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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7539540" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 209, Part Two - Aerial Dogfight</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>We will have to wait until the New Year to find out! Meanwhile, here's the final session report of 2018, featuring an encounter not found in the published adventure:</strong></p><p></p><p> Amielle, on permanent lookout, reported unusual activity up ahead in the darkness. They were over the Anthras by now – about a thousand feet up. She could see flashing blue lights and erratic movement. They joined her at the prow and agreed that this should be investigated, suggesting to Admiral Smith that he slow the vessel for now, while they launched the dragon fliers.</p><p></p><p>There was by now a cadre of pilots who had been put through their paces in these new-fangled craft. They would fly, leaving Gupta, Uriel and Korrigan free to respond to anything they encountered. (A fourth flier would be occupied by two airmen.) The king addressed them all with a rousing speech before they embarked, and they responded with enthusiasm. It was suggested that Smith charge the brand, just in case.</p><p></p><p>Out they went. For a while they couldn’t see anything, then all of a sudden there was movement - a crackling, powder-blue and white streak that came out of nowhere, clipped the fourth flier in a shower of sparks, and sped on in the direction of the Coaltongue. The pilot was stunned and slumped at the controls, but Uriel held the craft in the air with his mental powers. They had fitted each flier with a radio, and let the ship know something had got past them.</p><p></p><p>Another electric blue form appeared, and Korrigan shouted a warning to his pilot, who steered clear in the nick of time. Gupta thought she saw a shape within it – something like an animal, maybe. Two more could be seen up ahead, moving in tight corkscrews, as if they were fleeing something. And there it was – a translucent blob just behind them: a hivemind! This one was comprised of hysterical laughter. Gupta urged her pilot closer than he might have liked and thought it solid.</p><p></p><p>Uriel couldn’t get close enough to the fourth flier to help the pilot so he came up with a plan for some telekinetic juggling which he explained to the ‘spotter’ in the rear – he was about to be promoted! He let go of the flier for long enough to lift up the recumbent pilot so the spotter could wriggle into his place and take the controls. Then he lowered the pilot into the rear seat and let go. “Get him back to the Coaltongue,” he said. “And watch out for more hiveminds.”</p><p></p><p>By now Korrigan had got his flier into position to open fire on the hivemind. Solid, the autocannon tore into it, and it assailed their minds in response. He told the pilot to fire again, and this time he tore the thing to shreds.</p><p></p><p>A report from the Coaltongue: they could see the two lightning things closing in on them. They were being pursued by a second hivemind. Fearing what they might do if they came into contact with a metal ship, Amielle shot at one of them and it fizzled out. The hivemind grabbed the other and absorbed it. Gupta veered back to help. The hivemind loomed over the deck. Marines fired at it uselessly. In their midst – Brakken, shielding them.</p><p></p><p>Then a third hivemind rose from below, catching the fliers unawares. This one was much larger, and it pulsated with fear. Gupta tried to think it solid and failed – this one was much more powerful than the others. It grabbed Uriel’s flier with a tendril, but he whispered a prayer and ‘undid’ this, slipping out of its grasp after all. Things were getting desperate. “Xambria,” he urged. “A little help here?” </p><p></p><p>“I thought you’d never ask,” she said.</p><p></p><p>With Xambria’s aid, Uriel felt that he could deal with the large hivemind and lure it away from the Coaltongue. He used telepathy to get its attention and it followed.</p><p></p><p>Gupta and Korrigan closed on the smaller hivemind. Korrigan thought it solid as he flew past and it fell onto the deck, where it thrashed about under heavy carbine fire. Keen to deal with it quickly, Korrigan jumped off his flier and fell towards it. Gupta turned her flier in a tight, risky arc and was suddenly clipped by one of the electric blue things that were still spiralling around the Coaltongue. It exploded when it hit and vanished, but both she and her pilot were knocked out cold. Seeing this, Korrigan transformed into a bolt of Avilona (or should that be Perlocus?), grabbed the pilot (who he realised was dead) and pulled him out of his seat, taking control of the flier himself.</p><p></p><p>The huge hivemind had caught up with Uriel’s dragon-flier and absorbed it entirely. Uriel thought it solid and it began to plummet with him inside it! All the while it assailed him and his pilot with terror. His pilot soon succumbed, his mind collapsing in on itself, but with Xambria’s help, Uriel resisted. Unable to swing his sword, he unleashed the power of the Staff of the Hierophant, and a beam of radiant light burst out of the flank of amorphous mass. He fired again, but was overcome by fear. He was exhausted too, so drew on the staff again to bolster himself and again thought the hivemind solid, keeping it like that as they fell. The Anthras mountains loomed large below. Still, Uriel fended off the power of the hivemind and held his nerve in more ways than one. Then, in the very nick of time, he became insubstantial himself, and flew out of the hivemind, leaving it to smash into the mountainside. They were down one dragon-flier (and two pilots) but at least the hivemind was no more.</p><p></p><p>Korrigan flew back to the ship, where Amielle and Matunaaga’s children (trained in psionic combat by the gith, and capable of thinking it solid, like the unit had been) had joined the fight against the smaller hivemind. Korrigan shouted back to Gupta and roused her. She could see that the hivemind had been more or less dealt with and so looked around for one of the electric blue forms. There was still one left, flitting about chaotically. She Stood in Wonder and realised that it was some kind of air spirit, with a child-like level of intelligence. Within the hazy blue-white light was a translucent form, with a head and front quarters something like a cross between a dog and a horse, though becoming indistinct, comet-like, to the rear. Korrigan spoke to it telepathically (he was becoming something of a dab hand at this now), and told it to be calm, that there was no more danger. But it continued to flit about haphazardly, until Kai came on deck and held out his hand. It drew slowly closer. </p><p></p><p>“It is lost,” said Kai. “And now it is alone. It is afraid, and very sorry to have lost its friends.”</p><p></p><p>Uriel rejoined the ship. To his astonishment (and everyone else’s) he could not identify this creature. It must have been entirely new to Lanjyr. He asked it how it came to be here, but it couldn’t answer questions like that. Kai asked if they could keep it, as it had nowhere else to go. Admiral Smith said that the ship needed a mascot. The Impossible had had Silky, a sea spirit. But what would they call this? Cloudy? Sparky?</p><p></p><p>Korrigan asked the creature what it ate. The reply came, rainbows. Uriel was about to summon a storm to produce one, until Xambria gave a slightly impatient cough and suggested he use a prism. So he conjured one (this was a far better idea, after all) and used it to split magical light. Sure enough, the air spirit played about in the beams and absorbed them!</p><p></p><p>Back to more serious matters. Korrigan wanted to send the other fliers down to look for wreckage or bodies, but was told that it was futile at this height. They would hold a funeral service for the fallen.</p><p></p><p>Over the next few hours, they spotted more hiveminds in the distance. One or two drifted close enough to pose a threat and were dealt with at range by Amielle and others. They seemed to be drifting on a current of some sort, but they wouldn’t be buffeted by winds, would they? There were insubstantial. All seemed to be heading westwards. “Towards Ursalina?” Uriel pondered aloud. (After all, Ashima Shimtu had sensed an ‘alien presence’ there, and the same beneath the Cold Claw Sea, and that had turned out to be a hivemind powerful enough to subsume the deep ones.)</p><p></p><p>Time would tell. Meantime, they dispatched a sending to Vlendham Heid, requesting an update. There was no reply.</p><p></p><p>More disturbing still, there was also no reply from Uru!</p><p></p><p><strong>End of Session</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Only three players in this week. This encounter filled the gap, advanced the story - forshadowing a turn of events I plan to use to up the ante in Ursalina - and gave the players the chance to dust off the dragon-fliers. Fun times.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Have a great Christmas, y'all!</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7539540, member: 79141"] [b]Session 209, Part Two - Aerial Dogfight[/b] [B]We will have to wait until the New Year to find out! Meanwhile, here's the final session report of 2018, featuring an encounter not found in the published adventure:[/B] Amielle, on permanent lookout, reported unusual activity up ahead in the darkness. They were over the Anthras by now – about a thousand feet up. She could see flashing blue lights and erratic movement. They joined her at the prow and agreed that this should be investigated, suggesting to Admiral Smith that he slow the vessel for now, while they launched the dragon fliers. There was by now a cadre of pilots who had been put through their paces in these new-fangled craft. They would fly, leaving Gupta, Uriel and Korrigan free to respond to anything they encountered. (A fourth flier would be occupied by two airmen.) The king addressed them all with a rousing speech before they embarked, and they responded with enthusiasm. It was suggested that Smith charge the brand, just in case. Out they went. For a while they couldn’t see anything, then all of a sudden there was movement - a crackling, powder-blue and white streak that came out of nowhere, clipped the fourth flier in a shower of sparks, and sped on in the direction of the Coaltongue. The pilot was stunned and slumped at the controls, but Uriel held the craft in the air with his mental powers. They had fitted each flier with a radio, and let the ship know something had got past them. Another electric blue form appeared, and Korrigan shouted a warning to his pilot, who steered clear in the nick of time. Gupta thought she saw a shape within it – something like an animal, maybe. Two more could be seen up ahead, moving in tight corkscrews, as if they were fleeing something. And there it was – a translucent blob just behind them: a hivemind! This one was comprised of hysterical laughter. Gupta urged her pilot closer than he might have liked and thought it solid. Uriel couldn’t get close enough to the fourth flier to help the pilot so he came up with a plan for some telekinetic juggling which he explained to the ‘spotter’ in the rear – he was about to be promoted! He let go of the flier for long enough to lift up the recumbent pilot so the spotter could wriggle into his place and take the controls. Then he lowered the pilot into the rear seat and let go. “Get him back to the Coaltongue,” he said. “And watch out for more hiveminds.” By now Korrigan had got his flier into position to open fire on the hivemind. Solid, the autocannon tore into it, and it assailed their minds in response. He told the pilot to fire again, and this time he tore the thing to shreds. A report from the Coaltongue: they could see the two lightning things closing in on them. They were being pursued by a second hivemind. Fearing what they might do if they came into contact with a metal ship, Amielle shot at one of them and it fizzled out. The hivemind grabbed the other and absorbed it. Gupta veered back to help. The hivemind loomed over the deck. Marines fired at it uselessly. In their midst – Brakken, shielding them. Then a third hivemind rose from below, catching the fliers unawares. This one was much larger, and it pulsated with fear. Gupta tried to think it solid and failed – this one was much more powerful than the others. It grabbed Uriel’s flier with a tendril, but he whispered a prayer and ‘undid’ this, slipping out of its grasp after all. Things were getting desperate. “Xambria,” he urged. “A little help here?” “I thought you’d never ask,” she said. With Xambria’s aid, Uriel felt that he could deal with the large hivemind and lure it away from the Coaltongue. He used telepathy to get its attention and it followed. Gupta and Korrigan closed on the smaller hivemind. Korrigan thought it solid as he flew past and it fell onto the deck, where it thrashed about under heavy carbine fire. Keen to deal with it quickly, Korrigan jumped off his flier and fell towards it. Gupta turned her flier in a tight, risky arc and was suddenly clipped by one of the electric blue things that were still spiralling around the Coaltongue. It exploded when it hit and vanished, but both she and her pilot were knocked out cold. Seeing this, Korrigan transformed into a bolt of Avilona (or should that be Perlocus?), grabbed the pilot (who he realised was dead) and pulled him out of his seat, taking control of the flier himself. The huge hivemind had caught up with Uriel’s dragon-flier and absorbed it entirely. Uriel thought it solid and it began to plummet with him inside it! All the while it assailed him and his pilot with terror. His pilot soon succumbed, his mind collapsing in on itself, but with Xambria’s help, Uriel resisted. Unable to swing his sword, he unleashed the power of the Staff of the Hierophant, and a beam of radiant light burst out of the flank of amorphous mass. He fired again, but was overcome by fear. He was exhausted too, so drew on the staff again to bolster himself and again thought the hivemind solid, keeping it like that as they fell. The Anthras mountains loomed large below. Still, Uriel fended off the power of the hivemind and held his nerve in more ways than one. Then, in the very nick of time, he became insubstantial himself, and flew out of the hivemind, leaving it to smash into the mountainside. They were down one dragon-flier (and two pilots) but at least the hivemind was no more. Korrigan flew back to the ship, where Amielle and Matunaaga’s children (trained in psionic combat by the gith, and capable of thinking it solid, like the unit had been) had joined the fight against the smaller hivemind. Korrigan shouted back to Gupta and roused her. She could see that the hivemind had been more or less dealt with and so looked around for one of the electric blue forms. There was still one left, flitting about chaotically. She Stood in Wonder and realised that it was some kind of air spirit, with a child-like level of intelligence. Within the hazy blue-white light was a translucent form, with a head and front quarters something like a cross between a dog and a horse, though becoming indistinct, comet-like, to the rear. Korrigan spoke to it telepathically (he was becoming something of a dab hand at this now), and told it to be calm, that there was no more danger. But it continued to flit about haphazardly, until Kai came on deck and held out his hand. It drew slowly closer. “It is lost,” said Kai. “And now it is alone. It is afraid, and very sorry to have lost its friends.” Uriel rejoined the ship. To his astonishment (and everyone else’s) he could not identify this creature. It must have been entirely new to Lanjyr. He asked it how it came to be here, but it couldn’t answer questions like that. Kai asked if they could keep it, as it had nowhere else to go. Admiral Smith said that the ship needed a mascot. The Impossible had had Silky, a sea spirit. But what would they call this? Cloudy? Sparky? Korrigan asked the creature what it ate. The reply came, rainbows. Uriel was about to summon a storm to produce one, until Xambria gave a slightly impatient cough and suggested he use a prism. So he conjured one (this was a far better idea, after all) and used it to split magical light. Sure enough, the air spirit played about in the beams and absorbed them! Back to more serious matters. Korrigan wanted to send the other fliers down to look for wreckage or bodies, but was told that it was futile at this height. They would hold a funeral service for the fallen. Over the next few hours, they spotted more hiveminds in the distance. One or two drifted close enough to pose a threat and were dealt with at range by Amielle and others. They seemed to be drifting on a current of some sort, but they wouldn’t be buffeted by winds, would they? There were insubstantial. All seemed to be heading westwards. “Towards Ursalina?” Uriel pondered aloud. (After all, Ashima Shimtu had sensed an ‘alien presence’ there, and the same beneath the Cold Claw Sea, and that had turned out to be a hivemind powerful enough to subsume the deep ones.) Time would tell. Meantime, they dispatched a sending to Vlendham Heid, requesting an update. There was no reply. More disturbing still, there was also no reply from Uru! [B]End of Session[/B] [B]Only three players in this week. This encounter filled the gap, advanced the story - forshadowing a turn of events I plan to use to up the ante in Ursalina - and gave the players the chance to dust off the dragon-fliers. Fun times. Have a great Christmas, y'all![/B] [/QUOTE]
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