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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7810821" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 237, Part One</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>The Mysteries of Mavisha</strong></p><p></p><p>Searching for a way to effectively bond with Mavisha, they flew across the surface of the sea, heading towards the nearest unexplored island. On the way they flew over an atoll where a small group of fishmen were clustered over the carcass of a sea creature. Once again, the fishmen raised their heads and ululated at the Coaltongue.</p><p></p><p>The unit decided they might be worth talking to and flew down on stone discs. As they approached, half the fishmen dived into the water. Four stood their ground for a moment until one by one they jumped in too, with the last one to go throwing a futile spear in warning.</p><p></p><p>Korrigan shifted into his aquatic form and went in after them, with Uriel following in the form of a great sea turtle. They tried to make it obvious that they weren’t giving pursuit; just hung in the water as though curious. Gradually, the fishmen returned to cautiously circle around them. Then Korrigan reach out telepathically and had a rudimentary conversation with them. He asked if they had had any problems lately (beside the obvious, imminent end of their world with they may or may not have been aware of). The fishmen said ‘not in our village, but in those that way’ (gesturing north-east). It seemed that a malevolent force had lured the fishmen from their dwelling places and left them entirely empty. Gupta wondered if there might be aboleth here. Perhaps this was where they originally came from?</p><p></p><p>So they travelled north-east, and experienced a sinking feeling when they consulted their chart: to the north-east, Mavisha shared a border with Shabboath, where the fearful savants had lurked. So they sailed high over the cluster of islands and travelled to where the two planes almost touched, taking the Coaltongue down to see if there was any kind of connection. All they saw was a mist-shrouded cluster of floating rocks – not an uncommon sight in the Gyre. But as they drew nearer, Leon’s truesight revealed this to be an illusion which disguised an immense, two-hundred-foot long, waxy tunnel, joining Shabboath with Mavisha.</p><p></p><p>“I’ll fire up the Tyrant’s Eye!” Uru declared, eagerly, until Korrigan asked him to wait: the tunnel could be easily rebuilt if they didn’t find the savant, and that might be harder if it was spooked. A quick check revealed no guardians here. Uriel invoked the <em>detect planar energies</em> ritual given to them by the Voice of Rot. He used it to trace Shabboath energy from the tunnel, through the water, back to the largest island at the centre of a cluster they had passed over.</p><p></p><p>No one wanted to tangle with the strange savants again. But none of the other water planes had been suitable, Uriel reminded them. (Uru nodded his approval, as retaining Mavisha appealed to his innate conservatism; he was glad to see the others were coming round.) Rumdoom, however, was having none of it. He and Hildegaard had counselled against poking around in Shabboath, and the unit had ended up fleeing the lightless depths. Hildegaard wanted nothing more to do with psychic sea-creatures. They would remain on the Coaltongue. In preparation, Uriel cast the powerful <em>foresight</em> spell he had picked up on Padyer, which would improve his chances of defeating the dangerous savant.</p><p></p><p>The others headed down to the surface on stone discs. On the beach they found exhausted, dying fishmen and, now close, Leon penetrated a vast illusion concealing another waxy structure: this one a great tower, crawling with fishmen who appeared to be molding it. Many of their corpses littered the beach at the foot of the tower, having fallen from a great height; the others had died from exhaustion. Uriel cast truesight too, and together he and Leon established that the sigils covering this tower were capable of greatly magnifying psychic energies. Fortunately, it was not yet finished.</p><p></p><p>Uriel reached out telepathically to see what was controlling the fishmen. At once, he sensed that this might have been a mistake – the dominating mind gazed back as he did so, and their presence was now revealed. </p><p></p><p>At once the sea behind them erupted and huge tentacles swept the beach: a dominated kraken, flailing its tentacles in defence of its master. Ducking and dodging, they ran for the entrance to the tower, where Uriel was convinced they would find the savant. Korrigan was struck, grabbed and squeezed.</p><p></p><p>Hidden up front, running through shadows towards the tower, Uru noticed a fishman walk out of the tower with incongruous calm. It strolled straight past him (hidden as he was) and headed towards Uriel, who was close behind and distracted by the thrashing kraken. There was something very odd about this fishman. Perhaps a hint of luminescence too? It raised an arm to touch the deva, who whirled the Staff of the Hierophant in defence. Uru took a careful shot, straight through the fishman’s neck. In vanished in an instant, leaving behind a psychic residue which Uriel recognised: a schistic projection!</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Leon teleported Korrigan out of the grasp of the kraken and cursed the creature; Quratulain shot it with her lantern blaster set to ‘shrink ray’ and reduced it to the size of a mere squid. It could no longer threaten them from the shoreline.</p><p></p><p>Freed up, they ran into the tower. The whole structure was filled with water! The ‘entrance’ simply a force-field that held the water in place but allowed the fishmen to come and go. Within, the tower was entirely hollow, curved and smooth and covered in similar sigils to those outside. Dead fishmen floated in the water, worked to death.</p><p></p><p>A huge, alien form detached itself from the wall of the tower and headed down into a channel above which the tower had been built: the savant, in the flesh. As it went, it summoned a swirl of tiny elementals that churned up the water and tore up the corpses. Korrigan and Gupta were caught up in this maelstrom. Quratulain miscalculated her response and attacked with a Vekeshi Blade, which did no good whatsoever.</p><p></p><p>Uru dodged the elemental chum swarm, and ranged ahead on Little Jack, who had been fitted with a propeller for aquatic work. Although he could not hope to catch the fast-moving savant, he was able to use a magic item he had found in the tower on Padyer – a hunter’s charm, which meant he was able to know the savant’s location and direction of travel.</p><p></p><p>Leon used oil of Urim in the Wayfarer’s Lantern to protect them all from harm. They had a quick telepathic conference – all the while buffeted by the chum swarm – before they decided to pursue the savant. Leon created dimensions doors to expedite their flight; Quratulain lobbed grenades behind them, putting paid to the swarm.</p><p></p><p>The tunnel, which had clearly been excavated at this end, wound down through the island for many hundreds of feet. The water became very dark and cold. Eventually it gave out onto the open ocean. Uru sensed that the savant was headed in the direction of the waxy tube.</p><p></p><p>They teleported to the tube and discussed the prospect of ambushing the creature. In the end, they decided to take no chances. They called in the Coaltongue, teleported onto it, disguised the vessel with roiling stormclouds, charged the brand and waited.</p><p></p><p>When Uru told them that the savant had entered the tube, they fired the brand, killing the savant instantly and blasting it into open space. Then they returned to the island and destroyed the psionic amplifier in the same way, before attempting to bond with Mavisha once again.</p><p></p><p>Success!</p><p></p><p>“That,” said Calily, as the set off again, “was truly impressive.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7810821, member: 79141"] [B]Session 237, Part One The Mysteries of Mavisha[/B] Searching for a way to effectively bond with Mavisha, they flew across the surface of the sea, heading towards the nearest unexplored island. On the way they flew over an atoll where a small group of fishmen were clustered over the carcass of a sea creature. Once again, the fishmen raised their heads and ululated at the Coaltongue. The unit decided they might be worth talking to and flew down on stone discs. As they approached, half the fishmen dived into the water. Four stood their ground for a moment until one by one they jumped in too, with the last one to go throwing a futile spear in warning. Korrigan shifted into his aquatic form and went in after them, with Uriel following in the form of a great sea turtle. They tried to make it obvious that they weren’t giving pursuit; just hung in the water as though curious. Gradually, the fishmen returned to cautiously circle around them. Then Korrigan reach out telepathically and had a rudimentary conversation with them. He asked if they had had any problems lately (beside the obvious, imminent end of their world with they may or may not have been aware of). The fishmen said ‘not in our village, but in those that way’ (gesturing north-east). It seemed that a malevolent force had lured the fishmen from their dwelling places and left them entirely empty. Gupta wondered if there might be aboleth here. Perhaps this was where they originally came from? So they travelled north-east, and experienced a sinking feeling when they consulted their chart: to the north-east, Mavisha shared a border with Shabboath, where the fearful savants had lurked. So they sailed high over the cluster of islands and travelled to where the two planes almost touched, taking the Coaltongue down to see if there was any kind of connection. All they saw was a mist-shrouded cluster of floating rocks – not an uncommon sight in the Gyre. But as they drew nearer, Leon’s truesight revealed this to be an illusion which disguised an immense, two-hundred-foot long, waxy tunnel, joining Shabboath with Mavisha. “I’ll fire up the Tyrant’s Eye!” Uru declared, eagerly, until Korrigan asked him to wait: the tunnel could be easily rebuilt if they didn’t find the savant, and that might be harder if it was spooked. A quick check revealed no guardians here. Uriel invoked the [I]detect planar energies[/I] ritual given to them by the Voice of Rot. He used it to trace Shabboath energy from the tunnel, through the water, back to the largest island at the centre of a cluster they had passed over. No one wanted to tangle with the strange savants again. But none of the other water planes had been suitable, Uriel reminded them. (Uru nodded his approval, as retaining Mavisha appealed to his innate conservatism; he was glad to see the others were coming round.) Rumdoom, however, was having none of it. He and Hildegaard had counselled against poking around in Shabboath, and the unit had ended up fleeing the lightless depths. Hildegaard wanted nothing more to do with psychic sea-creatures. They would remain on the Coaltongue. In preparation, Uriel cast the powerful [I]foresight[/I] spell he had picked up on Padyer, which would improve his chances of defeating the dangerous savant. The others headed down to the surface on stone discs. On the beach they found exhausted, dying fishmen and, now close, Leon penetrated a vast illusion concealing another waxy structure: this one a great tower, crawling with fishmen who appeared to be molding it. Many of their corpses littered the beach at the foot of the tower, having fallen from a great height; the others had died from exhaustion. Uriel cast truesight too, and together he and Leon established that the sigils covering this tower were capable of greatly magnifying psychic energies. Fortunately, it was not yet finished. Uriel reached out telepathically to see what was controlling the fishmen. At once, he sensed that this might have been a mistake – the dominating mind gazed back as he did so, and their presence was now revealed. At once the sea behind them erupted and huge tentacles swept the beach: a dominated kraken, flailing its tentacles in defence of its master. Ducking and dodging, they ran for the entrance to the tower, where Uriel was convinced they would find the savant. Korrigan was struck, grabbed and squeezed. Hidden up front, running through shadows towards the tower, Uru noticed a fishman walk out of the tower with incongruous calm. It strolled straight past him (hidden as he was) and headed towards Uriel, who was close behind and distracted by the thrashing kraken. There was something very odd about this fishman. Perhaps a hint of luminescence too? It raised an arm to touch the deva, who whirled the Staff of the Hierophant in defence. Uru took a careful shot, straight through the fishman’s neck. In vanished in an instant, leaving behind a psychic residue which Uriel recognised: a schistic projection! Meanwhile, Leon teleported Korrigan out of the grasp of the kraken and cursed the creature; Quratulain shot it with her lantern blaster set to ‘shrink ray’ and reduced it to the size of a mere squid. It could no longer threaten them from the shoreline. Freed up, they ran into the tower. The whole structure was filled with water! The ‘entrance’ simply a force-field that held the water in place but allowed the fishmen to come and go. Within, the tower was entirely hollow, curved and smooth and covered in similar sigils to those outside. Dead fishmen floated in the water, worked to death. A huge, alien form detached itself from the wall of the tower and headed down into a channel above which the tower had been built: the savant, in the flesh. As it went, it summoned a swirl of tiny elementals that churned up the water and tore up the corpses. Korrigan and Gupta were caught up in this maelstrom. Quratulain miscalculated her response and attacked with a Vekeshi Blade, which did no good whatsoever. Uru dodged the elemental chum swarm, and ranged ahead on Little Jack, who had been fitted with a propeller for aquatic work. Although he could not hope to catch the fast-moving savant, he was able to use a magic item he had found in the tower on Padyer – a hunter’s charm, which meant he was able to know the savant’s location and direction of travel. Leon used oil of Urim in the Wayfarer’s Lantern to protect them all from harm. They had a quick telepathic conference – all the while buffeted by the chum swarm – before they decided to pursue the savant. Leon created dimensions doors to expedite their flight; Quratulain lobbed grenades behind them, putting paid to the swarm. The tunnel, which had clearly been excavated at this end, wound down through the island for many hundreds of feet. The water became very dark and cold. Eventually it gave out onto the open ocean. Uru sensed that the savant was headed in the direction of the waxy tube. They teleported to the tube and discussed the prospect of ambushing the creature. In the end, they decided to take no chances. They called in the Coaltongue, teleported onto it, disguised the vessel with roiling stormclouds, charged the brand and waited. When Uru told them that the savant had entered the tube, they fired the brand, killing the savant instantly and blasting it into open space. Then they returned to the island and destroyed the psionic amplifier in the same way, before attempting to bond with Mavisha once again. Success! “That,” said Calily, as the set off again, “was truly impressive.” [/QUOTE]
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