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Obligatory Bookkeeping Update: *Chanvati will select Acrobat Boots as the Reward for completing the skill challenge. Chanvati now has Acrobatics +3. *Both PCs now have 2 APs, all Daily Powers; all Encounter Powers refresh. *Loot beyond mundane gear: 200 GP residuum, 226 GPs (+15 starting GP...

CHANVATI discerns the architecture around them: rowhouses, tiled rooves, most everything in good repair. They are still in Middle City, clearly. Maybe Thousand Pagodas? Or Burning Row? Could they have gone so far? Regardless, this part of the city was razed and rebuilt with more modern...

per @Manbearcat : Thick smoke billows between canine cages. Flames leap from bales of straw bedding to wooden furnishings to support pillars, threatening to take down the structure. Members of the 2nd Nation panic, some pounding at the barred front entrance in an attempt to force their way...

Our goal here is to escape Ruffly Gelded and the descending Imperial force, with Bita-Bousseh in tow. We will handle this as a nested SC with “significant fallout for micro-failures” and then resume the already-in-process SCs: 1. the umbrella challenge in which we just achieved the first goal...

"Distracted" undersells the state of Chanvati's upheaval. Certainly, the bizarrely-encoded dialogue that swirls around him confounds reasoning, and the cacophony of canine vocalizations instills a reflexive surge of fear, as if he is surrounded by a closing pack of predators. But cutting through...

CHANVATI allows an uncomfortable silence to prevail for a moment. Then, “Sahtree, take the hound and wait in the alley out back. Formalities must be observed,” he notes drolly. “If I need you, I will call,” he says, placing noted emphasis on that last word.* The psion removes a plain...

It is dark again, past evening. CHANVATI and Pa'avu, Hazard at her heels, are in a crowded Lowtown piazza, the last of the merchants packing up their carts and stalls, replaced by revelers seeking out food and drink and entertainment in the smoking lounges, taverns, and flesh houses that open...

Chanvati and his goliath slave emerge from the vaults of buried Audaseie ancestors into a dark stillness that contrasts sharply with the earlier winds of the Warlock’s wards, Hakhaman’s hound, Hazard, trailing closely at Pa’avu’s heels. The wizened old dwarf, Margred, sobs uncontrollably...

Character Bookkeeping Update: Level Up Chanvati 33/33 HPs, 5/7 Surges Remaining, 2 APs, Initiative Roll r(14) +2 +2 = 18

CHANVATI scrutinizes the mural of his ancestors, eyes flicking from the countenance of one to another in a desperate attempt to glean some aid from their collective wisdom, when something begins to go terribly wrong. Charya Audaseie, founder of his line, no longer looks on with satisfaction...

CHANVATI has visited the family crypt on several occasions in the past, for no death of a significant relative has gone unmarked by the rites and hymns passed down among House Audaseie in maintenance of the family deeds and achievements. But though he knows the old tongue, he is no Custodian of...

CHANVATI sees their chance and grasps it! As their Astral forms, their silver cords twist and phase with the tentacles of the kraken, he opens his mind, dissolving all sensible boundaries between ego and what lies beyond. Both his form and Pa'avu's become wave functions as they fluctuate between...

CHANVATI'S mind reels as his consciousness experiences these multiple perspectives at once: both inside the nucleus of Dread Caiphon, with its gelid, purple ichor, its grasping kraken tentacles threatening to squeeze life from him, and outside, watching as the Wandering Star draws close to the...

CHANVATI instinctively lashes out with psionic force, jumbling and fragmenting space around the beaked, tentacled horror and shunting it as far away as possible. He knows such dimensional interferences can be dangerous when interacting with cosmological nexes--witness the rift torn by Hakhaman...

The first thing CHANVATI'S senses take in is the absolute cold, his whole body on fire and an acute pain in his extremities, as if his fingers and ears are being crushed and ground in a mortar and pestle. He gasps, inhaling a viscous mouthful of ... something gelid ... and feels himself sinking...

CHANVATI witnesses in horror as his words eddy and echo in the wind, almost visible as they are captured by the ectoplasmic trap laid by Hakhaman and carried away. His mind flashes back to cosmological lessons at Xerxes's School for Gifted Psicrafters, reaching desperately for an antidote to the...

"Ruffly Gelded," Chanvati muses. "Perhaps I best watch my step--and other parts--more closely around Bita-Bousseh and her fellow conspirators." * * * Hours after the episode with the urchins along the Centipede Steps, a pair of moons in their third quarter crests the city’s hills and tiled...

Before the High Cleric seals the doors to the Sanctuary of Light, Lucent Messenger Arunny briefly pulls Chanvati and Pa’avu aside. “These gauntlets (Gauntlets of Blood) belonged to my brother, a noted warrior who was slain fighting the Bladeling Horde upon the steppes. Take them, half-giant...

CHANVATI bows deeply from the waist. “Your Radiance, however I may be of service,” he intones, aware for the first time that these machinations in which he finds himself embroiled are far more than the dangerous political maneuverings typical of the power brokers in Bantouk; great powers of the...

Between Scenes Bookkeeping: Yes, we let Hakhaman escape! (Curse that Warlock to the far reaches and back!) Chanvati uses Inspiring Word on Pa’avu, who spends 1 Surge (9) and gains r(4) additional HP = 13. 35/37 HP, 2/11 Surges remaining. Chanvati spends 2 Surges, regaining 14 HPs. 28/28 HP...