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resources:adventure:memento_te_ipsum [2015/07/06 00:53] joew [Blake] |
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- | Having emerged from the Vault the adventures find that Colin has regressed to an animalistic state that they recognise as a sign of the Soulless. As Mar and Gidner hold the frightened man still, the Splintered Man reaches out to the consensus and draws forth a new Will to inhabit the body of their former comrade. As the new will settles into place it brushes against the dissolving remnants of Colin's thoughts and declares "I am nobody." They try to comfort and reassure this new person, and Howard claims himself as his father, giving him the name Blake. 'Blake' agrees to come with them and the group head to the river with their guard of Sentinels, watching from the bank as the ancient ghosts plunge themselves into the waters and vanish into a twinkling cloud of memory crystals. | + | The party travel into the desert and after a violent run in with a Serradic patrol and a group of Dragon cultists they eventually make their way to the dig site. They diplome with the mercenary guards and Gidner is able to meet with a junior academic from the team but they are unable to negotiate a place with the expedition and are politely sent back out into the desert. There Howard worldshapes a tunnel back towards the digsite and they are able to quietly infiltrate the ancient subterranean complex. After surviving an encounter with some archaic but still deadly traps, Colin warns of a sudden surge of mana and moments later the group feels the floor drop out from under them sending them tumbling through a draconic space. They emerge from the utter darkness only to splash into the warm waters of a red river. Though they feel themselves lulled into a sense of tranquility they still manage to notice something being taken from them and fight against it as best they can. |
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+ | Crawling onto the banks they find themselves bereft of all but a few memories and surrounded by people in a similar condition. They explore their surroundings and then shape a comfortable house from the flux in which to spend the night. One of the men is able to identify the coins of many of the amnesiacs as belonging to 'The Empire' whilst the party seem to be carrying the coinage of a place called 'Acryn'. Gidner is able to analyse the river waters and finds that it appears to be some sort of alchemical solution that dissolves the soul, precipitating the memories as small crystals. Booker calls upon the Traitor to lead him back to those memories (and only those memories) that are essential to his Service- at this his dagger leaps into the river and vanishes off into the distance, leaving a vaguely metallic trail that only he can see. In the meantime Howard has Miraculously convinced a Priest of the Jubilant Mask that he is his god and bids him make a mask of Colin's face. Despite some concerns over the strange appearances and behaviour of their companions, the group as a whole decides that they are best off if they stick together whilst they seek their memories. | ||
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+ | Following the river inland they come to the enormous wall that Howard had scouted the night before. Refusing to leave the edge of the river to journey to the distant gate, they instead try to force their way through the wall. Howard finds his shaping blocked by some powerful flux entity that bellows its rage at his manipulation of its home. However with the assistance of a large barrel of explosive depapered by Colin they manage to blow a hole large enough for the party to run through before it reseals. This does separate the adventurers from the other amnesiacs but there seems no easy way to get back to them, so instead they proceed onward finding themselves inside a huge twisting labyrinth.\\ | ||
+ | After fighting a large group of flux draconic entities the party hastens towards a patch of consensus, only to find themselves hurled into the Lost Spaces as they attempt to cross the threshold. Seeing their party members vanish, Booker and Colin work together to bless a rope to lead them true and attach it to an arrow which is loosed into the river. Stepping into the Lost Place they find the rest of the party beset by giant magpies, however the severed portion of rope attached to Booker's wrist remains taut, pulling back towards where they came. | ||
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+ | As they wander across improbably merged landscapes the group is met by the Watcher who explains that he saw them vanish from his sight and then reappear here. They explain their situation and with the aid of blessed rope the Watcher's wayfinder is able to cast them back out of the lost space and back into the labyrinth. When they attempt this the consensus fights back against them and they are faced with a group of doppelgangers. Howard promptly swaps identities with his, which causes a great deal of trouble for the party as they are repeatedly agonised by the doppelgangers' attempts to destroy the vile Scion of the Flux. Once the defenders of the consensus have been defeated, Colin resolves the Branch situation by merging the two. This results in Howard appearing to be split right down the middle, with both sides clearly being him, but also clearly different. | ||
+ | Venturing on through the darkness they come across a cluster of ghosts, apparently trapped here for centuries if not millenia by the twisting passages and the beast that stalks them. They have lost most of their useful memories to the river, but one amongst them is an ancient mage who apparently knew of the magics of the Upheaval a thousand years before Dine's destruction of the world. Colin creates a paper vessel for the mage and Howard agrees to play host to the other ghosts as they attempt to make their way out of the maze. They are finally confronted by the bestial anomaly that has tried to trap them here, and between them are easily able to put down the creature. With his nemesis defeated Howard promptly levels the entire section of the labyrinth they are standing in and Makes History to keep it gone.\\ | ||
+ | They proceed on towards the river and scout out a group of flux 'memory poachers' one of whom promptly recovers Booker's knife. They are quickly put to the sword and Booker stabs himself with the blade, recovering all the memories that the Traitor judged vital. The rest of the party is forced to dash across the stones of the river rapids, grabbing up memory crystals as the fight off the alchemical spirits produced by the waters. Thanks to Mar's creation of a golem to wade directly through the dissolving waters, they are able to recover almost all their major memories and fighting through the pain of their past are mostly able to reintegrate them. Booker feels no need to absorb his 'inessential' memories and Howard, having restablished his identity chooses not to integrate the crystals belonging to his past life, Leaf. | ||
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+ | WORK IN PROGRESS | ||
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+ | Having emerged from the Vault the adventures find that Colin has regressed to an animalistic state that they recognise as a sign of the Soulless. As Mar and Gidner hold the frightened man still, the Splintered Man reaches out to the consensus and draws forth a new Will to inhabit the body of their former comrade. As the new will settles into place it brushes against the dissolving remnants of Colin's thoughts and declares "I am Nobody." They try to comfort and reassure this new person, and Howard claims himself as his father, giving him the name Blake. 'Blake' agrees to come with them and the group head to the river with their guard of Sentinels, watching from the bank as the ancient ghosts plunge themselves into the waters and vanish into a twinkling cloud of memory crystals. | ||
The group then returns to speak with the Warden, who thanks them for their great service to the city and is enthusiastic about the prospect of the Truthseekers having allies on the Outside. They also meet with the Serradic representative who confirms that his party are being treated well, and that the Empire too shares the view that the Skiran's for all their reliance on magic, are nonetheless doing the world a service and should be granted reasonable aid in their endeavours.\\ | The group then returns to speak with the Warden, who thanks them for their great service to the city and is enthusiastic about the prospect of the Truthseekers having allies on the Outside. They also meet with the Serradic representative who confirms that his party are being treated well, and that the Empire too shares the view that the Skiran's for all their reliance on magic, are nonetheless doing the world a service and should be granted reasonable aid in their endeavours.\\ | ||
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*Path of Transformation Epic tree | *Path of Transformation Epic tree | ||
*Born of Possibilities tree/quirk | *Born of Possibilities tree/quirk | ||
- | *Knowledge of the Ages quirk | + | *Has lost the Primal Epic tree. Invested skillpoints may be freely re-spent. |
+ | *Knowledge of the Ages quirk - due to deepened comprehension and a less traumatic process of acquisition writing merely causes discomfort rather than incapacitation. | ||
*Crimson-skinned appearance | *Crimson-skinned appearance | ||
===Howard=== | ===Howard=== | ||
*Split Insight - Moves between a Scion of the Flux and a Harbinger of the Consensus, xp being transferred into an equivalent skill. Frequency of the shifts are at GM discretion but should be checked at minimum at the start and midpoint of a larp and any time he attempts to exit a Lost Place. | *Split Insight - Moves between a Scion of the Flux and a Harbinger of the Consensus, xp being transferred into an equivalent skill. Frequency of the shifts are at GM discretion but should be checked at minimum at the start and midpoint of a larp and any time he attempts to exit a Lost Place. | ||
*Born of Possibilities tree/quirk | *Born of Possibilities tree/quirk | ||
- | *Hideous Faceless form - Without his mask his splintered, jumbled features induce terror and nausea in other humans allowing him a single FEAR call. He should keep track of how many times he does this. | + | *Traveller of the Lost Places Epic Tree |
+ | *Hideous Faceless form - Without his mask his splintered, jumbled features induce terror and nausea in humans allowing him a single FEAR call. He should keep track of how many times he does this. | ||
*Quiescent Symbiote Manipulation | *Quiescent Symbiote Manipulation | ||
*Crimson-skinned appearance | *Crimson-skinned appearance | ||
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*Divine Favour of the Splintered Man | *Divine Favour of the Splintered Man | ||
*Crimson-skinned appearance | *Crimson-skinned appearance | ||
- | ==="Blake"=== | + | ===Nobody aka "Blake"=== |
*Divine Favour of the Splintered Man | *Divine Favour of the Splintered Man | ||
*Faceless form - Without a mask his face appears completely non-descript and unremarkable to casual observation. If attention is drawn to him then the effect becomes disturbing as the lack of any defined features becomes evident to the viewer. | *Faceless form - Without a mask his face appears completely non-descript and unremarkable to casual observation. If attention is drawn to him then the effect becomes disturbing as the lack of any defined features becomes evident to the viewer. | ||
- | Work in progress | ||
+ | ====New Quirks and Trees (Pending LARPO Approval)==== | ||
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+ | ==Moulded by Your Own Hand== | ||
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+ | You have become a being of clay, built of your own labours. Your base stats become like those of a clay golem, however each encounter you may also choose to bake your flesh in the fires of productivity- if you do so your form becomes more solid: you lose access to the DISARM calls and IMMUNE STRIKEDOWN, however you are no longer WEAKENED and may be STRENGTHENED. At the end of the encounter the sweat of your efforts will soften you back to normal. | ||
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+ | Work in progress | ||
{{tag> adventure "memento te ipsum" "booker" "leaf" "colin fletcher" "gidner waycox" "mar andreya" "truthseekers"}} | {{tag> adventure "memento te ipsum" "booker" "leaf" "colin fletcher" "gidner waycox" "mar andreya" "truthseekers"}} |