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Episode 91: True Heroism

Bell’s Hells, here, slowly crawling toward the center of the chaos here on Ruidus. You found the subterranean core of the Kreviris Imperium here in Vaterra Kreviris. This massive underground cavern. The space where a singular glass pillar (his massive central piece of strange Ruidian glass that marks the center of their culture here) surrounded by evocative and interwoven city.
You’ve made friends with the Volition (the rebellious group that’s been fighting against the Imperium) and decided to embark on two of their multitude of simultaneous missions to both prove yourself an ally and to help the cause.
You decided to be part of a bombing mission (this side of the table helped alongside Ira Wendagoth while the other side went to go and retrieve a very important ally and figure with information about what’s going on between the Imperium, the Weave Mind, and the Ruby Vanguard).
During these separate missions, it seemed the bombing mission was a success through illusion and conversation, though the setting was at a much quicker time than was anticipated. Ira Wendagoth (not one to think about other people’s safety other than his) mostly managed to escape, though a little bit of wear and tear, as the detonation caught up with you and blew two of you out the exit like a cannon. As the explosion rocked the interior, this cavern, shaking the space within, this team here had infiltrated an engineering bay within an area south of the Arx Creonum. Here you found a number of creatures that were being experimented on, mutated and changed. Your target was indeed inside one of these liquid-filled chambers.
You essentially ambushed and managed to rapidly slaughter some of the dangerous guardians of this engineering bay laboratory and after battling with one of these partially incomplete terrifying creatures that was released in the middle of the scuffle, you managed to break the glass and abscond with the half-conscious target of your interest here, Everoa (a female Bormodo who has been working with the opposing side while also feeding information in bits and pieces to the Volition). With her under your arm, Imogen cast Invisibility across that troop and you managed to just barely escape the now incredibly dangerous, intense and Imperium-filled interior of this structure.
As you’re now scattered into various places, here within the main city, trying to reconvene, you hear the chaos of shouts and screeches as the armed forces of the Imperium are beginning to gather in response to this massive explosion that rocked the interior of the subterranean community.
You also hear the screech of Gloamglut, as your (Fearne) supposed father, the Sorrowlord Zathuda (who was also within the cavern when it detonated, by the way) whose mount is seeking above. You all notice across the way, another explosion outside of the aforementioned music hall where your mother was to be assassinated. You see that streak of power go firing up into the air and then hear a voice scream into the minds of the two Ruidus-born present.
“DID SHE KNOW?”
As we come back into this chaos right now, in the midst of this response, seeing this, into the dark expanse, just barely-lit glow of the inside of this cavern, what are you four doing?

Previous Episode “Mission: Improbable”

  • Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
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    7 months ago

    As you are going through the shifting tunnel expanses, the rocks and platforms and sections of it, still kind of rough and very makeshift and “function over aesthetics”, of course, the various offshoots. You come across one as the shadow of Otohan Thull arrives and she translocates into its place as she pulls the blades from her side, glancing about.
    “Oh, you are irritatingly slippery.”

    • 01:52:10 Marisha:“The Ring of Brass endures!”
    • 01:53:51 Marisha and Ashley:“Teacher’s pet!”
    • 01:54:47 Sam:“I’m in the middle, in the open right there.”
      Laura:(heavy sarcasm)“Great idea…”
      Ashley:“What’re you doing?”
    • 01:56:56 As Orym makes a beeline for Otohan’s backpack, one of his teammates is inspired to “let him cook”.
      Travis:“Take your time, chef, take your time.”
    • 01:57:29 Travis:“How dare…”
    • 01:59:12 Mind you, the backpack has been slightly reinforced since the last time you fought.
    • 02:01:30 Laudna summons a hellhound named Carpaccio Caviar into battle.
    • 02:03:24 Ashley successfully begs for fries. Sam does not.
    • 02:05:16 Ishta, the Summit Blade
    • 02:08:44 Scream Needle?!
    • 02:09:08 Marisha:(weakly)“Bane.”
    • 02:09:55 Marisha:“Ugh! Fuckin tits!”
      Liam:“This is not as enjoyable as that.”
    • 02:11:32 Chetney is killed by Otohan. “For four hundred years, I looked up to the moon. Not a bad place to go.”
    • 02:12:38 Matt rolls again for Otohan’s Psy-Knight damage bonus. This is usually limited to once per round. Maybe it’s the backpack?
    • 02:14:29 Fan Art Moment Ashton emerging from the wall in his Legendary form, slamming into Otohan.
      Travis:“That mini is ridiculous, bro.”
      Matt:“I know. I’m so happy how it turned out.”
    • 02:14:53 Ashley:“Don’t fuckin leave the table right now. Don’t you dare.”
      Travis:“I had a wedgie. Glad I got this burger.”
    • 02:17:11 Matt updates terrain ON THE FLY! Fancy pants!
    • 02:20:24 Fan Art Moment Fearne goes into her Legendary fire titan form.
    • 02:23:12 Marisha:“I played a monk for three years, shut up! Let me read into this incorrectly!..Maybe she’s not a monk…”
    • 02:24:53 Random flying fries!
      Laura tries eating one sideways and makes a funny face.
    • 02:25:51 F.C.G.:“Chetney Claws lives!”
    • 02:33:15 Imogen successfully removes that damn backpack from Otohan.
      Matt:“Can’t use any of her Echo or Incarnation abilities now. That’s a shame.”
    • 02:34:55 Travis quietly wishes Laura wasn’t “talkin shit”.
    • 02:37:40 Laura’s happy dance during Orym’s turn.
      Matt:“Crit machine, over here.”
      Sam:“It’s Critmas.”
    • 02:41:40 Marisha:“I am shooketh.”
    • 02:42:15 Marisha:“Fuck you! I’m coming for you, you cunt!”
    • 02:42:46 “No one puts Baby in a corner.”
    • 02:46:05 Imogen falls to 0 health.
    • 02:47:20 Caviar (the goodest boi) misses an attack. Sam barks for encouragement. Ashley rolls a nat 20.
    • 02:51:50 Chetney “Chetters” Pock O’Pea, healer extraordinaire.
    • 02:52:17 Liam:“Let’s go Titans” (works with Remember the Titans or DC Teen Titans)
    • 02:55:05 Sam:“I’ll go get Liam.”
    • 02:57:37 Ashley:“What bullshit!”
    • 03:02:05 Caviar misses and everyone barks in support.
    • 03:03:38 Matt:“That’s why she’s the Legend of the Peaks, man.”
    • 03:09:26 Orym scoots from the crowded corner
    • 03:10:48 Sam:“What do I want to do” rubbing nipples
    • 03:11:30 Laudna casts Hunger of the Shadow (makes a melee spell attack against a creature. On a hit, the target takes 4d8 necrotic damage. When Hunger of the Shadow is used by Laudna, it strengthens her connection Delilah Briarwood)
    • 03:13:18 Laudna casts “Yell at Plants” (Blight)
    • 03:17:50 Otohan ascends to “Exalted Fury” form.
      Laura:“Full DBZ. (in Travis voice) Did she just fucking go Super Saiyan?!”
    • 03:18:41 Marisha and Laura power up.
      Travis:“That’s my favorite.”
    • 03:21:36 FCG embodies the Gunshow comic This is fine.
    • 03:21:44 Sam:(cartoon voice)“Eradicator! (DC Comics character)”
      Laura:(Mickey Mouse laugh inspired by Taliesin’s mouse ad)
    • 03:23:11 Laura:“How fucking dare…” (callback to Travis earlier 1:57:29)
    • 03:25:24 Imogen and Chetney are knocked unconscious
      Chetney:“Deanna…”
    • 03:30:07 Travis:“Look at that face! What did you make?! She doesn’t even have a backpack on!”
      Marisha:“Fuckin’ terminator.”
    • 03:32:52 Fearne casts Flaming Marisha Ray at 5th level
    • 03:33:36 Ashley:“removed!”
    • 03:34:02 Ashley’s wonky dice bring her ridicule
    • 03:36:00 F.C.G. is knocked unconscious.
    • 03:37:45 Imogen revives with a nat 20 on a death save and she plays dead.
    • 03:41:00 Marisha sounds like Miss Piggy
    • 03:43:07 Laudna revives F.C.G. with Wither and Bloom.
    • 03:48:28 Otohan uses a Supreme Healing Potion for 66 hp (20d4+20)
    • 03:48:48 Dani:“Fuck you!”
    • 03:50:11 Orym is knocked unconscious
    • 03:56:40 Matt:“She is the Legend of the Peaks, man.”
    • 04:01:48 Casting Mass Cure Wounds puts F.C.G. over the stress threshold and goes berserk.
    • 04:03:17 Imogen sends to her mother:“Otohan has us in the tunnels. It’s about to be over. Help.”
    • 04:12:03 Orym is knocked unconscious
    • 04:15:13 Laura:(to Sam)“Don’t you get to choose detonate?”
    • 04:15:44 Travis:“I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne…” (Indiana Jones Last Crusade reference)
    • 04:16:10 Sam:“It would kill everyone.”
    • 04:16:22 “OH MY GOD”
    • 04:16:46 Ashton falls unconscious.
    • 04:18:56 Imogen once again remains silent in the face of pain, deceiving Otohan into moving on
    • 04:22:56 Laura:“Orym and Ashton have one hit point.”
    • 04:24:01 Matt:“To me, it’s the end of a story. Which means opportunities.”
      Laura:“Oh my god. He’s talking like we’re going to die. He’s already talking about a TPK, we’re at that.”
    • 04:25:29 Sam puts in his extra set of lucky teeth.
    • 04:26:13 Sam chooses to cast on himself to self destruct. “The rage that I feel. The stress being so high. The fuel pumping through my core. It has reached a level it’s never reached before, and it is so intense that for the first time, I realize that I am made of metal and wires, but I am alive. I’m alive for the first time. And I am alive, not because I was made by D or Dancer or even the Changebringer. I’m alive because they (Bell’s Hells) made me alive, and it’s the connections that I made with all of them. It’s a feeling of joy, and I’m happy to do this, because they saved my life, and I’ll save theirs.”
      Everyone contributes dice for his damage roll (20 d8).
      Otohan is successfully killed in the blast.
      “I think the last things I see things I see are Bertrand and Dorian and F.R.I.D.A. and I just feel connected to everybody. Some connections are made with wires, and some are made with blood, and some are made with bone, and some are made with wood, but they all matter. Even in this dark, dark cave, they make every day a smiley day.”
    • 04:35:53 F.C.G.'s stats image is changed to greyscale
    • 04:37:15 Sam:“What about the little wooden feet hanging on the rock?”
      Matt breaks:“You motherfucker.”
    • 04:38:11 Laura:“I’m going to kiss my fingers and put em on the ground, ‘Thank you, Letters.’”
    • 04:38:41 Numb and distracted, but pushing ever onward because that’s what this is about, you eventually all clamber, breaking through to the red light surface, the feeling of the wind and dust on your face, terrifying but also welcoming, as it’s quiet up here. You see the lavender spark of Liliana begin to descend. She takes your (Imogen) hand already knowing from your faces, she says
      “I’m sorry.”
      Imogen:“Me, too.”
      Here, as the dust gingerly rolls by, the clouds clear on the distant horizon, the vision of Exandria up above, the stakes are clear.
    • 04:40:42 Taliesin:“I like being on the other end of this.” (Not really the same as Ashton’s sacrifice was the opposite; selfish and everyone was pissed, but wutevs)
    • 04:41:30 Forgot about the Staff of Dark Odyssey, oops.
    • 04:42:17 Matt:“Fucking Sam Riegel.”