Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
Playing the Game
Story Hour
Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="CPaladin" data-source="post: 8479487" data-attributes="member: 7030144"><p>[Session 78, cont'd]</p><p>(Kit pauses to consult with the rest of the Council.</p><p></p><p>Alistair checks Canberry's map of the Underdark, and finds that there are reaches of the upper Underdark that at least go close.</p><p></p><p>Kit plans on reaching out to her agent to try to find the younger sister, and also to find out more about her.</p><p></p><p>They also plan an extraction.</p><p>)</p><p></p><p>Kit contacts her agent; tells her that there is likely a connection to the Underdark; second, that the agent should reach out to people, especially people who might be loyal to the younger sister, who seems likes someone we could work with; and they’ll be arranging an extraction. "You have loyally served Canberry, and we will provide you with protection."</p><p></p><p>Alistair speaks with the Archbishop; he is very shaken by the death of Monsignor Manuel, who is the Nuncio from the Light and was part of that delegation.</p><p></p><p>"The City of Life has always been odd. The humans—after the elves departed, or passed, or we think they did—modeled their culture on the elven culture for a very long time, which made them incredibly insular. But the faith of Eiru faded over time—when the elves dwelt among them, they followed Eiru, but it faded with time, or perhaps they were rejected by Eiru. After that, they turned to Glor’diadel. They have always been a stiff-necked lot, and they forbade the marriage of nobles to those outside, which caused unfortunate things, for they did not have a large number of nobles. Their priests were cut slack, because of the Heavenly Drops. There was talk that we would select a bishop when the present bishop passed, without consulting the primarch, but the primarch has traditionally selected the bishops. The priests that emerged from Life rarely leave—though we have one in the city." (They send people to investigate.)</p><p></p><p>Kit asks her scribe to (1) research the current royal family of the City of Life, with a focus on the youngest daughter; (2) compare it to records kept outside the palace; (3) compare the records of Alistair’s maternal family kept within the palace to records kept without the palace?</p><p></p><p>Her scribe has a file on the royal family of Life, kept based on orders from the Archduke’s grandmother; the primarch is a good enough man, not very bright; the primarch’s brother is a brilliant man, but very weak, due to the inbreeding—has a companion who keeps him healthy; three younger sisters, two of whom died (probably of the same inbred condition as the younger brother); the youngest sister is still quite young, and left to Khamista to enter a women’s seminary—really, a convent. She said that she would not follow her sisters, which suggests that their deaths may not have been natural.</p><p></p><p>The Archbishop then starts preparing for a 13 question commune:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Does the Bishop of the City of Life worship Sytry? Yes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If yes, does he know? No</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Has the Bishop of the City of Life attempted to seize power? Yes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Is the youngest sister of the Primarch of the City of Life devoted to Glor’diadel? Yes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Is the Bishop of the City of Life good? No.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Is the Patriarch of Sytry good? No.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Has the Patriarch of Sytry deliberately violated the Ecumenical Compact? No.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Is it still possible to get true Heavenly Drops from the spring? Yes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Are the leaders of the temple of Sytry in Canberry evil? No.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Is the temple of Sytry acting against the Crown? No.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Is getting an agent of Canberry inside the Dome within the next week important to the interests of Canberry? Yes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Is the connection between the City of Life and my mother’s family part of the plots of the City of Life? No, she escaped.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Is the frailty and ill-health of the Primarch’s family due to natural causes such as inbreeding? No.</li> </ol><p>The Council discusses.</p><p></p><p>The Council calls the Sixth Daughter. </p><p>"Ha! The City of Life attempted to seal off the connections to the Underdark years ago and forget their old alliances. Certain noble families had alliances throughout the Underdark, and would trade with us. But that was before the strange ones came."</p><p></p><p>"Who were these strange ones?"</p><p></p><p>"New priests came among them, who were not… they were not… they were not as they appeared. They were as they appeared, but not as they appeared inside. If it were my people, I would say that they were possessed, but there were no demons inside. It was something else. We could see them. They convinced the royal family that we were dangerous and should not be traded with. They attempted to seal up the passages to the underdark, and they corrupted everything. My mother has agents among them. We knew they would raise the Dome when they had gathered enough of the Water of Life. It is an elven spring from the Eldar. I know what those priests seek—they seek to become as we are, deathless. They have been collecting this water and speaking to their false god for decades. They have been told to by the one that dwells in there. And the one that leads them does not have one dwelling in them. They do not serve a god, not the god they think they do, nor any other. They serve a great lord of chaos who is seeking to ascend, that wants them to build an immortal form.</p><p></p><p>"It will only be one of them that they can make immortal, it would convert them into primal material, they would be like a Firstcomer but not elven.</p><p></p><p>"They would have had enough 20 years ago, but they were distracted by another scheme. The Drops of Heavenly Essence are the product of massive distillations of the Water of Life. They can produce ten such drops a year. They will now distill the drops, to produce a tiny vial of viscous fluid, which one will consume. A normal human, would be destroyed. A drow, blasted asunder. But they intend to have a pure enough vessel, which they will then transform into primal material with the vial; that is the moment when the creature, the demon will possess them."</p><p></p><p>That’s when the page informs the Council that a flotilla of airships is arriving and approaching the mooring towers, while distributing magic trinkets throughout the streets as largesse.</p><p>[End session 78]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CPaladin, post: 8479487, member: 7030144"] [Session 78, cont'd] (Kit pauses to consult with the rest of the Council. Alistair checks Canberry's map of the Underdark, and finds that there are reaches of the upper Underdark that at least go close. Kit plans on reaching out to her agent to try to find the younger sister, and also to find out more about her. They also plan an extraction. ) Kit contacts her agent; tells her that there is likely a connection to the Underdark; second, that the agent should reach out to people, especially people who might be loyal to the younger sister, who seems likes someone we could work with; and they’ll be arranging an extraction. "You have loyally served Canberry, and we will provide you with protection." Alistair speaks with the Archbishop; he is very shaken by the death of Monsignor Manuel, who is the Nuncio from the Light and was part of that delegation. "The City of Life has always been odd. The humans—after the elves departed, or passed, or we think they did—modeled their culture on the elven culture for a very long time, which made them incredibly insular. But the faith of Eiru faded over time—when the elves dwelt among them, they followed Eiru, but it faded with time, or perhaps they were rejected by Eiru. After that, they turned to Glor’diadel. They have always been a stiff-necked lot, and they forbade the marriage of nobles to those outside, which caused unfortunate things, for they did not have a large number of nobles. Their priests were cut slack, because of the Heavenly Drops. There was talk that we would select a bishop when the present bishop passed, without consulting the primarch, but the primarch has traditionally selected the bishops. The priests that emerged from Life rarely leave—though we have one in the city." (They send people to investigate.) Kit asks her scribe to (1) research the current royal family of the City of Life, with a focus on the youngest daughter; (2) compare it to records kept outside the palace; (3) compare the records of Alistair’s maternal family kept within the palace to records kept without the palace? Her scribe has a file on the royal family of Life, kept based on orders from the Archduke’s grandmother; the primarch is a good enough man, not very bright; the primarch’s brother is a brilliant man, but very weak, due to the inbreeding—has a companion who keeps him healthy; three younger sisters, two of whom died (probably of the same inbred condition as the younger brother); the youngest sister is still quite young, and left to Khamista to enter a women’s seminary—really, a convent. She said that she would not follow her sisters, which suggests that their deaths may not have been natural. The Archbishop then starts preparing for a 13 question commune: [LIST=1] [*]Does the Bishop of the City of Life worship Sytry? Yes [*]If yes, does he know? No [*]Has the Bishop of the City of Life attempted to seize power? Yes [*]Is the youngest sister of the Primarch of the City of Life devoted to Glor’diadel? Yes. [*]Is the Bishop of the City of Life good? No. [*]Is the Patriarch of Sytry good? No. [*]Has the Patriarch of Sytry deliberately violated the Ecumenical Compact? No. [*]Is it still possible to get true Heavenly Drops from the spring? Yes. [*]Are the leaders of the temple of Sytry in Canberry evil? No. [*]Is the temple of Sytry acting against the Crown? No. [*]Is getting an agent of Canberry inside the Dome within the next week important to the interests of Canberry? Yes. [*]Is the connection between the City of Life and my mother’s family part of the plots of the City of Life? No, she escaped. [*]Is the frailty and ill-health of the Primarch’s family due to natural causes such as inbreeding? No. [/LIST] The Council discusses. The Council calls the Sixth Daughter. "Ha! The City of Life attempted to seal off the connections to the Underdark years ago and forget their old alliances. Certain noble families had alliances throughout the Underdark, and would trade with us. But that was before the strange ones came." "Who were these strange ones?" "New priests came among them, who were not… they were not… they were not as they appeared. They were as they appeared, but not as they appeared inside. If it were my people, I would say that they were possessed, but there were no demons inside. It was something else. We could see them. They convinced the royal family that we were dangerous and should not be traded with. They attempted to seal up the passages to the underdark, and they corrupted everything. My mother has agents among them. We knew they would raise the Dome when they had gathered enough of the Water of Life. It is an elven spring from the Eldar. I know what those priests seek—they seek to become as we are, deathless. They have been collecting this water and speaking to their false god for decades. They have been told to by the one that dwells in there. And the one that leads them does not have one dwelling in them. They do not serve a god, not the god they think they do, nor any other. They serve a great lord of chaos who is seeking to ascend, that wants them to build an immortal form. "It will only be one of them that they can make immortal, it would convert them into primal material, they would be like a Firstcomer but not elven. "They would have had enough 20 years ago, but they were distracted by another scheme. The Drops of Heavenly Essence are the product of massive distillations of the Water of Life. They can produce ten such drops a year. They will now distill the drops, to produce a tiny vial of viscous fluid, which one will consume. A normal human, would be destroyed. A drow, blasted asunder. But they intend to have a pure enough vessel, which they will then transform into primal material with the vial; that is the moment when the creature, the demon will possess them." That’s when the page informs the Council that a flotilla of airships is arriving and approaching the mooring towers, while distributing magic trinkets throughout the streets as largesse. [End session 78] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
Playing the Game
Story Hour
Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)
Top