C2 Session 13

General Summary

Xodon stands alone on the beach as the fleet of ships approach
  • A slot opens in the center one, named the journey’s pearl
  • A scruffy individual walks out, similar in appearance to Henry, but visibly different
  • He calls out in a confused tone and asks if Xodon is there to parlay
  • Xodon advises that they leave, the man says he will have to talk to his captain but they will not be leaving or turning around
  • The man walks away for a bit and comes back confused as to why Xodon is facing seven ships by himself, Xodon is confident
  • The man comes back out with another man, captain Ildrae, who talks to Xodon in a piratey accent and says he should step aside, but Xodon refuses
  • Ildrae walks back and a deafening crescendo begins which even Koin and Xodon can hear from far away
  • Men begin pouring out of the dark ports of the ships, and Xodon readies himself for battle
  • Ten other men storm off the boat, but Xodon does not recognize them as typical Dragolian soldiers
  • They all disappear in a mist and reappear at Xodon’s side, striking him multiple times
  • The center group of men begin to charge at him while the other groups move to the side and run to infiltrate the land
  • Xodon rushes at the bandits and instantly executes all of the center group plus half of the teleporting men
  • The troops rush at Xodon again and attack him, and some of the more powerful ones manage to make it past Xodon and into the jungle towards the city
  • Xodon slashes through the rest of the visible men, prompting more to emerge from the ships with troops still in them, along with captain Ildrae himself
  • Shift to Koin: the streets are beginning to flood, and there are hordes of armada troops in the streets
  • The yuan ti have moved up the nearby hill and are also in the city, violently attacking anyone and everyone with no clear goal
  • Koin deploys the special unit against the mages and smaller troops, which some other of Koin’s men have to help with, dying in the process
  • More mages continue to advance through the catacombs towards the civilians 
  • Shift/rewind to Henry: He feels the tug and the pain of the ooze in his mind, and the area that he is in is no longer safe, so he must move
  • He moves into one of the small houses, and just as he does, he hears the voice of Xdri, turning around to see him standing in the doorway
  • He begins casting a spell before disappearing and reappearing in front of the yuan ti, casting a wall of fire to stop them in their tracks
  • Xdri comes back in, tells Henry that he is still weak, and tells him to prove him wrong before disappearing and reappearing at the entrance to the catacombs
  • Suddenly, the fire and the yuan ti disappear
  • Henry begins to run out of the city, but is stopped by xdri, who calls him weak and helpless, and says that Henry will fight him, before disappearing again
  • Shift to Xodon: The man who initially greeted Xodon flourishes a rapier and attacks him, taking a small amount of damage due to the effects of Zandrien’s sword
  • Xodon shifts into his beastial form, frightening everyone but the captain in the vicinity
  • Ildrae calls him brave before raising his hand as a bolt of light crashes down on Xodon
  • He dodges most of it and due to the swords effects resists most of the attack
  • The ten troops and ginger haired man surround Xodon and attack, and take damage from the sword effect
  • Shift to Koin: Koin sprints towards one of the mages headed to the catacombs
  • Troops in the area of the heirloom order take out some yuan ti, losing a few troops in process while Dragolian and yuan ti forces move in closer towards the area of the large trap set by the order
  • Shift to Henry: at the entrance to catacombs, he sees an apparition of Xdri turn the corner
  • He is angry and memories begin to flood, all Henry can think about is beating Xdri and showing him his power
  • Henry sprints into the catacombs after the apparition, moving through the halls, and sees him at the end of a hallway
  • He casts a spell and Xdri duplicates himself dozens of times and they all rush off in the directions of the civilians, Henry chases
  • To Xodon: as they all slash at him, he speaks to the sword and is immediately surrounded in darkness
  • A figure walks up, and angrily grabs Xodon, slamming him around and gripping his hair
  • He asks who Xodon is and if he wants the power of Zandrien
  • He says that Xodon is powerful and is worthy
  • He lets go of Xodon’s hair and before his hair falls he slashes all of them
  • He tells Xodon to show him that he is worthy, and Zandrien disappears, leaving Xodon to begin his slaughter
  • He holds out his blade and dark tendrils reach out at all of them, piercing the chest of everyone but the captain. The tendrils yank out the hearts of them and pull them to the blade, slicing them into pieces
  • Captain Ildrae looks angrily at Xodon, tapping his shield and beginning to sprint away from Xodon with a vibrating property to him, towards the city
  • To Koin: he faces the mage as he casts a spell and suddenly him and Koin are in the middle of a large boat filled with enemy troops, and the mage who was just panicking now has a cunning smirk on his face
  • An enemy mage walks into the big trap area, triggering the trap and prompting many other troops to run towards that area except for one mage that makes his way towards the catacombs
  • Koin sees multiple of the men on the ship begin to cast a spell, and suddenly Koin is hit with three gusts of wind in quick succession, blasting him out of the ship into the ocean
  • As he exits the ship, he manages to claw a part of the ship and slow his travel, leaving him at the back of the ship to sneak onto one of the balconies of the ship
  • He immediately looks around to find many treasuries, taking many of them
  • The mage immediately begins searching the ship for Koin, and the ginger haired swashbuckler attacks Xodon
  • Xodon stabs the swashbuckler with his shortsword of wounding, turning around and slashing the two other soldiers, but missing
  • To Henry: He enters the yuan ti city, where there is supposed to be hundreds of civilians, but he finds nobody there, it is completely empty, with Hundreds of Xdri clones emerging from the shadows
  • All of them call him weak, and instantly Henry looks at them and casts a fireball, destroying a large portion of the illusions
  • He then frantically throws firebolts at them, burning off his clothes as Xdri taunts him more with each destroyed illusion
  • To Koin and Xodon: Koin climbs out onto the side of the ship, and a mage peeks his head over the edge and calls out that he is there
  • Koin goes back to the captain’s quarters, alerting the rest of the ship who immediately storms into the room, and a mage shoots a magic missile at him
  • The swashbuckler and the other two troops die, and Xodon sees Koin shimmy into the captain’s quarters and get caught
  • He throws his eversmoking bottle at the ship, giving him a chance to sneak on and find the cannons and gunpowder
  • Report Date
    04 Aug 2025


    Cover image: by Joe Kitchen (Ai)

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