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[ZEITGEIST] The Continuing Adventures of Korrigan & Co.
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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7048297" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Reboot Session 3 (or Session 126): PART TWO</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Monument Road</strong></p><p></p><p>• The party passed by the statue of Vairday Bruse, and the parks devoted to each of his co-founders (including Bruse Shantus, the current ruler of Ber). Glaucia pointed them out proudly and talked about her dedication to the cause of ongoing revolution in Ber. (No one really noticed at the time, but later they would remember that the statue of the founder ‘El Extrano’ was curiously absent from its empty plinth.)</p><p>• It was a hot evening. In the distance, they saw goatherds wrangling goats the size of bison, using trained bears like sheepdogs. The group stopped twice – once to water the horses at a river, and again for an evening meal. This gave them all the chance to talk with one another:</p><p>• Uru tried to get to the bottom of what was ailing Rumdoom, but Rumdoom wasn’t keen to dwell on such matters. Instead he was focused on enjoying himself. His wife was worried that he was getting burned. She took off his hat and his face was a very different colour to his shaven head.</p><p>• Korrigan spoke with Glaucia and talked about the danger they were trying to counter. He did not mention the Obscurati by name, but tried to give her a sense of the scale and scope of this international conspiracy. It was not, he stressed, a matter for Risur alone, but a threat to the whole world.</p><p>• Brakken asked after the officers of unit B, who had escorted him in Flint. He was saddened to learn that Theren, Niniel and Sevitar had all been killed during the assault on the Cauldron Hill facility.</p><p>• Gupta spoke with Melissa Amerie and found that she got along very well with the droll half-orc journalist. Amerie filled her in on all the details she had learned about Tinker when researching her article, including his early career in Slate, where his erratic behaviour led to a series of dismissals. Each one was followed by serious industrial accidents involving those responsible for giving Tinker the sack… Soldiers in military installations throughout Seobriga have been complaining about the behaviour of the gnome. (It was these rumours that led Amerie to become aware of him.)</p><p>• Gupta also received an anxious sending from Stover Delft. It had been almost 48 hours without any report from her. The unit were concerned that the Obscurati had learned how to intercept sendings, and suggested further communication be limited until a functioning code could be established.</p><p>• Over dinner, Glaucia asked about Risuri skyseers, but only Krithilrak answered. It transpired that the scribe fancied himself as a skyseer, though his response was a trifle condescending. This appeared to go unnoticed by Glaucia who said she would like to know whether her own future would include the chance to revenge herself on an old foe. She was put in mind of all this by their journey to court, as one of her foes would be there, protected by the Bruse.</p><p>• Xambria tried to tell Glaucia that skyseer visions weren’t very specific and might not be able to help her. Glaucia did not want to hear this from a ten-foot golem and moved away. Xambria also tried to encourage Conquo to take over for the rest of the run, but he wouldn’t budge.</p><p>• Back on the road, Gupta talked more with Glaucia and heard her terrible story of how her village had been attacked by gnolls from the Cult of the Steel Lord. Rather than see her pups enslaved she had killed her youngest, and had intended to kill them all and then herself. But the raid leader freed her and the rest of her children, to spread the word of the cult’s might. She dedicated herself to the Executores and trained her children to defend themselves.</p><p>• As they rode Leon found a moment to talk to Korrigan alone. With the help of the Thinker (his star pact patron), he had managed to throw off the Obscurati geas, but had not been able to share what he knew before now. Han Jierre was not the head of the conspiracy, but appeared to share power – even take orders from – Kasvarina Varal and Nicodemus. (When he learned of this, and discovered that he was not a part of a Danoran military venture, Leon had taken steps to expose Han Jierre, leading to his own assassination.)</p><p></p><p><strong>Rexes in the Vineyard</strong></p><p></p><p>• The first sign that something was amiss came when the mechanical carriage plunged into an enormous pit. Korrigan managed to rein in his mount, but Leon’s horse plunged in headlong. Leon managed to teleport away but the horse began screaming and thrashing when it landed, having broken its leg. Korrigan gave Uru an order to put it out of its misery.</p><p>The mechanical carriage was unharmed, but the occupants were shaken. Rumdoom had been thrown off, and picked himself up awkwardly, reclaiming his hat.</p><p>• They were in a forest of giant Sequoia, with row upon row of grapevines. The carriage had crashed into an artfully covered pit at the centre of a crossroads, where a pair of stone arches stood to either side of the main road. Roderigo was first to hear the rumbling from the North and craned to see over the grapevines. A stampede of goats (yes, goats) was heading straight for them! </p><p>• The quick-thinking half-giant grabbed Bian’s reins, as the nebbish writer was struggling to control his mount. He led Bian through a gap in the hedge and spurred their horses eastwards, urging Glaucia, Brakken and Melissa Amerie to follow. They did so. Though the Executores spared a backward glance for those caught by the pit, her main concern was seeing the others to safety.</p><p>• The goats (yes, goats) bore down on them. Gupta and Korrigan dismounted hurriedly. Leon ported onto the wall near the arch and tried to see what was happening. Dust from the stampede blinded him, but everyone heard the tremendous roar that echoed through the forest.</p><p>• The dwarves were all clambering up a web provided by Uru, and those that could not make it out of the pit were hoisted out by Conquo. (The golem had finally agreed to take control of himself now that trouble had arisen.)</p><p>• Korrigan used his Icon of Urim to raise a wall in the northern archway. Leon cleared his eyes and used his dream magic to place the illusion of a wall in front of the real wall. The stampede bisected, streaming in a fork to the east and west, driven on by fear of what pursued them:</p><p>• A pair of enormous tyrannosaurs stomped through the trees from the North; they immediately ignored the goats they had been chasing and made a bee-line for the unit. The goats crashed through hedges to get away from them. A strange ringing noise could be heard from the branches of a fallen Sequoia to the South, causing the goats that had gone past the road to mill about in chaos, and driving them towards the pit. Korrigan and Gupta scrambled up the wall to get away.</p><p>• Rumdoom demanded that Lemon pass him his blunderbuss. He took aim at a tyrannosaur, fired and missed. Leon hit one with a beam of Starfire, and their eyes sparkled strangely in response. One bore down on Korrigan and Leon while the other unleashed a terrifying, territorial roar.</p><p>• Having rescued the dwarves, the simian Conquo leapt across the pit and swung in front of the nearest rex, sending the archway crashing into the road behind him, unable to bear his weight. The tyrannosaur chomped down on him, but he was able to pry its jaws apart. Rumdoom demanded his mordenkrad, and jumped across to join him, though the extra weight he now carried meant he almost fell backwards into the pit. The golem and the dwarf went toe-to-toe with both tyrannosaurs while Leon provided covering fire and Korrigan issued orders. One tyrannosaur managed to pin Korrigan in its jaws, but the unit leader’s form flashed with Avilona energy and he vanished, reappearing on the wall next to Leon. Gupta began to wonder if every fight they had would be as terrifying! She jumped back off the wall, rather than end up on the menu.</p><p>• On the other side of the road, Uru searched the fallen sequoia for the source of the eerie ringing noise. He spotted a hidden figure but before he could take aim, the figure leapt out of the branches and lurched towards him. It was Merton Goncala, Lya Jierre’s second bodyguard. Thunderous noise emanated from him and he struck the ground with his arcane sonic staff, assailing Uru with waves of sound. Uru’s sudden disappearance confused the half-orc who ran forward seeking other targets. Finding only Rumdoom’s retinue, he was given pause, appearing reluctant to attack non-combatants. Uru took advantage and unleashed a volley of shots that plunged Goncala into the Bleak Gate.</p><p>• Freezing hammer blows, searing starfire and crushing golem fists caused one of the fearsome tyrannosaurs to flee. This was too big a quarry to allow to escape, so instead of helping Conquo wrestle with the second rex, Rumdoom called for his blunderbuss, which Lemon had reloaded. He took careful aim, and brought the beast down with a well-placed shot. By now Conquo had its mate in a headlock and had squeezed its jaws tightly shut. It stumbled off, confused by its predicament, with Conquo holding on stubbornly. Korrigan yelled at him to stop fooling around and Conquo let the beast go.</p><p>• The fight was over. Glaucia arrived, clearly intending to help, having got the others to safety. She leapt off her horse next to the dead rex, and began to smash out its teeth with her staff. Rumdoom watched, a little put out, but he didn’t voice an objection when Glaucia handed him a single tooth. “I would like to keep the rest if you don’t mind she said.” Something about her piercing gaze caused his words to lodge in his throat. Instead, he turned back to the others, proudly waving his tyrannosaur tooth and said, "That's the most fun I've had in years!" (I'm still not sure if that was in or out of character.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7048297, member: 79141"] [b]Reboot Session 3 (or Session 126): PART TWO[/b] [B]Monument Road[/B] • The party passed by the statue of Vairday Bruse, and the parks devoted to each of his co-founders (including Bruse Shantus, the current ruler of Ber). Glaucia pointed them out proudly and talked about her dedication to the cause of ongoing revolution in Ber. (No one really noticed at the time, but later they would remember that the statue of the founder ‘El Extrano’ was curiously absent from its empty plinth.) • It was a hot evening. In the distance, they saw goatherds wrangling goats the size of bison, using trained bears like sheepdogs. The group stopped twice – once to water the horses at a river, and again for an evening meal. This gave them all the chance to talk with one another: • Uru tried to get to the bottom of what was ailing Rumdoom, but Rumdoom wasn’t keen to dwell on such matters. Instead he was focused on enjoying himself. His wife was worried that he was getting burned. She took off his hat and his face was a very different colour to his shaven head. • Korrigan spoke with Glaucia and talked about the danger they were trying to counter. He did not mention the Obscurati by name, but tried to give her a sense of the scale and scope of this international conspiracy. It was not, he stressed, a matter for Risur alone, but a threat to the whole world. • Brakken asked after the officers of unit B, who had escorted him in Flint. He was saddened to learn that Theren, Niniel and Sevitar had all been killed during the assault on the Cauldron Hill facility. • Gupta spoke with Melissa Amerie and found that she got along very well with the droll half-orc journalist. Amerie filled her in on all the details she had learned about Tinker when researching her article, including his early career in Slate, where his erratic behaviour led to a series of dismissals. Each one was followed by serious industrial accidents involving those responsible for giving Tinker the sack… Soldiers in military installations throughout Seobriga have been complaining about the behaviour of the gnome. (It was these rumours that led Amerie to become aware of him.) • Gupta also received an anxious sending from Stover Delft. It had been almost 48 hours without any report from her. The unit were concerned that the Obscurati had learned how to intercept sendings, and suggested further communication be limited until a functioning code could be established. • Over dinner, Glaucia asked about Risuri skyseers, but only Krithilrak answered. It transpired that the scribe fancied himself as a skyseer, though his response was a trifle condescending. This appeared to go unnoticed by Glaucia who said she would like to know whether her own future would include the chance to revenge herself on an old foe. She was put in mind of all this by their journey to court, as one of her foes would be there, protected by the Bruse. • Xambria tried to tell Glaucia that skyseer visions weren’t very specific and might not be able to help her. Glaucia did not want to hear this from a ten-foot golem and moved away. Xambria also tried to encourage Conquo to take over for the rest of the run, but he wouldn’t budge. • Back on the road, Gupta talked more with Glaucia and heard her terrible story of how her village had been attacked by gnolls from the Cult of the Steel Lord. Rather than see her pups enslaved she had killed her youngest, and had intended to kill them all and then herself. But the raid leader freed her and the rest of her children, to spread the word of the cult’s might. She dedicated herself to the Executores and trained her children to defend themselves. • As they rode Leon found a moment to talk to Korrigan alone. With the help of the Thinker (his star pact patron), he had managed to throw off the Obscurati geas, but had not been able to share what he knew before now. Han Jierre was not the head of the conspiracy, but appeared to share power – even take orders from – Kasvarina Varal and Nicodemus. (When he learned of this, and discovered that he was not a part of a Danoran military venture, Leon had taken steps to expose Han Jierre, leading to his own assassination.) [B]Rexes in the Vineyard[/B] • The first sign that something was amiss came when the mechanical carriage plunged into an enormous pit. Korrigan managed to rein in his mount, but Leon’s horse plunged in headlong. Leon managed to teleport away but the horse began screaming and thrashing when it landed, having broken its leg. Korrigan gave Uru an order to put it out of its misery. The mechanical carriage was unharmed, but the occupants were shaken. Rumdoom had been thrown off, and picked himself up awkwardly, reclaiming his hat. • They were in a forest of giant Sequoia, with row upon row of grapevines. The carriage had crashed into an artfully covered pit at the centre of a crossroads, where a pair of stone arches stood to either side of the main road. Roderigo was first to hear the rumbling from the North and craned to see over the grapevines. A stampede of goats (yes, goats) was heading straight for them! • The quick-thinking half-giant grabbed Bian’s reins, as the nebbish writer was struggling to control his mount. He led Bian through a gap in the hedge and spurred their horses eastwards, urging Glaucia, Brakken and Melissa Amerie to follow. They did so. Though the Executores spared a backward glance for those caught by the pit, her main concern was seeing the others to safety. • The goats (yes, goats) bore down on them. Gupta and Korrigan dismounted hurriedly. Leon ported onto the wall near the arch and tried to see what was happening. Dust from the stampede blinded him, but everyone heard the tremendous roar that echoed through the forest. • The dwarves were all clambering up a web provided by Uru, and those that could not make it out of the pit were hoisted out by Conquo. (The golem had finally agreed to take control of himself now that trouble had arisen.) • Korrigan used his Icon of Urim to raise a wall in the northern archway. Leon cleared his eyes and used his dream magic to place the illusion of a wall in front of the real wall. The stampede bisected, streaming in a fork to the east and west, driven on by fear of what pursued them: • A pair of enormous tyrannosaurs stomped through the trees from the North; they immediately ignored the goats they had been chasing and made a bee-line for the unit. The goats crashed through hedges to get away from them. A strange ringing noise could be heard from the branches of a fallen Sequoia to the South, causing the goats that had gone past the road to mill about in chaos, and driving them towards the pit. Korrigan and Gupta scrambled up the wall to get away. • Rumdoom demanded that Lemon pass him his blunderbuss. He took aim at a tyrannosaur, fired and missed. Leon hit one with a beam of Starfire, and their eyes sparkled strangely in response. One bore down on Korrigan and Leon while the other unleashed a terrifying, territorial roar. • Having rescued the dwarves, the simian Conquo leapt across the pit and swung in front of the nearest rex, sending the archway crashing into the road behind him, unable to bear his weight. The tyrannosaur chomped down on him, but he was able to pry its jaws apart. Rumdoom demanded his mordenkrad, and jumped across to join him, though the extra weight he now carried meant he almost fell backwards into the pit. The golem and the dwarf went toe-to-toe with both tyrannosaurs while Leon provided covering fire and Korrigan issued orders. One tyrannosaur managed to pin Korrigan in its jaws, but the unit leader’s form flashed with Avilona energy and he vanished, reappearing on the wall next to Leon. Gupta began to wonder if every fight they had would be as terrifying! She jumped back off the wall, rather than end up on the menu. • On the other side of the road, Uru searched the fallen sequoia for the source of the eerie ringing noise. He spotted a hidden figure but before he could take aim, the figure leapt out of the branches and lurched towards him. It was Merton Goncala, Lya Jierre’s second bodyguard. Thunderous noise emanated from him and he struck the ground with his arcane sonic staff, assailing Uru with waves of sound. Uru’s sudden disappearance confused the half-orc who ran forward seeking other targets. Finding only Rumdoom’s retinue, he was given pause, appearing reluctant to attack non-combatants. Uru took advantage and unleashed a volley of shots that plunged Goncala into the Bleak Gate. • Freezing hammer blows, searing starfire and crushing golem fists caused one of the fearsome tyrannosaurs to flee. This was too big a quarry to allow to escape, so instead of helping Conquo wrestle with the second rex, Rumdoom called for his blunderbuss, which Lemon had reloaded. He took careful aim, and brought the beast down with a well-placed shot. By now Conquo had its mate in a headlock and had squeezed its jaws tightly shut. It stumbled off, confused by its predicament, with Conquo holding on stubbornly. Korrigan yelled at him to stop fooling around and Conquo let the beast go. • The fight was over. Glaucia arrived, clearly intending to help, having got the others to safety. She leapt off her horse next to the dead rex, and began to smash out its teeth with her staff. Rumdoom watched, a little put out, but he didn’t voice an objection when Glaucia handed him a single tooth. “I would like to keep the rest if you don’t mind she said.” Something about her piercing gaze caused his words to lodge in his throat. Instead, he turned back to the others, proudly waving his tyrannosaur tooth and said, "That's the most fun I've had in years!" (I'm still not sure if that was in or out of character.) [/QUOTE]
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