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[ZEITGEIST] The Continuing Adventures of Korrigan & Co.
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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7581616" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 219, Part One - Glacial Chase</strong></p><p></p><p>Over the course of time, it became clear that they would only gain on the doomsday army very slowly, by virtue of the fact that Uru could man their sled-ship on his own (with the aid of his ghostly friends) and so could continue overnight while the army was encamped. Korrigan gradually established this by creating a psionic link with an item he hoped was still in Komanov’s possession: the handle of the Cracked Cauldron, which she had stolen from them while soul-riding Hildegaard. Once a day, it stopped moving for eight hours or so. The army was two days ahead of them. At this rate, they would catch up a day’s ride from Mirsk.</p><p></p><p>During this time, they kept in regular contact with Vlendham Heid, who managed to remain remarkably composed now that he knew (or could at least hope) that rescue was on its way. Heid told them more about Komanov’s plan, which was quite simply to kill everyone in Drakr (for starters) and sacrifice their souls to the Voice of Rot. No points for subtlety. If only the Ob could be as straightforward as that! Korrigan also asked Heid if he had noticed any signs of hivemind activity. Heid said that the dwarven element of the army did appear to be unified under some sort of psychic cloud, but it had not manifested fully.</p><p></p><p>Their five-day journey down the river of ice was relatively uneventful. Every day they would pass a spot where the doomsday army had camped. The ice would be blackened and stained, and littered with burned down fires and mangled corpses. Small towns and villages nearby were utterly destroyed. Occasionally, they would come across a wrecked vessel similar to theirs. These grim punctuations served to keep their minds on the urgency of the situation, even though the days they passed on the vessel were otherwise smooth.</p><p></p><p>Uru spent most of his time piloting the craft. For a few hours a day he would give this task up to the others and rest. Then he would fantasise about plucking his eye out and inserting the eye of the Voice of Rot. It was pointed out, when he wondered aloud about this, that the eye was probably very large. Could he fit increasingly large stones into the socket and gradually widen it incrementally? Probably not, but a deep faen could dream!</p><p></p><p>Korrigan used his newfound ability to communicate over vast distances to keep in touch with his advisors in Risur, and to obtain regular reports from Leon. He had already been to Seobriga with Glaucia, Brakken, Commodore Deinosa (and Uriel) and petitioned the Bruse to rethink his relationship with the Ob. Given everything that had happened in Ursalina, it was agreed that Risur could not be viewed as a foe after all, and the invasion plans were called off. An Ob representative at court was vociferous in his denunciation of this decision, whereupon the Bruse had him placed into his labyrinth.</p><p></p><p>From there, Leon travelled first to Slate, to persuade Luc Jierre to fashion another wayfarer Lantern; then to Shale, to leave Uriel in consultation with Professor Asher Henton; then on to Cherage, to lend support to a burgeoning opposition movement, led by Korrigan’s contact Naz Duchamps, who had been freed from prison in the wake of the Godmind disaster. The Ob’s abandonment of the city had been even more keenly felt here than Ursalina, as the whole justification for the actions of the Jierre dynasty – and its centuries old support for the Ob – was that they were for the good of Danor. The whole city – or at least everyone who had been drawn into the Godmind – had witnessed with their own eyes their rescue by the King of Risur, their ostensible foe. The appetite for war was not as ravenous, here in the capital and Duchamps had enough connections in the military to cause a schism which bordered on mutiny. Duchamps had invited Leon to speak to potential allies, and help to convince them that Risur was not responsible for the hivemind phenomenon, or the act of sabotage on Axis Island which had damaged the Ob’s ritual.</p><p></p><p>All of this had happened even before the rest of the unit had reached Bhad Ryzhavdut. Since then Leon had worked on spell that would enable him to teleport to other planes. Uriel and Henton had helped him to create an arcane connection to each world, and he had begun to visit them one by one, protected by magic from their environmental challenges. So far he had successfully visited – and returned unharmed from – Baden, Fourmyle, Illocus and Jiese (where the wary salamanders had fled from him in horror). The plan was to eventually build up to jumping to Av.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7581616, member: 79141"] [b]Session 219, Part One - Glacial Chase[/b] Over the course of time, it became clear that they would only gain on the doomsday army very slowly, by virtue of the fact that Uru could man their sled-ship on his own (with the aid of his ghostly friends) and so could continue overnight while the army was encamped. Korrigan gradually established this by creating a psionic link with an item he hoped was still in Komanov’s possession: the handle of the Cracked Cauldron, which she had stolen from them while soul-riding Hildegaard. Once a day, it stopped moving for eight hours or so. The army was two days ahead of them. At this rate, they would catch up a day’s ride from Mirsk. During this time, they kept in regular contact with Vlendham Heid, who managed to remain remarkably composed now that he knew (or could at least hope) that rescue was on its way. Heid told them more about Komanov’s plan, which was quite simply to kill everyone in Drakr (for starters) and sacrifice their souls to the Voice of Rot. No points for subtlety. If only the Ob could be as straightforward as that! Korrigan also asked Heid if he had noticed any signs of hivemind activity. Heid said that the dwarven element of the army did appear to be unified under some sort of psychic cloud, but it had not manifested fully. Their five-day journey down the river of ice was relatively uneventful. Every day they would pass a spot where the doomsday army had camped. The ice would be blackened and stained, and littered with burned down fires and mangled corpses. Small towns and villages nearby were utterly destroyed. Occasionally, they would come across a wrecked vessel similar to theirs. These grim punctuations served to keep their minds on the urgency of the situation, even though the days they passed on the vessel were otherwise smooth. Uru spent most of his time piloting the craft. For a few hours a day he would give this task up to the others and rest. Then he would fantasise about plucking his eye out and inserting the eye of the Voice of Rot. It was pointed out, when he wondered aloud about this, that the eye was probably very large. Could he fit increasingly large stones into the socket and gradually widen it incrementally? Probably not, but a deep faen could dream! Korrigan used his newfound ability to communicate over vast distances to keep in touch with his advisors in Risur, and to obtain regular reports from Leon. He had already been to Seobriga with Glaucia, Brakken, Commodore Deinosa (and Uriel) and petitioned the Bruse to rethink his relationship with the Ob. Given everything that had happened in Ursalina, it was agreed that Risur could not be viewed as a foe after all, and the invasion plans were called off. An Ob representative at court was vociferous in his denunciation of this decision, whereupon the Bruse had him placed into his labyrinth. From there, Leon travelled first to Slate, to persuade Luc Jierre to fashion another wayfarer Lantern; then to Shale, to leave Uriel in consultation with Professor Asher Henton; then on to Cherage, to lend support to a burgeoning opposition movement, led by Korrigan’s contact Naz Duchamps, who had been freed from prison in the wake of the Godmind disaster. The Ob’s abandonment of the city had been even more keenly felt here than Ursalina, as the whole justification for the actions of the Jierre dynasty – and its centuries old support for the Ob – was that they were for the good of Danor. The whole city – or at least everyone who had been drawn into the Godmind – had witnessed with their own eyes their rescue by the King of Risur, their ostensible foe. The appetite for war was not as ravenous, here in the capital and Duchamps had enough connections in the military to cause a schism which bordered on mutiny. Duchamps had invited Leon to speak to potential allies, and help to convince them that Risur was not responsible for the hivemind phenomenon, or the act of sabotage on Axis Island which had damaged the Ob’s ritual. All of this had happened even before the rest of the unit had reached Bhad Ryzhavdut. Since then Leon had worked on spell that would enable him to teleport to other planes. Uriel and Henton had helped him to create an arcane connection to each world, and he had begun to visit them one by one, protected by magic from their environmental challenges. So far he had successfully visited – and returned unharmed from – Baden, Fourmyle, Illocus and Jiese (where the wary salamanders had fled from him in horror). The plan was to eventually build up to jumping to Av. [/QUOTE]
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