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Runtime Break start 3h 42m 1h 53m
Episode 97: Ancient Sins
Upon hearing that Ludinus Da’leth was indeed not on Ruidus, but was dealing with another important factor in Exandria that had been noted to be towards Eiselcross (specifically in the long-buried and frozen ruins of Aeor) to the far north of Wildemount.
After gathering yourselves, Dorian Storm was returned to the troop. Gathering some materials in Zadash after an interrogation, after making some orders and setting yourselves up for a dangerous and chilly journey, and a number of failed teleports, you managed to finally arrive on the outskirts of the ruins of Aeor.
Your guide (revealed to be Essek Thelyss, a fugitive from the Kryn Dynasty) had previously had experience wandering through these ruins a number of times. Guiding you through, you began to traverse the subterranean ice-covered layers; the strange and oddly magical, and magic-altering auras that occasionally flow through this space. You found the shattered, broken (and in some cases, still locked in time) memory of this ancient mage city.
As you began to delve towards the central portion of the Genesis Ward (in which, looking for information on this locale that came up in the interrogation; The Occultus Thalamus seemed to be tied to what Ludinus has been doing down here and where he likely will be) you investigated a Vanguard tent that had been built in one of these city streets that still remained. Investigating, you found the people within had all been slaughtered, Vanguard members, bloodily. Looking into its history and the scene of the crime, it looked like one of their own had done the deed before killing themselves, after carving an odd symbol into their chest with a blade.
During this investigation, some heavy thuds were heard nearby and as you all gathered yourselves, and darted off into the nearby shadows, some strange creature began to lumber around. This massive, elongated, gray-and-black-fleshed entity (with these sunken jowls seemingly-faceless, and this odd, bug mouth of teeth in the center of its torso) began to (seemingly stirred by the sounds and conversation you were making) look about the space. One of you, unfortunately, had a rough time hiding and caught its attention, where a number of these translucent, armored, chitinous, insectoid creatures began to emerge from its mouth and crawl across the ground in your direction.
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Highlights
Travis:“The sound of thousands of pens hitting paper.”
Matt
rolls three missesYou can almost hear the victory music in Marisha’s head.
Robbie:“Silverfish…” (shudders)
sends gross bug link to LauraLaura:“That’s the one! That’s the one, Liam!”
Ashley:“That’s disgusting and I’ve seen those.”
rolls back-to-back 1sresulting in his first critical fail of the campaign.Ashley:“Straight trippin’, boo.”
(everyone):“Narrr.”
Travis:(in nasal 1940s broadcast tone)“We will not vanish without a fight. We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Today we celebrate our independence day.”
Marisha and Liam exchange the “ooh! he’s doing cool stuff!” look.
Travis:“I will not answer you.”
Robbie:“Back that up.”
Orym is eatencast 5th level (yellow) lightning boltis joined in an additionalcast (in purple)by Imogen (Ghostbusters “crossing the streams” style)Liam:“I’m not going to say anything.”
Marisha:“Yeah.”
casts Scorching Marisha Rayrolls a 7Travis:“Fuck you.”
Laura:“Ass.”
Matt:“Just so much of it. This is a massive asshole.”
Travis:
makes jug band hoot noiseAshley:“Wow.”
INTERMISSION
The hallway entrance here is about 15 feet wide in the area where you are. So you can go in waves of three if you want to fill the space.
As the globules of crackling energy gently drift along with you as you step, alighting the footfalls ahead of you. Slowly, you see the unveiling of the smooth bits of marbled stone floors and the scattering of broken stone that is occasionally cast from the nearby partially-ruined fallen-in walls. The crumbled piles and the occasional gap you can see above that leads to the floor above you, up into shadow as well.
Pressing forward, there is a slick layer that reflects the lift. Everything here is ever-so-faintly moist. The temperature is warmer than the central city and there is no frost gathering in this area either. There are a number of places in the city where, magically, the temperature fluctuates drastically, and there’s places that are ice-coated in frost and some places that are temperate and warm. This is a warm interior. That smell, that sweet rotting fruit smell is stronger here, but it has an acrid bile sort of smell that mixes with it. It’s this sweet and sick that makes you uncomfortable.
You continue on for about 80, 100 feet or so. It’s just straight hallway, only parts of it fallen in and continuing to separate. You come upon the first open door. The blood trail is still going, It’s not super thick.
Matt:“I’ll Allow It.”
The Thalamus was referred to as being part of this subterranean region. Once again, we were careful to not touch everything we found.”
Insight checking Essek’s statement about “his partner”. Essek reveals the name of Bren (Caleb).Matt:“Could be.” (troll face)
casting Speak with DeadFearne shows Teven the symbol found on the chests of victims.
Teven:“That is his sigil. That is the Carving of Gifting. Those who offer in their final moments what he desires, their oblivion. I do not know where we are.”
Chetney:“Essek, fill him in.” (Travis’s troll forcing Matt to voice both parts of the dialogue)
Ashton:“We’re fucked.”