Andrew Moreton
Adventurer
First we established debates about which planes to use in the eventual ritual would be put on hold until when they had most if not all of the options. as otehrwise we agreed we could spend hours on debates and then have nearly the same debate the next week. They will seek icons for any plane anyone is interested in . I also settled that a Plane/Planet could only be used once in the solar system, and that rebuilding the solar system as a Kempler Rosette or any of the other fun and interesting planatary configurations may be possible but would involve rebuilding the Ritual site. Manuel is still interested, No one else wants to mention the idea to Tinker, and they expect Manuel not to be allowed due to either time pressure or peer pressure. I anticipate an interesting debate when it is time
The group starts off in the Hall of Statues on the Forum of Lies plane, the group is fairly convinced this is all linked to Ashima-Shimtu , this is either her home plane or some aspect of her mind. (It is her home plane from the Abyss cast out into the Gyre as she has not been in residence for several thousand years). They decide they want to know where she is , some because they want to know, others because they want to make sure they can find out what she is doing, after all she wanted to come with them, was that as sinister plan? First William tries a sending spell but gets no response then they investigate every form of planar contact spell they can think of. They think Contact Other Plane may work as you can specify a specific demigod to contact, Commune would work but none of them seem to be worshippers of Ashima-Shimtu so that is not an option (Yet) and no other spell can be twisted to their ends.
Eventually they decided to save blowing miracle spells and similar until the end of the day to try and locate her, and instead explore the rest of the buildings, the next building they entered was the Hall of Pictures which was decorated with paintings and fresco's depicting the life of a demon lord as seen through her eyes. However before they could study it they had to remove the poison ivy growing over it, when Ulvaar used his plant warping ability he discovered that the Ivy had more magic resistance than a Pit fiend , he was still able to warp it. Manuel studied a sample and concluded it was one of the most deadly contact poisons he had found and a normal man who touched this stuff would almost certainly die.
It was ten times longer than it appeared and even then as the pcitures got closer to the entrance they were compressed down to smaller and smaller sizes until they were difficult or impossible to view without magnifying lenses. They proceded to look at what they could see and much of the building was a catalogue of atrocities with a section closely resembling the Kama Sutra featuring the two strange statues of vampiric devils from the staue hall, until they started to find images which seemed to match up with what the Lightning Weasel remembered of Demonocrocy histroy although as the Weasel pointed out this was a different viewpoint of these events and the differences from the Clergy's records were fascinating to a true scholar.
At the point that Triegenese appeared there seemed to be a focus on him, and all the events mentioned in his autobiography were here and accurate, after the life of Triegenese there was a bland and boring section before they started to get illustrations of random people through history as seen from the water. The last section featured the pc's extensively even before they encountered her she had been watching them , and importantly the pictures seemed accurate . Nevla seemed to spring into being at the point where she was found and rescued by Risuri troops after her captors were killed by her energy channelling, but careful perusal showed a slavery raised young eladrin woman being taken into that same building for an apparent ritual sacrifice.
They gained the impression that what Ashima-shimtu had been interested in watching were people who had been making life changind decisions, taking responsibility for actions and redemption. This made them think she may actually be seeking redemption, Nevla was already fairly certain of this. They then went back and used magnifying lenses to try and study the earliest images and they found some illustrations of a mortal life, probably a petty criminal who died in an alley in the cold. However they also noticed these images were actually in the same style as the more modern images from the life of Triegenes and later , also there were often fish hooks in the background of the images. They think (correctly) that Triegenes may have used his power to restore her souls memories of its mortal life and that may be why she is conflicted.
Finally they moved into the temple which had a large statue of Ashima-shimtu which was not overgrown, but a sacrificial alter that was heavily overgrown. While looking around Nevla noticed a small figure hiding at the back of the temple as well as an entrance to the spy tunnels. After some efforts of searching Nevla coaxed a young girl (Newt from Aliens as a visual reference) out of hiding (good hiding, it was taking perception rolls of 45+ to spot her) with the help of Manuels inexhaustible supply of Waffles and pancakes with maple syrup. The Mithril waffle iron on his armour proving its use again, as did the absurdist web allowing fresh food rather than trail rations to be carried to feed the team.
The girl called herself Newt with a lack of originality which impressed everyone, and was worried about the monster. She seemed scared of everyone else excapt Nevla , although slightly less so of William . They could not get much detail out of her but they concluded she was Ashima-Shimtu or at least the core of her soul which was why she had not been found on the Coaltongue after the crash. Nevla spent time talking with the child gettign her to believe that she did not have to face the monster alone that she and the others would help her. In the end as they departed the plane the child travelled with them. They did not fancy trying to rest here in case the sheep got hungry.
They moved on to Etheax and encountered the polite and freindly goblins, they paid attention to them and determined the goblins were in fact polite, freindly and nice not stupid and gullible. They rested here, ate and actually paid the goblins for some food , they then asked about bonding to the plane and the Goblins said of course go ahead , so they did. They are not sure if they will use it, but do think if they don't they need to move the Goblins to somewhere they are using . The adjacent planes were Housnslow and the pirates prison and they determined that they wanted to have the Coaltongue when they fought the pirate fleet so retraced their steps back past the Coaltongue and into Thrag.
Thrag they found annoying, on discoevering all the plants and animals were screaming in primal pain and despair they stopped near the edge of the plane and started trying to work out what was going on and as such they failed to notice the Mandala Beast creeping up behind them, it leapt out and savaged William before Padme and William stabbed it to death, then as they were working out why it's body had crumbled so fast a Mandala bearing Pteradactyl swooped down and savage William. Manuel blasted it with none lethal Nock gun fire and then it got stabbed until it collapsed, it still died and crumbled whereapon the Grass beneath him started trying to eat William. they stabbed the grass and then Nevla unleashed a firestorm scorching the earth all around them and burning the Grass monster. When there was no immediate attack they relaxed and used a miracle to discern the nature of the plane. After discovering that Nevla used a Miracle for a Wind Walk spell to carry them out to the edge of Thrag so they could move onto the next plane.
Manuel wants to come back and get an icon for this plane, he thinks they will need to incinerate an area and then use magic to build a bunker they can stay in while forging the icon. He thinks the combination of Ostea and Thrag should produce a world with almost no death, some of the others are concerned about overpopulation and all agree they need to try and avoid the curse aspects of the world so souls can pass on when they tire. They will return.
Bhoior they found interesting William was able to speak with the turtle although this was slow as he was not very bright and thought very slowly. They determined he was waiting for all the spirits of the dead from Av to arrive and then was going to transport them across the void to the lighthouse. William and Nevla are fascinated by the lighthouse but they don't want to wait for the turtle so they are going to finish exploring the south before . They could find no quick way to create an iconic link and fix the Coaltongue so they moved on, they debated where to go and decided they wanted to check on Av so set out for Nem.
Nem was boring, they did speak with the spirits of the dead crossing it and determined that the spirits just wanted to travel onwards and where drawn to the North. William believes the lighthouse is calling them. They did find the train interesting, William wondered if they could get it to fly but they decided that would mean stripping levitationals from the Coaltongue and the ship was more useful, they did plan on coming back here with Coaltongue and stripping the train for parts. Also they dismounted the lantern and plan to have Luc repair it so they have a lantern available.
Finally they reached the Av version of Flint , the located Ferg the Toadstool sage who was in charge of the Fey here, they told him that they intended to rescue the plane and they Fey should concentrated on gathering all the survivors together and keeping themselves going until Av could be restored. They also in passing eliminated a Shining legion patrol skiff but it self destructed before they could capture it. Manuel checked the old Ob facility in the Bleak gate but not much remained, although he gathered some parts to use in repairs on the Coaltongue. Finally the asked about Rock , and discovered he had got bored repaired the Aurum Treasure as the Aural pleasure and set off with Beshala, severel other fey and female ghosts and some Erinyes he had converted from the legion and gone looking for them. They concluded he would find the Coaltongue wait for 15 minutes and then wonder off again. They also concluded he had been able to recover the Erinyes from the legion because he was the Star of the ROCK RACKUS Harem anime .
Finally they moved into Mavisha being less keen on the mindcontrolling water plane but intending to invetigate that as well. They noticed the link between them and spoke with the Fish men and decided there must be something from that plane at the edge of this one and went to investiagate, as they went admiring the Dire anamalocarises . They located the Wax tower and Nevla called a swarm of fire elementals as they moved to investigate. Which is were we resume next session
The group starts off in the Hall of Statues on the Forum of Lies plane, the group is fairly convinced this is all linked to Ashima-Shimtu , this is either her home plane or some aspect of her mind. (It is her home plane from the Abyss cast out into the Gyre as she has not been in residence for several thousand years). They decide they want to know where she is , some because they want to know, others because they want to make sure they can find out what she is doing, after all she wanted to come with them, was that as sinister plan? First William tries a sending spell but gets no response then they investigate every form of planar contact spell they can think of. They think Contact Other Plane may work as you can specify a specific demigod to contact, Commune would work but none of them seem to be worshippers of Ashima-Shimtu so that is not an option (Yet) and no other spell can be twisted to their ends.
Eventually they decided to save blowing miracle spells and similar until the end of the day to try and locate her, and instead explore the rest of the buildings, the next building they entered was the Hall of Pictures which was decorated with paintings and fresco's depicting the life of a demon lord as seen through her eyes. However before they could study it they had to remove the poison ivy growing over it, when Ulvaar used his plant warping ability he discovered that the Ivy had more magic resistance than a Pit fiend , he was still able to warp it. Manuel studied a sample and concluded it was one of the most deadly contact poisons he had found and a normal man who touched this stuff would almost certainly die.
It was ten times longer than it appeared and even then as the pcitures got closer to the entrance they were compressed down to smaller and smaller sizes until they were difficult or impossible to view without magnifying lenses. They proceded to look at what they could see and much of the building was a catalogue of atrocities with a section closely resembling the Kama Sutra featuring the two strange statues of vampiric devils from the staue hall, until they started to find images which seemed to match up with what the Lightning Weasel remembered of Demonocrocy histroy although as the Weasel pointed out this was a different viewpoint of these events and the differences from the Clergy's records were fascinating to a true scholar.
At the point that Triegenese appeared there seemed to be a focus on him, and all the events mentioned in his autobiography were here and accurate, after the life of Triegenese there was a bland and boring section before they started to get illustrations of random people through history as seen from the water. The last section featured the pc's extensively even before they encountered her she had been watching them , and importantly the pictures seemed accurate . Nevla seemed to spring into being at the point where she was found and rescued by Risuri troops after her captors were killed by her energy channelling, but careful perusal showed a slavery raised young eladrin woman being taken into that same building for an apparent ritual sacrifice.
They gained the impression that what Ashima-shimtu had been interested in watching were people who had been making life changind decisions, taking responsibility for actions and redemption. This made them think she may actually be seeking redemption, Nevla was already fairly certain of this. They then went back and used magnifying lenses to try and study the earliest images and they found some illustrations of a mortal life, probably a petty criminal who died in an alley in the cold. However they also noticed these images were actually in the same style as the more modern images from the life of Triegenes and later , also there were often fish hooks in the background of the images. They think (correctly) that Triegenes may have used his power to restore her souls memories of its mortal life and that may be why she is conflicted.
Finally they moved into the temple which had a large statue of Ashima-shimtu which was not overgrown, but a sacrificial alter that was heavily overgrown. While looking around Nevla noticed a small figure hiding at the back of the temple as well as an entrance to the spy tunnels. After some efforts of searching Nevla coaxed a young girl (Newt from Aliens as a visual reference) out of hiding (good hiding, it was taking perception rolls of 45+ to spot her) with the help of Manuels inexhaustible supply of Waffles and pancakes with maple syrup. The Mithril waffle iron on his armour proving its use again, as did the absurdist web allowing fresh food rather than trail rations to be carried to feed the team.
The girl called herself Newt with a lack of originality which impressed everyone, and was worried about the monster. She seemed scared of everyone else excapt Nevla , although slightly less so of William . They could not get much detail out of her but they concluded she was Ashima-Shimtu or at least the core of her soul which was why she had not been found on the Coaltongue after the crash. Nevla spent time talking with the child gettign her to believe that she did not have to face the monster alone that she and the others would help her. In the end as they departed the plane the child travelled with them. They did not fancy trying to rest here in case the sheep got hungry.
They moved on to Etheax and encountered the polite and freindly goblins, they paid attention to them and determined the goblins were in fact polite, freindly and nice not stupid and gullible. They rested here, ate and actually paid the goblins for some food , they then asked about bonding to the plane and the Goblins said of course go ahead , so they did. They are not sure if they will use it, but do think if they don't they need to move the Goblins to somewhere they are using . The adjacent planes were Housnslow and the pirates prison and they determined that they wanted to have the Coaltongue when they fought the pirate fleet so retraced their steps back past the Coaltongue and into Thrag.
Thrag they found annoying, on discoevering all the plants and animals were screaming in primal pain and despair they stopped near the edge of the plane and started trying to work out what was going on and as such they failed to notice the Mandala Beast creeping up behind them, it leapt out and savaged William before Padme and William stabbed it to death, then as they were working out why it's body had crumbled so fast a Mandala bearing Pteradactyl swooped down and savage William. Manuel blasted it with none lethal Nock gun fire and then it got stabbed until it collapsed, it still died and crumbled whereapon the Grass beneath him started trying to eat William. they stabbed the grass and then Nevla unleashed a firestorm scorching the earth all around them and burning the Grass monster. When there was no immediate attack they relaxed and used a miracle to discern the nature of the plane. After discovering that Nevla used a Miracle for a Wind Walk spell to carry them out to the edge of Thrag so they could move onto the next plane.
Manuel wants to come back and get an icon for this plane, he thinks they will need to incinerate an area and then use magic to build a bunker they can stay in while forging the icon. He thinks the combination of Ostea and Thrag should produce a world with almost no death, some of the others are concerned about overpopulation and all agree they need to try and avoid the curse aspects of the world so souls can pass on when they tire. They will return.
Bhoior they found interesting William was able to speak with the turtle although this was slow as he was not very bright and thought very slowly. They determined he was waiting for all the spirits of the dead from Av to arrive and then was going to transport them across the void to the lighthouse. William and Nevla are fascinated by the lighthouse but they don't want to wait for the turtle so they are going to finish exploring the south before . They could find no quick way to create an iconic link and fix the Coaltongue so they moved on, they debated where to go and decided they wanted to check on Av so set out for Nem.
Nem was boring, they did speak with the spirits of the dead crossing it and determined that the spirits just wanted to travel onwards and where drawn to the North. William believes the lighthouse is calling them. They did find the train interesting, William wondered if they could get it to fly but they decided that would mean stripping levitationals from the Coaltongue and the ship was more useful, they did plan on coming back here with Coaltongue and stripping the train for parts. Also they dismounted the lantern and plan to have Luc repair it so they have a lantern available.
Finally they reached the Av version of Flint , the located Ferg the Toadstool sage who was in charge of the Fey here, they told him that they intended to rescue the plane and they Fey should concentrated on gathering all the survivors together and keeping themselves going until Av could be restored. They also in passing eliminated a Shining legion patrol skiff but it self destructed before they could capture it. Manuel checked the old Ob facility in the Bleak gate but not much remained, although he gathered some parts to use in repairs on the Coaltongue. Finally the asked about Rock , and discovered he had got bored repaired the Aurum Treasure as the Aural pleasure and set off with Beshala, severel other fey and female ghosts and some Erinyes he had converted from the legion and gone looking for them. They concluded he would find the Coaltongue wait for 15 minutes and then wonder off again. They also concluded he had been able to recover the Erinyes from the legion because he was the Star of the ROCK RACKUS Harem anime .
Finally they moved into Mavisha being less keen on the mindcontrolling water plane but intending to invetigate that as well. They noticed the link between them and spoke with the Fish men and decided there must be something from that plane at the edge of this one and went to investiagate, as they went admiring the Dire anamalocarises . They located the Wax tower and Nevla called a swarm of fire elementals as they moved to investigate. Which is were we resume next session
