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[ZEITGEIST] The Continuing Adventures of Korrigan & Co.
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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 5931223" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 36</strong></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">Malthusius received a request to assist the investigations of the new MacBannin unit (Carlao, Serena & Dima) who had discovered an unusual murder: The victim's his hands were bound with steel bars, and an intrictately made bronze golem had been rent asunder alongside him. (See <em>Zeitgiest Interlude </em>for full details.)</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">Leon received a note requesting that he kill Rock Rackus at the behest of the Old Stag - leader of the Vekeshi Mystics in Flint. With Malthusius' help he was able to ascertain the personal seal of the man who sent the letter.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">Khoomrung came to Rumdoom to broker a peace between him and Khaled Valchek. He said that more dwarves had been found who were able to manifest the 'Icy End of the World'. Rumdoom went to meet with Valchek, who brought him in on a secret: Silas Fennac's journal had revealed that the Kum Ruk Nazar (or 'Stone of Not') was possessed by the Deep Ones. He desperately sought the return of both Fennac and the journal and wanted Rumdoom to help him - and his new enforcer, Azure Lord Blackthorn - to deal with Lorcan Kell.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">The unit's investigations into the artefacts of the Ancients led them to Professor Hans Weber, who claimed legal title to the items. He said they had come from an ill-fated archaeological dig led by Doctor Xambria Meredith.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">Xambria Meredith was a self-possessed but confused young women who had been badly affected by events early in Summer. She was the only survivor of an expedition to explore an ancient stone ziggurat in the High Bayou. Xambria was very keen for the group to investigate what had happened, and gave them the name of her tiefling benefactor who had disappeared following her return.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">This tiefling was a wealthy philanthropist called Caius Bergeron. Thanks to Korrigan's high society contacts, the unit was able to track him down to the luxury <em>Silver Swan</em> <em>Inn </em>in North Shore. Caius was very polite and cooperative but his story contradicted Xambria's. </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">With no further leads, the unit decided to head for the dig.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">Uru was approached by the fey merchant Searkil Shortankard, and asked to obtain the eggs of a milk spider, deadly inhabitants of the high bayou.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">On the morning of their departure, Kaja Stewart was found hanging in her cell - an apparent suicide, though Malthusius suspected foul play.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">The train journey to Bole took 12 hours. The route was lined with trees adorned with red ribbons to distract and appease the fey.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">From the sleepy logging city of Bole, the unit set off on foot for the frontier town of Agate.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">Here, the townsfolk talked animatedly of the cityfolk who had perished in the bayou. Only 'a young red-haired girl' had survived. But they told of a better-equipped party who had arrived just two weeks ago and returned with something 'large, like a tabletop or a door' beneath a blanket, which was clearly much heavier than wood.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">Making a substantial sacrifice to the Voice of Rot (whose territory this was), the unit was able to pole their boats through the bayou unmolested (except by midges, mosquitoes, torrential rain and humidity).</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">Though exhausted by their twelve-hour journey, they eventually found the ziggurat. The mere sight of it was enough to scramble their perceptions and some of the unit were left feeling very fraught and vulnerable.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SeaGreen">Mooring their boats, they approached the camp where bodies of some of Xambria's colleagues still lay. Malthusius saw a sudden image of them clutching at their heads before collapsing. From that moment on, the deva felt as if he was on the verge of experiencing a skyseer vision, but if he looked to the heavens, it seemed as if worms were crawling inside his head.</span></li> </ul><p>Great session of nothing but roleplay and exploration. The set pieces worked out very well. I was particualrly pleased by my portrayal of Xambria, channelling Katherine Hepburn. Weber was a full-on comedy German (who sounded like the air being slowly released from a very condescending balloon); Bergeron nasal and oleaginous (with 'stonewalling villain' written all over him).</p><p></p><p>The golden golem episode was brought to life by the fact that I sent a fictonal excerpt to the group describing what happened back in February. It was a challenge for them to roleplay what they didn't know, but it worked to prevent them from going too far off on a tangent (as they had been given the key to the mystery already).</p><p></p><p>I had to work hard to encourage the group to pursue the ziggurat lead once they'd decided to focus on Caius. Interestingly, they proposed having Kaja Stewart ID him as the tiefling who brought the artefacts to Macbannin (so when she died in the cells the following day it was all the more frustrating for them - heheheh...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 5931223, member: 79141"] [b]Session 36[/b] [LIST] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]Malthusius received a request to assist the investigations of the new MacBannin unit (Carlao, Serena & Dima) who had discovered an unusual murder: The victim's his hands were bound with steel bars, and an intrictately made bronze golem had been rent asunder alongside him. (See [I]Zeitgiest Interlude [/I]for full details.)[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]Leon received a note requesting that he kill Rock Rackus at the behest of the Old Stag - leader of the Vekeshi Mystics in Flint. With Malthusius' help he was able to ascertain the personal seal of the man who sent the letter.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]Khoomrung came to Rumdoom to broker a peace between him and Khaled Valchek. He said that more dwarves had been found who were able to manifest the 'Icy End of the World'. Rumdoom went to meet with Valchek, who brought him in on a secret: Silas Fennac's journal had revealed that the Kum Ruk Nazar (or 'Stone of Not') was possessed by the Deep Ones. He desperately sought the return of both Fennac and the journal and wanted Rumdoom to help him - and his new enforcer, Azure Lord Blackthorn - to deal with Lorcan Kell.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]The unit's investigations into the artefacts of the Ancients led them to Professor Hans Weber, who claimed legal title to the items. He said they had come from an ill-fated archaeological dig led by Doctor Xambria Meredith.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]Xambria Meredith was a self-possessed but confused young women who had been badly affected by events early in Summer. She was the only survivor of an expedition to explore an ancient stone ziggurat in the High Bayou. Xambria was very keen for the group to investigate what had happened, and gave them the name of her tiefling benefactor who had disappeared following her return.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]This tiefling was a wealthy philanthropist called Caius Bergeron. Thanks to Korrigan's high society contacts, the unit was able to track him down to the luxury [I]Silver Swan[/I] [I]Inn [/I]in North Shore. Caius was very polite and cooperative but his story contradicted Xambria's. [/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]With no further leads, the unit decided to head for the dig.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]Uru was approached by the fey merchant Searkil Shortankard, and asked to obtain the eggs of a milk spider, deadly inhabitants of the high bayou.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]On the morning of their departure, Kaja Stewart was found hanging in her cell - an apparent suicide, though Malthusius suspected foul play.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]The train journey to Bole took 12 hours. The route was lined with trees adorned with red ribbons to distract and appease the fey.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]From the sleepy logging city of Bole, the unit set off on foot for the frontier town of Agate.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]Here, the townsfolk talked animatedly of the cityfolk who had perished in the bayou. Only 'a young red-haired girl' had survived. But they told of a better-equipped party who had arrived just two weeks ago and returned with something 'large, like a tabletop or a door' beneath a blanket, which was clearly much heavier than wood.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]Making a substantial sacrifice to the Voice of Rot (whose territory this was), the unit was able to pole their boats through the bayou unmolested (except by midges, mosquitoes, torrential rain and humidity).[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]Though exhausted by their twelve-hour journey, they eventually found the ziggurat. The mere sight of it was enough to scramble their perceptions and some of the unit were left feeling very fraught and vulnerable.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SeaGreen]Mooring their boats, they approached the camp where bodies of some of Xambria's colleagues still lay. Malthusius saw a sudden image of them clutching at their heads before collapsing. From that moment on, the deva felt as if he was on the verge of experiencing a skyseer vision, but if he looked to the heavens, it seemed as if worms were crawling inside his head.[/COLOR] [/LIST] Great session of nothing but roleplay and exploration. The set pieces worked out very well. I was particualrly pleased by my portrayal of Xambria, channelling Katherine Hepburn. Weber was a full-on comedy German (who sounded like the air being slowly released from a very condescending balloon); Bergeron nasal and oleaginous (with 'stonewalling villain' written all over him). The golden golem episode was brought to life by the fact that I sent a fictonal excerpt to the group describing what happened back in February. It was a challenge for them to roleplay what they didn't know, but it worked to prevent them from going too far off on a tangent (as they had been given the key to the mystery already). I had to work hard to encourage the group to pursue the ziggurat lead once they'd decided to focus on Caius. Interestingly, they proposed having Kaja Stewart ID him as the tiefling who brought the artefacts to Macbannin (so when she died in the cells the following day it was all the more frustrating for them - heheheh...) [/QUOTE]
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