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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 8588782" data-attributes="member: 6816692">Epilogue: Tower going Tarot           The next thing we sense is the tower shaking violently and we don't know whether Kasvarina's disappearance through the portal or Borne climbing up the structure would be the reason for it. All er know is that the situation is turning more and more dire by the second. Gabriel collects Andrei's body to bring him to safety while Auryn uses a spell to look like Kasvarina so Borne might be soothed.It doesn't take much longer and the gigantic face of the Colossus appears on the edge of the platform. We rush towards the portals while Borne looks at Auryn and says “serve without regret” (that doesn't fully translate... in German he said “Ohne Bedauern dienen”, as if reading the inscription on an OB ring)We reactivate the portal and jump right through it, hoping to find Kasvarina at the other side. The moment we enter the portal though, we see the whole tower collapse and the portal closes.(And this, my friends, is the cause of the most underwhelming death of an NPC in Zeitgeist, just as promised. Hope you know the person I'm talking about. It will come up again later in the most ridiculous way possible and we kind of regret not taking a bit more time to climb the tower. Things would have gotten really interesting <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Also, this ends adventure 8 though the session not yet over. It was really a long ride. And while it felt like a big history lesson at some points, we really had the opportunity to give it a personal touch due to our connection to Kasvarina. We enjoyed the inclusion of Asrabey though Carlyle doesn't hold much love for the Dreadnaught. Even if this meant we didn't recruit Balu. The arc surely allowed both our characters to come more to term with their roles in the larger play, with Auryn reflecting on her agenda and desire to help shape new Elfaivar and Carlyle being able to reflect on Srasama's true fate and nature after seeing so much of Elfaivar. The Bonds of Forced Faith mini-adventure also had a lot of foreshadowing in that regard. I hope that our in-character dissection of Miller/Nicodemus did not miss the mark and that him being shades of grey from the beginning was intended. I'd love to hear your own take on him and his personality some day, especially regarding his relationship to Kasvarina. We felt that the "Mental Stability" subsystem was a bit clunky, as it was pretty random at the beginning but once you reached a certain point of stability, is all went smoothly (but maybe that meta-game aspect was the totally intentional?). We unknowingly included so many safe, familial memories at the beginning that Kas' stability never was in any way really threatened. This adventure also marks the very first appearance of Carlyle's long-term goal as a deva and we will see more in that regard in the upcoming plot line. Regarding CLAMP and Tsubasa: It follows their trend of taking a series with a set premise and turning it upside down somewhere in the middle of the plot. TRC starts as a crossover fantasy story in the Sakura/Clow Reed Universe with characters that resemble Sakura and Syaoran from CCS, who go on a dimension-traveling quest to regain Sakura's lost memories. But it turns dark. And they meet some other CLAMP characters along the way. The anime is a hot mess though, and only the manga makes sense in the end. It has a beautiful OST though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And Rayearth is one of my favorite series as well, with one of the most clever conclusions at the end.Also, don't worry: I'm already working on the next part. Just wanted to finish this adventure properly)</blockquote>

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