(Btw, I am very impressed by the number of poster designers who have riffed off the EutS dance posters.)
Last Time
On a giant turtle!
Met people at the library!
Saraid talked to the turtle! And met Fyodor.
The TBs talked with Ren, then Tek, then interviewed by the Librarians.
It begins!
TBs are being interviewed.
Mizzle and Saraid return (with Fyodor).
Mizzle walks in … and see the Libs have given the TBs emergency rations. (cheez ‘n’ crackers)
The TBs like them.
And the Libs have been generous with them.
Mizzle recognizes them as being for a crisis.
We have a plan.
Sunken island, risen City. Whale-turtle egg, the turtle is trying to get to it even though it is poison. We said we’d go and retrieve it.
And now they are asking questions about talking with the Turtle.
Saraid reassures them.
Expedition was being planned to check out the risen City. We must explore it!
When the island sank, lots of people died … so undead …
… and now monsters and evil things have moved in.
Evacuate folk?
Fyodor: the turtle will not let us come to harm.
All their food is going bad, hour by hour. Yikes!
Ask the Libs to delay. Yeah, yeah, the responsible thing to do, I suppose.
Give us little stones. Short-range communication.
Oh, there’s a Squirrelkin here on the Gallimaufry. Zeal.
Mizzle speaks up – Ren recognized him!
“Beastkin, er, Animalkin.”
“Creature is even more inclusive.”
We run off!
Mizzle buys an Elixir bottle to get MP back.
We fly on Prisma.
Streets are still under black, brackish water. Coral growth, etc.
What do you see?
- Lots of statues of stylized warriors with weapons.
- Also … advertisements (events, eateries)
- A baby buggy tipped over, with a doll inside.
We come across … a bunker?
Powered doors … but not currently powered.
The TBs uncover some control stuff – Tiny can creep inside, and see a place where something should go … when poking and prodding, they feel a tingle as the cirucit completes.
The doors lurch open on reserve.
We can pass through, into the emergency bunker.
And They Call It A Mine!
Sites of interest. Research station.
Mizzle sense of where the egg is?
Deep in this place … somewhere.
New ritual?
Traveling along … in danger …
Various corridors … dead ends.
Air becomes a bit thicker … heavier … wrong …
A pocket of miasma!
The TBs can button-up air-tight.
The Acorn Pixie is okay (just tastes nasty)
Saraid does a Ritual, to emulate an animal for the group – a Mongoose, which should be resistant to poison. Success! (Though it’s costly in MP.)
Feels nasty, but not poisoned. And a bit faster.
// Mike – air seal (a story element) vs game impact (vs using my Respirator)
Next up, a large room …
Research Lab
… that looks like the AM’s first Ambra lab.
With humanoid figures inside.
Mizzle investigates. Pushes with a bond.
- These aren’t the creation pods the AM was using, but stasis pods, locking people away.
- As power was lost (or death energy imposed), the people inside aged out, now mummified and skeletal.
- The people in these pods … were animal-kin
- Refuge? Prisoners? Test subjects? → Trying to survive the sinking, but … didn’t.
One pod is still functioning!
Large cat!
(Sorry, best pic I could get of Jonesy in Ripley’s cryopod)
TBs try to open it up. Could put them at risk.
DL 13
4 successes vs.
2 failures
- Give Aetheric sensor to Mizzle to monitor current.
- Rewiring quickly as Mizzle monitors (to push the roll).
- Saraid helps shift the pod deftly to help the wiring reach. Push using a bond with TBs.
- Things start to go south - Saraid, brute force it! Success!
Person inside sprawling out, goo falling out, too. Groan.
He chokes out … "Did we succeed … "
You’re the only one who survived.
That was the risk. Did we succeed? Are you the next generations?
Acorn Pixie healing.
It’s been a thousand years.
TBs were from Near Daran. “The colony of Thule?!”
There are pockets of animalkin in different places.
Good some of us survived. Tried to make a home here.
Research Craft 32 crashed into this world … we did our best to make emergency beacons, but had to learn to live on this world. Got some help from some of your (Mizzle’s) people.
Something about this world and our people were not compatible with it.
When his people die, their souls don’t get pulled to the Stream of Souls. “We tried to do our research. That’s why we made these bodies.”
So … from the stars … body manipulation magitech to craft bodies to survive in …
Why did FD sink? Inundated by poor spiritual energy. Allies used mystical teachings to help souls adapt and enter the Stream. So didn’t want to cause problems, and sealed us away.
TBs – there are smells when people die, but not this Miasma.
It worked!
Oh, the egg? I know where that is!
His people were gifted an offspring from a great beast that was tied to the Stream of Souils.
Surdak starts to chuckle. “Been waiting for an opportunity like this.” His realm of expertise. Punch a hole in the Stream, and suck the souls in that are poisoning stuff here.
Sounds like a bad idea. “Shouldn’t” cause problems.
Willing to help … for a price.
Lubeck – a scientist. These metaphysics and mysticism things are beyond me.
Mizzle gives him Surdak. You guys chat.
Mizzle tries to appeal to Surdak’s better nature. “Will it benefit me?”
Sigh.
We continue along
Luvek and Surdak chat.
Lou … my memory is tricking me. Don’t remember …
Then the lights go out, and we have to proceed into the darkness.
The Miasma is playing poorly with the AM Sigil.
TBs … bed time stories. scary ones …
The Great Blue Owl, who hunts for naughty animalkits who wander too far from hearth and home.
She picks you up and carries you far, far away, where nobody knows you …… and if you are lucky she flies way up high, so high the stars don’t twinkle and you can’t catch your breath and it feels like you will freeze to death … and then drops you, and you fall, and you fall, and you fall, until you go crash-splat and are stuck there forever.
… and if you are unlucky, she take you home to feed her babies, and nobody ever sees you again.
Deeper and deeper, quieter and quieter … what lies ahead?
Mizzle (uses a FP) to contact the base … fills them in, quickly … before all is static …
The Bugaboo!
The TBs have heard that story, too!
TBs shoot at the punkinhead with fire! Which … it absorbs. Swap to Microwave.
Round 1
- Bugaboo - goes after Mizzle … stalking him.
- Mizzle - Learns about the Bugaboo! Insight about Special Abilities! “Wide Open” - vuln to Air, Ice, Light after a smile carver.
- Wisp A - vs Sraid - Ghostfire! Lose R to Fire damage. Oh, and does Fire damage. Setting up the Bugaboo.
- Saraid - Thereoform choice. Big Swing! Hit all three with the Anchor.
- Bugaboo - Scorching Wisp Light on the TBs … they are Scorched.
- TBs - Swap out for Air attack … shoot the Wisps, they are Vuln. Yay!
- Wisp B - Ghostfire vs TBs. Was Scorched. Ouch! Ghostfire – lose Fire resistance.
Round 2
- Bugaboo - Smile Carver! Mizzle Shaken. And down to 1 HP!
- Mizzle - Renew HP!
- Wisp A - vs Saraid. Ghostfire.
- Saraid - Ice Breath on Bugaboo (vuln to Ice). Miss! FP - Invoke a Trait … Big Hits all around! They explode! Then vanish. And seriusly hit the BB.
- BB - Vainglory! on TBs. Hit, but Resistant to Phys. Doesn’t heal much.
- TBs - Shoot!
Round 3
- BB - Jack-o-Mark
- Saraid - Smack the BB with a big stick. In crisis!
- BB - Saraid, with a spell! Scorching Wisplight. Fire damage and Scorched.
- TBs - Shoot him! Damage.
- Mizzle - Grandfather Oak. Heals all!
Round 4
- BB - Stalking - Smile Carver on Mizzle.
- Mizzle - Heal!
- BB - Vainglory on Mizzle.
- TBs - Shoot him!
- Saraid - Ice Breath! Kills him!
The Egg!
Saraid heals. Drops the Therioform.
Mizzle heals.
Surdak and Lubeck are still bickering.
Lubeck - I remember this now! This way!
Research area. Large, pulsating egg! In a very large stasis chamber.
It’s bigger than immediately carryable?
Saraid - it wants to be born! Waiting for the right conditions.
Lubeck is stumped.
Surdak - show of good faith! I will ensure your safety in the Stream of Souls. Prisma would be able to take on a form that would work for that; I will teach her. Doing this so you can trust me. Only way that won’t cost a lot of life (from demons still lurking).
Prisma should be able to carry us three, four, and the Egg.
Saraid and TBs don’t know.
Mizzle - you know you would have been taken down, as a tyrant.
If given the chance, I could have achieved my goals. Not necessary that I will come to an end. Godhood is not the only path.
Mizzle tries to show the value of caring.
Bargain: go with your plan, if you promise to consider why I would spare you. Dedicate yourself to figure out the answer.
Surdak talks with Prisma. Teaches how to travel the Stream of Souls.
Surdak: downside - need an entrance, to use the SoS to get us out of this place.
Lubeck, where are we in the city? Under the water … how far from the ocean? Punching through the hull? Not far? But full of miasma.
Plan B - Demons ghosts, but also plant life … encourage to grow up through the layers of the city. G’father Oak. Also, Saraid’s Chimerism, and can talk to plants.
Schematic of the ship – break through with plants, with pressure doors –
TBs find a workable path, least amount of structural damage, consulting with Lubeck, but this way and that way and … best, shortest path.
Can G’father Oak have control to clean poisoning?
What about that seedling?
Mizzle - fails roll. What if Surdak is right?
Saraid - take a breath, forget it, center, breathing exercises … (Orator) Encourage!
Rolls the check again – 12!
The seedling will grow … and will absorb some miasma … but that might do something to it.
But Librarians (and Druids) will be coming here forever to help it.
Mizzle decides … this is the place.
Surdak is not happy. … maybe you can be an advising spirit for the city?
Surdak … remains confused … you keep treating me well …
“Can you answer my question of ‘why’?”
Hey, End of Session!
Aw, we don’t need to worry about leveling up … this time …
Mizzle’s session 41+ agenda:
- Plant a seed of rebirth in this city, and find a way to nourish it
- Get egg back to Gallimaufry
- Avoid death by embarrassment
- Find & talk to Zeal
