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<blockquote data-quote="Cultsbane" data-source="post: 8969333" data-attributes="member: 7037457"><p>Campaign time: 2 hours, 58 mins, 14 seconds </p><p></p><p>We're beginning module 4!</p><p></p><p>The DM by mistake paid us 2000 GP too little in the last module, so it was nice finding out we had a bit of extra gold to spend on a shopping episode. One day we're going to get a beach episode! (I've been promoting this for literally 3 years of D&D campaigning) </p><p></p><p>Kelik buys a cape that allows him to cast dimension door and a good luck stone. Isabelle buys slippers of spider climbing, as well she buys a speciality magical wooden shield made specifically for druids (she can become spiderpig or piss on them). Anael gets a dancing sword and a bunch of prayer beads to enhance her paladin abilities </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile Freya is still saving up for her +3 "gravity magic grimoire" for the low price of 14,000GP (though I've got plans for a shield after multiclassing into fighter, so it'll definitely be a slight delay) </p><p></p><p>Stover Delft is now the temporary head of the RHC division of Flint after Margaret Thatcher's arrest, and has decided to rehire us all. Stover is very busy, from planning funerals to finding out more about this secret organization Obsecurti but wants a meeting with us soon </p><p></p><p>Xambria is still very traumatized and tells us everything we need to know. We also discuss returning the golden seal to the ziggurat. Anael is really pushing returning it, Kelik wants to go directly towards going to the other ziggurat, but eventually they settle on going to the original Apet Ziggurat. They buy train tickets to the group</p><p></p><p>Kelik is far more trusting of the party, as is Anael, but neither are fans of working in groups yet. Kelik wants to stop by the embassy of Ber on the way to update them </p><p></p><p>Kelik recommends to Ber in secret that now is the time for Ber to start influencing Risur before Danor's influence is unstoppable. The arrival of Ber immigrants into Risur represents that opportunity to truly culturally influence and take over Risur. Risur is a paper tiger </p><p></p><p>Isabelle is apparently now addicted to methadone. Now that is character development. So she wasn't able to answer Lady Songbird questions about the Obsecurti (perhaps a good thing!) </p><p></p><p>Hops notices that a lot of eschatologists are appearing on the streets of Flint, which is disturbing considering the apocalyptic nihilistic nature of them, But he is still thankful to them for teaching the ability to revive the immediate deceased and the mastery over ice magic. </p><p></p><p>Kelik has a wonderful new ability to cast pass without a trace to escape people trailing us. Hops is curious about trains having not much experience with them, looking into the maintaining of each </p><p></p><p>After a few hours we arrived near the ziggurat of Apet, Freya spends the train ride studying her notes on gravity magic. Kelik realizes as we arrive that we have to get another cow to sacrifice to The voice of Rot</p><p></p><p>The ziggurat is significantly different from before, it doesn't have corpses littered across, and has a red carpet waiting for us. Two stone heads turn to us, but say nothing</p><p></p><p>We see inside the void that all the bodies have been placed within this area. It's basically like a giant floating trash bin</p><p></p><p>Isabelle wants to meet with the Voice of Rot, believing that being temporarily turned to stone was a blessing and trial of her faith in the divinity of Malenia. She prays </p><p></p><p>The Voice of Rot calls out "the mission is complete, the intruder is dead, you've done well my child Isabelle and the plane of Ruin expands. If anyone comes over from that side to here he will cause a 10 mile explosion" </p><p></p><p>We realize that we came really close to basically nuking Flint. </p><p></p><p>Voice of Rot begins shifting to speaking in ancient to Anael mentions the great disturbance of planes. Now only kept at bay by the magic of a certain organization, the eyes glow as he says the Obsecurti. </p><p></p><p>Kelik "so the Obsecurti is keeping the planes closed?", Hops mentions that Xambria said they opened the seal. Voice of Rot said they replaced the ancient seal</p><p></p><p>The snake's eyes fade and the statues return to normal. We now have to go to another Zigurat. Both Anael and Freya are trusting of Stover Delft, Hops and Kelik are still a little bit suspicious of him, and Isabelle is indifferent </p><p></p><p>Hops & Kelik aren't thrilled to rejoin the RHC. Freya has to stay with the RHC out of the necessity of paying Rent, Kelik says that she can live with her husband and him if needed, though it's up on a hill and he knows Freya hates that. </p><p></p><p>We go to meet with Stover for updates and maybe see if Xambria wants to go to another Ziggurat. </p><p></p><p>Kelik's reputation of causing fires has spread across Flint and some are suspecting him of actually being the true criminal arsonist of Ber not the brothers of Ber. As such less and less Flint citizens are willing to help </p><p></p><p>Kelik suggests to Delft that we basically become an unofficial strike force of the RHC. Allow us to work outside the official guidelines, Freya can keep watch on us to avoid anything too illegal and she'll get paid better. Delft agrees to this, saying they need more flexibility in the RHC anyways </p><p></p><p>Stover starts chewing on some tobacco, saying that it's better than smoking. Less annoying smell. Anael is absolutely disgusted at this </p><p></p><p>Stover's discussion with professor Xambria revealed that the train ride of the Obsecurti leaves in a week from Danor, it'll last a month, that it is a party train. He suspects that it's a place for Obsecurti meetings in secret. Our next mission is to infiltrate this train, we come up with the idea to enter the train later to not be too suspicious</p><p></p><p>Stover is supportive of us having some discussions with the anarchist temporarily, but we are strictly forbidden from having connections to the fedora mafia. Which basically means we won't have access to our insider bartender in the Applecore</p><p></p><p>Stover just isn't ready to actually go in arresting the fedora mafia, or better yet he doesn't want unnecessary casualties for the RHC who is already short staffed </p><p></p><p>Hops communicates with Gale about this update. We go over to dinner with Kelik, Sebastian actually wants to come with us on at least the boat ride, Kelik reluctantly agrees to this. So now we've got a minotaur who can cook really well with us! </p><p></p><p>We're now to talk to Professor Xambria to see if they wanna join us and talk about other zigurat. Like one that is protected by the Fey in a water temple (Legend of Zelda moment). We find out on the train that Margaret Thatcher was going to meet with someone named Fiona, a young Tiefling lady </p><p></p><p>Professor Xambria isn't interested in going with us. She is just overwhelmed with PTSD, but we eventually pressured her into joining for at least the boat ride </p><p></p><p>We get a bunch of alcohol and smoke for the boat ride. We head to the Talking Head bar (We forgot the actual name, so it's not this) to have a few relaxing drinks and smokes before our next adventure. We overhear that a lot of the mafia members have lost a significant amount of manpower and are now becoming more "official guards" of establishments to recuperate loses </p><p></p><p>Anael and Freya getting drunk start making fun of the fedora mafia for dressing like total losers. They also talk about how no one could handle us dressing feminine with Isabelle. Anael orders a bunch of cooked duck soup for the party</p><p></p><p>Freya is just chucking down run shot after rum shot</p><p></p><p>The next day we took off to the eastern coast of Ber. We stop by an island a few miles outside of Flint and we hide the golden seal at the same place we hid the wands from module 2. Kelik decides to give the wand of Ray of Enfeeblement to Freya as well </p><p></p><p>We leave and later we get surrounded by two ships. One is a Crisillyir ship with 34 crew, the other ship is from Ber and has a much smaller crew. The Crisillyir ship is called the inspiration in Italian and an Orc is the captain of the ship</p><p></p><p>The Orc is delighted that we're not from Risur but confused that we fly the Risur flag, that the Ber ship is to be taken over by Crisillyir. At this point a goblin from the Ber ship comes out well dressed complaining about being an underpaid archeologist under Crisillyir harassment, saying that they're the greatest archeologist ever. Our professor isn't really that familiar with them, besides being a weird Ber archeologist </p><p></p><p>We are thinking about going to the mainland of Ber to discuss this. Crisillyir and Ber have an extremely strained relationship to say the least </p><p></p><p>The Crisillyir ship fires warning shots at about 200ft. Now it's time we take them over. Freya would be able to use her gravity magic on the ship, but they decide against it because of limited range, so it's up to Kelik to dimension door and plans on taking Anael with him </p><p></p><p>Kelik borrows Freya's amulet. Isabelle can fly over as a seagull. Kelik gives Sabastian a kiss goodbye. Who stays behind with Freya and Hops </p><p></p><p>Kelik manages to successfully dimension door with Anael and takes him down instantly with a nat 20. Anael places her blade to his neck and says for everyone to stand down, immediately they drop their weapons and begin pissing themselves (lots of bodily fluids today) </p><p></p><p>Isabelle the seagull takes a poop on the captain! As Kelik says that they need to leave the sovereign territory of Ber </p><p></p><p>Anael lowers the Crisillyir flag and throws all the weapons overboard. At this point Crisillyir is threatening that the church will hear about this indecency by Ber and Kelik is pissed that again the church has no respect for Ber but let's him up to begin the discussion of good will. Prefer to avoid war and not endanger Sabastian more than he already has </p><p></p><p>Hops and Freya start approaching in their boat. The Goblin storms onto the Crisillyir ship bragging about how great he is at his researcher, Kelik says that Crisillyir thinks otherwise and the Goblin starts yelling that he is the greatest researcher since the guy who invented sliced bread. The Orc captain of Crisillyir says "this is why I fired him" </p><p></p><p>Another ship arrives preparing to explore the semi submerged water temple ruins. We signal to them. We get capsules of water breathing as now they're interested in using us to explore the ruins, But at this moment</p><p></p><p>We see a golden glowing from the ruins that transforms into blue and gold. Water starts forming a whirlpool and a wave of pain comes crashing through us. A giant waterspout appears in the middle of The Whirlpool</p><p></p><p>Fishman come swimming up from the whirlpool showing Sharp teeths and spears. </p><p></p><p>And we end the session</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cultsbane, post: 8969333, member: 7037457"] Campaign time: 2 hours, 58 mins, 14 seconds We're beginning module 4! The DM by mistake paid us 2000 GP too little in the last module, so it was nice finding out we had a bit of extra gold to spend on a shopping episode. One day we're going to get a beach episode! (I've been promoting this for literally 3 years of D&D campaigning) Kelik buys a cape that allows him to cast dimension door and a good luck stone. Isabelle buys slippers of spider climbing, as well she buys a speciality magical wooden shield made specifically for druids (she can become spiderpig or piss on them). Anael gets a dancing sword and a bunch of prayer beads to enhance her paladin abilities Meanwhile Freya is still saving up for her +3 "gravity magic grimoire" for the low price of 14,000GP (though I've got plans for a shield after multiclassing into fighter, so it'll definitely be a slight delay) Stover Delft is now the temporary head of the RHC division of Flint after Margaret Thatcher's arrest, and has decided to rehire us all. Stover is very busy, from planning funerals to finding out more about this secret organization Obsecurti but wants a meeting with us soon Xambria is still very traumatized and tells us everything we need to know. We also discuss returning the golden seal to the ziggurat. Anael is really pushing returning it, Kelik wants to go directly towards going to the other ziggurat, but eventually they settle on going to the original Apet Ziggurat. They buy train tickets to the group Kelik is far more trusting of the party, as is Anael, but neither are fans of working in groups yet. Kelik wants to stop by the embassy of Ber on the way to update them Kelik recommends to Ber in secret that now is the time for Ber to start influencing Risur before Danor's influence is unstoppable. The arrival of Ber immigrants into Risur represents that opportunity to truly culturally influence and take over Risur. Risur is a paper tiger Isabelle is apparently now addicted to methadone. Now that is character development. So she wasn't able to answer Lady Songbird questions about the Obsecurti (perhaps a good thing!) Hops notices that a lot of eschatologists are appearing on the streets of Flint, which is disturbing considering the apocalyptic nihilistic nature of them, But he is still thankful to them for teaching the ability to revive the immediate deceased and the mastery over ice magic. Kelik has a wonderful new ability to cast pass without a trace to escape people trailing us. Hops is curious about trains having not much experience with them, looking into the maintaining of each After a few hours we arrived near the ziggurat of Apet, Freya spends the train ride studying her notes on gravity magic. Kelik realizes as we arrive that we have to get another cow to sacrifice to The voice of Rot The ziggurat is significantly different from before, it doesn't have corpses littered across, and has a red carpet waiting for us. Two stone heads turn to us, but say nothing We see inside the void that all the bodies have been placed within this area. It's basically like a giant floating trash bin Isabelle wants to meet with the Voice of Rot, believing that being temporarily turned to stone was a blessing and trial of her faith in the divinity of Malenia. She prays The Voice of Rot calls out "the mission is complete, the intruder is dead, you've done well my child Isabelle and the plane of Ruin expands. If anyone comes over from that side to here he will cause a 10 mile explosion" We realize that we came really close to basically nuking Flint. Voice of Rot begins shifting to speaking in ancient to Anael mentions the great disturbance of planes. Now only kept at bay by the magic of a certain organization, the eyes glow as he says the Obsecurti. Kelik "so the Obsecurti is keeping the planes closed?", Hops mentions that Xambria said they opened the seal. Voice of Rot said they replaced the ancient seal The snake's eyes fade and the statues return to normal. We now have to go to another Zigurat. Both Anael and Freya are trusting of Stover Delft, Hops and Kelik are still a little bit suspicious of him, and Isabelle is indifferent Hops & Kelik aren't thrilled to rejoin the RHC. Freya has to stay with the RHC out of the necessity of paying Rent, Kelik says that she can live with her husband and him if needed, though it's up on a hill and he knows Freya hates that. We go to meet with Stover for updates and maybe see if Xambria wants to go to another Ziggurat. Kelik's reputation of causing fires has spread across Flint and some are suspecting him of actually being the true criminal arsonist of Ber not the brothers of Ber. As such less and less Flint citizens are willing to help Kelik suggests to Delft that we basically become an unofficial strike force of the RHC. Allow us to work outside the official guidelines, Freya can keep watch on us to avoid anything too illegal and she'll get paid better. Delft agrees to this, saying they need more flexibility in the RHC anyways Stover starts chewing on some tobacco, saying that it's better than smoking. Less annoying smell. Anael is absolutely disgusted at this Stover's discussion with professor Xambria revealed that the train ride of the Obsecurti leaves in a week from Danor, it'll last a month, that it is a party train. He suspects that it's a place for Obsecurti meetings in secret. Our next mission is to infiltrate this train, we come up with the idea to enter the train later to not be too suspicious Stover is supportive of us having some discussions with the anarchist temporarily, but we are strictly forbidden from having connections to the fedora mafia. Which basically means we won't have access to our insider bartender in the Applecore Stover just isn't ready to actually go in arresting the fedora mafia, or better yet he doesn't want unnecessary casualties for the RHC who is already short staffed Hops communicates with Gale about this update. We go over to dinner with Kelik, Sebastian actually wants to come with us on at least the boat ride, Kelik reluctantly agrees to this. So now we've got a minotaur who can cook really well with us! We're now to talk to Professor Xambria to see if they wanna join us and talk about other zigurat. Like one that is protected by the Fey in a water temple (Legend of Zelda moment). We find out on the train that Margaret Thatcher was going to meet with someone named Fiona, a young Tiefling lady Professor Xambria isn't interested in going with us. She is just overwhelmed with PTSD, but we eventually pressured her into joining for at least the boat ride We get a bunch of alcohol and smoke for the boat ride. We head to the Talking Head bar (We forgot the actual name, so it's not this) to have a few relaxing drinks and smokes before our next adventure. We overhear that a lot of the mafia members have lost a significant amount of manpower and are now becoming more "official guards" of establishments to recuperate loses Anael and Freya getting drunk start making fun of the fedora mafia for dressing like total losers. They also talk about how no one could handle us dressing feminine with Isabelle. Anael orders a bunch of cooked duck soup for the party Freya is just chucking down run shot after rum shot The next day we took off to the eastern coast of Ber. We stop by an island a few miles outside of Flint and we hide the golden seal at the same place we hid the wands from module 2. Kelik decides to give the wand of Ray of Enfeeblement to Freya as well We leave and later we get surrounded by two ships. One is a Crisillyir ship with 34 crew, the other ship is from Ber and has a much smaller crew. The Crisillyir ship is called the inspiration in Italian and an Orc is the captain of the ship The Orc is delighted that we're not from Risur but confused that we fly the Risur flag, that the Ber ship is to be taken over by Crisillyir. At this point a goblin from the Ber ship comes out well dressed complaining about being an underpaid archeologist under Crisillyir harassment, saying that they're the greatest archeologist ever. Our professor isn't really that familiar with them, besides being a weird Ber archeologist We are thinking about going to the mainland of Ber to discuss this. Crisillyir and Ber have an extremely strained relationship to say the least The Crisillyir ship fires warning shots at about 200ft. Now it's time we take them over. Freya would be able to use her gravity magic on the ship, but they decide against it because of limited range, so it's up to Kelik to dimension door and plans on taking Anael with him Kelik borrows Freya's amulet. Isabelle can fly over as a seagull. Kelik gives Sabastian a kiss goodbye. Who stays behind with Freya and Hops Kelik manages to successfully dimension door with Anael and takes him down instantly with a nat 20. Anael places her blade to his neck and says for everyone to stand down, immediately they drop their weapons and begin pissing themselves (lots of bodily fluids today) Isabelle the seagull takes a poop on the captain! As Kelik says that they need to leave the sovereign territory of Ber Anael lowers the Crisillyir flag and throws all the weapons overboard. At this point Crisillyir is threatening that the church will hear about this indecency by Ber and Kelik is pissed that again the church has no respect for Ber but let's him up to begin the discussion of good will. Prefer to avoid war and not endanger Sabastian more than he already has Hops and Freya start approaching in their boat. The Goblin storms onto the Crisillyir ship bragging about how great he is at his researcher, Kelik says that Crisillyir thinks otherwise and the Goblin starts yelling that he is the greatest researcher since the guy who invented sliced bread. The Orc captain of Crisillyir says "this is why I fired him" Another ship arrives preparing to explore the semi submerged water temple ruins. We signal to them. We get capsules of water breathing as now they're interested in using us to explore the ruins, But at this moment We see a golden glowing from the ruins that transforms into blue and gold. Water starts forming a whirlpool and a wave of pain comes crashing through us. A giant waterspout appears in the middle of The Whirlpool Fishman come swimming up from the whirlpool showing Sharp teeths and spears. And we end the session [/QUOTE]
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