Scallywags: Session 120: Final Farewells
Nethpione and Saerah eye each other. Saerah comes over to check on Ilknar. Insight?
Pojin: He came to say goodbye. To really say it. When I arrived, something was off. Something strange about the water. How quiet the whole place was. I mean, South Ireef? Quiet as a mouse? No, it's always been a storm. I came to the Topsy, and they are actlng like everything's fine; I even won, and lost, a few bouts over a few days. I was too drunk to see. The doors being locked early. The lights always staunched. I was out cold more than I was awake. Then it was those screams, moans I thought at first. It took me a minute to fumble with the locks. I didn't understand why, when I went out to find them, the moans, that once outside were indeed screams. I found them. Six on one, a fight for my life, and then running back to the Topsy, leading them there! The carnage. Night after night, I heard those screams afterwards, but I was in the dark. Only his voice to keep me company. Mila?
Ruthgar Felhammer: my friend. As you saw tonight, your first fault is thinking you stood alone. Mila?
Krak Swamperson: You musst remain ready. The challenge arises every morning. Mila?
Maarel: Yes, yes, but will someone make sure this tortle isn't dead. I will lose out on future sparring ventures. Also, there's a snake lady eating someone back there. Should we be concerned?
George, oh, yes. I do hope he likes almonds. "Farts" after flying over. Pemi aids with some triage despite being told it is not needed. Other aid?
Teyos, Dosgratin, and Chatulkik: nearby, concerned, supportive. Dosgratin introduces Wulfgar to Ruthgar, who says, "Your brother is the best King we have ever had, I would say."
Teyos: He is a lost soul. Like us all. I am glad he finally found you. (TO Mila)
Nethpione to Ilknar: I never quite asked because I do not think I really wanted to know. I can make some guesses, divine and otherworldly. Yet, that is what I am. Something given. (Looks at Saerah, who stands awkwardly nearby, petting Luna.) Saerah leaves, and she has Aikhon go with her to maybe find a spell scroll. Saerah's Commune! and Ihapeag's Ritual: Wulfgar and Ihapaeg: Ritual for Madness: Arcana, Insight, Religion: DC 20--the primordials. Circles of Celestial Runes: Call upon Soul, Call upon Being: {Name} here me. Each failure is -1 Sanity, each success he gains one sanity. Two Sucesses, his madness is gone. Three sucessess, his madness is gone and one other effect.
Party split? 5-6 days until the Capital. Plans? 1: Light Wind, cold. 2: Light Wind, Heavy rain, Cold. 3: Heavy Rain. 4: COLD. 5: Cold. 6: Light Wind, Cold
Pojin: He came to say goodbye. To really say it. When I arrived, something was off. Something strange about the water. How quiet the whole place was. I mean, South Ireef? Quiet as a mouse? No, it's always been a storm. I came to the Topsy, and they are actlng like everything's fine; I even won, and lost, a few bouts over a few days. I was too drunk to see. The doors being locked early. The lights always staunched. I was out cold more than I was awake. Then it was those screams, moans I thought at first. It took me a minute to fumble with the locks. I didn't understand why, when I went out to find them, the moans, that once outside were indeed screams. I found them. Six on one, a fight for my life, and then running back to the Topsy, leading them there! The carnage. Night after night, I heard those screams afterwards, but I was in the dark. Only his voice to keep me company. Mila?
Ruthgar Felhammer: my friend. As you saw tonight, your first fault is thinking you stood alone. Mila?
Krak Swamperson: You musst remain ready. The challenge arises every morning. Mila?
Maarel: Yes, yes, but will someone make sure this tortle isn't dead. I will lose out on future sparring ventures. Also, there's a snake lady eating someone back there. Should we be concerned?
George, oh, yes. I do hope he likes almonds. "Farts" after flying over. Pemi aids with some triage despite being told it is not needed. Other aid?
Teyos, Dosgratin, and Chatulkik: nearby, concerned, supportive. Dosgratin introduces Wulfgar to Ruthgar, who says, "Your brother is the best King we have ever had, I would say."
Teyos: He is a lost soul. Like us all. I am glad he finally found you. (TO Mila)
Nethpione to Ilknar: I never quite asked because I do not think I really wanted to know. I can make some guesses, divine and otherworldly. Yet, that is what I am. Something given. (Looks at Saerah, who stands awkwardly nearby, petting Luna.) Saerah leaves, and she has Aikhon go with her to maybe find a spell scroll. Saerah's Commune! and Ihapeag's Ritual: Wulfgar and Ihapaeg: Ritual for Madness: Arcana, Insight, Religion: DC 20--the primordials. Circles of Celestial Runes: Call upon Soul, Call upon Being: {Name} here me. Each failure is -1 Sanity, each success he gains one sanity. Two Sucesses, his madness is gone. Three sucessess, his madness is gone and one other effect.
Party split? 5-6 days until the Capital. Plans? 1: Light Wind, cold. 2: Light Wind, Heavy rain, Cold. 3: Heavy Rain. 4: COLD. 5: Cold. 6: Light Wind, Cold
Plot points/Scenes
121:
Scene One: Mila makes her way back to the Topsy. Ruthgar, Pojin, Francine, etc.
Pojin, Teyos, Dosgratin, Luna, Chatulkik, Pemi, Wulfgar
Ends With: Saerah comes and asks for Wulfgar to witness and assist with the commune. She also finds Lady Sasha.
Scene Two: Ilknar in the City: Deoy, with him, showing off the gem stones, explaining how he stole them from some member of the Wave Crew, Ioomore's people. Convince Deoy to part with them: then investigation check to find the jeweler. 1000g.
Ends with: Ilknar returning, getting Nethpione on deck, and... (Saerah sees)
Scene Three: Aboard the ships, docked, Saerah's within view. She aboard deck with Aikhon and then Wulfgar and Lady Sasha. Cody and Orran there as well. She sees Ilknar aboard the main deck. Completes the Commune: Is Ilknar my true love: unclear. Should I have followed my fate at the bloom? Not without him. Are our fates, our love, meant to go to the Wall? Yes. (Her Deity is Valin, not Ome nor Bilin). Ends with the arrival of boats.
Scene Four: Brimstone: sitting on at the officer's mess, Vareth drinking. A vision, an arrival, a dragon from the sky, you astride, flying near the wall, to its Maw Opening. THEN, A horn bellows. He shoots up, and goes to the main deck. The Night Bloom arrives. The Captain then calls, for within the same hour, Telemachus returns. The Fleet is here. Final Moves remain.
Scene Five: Wulfgar hears screaming from below, for Yolove tries to calm Ihapaeg. IN dwarven: the boomstick, the mistress, and now the king, and his wall. He repeats, not in order. DC 10 Investigation. Ends with Wulfgar hearing the summon for the meeting with Brimstone.
Session 122
Scene Three: Aboard the ships, docked, Saerah's within view. She aboard deck with Aikhon and then Wulfgar and Lady Sasha. Cody and Orran there as well. She sees Ilknar aboard the main deck. Completes the Commune: Is Ilknar my true love: unclear. Should I have followed my fate at the bloom? Not without him. Are our fates, our love, meant to go to the Wall? Yes. (Her Deity is Valin, not Ome nor Bilin). Ends with the arrival of boats. SCENE SIX: Any last minute stuff?
k Scene Seven: Meeting with Brimstone, Aboard the Call. Group Picture!
Session 123:
Wedding: Who Officiates
Session 124:
Godon has cast guards and wards over the whole palace for over two years. Qinsalro and Godon have bound many fiends to their service. Starting this night, after the scrying that has already occured, the Queen will go to her diviner and he will continue to scry on those chosen, and he will also contact the other plane, to their divine entity: tiamat and others. She will obsessively have him cast divination to find her divine right and truth: her daughter's inheritance.
She will call upon the Archmages, Masters of the Lands, and even militias of the people to protect their lands from this existential threat. With this, she calls upon the Illusionist, and has him cast dream so she can manipulate her foes. Scrying by Guliktha and queen beforehand to confirm
Ilknar's Dream; 1st, she talks, asks him of her husbands last moments; then--Who else is with you?. WISDOM save: The Wall--DC 30 Athletics: climb. DC 20 Perception: See Nethpione. DC 25 Investigation, a dream. DC 30 Skill of your choice: Save Nethpione--she is bound by crystal chains, catatonic on the ground, seizing. Success. Awake, know its a dream. Failure. Repeats. Lose sleep, gain a level of exhaustion.
Ihapaeg goes to Wulfgar. Lucid and clear. I remember him, and you. Younger than you are now.
Brimstone--FIRST: Who else is with you? WISDOM save: Tritherion throws you from the wall, and a black dragon tries to break you. DC 30 Charisma Save. DC 20 Religion; false words. DC 15 insight: a fire drake, sent to empower/remind. DC 30 of your choice: Aikhon, Valentha, Vareth--executioner's style. 20, one, 25, two, 30, all three. Wulfgar and Ihapaeg: That trial: my brain was scrambled by the whole lot of it. But I saw it then. Something followed me back that day. I brought it to Claddenrow, and then others took it for their own.
Sasha: FIRST: discussion of joining forces. Who else is with you? THEN, WISDOM SAVE: The golden dragon door animates, and you slay the beast. You eat its heart, and you become the devil under the wall. Your story is not of a savior, but of death. DC 30 Perception, recognize teh meat for what it is not: meat; DC 25 Charisma Save: resist the temptation. DC 20 Constitution save: transform into a monstrosity: even if success, what do you see in your mind's eye? Wulfgar and Ihapaeg: My own family. They thought they could exploit that darkness. First a deal split, but then, a bargain gained.
Orran: Who are you? Why here, why now? Who else is with you? THEN, Wisdom save: The Bloom falls upon the capital, Saerah takes the throne next to the Queen, and Orran and others, the entire Crimson Fleet, lies at the bottom of the sea. DC 25 Insight. Real? DC 20 Acrobatics/Athletics to save a few: Failure, one crew member saved, Success Three saved Wulfgar and Ihapaeg: I hope it is true. This kingship, this source. You ready for the claim? (If no, should I?)
Mila: Why are you a traitor? Who else is with you? Return, be forgiven. Become the True Archmage, Ruler of the Collegiate Arcanum. THen, Wisdom Save: crew falls, city in ruins, dragons and undeath reign. All are dead. Yet, as always, the Collegiate Arcanum and the Wall Stand, but at what cost? DC 30 Investigation: Illusion, see Ad, and know of the other Archmages that must be assisting the queen. DC 15 Arcana: Dream spell, targeting others and self. DC 30 Athletics: stop the Wall from Crumbling. Wulfgar and Ihapaeg: Ilknar. Hekaton. He never claimed. Scared of his own birthright. Worthy? Brimstone? The Fey wanderers, like times before our people? Some human? This witch, Jhusve? Boveen was not it, but was at some point.
Night one done Night two:
Session 125 (Cont.): Daytime is the Ioomore lab.
Session 126+Scrying by Guliktha and queen beforehand to confirm. Three scrys during that time, one at each initiative roll. Ilknar, Brimstone, and Mila. She has a war mage wand. DC 23.
Scrying by Guliktha and queen beforehand to confirm.
Kadage goes to Sasha: New Villains, new events. You are proving a worthy ideal here, many to follow, and more amiable. Have you thought of the throne, daughter of some ancient bloodline, no? Claim just as valid with your actions. Drinks and the like.
Saerah Casts dream on Ilknar: DC 22, foresight on herself. Her vision of the Future, her and Queen, her to the North, Ilknar as Captain. If refused, the truth that Ilknar fears, she is a sacrificial sceptre to allow Ilknar's ascension as King.
Valentha, Steadfast, Feanger, invite Brimstone to The Night's Dream.
Pemi:
Away he saw her, the floating dame.
Her heart of sea, her soul of flame.
Yet hid by shame, both, hid from shame
Blood torn from the lost claim
Still sparks sought to sing, of dreams.
Here the they see, only the heart of the Sea
Till the fallen ripple of those who claim destiny,
Those who would Face the Kings, and lead.
Lead the shame and leader the follower,
Claim the right, the Giant's Right, soul,
And see, the night hidden, taken, scowl,
From thee, sink, and sing, lead the wallow
Into the Shallows of the King, the Faces Sing,
Into the shadows of the wall, the kings flee,
Destiny, destiny, you by the sky and sea,
Watch Elders, All-Fathers, and Thee
Ilknar will rise
The Voices willl Cry
The Name of Destiny.
Torth and Weebs. Adventure awaits. Different destinies Call. At night, dreams again: DC 18Ilknar's Dream; 1st, she talks, asks him of her husbands last moments; then--Who else is with you?. WISDOM save: The Wall--DC 30 Athletics: climb. DC 20 Perception: See Nethpione. DC 25 Investigation, a dream. DC 30 Skill of your choice: Save Nethpione--she is bound by crystal chains, catatonic on the ground, seizing. Success. Awake, know its a dream. Failure. Repeats. Lose sleep, gain a level of exhaustion.
Brimstone--FIRST: Who else is with you? WISDOM save: Tritherion throws you from the wall, and a black dragon tries to break you. DC 30 Charisma Save. DC 20 Religion; false words. DC 15 insight: a fire drake, sent to empower/remind. DC 30 of your choice: Aikhon, Valentha, Vareth--executioner's style. 20, one, 25, two, 30, all three.
Sasha: FIRST: discussion of joining forces. Who else is with you? THEN, WISDOM SAVE: The golden dragon door animates, and you slay the beast. You eat its heart, and you become the devil under the wall. Your story is not of a savior, but of death. DC 30 Perception, recognize teh meat for what it is not: meat; DC 25 Charisma Save: resist the temptation. DC 20 Constitution save: transform into a monstrosity: even if success, what do you see in your mind's eye?
Mila: Why are you a traitor? Who else is with you? Return, be forgiven. Become the True Archmage, Ruler of the Collegiate Arcanum. THen, Wisdom Save: crew falls, city in ruins, dragons and undeath reign. All are dead. Yet, as always, the Collegiate Arcanum and the Wall Stand, but at what cost? DC 30 Investigation: Illusion, see Ad, and know of the other Archmages that must be assisting the queen. DC 15 Arcana: Dream spell, targeting others and self. DC 30 Athletics: stop the Wall from Crumbling.
Day Three: Scrying by Guliktha and queen beforehand to confirm.
The Night Vorbec arrives with his entourage, apprentice, the two needy, his warden, and three dragons (seeking vengeance). They teleport to Ollie.
Scene One: Mila makes her way back to the Topsy. Ruthgar, Pojin, Francine, etc.
Pojin, Teyos, Dosgratin, Luna, Chatulkik, Pemi, Wulfgar
Ends With: Saerah comes and asks for Wulfgar to witness and assist with the commune. She also finds Lady Sasha.
Scene Two: Ilknar in the City: Deoy, with him, showing off the gem stones, explaining how he stole them from some member of the Wave Crew, Ioomore's people. Convince Deoy to part with them: then investigation check to find the jeweler. 1000g.
Ends with: Ilknar returning, getting Nethpione on deck, and... (Saerah sees)
Scene Three: Aboard the ships, docked, Saerah's within view. She aboard deck with Aikhon and then Wulfgar and Lady Sasha. Cody and Orran there as well. She sees Ilknar aboard the main deck. Completes the Commune: Is Ilknar my true love: unclear. Should I have followed my fate at the bloom? Not without him. Are our fates, our love, meant to go to the Wall? Yes. (Her Deity is Valin, not Ome nor Bilin). Ends with the arrival of boats.
Scene Four: Brimstone: sitting on at the officer's mess, Vareth drinking. A vision, an arrival, a dragon from the sky, you astride, flying near the wall, to its Maw Opening. THEN, A horn bellows. He shoots up, and goes to the main deck. The Night Bloom arrives. The Captain then calls, for within the same hour, Telemachus returns. The Fleet is here. Final Moves remain.
Scene Five: Wulfgar hears screaming from below, for Yolove tries to calm Ihapaeg. IN dwarven: the boomstick, the mistress, and now the king, and his wall. He repeats, not in order. DC 10 Investigation. Ends with Wulfgar hearing the summon for the meeting with Brimstone.
Session 122
Scene Three: Aboard the ships, docked, Saerah's within view. She aboard deck with Aikhon and then Wulfgar and Lady Sasha. Cody and Orran there as well. She sees Ilknar aboard the main deck. Completes the Commune: Is Ilknar my true love: unclear. Should I have followed my fate at the bloom? Not without him. Are our fates, our love, meant to go to the Wall? Yes. (Her Deity is Valin, not Ome nor Bilin). Ends with the arrival of boats. SCENE SIX: Any last minute stuff?
k Scene Seven: Meeting with Brimstone, Aboard the Call. Group Picture!
Session 123:
Wedding: Who Officiates
Session 124:
Godon has cast guards and wards over the whole palace for over two years. Qinsalro and Godon have bound many fiends to their service. Starting this night, after the scrying that has already occured, the Queen will go to her diviner and he will continue to scry on those chosen, and he will also contact the other plane, to their divine entity: tiamat and others. She will obsessively have him cast divination to find her divine right and truth: her daughter's inheritance.
She will call upon the Archmages, Masters of the Lands, and even militias of the people to protect their lands from this existential threat. With this, she calls upon the Illusionist, and has him cast dream so she can manipulate her foes. Scrying by Guliktha and queen beforehand to confirm
Ilknar's Dream; 1st, she talks, asks him of her husbands last moments; then--Who else is with you?. WISDOM save: The Wall--DC 30 Athletics: climb. DC 20 Perception: See Nethpione. DC 25 Investigation, a dream. DC 30 Skill of your choice: Save Nethpione--she is bound by crystal chains, catatonic on the ground, seizing. Success. Awake, know its a dream. Failure. Repeats. Lose sleep, gain a level of exhaustion.
Ihapaeg goes to Wulfgar. Lucid and clear. I remember him, and you. Younger than you are now.
Brimstone--FIRST: Who else is with you? WISDOM save: Tritherion throws you from the wall, and a black dragon tries to break you. DC 30 Charisma Save. DC 20 Religion; false words. DC 15 insight: a fire drake, sent to empower/remind. DC 30 of your choice: Aikhon, Valentha, Vareth--executioner's style. 20, one, 25, two, 30, all three. Wulfgar and Ihapaeg: That trial: my brain was scrambled by the whole lot of it. But I saw it then. Something followed me back that day. I brought it to Claddenrow, and then others took it for their own.
Sasha: FIRST: discussion of joining forces. Who else is with you? THEN, WISDOM SAVE: The golden dragon door animates, and you slay the beast. You eat its heart, and you become the devil under the wall. Your story is not of a savior, but of death. DC 30 Perception, recognize teh meat for what it is not: meat; DC 25 Charisma Save: resist the temptation. DC 20 Constitution save: transform into a monstrosity: even if success, what do you see in your mind's eye? Wulfgar and Ihapaeg: My own family. They thought they could exploit that darkness. First a deal split, but then, a bargain gained.
Orran: Who are you? Why here, why now? Who else is with you? THEN, Wisdom save: The Bloom falls upon the capital, Saerah takes the throne next to the Queen, and Orran and others, the entire Crimson Fleet, lies at the bottom of the sea. DC 25 Insight. Real? DC 20 Acrobatics/Athletics to save a few: Failure, one crew member saved, Success Three saved Wulfgar and Ihapaeg: I hope it is true. This kingship, this source. You ready for the claim? (If no, should I?)
Mila: Why are you a traitor? Who else is with you? Return, be forgiven. Become the True Archmage, Ruler of the Collegiate Arcanum. THen, Wisdom Save: crew falls, city in ruins, dragons and undeath reign. All are dead. Yet, as always, the Collegiate Arcanum and the Wall Stand, but at what cost? DC 30 Investigation: Illusion, see Ad, and know of the other Archmages that must be assisting the queen. DC 15 Arcana: Dream spell, targeting others and self. DC 30 Athletics: stop the Wall from Crumbling. Wulfgar and Ihapaeg: Ilknar. Hekaton. He never claimed. Scared of his own birthright. Worthy? Brimstone? The Fey wanderers, like times before our people? Some human? This witch, Jhusve? Boveen was not it, but was at some point.
Night one done Night two:
Session 125 (Cont.): Daytime is the Ioomore lab.
Session 126+Scrying by Guliktha and queen beforehand to confirm. Three scrys during that time, one at each initiative roll. Ilknar, Brimstone, and Mila. She has a war mage wand. DC 23.
Scrying by Guliktha and queen beforehand to confirm.
Kadage goes to Sasha: New Villains, new events. You are proving a worthy ideal here, many to follow, and more amiable. Have you thought of the throne, daughter of some ancient bloodline, no? Claim just as valid with your actions. Drinks and the like.
Saerah Casts dream on Ilknar: DC 22, foresight on herself. Her vision of the Future, her and Queen, her to the North, Ilknar as Captain. If refused, the truth that Ilknar fears, she is a sacrificial sceptre to allow Ilknar's ascension as King.
Valentha, Steadfast, Feanger, invite Brimstone to The Night's Dream.
Pemi:
Away he saw her, the floating dame.
Her heart of sea, her soul of flame.
Yet hid by shame, both, hid from shame
Blood torn from the lost claim
Still sparks sought to sing, of dreams.
Here the they see, only the heart of the Sea
Till the fallen ripple of those who claim destiny,
Those who would Face the Kings, and lead.
Lead the shame and leader the follower,
Claim the right, the Giant's Right, soul,
And see, the night hidden, taken, scowl,
From thee, sink, and sing, lead the wallow
Into the Shallows of the King, the Faces Sing,
Into the shadows of the wall, the kings flee,
Destiny, destiny, you by the sky and sea,
Watch Elders, All-Fathers, and Thee
Ilknar will rise
The Voices willl Cry
The Name of Destiny.
Torth and Weebs. Adventure awaits. Different destinies Call. At night, dreams again: DC 18
The Night Vorbec arrives with his entourage, apprentice, the two needy, his warden, and three dragons (seeking vengeance). They teleport to Ollie.
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- Session 120: Scallywags: Relief, Finally, in South Ireef
- Session 121: Scallywags: The Topsy Turvy
- Session 122: Scallywags: Consequences of Obsession and Love
- Session 123: Scallywags: The Wedding of the Century
- Session 124: Scallywags: Dreams Before The Dwarven Fort of Ioomore, No More!
- Session 125: Scallywags: A Dwarven Font, Wizard Manipulated
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