Ganymede has 'stopped' time, which is slowly creaking.
Ophion is on the run, in a cave. Cave becomes unnaturally dark. Tendrils of smoke. A feminine tail appears. Green/black skin. It's the Dread Child.
"Hi cuz. I'm your way out of here." Teleports Ophion to rest of the party. A place of stone. Menhirs. Carvings in the ground. Dark skies. Feels like a hilltop. Shadowfell.
Shapes coming out of the mist. Armed, armoured. Moving silently. Led by Rob Zombie-looking motherfucker - Adodean, Witch of Lost Things. Steampunk golem guards.
Party surrounded by soldiers. Adodean approaches party "If it isn't Gaga and the Lost Girls. I didn't know you had a hermaphrodite with you." Glides up to Essen. Makes reference to Letetia and a debt.
"That's why [Essens] boyfriend sent you here."
Adodean teleoprts the party into a space-like plane. Party sights a green ship in the distance. A screech is heard from above. Another below the path. Winged. A sense of dread.
In the Astral Plane.
3 Hunting Horrors attack the party AC18.
- Ophion Fireballs Two for 30.
- BOB fires a crossbow bolt at it. 8 dmg. Breathes fire at it for 15.
- Horrors attack with Haunting Scream. Party is FRIGHTENED.
- One grabs Gundark. 8 dmg and GRAPPLED and 30 feet in the air.
- Two attacks BOB. 12 dmg and GRAPPLED and 30 feet down. BOB is POISONED.
- Gimblenock hides. Dwayne teleports onto One. 13 dmg. Sees a fiery place in the Horrors wound. Another 20 dmg. 12 more dmg. Sees the Feywild. Dwayne no longer FRIGHTENED.
- Essen casts Sunbeam on Two for 17 dmg.
- Gundark throws a handaxe at Two. Hits for 11. Attacks One for 38.
- BOB deals 15 Fire dmg to Two. 12 physical damage.
- Horros release BOB and Gundark, flying 90 feet in opposite directions.
- Dwayne attacked by Two. 18 Psychic dmg. Additional 15 dmg. GRAPPLED.
- Gimblenock heads to rescue BOB.
- Dwayne fires a grappling rope to Gundark.
- Ophion kills Two with a Fireball.
BOB uses physics to slow his fall. Eventually rescued by Gimblenock.
Two more Horrors are in the area. Party are standing on a 60ft disc of light. The mirror of previous location. Essen reads the ground. "a haven in time, safe from fiery birth and icy death"
Gimblenock recites; "Long dormant forms flare one last time in a blaze of glory
An arbitrary fluctuation occurs that allows life to flourish one final time
Islands for life in the era of Decay
Cold, dark and empty
Existence gives life only a brief moment to shine, a haven in time, safe from fiery birth and icy death" and repeats it in all languages he knows.
Party heads toward green ship on path of stars. Dwayne, BOB, Ophion, Essen, Gimblenock, Grundark.
Essen & Gimblenock realise the party are physically in the Astral Plane.
Essen spies a craft shaped like a Nautillus. A Mind Flayer ship. Essen starts to float, taking Ophion with her. Stabalised by BOB.
Dwayne noticed something approaching party. Winks out of existence.
Gimblenock notices three Nautiloid ships. Zoats in the first two, an Elder mind in the second, Thralls & Ilithids in the third.
Ophion & Dwayne notice a planet. Green. Spinning belts. Chunks missing. Connected to Atlantis.
The path is heading away from the ship, curving up. There are two paths. One is an illusion.
Essen moves party on to the right path. A Psychic Wind event occured.
No mental damage to anyone. Party is now on a floating asteroid orbiting the aforementioned planet in a tower. Standard environment. Carvings on the walls. The language of the Elder Gods.
Fractal script. Essen appears to be a hologram. Phasing in and out.
Essen knows a secret from the Hall of Lamentations noone else knows.
Party reaches the boat. Beautifully appointed.
Ophion meditates to find Padan and sees Heian wearing a crown of sapphires.The Valyran - The Sapphire Criwn of Atlantis. Flanked by Onai and Padan, now both massively grown.
Heian is now a cosmic being with the wolf and the monkey at his side. In the Mortal Plane.
Gimblenock tries to get the ship to work. Suspects will as opposed to mechanics. Dozens of Haunting Horrors approach.
The Last Atlantis was destroyed, its ruins split across dimensions. The ship will take the party to the core of the Last Atlantis.
Gimblenock being stroked by six-hands and whispers in his ear "Do you want to live deliciously?"
Dwayne notices BOB looking feminine, more upright. A sense of power. An alien intelligence is looking out of him.
Gimblenock sits in the captains chair. Sees a giant sitting under a pagoda. Six human-shaped figures. Green, red and white robes.
"Are you paying attention. Good? If not, you'll miss something." Scene occured 250,000 years ago.
BOB hears something in the bowels of the ship, keeping pace with him. Sees a flash of..something.
Giimblenock starts speaking in tongues. Sounds incredibly disturbing. Induces anxiety. Essen vomits and shits everywhere during an existential crisis.
Gundark tries to take Gimblenock from the chair. Surrounded by a force field.
BOB hears barrels breaking and slurping. A small creature slurping molasses. It's an Orc Baby that latches on to him.
The ship is now in The Spaces. Party sees an Alin in the force field, on the chair.
Cross the void into Atlantis.
Party instantly underwater. Gigantic corals. Massive tentacles come over the buildings. Gargantuan Shadow Octopus. Ophion casts Cloud of Daggers, which is instantly dispelled.
"At first this expansion is gradual but it heralds the demise of all things. The Nothing is bracing to enter it's giant phase, an episode of deadly, rapid expansion. You watch the Nothing devour all colour, rapidly expanding. In awe the last star is engulfed, but maybe you will be spared. But as the Nothing closes in, in that final terrible hour, the Holocene spirals into the Nothing. Here at the end of all things the sky is filled not with a bang, but the suffocation of existence, extinction within the true void."
Party are told of the end of all things. "Only the when is special, not the where."
Party goes through a planar gate. End up in a stately courtyard. Pure black skies.
4 Orges, dual weapons, heavy armour.
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