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Episode 100: Downfall: Part Two

Salutations, as we return to the heart of the city of Aeor in the moments before its inevitable downfall.
We return to where we left off, within the Chamber of Seasons, deep in the heart of the Opus Ward. Ancient stone and the illuminated images in this temple of old that now are brought to new life under the light of a hidden sun. Images of the gods flank the walls of this chamber. As you prepare to leave, knowing only that a weapon (made to destroy the eternal) is at the very threshold of operational status, deep within the heart of this last bastion of mortal might.
As you prepare to leave you see that these strange companions (also in the form of mortal avatars) begin to smile and make their way towards the exit. For those of you that have conversed here, we have several groups preparing to travel out from this place:

  • Asha and The Emissary are preparing to move with Tishar (a tall-hulking barbarian woman with a massive greatsword on her back) and Zaharzht (a spiky Tortle, sort of albino, sickly-green eyes, with hooks and jagged chunks of rusty metal in his flesh. They prepare to head to the Obtenebrator Engine (which disguises the city from divine sight and scrying) in the Genesis Ward at the center of the city.
  • SILAHA (an aeormaton) and Emhira are preparing to leave in the company of Umleta (a small halfling archer) to make use of SILAHA’s connections within the mageocratic city of Aeor. Searching for rumors or clues to the Eravox Protocol (a means by which, should the mageistry of Aeor become aware of the threat to their great project, the knowledge of that project would be transcribed and sent to the far corners of Exandria) one last failsafe that the knowledge found to destroy the gods would not be lost to mortalkind.
  • Arcadia (your companion and ally from here in the city) and Father Milo (a priest of the Dawnfather) accompanying Ayden and Trist. Searching for passage into the Genesis Ward (highly secretive, the arcane heart of Aeor where its greatest secrets (some of which will be discovered many years from now under the icy frost of Eiselcross but in this day they are at the zenith of their power) lie.

Is there anything that you do or say to each other as you prepare to disembark from the Chamber of Secrets, uh Chamber of Seasons?
As Umleta comes to join you, you see that she looks up at you and smiles. You see that she has this rogue-ish way of carefully taking this silken rope and begins to pack it around an elbow and a hand, creating a little coil that she tucks into this large, black bag on her back. You see there is thread… like a web. You don’t like that they (these betrayer gods) were here before you arrived. You’ve been in this city for a long time and you begin to wonder how long they’ve been here for.

Previous Episode: “Downfall: Part One”

  • Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
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    • 02:54:35 SILAHA:“…sometimes there is a beauty in not understanding. You just ‘play by the rules’ as one of my favorites would say. Ignorance can be bliss. Now hear me very, very, carefully. This thing that threatens us will soon threaten you, and there will be no end. At least with us, there is some form of control. It’s just the way things are. So please, humor us, what do you know of your time being here of this thing? I promise we will give you purpose back, for you are our children, after all.”
      Garathran:“With deference to the hands that move creation, if you wanted to make us to serve the gods, you should not have made us good.”
    • 02:56:45 Laura:“Speak With the Dead”
      Abubakar:“Oh my god!”
      Taliesin makes many faces.
    • 02:57:53 Fan Art Moment Raven Queen’s Divine Form meeting the soul of Garathras in her dimension.
    • 03:00:48 Garathran:“…There is a dragon that they have enlisted in their service.”
      Laura:“Fuck.”
      BLeeM:(smarmy NYC accent)“Y’all thought when I said 20th level, it was gonna be a fuckin’ cakewalk? Is that what you’re tellin’ me?”
      Garathran:“Ataro, a shadow dragon, a dragon of death reached out to Acastriel when he began to foment unrest amongst the celestial ranks. There are devils as well that have joined his cause there. The Fey, fiends, all of them. There are many in the past years of quiet (where the gods’ presence have not been seen) have wondered if some new order might be possible. There are many who have placed their bets on mortals…if they believe that gods can walk in their city at this very moment, they will not wait to unleash it…he left the bar about 20 minutes before you arrived.”
    • 03:03:00 Garathran:“He mentioned something before he left about a scribe, an aeormaton meant to copy (DOTY?!), beneath the Obtenebrator Engine.”
    • 03:06:45 BLeeM leaves to get a Battle Map! while the players hunt a local flying insect.
    • 03:08:12 Laura is molding Nick into a fine dice goblin.
    • 03:14:52 You see their shield is made of hundreds of of thousands of intricate little runes and phrases. There is one rune on your axe written in the language of the gods which simply translates to “Denial.” As though they had written a thousand pages of petition to some divine judge to be able to warp reality and got a one word response: No.
    • 03:17:00 Fan Art Moment The Emissary pulling the Archmage into their maelstrom of rock and ice and axes while whispering “Repent.”
    • 03:19:50 The raven familiar of Emhira is assisted by the birds emboldened by Asha’s communion with local nature and appears nearby. This allows her to see where to put the other end of the Arcane Gate about to be cast.
      Fan Art Moment (Keep in mind, she is still in her true RQ form in the extra-dimensional space of her death plane, so you see that through the gate)
      BLeeM:“Fuck yes. That is fucking awesome.”
    • 03:22:57 SILAHA follows up the gate up with Dimension Door and brings Emhira along.
      BLeeM:“You are both slightly nauseous…That’s a lot of teleporting.”
    • 03:26:30 Clockwork Cavalcade: You summon mechanical spirits (aeormaton souls) which can restore up to 100 hit points divided as you choose within the cube. Any damaged objects entirely within the cube are repaired. Every spell of 6th level or lower ends on creatures and objects of your choice within the cube.
    • 03:27:57 Epic Sound FX from Abubakar as SILAHA’s eyes turn purple and a concentrated gravitational beam pulls the aeormaton inside him, simultaneously absorbing and dismantling it.
      Mission: Complete
      SILAHA:“Oh my.”
      BLeeM:"You just fuckin’ ‘Kirby’-ed the Scribe…You are able to metabolize (as the knowledge enters your chest) the heart of the Arch Hearth. You hold within you a poem so beautiful that it could convince reality to kill a god. "
    • 03:32:18 The nail in the coffin for the Archmage, Dome of Silence cast by Zaharzht and both attempts at counterspelling fail.
    • 03:37:40 Archmage Cassida teleports the group at the hospital (minus Hallis) to the Obtenebrator.
      Nick:“We got Betrayer Gods, we got Betrayer mortals.”
    • 03:40:37 Ashley and BLeeM:“Get it!”
    • 03:46:48 Fan Art Moment Asha’s massive leap (bouncing off of Zaharzht (or maybe the orb)) into combat
    • 03:48:48 The dice run from Taliesin.
    • 03:50:01 You, falling like a predator, fangs distending. Even without sight, the breath, life always leaves a trail…
      Taliesin:“How they lookin’?” (this is how you fish for a killing blow) HDYWTDT
    • 03:53:47 BLeeM’s Barbarian rage noise sounds like a deep Dragonball powerup. Neat!
    • 03:55:40 Ayden Giving Shaden:“It’s taking you that long?” grants Tishar an extra attack
    • 03:56:40 Tishar (noticing Ayden’s blessing granting her the opportunity to ruin something) she remembers the ship of light. Force. Power. Hope.

    “It didn’t have to be this way. There is a purpose to all of us.”

    • 03:58:10 Laura:“My Arcane Gate is still open. Ten minutes, baybee.” (wasn’t the other end in her plane of death to speak to the soul of Garathran?)
    • 03:58:35 Winds. Howling. (the Storm Lord can see where to strike now)
      Laura:“Yes!” (typical RQ celebrating mass death)
    • 03:58:58 Through the Arcane Gate it can briefly be seen (felt?) that the Magestri of Aeor are all teleporting in and discovering the disabled constructs, a dead arch mage and broken Obtenebrator.
      BLeeM:“One round was all you fucking had.”