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<blockquote data-quote="Cultsbane" data-source="post: 9048521" data-attributes="member: 7037457"><p>Campaign Time: 2 hours, 57 mins, and 22 seconds </p><p></p><p>Isabelle couldn't make it for this session as she is starting college irl</p><p></p><p>Stover Delft lets us know about A peace summit being held between Risur and Danor. The peace summit is going to be taking place in a tower named after the Latin word gold in a hotel in Flint. The tower will be split into two groups and we'll be defending the Risur side as well as a skybridge</p><p></p><p>We go across the Flint city in a carriage to the Flint hotel. We hear a bunch of gunshots going through the window of the carriage, in front of us is a second carriage blocking the road turned sideways with 3 people with fedoras on and rifles. 3 behind us </p><p></p><p>Kelik goes first as another carriage crashes into us. Our carriage takes off after the drive is killed by multiple crossbow bolts, as the other carriages give chase. Kelik fires his new chemical launcher on one and they take 9 damage as a voice shouts out saying men watch what you're doing. As the chemical burns the carriage we see other men inside it pointing at our carriage</p><p></p><p>Hops revives the carriage driver and goes to take the crossbow bolt out of the carriage. A giant purple cloud spots out behind us engulfing the carriage behind us</p><p></p><p>Anael, not having a lot of range, summons her dancing sword outside the carriage window though they're still too far away. Not being happy she pulls out her carbine and they exchange fire, but our horse gets hit and 3 of us get ejected from the carriage. Taking 6 damage each as another carriage comes towards us full speed but we manage to dark souls roll out the way as it stops and turns sideways to create a barricade around us as the doors open up everyone with fedoras coming out and they fire. </p><p></p><p>Rifle blasts and grenades hit into us and we take 18 damage, the second round comes out firing specifically at Anael she takes 6 piercing damage, the last round goes towards Freya and they both miss the last technologist fires his grenade launcher as we all misty step 30ft away towards our carriage </p><p></p><p>Anael fey steps to the giant brawler man as he takes 4 fire damage. He jumps in the air and pounds down onto the ground, hitting into Anael. Anael blocks it but it leaves a giant imprint on her shield</p><p></p><p>Freya uses a gravity sinkhole on all of them, launching them into the air as a literal gravity bomb goes off ripping off doors and blood is everywhere as they're all dead, 50 damage. Encounter is over as we still have a meeting to get to. </p><p></p><p>We all agree we're blaming the Fedora Mafia for the explosion that destroyed basically a city block. Stover says for us to get it cleaned up and ready because the king will be arriving soon</p><p></p><p>We go down a pretty primitive elevator as we go up to the 11th floor, being reminded to be on our best behaviour and make a good impression. A long table is ahead of us with the finest clothes and at the end of the table is the king of Risur, standing to his side is Harkover Lee and various other ambassadors </p><p></p><p>The king walks up to us shaking our hands. Saying he heard about our incident on the way over and that we have much to discuss </p><p></p><p>Freya courtesy to the king and takes her seat. Kelik disguised as a human gives Harkover Lee a wink and he winks back before congratulations are giving to the king about his wedding</p><p></p><p>He says he is giving us a key important mission. The woman he is marrying might be trying to destroy his kingdom, he motions for Harkover Lee to hand over the documents from our reports from the last several adventures</p><p></p><p>We don't know much about the obscuriti, but we've gathered enough to assume that they're inside a bleak gate area of the city of Flint. He personally gives congratulations to Hops getting the lantern back and finding out the connection with Danor. Why are they still planning on marrying the king even when they're plotting against us? </p><p></p><p>The king admits that he has the power to forbid people from entering and exiting Risur. He has absolutely no power in the bleak gate though and he wants us to go into the bleak gate and drag them into the light of day for the king to personally take care of this problem</p><p></p><p>Hops is asking what type of mission thus is and the king says undercover black ops. Lee says we know a few ways into the bleak gate as well and list them off</p><p></p><p>They talk about the possibility of full scale invasion. We hear a knock on the door and we all get ready for action, we see a bit of a familiar face, a high elfian warrior carrying a flaming sword and a lion shield. A different gray cloak on his back from the one of fire from before. He stares at Anael, behind him are multiple guards. </p><p></p><p>The king says to Asbraey, to what do we owe this honour. He pulls out a scroll and starts reading from it that they will help Risur if Risur deals with a rogue member of the Unseen Court as neither fey can harm each other. That he been a problem for 50 years. His name Ekossigan (nickname Echo)</p><p></p><p>The king agrees to this. We have 3 and half days to get 3 bounties. We invite Asbraey into the bleak gate to help out our mission, Anael laughs at the possibility of this, Asbraey says his main target is his own and will discuss the bleak gate later as he turns around to leave </p><p></p><p>Kelik usea hunters' mark on him in case we need to track him later. The meeting begins as Danor and Risur begin discussing about the trade of technology between nations and magic </p><p></p><p>We all step out because it gets too boring. Hops casts planar energy to detect a bunch of traces of dreaming energy, but it's completely gone after a few feet. He attuned to it as a tracking method. So now we still have 2 methods of tracking. The rest of us all attune to it as well </p><p></p><p>Hops goes to the anarchist to get some vendetta bullets made. The rest of us going on a bounty hunt, first tracking down to Asbraey about the unseen Court rogue. Looking for signs of him, we are able to see a trial that leads from nearby the hotel into cloud wood, the most rural sector of Flint. The mountain that Freya doesn't like climbing <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p><p></p><p>Kelik listens in hearing that a lot of the local residents are talking about a lot of unexplained phenomena in the cloud district, one was of a dead child in the street looking like it was eaten on by cats. Everyone is worried about what'll happen to the children and we decide this was definitely done by the rogue fey </p><p></p><p>Kelik lets the people know that they're going to increase police presence in the region, which a lot of people are disgusted about more RHC in the area. </p><p></p><p>Kelik says to be stealthy as Anael gets a nat 1 stepping on a log cracking it open and she falls down causing a loud fud. Guess we're not doing that </p><p></p><p>Freya makes a con save to avoid exhaustion but fails, thanks to the dreaded clean air. She really needs to return to the smog filled city</p><p></p><p>We see the child's body, his skull crushed, fingers chewed off and dozen of stab wounds. Anael makes a nature check, a nat 20, seeing that only his fingers have been chewed off and the marks look like they were made from branches and leafs. In addition the throat was clearly crushed, perhaps looking like he was hung from a rope </p><p></p><p>Kelik makes a perception check seeing that Asbraey is nearby, making his way over to him to talk about us helping him out in exchange for him helping us later. Anael detects dreaming energy although out the area </p><p></p><p>Asbraey coughs and says that Echo is an ancient spirit that knows this area's mysticism and the rituals used, many required child's sacrifices. That he has gone insane in the last month or so, which explains the wildness of the seasons as he controls the seasons. </p><p></p><p>While his own powers aren't special, Echo can easily control the minds and feelings of other people. Especially those that are Fey or touched by them. Asbraey hands us all wooden ring with gears of teeth inside, these rings will try to cut into you when Echo tries mind controlling you. Which will be extremely useful for Freya </p><p></p><p>His skin is also made of pure magic tree bark which is extremely hard to damage, though fire can absolutely help that. He says that he'll meet us tomorrow morning at the base of the mountain for more information</p><p></p><p>Asbraey suspects that Echo is still inside cloud wood considering all the strange happenings. Asbraey asks if Anael is enjoying that cloak, he much prefers his upgraded version but says it looks good on him</p><p></p><p>Cutting back to hops he spots a canary, walking behind it. Taking him to an alley, a message from Gale in the wind. Her voice says I heard that your colleagues are searching in the cloudwood district and that he needs to stop us from engaging in this issue, it is good for us all. Hops also tells Gale that he is working on ways to travel through certain planes at will. After Hops goes towards cloud wood</p><p></p><p>Freya uses her spirit medium abilities on the boy to start asking him questions. Able to connect to the young boy, as she makes this connection a deep anger and cynicism goes over Freya but she knocks it away. She asks the boy what happened and he was tied to the tree by a bunch of people, a bunch of creatures of big noses and ears and tiny like he was. Freya knows that there are the description of gremlins </p><p></p><p>Freya also learned from the child that he was kidnapped from an orphanage. We agree to give the boy a funeral. Anael being a paladin is to give him the proper funeral for the child, splashing him first with holy water as a bit of symbolism. She has to make a wisdom save. She saves detecting cynicism and malice, she detects that this actually came from a curse lingering on him. Anael uses gentle reposted so he doesn't become undead or disintegrate </p><p></p><p>Freya hands over a bottle of wine to Anael. They all go investigate, Kelik and Anael roll high, as Freya basically stares at the sun with her natural 1. We find a bunch of tiny feet heading to trees that suddenly disappear. Anael deduces that Gremlins are only really active at night </p><p></p><p>We all hear whispers in the wind, it's Gale, 400 ft up in a tree branch she says that we were specifically warned about intervention in the Feywild matters </p><p></p><p>Kelik asks her what should we be doing. Hops mouths the word Isabella to Anael. As Gale says for your own sake I ask you to not pursue him. That Echo goal is to mass his own army and to strike </p><p></p><p>Anael asks Gale if she'll meet with Isabella. Gale says that she absolutely would, if she survives her mission against Echo which will require a full scale battle in the bleak gate </p><p></p><p>Hops says you know I don't know if I'm working for the right people. We all agree that we're not on either the right or wrong side. Hops suggests that perhaps the king is looking to take control of the obscuriti powers and what exactly does Asbraey get out of alliance with Risur. Perhaps Asbraey is the one defecting and Echo is actually the good guy</p><p></p><p>Maybe we should awaken the fey spirits? Maybe we shouldn't?</p><p></p><p>But before we ever do that agree instead to hunt down the fedora mafia fucks instead </p><p></p><p>Have a great week everyone</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cultsbane, post: 9048521, member: 7037457"] Campaign Time: 2 hours, 57 mins, and 22 seconds Isabelle couldn't make it for this session as she is starting college irl Stover Delft lets us know about A peace summit being held between Risur and Danor. The peace summit is going to be taking place in a tower named after the Latin word gold in a hotel in Flint. The tower will be split into two groups and we'll be defending the Risur side as well as a skybridge We go across the Flint city in a carriage to the Flint hotel. We hear a bunch of gunshots going through the window of the carriage, in front of us is a second carriage blocking the road turned sideways with 3 people with fedoras on and rifles. 3 behind us Kelik goes first as another carriage crashes into us. Our carriage takes off after the drive is killed by multiple crossbow bolts, as the other carriages give chase. Kelik fires his new chemical launcher on one and they take 9 damage as a voice shouts out saying men watch what you're doing. As the chemical burns the carriage we see other men inside it pointing at our carriage Hops revives the carriage driver and goes to take the crossbow bolt out of the carriage. A giant purple cloud spots out behind us engulfing the carriage behind us Anael, not having a lot of range, summons her dancing sword outside the carriage window though they're still too far away. Not being happy she pulls out her carbine and they exchange fire, but our horse gets hit and 3 of us get ejected from the carriage. Taking 6 damage each as another carriage comes towards us full speed but we manage to dark souls roll out the way as it stops and turns sideways to create a barricade around us as the doors open up everyone with fedoras coming out and they fire. Rifle blasts and grenades hit into us and we take 18 damage, the second round comes out firing specifically at Anael she takes 6 piercing damage, the last round goes towards Freya and they both miss the last technologist fires his grenade launcher as we all misty step 30ft away towards our carriage Anael fey steps to the giant brawler man as he takes 4 fire damage. He jumps in the air and pounds down onto the ground, hitting into Anael. Anael blocks it but it leaves a giant imprint on her shield Freya uses a gravity sinkhole on all of them, launching them into the air as a literal gravity bomb goes off ripping off doors and blood is everywhere as they're all dead, 50 damage. Encounter is over as we still have a meeting to get to. We all agree we're blaming the Fedora Mafia for the explosion that destroyed basically a city block. Stover says for us to get it cleaned up and ready because the king will be arriving soon We go down a pretty primitive elevator as we go up to the 11th floor, being reminded to be on our best behaviour and make a good impression. A long table is ahead of us with the finest clothes and at the end of the table is the king of Risur, standing to his side is Harkover Lee and various other ambassadors The king walks up to us shaking our hands. Saying he heard about our incident on the way over and that we have much to discuss Freya courtesy to the king and takes her seat. Kelik disguised as a human gives Harkover Lee a wink and he winks back before congratulations are giving to the king about his wedding He says he is giving us a key important mission. The woman he is marrying might be trying to destroy his kingdom, he motions for Harkover Lee to hand over the documents from our reports from the last several adventures We don't know much about the obscuriti, but we've gathered enough to assume that they're inside a bleak gate area of the city of Flint. He personally gives congratulations to Hops getting the lantern back and finding out the connection with Danor. Why are they still planning on marrying the king even when they're plotting against us? The king admits that he has the power to forbid people from entering and exiting Risur. He has absolutely no power in the bleak gate though and he wants us to go into the bleak gate and drag them into the light of day for the king to personally take care of this problem Hops is asking what type of mission thus is and the king says undercover black ops. Lee says we know a few ways into the bleak gate as well and list them off They talk about the possibility of full scale invasion. We hear a knock on the door and we all get ready for action, we see a bit of a familiar face, a high elfian warrior carrying a flaming sword and a lion shield. A different gray cloak on his back from the one of fire from before. He stares at Anael, behind him are multiple guards. The king says to Asbraey, to what do we owe this honour. He pulls out a scroll and starts reading from it that they will help Risur if Risur deals with a rogue member of the Unseen Court as neither fey can harm each other. That he been a problem for 50 years. His name Ekossigan (nickname Echo) The king agrees to this. We have 3 and half days to get 3 bounties. We invite Asbraey into the bleak gate to help out our mission, Anael laughs at the possibility of this, Asbraey says his main target is his own and will discuss the bleak gate later as he turns around to leave Kelik usea hunters' mark on him in case we need to track him later. The meeting begins as Danor and Risur begin discussing about the trade of technology between nations and magic We all step out because it gets too boring. Hops casts planar energy to detect a bunch of traces of dreaming energy, but it's completely gone after a few feet. He attuned to it as a tracking method. So now we still have 2 methods of tracking. The rest of us all attune to it as well Hops goes to the anarchist to get some vendetta bullets made. The rest of us going on a bounty hunt, first tracking down to Asbraey about the unseen Court rogue. Looking for signs of him, we are able to see a trial that leads from nearby the hotel into cloud wood, the most rural sector of Flint. The mountain that Freya doesn't like climbing 😂 Kelik listens in hearing that a lot of the local residents are talking about a lot of unexplained phenomena in the cloud district, one was of a dead child in the street looking like it was eaten on by cats. Everyone is worried about what'll happen to the children and we decide this was definitely done by the rogue fey Kelik lets the people know that they're going to increase police presence in the region, which a lot of people are disgusted about more RHC in the area. Kelik says to be stealthy as Anael gets a nat 1 stepping on a log cracking it open and she falls down causing a loud fud. Guess we're not doing that Freya makes a con save to avoid exhaustion but fails, thanks to the dreaded clean air. She really needs to return to the smog filled city We see the child's body, his skull crushed, fingers chewed off and dozen of stab wounds. Anael makes a nature check, a nat 20, seeing that only his fingers have been chewed off and the marks look like they were made from branches and leafs. In addition the throat was clearly crushed, perhaps looking like he was hung from a rope Kelik makes a perception check seeing that Asbraey is nearby, making his way over to him to talk about us helping him out in exchange for him helping us later. Anael detects dreaming energy although out the area Asbraey coughs and says that Echo is an ancient spirit that knows this area's mysticism and the rituals used, many required child's sacrifices. That he has gone insane in the last month or so, which explains the wildness of the seasons as he controls the seasons. While his own powers aren't special, Echo can easily control the minds and feelings of other people. Especially those that are Fey or touched by them. Asbraey hands us all wooden ring with gears of teeth inside, these rings will try to cut into you when Echo tries mind controlling you. Which will be extremely useful for Freya His skin is also made of pure magic tree bark which is extremely hard to damage, though fire can absolutely help that. He says that he'll meet us tomorrow morning at the base of the mountain for more information Asbraey suspects that Echo is still inside cloud wood considering all the strange happenings. Asbraey asks if Anael is enjoying that cloak, he much prefers his upgraded version but says it looks good on him Cutting back to hops he spots a canary, walking behind it. Taking him to an alley, a message from Gale in the wind. Her voice says I heard that your colleagues are searching in the cloudwood district and that he needs to stop us from engaging in this issue, it is good for us all. Hops also tells Gale that he is working on ways to travel through certain planes at will. After Hops goes towards cloud wood Freya uses her spirit medium abilities on the boy to start asking him questions. Able to connect to the young boy, as she makes this connection a deep anger and cynicism goes over Freya but she knocks it away. She asks the boy what happened and he was tied to the tree by a bunch of people, a bunch of creatures of big noses and ears and tiny like he was. Freya knows that there are the description of gremlins Freya also learned from the child that he was kidnapped from an orphanage. We agree to give the boy a funeral. Anael being a paladin is to give him the proper funeral for the child, splashing him first with holy water as a bit of symbolism. She has to make a wisdom save. She saves detecting cynicism and malice, she detects that this actually came from a curse lingering on him. Anael uses gentle reposted so he doesn't become undead or disintegrate Freya hands over a bottle of wine to Anael. They all go investigate, Kelik and Anael roll high, as Freya basically stares at the sun with her natural 1. We find a bunch of tiny feet heading to trees that suddenly disappear. Anael deduces that Gremlins are only really active at night We all hear whispers in the wind, it's Gale, 400 ft up in a tree branch she says that we were specifically warned about intervention in the Feywild matters Kelik asks her what should we be doing. Hops mouths the word Isabella to Anael. As Gale says for your own sake I ask you to not pursue him. That Echo goal is to mass his own army and to strike Anael asks Gale if she'll meet with Isabella. Gale says that she absolutely would, if she survives her mission against Echo which will require a full scale battle in the bleak gate Hops says you know I don't know if I'm working for the right people. We all agree that we're not on either the right or wrong side. Hops suggests that perhaps the king is looking to take control of the obscuriti powers and what exactly does Asbraey get out of alliance with Risur. Perhaps Asbraey is the one defecting and Echo is actually the good guy Maybe we should awaken the fey spirits? Maybe we shouldn't? But before we ever do that agree instead to hunt down the fedora mafia fucks instead Have a great week everyone [/QUOTE]
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