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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Root7OneOne" data-source="post: 7466914" data-attributes="member: 6813171">Today is update day!Spoilers abound for books 6 and 7!First the sad news.  I was forced to disband my newer group.  The availability of all five players was so limited that we met about once every 4-6 weeks.  We got a couple sessions into book 2 when I called it.  It was unfortunate, but that's life.My other group is trucking along just fine, though progress has been a little slow there as well lately.  During my first post, the agents were just about to meet with the Bruse.Picking up from there, the party succeeded at the railroad challenge with the help of Pemberton's robots and some careful resource management, and calling in some favors from Risur for some extra cash flow.  They quickly hunted down the nearby undead, and were able to thwart most (but not all) of Lya's subterfuge.  They fared less well in the other challenge, and once Lya succeeded on her end, they did not pursue things very far with Cavallo.The reveal that Tinker was an automaton was quite exciting.  The resulting fight was a gigantic and fabulous mess.  Lya and her two henchmen attempted to aid the party fend off the Bruse's attackers, but one of the agents was having absolutely none of it.  He kicked Tinker's bomb over to Lya and her boys, and to avoid being killed themselves, Rush kicked the thing away.  It exploded and caught the Bruse in the radius, killing him.  The agent that first kicked the bomb blamed Rush for the Bruse's death and attacked Rush and Merton, killing them both as Lya helped the other agents deal with the attackers.Lya was understandably upset, and peaced out after swearing vengeance.  The reveal of the dragon(s) was also quite exciting.  The fight in the foundry was a good time.  Tinker's suit and gun were quite fun.  One of the agents has taken to using an eversmoking bottle (he's a pyrokineticist and so can see through the smoke), so Tera's ability to see through it as well was a handy thing to have around.  In the end, Pemberton gave up Tinker to save his daughter, and the party agreed to let her live.After winning the fight, however, Lya appeared and executed the real Tinker, surmising it would be her best revenge.  She fought to the death afterwards.  I'm sure she'll appear again in ghostly form soon.Book 7 was a nice return to some investigation.  The international manhunt was a pretty good time, though at this point divination powers mean a lot less footwork.  The Kobold spies were an amusing aside.  The party decided to attack Leone in transit, which turned out to be a mistake.  Some civilians died when Leone lifted and dropped one of the inhabited train cars.  But, the constables got their man and made their way north.Fighting the frost giants was a very easy feat for my party.  A pyrokineticist and a dwarven gunslinger made short work of them.  The demon bears were pretty great though.The party is now at the convocation.  Nic's speech revealing his plans was a lot of fun to deliver, and was very well received.  The players have been enjoying discussing the various faction plans with NPCs, and I've enjoyed making arguments for each one against players who are sometimes annoyingly intelligent people (one's an astrophysicist for god's sake).  One of the players has made himself the spokesman for the Miller's Pyre faction, and almost seems willing to join the Ob if they use his plan.  He has already asked me about me about making deals to switch some planets around and work with other factions.  Somehow, the MAP proposal is going to come about organically, which is great.  I don't think the others will go for it though.  Only one murder has taken place so far, so the convocation still has a ways to go.  I'm a little concerned that when Nic orders the death of the Colossus faction that the party will just... allow it to happen.  But I guess I have Pemberton's toy around to spark a fight.The players have guess at some upcoming events in the story (like travelling to different planes), but I think there are still plenty of surprises to be had.I am very much looking forward to the upcoming books.  I'm a really big fan of book 8 and I hope it plays out as well as it is written.</blockquote>

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