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<blockquote data-quote="Cultsbane" data-source="post: 8875276" data-attributes="member: 7037457"><p>Campaign time: 6 hours, 13 mins, 30 seconds (we postponed until New years)</p><p></p><p>Happy New Year. Today's episode brought to you by special brownies, Elijah Craig, and Captain Morgan Private Reserve </p><p></p><p>The head of the family, Morgan Cippiano seeing the events that transpired invites the party to lunch at the Family owned bar "The Applecore" as to go over the peaceful transfer of prisoners and more importantly they'd get us the doctor in the exchange </p><p></p><p>Hops & Anael decide to accept the invitation first, while the other three go searching for any wands throughout the carnage. The family serves a bunch of roasted duck to the two RHC members as they discuss the prisoner exchanges between the family, the RHC, and the fedora mafia and other events happening in Danor involving the factory attacks. We would get access to the doctor, but they get insider information as well from Poly the bartender</p><p></p><p>Kelik & Freya go searching through the wreckage for all the wands. They know that the orders are for 200 Crisillyir wands, which they manage to recover 160 of them, of which 4 appear to still be of working order. </p><p></p><p>Naturally they test out these wands. The first casts a bolt of light that burns the sand into shards, the second shoots a black bolt that seems to drain the energies around it, the next one creates a thin sheet of flame that shoots forward, and the final one creates a large amount of grease. Freya decides to keep the grease wand, having 7 charges daily it could come in handy</p><p></p><p>They also investigate the corpses among the wreckage, while Isabelle goes looking around the Doct workers quarters on rumors of Gale's possible death. Although she quickly summarizes that it was not Gale who died in the explosion</p><p></p><p>We apparently have phones because Stover, while very intoxicated, invites us up to headquarters for an update. The thing that is getting the RHC worked up is that included in the shipment was a wand that could use wish and that it is very distinguishable, likely a very monkey paw version of wish, But its potential danger cannot be overstated. Especially considering that it matches none of the descriptions of any ones we saw or recovered </p><p></p><p>We go back to the Applecore as a group but we also spread the rumour about it being an extremely pro-police friendly bar around town, as to upset the Family's traffic flow. They're not too upset because we're going to be getting them an insider into the fedora mafia, which has been intense competition </p><p></p><p>Freya spots a canary outside the window and follows it before getting a new letter slipped into her pocket by a mysterious figure, which reads are offer still stands, and has a picture of a smiley face with it's tongue out saying "Love Gale" The person slips into the crowd as as Kelik gives got pursuit and shoots off her mask </p><p></p><p>Kelik managed to chase after her a pretty decent amount, glancing her face, becoming the fire person outside trusted anarchist circles to do so. Still she does her usual disappearing tricks and slips outside Kelik's fingers. Kelik bitter about this decides to invite everyone back to meet up with his husband Sebastian</p><p></p><p>Sebastian is a minotaur who works at the Ber embassy in Flint as a coordinator. He is very excited about having dinner guest to try out his new stuffed cabbage. Freya & Hops have lengthy discussion about if rural or city areas are better, Hops supporting the rural area to Freya's fascination with cities</p><p></p><p>The doctor reveals he was doing research in Ber and it lead him to several conclusions about recent attacks on factories in Danor. That Roger Porter is involved & took several important documents before leaving the country to an unknown location, Crisillyir is involved & actively against Danor, and they both smells of witch oil</p><p></p><p>The witch oil has a connection to the bleak gate and can be found in quantity on cauldron Hill. Which is somewhere we're going to have to be soon because of Skyseer Nevard request</p><p></p><p>The doctor, from the malice lands, wants to escape down to Ber. He argues that the RHC will mistreat him considering all the stolen documents he's sold, that Danor will kill him, and Crisillyir will kill him faster. Kelik is not willing to let his homeland be in any type of danger willingly and says that imprisonment is your best bet then. The doctor sighs, casts some sort of spell, and in a puff of smoke disappears. Kelik was very upset to experience this twice in one day</p><p></p><p>The next night we meet up to begin our escort of Skyseer Nevard to the highest point in Flint, Caldron Hill. Nevard asks for the strongest warrior, Anael, to be bound to him as that if Nevard is attacked the damage is dealt to Anael first. We noticed that the effects definitely worked as Nevard has the agility and movement of Anael, Although lacking her raw combat prowess. </p><p></p><p>Nevard and his orc shaman assistant explain to us that Caldron Hill is overwhelming with psychoactive horrors that'll break even the most hardened mines with the intensity of the darkness that even Darkvision is barely functional. Nevard gives each of us an amulet that is meant to help with that, the only other option is to light a fire But that'll attract all the creatures that go bump in the night</p><p></p><p>He also gives us goats blood, which many of the terrifying creatures of the bleak gate will follow around aimlessly. He also gives us ear plugs and instructs us to begin singing as to drown out the voices that I'll echo and disturb us greatly (lovecraftian af) </p><p></p><p>We see one terrifying creature leading a bunch in the distance. It's a giant of two faces on all fours ripping into another animal of similar but more disturbing stature. The horrors morph beyond our understanding and Kelik mind begins to break from this, gaining a level of exhaustion. He would later gain another level of exhaustion as the screams echo through his head, The headphones doing barely anything. </p><p></p><p>Thankfully though we barely encountered any creatures during our journey. Skyseer Nevard saying that he was generally surprised by the relaxing nature of the journey, relatively speaking of the visit, as he gets upon a rock at the highest point and stares off into the now clear sky. Only area in all of Flint to really do this. Nevard begins to have visions and we make sure the area is relatively safe with a figure 8 of goats blood</p><p></p><p>Freya also sees something but the intensity of it and not being a gifted Skyseer means that she falls unconscious foaming at the mouth and blood coming from every facial part including the eyes, mouth and ears. In her state she sees the destruction of the industrial acid shop, its sign set ablaze by two wall tongues of fire dancing, and the workers including the owner who is Navard's son, being trapped by doors and engulfed by the flames. </p><p></p><p>20 monsters by the figure 8. One is more of a person in movement than a monster. Has no face and almost skin. He cast forward this way of light and it allows some of the monsters to creep through the goat's blood. The light is so intense that both Kelik wnd Isabelle are instantly and temporarily blinded. Freya wakes up to see </p><p></p><p>A grim reaper, a flying lion with features like the mythological Medusa but rotting maggots are everywhere, and a giant undead spider with far too many legs and eyes. The spider is the first to attack, spinning Kelik into a web and poisoning him with neurotoxic venom. The lion goes to finish him off, but Isabelle saves him with a knife ice critical ripping through the lion's body sending shards of ice throughout the are</p><p></p><p>Freya takes control of the Grim reaper with her family gift of being spirit medium and commands he slices right through the one man. The man dodges but the rod is cut in twice</p><p></p><p>Kelik getting out of the web, pulls out his shotgun with Hunter's Mark activated and point blank ranges blast a good chunk of spider flesh away. The spider is still agile. Anael charges spider with her longsword, cutting off another leg. It has 12 eyes and he goes to attack but Anael uses extra attack and cuts into it's flesh more. Freya though commands the grim reaper to finish off the spider</p><p></p><p></p><p>Nevard vision is completed. Says he had many visions and must leave to make a public proclamation the 1st of its kind in over a century by the skyseers, Kelik is happy to leave, saying that he isn't a religious man and doesn't believe in that type of stuff but if hell is real, it's the creatures of the bleak gate. </p><p></p><p>We actually find at the bottom of the hill a bunch of RHC spec ops from the Risur capital wondering about the situation around the hill (The light was seen for miles) But we explain the situation away, a lot of us unwilling to trust them, and wanting to keep operations to a minimum need to know basis. We head off to the alchemist factory to stop a fire</p><p></p><p>Seeing people doing maintenance and construction. No uncontrollably fire is there. We asked the guards, who are sleeping on the job, who these workers are and their credentials. We find out they're the El Barato Factory & Repair group, they're both Tieflings. </p><p></p><p>We mandate that they have a 30 mins workers break in the morning, everyone needs a good graphics (breakfast <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🥞" title="Pancakes :pancakes:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f95e.png" data-shortname=":pancakes:" /> lol, you can tell my mental state when writing this). Kelik asks names, as he looks into the carts they have, one of the Tieflings sets fire to the cart and they run off as Kelik and hops chase after them. The rest go to put out the fire</p><p></p><p>One uses a sphere of fire causing our two heros to make a dex save to avoid it and a gust of fire whips around it. They do very well avoiding it but gets more areas on fire. The fire spreads to the sign, creating the vision that Freya and the Skyseer saw </p><p></p><p>Kelik shoots his shotgun at one and scratches it clawsm Hops uses chaos bolt</p><p></p><p>Tiefling jumped to the roof. Kelik does not know who these people are lol. They're actually not Tiefling but dragon born disguised, who we would later find out the great arsonist of Ber. This raises many questions</p><p></p><p>One of them casts a wall of fire at the Duo while the other younger brother escapes. Hops absorbs the fire and channels it back to hit the dragonborn directly. Kelik at least learning something from his experience on Caldron Hill casts dissonance whispers and brings the dragonborn down unconscious falling from the rooftops (They will be later interrogated)</p><p></p><p>The fire is put out. We find out that said "Tieflings" have been trying to get industrial grade solvents from the area and were possibly engaged in terrorist activity beyond just the normal arson. This enrage Kelik as he should've been more aware of them, Although our priority is going to be the announcement of Nevard vision and any possible terrorist attacks on him</p><p></p><p>There are also many people assuming that he's going to give a startling rebuttal of the new ways and call for a return to traditionalism. </p><p></p><p>We also give the RHC a report. Thus ends an amazing session and see y'all next week</p><p></p><p>Have a great and wonderful day and a happy 2023.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cultsbane, post: 8875276, member: 7037457"] Campaign time: 6 hours, 13 mins, 30 seconds (we postponed until New years) Happy New Year. Today's episode brought to you by special brownies, Elijah Craig, and Captain Morgan Private Reserve The head of the family, Morgan Cippiano seeing the events that transpired invites the party to lunch at the Family owned bar "The Applecore" as to go over the peaceful transfer of prisoners and more importantly they'd get us the doctor in the exchange Hops & Anael decide to accept the invitation first, while the other three go searching for any wands throughout the carnage. The family serves a bunch of roasted duck to the two RHC members as they discuss the prisoner exchanges between the family, the RHC, and the fedora mafia and other events happening in Danor involving the factory attacks. We would get access to the doctor, but they get insider information as well from Poly the bartender Kelik & Freya go searching through the wreckage for all the wands. They know that the orders are for 200 Crisillyir wands, which they manage to recover 160 of them, of which 4 appear to still be of working order. Naturally they test out these wands. The first casts a bolt of light that burns the sand into shards, the second shoots a black bolt that seems to drain the energies around it, the next one creates a thin sheet of flame that shoots forward, and the final one creates a large amount of grease. Freya decides to keep the grease wand, having 7 charges daily it could come in handy They also investigate the corpses among the wreckage, while Isabelle goes looking around the Doct workers quarters on rumors of Gale's possible death. Although she quickly summarizes that it was not Gale who died in the explosion We apparently have phones because Stover, while very intoxicated, invites us up to headquarters for an update. The thing that is getting the RHC worked up is that included in the shipment was a wand that could use wish and that it is very distinguishable, likely a very monkey paw version of wish, But its potential danger cannot be overstated. Especially considering that it matches none of the descriptions of any ones we saw or recovered We go back to the Applecore as a group but we also spread the rumour about it being an extremely pro-police friendly bar around town, as to upset the Family's traffic flow. They're not too upset because we're going to be getting them an insider into the fedora mafia, which has been intense competition Freya spots a canary outside the window and follows it before getting a new letter slipped into her pocket by a mysterious figure, which reads are offer still stands, and has a picture of a smiley face with it's tongue out saying "Love Gale" The person slips into the crowd as as Kelik gives got pursuit and shoots off her mask Kelik managed to chase after her a pretty decent amount, glancing her face, becoming the fire person outside trusted anarchist circles to do so. Still she does her usual disappearing tricks and slips outside Kelik's fingers. Kelik bitter about this decides to invite everyone back to meet up with his husband Sebastian Sebastian is a minotaur who works at the Ber embassy in Flint as a coordinator. He is very excited about having dinner guest to try out his new stuffed cabbage. Freya & Hops have lengthy discussion about if rural or city areas are better, Hops supporting the rural area to Freya's fascination with cities The doctor reveals he was doing research in Ber and it lead him to several conclusions about recent attacks on factories in Danor. That Roger Porter is involved & took several important documents before leaving the country to an unknown location, Crisillyir is involved & actively against Danor, and they both smells of witch oil The witch oil has a connection to the bleak gate and can be found in quantity on cauldron Hill. Which is somewhere we're going to have to be soon because of Skyseer Nevard request The doctor, from the malice lands, wants to escape down to Ber. He argues that the RHC will mistreat him considering all the stolen documents he's sold, that Danor will kill him, and Crisillyir will kill him faster. Kelik is not willing to let his homeland be in any type of danger willingly and says that imprisonment is your best bet then. The doctor sighs, casts some sort of spell, and in a puff of smoke disappears. Kelik was very upset to experience this twice in one day The next night we meet up to begin our escort of Skyseer Nevard to the highest point in Flint, Caldron Hill. Nevard asks for the strongest warrior, Anael, to be bound to him as that if Nevard is attacked the damage is dealt to Anael first. We noticed that the effects definitely worked as Nevard has the agility and movement of Anael, Although lacking her raw combat prowess. Nevard and his orc shaman assistant explain to us that Caldron Hill is overwhelming with psychoactive horrors that'll break even the most hardened mines with the intensity of the darkness that even Darkvision is barely functional. Nevard gives each of us an amulet that is meant to help with that, the only other option is to light a fire But that'll attract all the creatures that go bump in the night He also gives us goats blood, which many of the terrifying creatures of the bleak gate will follow around aimlessly. He also gives us ear plugs and instructs us to begin singing as to drown out the voices that I'll echo and disturb us greatly (lovecraftian af) We see one terrifying creature leading a bunch in the distance. It's a giant of two faces on all fours ripping into another animal of similar but more disturbing stature. The horrors morph beyond our understanding and Kelik mind begins to break from this, gaining a level of exhaustion. He would later gain another level of exhaustion as the screams echo through his head, The headphones doing barely anything. Thankfully though we barely encountered any creatures during our journey. Skyseer Nevard saying that he was generally surprised by the relaxing nature of the journey, relatively speaking of the visit, as he gets upon a rock at the highest point and stares off into the now clear sky. Only area in all of Flint to really do this. Nevard begins to have visions and we make sure the area is relatively safe with a figure 8 of goats blood Freya also sees something but the intensity of it and not being a gifted Skyseer means that she falls unconscious foaming at the mouth and blood coming from every facial part including the eyes, mouth and ears. In her state she sees the destruction of the industrial acid shop, its sign set ablaze by two wall tongues of fire dancing, and the workers including the owner who is Navard's son, being trapped by doors and engulfed by the flames. 20 monsters by the figure 8. One is more of a person in movement than a monster. Has no face and almost skin. He cast forward this way of light and it allows some of the monsters to creep through the goat's blood. The light is so intense that both Kelik wnd Isabelle are instantly and temporarily blinded. Freya wakes up to see A grim reaper, a flying lion with features like the mythological Medusa but rotting maggots are everywhere, and a giant undead spider with far too many legs and eyes. The spider is the first to attack, spinning Kelik into a web and poisoning him with neurotoxic venom. The lion goes to finish him off, but Isabelle saves him with a knife ice critical ripping through the lion's body sending shards of ice throughout the are Freya takes control of the Grim reaper with her family gift of being spirit medium and commands he slices right through the one man. The man dodges but the rod is cut in twice Kelik getting out of the web, pulls out his shotgun with Hunter's Mark activated and point blank ranges blast a good chunk of spider flesh away. The spider is still agile. Anael charges spider with her longsword, cutting off another leg. It has 12 eyes and he goes to attack but Anael uses extra attack and cuts into it's flesh more. Freya though commands the grim reaper to finish off the spider Nevard vision is completed. Says he had many visions and must leave to make a public proclamation the 1st of its kind in over a century by the skyseers, Kelik is happy to leave, saying that he isn't a religious man and doesn't believe in that type of stuff but if hell is real, it's the creatures of the bleak gate. We actually find at the bottom of the hill a bunch of RHC spec ops from the Risur capital wondering about the situation around the hill (The light was seen for miles) But we explain the situation away, a lot of us unwilling to trust them, and wanting to keep operations to a minimum need to know basis. We head off to the alchemist factory to stop a fire Seeing people doing maintenance and construction. No uncontrollably fire is there. We asked the guards, who are sleeping on the job, who these workers are and their credentials. We find out they're the El Barato Factory & Repair group, they're both Tieflings. We mandate that they have a 30 mins workers break in the morning, everyone needs a good graphics (breakfast 🥞 lol, you can tell my mental state when writing this). Kelik asks names, as he looks into the carts they have, one of the Tieflings sets fire to the cart and they run off as Kelik and hops chase after them. The rest go to put out the fire One uses a sphere of fire causing our two heros to make a dex save to avoid it and a gust of fire whips around it. They do very well avoiding it but gets more areas on fire. The fire spreads to the sign, creating the vision that Freya and the Skyseer saw Kelik shoots his shotgun at one and scratches it clawsm Hops uses chaos bolt Tiefling jumped to the roof. Kelik does not know who these people are lol. They're actually not Tiefling but dragon born disguised, who we would later find out the great arsonist of Ber. This raises many questions One of them casts a wall of fire at the Duo while the other younger brother escapes. Hops absorbs the fire and channels it back to hit the dragonborn directly. Kelik at least learning something from his experience on Caldron Hill casts dissonance whispers and brings the dragonborn down unconscious falling from the rooftops (They will be later interrogated) The fire is put out. We find out that said "Tieflings" have been trying to get industrial grade solvents from the area and were possibly engaged in terrorist activity beyond just the normal arson. This enrage Kelik as he should've been more aware of them, Although our priority is going to be the announcement of Nevard vision and any possible terrorist attacks on him There are also many people assuming that he's going to give a startling rebuttal of the new ways and call for a return to traditionalism. We also give the RHC a report. Thus ends an amazing session and see y'all next week Have a great and wonderful day and a happy 2023. [/QUOTE]
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