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<blockquote data-quote="DM-Rocco" data-source="post: 2502510" data-attributes="member: 14451"><p><strong>Session 37 - homebrew adventure hook</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Saint Plathus began the ritual for the Light of Purity three days ago.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">When they came back to the Prime Material Plane, they came back to their Succubus. A year ago, deep in the abyss, they had played a game of chance with a band of balors and their succubi concubines and an artifact called the Deck of many Things.. During the game, one of the succubus had a change of heart and idealism, changing her evil and chaotic ways into a more lawful and good path of nature. While she is not their servant, she did look to the companions for guidance and direction. When they arrived home, she was the first to greet them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Also, two others were their to greet them. Jurit and Gual. Closer to two years ago, when the companions came to this keep investigating rumors of slavery, they had cleansed many of the evil creatures in the Hilltop fortress. Their were a few exceptions however and Jurit and Gual were two of them. They dropped their weapons and swore allegiance to the companions. Once they had taken control of the fortress, they left them in charge and with instructions to safe guard the keep and find others of faith. In the absence of the companions Jurit and Gual had done as asked. They gathered a small number of followers to their cause and built a small army to defend the keep. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">They also gained power.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Not the power that people gain when they are able to destroy buildings with a thought, they gained power of self. In the leadership of the small army they gained self confidence, in the trails of defending the keep they gained fighting prowess and in the everyday duties of being a general, they gained the respect of their men. They were no longer the weak and sniveling hobgoblins the companions left behind, they were heroes, leaders, men.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Once every hundred years, one hundred clerics can gather and through a complex set of rituals and prayer, they can summon a light of absolute purity. His followers started three days ago when the companions entered their keep through their secret portal in their Sigil Mansion. They cleansed the Hilltop fort by clearing out all the trash and meticulously casting Sanctify spells on flaming symbols of the Sun of Pelor 20 feet apart from each other. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">It was at this point that Saint Plathus began his sacred ritual. Through his divine connection with his deity, he was able to take control of the sanctify spells and extend their durations. While he concentrated on maintaining the sanctify spells and went through the summoning rituals, his clerics filled the halls with Hallow spells in the same manner they had cast the sanctify spells.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Again Saint Plathus took control of the Hallow spells and extended the duration of the spells. Again the clerics went to work, in the same manner they cast bless spells, prayer spells, calm emotion spells, negative energy protection spells and finally daylight spells. Every ten feet within the Hilltop fortress they placed a holy symbol of Pelor, a Sun with nine licking flames that flickered from time to time. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">While saint Plathus’ followers prepared the fortress, the companions summoned a large granite stone slab and began carving the slab into a circular sun with nine licking flames. From the side and for practical purposes it was an alter, but from above, it was a holy symbol of Pelor. When Katrina was done sculpting it the followers of Pelor leafed it in gold and finished the sides with heavenly motifs. Finally the day of the ritual had come.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">For three days Saint Platus did not sleep, did not eat, he only concentrated on the task at hand, maintaining the durations of the preparation spells and starting the summoning rituals for the Light of Purity. On the midnight hour, the incantations began. The keep was washed in ceremonial oils and ointments and palm leafs were laid on the ground throughout the keep. Incense was burned throughout the fortress and everyone was dressed in ceremonial robes. At midnight the followers summoned a huge amount of positive energy. Normally, this energy was used to destroy the unholy undead and return their souls to the grave, but in this instance the positive energy filled the chamber and infused the alter with life and power. His followers, engulfed in the process of being a living channel to the Positive Material Plane, could only maintain the link. For twelve hours they would chant and serve as a vessel for the sheer amount of Positive energy that would infuse the alter with holy power.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">While his followers did this, Saint Plathus and Khael, servant of the Light, were engrossed in a daylight ritual. Finally after twelve long exhaustive hours, high noon came and the constant daylight spells exploded and erupted as light day light flooded the room and bounced from one holy symbol to another until the whole of the keep would have shown as a bright beckon in the darkened night sky, had it been night. Then the light went out, leaving the followers in darkness, but only for an instance. Then a shard of light burst from the alter, straight in the air. Even though there was a ceiling, the light penetrated it and shot high into the air, parting clouds.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">The ritual was complete.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DM-Rocco, post: 2502510, member: 14451"] [b]Session 37 - homebrew adventure hook[/b] [size=2]Saint Plathus began the ritual for the Light of Purity three days ago. When they came back to the Prime Material Plane, they came back to their Succubus. A year ago, deep in the abyss, they had played a game of chance with a band of balors and their succubi concubines and an artifact called the Deck of many Things.. During the game, one of the succubus had a change of heart and idealism, changing her evil and chaotic ways into a more lawful and good path of nature. While she is not their servant, she did look to the companions for guidance and direction. When they arrived home, she was the first to greet them. Also, two others were their to greet them. Jurit and Gual. Closer to two years ago, when the companions came to this keep investigating rumors of slavery, they had cleansed many of the evil creatures in the Hilltop fortress. Their were a few exceptions however and Jurit and Gual were two of them. They dropped their weapons and swore allegiance to the companions. Once they had taken control of the fortress, they left them in charge and with instructions to safe guard the keep and find others of faith. In the absence of the companions Jurit and Gual had done as asked. They gathered a small number of followers to their cause and built a small army to defend the keep. They also gained power. Not the power that people gain when they are able to destroy buildings with a thought, they gained power of self. In the leadership of the small army they gained self confidence, in the trails of defending the keep they gained fighting prowess and in the everyday duties of being a general, they gained the respect of their men. They were no longer the weak and sniveling hobgoblins the companions left behind, they were heroes, leaders, men. Once every hundred years, one hundred clerics can gather and through a complex set of rituals and prayer, they can summon a light of absolute purity. His followers started three days ago when the companions entered their keep through their secret portal in their Sigil Mansion. They cleansed the Hilltop fort by clearing out all the trash and meticulously casting Sanctify spells on flaming symbols of the Sun of Pelor 20 feet apart from each other. It was at this point that Saint Plathus began his sacred ritual. Through his divine connection with his deity, he was able to take control of the sanctify spells and extend their durations. While he concentrated on maintaining the sanctify spells and went through the summoning rituals, his clerics filled the halls with Hallow spells in the same manner they had cast the sanctify spells. Again Saint Plathus took control of the Hallow spells and extended the duration of the spells. Again the clerics went to work, in the same manner they cast bless spells, prayer spells, calm emotion spells, negative energy protection spells and finally daylight spells. Every ten feet within the Hilltop fortress they placed a holy symbol of Pelor, a Sun with nine licking flames that flickered from time to time. While saint Plathus’ followers prepared the fortress, the companions summoned a large granite stone slab and began carving the slab into a circular sun with nine licking flames. From the side and for practical purposes it was an alter, but from above, it was a holy symbol of Pelor. When Katrina was done sculpting it the followers of Pelor leafed it in gold and finished the sides with heavenly motifs. Finally the day of the ritual had come. For three days Saint Platus did not sleep, did not eat, he only concentrated on the task at hand, maintaining the durations of the preparation spells and starting the summoning rituals for the Light of Purity. On the midnight hour, the incantations began. The keep was washed in ceremonial oils and ointments and palm leafs were laid on the ground throughout the keep. Incense was burned throughout the fortress and everyone was dressed in ceremonial robes. At midnight the followers summoned a huge amount of positive energy. Normally, this energy was used to destroy the unholy undead and return their souls to the grave, but in this instance the positive energy filled the chamber and infused the alter with life and power. His followers, engulfed in the process of being a living channel to the Positive Material Plane, could only maintain the link. For twelve hours they would chant and serve as a vessel for the sheer amount of Positive energy that would infuse the alter with holy power. While his followers did this, Saint Plathus and Khael, servant of the Light, were engrossed in a daylight ritual. Finally after twelve long exhaustive hours, high noon came and the constant daylight spells exploded and erupted as light day light flooded the room and bounced from one holy symbol to another until the whole of the keep would have shown as a bright beckon in the darkened night sky, had it been night. Then the light went out, leaving the followers in darkness, but only for an instance. Then a shard of light burst from the alter, straight in the air. Even though there was a ceiling, the light penetrated it and shot high into the air, parting clouds. The ritual was complete. [/size] [/QUOTE]
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