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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ajar" data-source="post: 9836136" data-attributes="member: 85901">Asrabey is no more. They did gradually persuade his supporting cast of eladrin sorcerers from one of the enclaves and Vekeshi druids to stand down, but Vesta himself delivered the final coup de grace on Asrabey. During the fight, Asrabey commented about the open seat on the Unseen Court, and his new status as Archfey of Obedience. Asrabey speculated that perhaps Vesta would be Archfey of Irritation, but Vesta has decided to be Archfey of Inconvenient Timing, a narrow but useful portfolio. When Vesta originally recovered the First Blade of Srasama, I reworked it as an artifact with concordance, but I don't think I shared the stats. Although at this point I kind of suspect we're the only group playing this in D&D 4E.This has felt a lot more thematic and resonant, and during the fight with Asrabey we got to see the powers of his Blade of Srasama, which are different (a fire blast and a persistent fire wall). Of course, Vesta is a Swordmage and needs to keep his off hand free, so he probably won't be wielding both blades, but it would be interesting if he could somehow find all eight...After the battle, they asked the druids and sorcerers what exactly Asrabey had told them, allowed them to collect their unconscious compatriots, and brought them up to speed on the Risuri perspective on current events. The druids, being Risuri Vekeshi, already knew who Vesta was, and had definitely not expected to be going up against him in this battle (which contributed to the PCs' efforts to get them to stand aside), so they were pretty interested to hear the difference between Asrabey's take on the Ob and theirs.During the conversation, rivulets of blood from the ground began to run toward the sea, and a simulacrum of Ashima-Shimtu slowly assembled itself... we stopped there, so I still have some time to decide what she's actually going to say to them. Not much point in talking about the Gidim leviathan, the riders in Drakr, or the stuff in Crysillyr, since the PCs already know all of that. I still don't feel like I have a great handle on how I want to do the Crysillyr sequence, specifically how to nudge them to revisit the Crypta Hereticarum to recover the journal of Triegenes, so I may just have Ashima-Shimtu dangle that carrot herself.</blockquote>

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