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Ullara suddenly stiffens and bolts upright. "Sweet gods, the rats were in the courtyard first. We have to get down there!" She suits words to action, quickly grabs her staff and bounds down the stairs with Bran to see what's the matter.

Ulaan rubs at her wounds, and Bran's too, her mouth in a grim line as the rats retreat. She waits until they have gone before speaking, fighting against the pain. She'll have to use magic to heal herself later, if she intends to travel at all tomorrow. "They were sent. Someone imbued them...

The Originator doesn't respond to Father Seren's quip at first, eyes focused on the abhumans as they begin to fall to Xaion's limbs and whatever power or frequency is making them weak. The rest of you feel something in your teeth and bones, any numenera on you or in you feeling heavy and...

Ullara Halx, female human druid with dog companion Bran Ullara considers her options for less than a second - She can't leave Bran to fend for himself, and would have difficulty lifting him onto the roof, or help him land from a long drop. She calls for Bran to "Heel!" and heads for the...

Duncan crashes down upon the handle with all his weight and strength, and the handle moves with a loud grinding sound. Metal plates suddenly swing into place just below the ring of crystals, cutting off the Wellspring as well as the source of light. The room plunges into near-total darkness...

Ullara wracks her brain for what could these rats truly be. She tries to recall old hunter's stories of the strange encounters they'd had in their lifetime (Survival 22), old traveler's tales she's heard on the road (Knowledge geography 16), and the fickle nature of sentient beings as opposed...

Wisco goes and grabs the lever, pulling on it, but it barely budges. It's going to take some serious strength and effort to move it, but you think it could be done. However, when you begin to test the handle, there's an ungodly loud wailing from up above, and suddenly you hear screams, and the...

"YOU HAVE MORE *UNKNOWN* POWER THAN YOU KNOW. WHAT I WANT, KEYHOLDER, KNOWLEDGE-SEEKER, IS THE *UNKNOWN* WELLSPRING OF MY PEOPLE GUARDED, NOT USURPED FOR THESE THIEVES." It turns its head slightly, looking right at Father Seren. Or rather, at the lever Father Seren had found. "CUT OFF THE...

Echo feels the Originator's response reverberating through her head, and it seems the crystals pick up on the intense vibration, thundering through the air of the chamber for everyone to hear, some words still incomprehensible . "SLAVE," it repeats, its voice contemptuous. "YOU WOULD DO THE...

Ullara gathers her weapons and armor and supplies, as well as her patience and bravery, and goes to return to Herr Borne's. Upon seeing the little rat-like creature, she sends Bran to try to find its scent, if not the creature entire. She only wants to find it and see it in the light. Is it a...

Ullara intends to replenish her healer's kit, gather her armor and weapons, get a decent meal and a bath for her and Bran both, because rolling around in the path hadn't been hygienic. She also wants to check a traveler's inn and see if anyone else has been having Netherworld problems, and...

As Echo touches the Originator, its words slam into her brain, painfully loud and peppered with concepts that don't always translate into Truth. Duncan also hears them, just as loud as before, though he is better prepared for them now. YOU ARE SLAVES TO THE THIEVES! RELEASE ME SO THAT I WILL...

The abhuman leader tilts its head slightly, pausing as tiny light motes dance around the antenna emerging from its head. "The units are not given to know the ultimate purpose of the Overwatch. The Overwatch saw the dormant energy, the Originators in stasis, and chose to use what was not being...

Ullara Halx, female human druid with dog companion Bran Ullara sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose. "Then if we will not give the letters over to couriers, I believe our duty is better served by determining if it is possible to do our duty at all. Which means taking short time to...

"The place where the energy goes." It makes a gesture with its hands, a triangle, the point downward. "We must go there. I do not know what would happen if we didn't go; that is our purpose, that is our function." -- It looks at you with its huge eyes, and barely is able to wiggle its...

The Originator is quite tall, with dense musculature. It has no real mouth or nose, but there are apertures on its chest that seems to serve as air exchanges. Its skin seems to be very fine scales, and its flesh is very warm. The wounds it had received are no longer bleeding, but the edges...

(As a quick geographical point, the abhuman "army" is upstairs, next to the rock-rimmed spring outlet up there with Antor and Wisco, and currently Echo, Seregal, Duncan, and Xaion are downstairs in the "Originators Chamber.")

Session 30 Azkorra, I'm glad you're liking our Story Hour! Hold on to your butts, because things are going to start to get a little bonkers... ---- When we last left our intrepid heroes, they had just freed Pearl Island, a place sacred to Istishia, from a double scourge of evil water nagas...

Ullara nods at Bayar's words. "Giving the letters into another's hand would be far down in a list of preferences, but I wanted to know all our options. It seems likely that the letters involve the very thing we experienced directly. Here and now, we might have a way to see what the problem...

Ullara raises an eyebrow. "If we have to go through the Netherworld to reach those cities, that may be more trouble than it's worth. We did all right getting out, but getting in was nearly lethal. I don't care to have to bushwhack my way through hostile, sentient plants as a permanent part of...