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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 8098903" data-attributes="member: 6920268">With the PC's split 4 ways Alais PrimosWilliam having spoken to some locals he had prevented the arrest of determine that the Archsecular is in charge of the city and the threat is the four lantern towers , he sneaks to the ruins of the Cathedral and invisibly Kidnaps Morgan Cipriano into an abandonded church, snaps him out of the Hive Mind and asks him about the situation. Unfortunatly it appears that no strike forces of Family members could be mustered in the time frame before the towers need to be taken out and William is reluctant to use up all of his remaining teleport spells for the day travelling between towers.. So he has a cunning plan.Calling upon the power of the archmage king of Risur he opens a gate to the Celestial Advoral, when it answers he and Cipriano explain the situation and ask for its help in saving the city from destruction. As it is a being of good and this is defending the faith of the Clergy it agrees to help and managed to gate in several Astral Deva's to help it. The plan is that they will assail three of the towers simultaneously and then as soon as a tower is destroyed teleport to the fourth tower. After that they may go and break the Archsecular out of the Hivemind depending on the situationSeobriggaUlvaar has spoken with the crowds going to the public execution and joins them walking towards the site, his plan is to get close to the Bruse then blast him with positive energy until the Ghost Councillers are gone and break him out of the Hivemind and prevent the city destroying order being given.  The kobold waiting for the construct to wake up apologises that El Extrano has not left many commando teams in Ber and left for Axis Island in a Zombie Whale a few days ago.  Ulvaar continues to the square happy with the plan to confront the Bruse.Approaching the square he recieves the BBC broadcast (Brakken Broadcasting Corporation) and see's the situation in the square with the Bruse about to execute Glaucia so taking to the air he swoops down towards the Bruse just as pyrotechnic light up a great S in the Square and 2 masked men swing down to interrupt the execution.The Capital of DrakrManuel prepares to sneak out and assassinate the chancellor, which is terrible he should find a way to arrest her. However she is Ob so he can't even come up with a way to break her out of the Hivemind, even if he does she will still order the city destroyed. An attack on the parade will probably lead to his defeat, more casualties than killing her and the detonation of the city. He does not have the time and resources to destroy the Gas depot without causing massive collateral damage.So he sneak out onto the roof looking for an opportunity to take a shot, unnable to find  a Grassy Gnoll he sets up on a roof , even in his steamsuit and distracted by morale qualms he remains the night and the watchful sniper Kvarti sees nothingCherage train depotNevla is facing five lantern armed Golems deployed in ambush and has just realised that Ashima-Shimtu is standing nearby, Nevla and Gardian Du Cherage compete to persuade Ashima-shimtu that she should act. She seems paralysed by indecision, the golems start to blast Nevla with a mix of Urim, Apet and Jiesse energies preventing her from teleporting or moving and inflicting fire damage on her, fortunatly she has anti-fire spells up but the lanterns will not take that long to cut through her fire protection. Nevla assures Ashima-shimtu that her acting will make things better and not acting is also making a decision. Finally Ashima-Shimtu acts declaring "I will not stand by , we will save the city" several players note that she just switched to using the first person. She steps in front of Nevla taking the force of the lantern blasts and at the same time conjuring an illusion of Nevla prone behind her and turning Nevla invisible. Gardian reacts sarcastically "Curse your unexpected , sudden but ineveitable betrayal, Golems Override B-2" the golems switch to blasting holy energy causing Ashima-Shimtu to stagget and sink to one knee but still resist the blasts .Alais PrimosWilliam rapidly despatched a construct squad at one of the lantern towers striking from invisibility he cuts them down almost immediatly and scatters the soldiers with a fierce display of intimidation, at the same time the Astral Deva's destroy a lantern before they are spotted and Advoral cuts his qay through a construct squad  before he and William destroy their lanterns. William makes his way on foot to the Archsecular while the celestials destroy the last lantern, and is there when Advoral and the Celestials teleport in and use positive energy to free the Archsecular from possession.The city saved William quickly organises Morgan and the Archsecular to set up a provisional government and get the Archsecular to agree to step down once their is an alternative in place, then he returns to his body.SeobrigaUlvaar does not immediatly recognise the strangers but swoops in and hits the Bruse with a rapid flurry of positive energy blows (at which point I realise there are no Ghost councillors present but decide not to change what the players believe to be true) , Sor Daeron swings in and drops a tyrannosaur with a well place spellstrike critical . The Bruse free of possession cancels the order to destroy the city and denounces the Ob for mind control , Glaucia takes up the cry and leads a mob to deliver a savage beating to everyone in the Ob embassy. Ulvaar worries about hive minds as he recognises the two resistance fighters he thanks them both but does not have long to talk instead rushing around the towers to make sure they are demolished. Deciding he does not have time to worry about hive minds and if all goes well the problem will end for ever tommorrow he returns to his body.The capital of DrakrManuel opens fire from his position hitting the chancellor with a deadly accurate salvo of rifle fire killing her before she can act (No sniping rules he just did 200pts of damage) then with his mastery of the night he sneaks off before anyone can work out where the shots came from and hangs around undetactably and brooding until it is confirmed that the Gas lamps are being extinguished and the gas store vented by Vladheim Heid before returning to his bodyCherageNevla moves to help but Ashima-shimtu tells her to save the city, she will endure. After throwing some healing at Ashima-Shimtu Nevla races to the Gas depot and identifying the emergency venting system she was briefed on by Manuel vents the gas to the heavens. Rushing back she finds Ashima-shimtu still absorbing the blasts of Holy energy and summons a mobile pit to take the golems out moving it around to drop all the golems down into it, then moving the pit in front of an approaching freight train making sure the crew have time to bail out, the train plummets down the pit and obliterates the Golems, quickly she casts overwhelming presence, incapictates Gardian and any approaching soldiers and stuffs Gardian into the Absurdist web to keep her out of the wayShe then goes to Ashima-Shimtu's side checking she is still alive, Ashima-Shimtu asks if the city is saved, and once it is confirmed that it is she asks if she should go or stay, Claifying what she means and discovering Ashima-Shimtu is asking if she should stay or depart this plane of existance, Nevla asks her to stay , Ashima-Shimtu agrees but apparently weary tells Nevla to go on and she will join her at Axis Island.The Coaltongue Near Axis IslandLauren Cynberg teleports the team to the Coaltongue where they discover Gale has the Coaltongue and some other forces hidden in the Eye of a Tropical storm approaching the Island. They observe the 'Shield of Steel' a flying carrier with Pemberton industries flag flying on its flat deck they can see Pemberton in Dragon form, and a squadron of Dragonflyers as well as numerous other visitors. The Coaltongue goes alongside , puts lines across and the team Zip-line onboard. Where they meet their assembled allies. SEAL Team 6 who they are glad to see , as they had forgotten leaving them watching the island a year ago when they were expecting a quicker returnA Liason officer from El Extrano who is preparing commando attacks on the Axis Island defenses, they think it is probably a good idea that El Extrano is not here given his habit of provoking PembertonThey are pleased to see Athrylla and her loyal dreadnoughts , as well as assorted Weretigers (Adorable and Deadly says Manuel) she introduces Cula who has defected to them, Cula bows before Nela and asks forgivness for her mistaken loyalty to the Ob and help in assassinating Nevla's predessor she explains she has learned that Kasavarina has renounced the Ob and that combined with the recent failing of the Ob have persuaded her to abandon them, she had come to aid in defeating the Ob and brought the best of her Assassin teams with her. The Queen forgives her and welcomes her to the right side of the conflict.Tzertse Rider of the end times and his harem of Dwarven Valkyries have arrived looking for a good fight against the Ob, the players note they should keep him away from Rock otherwise there will be issues when Rock steals his harem. They are pleased to see he is accompanied by Kiov Hetman who has abandoned the Ob and come to serve the heroes he met , he brings with him methods of defeating the Drakran wards emplaced around the Island.Other former Ob agents have come inspired by their meeting with the heroes Bruce McDruid and Xavia Sangria have brought with them the most heroic of their followers and stand ready to fight , Livia Hatfield is onboard the RNS Queen Nevla racing to join the fleet along with Harkover, Oddcog , Drelft and the B-teamA squadron of the prototype cloudbombers (flying wooden ships with bombs magically disguised as clouds) from the Shale fleet have arrived lead by Former Duchess Ethelyn and her assistant Shokana, the Duchess asks forgivness for her earlier treason as she misunderstood the prophecy and should have been preparing for the Ob instead and notes they need someone to replace Romanov as her replacment in charge of Shale.Lord Kulp and his assistant wizards are here, Kulp and Pemberton treat each other like two very polite strange cats , which the players consider for the best they are not certain which is the more powerful dragon and are certian a fight between them would mess up everything.Penultimatly severl monks from the Sons of Pala have come to demonstrate the truth of William Millers philosophies even if the ghost of the man has gone astray.Finally as the council of war is getting underway one last figure flies in , an Angelic figure no one recognises immediatly lands of the flight deck , as they see the chains still attached to her the realise this is Ashima-Shimtu redeemed "I have come to aid you Queen Nevla" and she bows before Nevla and kisses her hand, Nevla gives her an impulsive hug.Manuel cries out in delight "You read the book" delighted she had finally learned to use the first person.We finished fairly early at this point and spent time discussing planes and tactics for fighting the Voice of Rot which they will do next time.It looks like we have confirmed an open configuration and sadly Thrag is gone, several of the players decided they were unhappy with the social consequences and after presenting his best arguements Manuel's player accepted the majority. It is a pity I think it would have been an interesting world and it would have worked, it is just hard to work out how society would have reformed. My opinion is it would have worked well with moderate disruptions in the short term then something like Peter Hamiltons Confederation society possibly with long term problems as the population expandsThe group has decided that besides saving the world thwarting Nicodemus is nearly as important a motivator as they expressed if Nicodemus had committed to giving a man a sandwhich they would race ahead to make him a better sandwhich with chips and all the trimmings just to show up Nicodemus.</blockquote>

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