Date: 25 April, 22 p.p.
Moon: First Quarter
Zenith: The Dead God
New Characters:
- Odo Grumblebelch, a "Dwarfbarian" on loan from the Mt Grumblebelch Co.
- Odo Grumblebelch, a "Dwarfbarian" on loan from the Mt Grumblebelch Co.
New Backstory:
- Grumblebelch was tragically left behind by his Dwarven outcast clan because he was slowing them down, and they abandoned him behind them. +1 to Fleeing rolls of allies ahead of you
- Grumblebelch was tragically left behind by his Dwarven outcast clan because he was slowing them down, and they abandoned him behind them. +1 to Fleeing rolls of allies ahead of you
New Mentors:
- Dorian has retired to become the owner of a Wyvern Sanctuary, breeding wyverns to make sure this rare creature takes to the skies once more! Mentor Power: Great contortionist - can basically squeeze through ludicrously small gaps.
- Dorian has retired to become the owner of a Wyvern Sanctuary, breeding wyverns to make sure this rare creature takes to the skies once more! Mentor Power: Great contortionist - can basically squeeze through ludicrously small gaps.
- Grumblebelch has retired to create a new Dwarven hall and mining conglomerate in the mountains to the west. Mentor Power: Get Out of Blender Free Card - Escape a very obviously telegraphed death, once.
Events:
--- Jonathon Toast Comes in Clutch
- Some time has passed the destruction of Shub-Wizardwrath, and the dramatic nature of the intervening time is too dramatic to detail here.
- Suffice to say that the great symbiotic wizard combination was destroyed, the great fleshy airship named Jonathon Toast made its way round to the underside of Fortress-City Fate, and the party were rescued from the mechanical depths.
- Some time has passed the destruction of Shub-Wizardwrath, and the dramatic nature of the intervening time is too dramatic to detail here.
- Suffice to say that the great symbiotic wizard combination was destroyed, the great fleshy airship named Jonathon Toast made its way round to the underside of Fortress-City Fate, and the party were rescued from the mechanical depths.
- They've been living the high life since, regaling the many LARPers of Fate with their tales of derring-do in the underworld.
- Notably the airship is now fully staffed. There's a little shop staffed by none other than the gold-masked demon Julgoor! He will be able to do all the usual buying and selling of a small town, plus he's got the access to the Gardens of Ynn that can be used to fast-travel between settlements!
- The requirements for access are twofold - a society that enforces free markets and private property under a capitalist mode of production... and a garden. Shrubberies are presumably a must!
- Julgoor also acts as a bank, since he is after all the ultimate source of the Obol-backed Debt Tattoos and the drug-peg that keeps them valuable. Swan sends money back home.
- The requirements for access are twofold - a society that enforces free markets and private property under a capitalist mode of production... and a garden. Shrubberies are presumably a must!
- Julgoor also acts as a bank, since he is after all the ultimate source of the Obol-backed Debt Tattoos and the drug-peg that keeps them valuable. Swan sends money back home.
--- Down to Business
- Hyped up by all this talk of capital accumulation, Grumblebelch puts his vast fortune to work by founding Mt Grumblebelch Co. in the mountains west of Mt Death Frost. Strike the earth!
- Hyped up by all this talk of capital accumulation, Grumblebelch puts his vast fortune to work by founding Mt Grumblebelch Co. in the mountains west of Mt Death Frost. Strike the earth!
- Sydney spends their time working on some interesting new spells in the downtime, creating such stuff as Recolour, Animate Furnishing, and Control Zed.
- Jojo, inspired by Gimblewang's dyslexic spells, creates wonders such as Polymorph Elf and Earthcake.
- Jojo, inspired by Gimblewang's dyslexic spells, creates wonders such as Polymorph Elf and Earthcake.
- Swan the Swift opens up the Wheatlands Neo Spacedin Branch near the crashed spaceship in the shattered Dino-Dome, the serfs made up of savage human survivors and their loyal Mod Con allies. Finally, an alternative to poorly cooked pizza!
--- Bertha Returns!
- The party are called to the Sciotherico palace at the centre of Fate, it's once-bustling halls of penitent actuaries empty and silent.
- In the throne room the de facto rulers of Fate are gathered around a table that is clearly a repurposed miniatures game used to resolve some LARP-related conflict. In the absence of any real ruler, the people who'd been roleplaying Fate's rulers have been thrust into power!
- The inhabitants of Fate are, after all, simply sleeved copies of minds that were backed up into Fate during Styx's tenure. It's a long story, but basically it's the Matrix in the data stacks and those who want to live in the real world are sleeved into demon-clay bodies. They spend their time LARPing because they can't leave.
- The party are called to the Sciotherico palace at the centre of Fate, it's once-bustling halls of penitent actuaries empty and silent.
- In the throne room the de facto rulers of Fate are gathered around a table that is clearly a repurposed miniatures game used to resolve some LARP-related conflict. In the absence of any real ruler, the people who'd been roleplaying Fate's rulers have been thrust into power!
- The inhabitants of Fate are, after all, simply sleeved copies of minds that were backed up into Fate during Styx's tenure. It's a long story, but basically it's the Matrix in the data stacks and those who want to live in the real world are sleeved into demon-clay bodies. They spend their time LARPing because they can't leave.
- More interestingly, Bertha has arrived! The Vampire Queen of Mt Death Frost is worried because her frenemy and sometime co-ruler of the vampires Cyrus has attached himself to the Darga and is now some sort of god-figure to the mutant nosferatu. Help killing him would be appreciated.
- She's also super interested in the POWERLAD novels collected by Swan and Dorian! She buys them at a fine price.
- Given that the Fate datastacks remain unfixed, the uploaded minds are slowly but surely being lost. The solution - uploaded minds are being incarnated!
- Most are being reformed into real actual fleshy beings from the flesh-sludge that remains of Shub-Wizardwrath, assisted by the Unravelled priests down there. They're pretty chill now that they're no longer under the wizard-boss' influence.
- A smaller contingent are being Remade into metal golem bodies with help from a certain family of fire robots from deep below. They call themselves the Firehearts.
- Given that the Fate datastacks remain unfixed, the uploaded minds are slowly but surely being lost. The solution - uploaded minds are being incarnated!
- Most are being reformed into real actual fleshy beings from the flesh-sludge that remains of Shub-Wizardwrath, assisted by the Unravelled priests down there. They're pretty chill now that they're no longer under the wizard-boss' influence.
- A smaller contingent are being Remade into metal golem bodies with help from a certain family of fire robots from deep below. They call themselves the Firehearts.
- Grumblebelch works out a trade network between his mines, Bertha's undead, and Swan's Wheatlands. The Wheatlands will supply bread and beer to the mines and clean blood to Bertha's vampires. In exchange the mines get skeleton labour and the Wheatlands get stone for building on the rotting Meatlands and gems for a monetary system! It's a trade network baby!
--- Rumours, finally!
- "There's a place called New Moondin to the south that's protected by an energy shield and was completely untouched by the poison and the thorns! It's a miraculous place where they never even noticed the end of days!"
- "There's an insane version of Styx who lives in a huge tree north of the Dharga, surrounded by a thousand thousand iterations of himself which he keeps as slaves! He wants nothing more than to upload to Fate's mainframe and retake control... which is sure to disappoint him if it ever happens because Fate is completely broken."
- "A noble dragon as big as mountains roams the Drudge Wastes. Make sure not to wear metal around him, it offends him, and his legion of electric ghosts will eat it from your very body!"
- "The vampires that feasted upon the Dharga have become strange and mutated Nosferatu motherfuckers, and now they control the Dharga itself!"
- "A Styx iteration is burrowing into Fate's machinery and will soon activate the robots that will reset the whole place! They'll wipe everything and kill everyone who lives down there!"
- "There's an insane version of Styx who lives in a huge tree north of the Dharga, surrounded by a thousand thousand iterations of himself which he keeps as slaves! He wants nothing more than to upload to Fate's mainframe and retake control... which is sure to disappoint him if it ever happens because Fate is completely broken."
- "A noble dragon as big as mountains roams the Drudge Wastes. Make sure not to wear metal around him, it offends him, and his legion of electric ghosts will eat it from your very body!"
- "The vampires that feasted upon the Dharga have become strange and mutated Nosferatu motherfuckers, and now they control the Dharga itself!"
- "A Styx iteration is burrowing into Fate's machinery and will soon activate the robots that will reset the whole place! They'll wipe everything and kill everyone who lives down there!"
--- Final Checks
- Dorian takes the wyvern eggs and sets up the Wyvern Sanctuary down on the savannah below Fate, eating one of the eggs first to absorb a Wyvern's maternal instincts.
- Grumblebelch heads off to begin mining in his new business venture, bringing at least seven freshly incarnated Dwarves with him.
- Some days later, his successor arrives! It is Odo of the Grumblebelches (Odo Grumblebelch for short) who is a worker in the Mt Grumblebelch Co located under Mt Grumblebelch under the management of Grumblebelch, and he worships the Old Grump. He's also more Barbarian than Dwarf.
- Some days later, his successor arrives! It is Odo of the Grumblebelches (Odo Grumblebelch for short) who is a worker in the Mt Grumblebelch Co located under Mt Grumblebelch under the management of Grumblebelch, and he worships the Old Grump. He's also more Barbarian than Dwarf.
--- Liftoff!
- With Admin Adventures over, the crew of the good ship Jonathon Toast unmoor and sail off into the sky! A summer storm rains against the taut sunburnt skin of the meaty airship, internal bladders full of extremely flammable lighter-than-air gas, and crewed largely by a bunch of people the party's never met under the aegis of Jonathon Toast's central brain!
- They float towards the ziggurat they saw on the map long ago, and from here they can spot the ramshackle goblin town that's grown up around it. More distantly they can see a high-walled and blimp-topped city... and roaming the wastelands is an enormous blue dragon wreathed in machinery and storms.
- They float towards the ziggurat they saw on the map long ago, and from here they can spot the ramshackle goblin town that's grown up around it. More distantly they can see a high-walled and blimp-topped city... and roaming the wastelands is an enormous blue dragon wreathed in machinery and storms.
- Onwards into the Drudge Wastes!
Exp: 7000 exp
OOC:
- Chronicler: Carter
- Expedition Leader: George
- Paymaster & Vanguard: Tom
- Quartermaster: Ollie
Retired:
- Dorian "Ditto" DeMone
- Grumblebelch
- Grumblebelch
Exp Calc:
- George / Swan the Swift, Level 8 Barbarian: 128560 (Level up at 256000)
Level Up! +1d8 HP! +2 Barbarian Powers! +1 to Saves! +Backstory!
Level Up! +1d8 HP! +2 Barbarian Powers! +1 to Saves! +Backstory!
- Carter / Sydney, Level 6 Magic-User: 49182 (Level up at 72000)
- Ollie / Jojo Fullbeard, Level 5 Muscle Wizard: 25926 (Level up at 36000)
- Tom / Odo Grumblebelch, Level 1 Dwarven Barbarian: 1600 (Level up at 2000)
- Kitty / Julian Aximander, Level 1 Languid Wastrel: 1400 (Level up at 2250)
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