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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 7939236" data-attributes="member: 6920268">The session starts with a discussion about Bourne and what they can do about his approach, it concludes when they decide there is nothing they can do and that they need to keep moving up the tower as the Arc seems to weaken when they remain still.Continuing up the tower they encounter several apparitions, and are pleased that as far as they can tell most of the people who they have killed are people they really are glad to see dead. Boone, Eleanor and Kell in particular they are glad to see dead.  When they encounter Lya's specter they appreciate her lack of hostility and also regret her death, Manuel in particular would rather have taken her alive. They view the visions of history and note that Nicodemus is definetly ruthless and callous particularly with his attempts to prevent people leaving Danor before the nation could be established. They also were interested in discovering that the Ob wanted the Risuri to steal a steamship from the Danorans to help get industry going in Risur. The scene with Nic commisserating with Kasavarina about the death of her daughter further emphasises Kasavarina's break with her past self and cements the desire of Nevla and Kasavarina to kill Nic.Seeing the founding of the Ob they are delighted to discover how to scry on the Ob and appreciate that it was a very clever scheme to keep the conspiracy secret for the last five centuries. Then when the Arc kicks into supercharge mode , Kasavarina tells them to be careful she can feel that this memory event could if it goes wrong badly enough she may revert to her old self.  The constables cast a few long duration buff spells notably spell immunity against several spells which don't matter and Dimensional anchor. Then settle in to deal with the memory event, Padme and Manuel stand ready to use wands of cure light wounds to heal Kasavarina and Nevla if she gets pulled in as Dala.  They watch events carefully and take note of how unpleasent the Hierach Silvestre is , Nevla is pulled into Dala's roll bur fortunatly does not get teleported out when Dala goes through the portal. They see Nic disintigrated by the blast of Divine energy and most of them have concluded that is how he died and became a particularly potent ghost, then the real Nic manages to ambush them. I was surprised I expected them to have deployed Ulvaar or William as sentries but they heglected to do so. Also worth noting before getting to the fight is they suspect that the turning of the clergy to Tieflings may have been a curse by the Clergy war god(Iomedea) as the plan to murder all the Eladrins for reasons of racism stikes them as a very evil thing to do in her name.Nic comes up the outside of the tower grabs Kasavarina and leaps into the middle of the tower holding on to her, meanwhile Cilliam Creed rebuilt yet again comes up the interior stairs and prepares to attack. Padme and Manuel move quickly, then Nic most of the rest of the party and then Creed with Ulvaar bringing up the rear.There is a complicated fight which I did not keep notes on and so I have forgotten some peoples actions .In the first round Padme tries to get Kasavarina away from Nic and fails , she takes a very unpleasent blow from Nic , Kasavarina thanks Nic for rescuing her and seems sincere, the constables though decide to judge her on her actions and thoughts before this point and trust her, she hits Ulvaar with a Power Word Blind which supports their view as he is the only pc with too many hp to be effected, he pretends to be blinded  flailing at Creed , Nevla cast particulate form protecting all pc's against Crits and sneak attacks they expecct from Creed. He and Nic demonstrated negative energy abilities.In the second round William, Ulvaar and Padme gang up on Creed badly injuring him, Manuel knocks Nic away from Kasavarina with a cannon Ball and Nic finishes appealing for help from Bourne who starts swinging, he never hits a pc but makes them move around a lot. Nic hits manuel with a series of viscous blows just before Nevla renders everyone immune to negative energy which cuts out several attacks from Nic. Kasavarins moves back to where she should be and resumes the memory event.The next several rounds see Nic burning through Ubergheist abilities to heal himself, and fight he puts two walls of force between Kasavarina and the portal both of which are brought down by disintigrate spells from Nevla, meanwhile everyone else lays into Nic keeping him busy and away from Kasavarina apart from the walls of force. Technically he should have fallen down by this point but that was anticlimatic so he kept going. Finally just as Kasavarina is about to go through the portal , Andrei's body is disabled and Nic's ghost manifests it moves after Kas who has been hidden behind a wall of stone from Nevla as he does so expecting the fight to end William tries to teleport everyone out and foiled by the Dimensional lock stone, Manuel finds the stone and throws it away. Nic casts dimensional anchor on Kasavarina which is foiled by Nevla's precautions , Kasavarina goes through the portal, Nevla follows her and William teleports for the second time.The teleport shock is bad for the party and they all end up somewhere in the dreaming with Andrei but without Kasavarina. They pc's imediatly think to use the message rings from book 6 to warn Harkover about Stansfield but the dimensional turmoil will prevent that.The players enjoyed this adventure , they liked learning of the secrets of the past and grew to like Kasavarina as a freind and ally , they also found the final battle interesting with the complication of trying to maintain the memory event while fighting a dangerous opponent with unnusual abilities</blockquote>

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