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<blockquote data-quote="skotothalamos" data-source="post: 6960695" data-attributes="member: 83398"><p>Woo. We took an extended vacation in Barovia to give Ryan Nock & co. some time to put the final polish on the Zeitgeist Compilation. We will return to Zeitgeist tomorrow night!</p><p></p><p>A sort of "current status" update which will only make sense to those who have their own Zeitgeist Adventure Path to follow along in:</p><p></p><p>The Constables managed to create a new consensus at ObCon, crafting a new set of rules for the ritual. These rules have been published by Wizards of the Coast as Fifth Edition D&D. They didn't know that's what would happen when they did it, but we were all getting tired of the 4E character bloat.</p><p></p><p>After ObCon, the Constables finished up Summer/Kasvarina's memory collection by going to Methia and facing off with Nicodemus and Borne. They managed to open one of the portals atop the tower, but while everyone was trying to escape, IronPeak and Nicodemus's consciousnesses were both ripped from the bodies they were using, freeing Mr. Mapple and IronPeak's old friend TitanFist to control their own bodies. They leapt through the portal to the Dreaming without a second thought.</p><p></p><p>In the Dreaming, the Constables solved the "murder" of Rock Rackus easily enough, but played along with the various fey schemes just long enough to see who wanted them to do what. James decided to stay in the Dreaming, passing his Constabulary duties on to his Remarkable Mechanical Hat, which had gained sentience and was probably responsible for most of James's competence over the past year. The Hat built itself a new mechanical body and "Ms. Gear" is now the party's warforged wizard. The party ended up siding with the Hedgehog Court, which took over the Dreaming and became the new Unseen Court. Alienor became the new ambassador of the Unseen Court, and Beshela helped her deliver her baby, which she had kept secret from the group for a good 6 months. Mistah Knives tagged along with the group to be Alienor's nanny.</p><p></p><p>Summer successfully wooed Rock Rackus and the two were set to be married, but the Voice of Rot had to be dealt with first. They left Rock in the city while they rode with the Wild Hunt to the Black Needles. There TitanFist, whose fate was linked with IronPeak's through shared Goliath tattoos, took up the sword and surrendered to the Voice, launching the party and the Hunt back to Risur just in time to try to prevent King Aodhan's assassination.</p><p></p><p>They failed.</p><p></p><p>Lya Jierre slew Aodhan in front of them and then got away again. Alienor ran to her lover's side, offering to bring him back from the dead, but Aodhan refused. He could not even be swayed with the news of his newborn son. During the fight, the group managed to capture Catherine Romana. They used a variation of ritual they had used to infiltrate ObCon to eject Catherine's soul and finally free Xambria from Cazara's head.</p><p></p><p>Kong Aodhan proclaimed the entire party to be Duchesses to prevent Romana's political takeover. After the King's death, Harkover Lee informed TitanFist that he had named IronPeak as his successor. Since TitanFist looked like IronPeak, she would be expected to act the part until IronPeak's consciousness could be freed from Nicodemus.</p><p></p><p>side note: IronPeak and TitanFist were part of a Beran attachment to the Risuri Armed Forces in the Fourth Yerasol War. After the war, they accepted scholarships to the Citadel military school outside of Flint. Somewhere along the line, they were subjected to horrible super-soldier experimentation that only allowed one of them to be conscious at a time, essentially giving the conscious one the powers and abilities of both combined. The "IronPeak" we've known this entire time was IronPeak's consciousness driving TitanFist's body while IronPeak was supposed to be the dormant one. Nicodemus's psychic meddling finally gave TitanFist the ability to be herself, and she was not willing to be a team player. This almost sidetracked the entire plot until Harkover (or me as DM) convinced TitanFist ('s player) that TitanFist would be motivated to recover IronPeak so she wouldn't have to be acting King.</p><p></p><p>Back to main plot: the Duchesses went to stop Stanfield's portion of the Ob ritual. They missed their fifth or sixth opportunity to kill Lya Jierre, making her the best nemesis I've ever had in a D&D game. They ended up using the destruction lantern to destroy enough other lanterns that the ritual failed. When Stanfield rose as a Rakshasa after a long, two-session encounter, they players almost rebelled. He was immune to their attacks and teleporting after people. Finally, someone told TitanFist about the Arsenal of Debhisu she carried, and TitanFist put an end to Stanfield.</p><p></p><p>After the celebrations, TitanFist went to the Citadel to find IronPeak's body in hopes her consciousness had made its way back home. There she found out that the body had been sent to the Malice Land country of Arrovia (from which Wolfgang von Recklinghausen came), under Stanfield's order.</p><p></p><p>Alienor stayed in Risur to tend after Aodhan's young son (whose name I've forgotten, but I think it's French for "Matchstick"). Her daughter Bette, who was a cleric, joined the group for the excursion to Arrovia.</p><p></p><p>We used Curse of Strahd to get the players and DM used to 5e. We converted all of the characters to 3rd-level versions of themselves. Harkover took most of their treasure back. He claimed that in a crisis, such expensive items needed to be kept by the government. Everyone suspected him of just making a nice treasure horde to sleep on.</p><p></p><p>Lots of Curse of Strahd spoilers here. IronPeak (body and mind) was found. Strahd was defeated. TitanFist took over in his place as Dark Lord of (B)Arrovia. Bette stayed in the country to preach to the desperate.</p><p></p><p>And last week, we got Alienor and IronPeak made into 5e characters and Harkover presented King IronPeak with a list of four domestic and four foreign issues that needed dealing with. (I'm smushing adventures 10 and 11 together, letting them decide to deal with the four titans, Ursaliña, Drakr, Crisilyir, and the Forward Symposium in whatever order they like. I've got El Extraño working with Harkover to get foreign info in even though She Who Writhes still blockades the seas. I might have Pemberton come cruising in with his airship if they decide to just leave SWW in charge of the oceans. It's "epic tier." The books are just sort of vague outlines at the moment.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I have a Father of Thunder to convert and only 20 hours left to do it!</p><p></p><p>Some day, maybe I'll backfill all the details.</p><p></p><p>maybe... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skotothalamos, post: 6960695, member: 83398"] Woo. We took an extended vacation in Barovia to give Ryan Nock & co. some time to put the final polish on the Zeitgeist Compilation. We will return to Zeitgeist tomorrow night! A sort of "current status" update which will only make sense to those who have their own Zeitgeist Adventure Path to follow along in: The Constables managed to create a new consensus at ObCon, crafting a new set of rules for the ritual. These rules have been published by Wizards of the Coast as Fifth Edition D&D. They didn't know that's what would happen when they did it, but we were all getting tired of the 4E character bloat. After ObCon, the Constables finished up Summer/Kasvarina's memory collection by going to Methia and facing off with Nicodemus and Borne. They managed to open one of the portals atop the tower, but while everyone was trying to escape, IronPeak and Nicodemus's consciousnesses were both ripped from the bodies they were using, freeing Mr. Mapple and IronPeak's old friend TitanFist to control their own bodies. They leapt through the portal to the Dreaming without a second thought. In the Dreaming, the Constables solved the "murder" of Rock Rackus easily enough, but played along with the various fey schemes just long enough to see who wanted them to do what. James decided to stay in the Dreaming, passing his Constabulary duties on to his Remarkable Mechanical Hat, which had gained sentience and was probably responsible for most of James's competence over the past year. The Hat built itself a new mechanical body and "Ms. Gear" is now the party's warforged wizard. The party ended up siding with the Hedgehog Court, which took over the Dreaming and became the new Unseen Court. Alienor became the new ambassador of the Unseen Court, and Beshela helped her deliver her baby, which she had kept secret from the group for a good 6 months. Mistah Knives tagged along with the group to be Alienor's nanny. Summer successfully wooed Rock Rackus and the two were set to be married, but the Voice of Rot had to be dealt with first. They left Rock in the city while they rode with the Wild Hunt to the Black Needles. There TitanFist, whose fate was linked with IronPeak's through shared Goliath tattoos, took up the sword and surrendered to the Voice, launching the party and the Hunt back to Risur just in time to try to prevent King Aodhan's assassination. They failed. Lya Jierre slew Aodhan in front of them and then got away again. Alienor ran to her lover's side, offering to bring him back from the dead, but Aodhan refused. He could not even be swayed with the news of his newborn son. During the fight, the group managed to capture Catherine Romana. They used a variation of ritual they had used to infiltrate ObCon to eject Catherine's soul and finally free Xambria from Cazara's head. Kong Aodhan proclaimed the entire party to be Duchesses to prevent Romana's political takeover. After the King's death, Harkover Lee informed TitanFist that he had named IronPeak as his successor. Since TitanFist looked like IronPeak, she would be expected to act the part until IronPeak's consciousness could be freed from Nicodemus. side note: IronPeak and TitanFist were part of a Beran attachment to the Risuri Armed Forces in the Fourth Yerasol War. After the war, they accepted scholarships to the Citadel military school outside of Flint. Somewhere along the line, they were subjected to horrible super-soldier experimentation that only allowed one of them to be conscious at a time, essentially giving the conscious one the powers and abilities of both combined. The "IronPeak" we've known this entire time was IronPeak's consciousness driving TitanFist's body while IronPeak was supposed to be the dormant one. Nicodemus's psychic meddling finally gave TitanFist the ability to be herself, and she was not willing to be a team player. This almost sidetracked the entire plot until Harkover (or me as DM) convinced TitanFist ('s player) that TitanFist would be motivated to recover IronPeak so she wouldn't have to be acting King. Back to main plot: the Duchesses went to stop Stanfield's portion of the Ob ritual. They missed their fifth or sixth opportunity to kill Lya Jierre, making her the best nemesis I've ever had in a D&D game. They ended up using the destruction lantern to destroy enough other lanterns that the ritual failed. When Stanfield rose as a Rakshasa after a long, two-session encounter, they players almost rebelled. He was immune to their attacks and teleporting after people. Finally, someone told TitanFist about the Arsenal of Debhisu she carried, and TitanFist put an end to Stanfield. After the celebrations, TitanFist went to the Citadel to find IronPeak's body in hopes her consciousness had made its way back home. There she found out that the body had been sent to the Malice Land country of Arrovia (from which Wolfgang von Recklinghausen came), under Stanfield's order. Alienor stayed in Risur to tend after Aodhan's young son (whose name I've forgotten, but I think it's French for "Matchstick"). Her daughter Bette, who was a cleric, joined the group for the excursion to Arrovia. We used Curse of Strahd to get the players and DM used to 5e. We converted all of the characters to 3rd-level versions of themselves. Harkover took most of their treasure back. He claimed that in a crisis, such expensive items needed to be kept by the government. Everyone suspected him of just making a nice treasure horde to sleep on. Lots of Curse of Strahd spoilers here. IronPeak (body and mind) was found. Strahd was defeated. TitanFist took over in his place as Dark Lord of (B)Arrovia. Bette stayed in the country to preach to the desperate. And last week, we got Alienor and IronPeak made into 5e characters and Harkover presented King IronPeak with a list of four domestic and four foreign issues that needed dealing with. (I'm smushing adventures 10 and 11 together, letting them decide to deal with the four titans, Ursaliña, Drakr, Crisilyir, and the Forward Symposium in whatever order they like. I've got El Extraño working with Harkover to get foreign info in even though She Who Writhes still blockades the seas. I might have Pemberton come cruising in with his airship if they decide to just leave SWW in charge of the oceans. It's "epic tier." The books are just sort of vague outlines at the moment. Anyway, I have a Father of Thunder to convert and only 20 hours left to do it! Some day, maybe I'll backfill all the details. maybe... :) [/QUOTE]
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