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| 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. | 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. | ||
| - | WORK IN PROGRESS | + | Wandering upriver in the hopes of tracking down their remaining memories the party encounters a group of crimson skinned people gathering clay from the riverbank. They speak of the party as being 'trueborn' and ask for donations of flesh that they might combine it with the clay to create new children from by the miracles of the Mother Crimson. Howard cuts off a finger and as the priest shapes the clay into life he drops in Leaf's memories. This causes considerable consternation but the miracle is done and a squalling crimson babe lies on the earth. Eventually persuaded to leave the child with a loving set of parents the party moves on, coming across a none-too-bright band of rebels who are conspiring to overcome the tyranny of the Citadel and use the contents of the vault to dominate the world above. The party are dismissive of their potential to pose a threat to anyone but support their efforts to overthrow the regime that maintains the great river and forces a tithe of memories upon their people. The rebels promise to call up other like minded bands and head for citadel.\\ |
| + | After dealing with some troublesome lionlizards on a pit-trap strewn savannah, the group encounters another band of revolutionaries, these composed of exiles from the citadel banned for advocating radical changes in the Rule. They explain how the tithe system has forced their society into stagnation and decline, and how the memories are used to power a Weaver that somehow obscures the existence of this land both from the bordering dragons and the outside world. Colin exchanges a message tome with one of the mages, and they too promise to secure the assistance of other exiles in effecting an overthrow of the authorities sending a guide along with the party to 'hand them over' to the enforcers of citadel. \\ | ||
| + | Moving on the party encounters a young man wandering lost and frightened through the wilderness, apparently incapable of incoherent speech. Their guide identifies the boy as soulless, a condition that apparently occurs when some incompatibility arises between the artificial bodies and reincarnated souls of the Skirans. The party take him back to the nearest where the distraught locals explain that they just can't afford to look after the animalistic youth anymore. Howard, Booker and Colin take the boy aside and grant him a new will and the blessing of the Traitor. Colin pretends to unify Booker's old memories with the boy whilst discretely pocketing them for later. Howard gives the youth the name Hugh and claims him as a son, asking him to join the party on their travels. Hugh agrees and they head on. They soon are met by the Serradic party who have also managed to regain most of their memories; after some quick negotiation it is agreed that there is nothing to be gained by fighting in this strange land. At this point Fabi, the priest of Zosimos the Curious admits that their drop into this realm was due to his use of a miracle in the dig site to get the ancient structure to show him what it did. Meanwhile Branch submits to having his own face removed by the man he has assumed was his priest, as the devotee thought it still possible he might be the Jubilant Mask beneath another guise.\\ | ||
| + | As they near the consensus farmlands around Citadel they are discovered by a group of Enforcers who are shocked to find a group of Trueborn wandering the wilderness and extremely frustrated as the party refuse to surrender all the sharp objects they're carrying. It is clear that the enforcers don't think much of the trueborn and the irritated members of the party give them a hard time of it as they are escorted towards the fortress-city. Outside the gates however they find a besieging force including one of the idiot rebels who met them earlier. The adventurers run ahead of their minders towards the rebels, inciting them into a panic; one of the rebels from the first group immediately blows their cover in front of the enforcers and the group end up in a brief running battle as they dash for the gate. Eventually they leave the escort fighting a desperate delaying battle against the besiegers and are confronted by a group of guard who have mustered in front of the gate; these soldiers request that the party take a Sleep of Death and give themselves into custody, however the adventurers refuse and by the miracles of the Traitor simply walk through the gate. Unfortunately they find this simply leads to another gate and an archer flanked kill zone. Gidner blasts through the second gate with an impassioned shout carrying the force of the Liaran people, however a third barrier prevents their escape. A desparate battle breaks out as the group buys time for Booker's miracle to get them all out of the gateway, but as the rest of the group breakaway, Colin is brought down by the Skiran's assault. Booker, Gidner and Howard flee into the city but Mar is unwilling to leave anyone behind and starts building golems to smash down the inner most gate. After slaughtering dozens of guards the thick city gate is shattered but by the time she clambers through Colin is already gone, lifted back up to the walls and taken prisoner. | ||
| - | 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. | + | Hunted and easily identifiable by their uncommon appearance, the four free party members accept a miracle from Howard that replaces their identies with that of a group of locals. Now suitably inconspicious they try to find what has become of Colin, eventually leaving an alchemical smoke signal in the sky with a coded message stating they are heading to the place the rivers meet. Meanwhile Colin manages to escape from a pair of idiot guard who are over eager to placate their trueborn prisoner; after opening a breach in a poorly defended part of the wall with a couple of depapered barrels of powder, he sneaks up to the Weaver's compound and watches those coming and going, but is unable to recognise his party in their new identities. The others decide not to risk wrecking the Weaver of the Veil in order to recover their missing minor memories and leave, Branch noticing Colin skulking the rooftops and managing to bring the group back together. Meeting in a cafe, with Colin heavily bandaged in the manner of several inhabitants they have met, they plan what to do next. Eventually they decide they need more information to find a way to the vault, and via Colin's scribing book are able to contact the rebels and get a location where they can meet with some sympathetic members of the citadel. |
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| + | They meet with many members of Citadel's society who are concerned about the future of Skira, learning about the erratic operation of the city's heavily modified Dragongate, the loss of dozens of Truthseekers due to the effects of the upheaval and the fact that there are only now a few dozen incredibly inbred Trueborn left in the city. Howard becomes suspicious about a bandaged citizen who appears to be suspiciously well informed, particularly since most of the individuals present have massive gaps in their knowledge due to the tithe. After the individual flees their interrogation, Booker hits him with the Traitor's Cloak, and he reveals himself to be a high official in the government who wants the party to go into the vault and persuade some of the ghost Sentinels to leave that they might give their centuries of memories to the river. | ||
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| + | During the night, Colin creeps to a meditating Booker and performs a rite to unify his child's family memories back onto his soul. However Booker, empowered by his earlier miracle, fights back against the unwanted memories and manages to break the power of the ritual, destroying the memories completely and leaving only a lingering sense of loss in their wake. An angry confrontation follows as Booker completely rejects Colin and storms off leaving the distraught archer to be comforted by his bleary-eyed comrades.\\ | ||
| + | Armed with a vague location from the vault provided by the Warden's office, the party are able to find a warehouse where the entrance is hidden and manage to bluff the guards long enough to close the distance and rush past, hurling themselves down the trapdoor into the vault. They fall down a long chute that deposits them in a strange armoury formed from the Primal Keeper's body and will. They feel divine eyes upon them as they fight past automata and an extremely sophisticated array of traps, they capabilities apparently being tested before they confront the vault's human guardians. Eventually a ghostly group of Sentinels confronts them, but the party is able to persuade them of their pure intentions and they are taken to meet with the God within the vault, the Second Sentinel.\\ | ||
| + | As they pass through one of the rooms containing the deadly artefacts of the Vault, Gidner lingers overlong before an apparently empty case. Moments later he begins to feel unwell as an ancient disease afflicts him and then proceeds to spread to his companions sparing only Booker. Calling upon his awesome intellectual powers the Battle Magister is able to determine that he has contracted the First Plague and that all those of primal descent are subject to the ravages of the sickness. This appears confirmed when Booker muses allowed that he should be of such descent as a human created him; immediately after making the statement he feels the bite of the plague. The party are brought before the Second Sentinel even as Gidner starts to succumb to the plague, his primal nature making him the first victim. Mar is also sickening, the primal brick she carries within her body only empowering the sickness. However calling upon the power of the stone and the gifts of the Lord of the Rock she reshapes her flesh into clay, burning away her human vulnerabilities in a wave of divine and primal power. Reaching the same conclusion that they must abandon their primal heritage to survive, the others accept a miracle from Howard that recreates their identities- rejecting the human parts of their souls that they might instead by new beings born of the upheaval. Its hosts no longer targets of interest, the plague evaporates from their bodies and the party find themselves fully recovered. With his pre-upheaval life reduced to a lie, and his humanity gone Colin remarks in despair that he has now lost everything that defined him. | ||
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| + | The group manages to persuade the Second Sentinel of the need to save the city from its plunge into destruction by sending some of his entourage back out of the vault. A dozen ghostly wardens are selected and accompany the party as they make the way to confront the final guardian of the vault, the will of the Keeper himself. Grabbing hold of the vault door the adventurers pit themselves against the determination of the the ancient primal and with some small aid from the god they are able to force their way through, pushing out of the vault and back into the city. However as Mar carries Colin's comatose body over the threshold, the weakened Keeper tries one last time to hold him within. It would be the simplest thing to brush past, but with a will utterly broken by his losses, Colin cannot muster the motivation to resist and his soul is pulled loose to join the Keeper in the Vault forever. | ||
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| + | Having emerged from the Vault the adventures find that their companion 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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| The party step out of the Lost Places back onto the borders of the dig site. As the mercenary guards shout in alarm from the walls of their palisade, the group blithely wave their letter of passage and head off back to Acryn. | The party step out of the Lost Places back onto the borders of the dig site. As the mercenary guards shout in alarm from the walls of their palisade, the group blithely wave their letter of passage and head off back to Acryn. | ||
| Speaking with their employers at the People's College the party explains that the Serradics had unearthed an ancient dragon gate site, but that the gate itself was shattered beyond use and the Imperial party were abandoning the place as without interest. The professors are obviously disappointed but have no reason to doubt the party and pay them for their risky journey into enemy territory. | Speaking with their employers at the People's College the party explains that the Serradics had unearthed an ancient dragon gate site, but that the gate itself was shattered beyond use and the Imperial party were abandoning the place as without interest. The professors are obviously disappointed but have no reason to doubt the party and pay them for their risky journey into enemy territory. | ||
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| + | FURTHER DEBRIEF TO COME ONCE ALL PLAYERS HAVE MAILED ME OR CONFIRMED THEY DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING | ||
| =====Consequences===== | =====Consequences===== | ||
| *30R Payment from the College for your fact finding | *30R Payment from the College for your fact finding | ||
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| ===Booker=== | ===Booker=== | ||
| *Burning Soul Epic tree | *Burning Soul Epic tree | ||
| - | *Born of Possibilities tree/quirk | + | *Born of Possibilities Epic Tree |
| - | *Crimson-skinned appearance | + | *Crimson-skinned appearance and human physiology |
| ===Gidner=== | ===Gidner=== | ||
| *Path of Transformation Epic tree | *Path of Transformation Epic tree | ||
| - | *Born of Possibilities tree/quirk | + | *Born of Possibilities Epic Tree |
| *Has lost the Primal Epic tree. Invested skillpoints may be freely re-spent. | *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. | *Knowledge of the Ages quirk - due to deepened comprehension and a less traumatic process of acquisition writing merely causes discomfort rather than incapacitation. | ||
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| ===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 Epic Tree |
| *Traveller of the Lost Places Epic Tree | *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. | *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- Lvl3 Revenant Potion Addiction - Howard's draconic passenger will now be dormant until he himself has been knocked unconscious. Even dormant the fragment of Triskelion will attempt to heal his injuries- once encounter he can cast the Absorption spell from the Rite of Unification upon himself by pressing organic matter against his wound. Every time he does this a permanent circular mark will appear on his body. |
| *Crimson-skinned appearance | *Crimson-skinned appearance | ||
| ===Anders=== | ===Anders=== | ||
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