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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7613891" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 227, Part One</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Turning, turning…</strong></p><p></p><p>To the outside observer, to crowds gathered at the foot of the hill watching their departure, the Coaltongue behaved in much the same way as Weary Enid’s whale had done when the Gyre reached its zenith: moved suddenly upwards, impossibly fast, and then vanished; a smooth, silent, mysterious transition.</p><p></p><p>But for those on board it was truly terrifying – from calm to chaos in a deafening instant. They found themselves flying upwards in a funnel of swirling thunderheads, where lightning spiralled and lashed like a living thing. Within moments winds stronger than a hurricane threatened to keel over the ship; anything loose was stripped away and carried off; any debris that was torn free exploded when it touched the inner edge of the storm funnel. The ship’s strange mascot, Sparklehorse, seemed strangely at home here and flew loops around the deck like an excited puppy.</p><p></p><p>Miles away, overhead, the funnel seemed to terminate in darkness, and minute by minute that black void grew closer. Uru and Uriel could see thousands of ghosts rising up with the ship.</p><p></p><p>They took up their stations, and struggled to ensure the safety of the Coaltongue and its crew. Admiral Smith gave command over to King Baldrey; Uru headed belowdecks to lead the engineers; Rumdoom and his entourage went to the gun deck to secure the armaments as the ship was tossed and buffeted; Leon created portals to enable the crew to move easily from place to place; Gupta gave expert aid to whoever needed it most; Quratulain and Uriel acted as lookouts to warn of incoming danger.</p><p></p><p>That pairing did not last long: before they even got in place a huge chunk of debris torn loose from the summit of Cauldron Hill smashed into the rearmost starboard arcane levitational and rendered it inoperable. Uriel immediately moved to raise up that section of the ship with telekinesis, leaving Quratulain as sole lookout. This was not a simple matter of keeping watch for flying objects, but of identifying and alerting the crew to pockets of rapidly shifting turbulence, of which there were few visual clues other than the drift of dust and debris in a storm that was constantly flashing with disorienting lightning. Quratulain was ideally suited to this task, however – able to calculate the movements of the storm in an instant and apply a predictive model to them. With her help, Korrigan was able to navigate the planar rift safely, without any more damage being caused to the ship, even as the storm grew even more powerful closer to the dark end of the vortex.</p><p></p><p>Amielle Latimer then shouted a warning: Here, amid the strobing flashes of lightning, thousands of ghosts became visible, hanging in the air. Until this moment they had been aimless, but as they became aware of the party’s ship, they begin to groan in unison, “Ship! Escape! Escape!” And so the ghosts swarmed the ship, engulfing it like a vast amoeba.</p><p></p><p>While unit and their more capable allies – Bhalu, Amielle, Matunaaga’s children and Ayesha – were able to fend off the ghosts, the same could not be said of the rest of the crew. Although the best of the best had been chosen for this mission, they were still ordinary people. Korrigan did his best to bolster their resolve, enabling all who could hear him to resist the baleful touch of the ghosts just a little bit longer, but they needed to rid the ship of the infestation before too many lives were lost.</p><p></p><p>Their initial attempts were lacklustre. The ghosts were not easy to fight. They tugged and pulled and molested all those who sought to repel them. Down in the engine room, Uru used Little Jack’s force-field to shield the engineers, and then hid. Uriel warded the ghosts off as best he could, while trying to maintain his telekinetic hold on the ship. On the gundeck Rumdoom did his best to protect his retinue, but other crewmen elsewhere on the ship were being attacked and injured.</p><p></p><p>Quratulain led the way with her lantern blaster, single-handedly turning the course of the conflict, ripping through the ghostly hordes on the main deck, and obliterating half a dozen of them. Leon teleported into the capacitor and used the magic weaponry to forestall the approach of other swarms. The ghosts found him and dragged him back out, but he teleported back in again.</p><p></p><p>For the second time in recent days, Korrigan unleashed the Symbol of the Sun, causing the ghost swarms to quail. Then Quratulain tore into them again, and all of a sudden the main deck was clear.</p><p></p><p>In the engine room, from hiding, Uru unleashed a rapid-fire volley of shuriken, empowered by his ghostly entourage bracelet, and took out half of the ghosts in the engine room. Then he hid again. With no visible targets, as the engineers were shielded by a force-field, the rest of the ghosts swarmed upwards through the bulkhead. Uru used his ability to phase through man-made objects, reloaded, and killed that ghost swarm too.</p><p></p><p>Leon teleported Quratulain down to the gundeck, to lend her firepower to Rumdoom, whose attacks weren’t doing as much as they might against these ethereal foes (although, in fairness, they hadn’t done much harm to him either). She cleared the gundeck too, and Gupta and Korrigan used their magical swords to find out where other crew were in danger, racing there as fast as they could.</p><p></p><p>Flying along the passageways, Korrigan arrived first, and used his radiant, healing power to restore the injured crew. Then Uru arrived and put paid to the last of the ghosts. </p><p></p><p>They had lost five crew members, but there was no time to mark their passing. No sooner had the ghosts been dealt with, another threat presented itself: The roar of the storm cut out in an instant and all at once up was down, and down was up. Having passed through the vortex, the ship now plummeted toward a midnight black reflection of Cauldron Hill and the city of Flint. Pemberton’s levitational components were not designed to function while upside down, and the ship could not arrest its fall until it was righted.</p><p></p><p>Quick-thinking as ever, Leon used oil from the pocket plane ‘Walking on Sunshine’ which enabled those close by to choose their own orientation of gravity. All hands were ordered to emergency stations, and Uru was able to compensate for the missing crew with his ghostly entourage. He shadow-stepped back to the engine room, adjusted the ship’s flight profile and recalibrated the levitationals. Then Korrigan gave orders to the crew to fire the starboard guns, while pulling on the levitational discs with all their might.</p><p></p><p>Just in the nick of time, the ship flipped over, slowed its descent, and swept across the gloomy analogue of Flint, towards Cauldron Hill. The crew gave an almighty cheer, Admiral Smith clapped King Baldrey on the back, and Uru took wee sip of charged witchoil from his hip flask. (He found the little screams invigorating, and the ghosts simply joined the others swirling around inside of him and made themselves at home.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7613891, member: 79141"] [b]Session 227, Part One[/b] [B]Turning, turning…[/B] To the outside observer, to crowds gathered at the foot of the hill watching their departure, the Coaltongue behaved in much the same way as Weary Enid’s whale had done when the Gyre reached its zenith: moved suddenly upwards, impossibly fast, and then vanished; a smooth, silent, mysterious transition. But for those on board it was truly terrifying – from calm to chaos in a deafening instant. They found themselves flying upwards in a funnel of swirling thunderheads, where lightning spiralled and lashed like a living thing. Within moments winds stronger than a hurricane threatened to keel over the ship; anything loose was stripped away and carried off; any debris that was torn free exploded when it touched the inner edge of the storm funnel. The ship’s strange mascot, Sparklehorse, seemed strangely at home here and flew loops around the deck like an excited puppy. Miles away, overhead, the funnel seemed to terminate in darkness, and minute by minute that black void grew closer. Uru and Uriel could see thousands of ghosts rising up with the ship. They took up their stations, and struggled to ensure the safety of the Coaltongue and its crew. Admiral Smith gave command over to King Baldrey; Uru headed belowdecks to lead the engineers; Rumdoom and his entourage went to the gun deck to secure the armaments as the ship was tossed and buffeted; Leon created portals to enable the crew to move easily from place to place; Gupta gave expert aid to whoever needed it most; Quratulain and Uriel acted as lookouts to warn of incoming danger. That pairing did not last long: before they even got in place a huge chunk of debris torn loose from the summit of Cauldron Hill smashed into the rearmost starboard arcane levitational and rendered it inoperable. Uriel immediately moved to raise up that section of the ship with telekinesis, leaving Quratulain as sole lookout. This was not a simple matter of keeping watch for flying objects, but of identifying and alerting the crew to pockets of rapidly shifting turbulence, of which there were few visual clues other than the drift of dust and debris in a storm that was constantly flashing with disorienting lightning. Quratulain was ideally suited to this task, however – able to calculate the movements of the storm in an instant and apply a predictive model to them. With her help, Korrigan was able to navigate the planar rift safely, without any more damage being caused to the ship, even as the storm grew even more powerful closer to the dark end of the vortex. Amielle Latimer then shouted a warning: Here, amid the strobing flashes of lightning, thousands of ghosts became visible, hanging in the air. Until this moment they had been aimless, but as they became aware of the party’s ship, they begin to groan in unison, “Ship! Escape! Escape!” And so the ghosts swarmed the ship, engulfing it like a vast amoeba. While unit and their more capable allies – Bhalu, Amielle, Matunaaga’s children and Ayesha – were able to fend off the ghosts, the same could not be said of the rest of the crew. Although the best of the best had been chosen for this mission, they were still ordinary people. Korrigan did his best to bolster their resolve, enabling all who could hear him to resist the baleful touch of the ghosts just a little bit longer, but they needed to rid the ship of the infestation before too many lives were lost. Their initial attempts were lacklustre. The ghosts were not easy to fight. They tugged and pulled and molested all those who sought to repel them. Down in the engine room, Uru used Little Jack’s force-field to shield the engineers, and then hid. Uriel warded the ghosts off as best he could, while trying to maintain his telekinetic hold on the ship. On the gundeck Rumdoom did his best to protect his retinue, but other crewmen elsewhere on the ship were being attacked and injured. Quratulain led the way with her lantern blaster, single-handedly turning the course of the conflict, ripping through the ghostly hordes on the main deck, and obliterating half a dozen of them. Leon teleported into the capacitor and used the magic weaponry to forestall the approach of other swarms. The ghosts found him and dragged him back out, but he teleported back in again. For the second time in recent days, Korrigan unleashed the Symbol of the Sun, causing the ghost swarms to quail. Then Quratulain tore into them again, and all of a sudden the main deck was clear. In the engine room, from hiding, Uru unleashed a rapid-fire volley of shuriken, empowered by his ghostly entourage bracelet, and took out half of the ghosts in the engine room. Then he hid again. With no visible targets, as the engineers were shielded by a force-field, the rest of the ghosts swarmed upwards through the bulkhead. Uru used his ability to phase through man-made objects, reloaded, and killed that ghost swarm too. Leon teleported Quratulain down to the gundeck, to lend her firepower to Rumdoom, whose attacks weren’t doing as much as they might against these ethereal foes (although, in fairness, they hadn’t done much harm to him either). She cleared the gundeck too, and Gupta and Korrigan used their magical swords to find out where other crew were in danger, racing there as fast as they could. Flying along the passageways, Korrigan arrived first, and used his radiant, healing power to restore the injured crew. Then Uru arrived and put paid to the last of the ghosts. They had lost five crew members, but there was no time to mark their passing. No sooner had the ghosts been dealt with, another threat presented itself: The roar of the storm cut out in an instant and all at once up was down, and down was up. Having passed through the vortex, the ship now plummeted toward a midnight black reflection of Cauldron Hill and the city of Flint. Pemberton’s levitational components were not designed to function while upside down, and the ship could not arrest its fall until it was righted. Quick-thinking as ever, Leon used oil from the pocket plane ‘Walking on Sunshine’ which enabled those close by to choose their own orientation of gravity. All hands were ordered to emergency stations, and Uru was able to compensate for the missing crew with his ghostly entourage. He shadow-stepped back to the engine room, adjusted the ship’s flight profile and recalibrated the levitationals. Then Korrigan gave orders to the crew to fire the starboard guns, while pulling on the levitational discs with all their might. Just in the nick of time, the ship flipped over, slowed its descent, and swept across the gloomy analogue of Flint, towards Cauldron Hill. The crew gave an almighty cheer, Admiral Smith clapped King Baldrey on the back, and Uru took wee sip of charged witchoil from his hip flask. (He found the little screams invigorating, and the ghosts simply joined the others swirling around inside of him and made themselves at home.) [/QUOTE]
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