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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7501425" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 67, Part One – Party Animal</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Soundtrack:</strong></p><p> <strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNcmGjNW6c" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNcmGjNW6c</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNcmGjNW6c" target="_blank"></a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNcmGjNW6c" target="_blank"></a></strong></p><p> <em><span style="font-family: inherit">Please bless our land, o Father,</span></em></p><p> <em><span style="font-family: inherit">Give rains and summers warm.</span></em></p><p> <em><span style="font-family: inherit">Grant much in fall, o Father</span></em></p><p> <em><span style="font-family: inherit">And bless with every horn.</span></em></p><p> <em><span style="font-family: inherit">Please bless our herds, o Father,</span></em></p><p> <em><span style="font-family: inherit">That they may graze our fields.</span></em></p><p> <em><span style="font-family: inherit">Please bless our home, o Father,</span></em></p><p> <em><span style="font-family: inherit">And bless our evening meal.</span></em></p><p> <span style="font-family: inherit">- Prayer to the Father of Thunder</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></p><p>The Father of Thunder stood fifty feet tall at the shoulder, with horns jutting and curling and curving out of his back and head and shoulders in myriad odd angles. His mere presence sired children in female herd animals – horses, cows, sheep, and more – and those children possessed supernatural speed, might, and resilience. Harvested grains he set his gaze upon fermented into alcoholic silage. Massive herds surrounded him and followed him wherever he went. The huge, horned beast loved nothing more than getting drunk and tromping across the countryside in a constant celebration.</p><p> </p><p> His bacchanalia was ruining Risur’s ability to grow crops and raise livestock, not to mention he occasionally stampeded through towns, crushing buildings under his hooves. Until now he had stayed in the sparsley populated regions of the Weftlands, but now he was headed towards Bole, tempted by its whisky distilleries and breweries. </p><p></p><p> At ‘dawn’, while the Father of Thunder snoozed at the epicentre of his gigantic herd, the unit and the Great Hunt carefully picked their way through the slumbering lesser beasts towards him, each of them disguised with a cured bison skin. Leon augmented their disguise with an illusion of movement elsewhere in the herd to obscure their evident, purposeful triangulation.</p><p> </p><p> They hoped to come within striking distance of the titan – who formed an immense, spikey hummock against the horizon – a horizon limned, not by the light of Vona but by the slightly-less-black smear of the Gyre. But Uriel, perhaps a little too impatient, and not versed in the ways of stealth (not one of this prior incarnations had been deft in this regard) pressed his mount forward just a little too quickly, causing the herd about him to stir.</p><p> </p><p> At once, the gigantic bison-gazelle-rhinoceros twitched an ear, raised his head, gave a snort, and heaved himself upright. He called down a poorly aimed lightning bolt in their general direction, which missed but spooked their horses and the herd. The Father of Thunder was spooked too, and turned to flee. The unit spurred their horses at once, to cover the distance before the titan hit his full stride; a path cleared for each one of them by members of the Great Hunt, with Riffian riding just ahead of Korrigan. Now that the titan was awake, Korrigan felt a familiar surge of power, as the Rites of Rulership granted him the strength to oppose the titan.</p><p> </p><p>But he was determined to try to speak to the titan first and, having been borne closer by his steed, took to the air to fly alongside the titan’s massive head. His fly speed wasn’t fast enough, and he began to fall away at once. Gupta sought to slow the titan down, and got half-way through a Question, when a bolt of lightning struck her in response and cut her off mid-sentence. Korrigan yelled his diplomatic words in the titan’s ear. Its eye rolled towards him and it snorted in defiance, kicking out at those who had drawn closest – winding Uriel and sending Gupta flying off her horse to land in the herd –and trying to gore Korrigan with a sideways sweep of its horns. He avoided the blow but, empowered by the ancient rites of Risur, took hold of the titan and tried to wrestle him down. The Father of Thunder proved too strong to ground, but Korrigan slowed him long enough for the others to catch up.</p><p> </p><p> Quratulain rode under the titan and calculated all she could about him; she sought to learn what motivated his rampage, but found it was nothing as noble as vengeance – only booze and females! She drew her pistols and took steady aim at the titan’s enormous balls.</p><p> </p><p> Wielding the Book of Kelland, Leon tried to talk to the titan too, and he was also cut off by a lightning bolt. It shot wide, as Leon was protected by the Book of Kelland: if he did not attack, then the titan could not attack him. “No time to talk,” said the titan. “I’m having too much fun!” Then the Father of Thunder bucked and threw Korrigan off. Korrigan fell along his back and grabbed on close to his rear end.</p><p> </p><p> As the herd rumbled over her, the sorely injured Gupta shivered and shook and was suddenly whole again (thanks to her old friend Wolfgang); Uriel used his druidic powers to summon a great swarm of flies to beset the titan; Leon teleported himself and Gupta back onto their horses; Gupta used Fourmyle Jaunting to bring herself even close to the titan and gain insights as to how best to harm him. Then Uriel rode alongside her and plucked her up telekinetically to ride on his horse behind him.</p><p> </p><p> As the Father of Thunder rumbled forward, his herd parted before an enormous humanoid figure that appeared up ahead, striding to intercept the titan on legs so huge it could ignore the herd around it. This was Uru, in Big Jack, hurling <em>messenger wind </em>abuse at the others for screwing up their approach. As he drew closer to the titan, though, he realised that his plan to knock it over with his fey-foe hammer was rather ambitious: Gigantic though it was, the titan-buster was, nonetheless, dwarfed by the titan who charged gamely on and crashed into it full force, picking the steam-suit up and carrying it along on its horns. Big Jack then struck the titan an enormous blow, slicing through his hide with his titan-biter axe. </p><p></p><p> First blood!</p><p> </p><p> Until now, Leon had relied on the protection of the Book of Kelland, but now he joined the fray with a curse which slowed the titan down again. He was repaid with a lightning bolt that struck true this time, and caused his tiefling curse to burn the titan in return.</p><p> </p><p> While one version of Korrigan clung on, another appeared in mid-air, flying free, and ordered Quratulain to fire. She did so, unloading her armour-piercing bullets into titan’s testicles. Incredibly, Korrigan found that his Rites of Rulership extended to attacks he ordained, allowing Quratulain to match the titan as he might have done. </p><p></p><p> The Father of Thunder roared in agony and outrage. He used Big Jack as a kind of brake mechanism, ramming him into the earth and performing a sudden volte-face, his hooves carving grooves in the earth and a swathe through his herd. Now at a stand-still he unleashed a furious bellow that shook Big Jack, Gupta and Quratulain and blew the two women off their feet, to be trampled by the herd.</p><p> </p><p> Uru struggled with levers and buttons, and caused the steam suit to clamber clumsily to its feet. Uriel once again rescued Gupta and placed her on the back of his horse. Then he shouted encouragement to Uru, who yanked another lever and struck again, hacking at the titan’s foreleg.</p><p> </p><p> Quratulain stood and planted her feet to avoid being knocked down again. Her armour was strong enough to protect her from being trampled, but she could still be bowled over. Leon saw the problem and teleported her onto his horse. Then he laid an even more terrible curse on the Father of Thunder, and was subject to another lightning strike. Now Leon was badly hurt, but Korrigan (the newcomer, flying through the air) granted him some healing.</p><p> </p><p> The Father of Thunder then gored Big Jack yet again. By now, pistons were popping and gears were screaming and Uru was concerned for his new toy. Having knocked away his nearest threat, the titan wheeled again, turning back the way he faced before, and lashed out with a hoof at Leon and Quratulain. Leon was hit, but Quratulain ducked and returned fire, to devastating effect: </p><p></p><p> With an almighty roar, the Father of Thunder tripped and fell, and the impact ripped the earth apart, causing fissures and chasms to open up in all directions, as far as the eye could see. Herd animals leapt over or plunged into them, screaming. The unit and the Great Hunt struggled to remain mounted and steer their mounts away from peril, or goad them over. </p><p></p><p> Now the titan was down, Big Jack attacked him again and again. Lightning struck and, even at centre of the construct, Uru found himself rattled and injured. </p><p></p><p> Leon could sense that the titan had freed himself from his curse, so he laid on another, aided by Gupta’s timely advice. </p><p></p><p> The original Korrigan, who had been clinging onto the titan, now did all he could to hold him down, and succeeded! The titan struggled desperately to get up, but could not break free of the king’s grip. Quratulain fired again, and the Father of Thunder bellowed in anger, causing an almighty tornado to form around him. Intense winds picked up what remained of his herd, and bleating cows begin to spiral through the air. Quratulain and Leon were sucked into the centre of the storm and thrown up and out to spin uncontrollably. Big Jack was unaffected; both Korrigans vanished; Gupta clung to the saddle behind Uriel; Uriel invoked <em>righteous might</em> through the Staff of the Hierophant and he too held firm.</p><p> </p><p> Freed from the grip of the king, the Father of Thunder took the opportunity to stand once again and fled across the shattered terrain of the weftlands.<strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNcmGjNW6c" target="_blank"></a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNcmGjNW6c" target="_blank"></a></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7501425, member: 79141"] [b]Session 67, Part One – Party Animal[/b] [B]Soundtrack:[/B] [B][URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNcmGjNW6c"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNcmGjNW6c [/URL][/B] [I][FONT='inherit']Please bless our land, o Father,[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT='inherit']Give rains and summers warm.[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT='inherit']Grant much in fall, o Father[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT='inherit']And bless with every horn.[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT='inherit']Please bless our herds, o Father,[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT='inherit']That they may graze our fields.[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT='inherit']Please bless our home, o Father,[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT='inherit']And bless our evening meal.[/FONT][/I] [FONT='inherit']- Prayer to the Father of Thunder [/FONT] The Father of Thunder stood fifty feet tall at the shoulder, with horns jutting and curling and curving out of his back and head and shoulders in myriad odd angles. His mere presence sired children in female herd animals – horses, cows, sheep, and more – and those children possessed supernatural speed, might, and resilience. Harvested grains he set his gaze upon fermented into alcoholic silage. Massive herds surrounded him and followed him wherever he went. The huge, horned beast loved nothing more than getting drunk and tromping across the countryside in a constant celebration. His bacchanalia was ruining Risur’s ability to grow crops and raise livestock, not to mention he occasionally stampeded through towns, crushing buildings under his hooves. Until now he had stayed in the sparsley populated regions of the Weftlands, but now he was headed towards Bole, tempted by its whisky distilleries and breweries. At ‘dawn’, while the Father of Thunder snoozed at the epicentre of his gigantic herd, the unit and the Great Hunt carefully picked their way through the slumbering lesser beasts towards him, each of them disguised with a cured bison skin. Leon augmented their disguise with an illusion of movement elsewhere in the herd to obscure their evident, purposeful triangulation. They hoped to come within striking distance of the titan – who formed an immense, spikey hummock against the horizon – a horizon limned, not by the light of Vona but by the slightly-less-black smear of the Gyre. But Uriel, perhaps a little too impatient, and not versed in the ways of stealth (not one of this prior incarnations had been deft in this regard) pressed his mount forward just a little too quickly, causing the herd about him to stir. At once, the gigantic bison-gazelle-rhinoceros twitched an ear, raised his head, gave a snort, and heaved himself upright. He called down a poorly aimed lightning bolt in their general direction, which missed but spooked their horses and the herd. The Father of Thunder was spooked too, and turned to flee. The unit spurred their horses at once, to cover the distance before the titan hit his full stride; a path cleared for each one of them by members of the Great Hunt, with Riffian riding just ahead of Korrigan. Now that the titan was awake, Korrigan felt a familiar surge of power, as the Rites of Rulership granted him the strength to oppose the titan. But he was determined to try to speak to the titan first and, having been borne closer by his steed, took to the air to fly alongside the titan’s massive head. His fly speed wasn’t fast enough, and he began to fall away at once. Gupta sought to slow the titan down, and got half-way through a Question, when a bolt of lightning struck her in response and cut her off mid-sentence. Korrigan yelled his diplomatic words in the titan’s ear. Its eye rolled towards him and it snorted in defiance, kicking out at those who had drawn closest – winding Uriel and sending Gupta flying off her horse to land in the herd –and trying to gore Korrigan with a sideways sweep of its horns. He avoided the blow but, empowered by the ancient rites of Risur, took hold of the titan and tried to wrestle him down. The Father of Thunder proved too strong to ground, but Korrigan slowed him long enough for the others to catch up. Quratulain rode under the titan and calculated all she could about him; she sought to learn what motivated his rampage, but found it was nothing as noble as vengeance – only booze and females! She drew her pistols and took steady aim at the titan’s enormous balls. Wielding the Book of Kelland, Leon tried to talk to the titan too, and he was also cut off by a lightning bolt. It shot wide, as Leon was protected by the Book of Kelland: if he did not attack, then the titan could not attack him. “No time to talk,” said the titan. “I’m having too much fun!” Then the Father of Thunder bucked and threw Korrigan off. Korrigan fell along his back and grabbed on close to his rear end. As the herd rumbled over her, the sorely injured Gupta shivered and shook and was suddenly whole again (thanks to her old friend Wolfgang); Uriel used his druidic powers to summon a great swarm of flies to beset the titan; Leon teleported himself and Gupta back onto their horses; Gupta used Fourmyle Jaunting to bring herself even close to the titan and gain insights as to how best to harm him. Then Uriel rode alongside her and plucked her up telekinetically to ride on his horse behind him. As the Father of Thunder rumbled forward, his herd parted before an enormous humanoid figure that appeared up ahead, striding to intercept the titan on legs so huge it could ignore the herd around it. This was Uru, in Big Jack, hurling [I]messenger wind [/I]abuse at the others for screwing up their approach. As he drew closer to the titan, though, he realised that his plan to knock it over with his fey-foe hammer was rather ambitious: Gigantic though it was, the titan-buster was, nonetheless, dwarfed by the titan who charged gamely on and crashed into it full force, picking the steam-suit up and carrying it along on its horns. Big Jack then struck the titan an enormous blow, slicing through his hide with his titan-biter axe. First blood! Until now, Leon had relied on the protection of the Book of Kelland, but now he joined the fray with a curse which slowed the titan down again. He was repaid with a lightning bolt that struck true this time, and caused his tiefling curse to burn the titan in return. While one version of Korrigan clung on, another appeared in mid-air, flying free, and ordered Quratulain to fire. She did so, unloading her armour-piercing bullets into titan’s testicles. Incredibly, Korrigan found that his Rites of Rulership extended to attacks he ordained, allowing Quratulain to match the titan as he might have done. The Father of Thunder roared in agony and outrage. He used Big Jack as a kind of brake mechanism, ramming him into the earth and performing a sudden volte-face, his hooves carving grooves in the earth and a swathe through his herd. Now at a stand-still he unleashed a furious bellow that shook Big Jack, Gupta and Quratulain and blew the two women off their feet, to be trampled by the herd. Uru struggled with levers and buttons, and caused the steam suit to clamber clumsily to its feet. Uriel once again rescued Gupta and placed her on the back of his horse. Then he shouted encouragement to Uru, who yanked another lever and struck again, hacking at the titan’s foreleg. Quratulain stood and planted her feet to avoid being knocked down again. Her armour was strong enough to protect her from being trampled, but she could still be bowled over. Leon saw the problem and teleported her onto his horse. Then he laid an even more terrible curse on the Father of Thunder, and was subject to another lightning strike. Now Leon was badly hurt, but Korrigan (the newcomer, flying through the air) granted him some healing. The Father of Thunder then gored Big Jack yet again. By now, pistons were popping and gears were screaming and Uru was concerned for his new toy. Having knocked away his nearest threat, the titan wheeled again, turning back the way he faced before, and lashed out with a hoof at Leon and Quratulain. Leon was hit, but Quratulain ducked and returned fire, to devastating effect: With an almighty roar, the Father of Thunder tripped and fell, and the impact ripped the earth apart, causing fissures and chasms to open up in all directions, as far as the eye could see. Herd animals leapt over or plunged into them, screaming. The unit and the Great Hunt struggled to remain mounted and steer their mounts away from peril, or goad them over. Now the titan was down, Big Jack attacked him again and again. Lightning struck and, even at centre of the construct, Uru found himself rattled and injured. Leon could sense that the titan had freed himself from his curse, so he laid on another, aided by Gupta’s timely advice. The original Korrigan, who had been clinging onto the titan, now did all he could to hold him down, and succeeded! The titan struggled desperately to get up, but could not break free of the king’s grip. Quratulain fired again, and the Father of Thunder bellowed in anger, causing an almighty tornado to form around him. Intense winds picked up what remained of his herd, and bleating cows begin to spiral through the air. Quratulain and Leon were sucked into the centre of the storm and thrown up and out to spin uncontrollably. Big Jack was unaffected; both Korrigans vanished; Gupta clung to the saddle behind Uriel; Uriel invoked [I]righteous might[/I] through the Staff of the Hierophant and he too held firm. Freed from the grip of the king, the Father of Thunder took the opportunity to stand once again and fled across the shattered terrain of the weftlands.[B][URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNcmGjNW6c"] [/URL][/B] [/QUOTE]
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