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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 6322171" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 120 - A Stitch in Time</strong></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wary of Ambertain's continued threat, Nbed left to find his resting place.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Leon reappeared just as the fight with Tatzel ended, and helped the others calm the dragon down and communicate with it. With a sigh of relief the corrupted dragon relinquished the jade idol which it had clutched to its chest to fiercely.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It was attuned to the element of water, but had the trait of pollution, not mystery (the trait which dominated Mavisha). The adventurers tossed the thing about like a hot potato and decided that they should take it in turns to keep the thing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The blight had done its evil work on the dragon. In a last ditch attempt to save the creature, the Huldregarl performed a healing ritual that sent scarab beetles swarming across the corrupted beast, leeching it of the influence of the blight. Sadly, it was more than the dragon's weakened frame could bear and it wheezed a final few breaths:</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tatzel was able to speak rationally in his last few moments. The dragon chastised himself for being tricked into cheating leon out of the idol. He said he had been put up to it by Jenny Greenteeth who had promise it would bring him great power. Indeed it did, but at a huge cost. Jenny Greenteeth and her allies knew something about a 'great change' coming to the world of Lanjyr. In response, they tried to secure some golden icons by taking part in (and perhaps encouraging?) Duchess Ethelyn of Shale's invasion of Axis Island, but they did not find the icons they sought before they were thrown out. When that failed, they turned their attention to the idols, which were even more ancient still. But the idols do not possess as much power as the coven thought they might, and now - to ensure they are able to capitalise on the 'great change' - Jenny Greenteeth has taken a mortal child captive - a child she says has the capacity to access and control the very planes themselves. The more idols she has in her possession, the worse things will be; and the more completely she controls the child... who knows?</li> </ul><p></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"I survived the slaughter of the dragon tyrants, and lived for a very long time in my peaceful grove. With the blessing of the fey I became influential once again, and held the key for dreamers to leave the Dreaming. But now I think I understnad the curse of my forefathers: that of over-wheening pride. I was promised greater power and for that I betrayed those who had granted me sanctuary for so long. My reward is to fade from this world." The last of his kind? (asked Redcoat.) As a green dragon, Tatzel could not resist one final piece of mischief, directed at Leon. "Except of course for my tamed kin. One of whom you have already met." Then the dragon expired.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">After grabbing any magic items they could find, the group descended to the portal chamber where, instead of finidng a horde of hostile bugbears, vampires and ogres, they found a cowed and subdued army pledging their loyalty to Nbed!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Nbed was not about to let this opportunity slide. Aware that his erstwhile allies had bigger (or at least other) fish to fry, he diplomatically suggested that they leave the upper Dreaming in pursuit of Jenny Greenteeth and her cronies, leaving the palace to him.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A summons could be heard from one of the portals - Blue Meg was calling Tatzel to her side. Investigating the nrightly glowing artefact on the central plinth which appeared to control each portal, the group discovered both the Crystal Tesseract (which Unit B had lost to Tatzel) and the Amethyst Ouroboros, which had been used to lock the tesseract in an hourglass shape. These two icons (according to the Thinker) controlled space and time, creating portals that travelled through four dimensions. They wanted to take them but had to leave them in place in order to use the portals, opening one into the jungle hoping to surprise Blue Meg.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Instead, they surprised Xipe, the Oni, halfway through a sycophantic welcome speech. Rather than the dragon tyrant Xipe had been expecting, he was met by very bad-tempered talking bear who killed him on the spot.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In the clearing beyond, the group found Unit B - Orum, Ffenwig were unconscious, Throgmorton was dead and Brajham was hiding in the undergrowth.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Etiotek and leon healed Orum and Ffenwig. Brajham's mental breakdown was somewhat emeliorated by the presence of Ascodel, Herald of the Hunt. And the Huldregarl swarmed over Throgmorton and restarted the old dwarf's heart.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">After much discussion, the decision was made to separate once again: Unit B would pursue Gorago the armoured hag and try to prevent her from taking possession of another idol. Leon, Ascodel, Redcoat, Etiotek and the Huldregarl (jokingly referred to as Unit D) would go after Jenny Greenteeth.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Following his conversation with the mysterious Weaver - and with Lavanya - Leon first used a portal to travel to the spot in time and place where Unit A had fought Lavanya on top of the golem Borne. This portal had been opened earlier by Lavanya. Leon appeared before the rest of the Unit arrived and gave Lavanya's simulacrum a message from her original self to surrender to the unit. (She had switched herself out some time earlier, before Nbed had appeared in the portal chamber.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Everyone watched in confusion, but Leon could not explain what was going on only that this was something he needed to do, or he and Rumdoom would die. (He what not be drawn on what transpired between him and Lavanya when he chased her into another portal earlier on.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When Leon was finished, Unit B followed Gorago into a storm-tossed sea.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">'Unit D' entered a strange demi-plane with no stars, an overcast sky and a largely featureless marsh extending in all directions. Some distance away stood a compound formed of a low, circular wooden fence, decorated with humanoid skulls. At the centre of this compound, with smoke curling from its chimney, stood a small wooden hut that rested atop a pair of giant chicken legs.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 6322171, member: 79141"] [b]Session 120 - A Stitch in Time[/b] [LIST] [*]Wary of Ambertain's continued threat, Nbed left to find his resting place. [*]Leon reappeared just as the fight with Tatzel ended, and helped the others calm the dragon down and communicate with it. With a sigh of relief the corrupted dragon relinquished the jade idol which it had clutched to its chest to fiercely. [*]It was attuned to the element of water, but had the trait of pollution, not mystery (the trait which dominated Mavisha). The adventurers tossed the thing about like a hot potato and decided that they should take it in turns to keep the thing. [*]The blight had done its evil work on the dragon. In a last ditch attempt to save the creature, the Huldregarl performed a healing ritual that sent scarab beetles swarming across the corrupted beast, leeching it of the influence of the blight. Sadly, it was more than the dragon's weakened frame could bear and it wheezed a final few breaths: [*]Tatzel was able to speak rationally in his last few moments. The dragon chastised himself for being tricked into cheating leon out of the idol. He said he had been put up to it by Jenny Greenteeth who had promise it would bring him great power. Indeed it did, but at a huge cost. Jenny Greenteeth and her allies knew something about a 'great change' coming to the world of Lanjyr. In response, they tried to secure some golden icons by taking part in (and perhaps encouraging?) Duchess Ethelyn of Shale's invasion of Axis Island, but they did not find the icons they sought before they were thrown out. When that failed, they turned their attention to the idols, which were even more ancient still. But the idols do not possess as much power as the coven thought they might, and now - to ensure they are able to capitalise on the 'great change' - Jenny Greenteeth has taken a mortal child captive - a child she says has the capacity to access and control the very planes themselves. The more idols she has in her possession, the worse things will be; and the more completely she controls the child... who knows? [/LIST] [LIST] [*]"I survived the slaughter of the dragon tyrants, and lived for a very long time in my peaceful grove. With the blessing of the fey I became influential once again, and held the key for dreamers to leave the Dreaming. But now I think I understnad the curse of my forefathers: that of over-wheening pride. I was promised greater power and for that I betrayed those who had granted me sanctuary for so long. My reward is to fade from this world." The last of his kind? (asked Redcoat.) As a green dragon, Tatzel could not resist one final piece of mischief, directed at Leon. "Except of course for my tamed kin. One of whom you have already met." Then the dragon expired. [*]After grabbing any magic items they could find, the group descended to the portal chamber where, instead of finidng a horde of hostile bugbears, vampires and ogres, they found a cowed and subdued army pledging their loyalty to Nbed! [*]Nbed was not about to let this opportunity slide. Aware that his erstwhile allies had bigger (or at least other) fish to fry, he diplomatically suggested that they leave the upper Dreaming in pursuit of Jenny Greenteeth and her cronies, leaving the palace to him. [*]A summons could be heard from one of the portals - Blue Meg was calling Tatzel to her side. Investigating the nrightly glowing artefact on the central plinth which appeared to control each portal, the group discovered both the Crystal Tesseract (which Unit B had lost to Tatzel) and the Amethyst Ouroboros, which had been used to lock the tesseract in an hourglass shape. These two icons (according to the Thinker) controlled space and time, creating portals that travelled through four dimensions. They wanted to take them but had to leave them in place in order to use the portals, opening one into the jungle hoping to surprise Blue Meg. [*]Instead, they surprised Xipe, the Oni, halfway through a sycophantic welcome speech. Rather than the dragon tyrant Xipe had been expecting, he was met by very bad-tempered talking bear who killed him on the spot. [*]In the clearing beyond, the group found Unit B - Orum, Ffenwig were unconscious, Throgmorton was dead and Brajham was hiding in the undergrowth. [*]Etiotek and leon healed Orum and Ffenwig. Brajham's mental breakdown was somewhat emeliorated by the presence of Ascodel, Herald of the Hunt. And the Huldregarl swarmed over Throgmorton and restarted the old dwarf's heart. [*]After much discussion, the decision was made to separate once again: Unit B would pursue Gorago the armoured hag and try to prevent her from taking possession of another idol. Leon, Ascodel, Redcoat, Etiotek and the Huldregarl (jokingly referred to as Unit D) would go after Jenny Greenteeth. [*]Following his conversation with the mysterious Weaver - and with Lavanya - Leon first used a portal to travel to the spot in time and place where Unit A had fought Lavanya on top of the golem Borne. This portal had been opened earlier by Lavanya. Leon appeared before the rest of the Unit arrived and gave Lavanya's simulacrum a message from her original self to surrender to the unit. (She had switched herself out some time earlier, before Nbed had appeared in the portal chamber.) [*]Everyone watched in confusion, but Leon could not explain what was going on only that this was something he needed to do, or he and Rumdoom would die. (He what not be drawn on what transpired between him and Lavanya when he chased her into another portal earlier on.) [*]When Leon was finished, Unit B followed Gorago into a storm-tossed sea. [*]'Unit D' entered a strange demi-plane with no stars, an overcast sky and a largely featureless marsh extending in all directions. Some distance away stood a compound formed of a low, circular wooden fence, decorated with humanoid skulls. At the centre of this compound, with smoke curling from its chimney, stood a small wooden hut that rested atop a pair of giant chicken legs. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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