Date: 9 May, 22 p.p.
Moon: Waxing Crescent - Dragonside
Zenith: The Lady
New Characters:
- Julian & Aximander - a painter possessed by Aximander, the elf-soul of a Languid Wastrel, who takes more control of their shared body as the magic builds...
- Philippides Goath - not truly a new character, but a returning one! It's Poison Phil! He survived the wastes!
New Backstory:
- Historically the Saxon Invasion refers to a single Saxon - Swan the Swift! His rage destroyed Kent, and so he rages no more. +1 vs Unconsciousness rolls.
- Historically the Saxon Invasion refers to a single Saxon - Swan the Swift! His rage destroyed Kent, and so he rages no more. +1 vs Unconsciousness rolls.
Events:
--- BEAMing down to Splug
- The party peers down at the great pyramid from the air, floating ominously in the sky in their enormous living airship. The ship shivers blissfully as a summer storm soothes its sunburnt flanks.
- Flowing out from the pyramid is a black metallic river of something like tar, explicitly not like the Cruor they found inside Fortress-City Fate. Some silver craft scuds along it, heading out from the ramshackle goblin village that sprawls by the pyramid.
--- BEAMing down to Splug
- The party peers down at the great pyramid from the air, floating ominously in the sky in their enormous living airship. The ship shivers blissfully as a summer storm soothes its sunburnt flanks.
- Flowing out from the pyramid is a black metallic river of something like tar, explicitly not like the Cruor they found inside Fortress-City Fate. Some silver craft scuds along it, heading out from the ramshackle goblin village that sprawls by the pyramid.
- The crew of the Jonathon Toast adjust the control nipples and bring the airship closer to the village. A number of distant figures begin running out to greet them! Mostly green, but some of human skin tones.
- Coming out from under the clouds, the air becomes clammy, and the walls of the airship start to sweat.
- Odo Grumblebelch, employee of the Grumblebelch Co. of Mt Grumblebelch, suggests using the BEAM system to reach the ground. With no goblins in the crew to act as a negotiator, Jojo uses her new Transform Elf spell to turn Julian into a goblin. Convenient! He declares that if anyone asks, his name is Styx. "I'm a dude possessed by a dude disguised as another dude!".
- The large bucket is duly lowered, and the away team reaches ground level.
- Coming out from under the clouds, the air becomes clammy, and the walls of the airship start to sweat.
- Odo Grumblebelch, employee of the Grumblebelch Co. of Mt Grumblebelch, suggests using the BEAM system to reach the ground. With no goblins in the crew to act as a negotiator, Jojo uses her new Transform Elf spell to turn Julian into a goblin. Convenient! He declares that if anyone asks, his name is Styx. "I'm a dude possessed by a dude disguised as another dude!".
- The large bucket is duly lowered, and the away team reaches ground level.
- The goblins are in awe, it's a miracle! A whole load of meat for them to eat! What a beautiful gift! Julian tries his level hobgoblin-shaped best to dissuade them, and finds out that these are the downtrodden villagers who are forced to grant offerings of food and mushroom beer to the Great Globbos who live in the pyramid. Failure to deliver means a dust storm comes in the night, and in the morning some of their number are gone. Huge footprints are the only thing left behind.
- In the village behind, more goblins in solid mushroom-based armour seem to be setting up defences. These are, so the goblins say, the enforcers of the Great Globbos' will.
- In the village behind, more goblins in solid mushroom-based armour seem to be setting up defences. These are, so the goblins say, the enforcers of the Great Globbos' will.
--- The Return of Poison Phil
- Also in the ragtag crowd are several humans, twice as tall as the Goblins around them. One of them is none other than Poison Phil! Back once again! Now going by his true name of Philipiddes Goath, he has returned just in time to see Swan the Swift leave to return to the Wheatlands. Sensing a deep kinship, Swan grants him a revolver and many to start the Drudge Wastes Wheatlands Co. A windfall indeed!
- Further questioning gets them some info beyond the pyramid tributes. There's also a big spike to the east that arrived a month ago, and in the middle of the goop river there's a mysterious brick well. Also a Ratman has some issues with giant rats in his basement.
- Further questioning gets them some info beyond the pyramid tributes. There's also a big spike to the east that arrived a month ago, and in the middle of the goop river there's a mysterious brick well. Also a Ratman has some issues with giant rats in his basement.
- Dave the Human offers to help the party enter the village of Splug by telling the guards that everything's fine, which works! The guards, who had assumed the arrival of the horrible meat airship was a prelude to attack, are quite relieved actually.
- The Captain of the Gobbo Guard, Captain Gobbulus, greets them at the rapidly constructed barricade and demands they put their arms and armour away. The party acquiesce and put everything in the animated rewind clock which dances and sings behind Sydney. It's been there the whole time.
- He also seizes Odo's sword and declares that he'll hold onto it for now.
- The Captain of the Gobbo Guard, Captain Gobbulus, greets them at the rapidly constructed barricade and demands they put their arms and armour away. The party acquiesce and put everything in the animated rewind clock which dances and sings behind Sydney. It's been there the whole time.
- He also seizes Odo's sword and declares that he'll hold onto it for now.
--- The Great Gobbos
- "Take us to your leader", says the party that have just BEAMed down from an airship! The captain duly does so.
- On the way they witness a silver vehicle tied up at a dock over the black river. The river is some sort of ferrofluid ooze, and the vehicle's hydrofoil design keeps it above the goop.
- Jojo casts Leg End Lore on a massive footprint she sees on the way - evidence of whatever comes and seizes goblins if they don't offer tribute to the pyramid. She sees a vision of a huge foot, brown mud swimming through the friction ridges, hangnail evident on the big toe. What could it be??
- Captain Gobbulus tells them that they can only ask a single question of each Great Gobbo, and ushers them into their sanctum.
- They are shown through a big thick curtain into a dark room in a dodgy building built against a huge crack running down the pyramid. Looming from the darkness are three goblin-shaped statues - one with a huge nose, one with huge ears, and one with huge eyes.
- Odo and Julian immediately do the thing where they waste all the questions by asking questions among themselves, completely naturally too! The statues laugh and give them three more questions.
- They ask the Ear Globbo what it's heard of the big spike out to the east. It says it's a Marlingspike, an ancient device only recently activated by creatures from beyond this planet!
- They ask the Nose Globbo what it knows about the creatures that come from inside the pyramid. It says they smell earthy.
- They ask the Eye Globbo what they would see if they could see into the darkness behind the statues... and it says "US!" and bursts out of the gloom! It's an enormous three-headed giant, each head with a different huge facial feature, and it attacks the party for their insolence!
--- Against the Giant
- Phillipides downs a Potion of Goblin Control and commands the giant to stop... but it's not a goblin! Alas!
- Odo jumps off a Globbo statue and starts climbing the giant, poking the Eye Head's eye!
- "Take us to your leader", says the party that have just BEAMed down from an airship! The captain duly does so.
- On the way they witness a silver vehicle tied up at a dock over the black river. The river is some sort of ferrofluid ooze, and the vehicle's hydrofoil design keeps it above the goop.
- Jojo casts Leg End Lore on a massive footprint she sees on the way - evidence of whatever comes and seizes goblins if they don't offer tribute to the pyramid. She sees a vision of a huge foot, brown mud swimming through the friction ridges, hangnail evident on the big toe. What could it be??
- Captain Gobbulus tells them that they can only ask a single question of each Great Gobbo, and ushers them into their sanctum.
- They are shown through a big thick curtain into a dark room in a dodgy building built against a huge crack running down the pyramid. Looming from the darkness are three goblin-shaped statues - one with a huge nose, one with huge ears, and one with huge eyes.
- Odo and Julian immediately do the thing where they waste all the questions by asking questions among themselves, completely naturally too! The statues laugh and give them three more questions.
- They ask the Ear Globbo what it's heard of the big spike out to the east. It says it's a Marlingspike, an ancient device only recently activated by creatures from beyond this planet!
- They ask the Nose Globbo what it knows about the creatures that come from inside the pyramid. It says they smell earthy.
- They ask the Eye Globbo what they would see if they could see into the darkness behind the statues... and it says "US!" and bursts out of the gloom! It's an enormous three-headed giant, each head with a different huge facial feature, and it attacks the party for their insolence!
--- Against the Giant
- Phillipides downs a Potion of Goblin Control and commands the giant to stop... but it's not a goblin! Alas!
- Odo jumps off a Globbo statue and starts climbing the giant, poking the Eye Head's eye!
- Julian reveals a hidden dagger and crits the giant, stunning it for the round!
- Jojo punches the floor and casts Earthcake, turning the ground beneath the giant into chocolate lava cake! It's delicious, and like quicksand!
- Sydney's living clock dances around, singing and distributing weapons!
- Odo wrestles the giant and forces it down into the cake! It's tasty!
- Sydney tries to cast a spell but it goes awry and his jaw turns (temporarily) to rocks and crystal teeth. He can only eat rocks and gems now! Cake cake everywhere, and not a bite to eat.
- Julian is dual-wielding an Atrametal Knife and a paint scraper, but fumbles and harms both! We establish that the atrametal means the knife can heal itself in addition to dealing charisma damage.
- Odo whacks one of the giants' ears over and over with his spiked helmet, so it grabs him and chucks him at the others! Odo goes flying, barreling through Phillipedes and Jojo and rolling out the curtain into the street outside!
- Outside, Odo starts a slapstick battle with Captain Gobbulus over who gets to keep the sword. Inside, Sydney slips and falls face-first into the cake.
- Phil shoots the giant with his revolver, and the giant capitulates.
- Outside Odo is in a rage and nearly dying, and until Jojo bursts out and annihilates the goblin Captain with a crit! The other guard goblins surrender immediately! Unfortunately Odo's rage can't be stopped with a mere kill, and it takes another murder to make him calm back down.
- Jojo punches the floor and casts Earthcake, turning the ground beneath the giant into chocolate lava cake! It's delicious, and like quicksand!
- Sydney's living clock dances around, singing and distributing weapons!
- Odo wrestles the giant and forces it down into the cake! It's tasty!
- Sydney tries to cast a spell but it goes awry and his jaw turns (temporarily) to rocks and crystal teeth. He can only eat rocks and gems now! Cake cake everywhere, and not a bite to eat.
- Julian is dual-wielding an Atrametal Knife and a paint scraper, but fumbles and harms both! We establish that the atrametal means the knife can heal itself in addition to dealing charisma damage.
- Odo whacks one of the giants' ears over and over with his spiked helmet, so it grabs him and chucks him at the others! Odo goes flying, barreling through Phillipedes and Jojo and rolling out the curtain into the street outside!
- Outside, Odo starts a slapstick battle with Captain Gobbulus over who gets to keep the sword. Inside, Sydney slips and falls face-first into the cake.
- Phil shoots the giant with his revolver, and the giant capitulates.
- Outside Odo is in a rage and nearly dying, and until Jojo bursts out and annihilates the goblin Captain with a crit! The other guard goblins surrender immediately! Unfortunately Odo's rage can't be stopped with a mere kill, and it takes another murder to make him calm back down.
--- Giant Mysteries
- The giant's name is Sbeven Golem, as it turns out, and his kind live within the pyramid after being sent to destroy it long ago. He's clearly got something in common with the stone sons that the Dwarves of Ur-Kalladh have instead of biological sons, what with being a mix of stone and flesh and living earth.
- The hollow pyramid captures latent energies, and it's this that empowers him and also repels the worst of the poison around here. That's why the village outside sprung up - you didn't explode into poison during the long toxic years after the world almost ended.
- He also mentions that the giant golems form unbreakable bonds with their True Names, which they never give to outsiders. Or almost never... as Aximander takes control of Julian's body and uses his Wastrel powers on the golem. The giant's true name is Harom-Kabosh.
- We end the session here... mere moments before the party decides whether to descend into the pyramid itself...
- The giant's name is Sbeven Golem, as it turns out, and his kind live within the pyramid after being sent to destroy it long ago. He's clearly got something in common with the stone sons that the Dwarves of Ur-Kalladh have instead of biological sons, what with being a mix of stone and flesh and living earth.
- The hollow pyramid captures latent energies, and it's this that empowers him and also repels the worst of the poison around here. That's why the village outside sprung up - you didn't explode into poison during the long toxic years after the world almost ended.
- He also mentions that the giant golems form unbreakable bonds with their True Names, which they never give to outsiders. Or almost never... as Aximander takes control of Julian's body and uses his Wastrel powers on the golem. The giant's true name is Harom-Kabosh.
- We end the session here... mere moments before the party decides whether to descend into the pyramid itself...
Total: 6000 exp
Foes Defeated:
- The giant golem Sbeven Golem (750 exp)
- Several goblin guards (30 exp)
Total: 780 exp
Foes Defeated:
- The giant golem Sbeven Golem (750 exp)
- Several goblin guards (30 exp)
Total: 780 exp
OOC:
- Chronicler and Cartographer - Carter
- Expedition Leader - George
- Paymaster and Vanguard - Tom
- Expedition Leader - George
- Paymaster and Vanguard - Tom
- Quartermaster - Ollie
- Chef - Kitty
Exp Totals:
- Carter / Sydney, Level 6 Magic-User: 50782 (Level up at 72000)
- Ollie / Jojo Fullbeard, Level 5 Muscle Wizard: 27426 (Level up at 36000)
- George / Poison Phil, Level 4 Fighter: 15493 (Level up at 16000)
- Tom / Odo Grumblebelch, Level 2 Dwarven Barbarian: 3200 (Level up at 4000)
Level Up! +1d10HP! +1 to Saves! +Lorebond! +Backstory!
Level Up! +1d10HP! +1 to Saves! +Lorebond! +Backstory!
- Kitty / Julian & Aximander, Level 2 Languid Wastrel: 2900 (Level up at 4500)
Level Up! +1d6 HP! +1 to Saves! +1 Mana! +Backstory!
Level Up! +1d6 HP! +1 to Saves! +1 Mana! +Backstory!
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