabella and Christopher visited Kaylan Gloriandel in the camp of the free elves, situated around the fallen Celinduil in the ruins of New Veluvia. Kaylan took the news of Thamior's demise better than could have been expected, though her love for the small glimmer of that noble prince would never diminish.
The prophet's efforts to resurrect the golden wyrm remain fruitless, though the late dragon's daughter Rees Duilbrood holds out hope. Isabella and Kaylan made political plans and reaffirmed their undying friendship to one another.
Kaylan also revealed her grandfather had visited her hours prior, and that he and her mother have gone ahead to Corellon to join with the Seldarine and begin transplanting the elven populace from Othyr to the virgin continent. Kaylan's best paladins were already en route to Hastur to retrieve Bella, who would go on ahead of herself and baby Christopher.
Later on, Narra and Tyvis met within the Lord Archdruid's alabaster pyramid to discuss the orphaned worlds which now took shelter in the light of Yg-Raya. A miraculous technology known as arks had allowed for the safe movement of whole planets and their moons, created, Narra surmised, by a civilization long since destroyed (neither the Ibha Varana or Anubians). The pair intended to approach Brilantium and Kr'llyand in hopes of forging peace and new allies before their enemies could do likewise. Narra also warned the planet Xoth was to remain off limits, as a deep-seated evil had overtaken the entire world.
On Brilantium, they encountered the native species, the empathic and joyful solara, as well as their more socially-savvy protectors in the mercury dragons. Narra learned the living arks were called leviathans, and Brilantiums whale-like leviathan was completely harmonized with the world it inhabited- a truly awe-inspiring and moving creature on an already awe-inspiring and moving world. Alliance was forged, sworn in the name of Oxozebius, elder mercury dragon, and The Seven Dawns, some sort of deciding body of the solara.
Eilessa secluded herself in The Sunny Side Inn's royal suite and began unlocking the mysteries of Kostitchtie's torc with the aid of Nimue (Heart of Heaven), intending to transform the soul-trapping amulet into her own divine plane. She was interrupted by a strange character claiming to be a failed star child, drawn by her renewed divinity as a goddess to wanderers and the weary. He called himself Caiphon.
And a young woman emerged from the shores of St. Sulpice, making her way to Saspien with all haste.
Objectives: (see 159)
Experience: level 26
Tyvis met with several of his fellow archdruids in Eglantine, discussing strategies for the inevitable confrontation with Sev Torban. They also located the world tree Tyvis transplanted from the Siege to the Wyld, safely hidden in the likeness of an unassuming tree amidst thousands in the Silverwood.
Isabella and Christopher visited Kaylan Gloriandel in the camp of the free elves, situated around the fallen Celinduil in the ruins of New Veluvia. Kaylan took the news of Thamior's demise better than could have been expected, though her love for the small glimmer of that noble prince would never diminish.
The prophet's efforts to resurrect the golden wyrm remain fruitless, though the late dragon's daughter Rees Duilbrood holds out hope. Isabella and Kaylan made political plans and reaffirmed their undying friendship to one another.
Kaylan also revealed her grandfather had visited her hours prior, and that he and her mother have gone ahead to Corellon to join with the Seldarine and begin transplanting the elven populace from Othyr to the virgin continent. Kaylan's best paladins were already en route to Hastur to retrieve Bella, who would go on ahead of herself and baby Christopher.
Later on, Narra and Tyvis met within the Lord Archdruid's alabaster pyramid to discuss the orphaned worlds which now took shelter in the light of Yg-Raya. A miraculous technology known as arks had allowed for the safe movement of whole planets and their moons, created, Narra surmised, by a civilization long since destroyed (neither the Ibha Varana or Anubians). The pair intended to approach Brilantium and Kr'llyand in hopes of forging peace and new allies before their enemies could do likewise. Narra also warned the planet Xoth was to remain off limits, as a deep-seated evil had overtaken the entire world.
On Brilantium, they encountered the native species, the empathic and joyful solara, as well as their more socially-savvy protectors in the mercury dragons. Narra learned the living arks were called leviathans, and Brilantiums whale-like leviathan was completely harmonized with the world it inhabited- a truly awe-inspiring and moving creature on an already awe-inspiring and moving world. Alliance was forged, sworn in the name of Oxozebius, elder mercury dragon, and The Seven Dawns, some sort of deciding body of the solara.
Eilessa secluded herself in The Sunny Side Inn's royal suite and began unlocking the mysteries of Kostitchtie's torc with the aid of Nimue (Heart of Heaven), intending to transform the soul-trapping amulet into her own divine plane. She was interrupted by a strange character claiming to be a failed star child, drawn by her renewed divinity as a goddess to wanderers and the weary. He called himself Caiphon.
And a young woman emerged from the shores of St. Sulpice, making her way to Saspien with all haste.
Objectives: (see 159)
Experience: level 26
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Sacking the Siege
Free-floating Coin
> AD 1400
> PP 23, 008
> GP 1, 345, 628
> SP 34, 568
> CP 200,000,000 (Charon's Hoard)
Companion Boons
Combat Synergy: When you flank an enemy with your companion, you and your companion gain a +5 item bonus to damage rolls against that enemy.
Special: Each PC may only use this boon on one, specific companion character.
Encouraging Presence: While adjacent to you, your companion gains a +3 item bonus to all defenses.
Special: Each PC may only use this boon on one, specific companion character
2 x Companion Slot: Add a semi-permanent companion to the party, understanding there will be occasions he or she is not viable depending on their life, duties, and the dangers or circumstances of Epic play.
Consumables
- 4 x Alchemist's Essence
- Potion of Life
- Mundane (totaling 1, 239 pp; mixture of scale, plate, chain, and leather from various civilizations across the Yg-Raya system and the two unknown universes siphoned by the Siege)
- Magical (enchantments are able to be transferred)
- +5 Skeletal Chainmail
- +5 Soulforge Plate
- +5 Mindpatterned Feedback Hide
- Unique (enchantments are unable to be transferred)
- +6 Darkhide Ebon Robes of the Archfiend [Darkhide + Ebon Armor (Hide) + Robes of the Archfiend]
- +6 Spectral Godplate of the Displacer [Godplate + Spectral Plate + Displacer Armor (Plate)]
- +6 Voidhide Robes of the Elven Archbattlemage [Voidhide + Elven Battle Armor (Cloth) + Robes of the Archmage]
- +6 Obsidian Kingmail of Dark Deeds [Kingmail + Obsidian Chain + Armor of Dark Deeds]
- +6 Mindpatterned Robes of the Ectoplasmite [Mindpatterned + Robes of Avoidance + Ectoplasmic Armor (Cloth)]
- Mundane (totaling 7,309 pp; mixture of swords, spears, maces, hammers, bows, and crossbows from various civilizations across the Yg-Raya system and the two unknown universes siphoned by the Siege)
- Magical (enchantments are able to be transferred)
- +5 Aftershock Maul
- +5 Manifester Quickbeam (Staff)
- +5 Pinning Spear
- +5 Luckblade (longsword)
- Unique (enchantments are unable to be transferred)
- Pixie (+6 Accurate Rebounding Point Blank Dagger) [Accurate Weapon + Rebounding Weapon + Point Blank Weapon + Dagger]
- Glaumerok (+6 Accurate Exsiccating Icicle Totem/Wand) [Accurate Weapon + Exsiccating Weapon + Icicle Totem + Wand]
- Crond (+6 Aura-Killer Elementalbane Cutting Wheel) [Aura-Killer Weapon + Elementalbane Weapon + Cutting Wheel]
- Redwind ( +6 Strongheart Shapechanger's Sorrow Double Scimitar) [Strongheart Weapon+ Shapechanger's Sorrow Weapon+ Double Scimitar]
- Gray Martyr (+6 Reproachful Healing Blade of Annihilation) [Reproachful Weapon + Healing Weapon + Blade of Annihilation]
- Skire (+6 Subtle Executioner's Axe of Retribution) [Subtle Weapon + Retribution Weapon]
- Taurogair (+6 Swiftshot Skyrender Greatbow)[Swiftshot Weapon + Skyrender Weapon]
- Artifact (enchantments are unable to be transferred)
- Twinned Scythe of the Exgod (+7 Deathmark Frost Fury Deathsteel Scythe of the Reaper)[Deathsteel Weapon + Deathmark Weapon + Frost Fury Weapon + Reaper's Axe + Scythe]
- Artifact (enchantments unable to be transferred)
- Helm of the Exgod (You are immune to necrotic damage; Undead that hit you must save or be dominated (save ends); Ignore the first time you would die and all damage and conditions that would otherwise come with it [daily usage])
- Magical (enchantments are able to be transferred)
- Time-Jumping Boots
- Boots of Teleportation
- Boots of Quickness
- Magical (enchantments are able to be transferred)
- Sash of Heroic Inspiration
- Wraith's Cord
- Unique (enchantments unable to be transferred)
- Dragon's Girdle of Titan Strength [Girdle of the Dragon + Belt of Titan's Strength]
- Magical (enchantments are able to be transferred)
- Reflective Shield
- Magical (enchantments are able to be transferred)
- Gargoyle Ring
- Greater Ring of Spell Storing
- Unique (enchantments unable to be transferred)
- Opal Ring of Fluid Memory [Opal Ring of Remembrance + Ring of Free Time]
- Magical (enchantments are able to be transferred)
- +6 Soul Shard Talisman
- +6 Greater Necklace of Fireballs
- +6 Star-Strewn Scarf
Wondrous
- Magical (enchantments are able to be transferred)
- Charm of Abundant Action
- Mummified Hand
Anubian Technology
- The Demonstar (Cinnabar Polychoron Vessel of the Abyss)
- Iggwilv's Ring (Helm of the Abyss)
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