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| In almost certainly completely unrelated news: pale looking apprentices of the College of Stars' visiting Professor of Wounding, Dammerung the Undying, have been circulating around the seedier of Acryn's adventurer hang-outs. They seem to have been trying to recruit skilled 'dungeoneers' with the courage, strength and moral flexibility to undertake a mission of considerable danger. Generous rewards, both financial and esoteric, are on offer for successful applicants. | In almost certainly completely unrelated news: pale looking apprentices of the College of Stars' visiting Professor of Wounding, Dammerung the Undying, have been circulating around the seedier of Acryn's adventurer hang-outs. They seem to have been trying to recruit skilled 'dungeoneers' with the courage, strength and moral flexibility to undertake a mission of considerable danger. Generous rewards, both financial and esoteric, are on offer for successful applicants. | ||
| ===== PCs ===== | ===== PCs ===== | ||
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| + | * [[user:joew:pc:jimmy_hoskins|Jimmy Hoskins]] | ||
| + | * [[user:alexet:pc:rodrigo_robertson|Rodrigo Robertson]] | ||
| + | * [[user:emmab:pc:tabitha_terrec|Tabitha Terrec]] | ||
| + | * [[user:matthewa:pc:karlos_farblade|Karlos Farblade]] | ||
| ===== Debrief ===== | ===== Debrief ===== | ||
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| All hell breaks lose as Tuireann is pulled into the ritual in an attempt to feast upon the souls within Jimmy. Jimmy fights off the monster until, with a final terrible curse upon Tabitha and Karlos, he steps free of his mortality and ascends as a God. As he does so he rips a host of souls free from Tuireann and hurls them and all those within him out into the world to be reincarnated. | All hell breaks lose as Tuireann is pulled into the ritual in an attempt to feast upon the souls within Jimmy. Jimmy fights off the monster until, with a final terrible curse upon Tabitha and Karlos, he steps free of his mortality and ascends as a God. As he does so he rips a host of souls free from Tuireann and hurls them and all those within him out into the world to be reincarnated. | ||
| - | As Jimmy vanishes the ritual is nearing its apex but now in its fury Tuireann turns upon the rest of the party. They are moments from death when the ritual reaches its cresendo and Tuireann is dealt a terrible wound, its very nature sundered and drawn into the Sarcophagus and in turn into Karlos and Tabitha. As the dark wounding energies course through them Rodrigo looks on in horror as their bodies are ravaged, decaying into monstrous parodies of life, hideous to behold yet filled with power that seems to bend the world around them. | + | As Jimmy vanishes the ritual is nearing its apex but now in its fury Tuireann turns upon the rest of the party. They are moments from death when the ritual reaches its final cresendo and Tuireann is dealt a terrible wound, its very nature sundered and drawn into the Sarcophagus and in turn into Karlos and Tabitha. As the dark wounding energies course through them Rodrigo looks on in horror as their bodies are ravaged, decaying into monstrous parodies of life, hideous to behold yet filled with power that seems to bend the world around them. |
| - | As the carnage recedes and peace descends Tabitha and Karlos realise the terrible price they have paid for their dark ascension (probably not helped by the damage dealt by Jimmy to the Sarcophagus of Sorrows): undeath and worse their shared nature seems to be a crime against reality itself. They cannot stand each other's presence and the clash of the natures seems to create an ever twisting, expanding aura of death about them. With no explanation Rodrigo (potentially to teach them a lesson) uses the magical quill to twist their story, ensuring that 'there can be only one' and it will come to pass that one destroys the other (in some form). | + | As the carnage recedes and peace descends Tabitha and Karlos realise the [[https://youtu.be/VA7J0KkanzM?t=1m36s|terrible price they have paid]] for their dark ascension (probably not helped by the damage dealt by Jimmy to the Sarcophagus of Sorrows): undeath. Worse still their shared nature seems to be a crime against reality itself. They cannot stand each other's presence and the clash of the natures seems to create an ever twisting, expanding aura of death about them. With no explanation Rodrigo (potentially to teach them a lesson) uses the magical quill to twist their story, ensuring that 'there can be only one' and it will come to pass that one destroys the other (in some form). |
| Tabitha decides to leave. As she vanishes into the shadows she feels the Traitor's blade at her throat, the goddess none too pleased that her power was used against Jimmy - someone to whom she owed a debt of gratitude. She cuts Tabitha's undead throat and withdraws, taking her power with her. | Tabitha decides to leave. As she vanishes into the shadows she feels the Traitor's blade at her throat, the goddess none too pleased that her power was used against Jimmy - someone to whom she owed a debt of gratitude. She cuts Tabitha's undead throat and withdraws, taking her power with her. | ||
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| Rodrigo returns to the city and reports all that has occurred to the watch. They are horrified that Tabitha was once more able to slip through the clutches of the watch and doubly worried that she now appears to a walking incarnation of death itself. Searches for her across the city are doubled and Rodrigo is personally tasked with tracking her down and destroying her once and for all. | Rodrigo returns to the city and reports all that has occurred to the watch. They are horrified that Tabitha was once more able to slip through the clutches of the watch and doubly worried that she now appears to a walking incarnation of death itself. Searches for her across the city are doubled and Rodrigo is personally tasked with tracking her down and destroying her once and for all. | ||
| - | When both Karlos and Tabitha are both back in Acryn, they can never escape the unpleasant feeling that the other is present. They find that plant and vermin life all around gradually withers and dies in their presence and even humans will seem to age faster if in their presence for too long. Worse their clashing nature seems to have a darker effect as death seems to creep across the city. As long as they both exist the dead will not slumber easily and a subtle but malign malaise begins to linger over acryn: the sick declining faster, the elderly falling dead before their time. In the sewers and alleyways of the city rumours of the walking dead will increase and the cemeteries of the city become places of fear. | + | When both Karlos and Tabitha are both back in Acryn, they can never escape the unpleasant feeling that the other is ever present. They find that plant and vermin life all around gradually withers and dies in their presence and even humans will seem to age faster if in their presence for too long. Worse their clashing nature seems to have a darker effect as undeath seems to creep across the city. As long as they both exist the dead will not slumber easily and a subtle but malign malaise begins to linger over acryn: the sick declining faster, the elderly falling dead before their time. In the sewers and alleyways of the city rumours of the walking dead will increase and the cemeteries of the city become places of fear. |
| In his divine realm Jimmy considers the great solution he has developed, while turning his nascent power against Tabitha and Karlos. Oddly to the city at large Councillor Hoskins seems to be safe and well, as Jimmy's apprentice flawlessly takes on his persona. Over the coming weeks all across Acryn children begin to be born with an odd birthmark that looks like a serpent devouring its own tail. The cycle of reincarnation has begun. | In his divine realm Jimmy considers the great solution he has developed, while turning his nascent power against Tabitha and Karlos. Oddly to the city at large Councillor Hoskins seems to be safe and well, as Jimmy's apprentice flawlessly takes on his persona. Over the coming weeks all across Acryn children begin to be born with an odd birthmark that looks like a serpent devouring its own tail. The cycle of reincarnation has begun. | ||
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| ====Tabitha==== | ====Tabitha==== | ||
| - | * A hideous walking corpse - can buy the Lich Epic tree and has the undeath quirk. | + | * A hideous walking corpse - can buy the Lich Epic tree. |
| - | * Has become the Primal of 'Death' and can buy the primal epic tree. However, as a another primal of Death exists this new nature seems to twist reality creating an aura of death around them. Karlos and Tabitha will have a unshakeable suspicion of each other. Thanks to the power of the Pivot of the World one of them is destined to destroy the other. Mechanically this means that any attempt to change or reverse their Primal of Death nature will be extraordinarily hard through any method that doesn't involve one destroying the other (i.e. player request level hard). The signature move they must take (while the Primal of Death) if they buy the skill is 'RISE' which allows them to animate a corpse to serve them once per encounter. While both of them continue to share the same nature their aura ability will always be twisted in some way when they call upon it (normally is a way which perverts death). | + | * Has become the Primal of 'Death' and can buy the primal epic tree. However, as a another primal of Death exists this new nature seems to twist reality creating an aura of undeath around them. Karlos and Tabitha will have a unshakeable suspicion of each other. Thanks to the power of the Pivot of the World one of them is destined to destroy the other. Mechanically this means that any attempt to change or reverse their Primal of Death nature will be extraordinarily hard through any method that doesn't involve one destroying the other (i.e. player request level hard). The signature move they must take (while the Primal of Death) if they buy the skill is 'RAISE ZOMBIE' which allows them to animate a corpse (5 hits, SINGLES) to serve them once per encounter. While both of them continue to share the same nature their aura ability will always be twisted in some way when they call upon it (normally in a way which perverts death). |
| * The Curse of He Who Devours Himself - every adventure at some opportune moment the GM can have you consume one of your own limbs. Unless you have some way to regenerate them or get a new body then after 4 adventures you will be left a helpless torso. | * The Curse of He Who Devours Himself - every adventure at some opportune moment the GM can have you consume one of your own limbs. Unless you have some way to regenerate them or get a new body then after 4 adventures you will be left a helpless torso. | ||
| * Excommunicated by the Traitor. Her cut throat cannot be healed as a reminder of her treachery. | * Excommunicated by the Traitor. Her cut throat cannot be healed as a reminder of her treachery. | ||
| ====Karlos==== | ====Karlos==== | ||
| - | * A hideous walking corpse - can buy the Lich Epic tree and has the undeath quirk. | + | * A hideous walking corpse - can buy the Lich Epic tree. |
| - | * Has become the Primal of 'Death' and can buy the primal epic tree. However, as a another primal of Death exists this new nature seems to twist reality creating an aura of death around them. Karlos and Tabitha will have a unshakeable suspicion of each other. Thanks to the power of the Pivot of the World one of them is destined to destroy the other. Mechanically this means that any attempt to change or reverse their Primal of Death nature will be extraordinarily hard through any method that doesn't involve one destroying the other (i.e. player request level hard). The signature move they must take (while the Primal of Death) if they buy the skill is 'RISE' which allows them to animate a corpse to serve them once per encounter. While both of them continue to share the same nature their aura ability will always be twisted in some way when they call upon it (normally is a way which perverts death). | + | * Has become the Primal of 'Death' and can buy the primal epic tree. However, as a another primal of Death exists this new nature seems to twist reality creating an aura of undeath around them. Karlos and Tabitha will have a unshakeable suspicion of each other. Thanks to the power of the Pivot of the World one of them is destined to destroy the other. Mechanically this means that any attempt to change or reverse their Primal of Death nature will be extraordinarily hard through any method that doesn't involve one destroying the other (i.e. player request level hard). The signature move they must take (while the Primal of Death) if they buy the skill is 'RAISE ZOMBIE' which allows them to animate a corpse (5 hits, SINGLES) to serve them once per encounter. While both of them continue to share the same nature their aura ability will always be twisted in some way when they call upon it (normally in a way which perverts death). |
| * The Curse of He Who Devours Himself - every adventure at some opportune moment the GM can have you consume one of your own limbs. Unless you have some way to regenerate them or get a new body then after 4 adventures you will be left a helpless torso. | * The Curse of He Who Devours Himself - every adventure at some opportune moment the GM can have you consume one of your own limbs. Unless you have some way to regenerate them or get a new body then after 4 adventures you will be left a helpless torso. | ||
| * Ownership of the 'Castle of Bones' - once moved to a location he can access easily it will count as an Arcane Library with some of the greatest works of wounding magic within (and for wounding rituals it will reduce the cost of casting by 2). | * Ownership of the 'Castle of Bones' - once moved to a location he can access easily it will count as an Arcane Library with some of the greatest works of wounding magic within (and for wounding rituals it will reduce the cost of casting by 2). | ||
| * Knowledge of 'Dammerung's Requiem of the Flesh' | * Knowledge of 'Dammerung's Requiem of the Flesh' | ||
| - | * Addicted to Dark Knowings - having gazed into the hideous Orrey as it displayed the movement of the Dragons Karlos will hunger for ever more understanding and will find it hard to resist any source of knowledge. In particular when his 'Undeath' hunger triggers he will have a burning desire to consume the brain of the most knowledgeable person present, using taste of knowledge to learn all he can. | + | * Addicted to Dark Knowings - having gazed into the hideous Orrey as it displayed the movement of the Dragons Karlos will hunger for ever more understanding and will find it hard to resist any source of knowledge. In particular when his 'Undeath' hunger triggers he will have a burning desire to consume the brain of the most knowledgeable person present, using taste of knowledge to learn all he can. On the bright side his Lore Master skill can be considered to be augmented with considerable amounts of 'forbidden knowledge that man was not meant to know'. |
| - | * Wanted by the City for aiding and abetting Tabitha Terrac | + | * Wanted by the City for aiding and abetting Tabitha Terrec |
| * Jimmy Hoskin's apprentice will ensure that the true council make life hard for him. | * Jimmy Hoskin's apprentice will ensure that the true council make life hard for him. | ||
| ====Rodrigo==== | ====Rodrigo==== | ||
| - | * Considered a lose cannon by the watch. Personally tasked with hunting down and destroying Tabitha Terrac. | + | * Considered a lose cannon by the watch. Personally tasked with hunting down and destroying Tabitha Terrec. |
| + | * Mastercrafted sword provided by Jimmy | ||
| + | * His blood transfusion with Tabitha will give him the ability to detect the presence of Mudra or its minions within a couple of minutes of being near them. This includes Tabitha in whatever guise she takes. | ||
| ====Jimmy==== | ====Jimmy==== | ||
| * Ascended to Godhood as He Who Devours Himself. | * Ascended to Godhood as He Who Devours Himself. | ||
| + | * Has solved the riddle of how to cure creation. | ||
| - | {{tag>"gotterdammerung" adventure}} | + | {{tag>"gotterdammerung" dammerung "tabitha terrec" "karlos farblade" "rodrigo robertson" "jimmy hoskins" adventure}} |
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