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Apheori (GM): That last session was probably the 23 of november. This is 3 december.
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WHERE IS ELLEMERR?
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GANELON?
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Well, I suppose we don't technically need Ellemerr, what with her character being dead, and all.
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So Amadi's dead.
 
Frezak (GM): Hag won't be here until later.
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Apheori (GM): Okay. What's Gan's excuse?
INT. Cave cavern thing
Gravy was shaking Amadi. Radek wanted a defibrillator, but couldn't he use his hands? And magic?
 
Bear Soup Guy: Defibrillator hands
Amadi is dead.
He got them at insane old genius school
 
Gaurav: We should try to get Dave involved in this. Maybe she can talk some sense into deadAmadi, godling to godling.
'''''Frezak''' (Gravy): I'm going to make Amadi into sandwiches. It's what she'd want.
Ganelon: Maybe if he was a wizard.
 
But he can't do electricity.
RHU
Gaurav: Gerbil could turn into an electric eel.
(to Radek)
Apheori (GM): How does he do thundering armour? That seems shocking.
What about the robots? Don't they have electrical... wires and things?
Bear Soup Guy: heh, Gerbil
 
Apheori (GM): Man, I didn't even catch that. O_o
RADEK
Frezak (GM): It's thunder, not lightning.
I don't have enough time to jury rig something like that when she's ''already dead''.
Ganelon: Thunder is more like waves of invisible force, or just high-intensity sound.
 
Gaurav: Rhu had an attack with the lightning keyword, but he used it in the last encounter.
RHU
Ganelon: Lightning is, in fact, its own damage type.
What about her soul? Can you save that in some way, like you did for Mr. Mousie?
And Radek has an encounter power to shoot someone with it, but that's really not going to help. It's not a measured amount.
 
Gaurav apologizes to Gerbil for misspelling his name
GEORGE
Ganelon: Much like how hooking up a dead person to the power grid does not bring them back to life. It just gives you an extra-crispy corpse.
You sure she's dead? That stuff went into her.
Bear Soup Guy: I'm sure that Gerbil is sometimes right
 
when he needs to get under doors or into tight spaces
Radek does some stuff to try to find Amadi's soul or find out what's even going on or whatever, with Gravy still holding her up. ''(rolled 30 arcana)'' He doesn't manage to do what he meant to do, but he does discover that whatever she has/had, there's horrible blackness in the way. Hungry blackness. It sees him.
Apheori (GM): What, you got an autocorrect or something?
 
SWARM OF GERBILS.
RADEK
Gaurav: Also: defibrillation can only kick a misfiring heart back into rhythm AFAIK. Once the heart stops entirely, it's time for chemicals.
Damn it...
Apheori (GM): Okay, so what do you all do? Amadi's dead. Gravy is shaking the water out of her. Radek wants a defibrillator.
No, Rhu, I cannot save her soul, because this ''darkness'' is in the way.
Gaurav: Or Gravy punches. Or *something*.
 
Bear Soup Guy: Right you are, Gaur
Rhu gives Radek a quizzical look.
Apheori (GM): Greibel has chemicals.
 
Frezak (GM): I don't think that Gravy's fists can solve this.
RHU
Apheori (GM): You could have your characters stand around arguing about how to bring someone back to life.
You mean like the darkness-beast thing in Midnight?
I'd like to see this.
 
Gaurav: Can Rhu pray to Dave, or somehow invoke Dave through a religion check? He'd shout her name, but I don't think it'd carry in this cave.
Bear Soup Guy: Gravy's fists might break her
Gaurav: I apologize for all typos in advance, I've been sleeping terribly all week and last night was no exception.
Frezak (GM): I'm going to make Amadi into sandwiches.
Gaurav: Can we put her soul somewhere in the meantime? Or is to too late for soul extraction?
Frezak (GM): It's what she'd want.
Apheori (GM): The religion skill is primarily about knowledge more than your actual skill at summoning gods. But you've applied that knowledge successfully in the past...
I seriously do want to see the characters just start arguing about how to bring someone back to life, though.
Can you do that? Respond to Radek's comment.
*kitty eyes*
Also, Guarav etc: Don't ask to do skills. Just do whatever you want to try to do. Roll it and say what it is. Worst that will happen is something horrible.
Frezak: So you make her into sandwiches?
Frezak (GM): I'd need some really big bits of bread, I think.
Rhu: (to Radek) What about the robots? Don't they have electrical ... wires and things?
rolling d20+14 perception check on the footsteps: do they go back the way we came, through the secret door, or is there another way out of here
(
19
)
+14
=
33
Radek: ...
Gaurav: footprints*
Apheori (GM): Remind me what footprints these are, and what secret door? >.<
Radek: I don't have enough time to jury rig something like that when she's /already dead/.
Rhu: What about her soul? Can you save that in some way, like you did for Mr. Mousie?
Ganelon: Good question, actually.
George: You sure she's dead? That stuff went into her.
Ganelon: Is that a matter of Arcana, though?
Frezak (GM): I want t bury her in extradimensional space.
Apheori (GM): Totally arcana.
Radek:
rolling 1d20+12 Arcana
(
18
)
+12
=
30
Ganelon: Does she even have a soul?
Gaurav: She was burbling up funky water a minute ago: "The dead Amadi burbles up some funky water."
Ganelon: I feel like we're making a lot of assumption about how the godling works here.
Apheori (GM): Radek: You don't manage to do what you meant to do, but you do discover that whatever she has/had, there's horrible blackness in the way. Hungry blackness. It sees you.
Gaurav: Assumptions is all we got! It's a medicoreligious emergency!
Apheori (GM): Gaurav: ARE THERE ANY FOOTPRINTS OR SECRET DOORS?
Or are you just messing with me?
Is Gravy still holding Amadi?
Gaurav: I'm trying to find them! Okay, we definitely came through a secret door to find this cave.
Frezak (GM): Gravy is still holding Amadi.
Apheori (GM): You came in through a natural cave entrance. O_o
Gaurav: That Rhu found. Because he's awesome like that.
Apheori (GM): Oh, earlier on?
Radek: Damn it...
Apheori (GM): That was at the top of the main cavern. You're probably several hundred feet down now.
Gaurav: Yup, that one. I thought there was something about footprints somewhere but I guess not.
Radek: No, Rhu, I cannot save her soul, because this /darkness/ is in the way.
Rhu gives Radek a quizzical look
Rhu: You mean like the darkness-beast thing in Midnight?
Ganelon: I dunno, does it seem similar?
Apheori (GM): Gravy: Amadi wakes up and starts struggling.
It seems to be trying to bite Radek.
Frezak (GM): I slam Amadi against the wall a few times.
The Gravedigger: No bitey!
No!
Bad Amadi!
Apheori (GM): Rhu: From your perception check, you can't really tell if there are footprints in here or not (that ain't your own), but you do notice that there seem to be lighter patches on the floor where the black stuff sank in... and there are too many of them.
Gaurav: Years from now, we're going to be sitting in an inn laughing about the day Gravy bashed a godling into a wall.
Apheori (GM): Okay, Amadi gets a bit crushed.
Gaurav: Lighter = less hairy?
Apheori (GM): The hairs are longer.
Radek tugs on his beard in frustration.
Radek tugs on his beard in frustration.
Radek: Why, yes. Quite a bit like that.
 
RADEK
Why, yes. Quite a bit like that.
You may recall that none of us had a solution then, and things have not changed since.
You may recall that none of us had a solution then, and things have not changed since.
Apheori (GM): Gravy: Amadi stops struggling and glares at you with horrible black eyes.
 
Rhu tries to touch the longer hairs
RHU
Apheori (GM): Touching them does nothing.
(to Radek, distractedly)
Rhu:
Um... Codrichun helped? Maybe...
rolling d20+14 perception check on the longer hairs
 
(
Rhu gets distracted by the floor.
11
 
)
Amadi, or perhaps what is possessing her, suddenly wakes up and starts struggling. She seems to be trying to bite Radek.
+14
 
=
The Gravedigger slams Amadi against the wall a few times.
25
 
THE GRAVEDIGGER
No bitey!
No! Bad Amadi!
 
Amadi gets a bit crushed, and stops struggling. She glares at the Gravedigger with horrible black eyes.
 
Rhu examines the floor and notices that there seem to be lighter patches on the floor where the black stuff sank in... and there are too many of them. They look like outlines of people...
 
He pokes them.
 
RHU
Does ... anybody else see patches all over the floor, or is that my blindness acting up again?
Does ... anybody else see patches all over the floor, or is that my blindness acting up again?
Apheori (GM): They look like longer hairs. Longer seems to indicate lighter. Or perhaps shorter. They seem to be outlines of people...
 
Rhu: (to Radek, distractedly) Um ... Codrichun helped? Maybe ...
Amadi hisses something and then Dawn appears.  
Rhu stops talking and stares at the outlines of people
 
Apheori (GM): Amadi hisses something and then Dave appears.
Dawn looks very, very confused.
Dave looks very, very confused.
 
Well, Dawn, I mean.
RADEK
Gaurav: Are they outlines evenly spaced throughout the room, or are they clustered around the pool or where the shadows died? Are they just standing about or doing something?
Ah, fantastic. Hello, Dave. We were just about to debate the merits of having your better half possessed by a demon in the hopes that it might destroy the entity currently possessing her.
Radek: Ah, fantastic.
Apheori (GM): Just all over. Look like folks fell over and got burned into the floor. Sorta. There seem to be about eight altogether.
Radek: Hello, Dave. We were just about to debate the merits of having your better half possessed by a demon in the hopes that it might destroy the entity currently possessing her.
Do you have any insight on this matter?
Do you have any insight on this matter?
Dawn pokes Amadi.
 
Dawn: You know, it is a bit like a demon.
Dawn recovers herself a bit, then pokes Amadi.
 
DAWN
You know, it is a bit like a demon.
(to Amadi)
Hi, demon. How are you?
Hi, demon. How are you?
Amadi hisses something silent and unintelligible, looking quite upset.
Amadi hisses something silent and unintelligible, looking quite upset.
Dawn: Sorry, but if you're not her, I'm not doing what you want.
 
Um...
DAWN
Why are you all looking at me like I should know what to do?
Sorry, but if you're not her, I'm not doing what you want.
The Gravedigger: Hey, I wasn't.
(she looks around at the others)
Rhu: What's she asking you to do?
Um... why are you all looking at me like I should know what to do?
Dawn: Radek here is a lot of everyone, okay?
 
She just wants me to destroy you all.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Rhu: Oh, okay.
Hey, I wasn't.
Dawn: Weren't we supposed to be immune to this? How much have we lost...?
 
DAWN
Radek here is a lot of everyone, okay?
 
RHU
What's she asking you to do?
 
DAWN
Oh, she just wants me to destroy you all.
 
RHU
Oh, okay.
 
DAWN
Weren't we supposed to be immune to this? How much have we lost..?
 
RADEK
Just... leave me out of this. I am not an exorcist.
 
DAWN
Gravedigger, hold her still, please. I got an idea.
Gravedigger, hold her still, please. I got an idea.
Radek: Just... leave me out of this. I am not an exorcist.
 
Apheori (GM): Can an avenger still do divine stuff if pissed at their god?
...and the feeling is mutual?
Dawn takes Amadi's head in her hands and then headbutts her really hard.
Dawn takes Amadi's head in her hands and then headbutts her really hard.
Ganelon: I don't have an answer for that within the rules.
 
Dawn reels away, tears streaming down her face, saying "ow ow ow ow ow."
Dawn reels away, tears streaming down her face.
Apheori (GM): ...and that was her idea.
 
Gaurav: PHB2 strongly suggests that the answer is no, that avenger powers are prayers that are answered by your god, not divine power channelled by you.
DAWN
Apheori (GM): Okay, thanks. Don't let me forget.
Ow ow ow ow ow.
The Gravedigger: I can do that too.
 
Ganelon: No divine class channels power from itself. Only the race, Devas, can do that.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
And it's because they're former angels or something.
I can do that too.
Apheori (GM): And Dave. Dave can do that.
 
Well, Dawn.
RHU
I do recall something about pally powers being more faith-based than actual prayers, though. So they could still work so long as there's faith, even if the god is gone...
Is that the shadow Amadi in there? Where is Amadi? Maybe she's... elsewhere. I feel a silence that I haven't felt before.
But those ain't avengers.
 
I dunno.
Amadi says something horrible, and Rhu can just make out the words 'All of us'. ''(will attack failed)''
Gravy: DO you do that too?
 
Rhu: Is that the shadow Amadi in there? Where is Amadi? Maybe she's ... elsewhere. I feel a silence that I haven't felt before.
RHU
Frezak (GM): No, I do not.
Have we tried using the Orb of Protection thing? Maybe it'll scare these things away.
Apheori (GM):
 
rolling 1d20 + 7 against rhu will
RADEK
(
It repels energy, Rhu.
9
 
)
RHU
+7
The darkness thing might be energy.
=
 
16
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Frezak (GM): Can I just dump this creature in the Elemental Plane Of Sandwiches?
You say there are demons in Amadi?
Apheori (GM): Does that succeed?
 
Gaurav: Nope! 18 Will.
The Gravedigger lifts up Amadi to shout really loudly in her ear. ''(rolled 23 intimidate)''
Apheori (GM) mumbles something incoherent about saves.
 
Apheori (GM): Aiight, she says something horrible Rhu can just make out the words 'All of us'.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Gaurav: Ha! I kinda want to try to intimidate this daemon horde thing. Does anybody have good intimidate?
GET OUT DEMONS! SHOOOO
Rhu:
 
rolling d20+9 religion check to exorcise daemons
DAWN
(
They're not demons, just like demons. They're also not really... multiple, either.
8
 
)
RADEK
+9
...Allow me to elaborate.
=
17
Frezak (GM): Gravy's intimidate is... 6.
Now, if you just want me to stare really hard at them, THAT I can do.
Gaurav: It's worth a shot. You've already slammed her into the wall once.
Ganelon: Radek is precisely as intimidating as a weak old man.
Apheori (GM): Can Radek find the elemental plane of sandwiches?
Ganelon: Sure, if it exists.
Frezak (GM): OF COURSE IT EXISTS
Apheori (GM): Well, if Gravy wants it, he'd have to get your help, then.
Gaurav: Greibel: what are you up to?
Apheori (GM): Gravy: What do you do?
Frezak (GM): Sandwich is clearly an element.
Bear Soup Guy: Greibel's fidgeting with his bong
Rhu: Have we tried using the Orb of Protection thing? Maybe it'll scare these things away.
Frezak (GM): Gravy is still holding Amadi right now.
He's not going to suggest the Sandwich Plane if he can't do it himself.
The Gravedigger: You say there are demons in Amadi?
Apheori (GM): He doesn't know how to do it, I'm afraid.
Radek: It repels energy, Rhu.
Rhu: The darkness thing might be energy.
The Gravedigger lifts up Amadi to shout really loudly in her ear.
The Gravedigger: GET OUT DEMONS! SHOOOO
Dawn: They're not demons, just like demons.
They're also not really... multiple, either.
Apheori (GM): Gravy: Want to roll intimidate?
Frezak (GM): Eh, why not.
rolling 1D20+6
(
11
)
+6
=
17
Apheori (GM): Man, these character sheets are amazing.
Gaurav: Greibel: Do you have any anti-demonic powers? If not, would you mind doing a survey of the cave system, maybe as a flock of bats or something? It might be useful to find a way out if we need to.
Radek: ...Allow me to elaborate.
If it were capable of solving this problem for us, it would just as easily expel your soul from your body the instant you came into contact with it.
If it were capable of solving this problem for us, it would just as easily expel your soul from your body the instant you came into contact with it.
Greibel: Groovy
 
Rhu: Oh.
GREIBEL
Greibel: You'd like traveling the astral plane, Rhu
Groovy.
It's freaky at first but then it's /freaky/
 
Um, right...cave survey
RHU
Apheori (GM): Gravy: There's a bit of a struggle in Amadi, but it seems to have worked: she calms down, looks a bit confused, and then starts speaking perfectly normally again.
Oh.
Greibel turns into bats and flies away
 
Apheori (GM): Well, relatively normally, anyway.
GREIBEL
Rhu: Do we even know that Amadi is still in there? Maybe she's gone back to Midnight or something.
You'd like traveling the astral plane, Rhu. It's freaky at first but then it's ''freaky''.
Frezak (GM): THERE IS NO NORMAL FOR AMADI
(he looks around)
Amadi: Agh! What?
Um, right... cave survey.
Oh! It worked!
 
The Gravedigger: HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT SANDWICHES?
Greibel turns into bats and flies away.
Amadi: They're... nice, I suppose?
 
The Gravedigger: DECEIVER!
RHU
Amadi: Eh?!
Do we even know that Amadi is still in there? Maybe she's gone back to Midnight or something.
 
Amidst this, there's a bit of a struggle in Amadi, but the shouting seems to have worked: she calms down, looks a bit confused, and then starts speaking perfectly normally again. Well, relatively normally, anyway.
 
AMADI
Agh! What? Oh! It worked!
 
THE GRAVEDIGGER
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT SANDWICHES?
 
AMADI
(looking a bit worried)
They're... nice, I suppose?
 
THE GRAVEDIGGER
DECEIVER!
 
AMADI
Eh?
 
The Gravedigger shakes Amadi vigorously.
The Gravedigger shakes Amadi vigorously.
The Gravedigger: OUT DEMONS OUT
 
Amadi: No, no, I'm not a demon.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
I'm... okay, this is going to sound completely insane, but I'm possessing the... demon. Stuff.
OUT DEMONS OUT!
Which is apparently possessing your friend.
 
Rhu: You're ... *stronger* than the demon possessing Amadi?
AMADI
Amadi: Well... not really. But you guys did apparently give it a bit of a jostle...
AGH!
No, no, I'm not a demon!
I'm... okay, this is going to sound completely insane, but I'm possessing the... demon. Stuff. Which is apparently possessing your friend.
 
RHU
You're ...''stronger'' than the demon possessing Amadi?
 
AMADI
Well... not really. But you guys did apparently give it a bit of a jostle...
(she looks up at the Gravedigger uncertainly)
Or something.
Or something.
The Gravedigger: I shouted really loudly.
 
Amadi: My name is Haerevan of Salas Vittan. I came here to give you something, though I'm not entirely sure how to entirely go about that at this stage.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Odd.
I shouted really loudly.
Frezak (GM): Does that name mean anything to anyone?
 
Amadi: Your shouts transcend the normal barriers of reality?
AMADI
The Gravedigger: It was really loud.
My name is Haerevan of Salas Vittan. I came here to give you something, though I'm not entirely sure how to entirely go about that at this stage.
Rhu: Don't shout really loudly at it again, this person makes more sense than Amadi usually does.
(she twiddles her fingers)
The Gravedigger: Aw.
Odd. Your shouts transcend the normal barriers of reality?
Okay.
 
Rhu:
THE GRAVEDIGGER
rolling d20+4 history check on "Salas Vittan" and/or "Haerevan"
It was really loud.
(
 
14
RHU
)
Don't shout really loudly at it again, this person makes more sense than Amadi usually does.
+4
 
=
THE GRAVEDIGGER
18
Aw. Okay.
Apheori (GM): The name is the same pattern as the names given for the kings. Anyone who was paying attention might remember that.
 
Well, if they're like smart and stuff.
It occurs to Rhu that the name is the same pattern as the names given for the kings. ''(rolled 18 history)'' Anyone who was paying attention might remember that, though.
Frezak (GM): I'm smart!
 
Apheori (GM): Rhu doesn't know anything about that one in particular.
RHU
Rhu: We've been told that we are on Arling Tor, although that was several leaps through space and time ago.
We've been told that we are on Arling Tor, although that was several leaps through space and time ago. I think that was another planet.
I think that was another planet.
 
Amadi: Yes, this is Arling Tor.
AMADI
(to Gravy) Can you put me down, please? I don't think anything too horrible is going to happen.
Yes, this is Arling Tor.
The Gravedigger: Hmmm.
(to Gravy)
I'll be watchking.
Can you put me down, please? I don't think anything too horrible is going to happen.
*watching
 
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Hmmm. I'll be watching.
 
The Gravedigger puts the creature down.
The Gravedigger puts the creature down.
Gaurav: King of All Watches
 
Amadi: (nodding) I would expect nothing less.
AMADI
The Gravedigger: I can also watch really hard.
(nodding)
Rhu: (to Amadi) How did you end up in Amadi, then? Did Gravy's shout call you? Were you just ... passing?
I would expect nothing less.
George: Is Arling Tor another name for Cerris?
 
Amadi: Well, I was really trying to hitch a ride through the rift, but got a bit caught up in all the shadowstuff.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
This wasn't exactly my first idea, you know.
I can also watch really hard.
And no, Arling Tor is all of this. It includes Cerris, and Ord, and all the other fragments you call planes as well.
 
Rhu: Shadowstuff? We were just fighting shadows a minute ago.
RHU
Amadi: The extent of the universe is the name, and beyond that, other universes have their own names.
(to Amadi)
The Gravedigger: I hit them really hard.
How did you end up in Amadi, then? Did Gravy's shout call you? Were you just... passing?
Amadi: They must have been given some sort of medium with which to manifest,
 
A...
GEORGE
Amadi holds out her hand and a ball of light appears over it.
Is Arling Tor another name for Cerris?
Amadi: ...creation.
 
Gaurav: Does the sudden light hurt our delicate elven eyes?
AMADI
Apheori (GM): Naw, it's not that bad.
Well, I was really trying to hitch a ride through the rift, but got a bit caught up in all the shadowstuff. This wasn't exactly my first idea, you know.
Wait, do you have any lights at all?
(to George)
Maybe it does.
And no, Arling Tor is all of this. It includes Cerris, and Ord, and all the other fragments you call planes as well. The extent of the universe is the name, and beyond that, other universes have their own names.
I can't remember.
 
Frezak (GM): I think we all have magic elf-vision.
RHU
Apheori (GM): Oh.
Shadowstuff? We were just fighting shadows a minute ago.
I guess it's a bit bright, but not so much so as to hurt you.
 
It throws weird shadows everywhere, though.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Rhu: ... that might not be the best idea. Weird shadows are how our friend died. Or didn't die. Or whatever.
I hit them really hard.
Amadi: All light casts shadows. A good light creates nothing to be feared.
 
Rhu: (to Amadi) Do you know anything about Holes and Darkness Made Solid, where you're from? We seem to be having problems with both today.
AMADI
They must have been given some sort of medium with which to manifest. A...
(she holds out her hand and a soft ball of light appears over it)
...creation.
 
In the darkness the light stands out, but not so much so as to hurt the folks. It throws weird shadows everywhere, though.
 
RHU
...that might not be the best idea. Weird shadows are how our friend died. Or didn't die. Or whatever.
 
AMADI
(fussing over the ball)
All light casts shadows. A good light creates nothing to be feared.
 
Rhu clearly doesn't buy this, and glances warily at the shadows from time to time.
Rhu clearly doesn't buy this, and glances warily at the shadows from time to time.
RHU
(to Amadi)
Do you know anything about Holes and Darkness Made Solid, where you're from? We seem to be having problems with both today.
Radek fidgets and grumbles in the background.
Radek fidgets and grumbles in the background.
Amadi: The holes are the deterioration of the universe, spread by contact with other universes. Your own was particularly badly damaged, which is how you came here.
 
Amadi fiddles with the ball, making it do various nonsensical things, trying to reshape it.
AMADI
Rhu: To this planet? Or this cave?
The holes are the deterioration of the universe, spread by contact with other universes. Your own was particularly badly damaged, which is how you came here.
Amadi: To Arling Tor.
 
And Cerris.
Amadi fiddles with the ball some more, making it do various nonsensical things, trying to reshape it.
(to George) You know they're aliens, right?
 
They're totally aliens.
RHU
George: Um... okay?
To this planet? Or this cave?
Gaurav: We prefer "space elves", thank you very much.
 
Frezak (GM): "No, I have birth certificate, not fake."
AMADI
"No alien, no"
To Arling Tor. And Cerris.
Radek: ...Is that remarkable in this universe?
(to George)
Rhu: (to George) Well, we're from another planet. We were on another planet, then another one, and then we were nowhere, and then we got here.
You know they're aliens, right? They're totally aliens.
 
GEORGE
Um... okay?
 
RHU
(to George)
Well, we're from another planet. We were on another planet, then another one, and then we were nowhere, and then we got here.
 
RADEK
...Is that remarkable in this universe?
 
Amadi shrugs.
Amadi shrugs.
Dawn: Space aliens would be a bit odd here, I think. Ord is the one where they get that.
 
But she means in that you're from another universe.
DAWN
(to not Amadi) You're an Emissary, aren't you?
Space aliens would be a bit odd here, I think. Ord is the one where they get that. But she means in that you're from another universe.
Apheori (GM): The ball of light turns into a ball of sludge and starts dripping.
(to Amadi)
Amadi: Agh! This is not working.
You're an Emissary, aren't you?
 
The ball of light turns into a ball of sludge and starts dripping.
 
AMADI
Agh! This is not working.
 
The Gravedigger stares.
The Gravedigger stares.
Amadi gives Gravy a nervous look.
Amadi gives Gravy a nervous look.
Radek: What, exactly, are you trying to do with that?
 
Amadi: I'm trying to recreate an object that was... destroyed.
RADEK
Except I don't entirely know what I'm doing.
What, exactly, are you trying to do with that?
You know, we're supposed to have the power of gods and then some, but it's like I never got all the memos or something. I'm not even close to a god.
 
I'm a baker, for crying out loud!
AMADI
I'm trying to recreate an object that was... destroyed. Except I don't entirely know what I'm doing.
(irritably)
You know, we're supposed to have the power of gods and then some, but it's like I never got all the memos or something. I'm not even close to a god. I'm a baker, for crying out loud!
 
Amadi shakes some gloop off her hand.
Amadi shakes some gloop off her hand.
Amadi: ...I should have really let someone else take this one.
 
AMADI
...I should have really let someone else take this one.
It was supposed to be a box. Full of stuff. And a letter. About the box. I'm trying to remake it and it's just not working.
It was supposed to be a box. Full of stuff. And a letter. About the box. I'm trying to remake it and it's just not working.
Rhu: Are you ... sure ... we're in another universe? There are a lot of planets, you know. We might just be stuck on a particularly primitive planet. No offence, George.
 
Amadi: From where you started out? Yes. Definitely different.
RHU
You're from Arikdirin Vak.
Are you... sure... we're in another universe? There are a lot of planets, you know. We might just be stuck on a particularly primitive planet. No offence, George.
Frezak (GM): What did the magical teleporting lady give us?
 
Rocks, was it?
AMADI
Amadi: I can tell THAT much, at least.
From where you started out? Yes. Definitely different. You're from Arikdirin Vak. I can tell THAT much, at least.
Apheori (GM): Yeah, little stones with carvings on them.
 
Gaurav: They should be in Greibel and Rhu's inventory.
Radek waves a hand dismissively.
Radek waves a hand dismissively.
Bear Soup Guy: They sure are
 
Radek: It hardly matters any longer.
RADEK
Dawn: You're in a piece of a King. Full of Midnight. Of course it wouldn't work properly.
It hardly matters any longer.
 
DAWN
You're in a piece of a King. Full of Midnight. Of course it wouldn't work properly.
 
Amadi stops and stares at Dawn.
Amadi stops and stares at Dawn.
Amadi: A King?
 
Dawn: I... don't know. Maybe?
AMADI
Gaurav: (to Dawn) Midnight! Do you think taking Amadi back to Midnight might help her kick this darkness thing out?
A King?
Er, IC, sorry.
 
Rhu: ... No, on second thoughts, the darkness-monster thing seems to be even more powerful there.
DAWN
Dawn: No, no, the emissary should be able to get it out once he finishes what he's doing.
I... don't know. Maybe?
Rhu: ... Oh. Cool.
 
Ganelon: Should that make sense to me?
RHU
Because it doesn't.
(to Dawn)
Apheori (GM): Naw.
Midnight! Do you think taking Amadi back to Midnight might help her kick this darkness thing out? ...No, on second thoughts, the darkness-monster thing seems to be even more powerful there.
Gaurav: Which bit?
 
Apheori (GM): I think.
DAWN
I don't even know.
No, no, the emissary should be able to get it out once he finishes what he's doing.
Gaurav: We know that It is Ajirahd and Irundha of Akrikdirin Vak who reign king of the sandcastle. So maybe that's the King they mean? And we've been to Midnight.
 
Apheori (GM): She's trying to force some magic and it's not working.
RHU
Amadi drops an ooze on the ground and it starts bouncing away.
...Oh. Cool.
Frezak (GM):
 
rolling 1D20+3 Religion to spout zen sayings about calm
Amadi is trying to force some magic and it's not working. She drops an ooze on the ground and it starts bouncing away.
(
 
16
)
+3
=
19
Amadi glares at it angrily.
Amadi glares at it angrily.
Gaurav: If that's an arcana check, maybe Radek can help? They could exchange jargon checks or something.
 
The Gravedigger starts spouting zen sayings about calm. ''(rolled 19 religion)''
 
Amadi glares at Gravy.
Amadi glares at Gravy.
Amadi calms down a bit.
Amadi calms down a bit.
Apheori (GM): Yeah, actually, which bit?
 
Most of it really shouldn't make sense.
RHU
The thing about trying to recreate a specific object might mean something to Radek. He was, in a way, trying to do quite similar with his reality bomb.
(to Amadi)
Also, whoever brought up the rocks was spot on. You should totally use them.
Radek knows how to build things! Check out that eyebot! And that robot in flames! Maybe he can help you?
Or drug Amadi.
 
Frezak (GM): "use" them?
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Apheori (GM): Or get Radek to show her how to actually do science.
You got a ''box''? We just got some scribbled rocks that some crazy teleporting lady shoved at us.
Apheori (GM) shrugs.
 
Apheori (GM): OR ALL OF THE ABOVE.
AMADI
OR something else.
No, I don't have the box. That's the ''problem''. It got destroyed. Well, more 'unmade'. Scribbled how?
Gaurav: We should dunk Amadi in the funky water until her situation improves.
 
Frezak brought up the stones. Rhu is way too thick to think of them right now, although that other idea ...
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Rhu: (to Amadi) Radek knows how to build things! Check out that eyebot! And that robot on flames! Maybe he can help you?
I dunno, they had squigglies. Who has the rocks?
The Gravedigger: You got a /box/ ?
 
We just got some scribbled rocks that some crazy teleporting lady shoved at us.
RHU
Ganelon: The robot is probably just a wide burn mark on the floor by now.
We got the scribbled rocks from multiple sources. Other Amadi gave me one right before I ended up in the city of the dead and found a sphinx!
The Gravedigger: What's it like, being a baker?
(he takes out the two rocks he has and shows them to Amadi)
Amadi: No, I don't have the box. That's the problem/
It got destroyed. Well, more 'unmade'.
Scribbled how?
The Gravedigger: I dunno, they had squigglies.
Who has the rocks?
Rhu: We got the scribbled rocks from multiple sources. otherAmadi gave me one right before I ended up in the city of the dead and found a sphinx! (takes out the two rocks he has and shows them to Amadi)
Greibel has the others, but I think he's still several bats.
Greibel has the others, but I think he's still several bats.
Amadi: Baking is nice. Calming. No stress, no problems bigger than I am.
 
Rhu: Unless you make a very large cake.
Amadi looks them over.
Amadi: Cakes are NOT problems.
 
The Gravedigger: Unless they've caught in fire.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
I dig graves.
What's it like, being a baker?
I have never buried a cake.
 
Yet.
AMADI
Gaurav: I am going to be very disappointed if Gravy doesn't get to bury a cake by the end of this campaign.
It's nice. Calming. No stress, no problems bigger than I am.
Radek: Hmph.
 
Frezak (GM): Great, now we're going to fight a cakebeast.
RHU
Were-cake
Unless you make a very large cake.
Amadi: I could bake you some coffins later if you'd like.
 
I mean, if you're ever in the area.
AMADI
Gaurav: *Were-cake*
Cakes are '''not''' problems.
Amadi gestures for Rhu to hand over the rocks.
 
Radek: I suppose you're trying to bake an object into existence too, is that it?
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Gaurav: 29 days it sits in a diner never appearing to get stale, then on the 30th it turns into a man.
Unless they've caught in fire. I dig graves. I have never buried a cake. Yet.
Rhu hands them over.
 
Ganelon: Could I just...
RADEK
Cast Make Whole on this ball of sludge?
Hmph.
Rhu: GREIBEL! Where are you?
 
AMADI
Oh, oh.
(she hands the rocks back to Rhu)
I could bake you some coffins later if you'd like. I mean, if you're ever in the area.
 
RADEK
I suppose you're trying to bake an object into existence too, is that it?
 
Amadi looks at Radek skeptically.
Amadi looks at Radek skeptically.
Amadi: Would that... work?
 
Apheori (GM): What does make whole do?
AMADI
Gaurav: You might end up with a whole ball of sludge, but at the least that might help Haerevan start over.
Would that... work?
Frezak (GM): It repairs broken objects, basically.
 
Amadi looks the rocks over, goes, "Oh... oh!" and then hastily hands them back.
RHU
Apheori (GM): Hmm.
(to Amadi)
Ganelon: Make Whole does exactly as it sounds.
What? Have you seen them before?
It fixes things.
 
Returns mundane objects to their... well, I can't say original state.
AMADI
Apheori (GM): So it won't fix the molecular composition of something that isn't what it's supposed to be, I take it.
Well, no, but these also shouldn't exist, so that actually helps quite a bit. Hold on.
Rhu: (to Amadi) What? Have you seen them before?
 
Ganelon: It would fix a broken sign, or door.
Amadi makes another glowy ball and starts fiddling with that one. This time she makes some progress and then gets stuck again. The result is lumpy and vaguely box-shaped.
Even if all the parts weren't present.
 
Amadi: Well, no, but these also shouldn't exist, so that actually helps quite a bit.
AMADI
Hold on.
Well, this is... closer.
Ganelon: I suppose Radek will just watch.
 
Amadi makes another glowy ball and starts fiddling with that one.
GEORGE
Amadi makes some progress and then gets stuck again.
The pinnacle of creation.
Amadi: Well, this is... closer.
 
Apheori (GM): It's lumpy and vaguely box-shaped.
Gravy goes and buries the first ooze in the meantime (it makes sad noises), then remains alert in case of anything else that needs burying.
Gaurav: We could try making assist rolls. I'm hesitant to call Hazz' but that is also an option.
 
George: The pinnacle of creation.
The Greibel bats congregate in the air overhead and mush together, and Greibel falls down with a thump.
Frezak (GM): Gravy remains alert in case of anything that needs burying.
 
Apheori (GM): You could go find that ooze that bounced off and bury that.
GREIBEL
Greibel bats congregate in the air and mush together, Greibel falls down with a thump
What was I looking for, again?
Greibel: What was I looking for, again?
 
Frezak (GM): I BURY THE OOZE
RHU
Rhu: A way out, I think.
A way out, I think.
Apheori (GM): The ooze makes sad noises as it is burried.
 
Greibel: Oh, right
GREIBEL
Oh, right. Did I find one?
 
RHU
Also, Haerevan expressed an interest in the stones we've found. The ones with symbols on them.
 
GREIBEL
Here, take em.
 
Greibel shoves his pack at Rhu, who reaches in hesitantly and finds one sunk to the bottom. It's like reaching through the inside of a lizard.
 
Rhu shows it to Amadi.
 
AMADI
Yeah... hold onto them, please. This woman's pockets seem to be portals to other planes.
 
Rhu hands the pack back to Greibel.
 
RHU
But what are they? What do they mean?
 
Radek grumbles quietly.
Radek grumbles quietly.
Radek: ...Bloody divines have it so easy and they still can't do anything right.
 
Greibel: Did I find one?
RADEK
Rhu: Also, Haerevan expressed an interest in the stones we've found. The ones with symbols on them.
...Bloody divines have it so easy and they still can't do anything right.
Amadi: I am most certainly NOT a divine.
 
You take that back!
AMADI
Greibel: Here, take em
I am most certainly '''not''' a divine. You take that back!
Greibel shoves his pack at Rhu
 
Apheori (GM): The pack is a mimic.
RADEK
Rhu takes the stones out of Greibel's pack and shows them to Amadi
Why should I take it back? Here you are, puppeting about a god's corpse, trying and failing to abuse the power of creation.
Gaurav: Unless the pack eats me first, I guess.
The pack is a bat.
Apheori (GM): No, it just smells funny.
(To Greibel): Although now I want it to really be a mimic, and it's just so stoned from all the drugs that it doesn't even do anything...
Gaurav: I may have to leave in around 40 minutes. "May" because the person I'm supposed to be meeting hasn't confirmed the meeting time yet. Grumble, grumble.
Amadi: Yeah... hold onto them, please. This woman's pockets seem to be portals to other planes.
Apheori (GM): >.<
That's the worst.
Radek: Why should I take it back?
Here you are, puppeting about a god's corpse, trying and failing to abuse the power of creation.
You're practically halfway there already!
You're practically halfway there already!
Rhu takes back stones, puts them into the appropriate packs and returns Greibel's pack to him.
 
Rhu: But what are they? What do they mean?
AMADI
Amadi: (to Radek) Oh, that's a good point.
Oh, that's a good point. She's a god, she should have power of her own. And she should know more than I do about this stuff... So if I can just use that...
She's a god, she should have power of her own.
 
And she should know more than I do about this stuff...
RHU
So if I can just use that...
If we are in another universe, and if this ''is'' the same Cerris that we landed on after Sarathi... then have we been in another universe since Sarathi?
Rhu: If we are in another universe, and if this *is* the same Cerris that we landed on after Sarathi ... then have we been in another universe since Sarathi?
 
Bear Soup Guy: Incidentally, the three stones Greibel has are the Mask, Dragon, and "contagion symbol"
AMADI
Gaurav: We need some sort of "How To Control A Possessed God" manual.
No, you left Arikdirin Vak via Sarathi, came here, then just took a rather squiggly path through space and time.
Amadi: No, you left Arikdirin Vak via Sarathi, came here, then just took a rather squiggly path through space and time.
 
RHU
Huh.
 
Amadi sets the box down, sits down as well, and gives the entire thing a big long think.
Amadi sets the box down, sits down as well, and gives the entire thing a big long think.
Rhu: Huh.
 
Dawn sits down too, opposite Amadi, and also stares at it.
Dawn sits down too, opposite Amadi, and also stares at it.
The Gravedigger: Hmmm.
 
Dawn: It's simple. Do it like normal, but be her instead of you.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Amadi: She's a god.
Hmmm.
Radek: You could attempt being insane.
 
Dawn: Gods can do things properly too, you know. They just don't most of the time.
DAWN
Amadi: Insane?
It's simple. Do it like normal, but be her instead of you.
Dawn: Like spiders.
 
AMADI
She's a god.
 
DAWN
Gods can do things properly too, you know. They just don't most of the time.
 
RADEK
You could attempt being insane.
 
AMADI
Insane?
 
DAWN
Like spiders.
 
Dawn does various finger motions to imitate spiders.
Dawn does various finger motions to imitate spiders.
Radek points a thumb towards Dawn.
Radek points a thumb towards Dawn.
Radek: ...Like /her/.
 
Dawn: Exactly like me.
RADEK
Pretend you're me!
...Like ''her''.
Amadi: Or I could...
 
Dawn falls over.
DAWN
Ganelon: I... don't even know if I want to suggest this out of character, but something tells me that Greibel's packing something that could help.
Exactly like me. Pretend you're me!
Apheori (GM): YES.
 
Ganelon: When it comes to making people not think properly.
AMADI
Apheori (GM): Dawn's already there, at least.
Or I could just...
Dawn stares blankly at the ceiling and says, "Wuaaaaaagh."
 
Amadi: Er... are you okay?
Dawn falls over, completely overwhelmed by whatever it was that the entity inside Amadi just did.
 
DAWN
(staring blankly at the ceiling)
Wuaaaaaagh.
 
AMADI
Er... are you okay?
(uncertainly)
That... wasn't supposed to happen.
That... wasn't supposed to happen.
Dawn: Such ceiling... Much universe...
 
Apheori (GM): She's totally out of it.
DAWN
Rhu: (to Greibel) Did you find a way out that doesn't involve climbing all the way back up the secret door? I don't like this cave with its ghostly outlines and shadows, and we could have this conversation outside.
Such ceiling... Much universe...
Bear Soup Guy: DM, did I see anything?
 
Apheori (GM): Oh, uh... yeah. You can follow the river out fairly easily.
RHU
Greibel: The voices in my head say we can follow the river out!
(to Greibel)
Dawn: Wow...
Did you find a way out that doesn't involve climbing all the way back up the secret door? I don't like this cave with its ghostly outlines and shadows, and we could have this conversation outside.
Gaurav: Could someone please suggest the drugs idea to Haerevan IC? Rhu is far too stupid to come up with it, alas.
 
Ganelon: I have the same problem.
GREIBEL
Well, in that my character would never suggest that in a million years.
The voices in my head say we can follow the river out!
For different reasons.
 
Dawn: Many drugs...
DAWN
Gaurav: Heh. Greibel might be our only hope, then.
Wow...
Apheori (GM): That's the best Dawn can do.
 
Rhu: I think we should go outside. Unless there's more science to be done with the funky water?
Most everyone looks about uncertainly, at something of an impasse. Currently the problem seems to be drugs - or that nobody with the presence of mind to think of using them would ever actually suggest them.
Apheori (GM): I think the guy in Amadi is just glad you're not attacking her after she apparently knocked out Dave.
 
Well, Dawn.
DAWN
Radek: Did you ever check the status of the thing?
Many drugs...
The pool/hole.
 
Ganelon: He did not!
RHU
Apheori (GM): Probably should.
I think we should go outside. Unless there's more science to be done with the funky water?
Radek: Give a moment to find out, Rhu.
 
Ganelon: The most immediate question is, is the hole gone?
RADEK
Apheori (GM): It seems to be. Roll arcana to verify.
Give a moment to find out, Rhu.
Gaurav: DM: you mentioned a couple of times in the last few sessions that there's a specific reason we've been brought to this cave. Have we sorted that out? It wouldn't do to leave that unsorted.
 
Apheori (GM): Mostly.
He verifies that the hole is gone ''(rolled 23 arcana)'' and takes some quick water samples, since the pool of water is still a bit weird.
It isn't ruled out at this stage.
 
Gaurav: Cool.
He comes back to find Dawn still lying on the floor and then just ignores her.
Radek:
 
rolling 1d20+12 Arcana
RADEK
(
Everything looks solid. Everyone want to head out? Amazingly, we seem to have done it. The hole is closed.
11
 
)
THE GRAVEDIGGER
+12
Really?
=
 
23
RHU
Apheori (GM): You think it's gone, but you're not entirely sure. The water is a bit weird too, but it doesn't sssseem to be related.
Seriously?
Frezak (GM): We could chuck shit at it.
 
Gaurav: "bit weird" is a major step down from where it started.
George finally takes off his earmuffs.
Ganelon: Hrm.
 
Well, I'm going to take a water sample. If I remember right, the last time we had a hole and water interacting, the water actually went back to normal when it was separated.
GEORGE
...Radek has more samples of weird shit than my gnoll fighter has trophies of all the things he's killed.
Oh, hey, I can hear!
Apheori (GM): Eeexcellent.
 
Radek: Everything looks solid.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Everyone want to head out?
But all we did was hit shadows? Really hard.
Rhu: (to Amadi) Greibel has drugs. Would drugs help? They helped me find the way to the City of the Dead.
 
Radek: Amazingly, we seem to have done it.
RADEK
The hole is closed.
If I had to guess, I would say they were... excess material. The problem was solved when they were created.
The Gravedigger: Really?
 
Rhu: Seriously?
AMADI
The Gravedigger: But all we did was hit shadows?
(nodding)
Really hard.
They would have been created when it was closed.
Radek: If I had to guess, I would say they were... excess material.
 
The problem was solved when they were created.
RADEK
Amadi: They would have been created when it was closed.
They just happened to be, well, a different problem.
Radek: They just happened to be, well, a different problem.
 
Amadi: Related, though.
AMADI
The Gravedigger: So.... how did it close, then?
Related, though.
Radek: My device worked, of course.
 
The Gravedigger: Really?
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Gosh.
So.... how did it close, then?
 
RADEK
My device worked, of course.
 
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Really? Gosh.
 
Radek frowns.
Radek frowns.
Radek: Doubtful, were you?
 
Rhu: And ... do we really want to close them any more? If we really are in another universe, they might be our way back to our own universe.
RADEK
The Gravedigger: Good job, Radek!
Doubtful, were you?
 
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Good job, Radek!
 
The Gravedigger winds up to smack Radek heartily on the back but thinks better of it.
The Gravedigger winds up to smack Radek heartily on the back but thinks better of it.
Dawn: Real science...
 
Amadi: Hold on, I've got this, I've got this!
Radek looks appreciative at being spared a violent congratulations, if not so much at being doubted in the first place.
Radek looks appreciative at being spared a violent congratulations, if not so much at being doubted in the first place.
DAWN
(from the floor)
Real science...
RHU
And... do we really want to close them any more? If we really are in another universe, they might be our way back to our own universe.
AMADI
Hold on, I've got this, I've got this!
Amadi does something magicky and the box explodes.
Amadi does something magicky and the box explodes.
Ganelon: Oh my.
 
Amadi: Dammit!
AMADI
Dawn: (still lying on the floor, pointing vaguely at the ceiling) Larks... it's larks.
Dammit!
Rhu: ... outside might actually be a better place for explosions. Less chance of a cave-in.
 
I wonder if the bats will come back now that the Hole is gone. (to George) I guess at the least you should get fewer zombies.
DAWN
George: Yeah, looks good.
(pointing vaguely at the ceiling)
Now if only I'd get paid for this.
Larks... it's larks.
I hope you lot weren't expecting to get paid. I don't even get paid and this is supposed to be my job.
 
Well, not THIS, obviously, but...
RHU
...outside might actually be a better place for explosions. Less chance of a cave-in. I wonder if the bats will come back now that the Hole is gone.
(to George)
I guess at the least you should get fewer zombies.
 
GEORGE
Yeah, looks good. Now if only I'd get paid for this.
(to everyone else)
I hope you lot weren't expecting to get paid. I don't even get paid and this is supposed to be my job. Well, not ''this'', obviously, but...
 
George grumbles.
George grumbles.
Rhu: Don't you get a promotion, given that you boss went all ... (does chomping motions)?
 
RHU
Don't you get a promotion, given that you boss went all... (does chomping motions)?
 
GEORGE
That wasn't my boss.
 
Radek scoffs.
Radek scoffs.
Radek: For this? This is hardly work. I /enjoy/ this.
 
Now, if I could be paid to keep present company... well. It would be a more sensible reason than any I currently possess.
RADEK
George: That wasn't my boss.
For this? This is hardly work. I ''enjoy'' this. Now, if I could be paid to keep present company... well. It would be a more sensible reason than any I currently possess.
Frezak (GM): Yeah, wasn't he from outside the town?
 
Apheori (GM): Yeah.
They head out. Gravy automatically picks the Amadi-thing up out of habit and whistles.
George finally takes off his earmuffs.
 
George: Oh, hey, I can hear!
'''''Gaurav''' (Rhu): So I guess our new goal is to help Haerevan make the box-thing that will save Amadi somehow?
Apheori (GM): So what, do you all head out? Does someone pick up Dave and shuffle the possessed possessed zombie out?
 
Frezak (GM): Can't it walk itself?
'''''Ganelon''' (Radek): I'm not sure that's what it will do.
Apheori (GM): Well, probably.
 
Ganelon: I lack the strength to carry anyone.
Apheori (GM): Just tell her to come with or something.
Frezak (GM): Gravy automatically picks the Amadi-thing up out of habit.
Gaurav: I guess we could come back to the cave if we need its hairiness or something.
Amadi: Agh, what?
Frezak (GM): Gravy whistles.
Gaurav: So I guess our new goal is to help Haerevan make the box-thing that will save Amadi somehow?
Ganelon: I'm not sure that's what it will do.
George picks up Dawn and slings her over his shoulder.
George picks up Dawn and slings her over his shoulder.
Greibel looks around
 
Greibel rolls the porridge up into a long porridge snake
Greibel looks around, rolls the porridge up into a long porridge snake, and then slings the porridge over his shoulder as well.
Greibel slings the porridge over his shoulder
 
The porridge wiggles.
The porridge wiggles.
Apheori (GM): Okay, you all head out. Is this when we should break?
</screenplay>
AND THEN WE CAN JUST SAY YOU'RE OUT ON SOME RIVERSIDE NEXT TIME.
 
Frezak (GM): This is where Greibel turns around to reveal his godhood.
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Gaurav: I'm sure he could found a religion just based off his ability to turn into animals.
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Can he turn into plants?
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Bear Soup Guy: That's a good question
Frezak (GM): By definition of the 4E power;.. uh....
ONly ressembles 'natural or fey beasts'
So possibly the closest you could get is a... Myconid hound.
Apheori (GM): Also you all should level up.
Gaurav: yay!
Does levelling up change your max HP without increasing your HP to match until the next time yo sleep?
Ganelon: I think you just... count as if you had a full rest when you level up.
That said, often you don't level up until you rest.
Apheori (GM): Okay, so prepare to level up? >.>
Ganelon: It's probably one of those "varies by DM" things.
Apheori (GM): Amadi spends the entire journey out trying to figure out how to heal you all.
I
Gaurav: I accidentally levelled up ages ago, so I should have a lvl 6 Rhu ready to go.
Apheori (GM): I'll tell you how it goes next time.
Frezak (GM): I really don't need it.
The healing.
Gaurav: When is next time? Next Wednesday, same time as today?
Apheori (GM): Aye.
Gaurav: Cool.
Apheori (GM): Unless anyone can't.
Gaurav: I much prefer the weekend, but Wed and Fri are the only days I don't have to leave two hours ago, so ... it'll do.
only other*
Ganelon: Oh, Radek can do the healing thing.
Easily.
If no-one trusts Amadi-twice-removed to pull it off correctly.
Gaurav: I'd prefer A2r to focus on figuring out the box-cure-thing
I'm going to go try to wake up further before my next meeting. Thanks for a great game, sorry for being so out of it today, and see you all next Wednesday at 1730 UTC!
Bear Soup Guy: I'd like to echo all of those sentiments
Frezak (GM): Wednesday!
Bear Soup Guy: Except having a meeting to go to
Adios!
Gaurav: BSG: you can come to my meeting if you like! We're talking diatoms!
Bear Soup Guy: That does sound fascinating but I think I'll pass for a shower and Hearthstone :P
Gaurav: Awesome. Have fun. Bye everybody!
Bear Soup Guy: Bye!
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Latest revision as of 09:07, 12 March 2015

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Session 39 (raw log) (Overview)
INT. Cave cavern thing
Amadi is dead.
Frezak (Gravy): I'm going to make Amadi into sandwiches. It's what she'd want.
RHU
(to Radek)
What about the robots? Don't they have electrical... wires and things?
RADEK
I don't have enough time to jury rig something like that when she's already dead.
RHU
What about her soul? Can you save that in some way, like you did for Mr. Mousie?
GEORGE
You sure she's dead? That stuff went into her.
Radek does some stuff to try to find Amadi's soul or find out what's even going on or whatever, with Gravy still holding her up. (rolled 30 arcana) He doesn't manage to do what he meant to do, but he does discover that whatever she has/had, there's horrible blackness in the way. Hungry blackness. It sees him.
RADEK
Damn it...
No, Rhu, I cannot save her soul, because this darkness is in the way.
Rhu gives Radek a quizzical look.
RHU
You mean like the darkness-beast thing in Midnight?
Radek tugs on his beard in frustration.
RADEK
Why, yes. Quite a bit like that.
You may recall that none of us had a solution then, and things have not changed since.
RHU
(to Radek, distractedly)
Um... Codrichun helped? Maybe...
Rhu gets distracted by the floor.
Amadi, or perhaps what is possessing her, suddenly wakes up and starts struggling. She seems to be trying to bite Radek.
The Gravedigger slams Amadi against the wall a few times.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
No bitey!
No! Bad Amadi!
Amadi gets a bit crushed, and stops struggling. She glares at the Gravedigger with horrible black eyes.
Rhu examines the floor and notices that there seem to be lighter patches on the floor where the black stuff sank in... and there are too many of them. They look like outlines of people...
He pokes them.
RHU
Does ... anybody else see patches all over the floor, or is that my blindness acting up again?
Amadi hisses something and then Dawn appears.
Dawn looks very, very confused.
RADEK
Ah, fantastic. Hello, Dave. We were just about to debate the merits of having your better half possessed by a demon in the hopes that it might destroy the entity currently possessing her.
Do you have any insight on this matter?
Dawn recovers herself a bit, then pokes Amadi.
DAWN
You know, it is a bit like a demon.
(to Amadi)
Hi, demon. How are you?
Amadi hisses something silent and unintelligible, looking quite upset.
DAWN
Sorry, but if you're not her, I'm not doing what you want.
(she looks around at the others)
Um... why are you all looking at me like I should know what to do?
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Hey, I wasn't.
DAWN
Radek here is a lot of everyone, okay?
RHU
What's she asking you to do?
DAWN
Oh, she just wants me to destroy you all.
RHU
Oh, okay.
DAWN
Weren't we supposed to be immune to this? How much have we lost..?
RADEK
Just... leave me out of this. I am not an exorcist.
DAWN
Gravedigger, hold her still, please. I got an idea.
Dawn takes Amadi's head in her hands and then headbutts her really hard.
Dawn reels away, tears streaming down her face.
DAWN
Ow ow ow ow ow.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
I can do that too.
RHU
Is that the shadow Amadi in there? Where is Amadi? Maybe she's... elsewhere. I feel a silence that I haven't felt before.
Amadi says something horrible, and Rhu can just make out the words 'All of us'. (will attack failed)
RHU
Have we tried using the Orb of Protection thing? Maybe it'll scare these things away.
RADEK
It repels energy, Rhu.
RHU
The darkness thing might be energy.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
You say there are demons in Amadi?
The Gravedigger lifts up Amadi to shout really loudly in her ear. (rolled 23 intimidate)
THE GRAVEDIGGER
GET OUT DEMONS! SHOOOO
DAWN
They're not demons, just like demons. They're also not really... multiple, either.
RADEK
...Allow me to elaborate.
If it were capable of solving this problem for us, it would just as easily expel your soul from your body the instant you came into contact with it.
GREIBEL
Groovy.
RHU
Oh.
GREIBEL
You'd like traveling the astral plane, Rhu. It's freaky at first but then it's freaky.
(he looks around)
Um, right... cave survey.
Greibel turns into bats and flies away.
RHU
Do we even know that Amadi is still in there? Maybe she's gone back to Midnight or something.
Amidst this, there's a bit of a struggle in Amadi, but the shouting seems to have worked: she calms down, looks a bit confused, and then starts speaking perfectly normally again. Well, relatively normally, anyway.
AMADI
Agh! What? Oh! It worked!
THE GRAVEDIGGER
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT SANDWICHES?
AMADI
(looking a bit worried)
They're... nice, I suppose?
THE GRAVEDIGGER
DECEIVER!
AMADI
Eh?
The Gravedigger shakes Amadi vigorously.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
OUT DEMONS OUT!
AMADI
AGH!
No, no, I'm not a demon!
I'm... okay, this is going to sound completely insane, but I'm possessing the... demon. Stuff. Which is apparently possessing your friend.
RHU
You're ...stronger than the demon possessing Amadi?
AMADI
Well... not really. But you guys did apparently give it a bit of a jostle...
(she looks up at the Gravedigger uncertainly)
Or something.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
I shouted really loudly.
AMADI
My name is Haerevan of Salas Vittan. I came here to give you something, though I'm not entirely sure how to entirely go about that at this stage.
(she twiddles her fingers)
Odd. Your shouts transcend the normal barriers of reality?
THE GRAVEDIGGER
It was really loud.
RHU
Don't shout really loudly at it again, this person makes more sense than Amadi usually does.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Aw. Okay.
It occurs to Rhu that the name is the same pattern as the names given for the kings. (rolled 18 history) Anyone who was paying attention might remember that, though.
RHU
We've been told that we are on Arling Tor, although that was several leaps through space and time ago. I think that was another planet.
AMADI
Yes, this is Arling Tor.
(to Gravy)
Can you put me down, please? I don't think anything too horrible is going to happen.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Hmmm. I'll be watching.
The Gravedigger puts the creature down.
AMADI
(nodding)
I would expect nothing less.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
I can also watch really hard.
RHU
(to Amadi)
How did you end up in Amadi, then? Did Gravy's shout call you? Were you just... passing?
GEORGE
Is Arling Tor another name for Cerris?
AMADI
Well, I was really trying to hitch a ride through the rift, but got a bit caught up in all the shadowstuff. This wasn't exactly my first idea, you know.
(to George)
And no, Arling Tor is all of this. It includes Cerris, and Ord, and all the other fragments you call planes as well. The extent of the universe is the name, and beyond that, other universes have their own names.
RHU
Shadowstuff? We were just fighting shadows a minute ago.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
I hit them really hard.
AMADI
They must have been given some sort of medium with which to manifest. A...
(she holds out her hand and a soft ball of light appears over it)
...creation.
In the darkness the light stands out, but not so much so as to hurt the folks. It throws weird shadows everywhere, though.
RHU
...that might not be the best idea. Weird shadows are how our friend died. Or didn't die. Or whatever.
AMADI
(fussing over the ball)
All light casts shadows. A good light creates nothing to be feared.
Rhu clearly doesn't buy this, and glances warily at the shadows from time to time.
RHU
(to Amadi)
Do you know anything about Holes and Darkness Made Solid, where you're from? We seem to be having problems with both today.
Radek fidgets and grumbles in the background.
AMADI
The holes are the deterioration of the universe, spread by contact with other universes. Your own was particularly badly damaged, which is how you came here.
Amadi fiddles with the ball some more, making it do various nonsensical things, trying to reshape it.
RHU
To this planet? Or this cave?
AMADI
To Arling Tor. And Cerris.
(to George)
You know they're aliens, right? They're totally aliens.
GEORGE
Um... okay?
RHU
(to George)
Well, we're from another planet. We were on another planet, then another one, and then we were nowhere, and then we got here.
RADEK
...Is that remarkable in this universe?
Amadi shrugs.
DAWN
Space aliens would be a bit odd here, I think. Ord is the one where they get that. But she means in that you're from another universe.
(to Amadi)
You're an Emissary, aren't you?
The ball of light turns into a ball of sludge and starts dripping.
AMADI
Agh! This is not working.
The Gravedigger stares.
Amadi gives Gravy a nervous look.
RADEK
What, exactly, are you trying to do with that?
AMADI
I'm trying to recreate an object that was... destroyed. Except I don't entirely know what I'm doing.
(irritably)
You know, we're supposed to have the power of gods and then some, but it's like I never got all the memos or something. I'm not even close to a god. I'm a baker, for crying out loud!
Amadi shakes some gloop off her hand.
AMADI
...I should have really let someone else take this one.
It was supposed to be a box. Full of stuff. And a letter. About the box. I'm trying to remake it and it's just not working.
RHU
Are you... sure... we're in another universe? There are a lot of planets, you know. We might just be stuck on a particularly primitive planet. No offence, George.
AMADI
From where you started out? Yes. Definitely different. You're from Arikdirin Vak. I can tell THAT much, at least.
Radek waves a hand dismissively.
RADEK
It hardly matters any longer.
DAWN
You're in a piece of a King. Full of Midnight. Of course it wouldn't work properly.
Amadi stops and stares at Dawn.
AMADI
A King?
DAWN
I... don't know. Maybe?
RHU
(to Dawn)
Midnight! Do you think taking Amadi back to Midnight might help her kick this darkness thing out? ...No, on second thoughts, the darkness-monster thing seems to be even more powerful there.
DAWN
No, no, the emissary should be able to get it out once he finishes what he's doing.
RHU
...Oh. Cool.
Amadi is trying to force some magic and it's not working. She drops an ooze on the ground and it starts bouncing away.
Amadi glares at it angrily.
The Gravedigger starts spouting zen sayings about calm. (rolled 19 religion)
Amadi glares at Gravy.
Amadi calms down a bit.
RHU
(to Amadi)
Radek knows how to build things! Check out that eyebot! And that robot in flames! Maybe he can help you?
THE GRAVEDIGGER
You got a box? We just got some scribbled rocks that some crazy teleporting lady shoved at us.
AMADI
No, I don't have the box. That's the problem. It got destroyed. Well, more 'unmade'. Scribbled how?
THE GRAVEDIGGER
I dunno, they had squigglies. Who has the rocks?
RHU
We got the scribbled rocks from multiple sources. Other Amadi gave me one right before I ended up in the city of the dead and found a sphinx!
(he takes out the two rocks he has and shows them to Amadi)
Greibel has the others, but I think he's still several bats.
Amadi looks them over.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
What's it like, being a baker?
AMADI
It's nice. Calming. No stress, no problems bigger than I am.
RHU
Unless you make a very large cake.
AMADI
Cakes are not problems.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Unless they've caught in fire. I dig graves. I have never buried a cake. Yet.
RADEK
Hmph.
AMADI
Oh, oh.
(she hands the rocks back to Rhu)
I could bake you some coffins later if you'd like. I mean, if you're ever in the area.
RADEK
I suppose you're trying to bake an object into existence too, is that it?
Amadi looks at Radek skeptically.
AMADI
Would that... work?
RHU
(to Amadi)
What? Have you seen them before?
AMADI
Well, no, but these also shouldn't exist, so that actually helps quite a bit. Hold on.
Amadi makes another glowy ball and starts fiddling with that one. This time she makes some progress and then gets stuck again. The result is lumpy and vaguely box-shaped.
AMADI
Well, this is... closer.
GEORGE
The pinnacle of creation.
Gravy goes and buries the first ooze in the meantime (it makes sad noises), then remains alert in case of anything else that needs burying.
The Greibel bats congregate in the air overhead and mush together, and Greibel falls down with a thump.
GREIBEL
What was I looking for, again?
RHU
A way out, I think.
GREIBEL
Oh, right. Did I find one?
RHU
Also, Haerevan expressed an interest in the stones we've found. The ones with symbols on them.
GREIBEL
Here, take em.
Greibel shoves his pack at Rhu, who reaches in hesitantly and finds one sunk to the bottom. It's like reaching through the inside of a lizard.
Rhu shows it to Amadi.
AMADI
Yeah... hold onto them, please. This woman's pockets seem to be portals to other planes.
Rhu hands the pack back to Greibel.
RHU
But what are they? What do they mean?
Radek grumbles quietly.
RADEK
...Bloody divines have it so easy and they still can't do anything right.
AMADI
I am most certainly not a divine. You take that back!
RADEK
Why should I take it back? Here you are, puppeting about a god's corpse, trying and failing to abuse the power of creation.
You're practically halfway there already!
AMADI
Oh, that's a good point. She's a god, she should have power of her own. And she should know more than I do about this stuff... So if I can just use that...
RHU
If we are in another universe, and if this is the same Cerris that we landed on after Sarathi... then have we been in another universe since Sarathi?
AMADI
No, you left Arikdirin Vak via Sarathi, came here, then just took a rather squiggly path through space and time.
RHU
Huh.
Amadi sets the box down, sits down as well, and gives the entire thing a big long think.
Dawn sits down too, opposite Amadi, and also stares at it.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Hmmm.
DAWN
It's simple. Do it like normal, but be her instead of you.
AMADI
She's a god.
DAWN
Gods can do things properly too, you know. They just don't most of the time.
RADEK
You could attempt being insane.
AMADI
Insane?
DAWN
Like spiders.
Dawn does various finger motions to imitate spiders.
Radek points a thumb towards Dawn.
RADEK
...Like her.
DAWN
Exactly like me. Pretend you're me!
AMADI
Or I could just...
Dawn falls over, completely overwhelmed by whatever it was that the entity inside Amadi just did.
DAWN
(staring blankly at the ceiling)
Wuaaaaaagh.
AMADI
Er... are you okay?
(uncertainly)
That... wasn't supposed to happen.
DAWN
Such ceiling... Much universe...
RHU
(to Greibel)
Did you find a way out that doesn't involve climbing all the way back up the secret door? I don't like this cave with its ghostly outlines and shadows, and we could have this conversation outside.
GREIBEL
The voices in my head say we can follow the river out!
DAWN
Wow...
Most everyone looks about uncertainly, at something of an impasse. Currently the problem seems to be drugs - or that nobody with the presence of mind to think of using them would ever actually suggest them.
DAWN
Many drugs...
RHU
I think we should go outside. Unless there's more science to be done with the funky water?
RADEK
Give a moment to find out, Rhu.
He verifies that the hole is gone (rolled 23 arcana) and takes some quick water samples, since the pool of water is still a bit weird.
He comes back to find Dawn still lying on the floor and then just ignores her.
RADEK
Everything looks solid. Everyone want to head out? Amazingly, we seem to have done it. The hole is closed.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Really?
RHU
Seriously?
George finally takes off his earmuffs.
GEORGE
Oh, hey, I can hear!
THE GRAVEDIGGER
But all we did was hit shadows? Really hard.
RADEK
If I had to guess, I would say they were... excess material. The problem was solved when they were created.
AMADI
(nodding)
They would have been created when it was closed.
RADEK
They just happened to be, well, a different problem.
AMADI
Related, though.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
So.... how did it close, then?
RADEK
My device worked, of course.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Really? Gosh.
Radek frowns.
RADEK
Doubtful, were you?
THE GRAVEDIGGER
Good job, Radek!
The Gravedigger winds up to smack Radek heartily on the back but thinks better of it.
Radek looks appreciative at being spared a violent congratulations, if not so much at being doubted in the first place.
DAWN
(from the floor)
Real science...
RHU
And... do we really want to close them any more? If we really are in another universe, they might be our way back to our own universe.
AMADI
Hold on, I've got this, I've got this!
Amadi does something magicky and the box explodes.
AMADI
Dammit!
DAWN
(pointing vaguely at the ceiling)
Larks... it's larks.
RHU
...outside might actually be a better place for explosions. Less chance of a cave-in. I wonder if the bats will come back now that the Hole is gone.
(to George)
I guess at the least you should get fewer zombies.
GEORGE
Yeah, looks good. Now if only I'd get paid for this.
(to everyone else)
I hope you lot weren't expecting to get paid. I don't even get paid and this is supposed to be my job. Well, not this, obviously, but...
George grumbles.
RHU
Don't you get a promotion, given that you boss went all... (does chomping motions)?
GEORGE
That wasn't my boss.
Radek scoffs.
RADEK
For this? This is hardly work. I enjoy this. Now, if I could be paid to keep present company... well. It would be a more sensible reason than any I currently possess.
They head out. Gravy automatically picks the Amadi-thing up out of habit and whistles.
Gaurav (Rhu): So I guess our new goal is to help Haerevan make the box-thing that will save Amadi somehow?
Ganelon (Radek): I'm not sure that's what it will do.
George picks up Dawn and slings her over his shoulder.
Greibel looks around, rolls the porridge up into a long porridge snake, and then slings the porridge over his shoulder as well.
The porridge wiggles.


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