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[ZEITGEIST] The Continuing Adventures of Korrigan & Co.
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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7510362" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 200, Part One - Toteth Topec</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>DM's Note: Regular readers should not worry that I have skipped one-hundred-and-thirty episodes. I realised just before the last session that we finished our original run on session 130, and with this being session 70 of the reboot, we were now at a landmark 200th session. I decided that this would be an appropriate point to switch our count back to 'total sessions played' rather than 'reboot sessions played'.</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Whosoever ventures near,</em></p><p><em>Be forewarned that Death lives here.</em></p><p><em>If you should note the smell of death,</em></p><p><em>Then soon shall come your final breath.</em></p><p></p><p>Before they left Bole, they wanted to find out more about what the Voice of Rot was up to. Gupta made enquiries and her Vekeshi contacts enabled her to speak with folk who came close to something like ‘worship’ of the titan, without being devoted cultists like Ochrin and Katlin Eisner. Their numbers had swelled in recent years, since the titan had awoken – galvanised in part by fear of the monstrous death serpent. Now they lamented (some with obvious ambiguity) that the subtle, seductive whispers from the swamp had abruptly ceased. Uriel, meanwhile, took advantage of the clear skies over Bole to induce a skyseer vision. He saw a robed woman with a fiery blade fighting a gigantic serpent on a silver ring, then the vision was torn apart before his eyes.</p><p></p><p>Messages from Slate called Korrigan away that night; the nation needed a firm hand on the tiller and the presence of its head of state. Without their monarch, the unit headed into High Bayou. They found no sign of the titan’s presence, but when they came to the site of the Ziggurat of Apet they found that the structure had vanished entirely. Uriel used location loresight and determined that, in the wake of the Great Eclipse, the portal here had linked with the new plane, Baden (in the same way that the Ziggurat of Av had linked to Jiese). He then saw that the Voice of Rot had slithered into the Ziggurat and through the portal – an impossible squeeze for such a gigantic creature – before causing the entire structure to sink deep into the swamp. </p><p> </p><p>While Uriel conducted his ritual, the others caught sight of a glowing, ghostly figure through the trees. They approached cautiously, and found the spirit of an orc, dressed in the garb of an ancient shaman, crouched against the base of a tree, drinking a beverage from a vessel with a salt-encrusted rim. The spirit was not hostile, but they could not understand him, nor he them, until Uriel was done, and was finally able to employ his fluency in the Ancient tongue. The orc was Toteth Topec, original architect of the Axis Seal ritual, summoned here by the disruption of the seal. They asked Toteth how they could undo what had been done. He told them they would need to find eight safe worlds to link to, worlds that didn’t have hostile forces that could invade. (Ancient orcs did all the hard work fighting invaders, and Toteth was kind of disappointed that humans had ended up taking over most of the world.) These worlds would need a proper balance of energies – air, earth, fire, water, life, death, space, and time – with the appropriate traits. (A bad mix could make made the world uninhabitable or completely remove free will. It took the orcs years to find the right worlds, because they had to journey to each on foot. It was easier to travel between planes back then; kids these days wouldn’t appreciate it.) Toteth also told them that the golden seal itself linked the world to a star. (Back in his day, you see, there wasn’t a sun (hence the darkvison). He came up with the idea of having one! Well, alright, he saw it on another plane and thought it was a good idea. It kept the monsters away for half the day. Toteth slightly regretted that his new world of light may have given humanity the edge it needed to supplant his own civilization.) Toteth said that the energy which awoke him suggested that the seal had been ‘ripped apart’ and that the absence of one plane (for he could not sense Av) made it seem unlikely that things had gone according to plan.</p><p></p><p>They bade him farewell, and as a parting gift, he shared with them the recipe for his favourite beverage – a long-lost orcish drink called the margarita.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7510362, member: 79141"] [b]Session 200, Part One - Toteth Topec[/b] [B]DM's Note: Regular readers should not worry that I have skipped one-hundred-and-thirty episodes. I realised just before the last session that we finished our original run on session 130, and with this being session 70 of the reboot, we were now at a landmark 200th session. I decided that this would be an appropriate point to switch our count back to 'total sessions played' rather than 'reboot sessions played'.[/B] [I]Whosoever ventures near, Be forewarned that Death lives here. If you should note the smell of death, Then soon shall come your final breath.[/I] Before they left Bole, they wanted to find out more about what the Voice of Rot was up to. Gupta made enquiries and her Vekeshi contacts enabled her to speak with folk who came close to something like ‘worship’ of the titan, without being devoted cultists like Ochrin and Katlin Eisner. Their numbers had swelled in recent years, since the titan had awoken – galvanised in part by fear of the monstrous death serpent. Now they lamented (some with obvious ambiguity) that the subtle, seductive whispers from the swamp had abruptly ceased. Uriel, meanwhile, took advantage of the clear skies over Bole to induce a skyseer vision. He saw a robed woman with a fiery blade fighting a gigantic serpent on a silver ring, then the vision was torn apart before his eyes. Messages from Slate called Korrigan away that night; the nation needed a firm hand on the tiller and the presence of its head of state. Without their monarch, the unit headed into High Bayou. They found no sign of the titan’s presence, but when they came to the site of the Ziggurat of Apet they found that the structure had vanished entirely. Uriel used location loresight and determined that, in the wake of the Great Eclipse, the portal here had linked with the new plane, Baden (in the same way that the Ziggurat of Av had linked to Jiese). He then saw that the Voice of Rot had slithered into the Ziggurat and through the portal – an impossible squeeze for such a gigantic creature – before causing the entire structure to sink deep into the swamp. While Uriel conducted his ritual, the others caught sight of a glowing, ghostly figure through the trees. They approached cautiously, and found the spirit of an orc, dressed in the garb of an ancient shaman, crouched against the base of a tree, drinking a beverage from a vessel with a salt-encrusted rim. The spirit was not hostile, but they could not understand him, nor he them, until Uriel was done, and was finally able to employ his fluency in the Ancient tongue. The orc was Toteth Topec, original architect of the Axis Seal ritual, summoned here by the disruption of the seal. They asked Toteth how they could undo what had been done. He told them they would need to find eight safe worlds to link to, worlds that didn’t have hostile forces that could invade. (Ancient orcs did all the hard work fighting invaders, and Toteth was kind of disappointed that humans had ended up taking over most of the world.) These worlds would need a proper balance of energies – air, earth, fire, water, life, death, space, and time – with the appropriate traits. (A bad mix could make made the world uninhabitable or completely remove free will. It took the orcs years to find the right worlds, because they had to journey to each on foot. It was easier to travel between planes back then; kids these days wouldn’t appreciate it.) Toteth also told them that the golden seal itself linked the world to a star. (Back in his day, you see, there wasn’t a sun (hence the darkvison). He came up with the idea of having one! Well, alright, he saw it on another plane and thought it was a good idea. It kept the monsters away for half the day. Toteth slightly regretted that his new world of light may have given humanity the edge it needed to supplant his own civilization.) Toteth said that the energy which awoke him suggested that the seal had been ‘ripped apart’ and that the absence of one plane (for he could not sense Av) made it seem unlikely that things had gone according to plan. They bade him farewell, and as a parting gift, he shared with them the recipe for his favourite beverage – a long-lost orcish drink called the margarita. [/QUOTE]
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