Sagiro's Story Hour: The FINAL Adventures of Abernathy's Company (FINISHED 7/3/14)

[wedgeski]

Fun update as always! Let me just take this chance to wish Sagiro, Piratecat, the rest of the Abernathy crew, and everyone who enjoys this Story Hour, a great holiday!

 

[Joshua Randall]

They were summoned to the tower in 1828?

April 1, 1828, to be exact.

Making this story the best April Fool's Day joke ever!

 

[Sagiro]

I see.

So... is he dead and gone and annihilated this time, or is his soul still out there somewhere, moaning and plotting? Or is that just a bit of an open question?

Also: how long has the campaign gone on in game-time? I've always assumed, somehow, that the passage of time was roughly equivalent to the real-time 15 years you've been playing, but if they killed Mokad "months ago" and Step received his prophecy "two years ago", then, not so much. 5 years of game time? They were summoned to the tower in 1828?

If the party's understanding of the Ritual of Seven Stars is correct, Mokad's soul has been annihilated.

As far as in-game time goes: four years and four months have elapsed between the party's summons to Abernathy's tower (April 1, 1828), and the Spire meeting described in my last post (August 3, 1832). The relative time experienced by the party is somewhat greater, since the time they spent in Het Branoi is not otherwise accounted for.

 

[Destil]

If the party's understanding of the Ritual of Seven Stars is correct, Mokad's soul has been annihilated.

As far as in-game time goes: four years and four months have elapsed between the party's summons to Abernathy's tower (April 1, 1828), and the Spire meeting described in my last post (August 3, 1832). The relative time experienced by the party is somewhat greater, since the time they spent in Het Branoi is not otherwise accounted for.

What about the time spent in the past? Did they return after the same amount of time had passed?

Sounds like 13 months in Charagin has passed since the attempt to merge the two planes using Grey Wolf, if that's how long Mokad's been in Praska's body.

 

[steeldragons]

Not to be rude to the interested parties...BUT...Mokad=GONE!!!

YAAAAY!!! Abernathy's Company! Huzzah!

Now...that Meledien chick...?

 

[Sagiro]

What about the time spent in the past? Did they return after the same amount of time had passed?

They arrived back from their excursion into the past, to find that about seven weeks had passed in the "real time" world. During that seven week span, the Spire's divinations indicated that the Company did not exist. But it's a little more complicated than that, since their trip to the past was during the time-had-been-altered time-line. The quick summary:

October 4, 1831: The Sharshun rewrite history while the Company is safe in the Greenhouse.

[The party spends a little over a year of relative time finding Het Branoi, exploring Het Branoi, and cavorting around in the past)

November 23, 1831: The Company arrives in the present again, having fixed history.

So, while the world has only seen 7 weeks go by, the Company has experienced (if memory serves) around 13 months of adventures, which included the time spent in Het Branoi during which no objective time was passing in alternate-history Abernia.

 

[coyote6]

So they've taken 5 years and 5 months to get to where they are now. That's not too bad.

(In my Rise of the Runelords PF game, the PCs started the week at 4th level; a day and a half later, they'll be 6th.)

 

[Everett]

Not to be rude to the interested parties...BUT...Mokad=GONE!!!

YAAAAY!!! Abernathy's Company! Huzzah!

Now...that Meledien chick...?

We won't see that Meledien chick for a long time to come in the Story Hour.

 

[jmucchiello]

Dranko motions to the bodies piled in the corner: “They came to stop us from freeing you. They failed.”

So they restarted the ritual where every little detail needs to be just right with a few dead bodies "piled in the corner"? WHAT? Shouldn't they have been moved to another room at a minimum?

And they waited 3 hours before applying the gentle repose to Cor Kek? Something just seems wrong about all of that.

 

[Piratecat]

And they waited 3 hours before applying the gentle repose to Cor Kek? Something just seems wrong about all of that.

What's he going to do, develop salmonella? We just needed him to be non-dribbly long enough to get him to the meeting. After that, we didn't much care.

Still, we've learned from that time we killed Srapa, the lizard that kidnapped Flicker in Het Brannoi. We didn't remember that we'd stuck his corpse in a bag of holding for a good eight months. Yecch.