Session 27: All my friends are fucked

Triandra visits her fading memory of the Soulforge’s courtyard, where she begins venting to a distorted Grand Executioner Thorne. Soon, she hears a familiar voice - her own - as an unfamiliar self steps forth, dressed in a dark leather uniform.
“I can fix it for you”
“Who are you?”
“Doesn’t matter… but I can help you. Let me do some of the heavy lifting”
In her vulnerable state, Triandra is convinced and shakes the hand of her other self. With this, Triandra looks to be sleeping peacefully for the first time in a long time. So Navëd decides to wake Alkaline instead, and accompanies her downstairs to inform her about their injection of pneuma. Alkaline excitedly has Navëd try out her pneuma-driven glove right away, but the attempt is unsuccessful. Alkaline is then left alone for her watch, distracted by theories until Triandra seemingly has snuck downstairs and pops up behind her. Something seems off about her, and she says she needs fresh air and would like for Alkaline to accompany her.

They head outside, and Triandra begins asking her self-deprecating questions and calls Alkaline her favourite, before suddenly switching up. “You ever thought about fucking killing yourself?”. The baffled thiefling tries to process the question when she’s suddenly punched in the face. She yells out for the rest, casts hold person on Triandra and runs inside to wake the rest of the group. The group arrives downstairs just as Triandra breaks her chains. A standoff begins as Triandra threatens to kill herself if they don’t stand back, so they do. It is revealed that they’re dealing with Triandra's Psycopathy. Teel speaks of Triandra's growth, and Navëd argues that Triandra can still be made use of, and Psychopathy is convinced to merge with Triandra. Merging, Psychopathy takes a backseat and Triandra is let go from her mind-prison. Teel and Florian grab a hold of her whilst Alkaline handcuffs her. Triandra is severely apologetic upon hearing what just happened. Hurt and upset, Alkaline leaves the room, and Teel soon follows her to get the keys for the handcuffs, and gives her some words of support.
Florian encourages Triandra to talk about her issues. She then apologises to Navëd for Lust visiting their dream and for ignoring them earlier. Navëd tries to reassure her that they personally don’t hold any of this against her, and that Lust moreso confused than bothered them. Florian seems a little flustered by the topic. Teel returns with keys, but Triandra doesn’t feel safe being uncuffed right now, so they wait with it ‘til morning. Florian takes the last shift, and Teel joins him to watch over Triandra.
Florian helps Teel spell the title “The Sootworks Front”
Heading to bed, Navëd finds Alkaline having cried herself to sleep, a music box by her side.

In their sleep, Navëd is brought to the same vision as Triandra a previous night; people dead in the streets of the Sootworks, and a silhouette in the distance. By their side stands their warden, Malos. Together, they approach the frozen silhouette, but stop in their tracks as it becomes apparent who it is. It’s… Navëd? But different. Menacing? Powerful! Horrifying…
Malos goes on to drop a lot of information on them;
1. Malos split into multiple parts when he exploded.
2. This Malos claims to be the good parts – The Dreamweaver.
3. There’s the bad parts – The Deathweaver.
4. DON’T, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, MAKE DEALS WITH THE DEATHWEAVER. Or else - *gestures at Navëd’s alternative self*
5. Actually, just don’t make deals with anyone, besides from meee (the good one!) :)
6. There’s a war brewing, and Malos is expecting the group to step up as soldiers, and for Navëd to convince them? “You and me buddy, you’re my General!”
7. This Malos, Warden, Deni, Dreamweaver - will not survive this conflict.
6. This is… a lot. Navëd should maybe try to release some tension in the face of everything. how? who tf knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In the morning, they return to Rakish’s hideout. There they find the old gnome running on steam, severely lacking sleep. Alkaline approaches Rakish with some research, before the gnome is eventually led to bed by Florian. Navëd then approaches Florian and Teel, suggesting a dodge-practice. However, the two are more eager for a fistfight and wrestle.
So on Navëd’s signal, their fight begins!
Halfling vs Dwarf. Place your bets now!