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<blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 1830812" data-attributes="member: 892"><p>OK, from last time I had 2 players absent, Prince Caius and Lady Christina. So they are in fairyland. Since the other characters recently disappeared in a flash of light, I could pretty easily reintroduce the missing characters from fairyland. One of its many advantages. Now, Queen Titania had tea with Prince Caius, offering him a necklace of small stone horses which she said he would find useful, and also offering to return him to his friends if he would help rescue some of her dwarfs from a dragon (in a mountain laced with cold iron, so she could not simply rescue them herself). Prince Caius agrees. Christina’s player didn’t show up yet, but would be given a similar deal to learn more about hedge mage magic. Oh, while in fairyland, Caius had his pocket picked of the 3 800 gp leftover, after helping the smith’s daughter and her town, that he got from the nun.</p><p></p><p>Ok, the party starts this session in a gray realm, floating around in apparent nothingness and unable to move except by pushing off each other into each other. The last surviving thief is still with them, and is screaming in panic and accusing them of devil magic. Then suddenly Caius and Christina show up in a flash of golden light. Then some lights are visible in the distance, and turn out to be humanoid figures, some of them more transparent than others. They are friendly, and introduce themselves, and heal Prince Hamilton to consciousness. They look a lot like the braid-beard types that Toby dreamed about and that they fought (the cannibals with the paralyzing touch). They say they are the sundered ones, and that because of a very old dark ritual, they are stuck in this realm, which they names Lemba after their chief. The ritual, a result of Albion’s work with the dark book they now carry, has split the noble parts of their souls off into this realm, and left the ignoble parts in their old bodies. They have reason to believe, given the disappearance of four of their number, that the bodies have been reawakened (bad news) but that upon their destruction the souls can be reunited to then go on to wherever they go. The Sundered ones introduce the party to Albion, or at least the noble part of him. Albion is 40’ tall! The giant who used the book for dark rituals, it corrupted him almost entirely. Thus his noble part is almost transparent, and only a whisper of a voice can be heard.</p><p></p><p>Now as to getting out of Lemba. First Toby tries his device (just hitting buttons at random, so I just pick spells at random). Toby goes gaseous for a while! The party, after vowing to slay all the walking dead (they like making vows like that!), ask how to get out. They are given the ability to walk around in Lemba by the noble spirits. While immaterial souls cannot go through them, there are two gates, one to “Elysium” and one to “Hades”. The elf character realizes that changes have been made, and these realms are under new management as “Heaven” and “Hell”. Surprisingly, the party tries for “Heaven”. (I thought they would try for Toby’s device again). They go through a gate of white cloud, and hear singing choruses, but then are falling, falling, past angels who wonder who these “impure ones” are, and fall into the fiery pit of Hell! (they start floating near the end) So they are on a red rock plain, near a river that, though apparently of water, has flames dancing on top of it. And in the distance there are damned souls being tortured (I don’t go into gory details, just saying that the characters never imagined tortures like this and hope they forget what they are seeing), and a giant frog biped, and in another direction some insectoid creatures. The giant frog biped (spot check nat. 20) notices them and comes after them. About now, Caius’s necklace gets heavier and Caius takes it off and soon is leading 7 horses (they are the party’s original horses (hey, I’m a softie)). They then ride upstream away from the big frog guy (a reworked Red Slaadi, (basically no spawning, since I have another way of creating demons, and no alignment, so it is easy to make a demon-type; the insects were reworked formians, but were never met). Then they run into hell hounds, fight them while Leanne goes back for the thief running from the frog demon (no horse for him!), and they all ride again from the frog demon. They go through the (very wide) mouth of the river coming out of a cliff and find themselves in white clouds again (and falling again) this time to earth, but Toby hits his device before they go splat on the ground and they end up “dismissed” to one of the character’s homes – Prince Hamilton. But this is the realm from which he was banished!</p><p></p><p>So of course, his dad’s knights ride up and there is nearly an attempt to kill Hamilton then and there, but they keep talking and I have a knight say “I know that you must be upset over what happened to your siblings, but I must obey my king’s orders.” And then they find out that all of Hamilton’s siblings are dead from various accidents and illnesses (except the eldest, which is missing). Caius speaks up and says that he (as son of the king of all Ireland, which includes this little kingdom) wishes to speak to the king about commuting the sentence, since Hamilton is the sole heir. So after agreeing to have Hamilton disarmed, they proceed to the castle, with H. under guard.</p><p></p><p>Ok, the party is fairly wounded, and this is where things get a little weird. Sir Anton wishes to heal near a lake (thinking there will be another lady of the lake) rather than in the chapel, since he is old faith, and the roll showed a ley line was nearby, so Leanne and Christina go as well. “Dammit, they split up the party!” So at the lake Sir Anton tries to summon the lady of the lake. But the problem is, he gets a Sea Hag! He loses a lot of strength, and it takes the three of them to put the hag down (Christina did more damage than Sir Anton! Go morningstar!). Then they go back to town, with a drained man. He is healed slightly before they go courtesy of Leanne the Minstrel (who has a few druid spells now as a higher level Minstral).</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, the queen and ladies in waiting greet prince Caius and simply ignore Hamilton. Alas, the king is too ill to see anyone right now, but perhaps in the morning he would be better? She offers them a small feast (alas, they did not know they were coming!) and the services of the chapel (so the group that stayed is healed up).</p><p></p><p>Right, nighttime. Hamilton is kept in a guest quarters under guard. The party wisely decides to set watches to help guard Hamilton (Toby, then Anton, then Andrew). The rest of the party (Leanne, Christina, Caius) wants to skulk about and try to see the king. Ok, Toby on watch gets a servant with Hamilton’s favourite childhood dessert. Hamilton does not eat it, and Toby keeps a sample to check for poison later (it wasn’t; hey sometimes a cigar is just a cigar). Second watch, Anton (still weakened, but ready, is called away by “Christina” who says that Caius is keeping watch in secret, but that she found out something that Anton needs to see. Anton follows, and “Christina” leads him to 2 other ladies in waiting, and yeah, he is strength drained. I also had an enchantress type change his memories so that he thinks that he had an argument with Hamilton about faith, and felt very dizzy, and that is why he left without alerting the next watch. He feels guilty later, but technically does not lose nobility since he didn’t “really” leave for such a petty reason.</p><p></p><p>Ok, the Queen comes to Hamilton’s prison room, dismisses the guards, visits, reveals herself as an Annis, kills Hamilton. Hamilton spends 3 fate points so I will bring him back (sort of).</p><p></p><p>Back to the skulking party, who use invisibility and distractions (a la Christina and Leanne, respectively) to get two people into the king’s chamber. They find a weakened king (similar to the nun poisoning the servant in Lord Bertrand’s castle way earlier) and some letters that on a close skim, are from a mysterious “M” and saying things like “well done, but I need you for another mission”. Then a secret door opens, the Queen enters, with a bloody sack, and starts gloating over the king. The invisible two attack…and miss. Caius yells for Christina to run and get help, and tries to hold off the “Queen”. Guards rush up, the Queen pleas that Caius is trying to kill her husband (the bloody sack discreetly on the floor by the bed, so not immediately an object of concern). Caius then bluffs “too much evidence is out; you will never fool them; give up” to the Queen and it works, so the Annis uses fog cloud. Then the Minstral Leanne uses that faerie fire wand blindly, which lights up both Annis and Caius. Annis brings Caius to –6 and leaves. Caius spends a fate point to seem dead and stabilize and fall on the bloody sack. Ok, the short version. The annis, enchantress and “ladies in waiting” (greenhags) escape (first via secret passage, then via back door of castle) , killing 10 guards at the rear. Titania(Go 3 fate points!) then whispers from the secret corridor to Leanne (bring me the sack!) and Leanne agrees (but only Leanne seems to see or hear her). Out of view of the others, Titania places the flesh of Hamilton (in the sack!) around a gold statuette (worth 3 800gp, in fact! Remember Caius being pickpocketed?) and Hamilton is back!…as a dwarf (which is fey in my world, and gets bonus to dex not con). Leanne quickly explains things to Hamilton, and then with a heck of a diplomacy check, intro’s Hamilton as a “man restored by the grace of god” to his former self, but lessened because the hag already ate some parts (the hags’ covers are blown by this point). Hamilton changes his “fate” from “Expose his mother” to “preserve harmony between new and old faiths” (since he is likely the first ever Christian Fey). End session!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Particle_Man, post: 1830812, member: 892"] OK, from last time I had 2 players absent, Prince Caius and Lady Christina. So they are in fairyland. Since the other characters recently disappeared in a flash of light, I could pretty easily reintroduce the missing characters from fairyland. One of its many advantages. Now, Queen Titania had tea with Prince Caius, offering him a necklace of small stone horses which she said he would find useful, and also offering to return him to his friends if he would help rescue some of her dwarfs from a dragon (in a mountain laced with cold iron, so she could not simply rescue them herself). Prince Caius agrees. Christina’s player didn’t show up yet, but would be given a similar deal to learn more about hedge mage magic. Oh, while in fairyland, Caius had his pocket picked of the 3 800 gp leftover, after helping the smith’s daughter and her town, that he got from the nun. Ok, the party starts this session in a gray realm, floating around in apparent nothingness and unable to move except by pushing off each other into each other. The last surviving thief is still with them, and is screaming in panic and accusing them of devil magic. Then suddenly Caius and Christina show up in a flash of golden light. Then some lights are visible in the distance, and turn out to be humanoid figures, some of them more transparent than others. They are friendly, and introduce themselves, and heal Prince Hamilton to consciousness. They look a lot like the braid-beard types that Toby dreamed about and that they fought (the cannibals with the paralyzing touch). They say they are the sundered ones, and that because of a very old dark ritual, they are stuck in this realm, which they names Lemba after their chief. The ritual, a result of Albion’s work with the dark book they now carry, has split the noble parts of their souls off into this realm, and left the ignoble parts in their old bodies. They have reason to believe, given the disappearance of four of their number, that the bodies have been reawakened (bad news) but that upon their destruction the souls can be reunited to then go on to wherever they go. The Sundered ones introduce the party to Albion, or at least the noble part of him. Albion is 40’ tall! The giant who used the book for dark rituals, it corrupted him almost entirely. Thus his noble part is almost transparent, and only a whisper of a voice can be heard. Now as to getting out of Lemba. First Toby tries his device (just hitting buttons at random, so I just pick spells at random). Toby goes gaseous for a while! The party, after vowing to slay all the walking dead (they like making vows like that!), ask how to get out. They are given the ability to walk around in Lemba by the noble spirits. While immaterial souls cannot go through them, there are two gates, one to “Elysium” and one to “Hades”. The elf character realizes that changes have been made, and these realms are under new management as “Heaven” and “Hell”. Surprisingly, the party tries for “Heaven”. (I thought they would try for Toby’s device again). They go through a gate of white cloud, and hear singing choruses, but then are falling, falling, past angels who wonder who these “impure ones” are, and fall into the fiery pit of Hell! (they start floating near the end) So they are on a red rock plain, near a river that, though apparently of water, has flames dancing on top of it. And in the distance there are damned souls being tortured (I don’t go into gory details, just saying that the characters never imagined tortures like this and hope they forget what they are seeing), and a giant frog biped, and in another direction some insectoid creatures. The giant frog biped (spot check nat. 20) notices them and comes after them. About now, Caius’s necklace gets heavier and Caius takes it off and soon is leading 7 horses (they are the party’s original horses (hey, I’m a softie)). They then ride upstream away from the big frog guy (a reworked Red Slaadi, (basically no spawning, since I have another way of creating demons, and no alignment, so it is easy to make a demon-type; the insects were reworked formians, but were never met). Then they run into hell hounds, fight them while Leanne goes back for the thief running from the frog demon (no horse for him!), and they all ride again from the frog demon. They go through the (very wide) mouth of the river coming out of a cliff and find themselves in white clouds again (and falling again) this time to earth, but Toby hits his device before they go splat on the ground and they end up “dismissed” to one of the character’s homes – Prince Hamilton. But this is the realm from which he was banished! So of course, his dad’s knights ride up and there is nearly an attempt to kill Hamilton then and there, but they keep talking and I have a knight say “I know that you must be upset over what happened to your siblings, but I must obey my king’s orders.” And then they find out that all of Hamilton’s siblings are dead from various accidents and illnesses (except the eldest, which is missing). Caius speaks up and says that he (as son of the king of all Ireland, which includes this little kingdom) wishes to speak to the king about commuting the sentence, since Hamilton is the sole heir. So after agreeing to have Hamilton disarmed, they proceed to the castle, with H. under guard. Ok, the party is fairly wounded, and this is where things get a little weird. Sir Anton wishes to heal near a lake (thinking there will be another lady of the lake) rather than in the chapel, since he is old faith, and the roll showed a ley line was nearby, so Leanne and Christina go as well. “Dammit, they split up the party!” So at the lake Sir Anton tries to summon the lady of the lake. But the problem is, he gets a Sea Hag! He loses a lot of strength, and it takes the three of them to put the hag down (Christina did more damage than Sir Anton! Go morningstar!). Then they go back to town, with a drained man. He is healed slightly before they go courtesy of Leanne the Minstrel (who has a few druid spells now as a higher level Minstral). Meanwhile, the queen and ladies in waiting greet prince Caius and simply ignore Hamilton. Alas, the king is too ill to see anyone right now, but perhaps in the morning he would be better? She offers them a small feast (alas, they did not know they were coming!) and the services of the chapel (so the group that stayed is healed up). Right, nighttime. Hamilton is kept in a guest quarters under guard. The party wisely decides to set watches to help guard Hamilton (Toby, then Anton, then Andrew). The rest of the party (Leanne, Christina, Caius) wants to skulk about and try to see the king. Ok, Toby on watch gets a servant with Hamilton’s favourite childhood dessert. Hamilton does not eat it, and Toby keeps a sample to check for poison later (it wasn’t; hey sometimes a cigar is just a cigar). Second watch, Anton (still weakened, but ready, is called away by “Christina” who says that Caius is keeping watch in secret, but that she found out something that Anton needs to see. Anton follows, and “Christina” leads him to 2 other ladies in waiting, and yeah, he is strength drained. I also had an enchantress type change his memories so that he thinks that he had an argument with Hamilton about faith, and felt very dizzy, and that is why he left without alerting the next watch. He feels guilty later, but technically does not lose nobility since he didn’t “really” leave for such a petty reason. Ok, the Queen comes to Hamilton’s prison room, dismisses the guards, visits, reveals herself as an Annis, kills Hamilton. Hamilton spends 3 fate points so I will bring him back (sort of). Back to the skulking party, who use invisibility and distractions (a la Christina and Leanne, respectively) to get two people into the king’s chamber. They find a weakened king (similar to the nun poisoning the servant in Lord Bertrand’s castle way earlier) and some letters that on a close skim, are from a mysterious “M” and saying things like “well done, but I need you for another mission”. Then a secret door opens, the Queen enters, with a bloody sack, and starts gloating over the king. The invisible two attack…and miss. Caius yells for Christina to run and get help, and tries to hold off the “Queen”. Guards rush up, the Queen pleas that Caius is trying to kill her husband (the bloody sack discreetly on the floor by the bed, so not immediately an object of concern). Caius then bluffs “too much evidence is out; you will never fool them; give up” to the Queen and it works, so the Annis uses fog cloud. Then the Minstral Leanne uses that faerie fire wand blindly, which lights up both Annis and Caius. Annis brings Caius to –6 and leaves. Caius spends a fate point to seem dead and stabilize and fall on the bloody sack. Ok, the short version. The annis, enchantress and “ladies in waiting” (greenhags) escape (first via secret passage, then via back door of castle) , killing 10 guards at the rear. Titania(Go 3 fate points!) then whispers from the secret corridor to Leanne (bring me the sack!) and Leanne agrees (but only Leanne seems to see or hear her). Out of view of the others, Titania places the flesh of Hamilton (in the sack!) around a gold statuette (worth 3 800gp, in fact! Remember Caius being pickpocketed?) and Hamilton is back!…as a dwarf (which is fey in my world, and gets bonus to dex not con). Leanne quickly explains things to Hamilton, and then with a heck of a diplomacy check, intro’s Hamilton as a “man restored by the grace of god” to his former self, but lessened because the hag already ate some parts (the hags’ covers are blown by this point). Hamilton changes his “fate” from “Expose his mother” to “preserve harmony between new and old faiths” (since he is likely the first ever Christian Fey). End session! [/QUOTE]
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