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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Echolocation" data-source="post: 8325779" data-attributes="member: 7011911">Session 63Courtesy of Lisandra's playerWe began the session with an attack on the Summer Court. Tinker Oddcog had just been escorted against his will into the throne room to speak with Lya Jierre, and was very vocal about not wanting to speak with anyone--Ella included. But as the discussion happened behind closed doors, all chaos broke out as a Soul-Stretched Marco lashed out, attacking his beloved reptilian friend and chaos began to unfold. Ella made haste (literally) to head to the throne room to see if such madness was also ensuing with Lya and her entourage as Lisandra scanned the room for enchantments and Angharad did what Angharad does best; got ready for a fight with the 11 guards with firearms stationed around the waiting room. The oracle saw the souls of those present, save for her fellow Knights and dear Polo, were stretched, strangely to the south, just as the Minister of Rebellion’s soul had been. Something was very wrong.Angharad pulled his punch as he struck out at Marco with a fiery strike, and was surprised to see the scaly fellow took no damage at all from his blow. Guards began loading their muskets and readying aim as shouts from the throne room rang out; Tinker apparently, had brought a bomb to the discussions.[SPOILER="No damage?"]Although not mentioned in the Pathfinder template, I could not imagine duplicants would take damage from non-lethal attacks.[/SPOILER]Angharad held off the guards as Lisandra moved to back Ella up, now cornered at the doors by two guards. As the tiefling flung open to the doors, she saw the guard inside bearing down the Lya and the Bruce. She also saw the bomb yanked out from inside her uncle’s chest. Yes. Inside. Because apparently the gnome is made of metal and has a Bender door in his chest like a robit. The technologist could tell by looking at the ticking device, there was only about 6 seconds left before an explosion, one perhaps 70 feet wide, would fill the throne room. On the upside, as her uncle spotted her, he irrately told her she wasn’t meant to be here and she should just GO AWAY. Apparently he hadn’t planned on blowing her up.As Lya and her men fight to protect the Bruce and get the quivering manchild evacuated, Ella watches in horror as Kenna, though hesitant in her actions, raises a claw and sliced down into the Bruce swiftly, cutting him down with a heavy injury. It wasn’t long, despite Lya’s attempts to protect him, before Kenna ended his life with another strike.BOOM.The Summer Palace shook with the explosion, the flame of it not quite broad enough to lick the face of Ella where she stood, or Lisandra a few feet behind. But the heat and force rushing past turned the oracle pale with memory, and as Ella vanished from sight to slip past the guards, Lisandra insisted they flee and teleported as far as she could from the throne room. She was greeted at the door to the hall by a bloodied, armless Angharad, dragging a bloody, invisible Ella with one foot. Crestfallen, and a little guilty at her actions, Lisandra made quick work of healing Ella back to consciousness and the three made their escape.They met with Glaucia and her entourage cleaning up a slew of possessed constructs in the courtyard and told her of the Bruse’s demise before regrouping with her people and helping take back the Summer Palace.As it seemed the thread was quashed, and the survivors picked through the shattered remains of constructs about the throne room, they found a familiar face attached to a metallic spine. Kenna Vigilante. The only soul left stretching to the south. The red light from her eyes fades and the head calls out, recalling her surroundings, guards of the summer court, people she knows… the sound of gnollish spoken… before the face becomes suddenly silent and still, reverting to its metallic state.Serkava enters the throne room with an entourage of guards and Lya’s group in tow. She surveys the destruction around them and demands to know if they were responsible for this or the corpse of the Bruse still spread across the dias. With support from Glaucia, as surprisingly Lya, the advisor seemed content to believe the Risuri knight had no part in the attack. With a solemn expression, she announces that the Danoran and Risuri guests will remain within the Court as cleanup ensues and a new Bruse put into power to turn the martial forces on the Cult of the Steel Lord.The next few days are a blur of studying construct remains, divinations, the sewing on of missing limbs and a memorial for those lost. It also was marked by the simple, no-fanfare affair of appointing Cavallo de Geurra the new Bruse and the unexpected visit of a Risuri ally, Principle-Minister Harkover Lee. Lee arrived with another bomb, only this time it wasn’t the kind that exploded bodies, it exploded our minds. He revealed that good old King Boyle never actually slayed all the dragons that lead hostile action against Risur, as history tells. I mean, he mostly did. With the exception of Gradiax, who he cut a deal with. Take refuge in Risur, remain alive and with your wealth if he never took hostile action against Risur again. To secure the deal, he agreed to live in a human form for 100 years. The form, currently, of Benedict naughty word Pemberton.So now we plot and plan with the new Bruse and his people to launch an assault on the Cult of the Steel Lord, recover Tinker before Lya can… oh, and maybe face off against a naughty word Tyrant Dragon who hopefully isn’t inconvienctly coming up to his 100th year in human form just as we roll up to hopefully stop whatever his lackeys have planned in the south.Let's do this; today, in the insane adventures of Team BAD.DM NotesI will say, my favourite part was the duplicant maestro pulling out a musket from his harpsichord.Have some maps. The first is of the Summer Court generally, and the second is in the antechamber to the throne room.[ATTACH=full]139505[/ATTACH]North is a little whack on this map. The ocean is the eastern shores of Ber. I made this in Wonderdraft.[ATTACH=full]139506[/ATTACH]The harpsichordist played near the tree. Even he was kicked out of the throne room when the Bruse demanded everyone leave. I made this in Dungeondraft.</blockquote>

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