09-Avenj's Death

Summary

Events

On Ferrar’s Airship

• We wake up and make our way to the deck
• We haven’t moved from The Twin Veins
  • Ferrar has been lingering the airship (presumably to hunt his brother)
• Note: 12 days until the next full moon

A conversation with Jimmothy

• Roz rolls a 21 to speak with Jimmothy
• Jimmothy awakes
• Roz has him go ask the other gods if they know where Thompson is
• Another d100 (presumably to choose the god) roll yields an 81
• The mouth shifts to a crooked beak and the eyes get big
  • It is Asmodeus
• In return for knowing our future/where to go, he requires us to “bring a message to someone”
  • “Those who you seek are in Grumdur-Khaz”
  • The name of the recipient is The Piper
    • todo: add to the piper note: A history check teaches that the piper is “peter”; he is working with the silent fist and is a master of hypnotism
  • We will “coincidentally” run into him if need be
• “I can relate to you as my warlocks in The Council of the Cold Veil”
• Roz agrees to his deal
• Jimmothy returns as Roz berates him for bringing the demon
• The face goes away
• Roz knows that Thompson is south of Greythorne
• Knowing what we know about The Piper, Yharov gets wax to fill our ears
• We prepare to go find Thompson

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At Thompson’s camp

• On our way to Thompson’s Camp (a few miles to its south), we see Thompson’s Town
  • A town where thousands of his lycanthropes worship him
• We arrive at his camp and Hoots scouts for us
• Thompson is sickly on the bed with his missing hand
• We see Vi by his side
• There are a dozen or so lycanthropes here on guard
  • They are all on guard
• The nearby stream stinks, meaning it is hard to detect from smell
• We consider possibly having Roz and Yharov go in the camp in their own hybrid form

Inside the house

• Theodore uses Clairvoyance to hear and see in the house
• He sees the knife we are seeking
• Changing Clairvoyance to hearing, we hear Vi tell Thompson, “I’m done fixing your mistakes. Did you get Theratina?”
• “No. I wish I did.”
• Vi claims they are on a “crunch”
  • “The wars are about to begin”
  • “The land is about to freeze over”
  • “I don’t believe you deserve this knife anymore. It has corrupted you in a way you said it wouldn’t.”
  • “Now, I’m going to have some fun”
  • “If I find those individuals, I’m going to give this (knife) to them. See how fast they corrupt.”
• She takes the knife and goes outside to the bridge

Confronting Vi

• Roz turns into his hybrid form and goes to talk to Vi
• She wants us to lick her hand in exchange for the blade for some reason
• She casts Maze on Roz and banishes her
• Yharov decides to lick her hand, covering her tongue in wax
  • She used Burning Hands to try to burn the wax off
  • He succeeds the save, but she thinks it worked
• She places the knife in Yharov’s hand and slowly opens the sheath
• The Piper arrives on a boat while this is happening
  • There are a bunch of rodents, spellcasters, and bards on it playing music for him while he dances like a madman
• Roz secretly Messages him the message from Asmodeus
  • “Thank you good sir. I’m off to find a dragon”
• They leave
• Theodore opens the book and Yharov puts the knife we are seeking inside
  • We finally find out it is called The Stoneheart
    • one of most powerful artrifacts
    • gives the user paralyzing magic and siphoning magic anywhere withhin 30 feet of the user
      • It siphons the magic of poeple arounf
• The next item we see inside are Two Circular Earrings

Thompson’s death

• We notice a bunch of floating runes circling and going in/out of Thompson’s house
• The weretiger in the house killed Thompson
  • Theodore sees it in his Clairvoyance
• As this happens, all the lycanthropes nearby that were ready to attack us turn back to human
  • They all beg for mercy
• They are all clearly confused
  • Recall, Thompson took their free will
• We tell them to go home
• We go to search the house
• Thompson has 87GP, a locket, and a key
  • Inside the locket is an image of him and Ferrar
• We find a secret hatch on the floor
  • The key goes to it
• Inside are three scrolls:
  • Iskar’Thul’s Plan
  • Drakhakar Poster
  • Lost Experiment
• We return to Ferrar’s Airship

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Back on Ferrar’s Airship

• Theratina and Barbara are hanging out painting together
• Yharov walks over and gives her the Coin of The Unknown
  • Recall, Thompson tried to give it to her and he took it for fear of what it is
    • We don’t know what it is, but presumably it’s safe now that Thompson is dead
• Theratina makes an intelligence saving throw and fails
• She takes the coin and flips it to the side that says “call to me”
  • She says “hello?”
• She discinigrates into a pile of goo and the coin drops where she was
• Theodore sees the magic was conjuration and abjuration
• It brought her somewhere else and swapped her with the goo
  • The goo is where she went
• Yharov, then Roz, then everyone else grab the coin and call to it

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At The Dimensional Blue Arena

• We all appear in Dimensional Blue Arena
• The Unknown, a moving mountain of shadow, is in front of us
• Many small creatures begin lunging at us
• Avenj gets Power Word Killed; he’s dead
• “Let this be a lesson”
• “You are lucky I take only him. You are nothing more than ants. I step on ants”
• Yharov grabs Avenj’s body as we teleport back to Ferrar’s Airship

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Back on Ferrar’s Airship (again)

• Because Avenj died within “The Locks” at the hand of The Unknown he rolls a d100
  • He gets a 21
• Roz attempts to cast Revivify on him

In heaven

• Meanwhile, Avenj is in some heavenly plane
• A creature with thousands of eyes is there, and says “Hello, Avenj”
• “Your friends are trying to give you a second chance”
  • “Something is stopping them. That something is you”
  • “What do you truly seek in life?”
• He responds, “I guess I just didn’t want to be a failure?”
• “Do you think you were?”
• “Yeah, yeah.”
• “What would you do for a second chance? You try to call your self a machine but you and i both know you are far more”
• “Well, I don’t really know what I would do. I would just do my best”
• “Well, you have prayed to no god. You have done little within your freedom of life that earns you any favors. But there is one Cleric that screams your name. I give you simply a choice: to fight The Unknown takes power from me.”
  • He offers him a 50/50 chance. If he chooses correctly, he goes back to life.
  • If he chooses incorrectly, he stays in heaven
• He chooses red

Back on the ship

• Yharov holds Avenj’s body and asks “the darkness that always scared him” for a favor
  • “Bring him back”
• “I cannot bring him back, but… I can replace him”
• “What do you mean?”
• “The curse that has been done to swap vessels. You may choose to take his place”
• Roz attempts to volunteer to be the one to swap
• The deity Yharov is speaking to casts Speak with Dead
  • We ask him some questions regarding swapping etc
• Theratina puts both Yharov and Roz to sleep
• She apologies
• Avenj tells us not to let Council of the Cold Veil get the notebook with a sleeping face on its cover
• Avenj’s spirit departs
• We have a memorial for him
• Theratina says to Yharov:
  • “I saw a darkness coming out of a frozen island. Today we saw that darkness and i saw you fighting it. Whatever that coin is (and her voice goes demonic again): I want to fucking kill it! I want it dead!”
• We level up, take a long rest, and end the session there