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Thanks. And I agree - it is badass! I left it at an early cliffhanger last week when Uriel interrupted the execution - as I would do if a fight was about to break out. Did a lot of head-shaking and tutting. The players had had the temerity to interrupt the readaloud text, and must be...

Session 223, Part One - Skip to the End? Vitus Sigismund did not appear to be surprised by their intervention. He raised a calm hand to forestall any retaliation from his followers. Looking Korrigan straight in the eye, he asked, “The new King of Risur walks among us. Why have you chosen to...

Session 222, Part Five - The Sermon on the Mount The crowd marches through the open doors of the cathedral, where priests in soot-dappled armour and monks in funereal robes watch for signs of dissent. The monks intone low hymns, slowly repeating parts of the chant for the sacrament of...

Session 222, Part Four - The God Trial The God Trial The dull roar of a crowd in Plaza Hyperion can be heard from over a mile away. When the unit gets to the Plaza, they are treated to the spectacle of a makeshift stage assembled from toppled marble masonry, rising ten feet above the rest of...

I think that would count as a major spoiler. Let's just say it's mixed. (Uru in particular bears a grudge for her 'gift' of the bottled quasit Tokoloshe, who left him to die in the Bleak Gate on Cauldron Hill; Quratulain was trapped in sea-ice by Ashima-Shimtu for about 500 years - albeit at...

Session 222, Part Three - Things Got Dark Things Got Dark The Dons had fingers in every part of the city, and they’d been coordinating ways to keep order, using generosity when possible, broken noses when necessary. Donna Aneenya gave the unit a brief synopsis of Crisillyir’s woes, and what...

Session 222, Part Two - Welcome to Alais Primos NB: Much of this, and several subsequent entries, is taken verbatim from the adventure text. Cippiano arranged for them to use a teleportation circle that led from an innocuous building onto one of the city’s central plazas. The unit had been...

Session 222, Part One - After the Rift Soon after the rift closed, Tzertze stomped over, clutching the vsadni weapons he had managed to save. “I will fight for you when the time comes, against this ‘Obscurati’. Now I will go back to that tower and claim it.” He turned and strode away, back...

Maybe it was the personal connection - making Rumdoom's friends part of her cult way back when, and having her steal the Stone of Not. Also, having to shift the venue from Bhad Ryzhavdut to Mirsk shook things up a bit and raised the stakes. I really enjoyed this part of the adventure. After...

Session 221, Part Two - Overwhelming Odds? Uriel blessed his allies with the Staff of the Hierophant. Heid ducked behind Komanov’s throne. Quratulain took steady aim at the chest cavity of the vsdani, Hamul. She realised her lantern blaster and pistol would not be of that much use here, and...

Bit of bathos to lighten the mood. And extended proximity to the Stone of Not caused the champion to collapse. Just a warning to my players not to weaponise it without caution.

Bombadil backwards, eh?

Bombadil backwards, eh?

Session 221, Part One - The Madness of Grandis Dear Reader, as you listen to the chorus, kindly change the lyrics of this song to: "Grandis Komanov, Servant of the Voice of Rot..." etc. Komanov’s command caused a path to open through her troops. They advanced cautiously. As they went...

I would use Leone to the fullest. Put the willies up your group with his adventure 7 stat block (modified because there are no trains to throw, just engineering equipment). From up on the scaffolding he should be fairly terrifying. Then when Grappa reaches him, and wakens Borne, he gets...

Session 220, Part Three - The Carnage Parade Mirsk was not heavily fortified, but there were sufficient defences to stave off a simple assault by small bands of raiders, or hostiles from the far north. Such things had not happened for centuries. The worst violence experienced by Mirsk had been...

Session 220, Part Two - The Old Cairns A quick call to Uriel confirmed that the message used an old method of timekeeping based on the constellations. The Volgir Valley was home to several ancient rings of stones - the Old Cairns. Centuries ago giants crafted these hundred foot megaliths as an...

Nice!

Session 220, Part One - Ghoulish Messengers Uru used the same ritual he once used to walk along the rivers of his jungle home, to enable the group to traverse the deep snow drifts of the Volgir Valley. They were also protected by another of his rituals from the extreme cold. Fearing another...

Session 219, Part Three - Lost Outriders The Coaltongue was on its way. There had been some delays in its refit, but it would be in the air above Mirsk in about half a day. The doomsday army had camped for the last time before its final day of travel down the Volgir. King Baldrey placed his...