Droop's Dragoons

Adventures

  • Our story begins in Santa Cora, the City of Faith.

    • Priests & Clerics worship stuff & gods here !

  • A lot of tension in Santa Cora between dorfs, elfs, humans

    • Lately, elfs have been pulling back from the humans, beliving the Emperor is going to betray the elfs to favour the dorfs
    • Priestess is hosting a festival in honour of the elvish Gods of Light to try and ease tensions
    • 10d celebration, citizens required to participate
    • All elves invited to come & enjoy special treatment!

  • Elf queen is chilly towards Emperor atm

  • Festival draws our elvish characters to the city...

    • Day 5, all the elfs come to the cathedral for the culmination of the festivities

    • Priestess asked Turai to kidnap someone right before the festival (she follows the priestess)

      • Met up with a dark knight & transferred an alive body to the temple
      • Glipse of the kidnapee's skin was red-tinged

    • Kidnapped person is Yorden, imprisoned due to being a demontouched person

      • Got better treatment in the Temple
      • Yorden not sure why he's here

  • Turai thinks she knows her way around the Temple, goes to visit Yorden

    • Yorden has his weapons available, wearing weird flowery priestess bullshit
      • Armour is stored in a closet, accessible to him
    • Yorden is old, but also red. White hair, red horns.
      • Cannot hide that he is a demontouched person.
      • Wearing a flowery dress.
    • Yorden is not in a cell; Temple reconfigures to keep him imprisoned.
    • Turai asks him how he survived the purge of demons
      • Yorden responds by asking how to get out
      • Start talking about niceties; nobody will talk to Yorden, but they do feed him etc
      • Yorden keeps trying to leave but ends up in the same room
    • Turai wants to know how he survived the purge of the demontouched
      • Yorden was born a human
      • Turai is missing a few memories from the past
      • Yorden became demontouched recently
      • Turai wants to know if treated OK
        • Yorden angry that he's locked up, doesn't consider it OK
      • Turai asks why he was locked up
        • "RACISM"
        • Turai says she'll talk to the Priestess for Yorden

  • Turai returns to see Yorden, was sent to fetch him for a ceremony

    • Sent to fetch by a Holy One (aasimar), blue dudes who emerged when the Priestess popped onto the scene
    • Asks Yorden to equip himself; he does
    • Turai & Yorden leave the "cell", it's around mid-day
    • EXIT DOORS YO!

  • Turai & Yorden emerge in a plaza

    • Circular balcony overlooking a garden chock-full of ELFS
    • Priestess decorated garden w/ elf shard themes

  • Our thre elfs are here!

    • Entilzha is here for the free stuff
    • Solon is here because he's starving
    • Each elf given a macron (french) cookie
      • Told NOT to eat it until later
      • They are pink
    • Squood eats the cookie anyway, gets high
    • Solon eats the free food

  • Squood sees abandoned cookie, flips coin, feels compekked to ADOPT IT (as opposed to stealing)

    • Feels conficted about ir

  • Tyurai and Yorden emegre

    • On edge of patio is The Priestess
    • She looks Iconic
    • She says they can befgin when she sees them, tells them to stand behind her
    • Bellssssssssssss

  • Priestess thanks elfs for coming

    • Wants to maje things special, take out cookies
    • Within the cookies are pleasnt experiences
    • Wants us to share good times w/ orther elfs tekepathically

  • Solon has a vision before eating, trhen gets a basd cackle & puts cookie down

    • Squood doesnt eat due to coin flip
    • Entilzha feels good times coming from other elfs, eats cookie after obsreving
      • Feels brave !
      • Climb steps where Priestess is
      • She says welcome, you have been called.
      • Tells Entilzha to stand behind her
        • Entilzha freezes when he sees red due
        • Turai smooths things over, says Priestess is talking
    • Squood feels natious & jelly
      • Eats 2nd cookie, feels
      • Farts up the steps ???
        • Suuuper awk
    • Priestess starts talking about a divine plan
      • Yorden mad that he was forced to come
    • Priestess motions us back to Temple
      • Yorden is NOT down w/ it
      • Prietess reassures him

  • Solon looks @ Yorden, has some visions

    • Sees through armour & clothing to a giant tattoo'd Sigil of the Three
    • Gets a sense of WEIGHT -- has burdens of diabolist & other icons
    • Solon teleports beside Yorden, sensing that he's interesting
    • Prietess says "oh good, you came"
    • Solon says he's friends w/ Yorden, Yorden is like yo wtf

  • As we enter the Temple, Prietess touches us

    • We each get a positive relationship die w/ Prietess
    • "Make yourselves comfortable, we have somethign to discuss: the fate of the world"
    • Empire & dorfs are close lately, usually would be all for it
    • Prietess not sure if Emperor has good intent
    • Emperor may have been listening to the Crusasder too much

  • Prietess calls Turai forward

    • Hands her a crystal ball (baseball-sized) & is sending her on an important task with us heroes
    • Can grant us great boons for our service
    • Efforts of the good begin in a small hamlet outsize of Horizon
    • Will reward us however we wish
    • Hamlet is called Graythor's Keep
    • Heard whispers of dysfunction among a group of socalites
      • Worried about fnfluence of demons near Archemage
    • 4 days to Horizon by ship
    • Yorden freaked out about Entilzha
      • Entilzha not a fan of Yorden
      • Solon says it's OK, Entilzha is like "who u"
    • Yorden still not cool w/ it, wants advance payment cuz he was imprisoned
      • She gives him a free horse to make it up to him
      • Trained as a warhorse !
      • OK with it now
    • Squood's mood is increased

  • Prietess sends us back to party to see ice sculptures

    • Some Holy Ones enter to speak w/ her
    • Solon asks what's in the cookies
      • "Fate."

  • Entilzha gatheres that Priestess set us, specifically, up for this situation

    • Wonders how much she told us is or isn't true
    • The whole PARTY was a set-up?
    • She isn't telling us something...
    • We're part of some big machination

  • We all go get a drink together

    • Entilzha very wary of Yorden
    • Hostess folks look at us with awe after our meeting w/ Prietess
    • Yorden goes first
      • Once in EMperoer's army, diabolist turned him into a demontouched
      • Entilzha accepts this, still suspicious but not murderous anymore
    • Solon picks up a pasty w/ flower buds on it, blooms as he picks it up !
      • of the Hemlock Tower
      • Seeks the diabolist to stop her
    • Turai hails from the far side of the sea, works w/ Priestess
      • Support goals for goodness, wants world to be a better place
      • Priestess makes no bargins w/ devils, ends do not justify the means
      • Used to walk in the dark, now walks in the light (Yorden has complex emotional reaction to this)
    • Entilzha is a mercenary, came from the spiderwood
      • Hates demons cus they attacked him in Axis
      • Has not been home for a long time
      • Solon says he's a spizzak hero of the drow
        • Spizzach was a hero who spent a long time trying to find his cave
    • Squood is an 8ft gangly spider-like drow
      • Looks away from Solon when he asks where Squood is from
      • Solon is like wtf when Squood flips a coin
        • Coin is COVERED in demonic writing, but it isn't evil

  • Entilzha has not heard of Yorden

    • Emperor has slacked off on maintaining his army as Crusader has done most of the work vs demons
    • Turai has never met Entilzha; Entilzha was @ First Triumph way before his time

  • Turai gagues temperature of the party

    • Elfs know the party was a political ploy, but they're cool w/ it and they come away feeling positive about Prietess & empire

  • Entilzha finds a little boy & guy who doesn't want charity & lady who lives in the wilderness usually

    • Pays them a bit to keep an ear to the ground for demonic activity

  • Yorden goes to meet his horse

    • Horse is at the ship we'll all be taking
    • It is brown
    • As he puts hand on bridle, feels PAIN in his back, bridle glows blue w/ runes briefly
      • EnChAnTeD bRiDlE !
      • Who enchanted it? We don't know!
      • Horse has blue blue eyes now, won't let other people ride it
      • Names it Blue Eyes Brown Horse

  • We're on the boat

    • Turai hangs out w/ Yorden & Entilzha
    • Squood is seasick & sits in a corner
    • Entilzha spends time w/ Turai to talk about killing demons
    • BAD STORM one day, everyone stuck in the cabin together
    • Yorden recalls time bakery wouldn't sell delicious cinnamon bread cuz he was 1 copper short
      • Was still p.happy with life until diabolist made him demontouched
    • Yorden notices Entilzha's horn, Entilzha denies having one, shows sword under his cloak
      • Emotion to other elfs: surprise, panic, anger

  • Undead swim out from the necroplis sometimes and attack ships, but we're A-OK

    • Yorden slips out onto the deck when we pass necropolis island
    • Comes back DRENCHED.

  • On the horizon of Horizon, we see lots of floating stuff

    • FLOATING CITY
    • Disks on the ground to teleport us up to the floasting stuff
    • City of the Archemage

  • 1d travel to Graythor's Keep

    • Turai pokes around the inn we stay at RE: socalites
    • Things have been weird since the Lovely Lady Lacy Lue came to town
    • Turai pressures guy who is saying this, he's a drunk farmer dude
      • WELL UM WELL UM
      • Lovely Lady Lacy Lue go into her basement at parties, come out Changed.
      • "Changed, how?"
      • People are disappearing (unrelated to parties)
      • Lacy Lue has a mansion in the hamlet
      • "What kind of people are disappearing?"
        • No pattern
        • Just people nobody woudl miss, 'cept us farmer folk

  • We're staying at The Barking Dog Inn

    • Solon reads moon omens

      • BIG MOON & SMOL MOON
      • moons say evil is favorued over good today

    • Turai looks for people up earlier than they ought be

      • Just lots of servants buying food & farmers doing this

    • Entilzha asks morning-drinkers about suspicious happenings

      • 4 farmers drinking (cuz water is dangerous)
      • Corned beef breakfasts
      • No occultist shit here, according to farmers !
      • They're incels (Clint & Rawn)
      • Client :shobon: for lady lucy lue
        • HAS A THING IN 2 DAYS
        • Invited Rawn to the party !!!

    • Squood appears behing Rawn awkwardly

      • Insults

    • Yoreden gets ready for battle

  • Lucy Lue built a manor on a hill recently

    • New Money

  • Innkeep something about hiring guards at Lucy Lue's parties

    • Turai wants a job guarding her mansion
    • Lucy doesn't wake up til afternoon
    • Entilzha thinks joining as a "guard" is a good idea, tags along w/ Turai

  • Yorden thinks investigating the property is a good idea

    • Escape routes, windows, obv. signs of grounds being tmapered

    • Entilzha tells Squood to keep an eye on Yorden

    • A servant went to market for food from Lucys manor

    • Turai goes to church, Entilzha stays outside

    • Solon scouts town, joins Turai at church

    • Church has a groundskeeper tending to melted candles

      • Pastor is an elf lady

      • Turai asks her about experience in town

      • GREETINGS TRAVELLER

      • Orhpan, worked whole life for this chapel, cuz NO PARENTS

        • Townsfolk help her out 😃

      • People enjoying themselves (outside of church) due to better harvests. Donations increasing.

      • Turai mentiond Lucy Lue, pastor gets real salty

        • ooo lucy lue not welcome at the church

      • Turai asks pastor to let her know if there's any Shit going down @ Lucy Lue's

        • Turai got a 1 on her roll for the priestess soooooo ... no trust

      • Solon tries to friendship the pastor

        • Lucy Lue never donated to the church, actively spurns it & its gods
        • Pastor is CONCERNED.
        • Girl used to attend church, joined Lucy Lue's staff, spurns pastor now
        • Girl lives in the manor, name is Linaya

  • Squood sees a kiln and a throwing table (the spinny thing)

    • Yeah we're doing a ghosting thing.
    • Squood wants to be a "comfort agent"
    • Yorden thinks that won't work, should suggest they're associated w/ Horizon (the city) & investigate grounds
      • or find a reason to be invited to one of her gatherings

  • Squood & Yorden get to meet Lucy

    • Black hair, plump red lips
    • Bedroom behind her has a 4 poster bed (no slaves tied to bef ^.~)
    • Snacking on a fruit
      • Lineya brought her the fruit
    • Lucy tries to bribe Yorden
      • It is not going well
      • Yorden DOES NOT work for the achemage but does
      • Lucy wants to bribe htwm to come to a party

  • Clint was attacked by Something on the road

    • Entilzha asks if it was demonic, Yes. Entilzha charges off.

    • Everyone elses follows too.

    • There's a Dretch

    • There's a Despoiler too (CASTER)

    • Turai murders a dretch outright

    • Some imps shoot jet of green blight

  • I am confused (dont have to attack more allies) and dazed (LOL)

    • Turai kicks the shit out of more demon mooks
    • I become not dazed and confused
    • Imps x2, despoiler x1
    • I cut the despoiler pretty good (it's the one that confused me)
    • Yorden bonus attack -> Entilzha, Entilzha fucks the demon up
    • Entilzha [Smite Evil]s the despoiler, and invokes the name of the cruader when killing it
      • Despoiler gets one last confuse off (lol entilzha 1 on crusader relation roll)
    • Turai grabs an imp and jabs its backside
    • Yorden fights another imp, it spits acid over at Entilzha and dazes him, but Yorden forces an immediate save & Entilzha rallies!
    • Turai curses the imp
    • Squood uses a tortured scream, hurts Entilzha but obliterates an imp

  • Team wonders what demons were doing here

    • They let Clint escape to warn us...? There were a lot of demons !
    • Despoiler had a pretty dagger: Dagger of Reckless Abandon, +1 to rollds, 2d6 dmg on first attack
      • We hold it for Solon
    • 2 potions of healing
    • We bottle Strange Oil that's leaking out of a demon
    • New longswords -- Clint is a blacksmith's apprentice, so maybe he was delivering them

  • Clint is back at the tavern

    • We arrive, Turai has all the longswords
    • Entilzha asks Clint how he got away from five demons
      • Clint asks where Harold, his mom's mule, is
      • Entilzha nods, "Your alibi is established," and walks away.
    • Turai asks more about Harold, who is definitely dead, and Clint starts crying
    • Yorden suggests Lady Lacy Lue might have something to do with it, people are outraged

  • We head to the party

    • Turai & Entilzha go early, since we're guards
    • Manor isn't busy yet, takes a while for them to answer the door
    • Maid answers, lets us in, is disinteresed in us cuz she's busy (Miss Clint)
    • Clint (from the demon fight) is Miss Clint's son
    • Turai offers to help in the kitchen, maid gives her a funny look & offers to fetch Lacy
    • Calls Lineya to give us tasks
    • Tells us to scout the ... doors ... on the grounds
    • We ask about the event
      • New people coming to town
      • Lucy has a new boyfriend who is paying for anything !
      • Games (of chance & skill), drinking
        • Lucy Lue never loses at chess
      • Some townsfolk may try to sneak in
      • We ask for the guest list
    • We will likely be at the front door

  • Manor

    • Gardens in the back
      • Newly planted
      • Fountain
      • Maze (not hedge-based)
    • Receiving room
    • Kitchen
    • Pottery building

  • Socialites start showing up

    • Lacy set the fashion: high-necked blouses, large puffy skirts
    • Guests turning up like that
    • Less-fancy looking townfolks turn up too
    • Yorden & Squood show up to the party
      • Entilzha has his eye on other people tonight.

  • Lacy is playing cards

    • People are giving her gifts

  • Squood notices the composition of the elf population at this party is WEIRD

    • Can tell through the psychic thing that many elfs are INFAUTATED
    • But 3 of the 5 elfs have a different "flavour"

  • Squood gives Lady Lacy Lue the magic dagger we found

    • She likes it 😉
    • Squood feels like the INFATUATION may not be natural...

  • Squood finds Entilzha & tells him about the elfs

    • Yorden says Squood is acting weird
    • Yorden says Squood gave her the magic dagger
    • Entilzha tells them to drop some hints about demons & see who reacts

  • Turai notices all the black vases we saw during the guard interview have been removed

    • Thinks that might be weird (prince of shadows rel die)
    • Thinks Lacy Lue putting away art is wikkit sus; she would usually want to brag
    • Turai goes out to the kiln to smash a pot
    • Uses billowy drapey clothing to wrap a pot & stomps it (so it won't be too loud)
    • Finds incriptions inside (like the inside walls) of the vase (HOW THE FUCK)
    • Turai has seen some of the characters before on charms slain demons had
    • Goes back to look for the black vases

  • Entilzha has an insight

    • The Horn of Fate must be protected, thinks about potential threats
    • Feels bold & vulnerable (cuz it can be stolen)
    • Feels like Lacy might have the same feeling -- bold because of the great power she has, but afraid of losing it

  • Yorden chats up an out-of-towner that's fucked out of her mind

    • She has not heard about the demon attack
    • Useless, too high

  • Squood harasses a 40yr old man w/ highnecked blouse

    • Dude is kinda high
    • His wife made his shirt
    • Squood "you're a poor", leaves

  • Party is thinning out

    • But people are not leaving through the front door...
    • Lacy has been putting lots of stuff in the pot (cards), but not the dagger

  • Entilzha finds that people are going into a sitting room w/ statues (& sitting space)

    • Disappearing behind a false wall
    • Tells Turai to find everyone
    • Yorden gets caught by Lacy on his way to the room !
      • She wants him to gamble, but he wants a drink (he's particular about it)
      • She asks him to go back to the main room, says kitchen can prepare him a drink
      • Yorden digs in, doesn't want to leave, wants to be alone
      • She insists he come gamble
      • Her eyes flash, tensely smiles at Yorden, says she'll be back (charm attempt FAILED)
      • Yorden thinks she'll be back w/ friends

  • Stairs are narrow and winding

    • Candle light
    • We smell something fleshy and gross
    • Six townsfolk "preparing" a cifcular room
      • Pots (THE DEMON ONES) are down here in a circle
      • Table inside the pot circle
        • Bloody
        • Bench next to it w insturments
      • The maid Lineaea looks at us & asks if we have been invited
      • Rawn is in here (from the bar)
        • He is sharpening the sacrfificial knife
      • Entilzha is greeted by Rawn
        • Entilzha murders Rawn in response by drawing a sword from his cloak and slicing his throat.

  • Lady Lacy Lue throws Solon down the stairs

    • We see spider legs
    • She shot web

  • Linnae grabs the dagger (per Lacy's direction to start the ritual) and murder Clint

    • Solon cripples Linnea and kills her

  • Entilzha severs one of Lucy's spider legs

    • She has 7 more

  • One of the guests kills Clint

    • Solon summons forth a ghostly sword from his ring

  • Entlzha murders Lucy Lue

    • Thralls fall over
    • Solon's hands is guided by The Priestess, fixes dude w/ open chest cavity

  • Eggs come out of the vase

    • Yorden's tatoo burns, thinks he should take the egg
    • Nobody has ever created an anatomously moving metal object

  • Entilzha is unable to burn the mansion down (lol nat 1 w/ priestess)

    • Turai does it for Entilzha
    • Burning mansion lights the town for the night
    • Saved two (of six) townspeople

  • Entilzha goes back to inn for a good ngiht's sleep

    • Solon meditates oj the roof, asking for guidence from ther Moons w/ respec tot metal eggs
    • Turai is happy
    • Squood wqtches Yorden caress metal agg
    • Yorden caresses the metal egg....
      • It consumed all the metsla in his pouch. The egg has grown...
      • Has a gold stripe around midsection

  • Townsfolks are like yo wtf it burned down

  • Priesess messages Turai, says go to Horizon

    • So we do that.

  • End up in The Mage's Sparkle, which is a brothel

    • THE ANSWE IS HERE.
    • Do we have an orc here

  • Near elite arcane school

    • Fucking kids with their goddamn hipster summoning gentrifying bullshit
    • Entilzha talks a lot with student Mortha about demon physiology
    • next to the whorehouse

  • Whorehouse has a half-orc woman hanging out waiting for (us)

    • Krinly, emissary of the High Druid
    • WE MUST STOP THE DORF KING.
    • "Uh, er, I have a relic here from the priestess."
    • 4 people from disciples of Lagos (archeology thing) w/ her
      • They have a relic for the dwarf king
      • She is a bodyguard, hired by priestess
      • Don't know what it is
      • They are whoring atm
      • They were supposed to give us the relic though
      • Priestess wants us to escort the Lagos dudes to Dorf King
      • Krinly is coming as well
    • Talk to gnome
      • Relic of the Dark God
      • Relic from Lagos' own bathouse?
      • Shape is associated w/ Dark Gods
        • They appropriated it
        • Lagos was place of celebration
        • Octogon
      • Gnome drew a cool map
        • Yorden thinks it's stupid
      • Ruin is in Forge
      • Squood picks up the gnome and takes back to the tavern

  • We are provided w/ horses and begin caravanning

    • Squood is too big for a horse

  • Pass by First Triumph

    • Turai is nervous

  • Entilzha asks orc for her story

    • She's a hunter
    • Asks why Prietess hired novice hunter to protect ... whatever it is
    • "I'm a pretty good hunter!"
    • Entilzha points out he is 850 years old
    • "I'm 200! No...that's a lie"
    • Entilzha walks away.

  • Squood asks the gnome about the egg!

    • Zorigami ended past ages -- could be their egg?
    • Machines, timekeeps of the age
    • Spawn (or built) at beginning of an age
    • Last dies at the end of an age
    • Entilzha hears & is intrigued
    • Eggs are intelligent!
    • Sketches a zorigami
    • Benevelont when they begin
    • Become more hostile as the world harms them
    • Squood: "what if you kept them safe? could they grow into being a new god?"
      • Gnome doesn't know
    • Info is left from 12th age
    • Orc lord used the last Zorigami in battle at end of 12th age
    • Entilzha notices Krinly is also listening, frowns about it

  • Yorden asks for everybody's name

    • Lady Terise Redson
      • Made the discovery!
    • Gnome is Hubblepoof the Third
      • Unsure if he is the third Hubblepoof, or if "the third" is last name
    • Quiet muscle is Doctor Rorak
      • Most educated.
    • Yorden sarcastically says we're indebted to priestess, asks how likely dorf king is going to help us
      • We're showing up on his doorstep w/ this thing
      • Yorden has not heard good things about Dorf King
      • Terise says Dorf King is extremely interested in treasure, seeks power through artifacts
    • Yorden thinks dorf king will rob us
      • No, map to a structure inside his capital, dorf king already HAS the treasure!

  • We arrive in Axis to take on supplies for the final leg of our journey to Forge

    • Axis built on a volcano
    • Lots of soldiers

  • A few hours out of Axis, we encounter a horse & a rider

    • OH FUCK IT'S A CENTAUR
    • "You're in our grazing and hunting lands. For that, you owe us tribute."
    • Krinly talks to them in another language
    • Centaur is surprised!

  • We engage the centaurs

    • Krinly gets smacked in the chest with an arrow from a centaur longbow and goes down hard

      • Breaks arrow off, digging in pack for something

    • Centaur says something mean & goes after Yorden

    • Wounded Krinly throws a crabapple @ centaur, giving Squood an opening

      • Crit!
      • Centaur is super mad

    • Turai curses a centaur to mace itself

    • Entilzha kicked the centaur as it tried to disengage, forcing it to kneel

      • Solon's shadowy figure teleports in front of it and stabs it in the neck, killing it
      • Entilzha begins removing the ranger's head...

    • Solon uses his ringblade to slide up a centaur

    • Centaurs trips and falls when trying to attack Hubblepoof

      • Yorden jumps on it and takes it from 100% to deat in one turn lmao

    • Centaur trying to stab Solon, but reality warps and it stabs itself and dies

      • For a moment, it sees a horse riding a human into a glue factory...

    • Krinly stands up and yells at leader

      • Leader yields

    • Turai knocks the last centaur out with a solid kick

    • 200g and two +2 arrows of vulnerability!

  • Dr. Rorak wrote his thesis on the demontouched (tieflings)

    • In 12th age, tieflings existed w/ minimal stigma
    • In 13th age, they aligned w/ diabolist & were wiped out by everyone else
    • Doesn't know why they aligned w/ diabolist, suspects it was coincidence of where they were @ start of age
    • Some w/ more exotic skin colours in Drakkenhall
    • Peaceful demontouched did not resist when Crusader showed up to kill them (lol)
    • Doctor notices Turai is a demontouched
      • Noticed shape of her skull

  • Solon meditates on top of the caravan

    • Dorf king is guarded, has no ill intent
    • Besides defensiveness.

  • Yorden fed his coins to the (probably Zorigami) egg.

    • It grows slightly
    • Nobody notices
    • Asks the other humans what's up with the Emperor
      • Crusader WAS under Emperor's control cuz money
      • Crusader has been taking things into his own hands lately, more independent from Empire
      • Maybe this prompted shift to Elf Queen & Dorf King?

  • Entilzha has a GGG dream (5 w/ GGG relation)

    • Demon being held prisoner, being transported to First Triumph
    • May be able to intercept if we hurry
    • RESOLVE NEXT SESSION

  • We come upon a landscape that looks like Entilzha's dream

    • Crusader caravan coming towards us w/ cages
    • Weird crusader symbol -- red is burgandy, first is dripping blood
    • Sect of the Crusader called The Saved
      • Former victims of demons, remade of foot troops of crusader & fight diabolist
      • Just Sane Enough to follow orders
    • Woman meets Entilzha, standing straight
      • Insignia means quartermaster
      • Missing 3 fingers from right hand
      • Quartermaster Viga
    • Emperor's troops have given them trouble
    • Scream, unearthly roar as guard lunges @ cage
      • Gets blasted back
    • Demon teleports away

  • Solon tries to summon it back while Entilzha persues it on foot

    • Solon summons it, shanks it w/ ringblade
    • We killed it

  • Entered underground path in Anvil after resupplying, made it to the capital of Forge

    • Economic boom, strange tale of living machines
    • Drow racism

  • Cringley is here to talk to Dorf King on behalf of high druid

    • Upset that she was not permitted to meet w/ him, only the researchers were
    • Cringley has heard the dorf king is trying to make living machines, upsetting balance

  • Yorden learns about the egg (from an icon die)

    • Shapes changing on the egg are related to the things it consumes
    • The eggshell moves !
    • SUDDENLY, an eyeball looks out of the egg and blinks.

  • Solon ponders ... is skeptical that the dorf king could produce life from nothing

    • Wouldn't have access to anything even close to the magic needed to create life

  • Crusader may doubt Entilzha because the demon escaped, and then we killed it

    • The caravan did not like that we killed it; they wanted a prisoner.

  • Researchers return

    • We ask why they got nicer rooms than we did...

    • They spoke w/ Head of Research instead of dorf king

    • Dwarves opened a University in the last 20 years, the Head of Research is responsible for this triumph

    • Dr. Rorak needs to go to University library

      • Turai, Entilzha, Solon go w/

      • Dean of College has invited us to examine rare book collection

      • They may not like Entilzha cuz racism

      • We take a steam train

        • Lava crystals power it, the drivers get a bunch every day to power the train
        • Risky to collect!

      • Very dwarven university: carved from rock

        • University has 8 wings

      • Presentation later today on Living Machines

      • Research is Applied; Dorf King needs practical things

        • Lots of new-to-academic folks here, since Dwarven university is very distinct from overworld ones

      • Rorak talks w/ Turai...

        • Dwarf king cooperated w/ Crusader's slaughter of the tieflings when he came through Forge
        • Dr. is surprised Dorf King bartered for tiefling artifacts to add to his horde
        • Suspects there may be tiefling remnants in the north
        • Drakkenhall MAY have some tieflings...

      • Entilzha finds Yonslopp's Chronicles of Demonslaying in the First Crusader

        • Get a BG point !
        • Documents trial & error to discover what worked vs demons (since it was the first crusade of the age), eventual fall of Paimon

      • Solon learns about dwarven magic

        • Shamanistic, uses natural stuff (rocks, carvings, runes) vs. arcane trappings
        • Checks out the "Special Section" where Dr. Rorak is w/ Turai
        • Finds a book in a weird language that is Relevant to His Interests
        • Hard to read, may be from a previous age
          • Symbols on the edges of the hexagon are 10th or 11th age
        • Diagrams of rituals (?)

    • Hubblepoof & Terrice want to go look at the 8-sided artifact

      • Yorden & Squood go w/

      • They also take a steam train!

      • The "research site" is the fucking market!

      • Squood seeks a corn seller

        • Something about a body is said to a friend of the seller
        • There's an Oracle that the King found, draped in layers and layers of cloth
        • They think it's a ghost
        • They are racist to Squood, Squood gets a fucking ICE BURN on them.

      • Hubblepoof thinks the market is organized by what olden dwarves though the eight sides of the octogon meant

        • Yorden looks like he has a headache.
        • Yorden thinks that because nothing is happening, the "plan" Hubblepoof thinks they're following is meaningless
        • Get into a heated argument over how little the octogon matters
        • Brings it back to our crappy quarters
          • Trash is only picked up once a week due to budgetary restrictions!

      • Terrese is off shopping uselessly

    • Squood wants to find info about a mechanical egg from the street urchins

      • Squood buys an urchin a dozen candied apples
      • Urchin scams Squood and runs off with the apples.

  • We meet up

    • Solon & Yorden 'discuss' how the octogon dictates where vendors should be.
    • Terrese says you use circles to summon demons, not octogons

  • Servants tell us it is the Dining Hour

    • Throwing a nicer banquet since the researchers are here

    • Dwarf King is present in the vast dining hall, at the high table

    • Dwarf King

      • Big black beard.
      • That's it.

    • Cringly is here

      • Looking at the dwarf king...

      • Asks if we learned anything

      • DOesn't know how to approach the Dwarf King

      • Squood notices a figured covered in clothing, not an inch of skin shown, in the Dwarf King's retunite

        • Maybe the Oracle?
        • Asks if Entilzha senses any demons
        • Radiates GGG energy
        • Squood hands Cringly a candied apple and says let's go.

      • Entilzha, Squood, and Cringly approach the high table.

        • Squood goes down on one knee and presents the DK with a candied apple.

          • Somebody points this out to DK
          • He is like 'who dis'
          • Dwarf King takes the apple though.

        • Cringly has no idea what to say

          • Begins very awkwardly, "My king. The king. Dwarf king?"

          • High table occupants look at her like she's fuckin' nuts

          • "High Druid sends her regards," walks away.

            • Dwarf King whispers to a military-looking person next to him, guards are alerted.

          • Squood whispers to the Oracle, "I know about you"

            • Moves its head (was still before)
            • Squood hides behind a curtain

      • Yorden's egg begins vibrating, rando next to him notices

        • It moves to his hand
        • Noise in his hand (!?!)
          • Bleeping
        • Feeds it forks & knives
        • Turai notices

      • Rando is a shopkeeper's son, Turai accuses him of racism

        • Yorden golfclaps when he says he stands to inherit the shop
        • Rando's friend keeps telling him to stop, "they might attack us"
        • Yorden years and jumps down his fucking throat
        • They flee to another table.

    • At the end of the meal, DK pronounces

      • Disciples of Lagos are welcomed to the city
      • Turns to Oracle, asks if they'll find anything
        • Some people roll the eyes
        • Oracle shakes, man's voice says "Secrets of olde, bring forth, our gold."

  • Yorden & Turai follow the oracle out

    • Yorden feeds the egg bigger bits of metal from around the hall
    • Pouch becomes swollen.

  • Kringly "already cased the joint", knows where the King is

    • And the Head of Research who allegedly brought life to machines

    • Needs to find the thing & get rid of it

      • "Thing"? A specific machine?

    • Wonders if the oracle is a living machine

      • Why else keep it under all those clothes

    • Gives them layout of the castle (inc. king's quarters)

    • Solon gets caught, Turai is still sneaking

    • (Next time: finish DK portion, succeed (or fail) at doing the thing, )

  • Turai persues the cloaked oracle after Solon was caught

    • Turai appears from the shadows & addresses the oracle, it is surprised
    • Oracle ushers Turai into a closet furtively
    • Needs rescue, thinks Turai may be here for that -- "are you not an agent of the GGG?"
    • Turai offers to help since she's w/ Priestess
      • Shows messanger stone of the priestess as ID
    • Removes veil
      • Scrawny man, scruff, unshaven, bags under his eyes
    • Year ago, came on GGG business to make a deal w/ DK
      • DK found out oracle got visions, wanted to keep oracle
    • GGG was awoken from dreams by DK's power to create golems
      • Oracle was the trade for one golem
      • There were 2 golems
      • Bad part: 2nd golem disappeared
      • Was given to DK for eternity, but they suspected Oracle stole golem
    • DK tension w/ Emepror is because some suspect emp. stole 2nd golem
    • One golem looked like man w/ chiseled jaw, 2nd crawled like an animal

  • Univeristy is pretty hoppin' for the lecture

    • Researchers saved us some 2nd row seats
    • Dean is presenting
    • Crinly is here
      • STANDS UP & RAISES HAND MID-LECTURE
      • Asks if the living machines had been created
        • Dean says no, if they had DK would have taken over the continent

  • Yorden's egg rolls out of his bag

    • Squood catches it

    • Rolls up on the lecture stage w/ egg

    • Squood is 8 ft tall, x2 dorf size

    • Yorden draws his sword upon seeing this

    • Entilzha shouts "DEMON" when Yorden pulls on Squood

    • All hell breaks loose, attendees begin to flee

    • Dean trying to take egg from Squood

      • Squood smacking everyone with long spindly arms

    • Dean gets handgagged by Turai when she tried to whisper an incantation

    • Hubblepoof tugs on Squood

      • Egg was real 😮

    • Yorden sheathes his blade

      • Entilzha does the same

    • Dean is magically getting people to leave

    • Hubblepoof notices podium is an octogon, NW corner means escape !

      • "Uh, what."
      • Hubblepoof finds a route

    • Solon feels energy surge from the Dean (as the dean is being kidnapped)

      • Turai & Dr. Rorak are levitated

      • Holds on to the Dean

      • Dean doesn't think they should have let people in the city

      • Thieves stole the Egg from the DK?

        • Priestess stole the golem !!!!!!

      • Entilzha helps Squood keep egg from Yorden

        • Entilzha thinks it is a Very Good Boi
        • Doesn't think a demontouched like Yorden should has it

      • Dean teleports

        • Entilzha charges the dean
        • Yorden orders a Charge

  • Entilzha charges Dean & shield bashes her to the ground

    • Stabs in the back of the knee to pin her down.

    • Dean tries to make some threats

    • Entilzha stabs her other back-of-the-knee

    • Dean teleports away, but can't move cuz lol knees

    • Solon pops his ritual down by the podium

      • Summons us to the podium

    • Turai scoops up the dean & returns to Solon's ritual w/ her

    • Solon drags us through some dimension nobody has ever been to before

      • Some not great debuffs happen
      • For 2 days, Entilzha can rally a 2nd time in battle
      • Dean is hit with a gust of wind, whenever she opens mouth wind comes out

  • We emerge in a bog (with a great SQUISH)

    • Smells like sulfur

    • Hubblepoof scrambles to surface of water

    • Solon menaces the Dean

      • Winds of justice, Dean can't speak, etc

    • Turai tells us about the golems

  • Egg can be a unicycle now to boop alongside us

    • Scales can flutter out

  • We find a smol squishy muddy island to regroup upon

    • Light source (crude, maybe a fire) to the NE
    • We head for it
    • Hut w/ a candle in the window, hut is on 10ft stilts
    • Large plants

  • Turai approaches hut, Large Plants lunge

    • The plants spit some flying things out at Turai
    • Cringley yells "PIXIES"
    • They have sticks and bows
    • Turai does some fire-punching and kills all the pixie mooks
    • A hag appears!
    • Solon & Squood get evil eye'd
    • Entilzha takes a swing at a stilt holding the house up
      • Hag looks offended
    • Turai murders the hag
      • Death curse: "You should have left me whole and alive, for now, you cannot count above five."

  • We enter the hag's home

    • There is a cat
    • Orcskin skirt & bone flute taken by Squood
    • Solon finds a magic book written in a secret divine language.
      • Learns a 3rd level bard spell!
    • Yorden finds Imperial Armour forged with dragonflame

  • Turai and Terease take The Dean to pee

    • They wonder if they can uncurse the Dean
    • Dean is OK w/ Terease trying to decurse
    • Wind decreases, but still wind.

  • Sleep, wake up.

    • Hubblepoof wakes everyone up cuz they found something
    • The ceiling is an octogon, god damnit.
    • Demombone!
      • Entilzha identifies it as a cambian bone
      • Assassins that work for the highest bidder
      • V. Demonic
      • Their sword grows longer with each successful assassinastion
      • Has some kinda magic shit, beads and strings
        • Points us NE like a weird compass
      • Entilzha is into it

  • We head NE

    • Terease is not into being in a swamp
    • Dean is able to make noises now
    • Demonbone points towards a steep crater
    • It's a hellhole.

  • Entilzha takes a look into the hellhole

    • Black carapace walls, gates fanged w/ teeth of hellbeasts
    • Torture palaces
    • Lots of demons

  • Dean manages to call us idiots

    • Turai calls her a hypocrite
    • They talk about the living machines
    • Dorf Kingdom had two living machines, could not figure out how to recreate them, wanted people to study & figure out how to make more
    • DK does not understand how they work

  • Interrogating the Dean

    • Dean says golems became alive
    • Hubblepoof points out the egg could be a Zoragami, hearlding the end
    • Dean modeled first golem after a man w/ a porcalin face, gave it life
    • Won't tell us how, afraid of something
    • Entilzha threatens to murder the Dean, thinks that is a better than the outcome for telling

  • Dean will stay w/ us (lol) to oversee the growth of the egg

    • Researchers are kinda like "mmm ok"
    • Dean says we are not in the Diabolists' pile of hellholes, instead in The Fens near the Elf Queen's woods
      • Doesn't want to tell EQ about the egg

  • Cringley will stay w/ us as long as we'll have her

    • Wants to keep an eye on the Egg sitch

  • We are the Dregg-oons!

  • We decide to head for the city of Concord

    • Entilzha worried the Elf Queen may be pissed that we're dragging this egg near her woods w/out talking to her

  • Next time:

    • Go to babby store for an Egg Stroller

  • We observe a time-slowing effect above the egg.

  • Entilzha asks Dean about Zorigami

    • Dean studied texts about them to invent the golems
    • They adjust to become machines of war, recombine w/ fallen bodies
    • Dean is pretty cavilier about accidentally the Ara

  • Rorak and Hubblepoof have a romance

  • We reach Concord

    • Researchers decide to head back to the priestess' city, pay is 2500g
    • Solon bullshits the guards and we get in
    • The Dean asks the guards where the dwarven embassy is, gets directions
    • Entilzha intimidates the shit out of The Dean after pulling that bullshit, quashes her attempt to steal the egg and flee by reminding her that knees are a privilege, not a right.

  • We head for the Oppulentastica, an inn.

    • It's a run-down dump. We don't go here.

  • We head to the Lost Palace, the very best inn in the world.

    • Imperial corruption accidentally paid out the ass to build this inn, it's Super Nice
    • Lots of drow hang out here

  • Squood goes shopping w/ Yorden for an EGG STROLLER.

    • Lots of wood strollers, Yorden wants the sturdiest things

    • While shopping, Squood sees a sign for a dating app

      • Yorden spins three times and claps.
      • Man comes out from behind the poster, is confused when they don't want dating
      • Gives them a yellow not-quite-magic potion
      • Squood drinks

  • Turai spots one of her former marks, somebody she stabbed an eye out of when taking her in

    • Cringley blocks the exit
    • Turai interrogates her, finds out she's working for the Prince of Shadows
    • Prince meeting w an elf princess, the lady is delivering a package w/ a finely crafted engagement ring
    • Delivery to somebody purple near the Squid Fountain by the Blind Owl

  • The Dean tries to convince Entilzha to help her escape w/ egg

    • Nope.

  • Egg eats the box springs

  • Squood is now purple.

    • The potion Squood drank changed his skin

    • We pay the inn to keep the Dean locked in a room while we go out

  • Turai's associate hands Squood the package w/ the ring

    • Woman in a cloak approaches, touches her arm
    • "You're an elf? I thought you would be a human..."
    • Lovely looking elf woman

  • Decide to leave Dean here

  • The Dean is in front of the inn w/ Cringley in chains and twenty dwarven guards

    • We run for it
    • Feel a weird tingling from the inn -- another cult thing?

  • PARTY NAME: Eggcellent Eggsitterz

  • We all use our backgrounds to exit the city

    • Turai lets some folks out of the stockades to confuse the dwarves
    • Entilzha ducks into an alley, clotheslines a dwarf, and then knifes the fucker
    • Squood does magic but abandons The Egg, Solon grabs it
    • We escape Concord w/ the Egg and the Princess

  • Princess leads us to a city on the edge of the woods

    • Plan to marry her off happened Very Fast -- matter of days (unusual for elfs)
    • We end up staying in a hamlet overnight

  • Princess takes us into the woods, we get jumped

    • Three-headed black dragon backed up by some spiders

    • Zulant the Black Dragon introduces itself

    • Dragon acid breathes us

      • Acid breath turns into scorpions.

    • Turai body slams the dragon to death.

      • DM: "You weren't supposed to kill the dragon. But you do."

    • The Egg shoots a fork at the black dragon moments after it dies.

      • Solon congratulates the egg for killing the dragon
      • It rains magic items!
      • Squood gets a weird gear from the dragon's anus, feeds it to the egg
        • IT WAS A FUCKING ZORIGAMI
        • THE EGG ATE THE FUCKING ZORIGAMI.
        • The egg has arms.

  • Princess is like "wow ok nice"

    • Squood is more annoyed

    • Princess theorizes on where the black dragon came from

    • Elf court has a green dragon (the three were once the four) under it

    • Thinks maybe the Three were trying to recover the Green dragon

  • We find the Court of Elves

    • Guards say we missed the monthly petition day

    • Welcome us to stay

    • Squood isn't purple anymore

    • Elves are staring at us cuz Yoren is red

    • Party huddles to discuss our plan

      • Decide to tell Elf Queen the diabolist fucked w/ her deal
      • Try to get her pissed at the diabolist
      • Offer to help get even
      • Wants info the Prince of Shadows was gunna give her for the wife

    • We tell the princess we cool, won't sell her out

      • She leads us up the hill to her mom

    • Turai notices an octogon

      • Crystal octogon
      • THE WHOLE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE IS AN OCTOGON

  • Elf Queen comes out from behind her throne when the throne guard rings a bell

    • (she has living quarters behind it)

    • Yorden shouts about 2nd daughter

    • Court goes deadly quiet

    • "Princess" steps forward, turns into the fucking Prince of Shadows

    • Prince goes up the throne stairs

      • Entilzha pulls a sword, challenges him

    • Squood gropes the prince of shadows

    • Prince asks for a private audience, Queen makes another path for them to go off and sidebar

    • Real princess says we'll find out about 2nd daughter soon

    • We follow the Prince & Queen

    • There is a 2nd princess

      • But she's ugly
      • So they don't let her out
        • Literally, elf queen put her in a coma.

    • Prince of Shadows wants the ugly princess for an end-of-age ritual

      • Entilzha: "....ah."

    • The icons conduct a ritual, betting on what races/powers will be important in the next age

      • Decides the fate of all the races
      • Ex: In this age, no tieflings left & no living machines
      • They decided this last age

    • Ritual happens in the Queen's Wood

      • this is why elves are consitently one of the three major powers
      • Turai asks why it happens here
        • Place of power
        • Everyone thinks it needs to be here
        • Queen is OK with this

    • Elf queen accidentally made the orcs

    • She mentions zorigami

      • We al cough

    • Archmage put the zorigami into play

      • They would signal to the other icons when it was time for the ritual
      • Near the end of the age

    • Zorigami are crucial to the ritual

      • Representing a living machine race, which can make them more powerful in next age
      • Alt: one race always gets screwed, gets sacrified for the others
      • They usually sacrifice the living machines

  • Entilzha makes an (intenral) decision to defend the egg

  • Ugly princess might be an orc

  • Prince of Shadows says they can avoid the sacrifice

    • Elf queen says not possible
    • They argue about it

  • Squood is still groping the prince of shadows

    • He's just rolling with it

  • Queen says this isn't something that needs to be discussed anyway, zorigami haven't appeared

    • Prince of Shadows gives us a pointed look

    • Entilzha sighs

    • "Your majesty, may I present for your pleasure ..."

    • Pulls back the blanket in the stroller, egg hops up and toots

    • Elf Queen notices Solon

      • "You brought me the egg!"

    • Queen had dispatched Solon to destroy the Zorigami

    • Solon is fuckin pissed at her

    • Solon will not destroy the egg

    • Solon: "I learned much from the diabolist..."

    • The Elf Queen is surprised when Solon says he died for her

      • "I understand. That explains a lot."
      • She fixes his memory.

  • Princess gave us some tea

    • We get kinda high

    • Turai detects magic and finds out its magic weed

  • Can select 8 races to prosper

    • But 12 icons ...
    • Age is all about positioning yourself to have the $power$ to be in the ritual

  • Ask when the ritual is

    • Within a [elf] lifetime

  • Internal State:

    • Supports Elf Queen, wants the ritual to proceed so elves will deffo be a big power in the next age
    • Will stay w/ Egg to protect it so we can sacrifice it
    • Wants it to end.
    • Also super OK w/ letting the dwarves be genocided in the ritual cuz FUCK the dean

  • Solon goes off on Yorden for saying he's alone

    • Turai shows her horns
    • Entilzha freaks the fuck out

  • Scene is ended

    • We get a nice tree house

  • Going to stay in the Court for a month

    • Whatever resources we need to decide what to do w/ ritual

  • Entilzha during the downtime

    • Finds a trainer to learn some Skills of a Bodyguard
    • Also checks in w/ network for reports of demonic activity

  • Elf Queen tells us that The Three have gone rogue

    • Wants us to take care of them

    • Offers to arm us

    • Deliver message to the Blue commanding them to back down

    • Otherwise...

    • Unclear when the ritual will be, The Three have fucked everything up

      • ritual needs dragon breathe

  • (ooc: good taco bar, also good wine)

  • I have a dream

    • From GGG

    • I see a passage hidden in a forest

    • That leads to a dragon.

    • A gold dragon is pearched on a giant horde of treasure

    • At the foot of the horde, the egg is eating everything

    • When I awaken, I realized

    • the silvery purpley of the leaves means that that forest

    • is probably the one we're in right now

    • I should ask a local ranger if any dragons are in the wood

    • I do that.

      • I get a marked map

  • Entilzha, Squood, and Turai take the egg to the cave.

    • Solon is doing research on the egg & the Three, also ends up w/ directions to our cave
      • Grabs Yorden

  • At the cave...

    • Cave is a crack in the cliffside

    • Enterance seems unused, ALMOST too small for a dragon to fit...

    • Turai notices nothing has used this passage.

    • Entilzha seals cave enterance against demons and undead.

    • Small treasure pile

    • Gold dragon sitting apon the pile

    • Some light coming down from a hole in the ceiling, where the dragon probs enters/exits

      • Turai determines this dragon has been asleep for some time.

    • Entilzha approached the dragon, revealing the horn to it

    • Unfortunately, the horde is actually DREAM DRUGZ

    • Nightmare time!

    • Dream of an ogre running away from some human riders

      • Minotaurs, lamisu
      • Also an ogre mage knight

    • As the last enemy dies, we each imagine clawing it down with our claws

    • The dream has a LARGE VOICE: "I know not how you came into this dream, but if you help me slay my demons & traumas, the reward to you will be great. My name is Zephalarius, and I have been trapped in sleep too long. Help me quell an old foe next; a green dragon, who for many centuries has chased after me. If you can change the memory to diplomacy, it'd be gr8."

  • Find some green psuedo-dragons at a waterfall

    • Large green dragon looks at us from atop

    • Rivalry between the gold & green dragons started over a lover

      • (psychic shit)
      • Evil sorcerer Leffen cursed both dragons
      • This is the first time they've seen each other since the sorcerer died & curse lifted
      • GGG does not know that we're here: Zeph is hiding the meeting from the GGG

    • Two dragons wished the opposites

    • Green dragon is Golintian

    • Old ones (the three) found out about the deformed babies, they'd erase all our shit from history

    • We offer to help care for the deformed babies.

    • We see the young face of ... THE ARCHEMAGE. Who is Leffen.

    • FIght some demons rq

      • GGG reveals that he brearhes live into the zorigami
      • triggering the end of the age.
      • Will not breathe on the zorigami and trigger the end this time.

  • We goin to Drakkenhall bitches

    • Level 7 time

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