Andrew Moreton
Adventurer
The start of the session was discussion on preperation for a possible fight with the Ash Wolf and how to evacuate Muleshoe. One plan was to have William take on the spirit of the Archmage and set up a teleportation circle, but eventually they decided on a more conventional evacuation so that William could use the spirit of the Champion and be more useful in a fight. This was probably a good choice.
Arriving in Muleshoe Nevla sensed the Ash Wolf was near and Ulvaar took up position as an Aerial spotter, the party has used Ulvaar's life bubble and Nevla's spells and was largely unbothered by smoke and forest fire. He failed to see a very stealthy 40 foot tall wolf moving through the forest but did see the smaller smoulering wolves moving into town after encircling it. The citizens were ordered to take shelter and the pc's strode out to try to challange the Ash Wolf and draw its attention to them. Fours smouldering wolves attacked them unleashing a firestorm from their father as they attacked which reached up into the air to strike Ulvaar as well as those on the ground. Nevla ignored the atracks and addressed the forest fire asking the Ash wolf why he attacked Risur, Padme and William tried to stab smouldering wolves and discovered they were harder to hit than expected and protected by their fathers resistances, Manuel used his Maxim gun to shoot one of the wolves, while Ulvaar continued trying to spot the Ash Wolf itself. The Ash Wolf answered Nevla speaking from the flames themselves and demending revenge for the slaying of its cub by Risur. Nevla replied promising Justice and saying that any who had killed a smouldering wolf was not a citizen of Risur and would be brought to face the Fey Titans justice or killed. The rest of the team went full defensive and largely managedt avoid being gnawed by wolves to let Diplomacy play out. The Ash Wolf accepted the offer and granted them a day to bring justice but before doing so demonstrated its power running out of the flames leaping into the air taking a bite out of Ulvaar then retreatng back into the flames.
One of the smouldering wolves remained behind and guided the Queen to its dead sibling with the help of the Lightning Weasel and Manuel she identified the wounds as being inflicted by some sort of superhot enchanted Obsidian blade, not a weapon found in Risur. William called up the spirit of the dead wolf and got a description of its killer which the identified as a Salamander, they immediatly decided this must be an invader comming through the Zigurarat and went to the Ziggurat , on arrival the fact it was now made of Brass, surrounded by burning fire worms and guarded by a pair of Salamanders convinced them this was the right place. Manuel slipped into the ziggurat easily sneaking past the guards who had merely mortal perception. He move through the Ziggurat locating the Leader of the Salamanders and desciding from the fact that he and his mates were standing around seeing how things burnt that they were dealing with some sort of Hilly-Billy savage salamanders he returned and reported.. They decided to move in and deal with the Invaders Manuel suggested arresting them and then discovered that in this situation the others meant stab to death when they said arrest, the two sentries ambushed died almost immediatly and it was discovered that Ostea did not protect immigrants from the plane of fire.. Moving through the corridors the sleeping Devishes where knocked unconcious with suprise stabbing and silent cannon fire before being stuffed in the absurdist web., the two gate guards were rushed and stabbed to death by Padme and William before the moved towards the leader where they heard one side of a conversation between 'Master Bubba' and some sort of Wish granting genie suggesting he should perhaps find out about the image of doom in the skies and instead being told to turn all the flames purple.....
Before they could attack a projected image of Liesi the efreet spoke with them ,and there was groaning and singing of theme tunes as they spotted the reference. She revealed she was bound to aid Bubba, but would happily betray him and provide them with three wishes if they promised to free her, they agreed on condition that she would never return to this world or send any other efreeti here, she gauranteed whe would never have anything to do with this mudball once she got home. They planned their attack to prevent Bubba calling on her. Ulvaar would suck the wind out of his lungs to stop him talking, Manuel would shoot him with a field gun, Nevla would use teamwork feats to charge and attack him while giving the more deadly William and Padme a free move so they could full attack. We only got as far as rolling the attacks from Nevla, William and Padme. Nevla did about 70 pts between them William did 962 +73d6 +6d4, Padme added 20d4+ 60d8 +416, at this point I did not bother rolling the dice, each of them was doing sneak attack plus whenever a crit was scored the other got an extra attack resulting in william getting 13 attacks and Padme 14 most of which hit as Bubba was flatfooted and did not have a readied shield, he had nearly 400hp and so was so stabbed he became a fine red mist. The Viziers chose to surrender having witnessed this.
Nevla used the Humble hook to learn their names and then took all the prisoners to the gate told them never to return or bring allied back on pain of death and threw them back through the gate before bringing stone from the ground to seal it and using the monarchs power to exile all the Salamanders,
Then they used their three wishes from Liesi, the first one was used to ask about the Gyre and got an answer. It would destroy the world in two years, that the white worm had gone into it and was going to destroy the Arc of Riedda and thus commit this world to oblivion, but he waited as it was his nature to give the Monarch of Risur a chance to defeat him. They thoguht this gave them another reason to go to the Gyre.
Wish two and three were a pair contacting Kasavarina and asking if she would object to being brough to Nevla, she did not and asked to bring someone else. Shortly Athrylla and Kasavarina arrived revealing that after the fight atop the tower she had ended up in the Dreaming of Elfaivar and shortly before the end of the world she had travelled to one of the enclaves and made her way back to the world she was helping settle the Eladrin in new refuges with the Risuri colony and dealing with a series of Raskshaha incursions apparently freed from prisons by the change in magic. She had brought Athrylla so the other Eladrin could create teleport portals linking Risur to the Elfaivar settlements.
Before they could catch up further they decided to talk to the Ash Wolf they told him about the Salamanders and he agreed he owed them two boons, Nevla then said she would ressurect his cub the next day and he decreed that was three boons. They accepted his aid in battle and he offerred to aid two of them in finding their true loves.
They discussed William said if it was likely he would end up replacing the Voice of Rot he should find his true love to avoid going as mad as the voice. (At this point he suggested that perhaps William and Padme (a GMPC) were secretly each others true loves but had never realised each of them felt that way about the other as they bonded over their shared stabbing tendencies) as they discussed if they should use one of the boons for William, Padme finally realised what the glances he was casting her way meant although William remained as oblivious as always (Sense motive 1 and 20 respectivly) then impulsively she stepped forward and kissed him, piercing his heart nearly as effectively as the two of them had pierced the hearts of many enemies, ending the requirement for the AshWolf's aid.
Manuel demured saying their was no room in the short life of a Busy (Batman) Goblin for love , and instead demonstrated his brooding silence unaware as yet that he had aquired the life span of an Eladrin.
So Ulvaar and Nevla recieved the boon and as soon as the players tell me their visiions of what their characters true loves are I will work out who and where they are.
At the same time as the world for the first time in 300 years saw a dragon go to war, a certain Kobold and another dragon began their courtship
Arriving in Muleshoe Nevla sensed the Ash Wolf was near and Ulvaar took up position as an Aerial spotter, the party has used Ulvaar's life bubble and Nevla's spells and was largely unbothered by smoke and forest fire. He failed to see a very stealthy 40 foot tall wolf moving through the forest but did see the smaller smoulering wolves moving into town after encircling it. The citizens were ordered to take shelter and the pc's strode out to try to challange the Ash Wolf and draw its attention to them. Fours smouldering wolves attacked them unleashing a firestorm from their father as they attacked which reached up into the air to strike Ulvaar as well as those on the ground. Nevla ignored the atracks and addressed the forest fire asking the Ash wolf why he attacked Risur, Padme and William tried to stab smouldering wolves and discovered they were harder to hit than expected and protected by their fathers resistances, Manuel used his Maxim gun to shoot one of the wolves, while Ulvaar continued trying to spot the Ash Wolf itself. The Ash Wolf answered Nevla speaking from the flames themselves and demending revenge for the slaying of its cub by Risur. Nevla replied promising Justice and saying that any who had killed a smouldering wolf was not a citizen of Risur and would be brought to face the Fey Titans justice or killed. The rest of the team went full defensive and largely managedt avoid being gnawed by wolves to let Diplomacy play out. The Ash Wolf accepted the offer and granted them a day to bring justice but before doing so demonstrated its power running out of the flames leaping into the air taking a bite out of Ulvaar then retreatng back into the flames.
One of the smouldering wolves remained behind and guided the Queen to its dead sibling with the help of the Lightning Weasel and Manuel she identified the wounds as being inflicted by some sort of superhot enchanted Obsidian blade, not a weapon found in Risur. William called up the spirit of the dead wolf and got a description of its killer which the identified as a Salamander, they immediatly decided this must be an invader comming through the Zigurarat and went to the Ziggurat , on arrival the fact it was now made of Brass, surrounded by burning fire worms and guarded by a pair of Salamanders convinced them this was the right place. Manuel slipped into the ziggurat easily sneaking past the guards who had merely mortal perception. He move through the Ziggurat locating the Leader of the Salamanders and desciding from the fact that he and his mates were standing around seeing how things burnt that they were dealing with some sort of Hilly-Billy savage salamanders he returned and reported.. They decided to move in and deal with the Invaders Manuel suggested arresting them and then discovered that in this situation the others meant stab to death when they said arrest, the two sentries ambushed died almost immediatly and it was discovered that Ostea did not protect immigrants from the plane of fire.. Moving through the corridors the sleeping Devishes where knocked unconcious with suprise stabbing and silent cannon fire before being stuffed in the absurdist web., the two gate guards were rushed and stabbed to death by Padme and William before the moved towards the leader where they heard one side of a conversation between 'Master Bubba' and some sort of Wish granting genie suggesting he should perhaps find out about the image of doom in the skies and instead being told to turn all the flames purple.....
Before they could attack a projected image of Liesi the efreet spoke with them ,and there was groaning and singing of theme tunes as they spotted the reference. She revealed she was bound to aid Bubba, but would happily betray him and provide them with three wishes if they promised to free her, they agreed on condition that she would never return to this world or send any other efreeti here, she gauranteed whe would never have anything to do with this mudball once she got home. They planned their attack to prevent Bubba calling on her. Ulvaar would suck the wind out of his lungs to stop him talking, Manuel would shoot him with a field gun, Nevla would use teamwork feats to charge and attack him while giving the more deadly William and Padme a free move so they could full attack. We only got as far as rolling the attacks from Nevla, William and Padme. Nevla did about 70 pts between them William did 962 +73d6 +6d4, Padme added 20d4+ 60d8 +416, at this point I did not bother rolling the dice, each of them was doing sneak attack plus whenever a crit was scored the other got an extra attack resulting in william getting 13 attacks and Padme 14 most of which hit as Bubba was flatfooted and did not have a readied shield, he had nearly 400hp and so was so stabbed he became a fine red mist. The Viziers chose to surrender having witnessed this.
Nevla used the Humble hook to learn their names and then took all the prisoners to the gate told them never to return or bring allied back on pain of death and threw them back through the gate before bringing stone from the ground to seal it and using the monarchs power to exile all the Salamanders,
Then they used their three wishes from Liesi, the first one was used to ask about the Gyre and got an answer. It would destroy the world in two years, that the white worm had gone into it and was going to destroy the Arc of Riedda and thus commit this world to oblivion, but he waited as it was his nature to give the Monarch of Risur a chance to defeat him. They thoguht this gave them another reason to go to the Gyre.
Wish two and three were a pair contacting Kasavarina and asking if she would object to being brough to Nevla, she did not and asked to bring someone else. Shortly Athrylla and Kasavarina arrived revealing that after the fight atop the tower she had ended up in the Dreaming of Elfaivar and shortly before the end of the world she had travelled to one of the enclaves and made her way back to the world she was helping settle the Eladrin in new refuges with the Risuri colony and dealing with a series of Raskshaha incursions apparently freed from prisons by the change in magic. She had brought Athrylla so the other Eladrin could create teleport portals linking Risur to the Elfaivar settlements.
Before they could catch up further they decided to talk to the Ash Wolf they told him about the Salamanders and he agreed he owed them two boons, Nevla then said she would ressurect his cub the next day and he decreed that was three boons. They accepted his aid in battle and he offerred to aid two of them in finding their true loves.
They discussed William said if it was likely he would end up replacing the Voice of Rot he should find his true love to avoid going as mad as the voice. (At this point he suggested that perhaps William and Padme (a GMPC) were secretly each others true loves but had never realised each of them felt that way about the other as they bonded over their shared stabbing tendencies) as they discussed if they should use one of the boons for William, Padme finally realised what the glances he was casting her way meant although William remained as oblivious as always (Sense motive 1 and 20 respectivly) then impulsively she stepped forward and kissed him, piercing his heart nearly as effectively as the two of them had pierced the hearts of many enemies, ending the requirement for the AshWolf's aid.
Manuel demured saying their was no room in the short life of a Busy (Batman) Goblin for love , and instead demonstrated his brooding silence unaware as yet that he had aquired the life span of an Eladrin.
So Ulvaar and Nevla recieved the boon and as soon as the players tell me their visiions of what their characters true loves are I will work out who and where they are.
At the same time as the world for the first time in 300 years saw a dragon go to war, a certain Kobold and another dragon began their courtship
