Campaign time: 2 hours, 58 mins, 0 seconds
We're done with module 2 and eager to begin module 3. Module 1 was 5 sessions at 15 hours, 22 mins, & 35 seconds
Module 2 was 12 sessions at 35 hours, 57 mins, & 27 seconds
Zeitgeist Campaign Plan v2 (this is our DM plans for whenever he runs the module again, estimating he can get it down to 7-8 sessions)
Anyways here is today's session
We start with Hops who sees a police picket line and officers trying to escort the local population who are screaming "The Skyseer visions are true, calamity is upon us, kill the mayor Reed"
Hops is warning them to get going. He uses predestination to write on Ansel's horse to evocate. Hops looks around seeing sinkholes popping up everywhere, witch oil coming out, and the smell of engine grease. At this moment several gardeners come down.
One gardener has a very strong witch oil smell
"Roger you're not from here are you, you smell, i can tell you visited the bleak gate"
He sighs, takes out a giant black claw and rips a lung out of the horse
"My name isn't Roger, it's Creed, I'm the butler to the mayor and keeper of secrets. Half his face begins to peel off as he smiles"
Hops makes the decision to spend one ki point for step of the wind, dash, and runs away from him cursing under his breath chaos bolt as an action
It lands with 18 force damage. black shadows begin to cover it up as Creed morphs into the ground (we discuss if this is like a Mortal Kombat or supernatural reference)
Hops casts invisibility on himself to make his way back to the mansion and the party
"I'm afraid that's not how it works, sunny" - Creed can see invisibility. The same black claw comes down
He lands twice with one being a nat 20
Hops resists the blindness from the attack but takes 35 damage, who is somehow still up with barely any health points remaining
Hops notices multiple collapsed gardeners all bleeding from different random areas of the body. Some of them the legs, the back, the stomach but they're all deceased
We cut back to the other 4
Anael feels her horse get killed and gains an inspiration. Although it's a celestial horse so it'll come back eventually
Anael uses hold person after teleporting in front of him and he rolls a nat 20 resisting it
Isabelle uses wild shape to transforms into a crocodile, clamping on the leg of the mayor, he manages to get out but the crocodile does 6 damage to him supposedly as She gets the taste of not blood or oil but milk in her mouth
She has to make a wisdom save and rolls a 6. Wondering to themselves what just happened, they don't see in front of them the major, but a pure white crocodile coming at her full force
Turns back to hops, Who now knows the witch oil is prime and ready with the soul
Creed appears again on the hill, smiling as a police cap goes on his head.
Hops uses the icon given to him by Gael and Hops goes flying. Creed is shocked "another one, wait, another one" and at this point hops is 140 feet away
"Sleep with one open hare"
"I always do"
Going back underground
Kelik chambers the vendetta bullet and shoots. Rolls a dirty 20 which is technically a critical hit as a burst of red energy hits him straight in the back. The name written on the shotgun burns out and this time he bleeds red. This causes 27 damage
Anael laughs at this as Freya casts a mirror image after fey stepping closer.
"As a member of the arts, you should understand this is important, it's for the protection of the country against the unseen court" casting suggestions on Freya
Freya barely beats it. Freya has no patriotism and doesn't care what happens as long as her academic pursuits are unimpeded
"Oh my god how bad is the RHC,I can get you funding if you want" - Mayor Reed
Anael, seeing the distraction, plunges his sword deep within him with a thunderous smite.
From his wound comes out another outburst of milk. A certain sweet smell comes out, Anael remember this only yesterday, smelled it near the Skyseer during the ritual to transfer damage
Isabelle is still in an alternate universe fighting the albino crocodile, but manages to fight out of the delusion
She goes to bite the mayor, getting a 17 which hits, getting 9 damage and is forced to make a wisdom save getting another 17 & spitting it out. The mayor is able to break out of the grapple again effortlessly
"If this is truly in the interest of the state, surrender and you can tell us what is going on" - Kelik
"I'm not opposed to the deal if you can guarantee your silence...Are you familiar with geas?" (which begins a discussion about code geass)
Anael refuses this offer wanting and being consumed by vengeance now
Kelik goes to tackle him. Kelik gets a natural 20 and locks him down with special gantlets.
The frequent earthquakes around the lab begin to calm down.
"You don't know what you're doing, if you reveal this the fey titans will invade flint"
Everyone is literally just like "cool" as we start beating him up like it's part 5 of JoJo
Anael puts him over his shoulder pissed about her horse saying I'm leaving to find hops and takes a drink from her flask
We come out of the mansion with the butler asking why the mayor is gagged up like that. Anael intimates him into seeing this is none of his business
"Find if you want to endanger our country like that, you are going against the wrong person and people " and he shadows away leaving a lung behind
Kelik pulls off the gag asking who the hell is that. They debate and he gags him back up. Freya and Kelik discuss some of notes she found
If the witch oil was to explode it would blow up that section of town. Anael drags him to find hops
Some of the people there who remain ask what is going on and cheering we got the mayor. They start to speculate a coup is going on throughout the city
Hops meanwhile keep dashing around the area on the run. If he sees any fires he stomps them out..After a few mins we meet up with hops who warns out about how bad that butler was
Anael begins heading up the hill.
Hops ask Anael where she's going "revenge"
I think she's going to blow the hill - Kelik
Anael lights her match saying yes
Hops is pissed about this. Kelik too. Convincing her not to do it
We take the mayor to the hotel, as
Word has gotten out about the mayor being captured, police try to stop us, but we pull out the RHC badge
Hops warns the police to get everyone off the hill and Cut to Anael heading up the mountain. Who comes face to face with the butler
"My master been taken so I have nothing to do, I'm a patriot to the country"
"You think I am not"
"Not"
"One day soon you'll be confronted for your ties and your kind. I could take you out rn but I rather not"
Anael doesn't care, saying she'll defeat him, and he smiles turning into two face
Anael pulls out her sword and shield ready for the confrontation, when the shadow figure asks
"Why are you working for the RHC, what are you looking for?"
"Freedom"
"In this organization? You've chosen wrong"
"I look for freedom through changing this countries oppression and thus saving my people"
He takes out his glove and a giant shadow claw appears. I don't see the point in debating this, don't worry I won't kill you after I easily win, I've got more honour than that
Anael is now in a 1v1 and tosses off her helmet respecting the honour of the duel
He takes the first turn without hesitation as shadow arms appear trying to restrain her. Anael manages to get out
"There goes the easy way" and he melts into a shadow disappearing
Anael uses a perception check with her amulet to see if she can find him. She senses him and swings with all she got with the sword landing it into him
He is surprised to have been hit as the radiant damage comes straight out of the sword. He suddenly becomes visible again before saying "not bad"
Anael goes with another attack landing it flesh on with 11 damage dealt. He responds with "not bad at all, but it's over now"
Anael gets hit twice by his claw attack having to make two wisdom saves. she is fine from the blindness effects, but takes 31 damage who gets dropped to exactly 0
Back to the rest of the party who are worried about the increasing delay of Anael return. Kelik says he can check up on Anael
Hops says he'll request Delft directly as he trusts Stover, while Kelik says he doesn't actually trust Delft at all. Hops suggested we take the mayor to RHC HQ but begin questioning him before informing Stover
Isabelle goes to Anael. Freya goes with Hops. Isabelle is still a crocodile, while Freya informs Hops about everything and hops requests that she gets mayor ready to be disguised
A police officer drops Anael's unconscious body in front of the two, smiles, and disappears into a shadow. Kelik ties Anael up to the crocodile and begins heading back
We take the mayor to the RHC room. Meeting for the first time in person inspector head of the RHC. Lady chief Inspectress Margaret Saxby, basically our bosses bosses boss, maybe one or two above that.
"We need to put this man into a private room until my manager comes in and I am to talk to no one" - Hops
Margaret says that he can take the mayor, who is her personal friend, to an interrogation room and that she'll find Delft to ask questions about why the RHC in Flint is so bad and that She is actually here to take an audit of this branch of the RHC. Especially since we're the division that lost the Coaltongue
Freya notices that she calls the mayor her friend. We remove his mouth gag. Freya behind asking questions
She finds out the Fey and the dreaming haven't been happy with Flint and he has it on good word that the dreaming will begins attacking flint with Fey titans, & we need to make a giant robot to stop them
Do you have approval of other officials? which he informs that yes many take the threat of Fey Titans very seriously
Hops says they're myths and good bedtime stories for children. Which pisses off the mayor and he refuses to say more
We wait for Stover to arrive as the rest of the party arrives. Finally Kelik healing Anael who is still on the crocodile back (Yes Margaret meets a crocodile)
Kelik ask "did you finally get your vengeance?"
"No"
Mayor reveals he is connected to the gardeners and that every time we attacked him, we ended up one of the gardeners. That he got orders from the government and suggests a trial to calm down the people
Margaret walks in with inspector delft who says mayor Reed is being released and a Trial to be held tomorrow. He is to tried under environment hazards, reckless endangerment of the population, and bribery
Stover says "you know as much as I do we haven't had an earthquake in over a century" she quickly shoots that down
Anael asks Margaret if she knows about his second form. Poking the mayor showing milk coming out
"Talk to your boss about that I got a public to address rn"
We lock Mayor Reed up and begin talking to Stover about everything and that we're getting paid 2,500 GP
Stover says he thinks we did a great job actually as he tells us Margaret wants everyone off the case
Freya doesn't trust her, but Stover is like she is the boss
Kelik immediately leaves with his gold and goes to check on the boat price and to buy himself a boat.
Anael goes to interrogate the arsonist before being shipped off to Ber. Who reveals his boss is a shadow man
Kelik writes to his handler and ber contacts
The next day we see a very upset Margaret and Stover saying we got very bad news the mayor committed suicide. Apparently asks for a cig, talked to himself weirdly, and smashed his own head in. They tried to revive him but his soul moved on too fast
We debate if possibly the mayor is without a soul and possessed by someone. Margaret says "The involvement you have with the case is declared over and we'll be taking no other questions"
End of module 2
The party looks for items to buy in the months of downtime. Isabelle finds a scimitar of speed for 3,000GP & Freya has her sights set on an Arcane Grimoire for 14,000GP (so she'll be saving up for a bit)