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<blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 8093158" data-attributes="member: 6920268"><p>At the Ziggurat of Av Nevla and Nicodemus had just finished ranting at each other as Nevla expressed her own and her colleagues frustration to Nicodemus that he was blaming them for his own mess and was deaf to reason. He responded by unleashing his strike team of Kaja Stewart, Lauren Cynberg , a pair of nameless wizards a small horde of battle constructs and the Screaming Malice. The constables seemed impressed, William noticed that Kaja and Lauren were possessed by the Ghost council and told everyone to take them alive. As the Screaming Malice threatened the group Queen Nevla felt the power of the Monarchy flow into her and realised the Ob had not taken advantage of her absence and their control over Risur to remove her as Queen , foolishly.</p><p>The Ob Wizards struck first conjuring Void Orbs amid the constables who ignored them , Manuel fired a smoke mortar pattern to blind the Ob team, Ulvar hasted everyone and began the slow jog of a hasted dwarf towards the enemy. Kata called forth a cannon and a mortar barrage aimed at the team , the cannon misfired and almost all the team dodge the mortar shrapnel taking at worst a few small cuts. William dimension doored himself and Padme next to Kaja and Padme stabbed Kaja into unconciousness relying on Ostea to keep her alive. Pardo tried something ineffective which his targets resisted and Nevla unleashed a firestorm on the Ob carefully avoiding Kaja but hitting all the other Ob agents killing one of the wizards and nearly eliminating the construct squads. The construct squads rained sonic grenades on Manuel and Nevla lighty injuring Manuel while Nevla avoided the blasts. The Screaming Malice bit Padme and William.</p><p>The Ob wizard cast a scintillating pattern effecting William and Padme , leaving William confused and useless for the rest of the fight, Manuel fired a grenade salvo finishing off the construct squads and Ulvaar pulled all the air from Lauren's lungs leaving her unconcious , Pardo was jerked out off his simulcram by an irritated Pemberton . Then William punched himself in the face , fortunatly not using one of the many lethal weapons he carried, Padme charged and stabbed the Screaming Malice annoying it and finally Nevla hit the beast with a destruction spell boosted by her royal power the creature failed to resisit it and dropped dead. The remaining Ob wizard wished he had memorized teleport and instead hit William with a Finger of Death which he shrugged off before Manuel gunned him down.</p><p></p><p>The fight over Ulvaar deployed his positive energy blade and drove the ghosts out of Lauren and Kaja before they were healed and woken up. Nicodemus told them that if they intefered on this the last day before his glorious victory cities would burn and it would be on their heads. They told him to shut up and go away before they had to drive him out of the body. He left, they resolved to ignore him in future and just get things done.</p><p></p><p>They settled down for a council of war with Pemberton as they did so they realised that their return to the world had give the energy to Gale, Drelft, Tinker and the blind seer to throw off the Ob Yoke. Pemberton revealed his patented Sending blocking device and they agreed that using that to isolate Harkover in Flint would give them time to reclaim Flint before other cities could be threatened , and agreed they would have to split up and use his simulcrums to save the day. The late arriving Ash Wolf told Nevla she should go to Cherage. Otherwise they agreed to send the Coaltongue to a staging area near Axis Island where El Kevin would coordinate with Pembertons forces until they could teleport in and lead the strike. To get to Flint they would make use of Laurens expertise and teleport into Delft's office were they could gather information and plan their strike. At this point they were reminded that Manuel had designed steam battlesuits for Dragons and that Harkover had one, the virtual connection meant nothing was thrown at Manuels player.</p><p></p><p>As they arrived in Drelft's office he checked his pocket watch and siad they were running late. He quickly explained the set up in Flint and the threat of the Lantern towers, at the same time Nevla sent the little yellow bird of the whsipering wind off to contact Gale. They discussed how to take the towers down decided that would be difficult but the central gas facility on Governors island looked a more inviting target. The resident expert on explosions Manuel looked at the problem and decided the explosion could largely be confined to Governors island if the struck before the gas was charged with Jiess energy. An attack on the place looked difficult as it would probably mean fighting Harkover and the explosion could hurt them , worse the destruction had to be sudden , accumulated damage would cause gas leaks and a gas cloud forming could lead to an FAE style explosion which would spread the damage out and risk killing a lot of people around the harbour. A Cunning plan formed Tinker was working on the new dreadnoughts King Aodhan and Queen Nevla and they were almost completed with the guns installed, a salvo from their Naval rifles would destroy the gas facility with minimal collateral damage. Drelft ordered that the staff of Governors Island should be brought in by the secret police for interrogation and before the agents went out Queen Nevla addressed them all reminding them of their duty to the nation and promising she and her fellows would free the nation and restore the sun and all within a day. Gales reply arrived saying she was with them and they asked her to procede to the furthest tower as an emergency backup plan, the B-Team also volunteered and were despatched so there was a backstop at all the towers. To give time for all these plans to come to effect the team decided to walk to the Queen Nevla and using the Mayor Macbennin memorial canal they walked along the bottom into the harbour and up to the Queen Nevla taking advantage of Ulvaar's life bubble effect. Onboard the Queen Nevla it turned out that the ship was nearly operational and would soon be a flying dreadnought Tinker was able to assure them that they could aim and fire the main guns from the central fire control director so they did not need the full crew for one salvo. Ulvaar went around and loaded the 15 inch guns (conveniently a 15 inch shell weighed 1970lb just under his tk limit so he could load all the guns) then Manuel aimed them and a single salvo put all 10 shells into the gas works blowing it apart and creating a roaring pillar of flame but very little collateral damage (They had carefully used magic so Manuel would have a reroll in case he missed an blew apart a random orphange or something). Then instructing Tinker to get the Queen Nevla operational as fast as possible which he could do with parts from the King Aodan they rushed to a nearby rooftop so dragon breath and similar weapons of mass destruction would not kill bystanders.</p><p></p><p>There Harkover planned to make a series of fast attack passes trusting in speed and invisibility to keep himself safe and wear them down, on his first pass he tried to bite Nevla and just missed (my dice rolling was appalling all session he hit on a 3 or more and rolled 2) . Then they initiated their standard dragon storming tactic I had forgotten and William dimension doored the team onto the back of the dragon for a boarding action, Ulvaar then using his positive energy blade struck at the ghosts within Harkover without hurting him breaking his tie to the hive mind and then he was reminded of his duty to Risur and his Monarch and switched sides. </p><p>I completely underestimated their tactics and did not counter it, Pemberton is building a dimensional lock field and directional mines into his steam suit just in case.</p><p>They immediatly dashed to Cauldron hill and prepared to use the Simulcrum's although they were unhappy with the use of Witch oil but accepted the sacrifice was necessaryin order to save the lives threatened by Nic. Nevla would go to Cherage, William to Crissilyr , Ulvar to Drakr and Manuel to Ber.</p><p>They also ordered the Queen Nevla rushed to compeltion and sent to join the Coaltongue and hoped their fully armed and operational dreadnought would join them at the ritual site</p><p></p><p>William looked out over Crissilyr and saw the lantern towers, the fact that the Volcano had gone out and the dissembly of the Cathedral (the last did not displease him to much ), seeing some true believers being persecuted by authorities he charged down to intervene in the hope of gathering information. The guards fell before him , asking around he discovered the Archsecular was in charge and directing affairs at the Cathedral , he mildly regretted they had left her around after their last visit but set out to deal with her and decapitate the Ob command structure.</p><p></p><p>Manuel woke up outside Seobriga and quickly looked around for a Kobold finding one waiting outside his room, suprisingly it was not El Extrano who was busy elsewhere. He interrogated the Kobold and discovered that Glaucia was due to be executed and thought that was a good point to stop the Bruse's actions, then he learned the Bruse had magical powers making him very resistant to technology...... and realised this was not a mission for him. Meanwhile</p><p></p><p>In Drakr Ulvaar discovered himself in the parliament building and rapidly discovered that the Chancellor was taking part in a procession through the city and really the only way to get at her would be long range sniping and felt he had deployed to the wrong location,,</p><p>He and Manuel switched back to their bodies at the same time and quickly switched cities. Manuel plans to snipe , Ulvaar plans to enrage the Bruse with minotaur and naughty word jokes and kill him in single combat.</p><p></p><p>Padme was in Elfaivar dealing with vaguely defined threats to the Risuri/Eladrin colony.</p><p></p><p>Nevla arrived in Cherage and the Rats in disguise directed her to the railway yards were she saw the crowds delivering themselves up form execution to avoid burdening the state. She did not approve. Trying to avoid the Ob minister and glad neither of the Jierre's were here she crept through the crowd however she was expected Gardiner Du Cherage confronted her telling her she was expected and revealing an ambush of five lantern golems surrounding her and telling her she was hopelessly outnumbered , Nevla replied that she liked her odds, Gardiner told her that she needed to die to clear the way for the new world . Then a voice from the crowd spoke "She asks if this is the Perfect world that was promised?" and Nevla realised that Ashima-Shimtu was here.</p><p></p><p>We ended there , I expect to finish the campaign in late October. As we wrapped up they discussed how Nic seemed to be going full on Lawful Evil here with the state of the world and Manuel's player speculated he may have cut a deal with Oswyn of the Shining legion and they should probably start looking for temples of Asmodeus. Oswyn's player pointed out that Oswyn was good at this and given the oppression they were seeing they should look out for Asmodean cultists in the guise of helpful charities.</p><p>Amusingly this is correct but they dismissed it as a likely possibility</p><p></p><p>They also discussed the use of the rite of Apothosis and decided they did not need it although it may be useful and it was morally suspect so they would not use it. They would not risk the lives of their supporters for tactical convenience</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andrew Moreton, post: 8093158, member: 6920268"] At the Ziggurat of Av Nevla and Nicodemus had just finished ranting at each other as Nevla expressed her own and her colleagues frustration to Nicodemus that he was blaming them for his own mess and was deaf to reason. He responded by unleashing his strike team of Kaja Stewart, Lauren Cynberg , a pair of nameless wizards a small horde of battle constructs and the Screaming Malice. The constables seemed impressed, William noticed that Kaja and Lauren were possessed by the Ghost council and told everyone to take them alive. As the Screaming Malice threatened the group Queen Nevla felt the power of the Monarchy flow into her and realised the Ob had not taken advantage of her absence and their control over Risur to remove her as Queen , foolishly. The Ob Wizards struck first conjuring Void Orbs amid the constables who ignored them , Manuel fired a smoke mortar pattern to blind the Ob team, Ulvar hasted everyone and began the slow jog of a hasted dwarf towards the enemy. Kata called forth a cannon and a mortar barrage aimed at the team , the cannon misfired and almost all the team dodge the mortar shrapnel taking at worst a few small cuts. William dimension doored himself and Padme next to Kaja and Padme stabbed Kaja into unconciousness relying on Ostea to keep her alive. Pardo tried something ineffective which his targets resisted and Nevla unleashed a firestorm on the Ob carefully avoiding Kaja but hitting all the other Ob agents killing one of the wizards and nearly eliminating the construct squads. The construct squads rained sonic grenades on Manuel and Nevla lighty injuring Manuel while Nevla avoided the blasts. The Screaming Malice bit Padme and William. The Ob wizard cast a scintillating pattern effecting William and Padme , leaving William confused and useless for the rest of the fight, Manuel fired a grenade salvo finishing off the construct squads and Ulvaar pulled all the air from Lauren's lungs leaving her unconcious , Pardo was jerked out off his simulcram by an irritated Pemberton . Then William punched himself in the face , fortunatly not using one of the many lethal weapons he carried, Padme charged and stabbed the Screaming Malice annoying it and finally Nevla hit the beast with a destruction spell boosted by her royal power the creature failed to resisit it and dropped dead. The remaining Ob wizard wished he had memorized teleport and instead hit William with a Finger of Death which he shrugged off before Manuel gunned him down. The fight over Ulvaar deployed his positive energy blade and drove the ghosts out of Lauren and Kaja before they were healed and woken up. Nicodemus told them that if they intefered on this the last day before his glorious victory cities would burn and it would be on their heads. They told him to shut up and go away before they had to drive him out of the body. He left, they resolved to ignore him in future and just get things done. They settled down for a council of war with Pemberton as they did so they realised that their return to the world had give the energy to Gale, Drelft, Tinker and the blind seer to throw off the Ob Yoke. Pemberton revealed his patented Sending blocking device and they agreed that using that to isolate Harkover in Flint would give them time to reclaim Flint before other cities could be threatened , and agreed they would have to split up and use his simulcrums to save the day. The late arriving Ash Wolf told Nevla she should go to Cherage. Otherwise they agreed to send the Coaltongue to a staging area near Axis Island where El Kevin would coordinate with Pembertons forces until they could teleport in and lead the strike. To get to Flint they would make use of Laurens expertise and teleport into Delft's office were they could gather information and plan their strike. At this point they were reminded that Manuel had designed steam battlesuits for Dragons and that Harkover had one, the virtual connection meant nothing was thrown at Manuels player. As they arrived in Drelft's office he checked his pocket watch and siad they were running late. He quickly explained the set up in Flint and the threat of the Lantern towers, at the same time Nevla sent the little yellow bird of the whsipering wind off to contact Gale. They discussed how to take the towers down decided that would be difficult but the central gas facility on Governors island looked a more inviting target. The resident expert on explosions Manuel looked at the problem and decided the explosion could largely be confined to Governors island if the struck before the gas was charged with Jiess energy. An attack on the place looked difficult as it would probably mean fighting Harkover and the explosion could hurt them , worse the destruction had to be sudden , accumulated damage would cause gas leaks and a gas cloud forming could lead to an FAE style explosion which would spread the damage out and risk killing a lot of people around the harbour. A Cunning plan formed Tinker was working on the new dreadnoughts King Aodhan and Queen Nevla and they were almost completed with the guns installed, a salvo from their Naval rifles would destroy the gas facility with minimal collateral damage. Drelft ordered that the staff of Governors Island should be brought in by the secret police for interrogation and before the agents went out Queen Nevla addressed them all reminding them of their duty to the nation and promising she and her fellows would free the nation and restore the sun and all within a day. Gales reply arrived saying she was with them and they asked her to procede to the furthest tower as an emergency backup plan, the B-Team also volunteered and were despatched so there was a backstop at all the towers. To give time for all these plans to come to effect the team decided to walk to the Queen Nevla and using the Mayor Macbennin memorial canal they walked along the bottom into the harbour and up to the Queen Nevla taking advantage of Ulvaar's life bubble effect. Onboard the Queen Nevla it turned out that the ship was nearly operational and would soon be a flying dreadnought Tinker was able to assure them that they could aim and fire the main guns from the central fire control director so they did not need the full crew for one salvo. Ulvaar went around and loaded the 15 inch guns (conveniently a 15 inch shell weighed 1970lb just under his tk limit so he could load all the guns) then Manuel aimed them and a single salvo put all 10 shells into the gas works blowing it apart and creating a roaring pillar of flame but very little collateral damage (They had carefully used magic so Manuel would have a reroll in case he missed an blew apart a random orphange or something). Then instructing Tinker to get the Queen Nevla operational as fast as possible which he could do with parts from the King Aodan they rushed to a nearby rooftop so dragon breath and similar weapons of mass destruction would not kill bystanders. There Harkover planned to make a series of fast attack passes trusting in speed and invisibility to keep himself safe and wear them down, on his first pass he tried to bite Nevla and just missed (my dice rolling was appalling all session he hit on a 3 or more and rolled 2) . Then they initiated their standard dragon storming tactic I had forgotten and William dimension doored the team onto the back of the dragon for a boarding action, Ulvaar then using his positive energy blade struck at the ghosts within Harkover without hurting him breaking his tie to the hive mind and then he was reminded of his duty to Risur and his Monarch and switched sides. I completely underestimated their tactics and did not counter it, Pemberton is building a dimensional lock field and directional mines into his steam suit just in case. They immediatly dashed to Cauldron hill and prepared to use the Simulcrum's although they were unhappy with the use of Witch oil but accepted the sacrifice was necessaryin order to save the lives threatened by Nic. Nevla would go to Cherage, William to Crissilyr , Ulvar to Drakr and Manuel to Ber. They also ordered the Queen Nevla rushed to compeltion and sent to join the Coaltongue and hoped their fully armed and operational dreadnought would join them at the ritual site William looked out over Crissilyr and saw the lantern towers, the fact that the Volcano had gone out and the dissembly of the Cathedral (the last did not displease him to much ), seeing some true believers being persecuted by authorities he charged down to intervene in the hope of gathering information. The guards fell before him , asking around he discovered the Archsecular was in charge and directing affairs at the Cathedral , he mildly regretted they had left her around after their last visit but set out to deal with her and decapitate the Ob command structure. Manuel woke up outside Seobriga and quickly looked around for a Kobold finding one waiting outside his room, suprisingly it was not El Extrano who was busy elsewhere. He interrogated the Kobold and discovered that Glaucia was due to be executed and thought that was a good point to stop the Bruse's actions, then he learned the Bruse had magical powers making him very resistant to technology...... and realised this was not a mission for him. Meanwhile In Drakr Ulvaar discovered himself in the parliament building and rapidly discovered that the Chancellor was taking part in a procession through the city and really the only way to get at her would be long range sniping and felt he had deployed to the wrong location,, He and Manuel switched back to their bodies at the same time and quickly switched cities. Manuel plans to snipe , Ulvaar plans to enrage the Bruse with minotaur and naughty word jokes and kill him in single combat. Padme was in Elfaivar dealing with vaguely defined threats to the Risuri/Eladrin colony. Nevla arrived in Cherage and the Rats in disguise directed her to the railway yards were she saw the crowds delivering themselves up form execution to avoid burdening the state. She did not approve. Trying to avoid the Ob minister and glad neither of the Jierre's were here she crept through the crowd however she was expected Gardiner Du Cherage confronted her telling her she was expected and revealing an ambush of five lantern golems surrounding her and telling her she was hopelessly outnumbered , Nevla replied that she liked her odds, Gardiner told her that she needed to die to clear the way for the new world . Then a voice from the crowd spoke "She asks if this is the Perfect world that was promised?" and Nevla realised that Ashima-Shimtu was here. We ended there , I expect to finish the campaign in late October. As we wrapped up they discussed how Nic seemed to be going full on Lawful Evil here with the state of the world and Manuel's player speculated he may have cut a deal with Oswyn of the Shining legion and they should probably start looking for temples of Asmodeus. Oswyn's player pointed out that Oswyn was good at this and given the oppression they were seeing they should look out for Asmodean cultists in the guise of helpful charities. Amusingly this is correct but they dismissed it as a likely possibility They also discussed the use of the rite of Apothosis and decided they did not need it although it may be useful and it was morally suspect so they would not use it. They would not risk the lives of their supporters for tactical convenience [/QUOTE]
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