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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 7999048" data-attributes="member: 6920268">We start off in Flint with planning and talking to Tinker. Tinker is currently working on converting the Coaltongue to be an airship with some components build and stored onboard but not yet fitted , he has been distracted by Steam suits for Dragons tapping into the elemental energy of their breath weapons in the same way as the brand on the Coaltongue to allow really impressive effects. Harkover is less enthusiastic but soon he and the other dragons will have steam suits! William worries that Tinker should concentrate on one project at a time as Manuel also diverts him with Torpedo's as a concept. Manuel thinks Tinker is always going to have mad enthusiasms so they should live with it as he gets the best results from ma inspirations.Meanwhile Nevla gathers up a team of Druids lead by a Dwarf called William  the likely future Brother in law of Ulvaar though they don't know it yet and gets them on the Coaltongue. They talk to Beshala and agree that she will try and charm her Mistress while the Queen and her fellows try to stun and distract she who writhes. William calls upon the spirit of the Hierophant who then calls upon the god of the Sea and Tidepools to grant a Miracle that She Who Writhes will automatically fail her first save against Nevla's magic. Asraby volunteers that he will help guard Beshala and explains he is not in Elfaivar because he is avoiding Kasavarina because she is not the women he married and there is friction, the players nod along to this and do not think about the implications , also his bluff total is very high with a good dice roll and none of them notice anything odd about him.They then journey out to challange She Who Writhes, who responds to the challange and is promptly beached by mass druid lower water, she strikes at Nevla before a Wave of Ectasy followed by a Greater Curse hit her leaving her staggerred and 75% chance of not foing anything in any round, while she is in this state she fails to hit any of the pc's and Beshala is able to charm her and open negotiations when the Sudden but Ineveitable betrayal by Asraby occurred completely blindsiding the pc's.  Nevla swooped down and pulled Beshala to safety before she could be drawn into the interior of She Who Writhes taking a hit from Asraby, William used  a Heal spell on Beshala, then Manuel shot Asraby with a cannon and discovered that he was learning and had dropped 2 arrow magnets which drew his cannot shot away from Asraby destroying one of them. Ulvaar and Padme attacked in close combat  and hurt Asraby who returned the favor by stabbing Ulvaar a lot. She who Writhed was incapcitated by the Curse. Then Manuel fired a flury of rifle shots taking out the other atttractor and lightly wounding Asraby, William Healed Ulvaar and then Nevla mazed Asraby. Asraby remained stuck in the maze for ages allowing the healed Beshala to renew her communion with She who Writhes. She Who Writhes was angry with Asraby and the Ob at this point and much more willing to negotiate than normal, her mood being helped when Asraby popped out of the maze just after all the negative effects had worn of her and was dragged to his doom by a frenzy of tentacles.  She settled for a huge tribute in Gold, propiatry sacrifices of animals and the right to drag down and destroy any ship not blessed appropriatly . The Queen agreed as that left She Who Writhes to snack on Danoran ships. As they at his time did not trust the Bruse to stay on their side the instructed the druids not to pass the new blessings to Ber just yet.The players had a good magical plan to deal with She Who Writhes and the dice were with them, what few actions she took were rendered useless by bad dice rolls. They were very surprised by Asraby but afterwards they realised it made perfect sense and they had warning signs which they had ignored , I think they quite liked the way things were set up.Following the defeat of Asraby the sea glowed red and the manifestation of Ashima-Shimtu arrived giving a nasty scare to the players particulary William before they realised that she was just a projection. She told them what she had seen of the world and they asked a few questions to clarify what was going on in Crissylir and with the Danoran navy. They learned that many angels and similar beings had come answering ancient calls and were relieved to here no divine avatars had shown up to help or chastise the clergy. Many of them were surprised that she was being helpful and worried by the fact she may be able to break loose of her bonds that much but intrigued by the fact that she implied she could break free and did not. They are intrigued about trying to persuade her to reform. Manuel and Nevla were particulary intrigued at the options and someone joked that Nevla should marry her. One of advantage of the on line play is that my camera was off so no one saw my face and I look forward to their surprise when it happens. They then discussed their plans, there were two basic ideas one was to head for Crissily were they hoped there were the details of the Axis Island ritual and they could investigate Asima-Shimtu's situation. The other which they settled on was to go and visit Pemberton on axis island and find out what was going on before Danor and the Ob took it back. They decided they could probably cut a deal with Pemberton and considered offering him the whole of the Yerasol archipeligo to satisfy his territorial demands without having him need to conquer a country  (after the world was saved obviously) and thought they could trust him at least until then. They also thought he would either want to hold the island or at least evacuate his followers. With She Who Writhes still interdicting travel they thought they had a chance of holding the island and that was important to stop the Ob trying again and to allow them to do something when they had the ritual. So they took the Coaltongue from Flint and headed for Axis island , and ordered the fleet from Slate to head for axis island and arrive a day after them to reinforce the defenses, they also planned to have William open a teleport portal between the fortress on Axis island and Risur so they could bring in more troops and also evacuate more if they had to.The Coaltongue arrived at Axis island and was greeted by megaphone, a discussion was had and they agreed to meet with Pemberton under a flag of truce so neither side would fear violence. They accepted the Limeade with Nevla preferred to lemonade and made a note to ship Pemberton some Lemons.  The discussion quickly settled that they would cooperate against the Ob details to be settled after Pemberton had given a tour of the island and they had met up with El Kevin who was leading the investigation into the ritual sight and Brakken. Manuel liked the steam cars, Nevla did not. They were reminded they needed to find a planar configuration which made the Fey less sensitive to machines, Manuel suggested that they use this plane of Musical's they had heard of as that would allow the magical Disney and Mary Poppins effects to mask unsightly machinety with cheery music. I am certain of one plane which will be in their final configuration.On the journey out they ran into the Golem which I abstracted it turned up at a bad time , too late to finish a full on battle and too early to wrap up for the night. Brakken turned up and they were reminded of the value of thinking at thought forms. They investigated the Mine and Manuel stealthily located the lone survivor and when William came up to talk to her he saw her inject needlewire so they knew it was Nicodemus they were talking with and told him so , he blamed them for wrecking his ritual, they told him it was the Voice of Rot, he continued to blame them Nevla lost her temper and shouted at him accusing him of being a self righteous incompetent who never listened to anyone else and was busy wrecking the world and tried to stuff him in the absurdist web, he departed before his host was in fact stuffed in the web. There was a brief pause as the rest of the group was mildy suprised by Nevla's outburst then they continued to the ritual site.They looked over the site and confirmed it was indeed the Voice of Rot or at least his agents who had destroyed the ritual team , and they stayed well away from the rogue planar energy having seen the damage done to Boure and added getting something to lift the seal and something to protect themsevles from the planar energy to their wanted list. One of them thought of the ritual of apothosis and wondered what its limits were , then the realised the expert was Ashima-shimtu and decided they really needed to go to Crissilyr for the two rituals and a chat with a demon Lord.  They also met up with El Kevin who was able to give them all available details on the ritual and noticed the young Kobold with a cybernetic limb he was very close too ... and realised he was involved with Pembertons daughter presumably with his consent as he had not been eaten.El Extrano's arrival in the car and his explanation of what was going on along with his put down of Pemberton amused them, like me they all like El Extrano and his crazy appearances. With news of the approaching Danoran fleet we ended as they planned their deal with Pemberton and defensive plans.They plan of fighting for the Island both to deny it to the Ob and to draw the enemy away from attacking Risur as here they have a Fey Titan, a fleet, a Dragon and an army.This has forced me to try and work out details of the Danoran and Risuri fleets.    Given that it has been nearly 40 years since the first steam and iron warship the Risuri fleet as outlined is obsolete rubbish and would be useless against the sort of ironclad historically avialble by that time so I have to decide if Danor has been slow to develop compared to the real world (plausible Risur seems to have no more than a third of the UKs population at the time and Danor must be similar so development could be slower) or work out how Risuri druidic magic on their ships matches actual Pre-Dreadnought battleships which is what Danor should have and which should slaughter any possible sailing fleet.  My other hobby being naval history I just can't avoid trying to work this out in detail.</blockquote>

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