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<blockquote data-quote="Cultsbane" data-source="post: 8956484" data-attributes="member: 7037457"><p>Campaign time: 2 hours, 56 mins, 07 seconds (a bit of a shorter session)</p><p></p><p></p><p>We're heading in for questioning. Kelik is now aware that the old king is the one who established a new Risur order by crushing the fey titans, even the voice of rot and Ash wolf was nothing compared to him</p><p></p><p>The benefactor Caius is confirmed killed, his face ripped off, like all the Tiefling bodies in the void</p><p></p><p>We have all the known ancients artifacts (with our powers combined!)</p><p></p><p>Anael still wants to go up Caldron as she informs us about what she discovered about the warehouse and that she found two trails leading from the warehouse. One trail had bleak gate energy that went to Caldron hill, the other had apet energy</p><p></p><p>However it's Time for our interview and interrogation with Lady Songbird, she sees us and tells Kelik to come in as Tabaxi form. So to not create mistrust</p><p></p><p>Asking why we went to Caldron hill. Anael admits that she found something sus and acted on her own</p><p></p><p>The place you were at before Caldron hill being the warehouse you burnt down? Anael explains herself</p><p></p><p>Lady Songbird replies with "I would love to throw you into prison for insubordination, but we're very limited on staff. Besides The people have noticed the party is near all these incidents so really RHC is protecting you from them" </p><p></p><p>Now for the performance review let's start listing your failures - such as blowing up Coaltongue, starting revolution, creating division and distrust among people, fraternizing with anarchist</p><p></p><p>Kelik interrupts her saying "are you going to fire us?" </p><p></p><p>She then starts listing accomplishments such as protection of the weapons convention and arresting the mayor, but even finds way to insult us about the mayor as it was unconfirmed if he was guilty or not</p><p></p><p>We start countering with the good things we actually done like capture Axis islands, capture Ber's famed arsonists, stopping wand smuggling, & finding the king's sister. You might not like us but we get results, sometimes bad and sometimes good but we get results </p><p></p><p>"And now for the next thing is the reacquisition of items. You can report them first as to avoid smuggling to criminals that you know well" - Lady Songbird </p><p></p><p>Kelik puts forward his carbine, and is told that he may keep them. Anael admits to having the staff to prevent it from going to bad hands</p><p></p><p>Lady songbirds say the proper procedure is to register every item you find. You can keep it for this investigation, it might serve useful</p><p></p><p>My final assessment is that many of you double allegiance. Especially Kelik, Anael, and Hops </p><p></p><p>Kelik "it's no secret my husband works for Ber and I'm from Ber"</p><p></p><p>Anael "I have no allegiance unless I'm paid and Risur pays the best"</p><p></p><p>Hops "you know my travels and tales"</p><p></p><p>Both Freya and Isabelle aren't asked this question (interesting)</p><p></p><p>"You have been getting results, but you create chaos, look I'll give you another chance to get results without causing incidents and I'll make the report passable. Speaking of, we got an issue today and if you wish you have permission to go up to Caldron hill today. Also if I catch any of you doing any improper dealing with the underworld be it mafia, anarchist, or others we will be tried and executed for treason. We can not have any corruption here"</p><p></p><p>"Maybe you're not acting out of anti Risur malice, but you are choosing reckless chaos and because of that you'll still be followed until you're shown to be better RHC officers" </p><p></p><p>Kelik asks for a short leash, one that allow us the latitude in an emergency making some unsavory decisions needing approval with bureaucrats. </p><p></p><p>Songbirds says just report to the people following you and if we fail this we will not get paid and if we show corruption we get executed</p><p></p><p>Lady Songbird says a lot of group are following us. Apparently some visited our houses, like a certain shadow man, the one from Caldron Hill but that we don't have the manpower and priority to arrest him </p><p></p><p>Kelik asks what is your top priority?</p><p></p><p>Our top priority is that the Mayor Reed case isn't over yet, we got our better teams investigating that. But I'll ask what is your priority?</p><p></p><p>We say Everything is connected so it should be equal - Kelik </p><p></p><p>So you're saying you should investigate that murder and make your way up Caldron hill trip today? - Lady Songbird</p><p></p><p>She mentions other priorities like the dockers under Rock Rackus who actually used to work for the benefactor who was murdered today, but is also rapping about starting revolution and calling himself a college dropout </p><p></p><p>(We all start making Kanye reference) </p><p></p><p>We leave. Kelik says I apologize but I hate authority. Hops apologies for meeting Gale and The anarchist so much</p><p></p><p>Freya is just like "isn't bureaucracy fun"</p><p></p><p>Hops asks our RHC followers if fey pepper is legal or not. The officer Sarah starts smoking saying it's officially illegal but we don't really enforce it unless we want to</p><p></p><p>Kelik warns Sebastian (his husband) that shadow man been going to our houses and it isn't safe here</p><p></p><p>At the docks a big crowd is centered around a man on a soap box crying for better pay and revolution, with another man hyping them up by saying the government hates them and they need a hero. The hero is Rock Rackus, the one who went through the 17 seas, and went to the moon to get gold and has cuckold every king in the world. The true hero is Rock Rackus, as he throws gold into the crowd. </p><p></p><p>Someone throws a flaming bottle of liquor and parts of the docks and alleyways begin to burn. But no one cares </p><p></p><p>Rock Rackus calls out Anael for causing a Ruckus. We ask to talk to him alone. He says we all share information publicly around here. </p><p></p><p>We mention his old employer Caius has died. </p><p></p><p>He starts listing things they did for gim. Including stealing a golden plate in Crisillyir and that his was really real. So real he got 2 million gold for him. Now I'm spreading the wealth around, as he throws more gold </p><p></p><p>Freya grabs some of the gold "I'm a college student I need to pay rent"</p><p></p><p>Anael is invited to a rap battle. Hops offers Rock Rackus fey pepper. Rock Rackus says he can't smoke fey pepper or it'll impact his teleportation going once to the moon because of it</p><p></p><p>Ever been up to Cauldron hill? - Kelik </p><p></p><p>Sorry sorry people I got something to do gotta take care of number uno so stay back. He begins heading to Cauldron Hill, rapping the entire way there </p><p></p><p>Hops asks if he ever ran into any ash wolf creatures at his ziggurat </p><p></p><p>Yeah the ash wolf wasn't a big fan of my rapping and I said well don't have such big ears. You need to leave he said to me and I did </p><p></p><p>Hops "I know our next fey titan to deal with" </p><p></p><p>At the mid point of the hill the Shadow man makes his appearance and hands Rock Rackas a map. Which is a star map, Freya notices it and recognizes the star that is labeled and she knows it's a blue star, reflects light from an endless ocean and it's part of her phd</p><p></p><p>Hops buys the map for Freya so she can continue reading it more </p><p></p><p>Shadow man starts walking away. We're like we should follow him</p><p></p><p>Kelik and Rock Rackus rush up the hill. Rock treating it like a race celebrating when winning through teleporting lol (showing he can do it And isn't always just lying) </p><p></p><p>Shadow man is like why do you decide to follow me continuously despite all these warnings? His shadow mask drops off revealing his regular face of his old butler form Cillian Creed, saying I hope you enjoy that map</p><p></p><p>Cillian specifically warns Anael to never visit the bleak gate again or he will kill her this time. I didn't kill you because of a policy of not killing law enforcement if we can avoid it</p><p></p><p>Kelik asks why he was outside my house. Cillian says gotta keep y'all protected </p><p></p><p>We ask why he killed Caius If he's supposedly protecting us. Cillian reveals it isn't him, but it'll be so funny when he find out. He disappears melting into a tree's shadow</p><p></p><p>We feel a giant planar energy come from the top of the hill. As a light engulfs Rock Rackus and he disappears. We know it's him using teleport </p><p></p><p>Hops goes "chicken naughty word" and we're like guess we're going to see the Cauldron at the top</p><p></p><p>Wisdom saves. Freya gets a natural 1, Freya looks into the sky, a small red curtain appears, out comes the face of Mayor Reed, very red eyed and aged. Staring at Freya, he says "so you have sent me to my grave, I will send you to yours, to hell and to the end of time. Freya eyes begin bleeding, Freya takes 18 psychic damage as she begins trying to remove her eyes. Fire shooting off her eyes in a frenzy flamed </p><p></p><p>Freya gets another natural 1. Freya just suddenly collapses, her eyes lifeless. She feels her soul being detached from her body. Her soul floating off in the sky. Hops uses the eschatology feature to revive her but Freya hears in her unconscious state Mayor Reed say</p><p></p><p>"You will soon see a new world, in our image, where nothing confines us. A new world is coming and I want you to be our first witnesses. This will be delicious" </p><p></p><p>Freya again blacks out this time very unconscious, getting dragged down the hill </p><p></p><p>Hops is like yeah we should head back down the hill. Anael and Kelik are very curious to go up the hill. Wisdom save number 3. They all pass </p><p></p><p>Roll number 4, 5, 6, - 6 Kelik and Anael start getting bad visions. Both taking 25 psychic damage. Kelik stops entirely in his tracks. Having second thoughts?</p><p></p><p>They all keep heading up the hill And actually managed to make it without any other issue. </p><p></p><p>Cauldron leaking witch oil. Hops uses identity, seeing it dated back to the time of the witches. That the Caldron itself isn't magic but inside it is every trace of magic you can imagine. This could've been used for experiments. Arcane check of 18, getting a wift of the same magic of the same old magic the skyseers use</p><p></p><p>Another arcane check, Hops learns the contents and how to make them which is that one person takes damage and other doesn't. It tells you a ritual written on a scroll of human flesh, made by the blood of a sacrificed pregnant mother, the gap of dismemberment corpse. This is how to make this. He us horrified because the skyseers used it on us. Bound of force faith used by the ancient witches to become nearly unkillable in battle until the old king killed them as well </p><p></p><p>Hops says let's jump off the edge using feather fall. Everyone wisdom saves, hops gets 8, taking twenty psychic damage. Hops is just barren white as a sheep, silent, staring off into space realizing what the skyseer </p><p></p><p>Freya wakes back up, hearing an RHC agent Sarah asking her questions, says that she saw Mayor Reed and not much else. Freya gives the full details to the party, which Kelik is very disturbed by this </p><p></p><p>We follow the Apet energy to a weird room at The benefactor's place and locked chest. Kelik pulls out a crowbar, Freya adjusts it to be more fragile and he smashed it open </p><p></p><p>A giant gust of fire comes out, Kelik gets a 21 sex rolling out of the way, taking only 6 fire damage. He sees inside papers inside that get burned up, as the fire begins spreading around the area</p><p></p><p>Kelik tries to put it out but isn't able to. Anael notices on the wall a giant gold coin plate in ancient. Anael reads it "seal of the plane of fire" lol</p><p></p><p>We steal it lol. We find out on the back a bit of information about a group called the Obscurati. We go off and find professor Xambria about this group, but she doesn't know much only that they launched another expedition to the ziggurat with the ash wolf </p><p></p><p>We tell her we ended up accidentally setting her journals on fire and everything she ever researched is gone. She just collapses on the ground sobbing, saying I'm glad the star chart got stolen it's the most important thing, But I'll never get it back. Everything was pointless</p><p></p><p>Freya reveals The star chart to her, Xambria is beyond relieved, And the two of them start studying it together before concluding that they must go to the ziggurat with this new found information </p><p></p><p>DM says we're going to have fun next week, wants us all here, called this is when naughty word gets real section of the module </p><p></p><p>(We're also apparently skipping over a naval section entirely in module 3 and possibly the Voice of Rot find The intruder quest. Which basically means we're cutting down the module by a few weeks) </p><p></p><p>And yes I already got module four for the DM, so get hyped for that. Baccano intensified</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cultsbane, post: 8956484, member: 7037457"] Campaign time: 2 hours, 56 mins, 07 seconds (a bit of a shorter session) We're heading in for questioning. Kelik is now aware that the old king is the one who established a new Risur order by crushing the fey titans, even the voice of rot and Ash wolf was nothing compared to him The benefactor Caius is confirmed killed, his face ripped off, like all the Tiefling bodies in the void We have all the known ancients artifacts (with our powers combined!) Anael still wants to go up Caldron as she informs us about what she discovered about the warehouse and that she found two trails leading from the warehouse. One trail had bleak gate energy that went to Caldron hill, the other had apet energy However it's Time for our interview and interrogation with Lady Songbird, she sees us and tells Kelik to come in as Tabaxi form. So to not create mistrust Asking why we went to Caldron hill. Anael admits that she found something sus and acted on her own The place you were at before Caldron hill being the warehouse you burnt down? Anael explains herself Lady Songbird replies with "I would love to throw you into prison for insubordination, but we're very limited on staff. Besides The people have noticed the party is near all these incidents so really RHC is protecting you from them" Now for the performance review let's start listing your failures - such as blowing up Coaltongue, starting revolution, creating division and distrust among people, fraternizing with anarchist Kelik interrupts her saying "are you going to fire us?" She then starts listing accomplishments such as protection of the weapons convention and arresting the mayor, but even finds way to insult us about the mayor as it was unconfirmed if he was guilty or not We start countering with the good things we actually done like capture Axis islands, capture Ber's famed arsonists, stopping wand smuggling, & finding the king's sister. You might not like us but we get results, sometimes bad and sometimes good but we get results "And now for the next thing is the reacquisition of items. You can report them first as to avoid smuggling to criminals that you know well" - Lady Songbird Kelik puts forward his carbine, and is told that he may keep them. Anael admits to having the staff to prevent it from going to bad hands Lady songbirds say the proper procedure is to register every item you find. You can keep it for this investigation, it might serve useful My final assessment is that many of you double allegiance. Especially Kelik, Anael, and Hops Kelik "it's no secret my husband works for Ber and I'm from Ber" Anael "I have no allegiance unless I'm paid and Risur pays the best" Hops "you know my travels and tales" Both Freya and Isabelle aren't asked this question (interesting) "You have been getting results, but you create chaos, look I'll give you another chance to get results without causing incidents and I'll make the report passable. Speaking of, we got an issue today and if you wish you have permission to go up to Caldron hill today. Also if I catch any of you doing any improper dealing with the underworld be it mafia, anarchist, or others we will be tried and executed for treason. We can not have any corruption here" "Maybe you're not acting out of anti Risur malice, but you are choosing reckless chaos and because of that you'll still be followed until you're shown to be better RHC officers" Kelik asks for a short leash, one that allow us the latitude in an emergency making some unsavory decisions needing approval with bureaucrats. Songbirds says just report to the people following you and if we fail this we will not get paid and if we show corruption we get executed Lady Songbird says a lot of group are following us. Apparently some visited our houses, like a certain shadow man, the one from Caldron Hill but that we don't have the manpower and priority to arrest him Kelik asks what is your top priority? Our top priority is that the Mayor Reed case isn't over yet, we got our better teams investigating that. But I'll ask what is your priority? We say Everything is connected so it should be equal - Kelik So you're saying you should investigate that murder and make your way up Caldron hill trip today? - Lady Songbird She mentions other priorities like the dockers under Rock Rackus who actually used to work for the benefactor who was murdered today, but is also rapping about starting revolution and calling himself a college dropout (We all start making Kanye reference) We leave. Kelik says I apologize but I hate authority. Hops apologies for meeting Gale and The anarchist so much Freya is just like "isn't bureaucracy fun" Hops asks our RHC followers if fey pepper is legal or not. The officer Sarah starts smoking saying it's officially illegal but we don't really enforce it unless we want to Kelik warns Sebastian (his husband) that shadow man been going to our houses and it isn't safe here At the docks a big crowd is centered around a man on a soap box crying for better pay and revolution, with another man hyping them up by saying the government hates them and they need a hero. The hero is Rock Rackus, the one who went through the 17 seas, and went to the moon to get gold and has cuckold every king in the world. The true hero is Rock Rackus, as he throws gold into the crowd. Someone throws a flaming bottle of liquor and parts of the docks and alleyways begin to burn. But no one cares Rock Rackus calls out Anael for causing a Ruckus. We ask to talk to him alone. He says we all share information publicly around here. We mention his old employer Caius has died. He starts listing things they did for gim. Including stealing a golden plate in Crisillyir and that his was really real. So real he got 2 million gold for him. Now I'm spreading the wealth around, as he throws more gold Freya grabs some of the gold "I'm a college student I need to pay rent" Anael is invited to a rap battle. Hops offers Rock Rackus fey pepper. Rock Rackus says he can't smoke fey pepper or it'll impact his teleportation going once to the moon because of it Ever been up to Cauldron hill? - Kelik Sorry sorry people I got something to do gotta take care of number uno so stay back. He begins heading to Cauldron Hill, rapping the entire way there Hops asks if he ever ran into any ash wolf creatures at his ziggurat Yeah the ash wolf wasn't a big fan of my rapping and I said well don't have such big ears. You need to leave he said to me and I did Hops "I know our next fey titan to deal with" At the mid point of the hill the Shadow man makes his appearance and hands Rock Rackas a map. Which is a star map, Freya notices it and recognizes the star that is labeled and she knows it's a blue star, reflects light from an endless ocean and it's part of her phd Hops buys the map for Freya so she can continue reading it more Shadow man starts walking away. We're like we should follow him Kelik and Rock Rackus rush up the hill. Rock treating it like a race celebrating when winning through teleporting lol (showing he can do it And isn't always just lying) Shadow man is like why do you decide to follow me continuously despite all these warnings? His shadow mask drops off revealing his regular face of his old butler form Cillian Creed, saying I hope you enjoy that map Cillian specifically warns Anael to never visit the bleak gate again or he will kill her this time. I didn't kill you because of a policy of not killing law enforcement if we can avoid it Kelik asks why he was outside my house. Cillian says gotta keep y'all protected We ask why he killed Caius If he's supposedly protecting us. Cillian reveals it isn't him, but it'll be so funny when he find out. He disappears melting into a tree's shadow We feel a giant planar energy come from the top of the hill. As a light engulfs Rock Rackus and he disappears. We know it's him using teleport Hops goes "chicken naughty word" and we're like guess we're going to see the Cauldron at the top Wisdom saves. Freya gets a natural 1, Freya looks into the sky, a small red curtain appears, out comes the face of Mayor Reed, very red eyed and aged. Staring at Freya, he says "so you have sent me to my grave, I will send you to yours, to hell and to the end of time. Freya eyes begin bleeding, Freya takes 18 psychic damage as she begins trying to remove her eyes. Fire shooting off her eyes in a frenzy flamed Freya gets another natural 1. Freya just suddenly collapses, her eyes lifeless. She feels her soul being detached from her body. Her soul floating off in the sky. Hops uses the eschatology feature to revive her but Freya hears in her unconscious state Mayor Reed say "You will soon see a new world, in our image, where nothing confines us. A new world is coming and I want you to be our first witnesses. This will be delicious" Freya again blacks out this time very unconscious, getting dragged down the hill Hops is like yeah we should head back down the hill. Anael and Kelik are very curious to go up the hill. Wisdom save number 3. They all pass Roll number 4, 5, 6, - 6 Kelik and Anael start getting bad visions. Both taking 25 psychic damage. Kelik stops entirely in his tracks. Having second thoughts? They all keep heading up the hill And actually managed to make it without any other issue. Cauldron leaking witch oil. Hops uses identity, seeing it dated back to the time of the witches. That the Caldron itself isn't magic but inside it is every trace of magic you can imagine. This could've been used for experiments. Arcane check of 18, getting a wift of the same magic of the same old magic the skyseers use Another arcane check, Hops learns the contents and how to make them which is that one person takes damage and other doesn't. It tells you a ritual written on a scroll of human flesh, made by the blood of a sacrificed pregnant mother, the gap of dismemberment corpse. This is how to make this. He us horrified because the skyseers used it on us. Bound of force faith used by the ancient witches to become nearly unkillable in battle until the old king killed them as well Hops says let's jump off the edge using feather fall. Everyone wisdom saves, hops gets 8, taking twenty psychic damage. Hops is just barren white as a sheep, silent, staring off into space realizing what the skyseer Freya wakes back up, hearing an RHC agent Sarah asking her questions, says that she saw Mayor Reed and not much else. Freya gives the full details to the party, which Kelik is very disturbed by this We follow the Apet energy to a weird room at The benefactor's place and locked chest. Kelik pulls out a crowbar, Freya adjusts it to be more fragile and he smashed it open A giant gust of fire comes out, Kelik gets a 21 sex rolling out of the way, taking only 6 fire damage. He sees inside papers inside that get burned up, as the fire begins spreading around the area Kelik tries to put it out but isn't able to. Anael notices on the wall a giant gold coin plate in ancient. Anael reads it "seal of the plane of fire" lol We steal it lol. We find out on the back a bit of information about a group called the Obscurati. We go off and find professor Xambria about this group, but she doesn't know much only that they launched another expedition to the ziggurat with the ash wolf We tell her we ended up accidentally setting her journals on fire and everything she ever researched is gone. She just collapses on the ground sobbing, saying I'm glad the star chart got stolen it's the most important thing, But I'll never get it back. Everything was pointless Freya reveals The star chart to her, Xambria is beyond relieved, And the two of them start studying it together before concluding that they must go to the ziggurat with this new found information DM says we're going to have fun next week, wants us all here, called this is when naughty word gets real section of the module (We're also apparently skipping over a naval section entirely in module 3 and possibly the Voice of Rot find The intruder quest. Which basically means we're cutting down the module by a few weeks) And yes I already got module four for the DM, so get hyped for that. Baccano intensified [/QUOTE]
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