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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 8037240" data-attributes="member: 6920268">The team started off by attacking the Bardic college,  they had decided they had evidence that the Gidhim were based beneath it and that gathering more information or subtlety was just going to get them discovered fo Full Frontal assault.Ulvaar warped the front gate out of the way and they charged through the gardens, the Occulus tried to discourage them but true seeing was in use by William and anyway they were determined. Instead it raised the alarm and retreated to the cave below. Ulvaar warped away the front door then TK'd the tarpaulin away revealing the entrance beneath. Manuel's X-ray vision failed to penetrate the weird living metal so they flew down to look at it and discovered the psychic key was needed, rather than go looking they had Padme and Manuel devise a way to force the lock which with their mastery of Disable device was easy.The sphinctre of living metal opened and they looked down on the Giant Squid-Fish of living metal and were somewhat suprised this was not what they had envisaged. Looking for an entrance they decided that entering through it's back passage seemed to be the way in. This was not something they looked forward too , landing they met a charge of 10 shock troopers as the fish tried to take off. A hail of spells and weapons hit the shock troopers and even with the intervention of the Occulus and a Flying Horror it took them only 3  rounds to disable all of the shock troopers and enter the fish.  Inside the fish, it appeared the fish had a grudge against Manuel and Nevla as a lightning bolt hit them every round, it turns out that Sijhen remembers who drove a train into him and also who had been hosting Xambria. As they moved deeper into the fish they encountered 5 more shock troopers and as they engaged them the Ghidim themselves attacked relying on their ego whip and mind grapple, as the heroes were well protected against melee combat,  William was grapped for a large chunk of the fight while the rest of the group slowly eliminated the Ghidim infiltrators one of whom was blasted back to his own realm by a Holy Word. Finally only the overseer was left and it closed into hand to hand combat hitting William and Padme leaving them mazed, Before a series of spells, cannon shells and Ulvaar's lightning blade cut it down.As the last of the first wave of Ghidim were defeated 8 copies of Sighim entered the main chamber and began to try to enter into false negotiations with the heroes, Nevla had no interest in talking to him although his mention of the Vortex array interested Manuel. She hit him with a disintigrate spell before he could finish his speech. Then while he attacked Ulvaar and Nevla Manuel rushed onto the bridge to try to work out how to steal the Vortex array, fortunatly it was a stand alone object he could recognise. Ulvaar hit Sighim while Nevla attacked with an Implosion spell, Sighim like every other Ghidim in this battle rolled really badly and so the Implosion spells really hurt him and he did not last long. Manuel stuffed the Vortex array into the Absurdist web and William teleported everyone else.Behind them the Squidfish exploded collapsing the Bardic college and killing a few hundred people in the city and animating as living being a signigigant part of the city , which then ate several hundred more people before being captured and used in the arena.Glaucia took the evidence of Risur saving Ursaline to the Bruse and he took the opportunity to declare Ber Neutral , maintaining this even when Queen Nevla sent him a present of 500 tons of naughty word to help the fields of Ber, fresh from his spiritual ancestor Father Thunder. The Bruse sent back his diplomatic thanks, it is uncertain how he actually felt. The team returned back to Risur and got a catch up from Harkover. Crissilyr was a mess and he expected relativly little in the way of contrbution from them, Drakr was in a better state with internal political troubles linked to the army of the madwomen Komanov having been defeated by Risuri agents, however they were still making a major navel contribution and some troops finally Ber was neutral but the Ob was spreading evidence of Dragon Tyrants being protected in Risur. Overall he felt Risur itself would be safe from invasion for several months but a major attack on Axis Island would occure in 4-6 weeks. The Queen and her advisors agreed and they all felt not enough forces could be assigned to Axis Island to hold it so all Danoran industry would be wrecked and harbours sabotaged with a token garrison trying to look strong in place, these would evacuate at the same time. Pemberton agreed and started pulling his forces out as well.Next they began to discuss their next move, Manuel suggested trying to arrange a defection of Lya or similar actions against the Ob, but the relisation they only had days before Av was destroyed by the Gyre meant they decided to concentrate on the Gyre and the Axis Island ritual, Xambria and Harkover presented their discoveries and the lack of progress on a route to the Gyre althought all divinations revealed one would be ready soon. They began to discuss who to take Harkover it was decided was needed to run Risur in their absence they did consider alternatives but he was too crucial. Likewise Gale , Athrylla and Kasavarina were all tied down dealing with ongoing issues and  it would be difficult to make them available. Pemberton was contacted but he was not ready to leave his organisation but they suggested he send El Kevin as a representative which is under consideration.  They also arranged to deliver a Dracosteam suit to Pembertons daughter , they decided giving Pemberton one was helping him too much but the diplomatic effect of giving one to his daughter would be good. They knew he would reverse engineer it , but they thought he would do that anyway with his agents.Asima-Shimtu offerred to accompany them as an observer and advisor , she said she was interested in observing the Queen and her colleagues as she learned about herself. They accepted as they thought it would help keep her reforming and she had a lot of knowledge of other planes. Manuel tried to prepare the Coaltongue fitting the Vortex array , and arranging for anti-devil silver ammo to be available. While doing so he encountered a dwarven artificer from the same clan of dwarves and investigated further discovering their were ten siblings the youngest of which was trying to find the Lost extradimensional tomb of Good King Ron, they determined she had found a gateway to the old tomb which was only briefly open and so they teleported there with her brother to identify the planar energies to help in the Gyre and also to see if they could identify a way to use it as an entrance or exit which they could not.Finally Ulvaar asked the Question. Where is Rock Rackus and could he be useful. I had planned to leave this to the next session but I could not turn down the opportunity of that line. So Rock contacted him by sending , and soon turned up possessing his halfling medium minion. I told the players the chapter title Small, Medium, Large Ego they groaned.  They rapidly linked his explantion of devils attacking the dreaming linking it to their vision when recovering the Arc of Reida and so agreed to take the Coaltongue to meet him.Next Session Rock Rackus - The Final Form Vs Oswyn the Magnificents Golden Legion</blockquote>

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