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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 8049435" data-attributes="member: 6920268">The group moved on the Palace while the Aurum Treasure fought it out with the Coaltongue and the Ghost of the Thunderchild. Manuel invoked the night with an impressive stealth roll and Av responded by plunging into the darkness of the night. As they moved through the palace grounds they noticed the statues of the Fey Titans had changed the Voice of Rot was larger and replacing Granny Allswell was a small statue of Ulvaar, while among the broken statues of Risuri monarchs was one of Nevla. Manuel then revealed the latest in technomagical developments  Clair-ordenance , bullets which when fired from his silent rifle ennabled him to look around the area they hit or listen to the area they hit.Using these the incarcerated Fey leaders were located guarded by 4 Malaav ,2 Horned Devils and a diamond studded giant Raptor, several flying Golems and groups of lesser legionares.Immediatly Padme and William charged in and stabbed a Horned devil to death, the other Horned devil and two Malaav's stabbed Padme a bit and the other 2 Malaav's stabbed William less. Nevla then hit the group near Padme with a burst of Radiance blinding the Malaav's , Manuel donned his Steam suit. One of the lesser prisoners revealed herslef to be Star Marshal Tiadora a bardic devil who started boosting all her allies before gettng charged by Ulvaar and a lightning sword in the face, the Raptor lightly chewed on Ulvaar.Padme and William despatched the Next Horned Devil and Nevla released a Stormbolt injuring all the remaining devils, An Erinyes arrived and shot Manuel repeatedly with a rifle(The devils are very progressive, Longbows are so last millenium) the golems strafed the group with steam which their fire protections blocked. Manuel returned fire with his Maxim gun woundinf the Erinyes and both golems, Tiadora teleported out realising if she hung around stabbing was in her future. Ulvaar burned the raptor with lightning, it returned the favour in a flurry of claws and bites which tore his left leg off, this minor flesh wound annoyed Ulvaar.The Erinyes dispersed and fired at Manuel as they moved, William and Padme elimianted the badly injure d Malaav devils. Nevla used a holy word leaving 3 newly arrived preying mantis and the Erinyes paralysed for the next 8 minutes (or slightly longer than Av would exist for), Manuel shot down the Golems and Ulvaar used telekinetic force to turn his leg into a lethal weapon and beat the Raptor(Savant) to death with it.As  Meteors started to fall and the world crack open the group tried to get all the Fey in the palace moving towards where the Coaltongue and Thunderchild were landing, they saw devils also heading towards the ship so Padme and William killed some of them and the rest decided to teleport elswhere and not get stabbed. As a chasm opened up between them and the ship Ulvaar used TK to carry groups of Fey over the burning Whitch Oil, Manuel used his immense strength in a steamsuit and a giant shield to lift groups over while William and Nevla loaded refugee's into their magical painting and the Absurdist web so they could be transported, as they got them aboard the world blew up.They recovered conciousness amid the wreck of their ship in Risur and I took a drink and bathroom break. I would have preferred to end a session on that but my timing was wrong.I returned and sadly they were already speculating about Mirror selves. So I revealed that in fact they were in the Gyre and had just woken from a dream , their was then another delay as I had to get a map of Urim loaded, the devils stood no chance and I used weaker Vaknids while the Voice of Rot taunted them and the fight was no trouble. I am going to throw Vaknids at the party alongside the 4 riders with the Voice of Rot in the final battle as I expect the Ritual to be more of a battle of ideas not swords as Nic will not have many allies left.After the fight most of the Fey were missing and they presumed they had ended up on Av in the Gyre, Ashima-Shimtu was also missing which worried William as he thought she may be up to something. They got the Coaltingue fixed up but is engines remained doubtful for long flights. As they did so Calily the monk turned up and spoke with them, after a little bit of initial distrust they consulted with her and her knowledge of the Gyre . They decided to move the Coaltongue to Caeloon were it could be repaired while they scouted out the area around them. At this point Nevla realised she could sense two divine presences ,one was narrowed down with Calily's help as Hounslow the other seemed to be a weak link to Ssramma and at this point Nevla realised she now channelled positive energy and had normal clerical domain access instead of her normal unnusual link.From Caelonn they had limited choices of where they could go, South-west was the burning waters of Padyer and they soon realised it was a nasty place to be avoided, North West was a void, North was the abandoned palaces of Celestia and NE took them back to Urim so North it was.Celestia was a strange place (resembling the Chinese Forbidden city) Constructs and Zombies went about their appointed tasks even though their world had crumbled, the group devined the place's nature was that 'Everything is Ordered' Nevla was not keen on this but Manuel persauded her they should try and get Icons of almost everywhere which was not insane so they had a big choice and could look for balances and synergies. She agreed to investigate and they concluded that they should spend the time on each world to understand it. Findin the palace at the center of the world they found signs of fighting and Manuel sneaked in it looked like the palace had been attacked in the past and several broken Mithril Golems lay in the palace. In the throne room he found a Jade thrown but all traces of gold had been looted from the palace in the throne room was a servitor which recorded all events , after some effort Padme aided by William was able to get it to share the information with them. It seems this world broke when Nomads rebelled against the Mandate of Heaven and attacked the empire defeating it only to discover it was THE mandate of heaven and breaking the order of it broke the world. The Palace ended up in the Gyre and here it was attacked by first the Shining Legion and then the Pirates of Hounslow who took the child emperor and his surving staff as slaves the realised that returning the Emperor would let them forge an Icon for this world. Discussion about the pirates with Calily decided them that the pirates needed to go as did the legion as they did not want them somehow ending up on a world they brought back into their own.From Celestia they could get to Thrag, Hounslow, Talingarde or go back on themselves.The world of Talingarde was dominated by a Giant Frog crossed with the Tarasque and they knew they wanted nothing to do with that world , even the shining Legion avoided the FROG at all costs. They also divined it's nature "Evil is Beutiful and all Frogs are poisonous" they could not decide if that meant all evil people would become pretty or all pretty people would become evil , they decided to never find out.They debated Thrag and finally decided to go back and circle round to the worlds on the other side of Hounslow , so they could do an efficient exploration. One was dead motes and uninteresting the other  was a strange world .There was a forum overgrown with plants and grazed by sheep. Calily found it sinister and all but Nevla agreed. Most buildings were ruins but three buildings in the center were overgrown but intact. As they moved to investigate they noticed almost all the plants were poison ivy and that when they were away from Nevla the sheep started giving them murderous looks. Manuel used his Bat handling skills to grab and investigate a sheep and discovered each sheep has viper fangs in its jaw , extracting some venom her realised it was incredibly lethal the only thing more lethal he had encountered was the bite of a Pit fiend.Moving forward and watching the sheep carefully they saw the buildings in the center were a temple, a building containing art and fresco's and a hall of statues. Speculation that this was linked to Ssramma was put to rest at the architecture was more Crissylian than Eladrin and Nevla could sense Ssramma far to the North west. They decided to check out the statues first, the building was overgrown but they cleared as they went most of the statues had falled into rubble. Near the entrance were statues of two strange beings the characters could not identify (2 evil and charming pc's from Way of the Wicked)further in they found a Silver statue of Triegenes in his moment of triump but showing his doubts about the future and regrets over what victory had cost, a perfect statue as if he had been transformed at that moment(they checked he had not). At this point they were starting to think the world was linked to Ashima-Shimtu as she had a Triegenes fixation. The Final statue suprised them a statue in gold of Nevla, taken at a moment when she was distracted by one of the prolonged ethical debates the group has.As they pondered this they heard a noise  and realised someone had been watching from a hidden spyhole in the wall, they tried to look though the wall with X-Ray vision and soon realised this was not a normal building , possibly some sort of solidified soul or spirit stuff certainly not stone.We ended with that mystery and now I have many questions about planes and buidling your own solar system to answer</blockquote>

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