Author: Follow Me, And Die!

SESSION 217 – September 5, 2018

We do our training, get new skills, and receive many gifts.

Acid rain destroys crops and the undying field workers and disfigures the statues of the “gods”. On the second day after training, we take advantage of the 30 minute respite in the rain to check on Axel and he and the spider are fine.

Sylvanus makes each of us a nanocarbon shield, and gifts each of us with a healing potion, and a total of 60 rounds for our beam weapons.

Kauri and Laris get their second most wanted spell and are promised their most wanted spells if they make sure their owl teacher survives.

We all study the theory of shadow stepping, and are cautioned against its use, as there are many DVLs and Daemons waiting to follow someone out. The Silence were working to free them as part of their religious movement that hoped for a Savior to set them free, who one of their number called Bavmorda.

Bavmorda asks Xentellar to sharpen the probability sword.

Prixithalma is checking the code in the cube and determines that Serithaz transmitted it faithfully, and it disappears. Sylvanus erased it. Only when we suggest a balanced council does he restore all but the part that will destroy this place. A product of the corrupted version of Prix’s virus sent by her husband, as he wanted to ensure magic persisted for everyone.

Eventually, we settle on a council of 3 – Prix, who made a copy of herself, Kalgun, and Serithaz. Kauri used two lightning bolts to transfer first Kalgun, and then Serithaz into the cube. Prix checked and all three are there complaining about personal space. So we went with the prophecy that requires the consort, liar, and mad king.

The helm is now free of Serithaz and most likely any copies he made.

Midway through training, scouts report in that we are surrounded by hundreds of automaton. Sylvanus calls upon the citizens of Elysium to create a diversion, so we can escape, get Axel and head toward our goal. About 50 or 60 indicate they will give their lives for the diversion. The automatons cannot pass the ring of standing stones, so within we are safe, but prevented from reaching our goal.

Nash weeps as he wants to finish his training, but the others point out that time is short.

Tomorrow marks one year since Thorfus Ironhand, Axel Rhomkul, Galron the paladin, Ir’Alle the Human cleric of Xenteller, Sthorm the thief, and Uthruk the half-orc first sailed into Midmark. Perhaps Galron, Sthorm, adn uthruk yet live….

SESSION 216 – August 29, 2018

We built a shelter for Axelbot and the spider bot to hide in the forest until we finish training.

Tree is bound and held by centaurs and survives the ordeal of passing the stone circles around the town.

We are lead to a shrine and first we meet Lysander, and then all the others. Lysander healed us all with a snap of her fingers.

We met the following “deities:”

Xen Telr

Merendur

Marakin

Vas Kindrek

Evenkeel

Dagon

Lysander

Sylvanus

We discuss plans. Nash and Laris make a deal to swap their level limits between their two classes. While they meditate in the chapel overnight and the rest of us rest.

We learned that Serithaz lied and Prix was not raised in the empire. We keep Serithaz under wraps.

Before we begin training, we give them the blood of Prix and the other vials of dragon blood and volunteers are sacrificed. She is back and stunned. We fill her in and her “children” are glad to have “mother” with them.

Prix reviews the virus code to verify that the copy of Prix from Serithaz is the real deal.

We all gain new abilities from our trainers from increased proficiency with beam weapons, to additional magical ability, or thief ability.

“Acid” rain started at the beginning of the week and lasts all week(?) It is an attack from Xenotel on the stronghold of the gods.

We learn of the most direct route there.

The debate is whether to stay and train for another week, so Nash gets another level of cleric. Nash offers to stay behind and catch up later….

This date is now 30th Nonrelden, or 000.00.00.15! Another week will leave us 8 days!

SESSION 215 – August 22, 2018

We jump in and help the centaurs kill and drive off the wasps. A few wasps got away. The centaurs couldn’t wake their companions and left them to die, as there was no way to carry them.

They speak a dialect with a bit of Ancient Dwarven, that Rallion adn other ancient draven speakers can sort of communicate. The centraurs indicate we can’t take the mechanical ones, Axelbot, Tree, and the spider bot.

Nash prays and Lysander rises from a pool in the swamp and we all see it. Lysander relays that the place, Elysium, is warded against mechanical types and that we need to tie our friends.

We journey and stop when we hear buzzing that are wasps. We get near our destination and in the trees there is a fluttering/buzzing of a small creature in rapid flight. Nash uses Serithaz to communicate. It used the Name “Jolly” but said all names are a lie. It said that Sylvanus is a lie and he broke apart into the other gods. Jolly traveled in the station from another star 10,000 years ago. Jolly urged us not to go to the village of Elysium. Jolly tried to get us to go with it. We are the most interesting thing it has seen in a long time.

We reach and area where the beam of light is that Nash can see with Lysander’s eye. We tied Axelbot, Tree, and the spiderbot. Axel and Tree hear a buzzing that is unpleasant. We debate whether or not to continue…..

SESSION 214 – August 15, 2018

The robot ninja turned out to be a druid convert of Sylvanus, and he joined us and showed us the way.

We reached the terminal and had to fight 2 turrets, and 4 robot ninjas, and the Thunder Cannon.

Lambertus cast silence in front of the Thunder Cannon and prevented it from affecting us.

We defeated the guns and the robot ninjas and some were hurt badly.

Rallion used his adamantine spear to stop the gate closing over the ramp, and Axelbot helped it so we could go down after the fight.

Next we found two dwarven warriors and two turrets. The turrets were around opposite corners. Axel took out the turret tot he north, and we fought the dwarven warriors and eventually beat them. We won just in time to be out of the way of the Thunder Gun when the silence wore off.

We used our last healing spells, and Bavmorda down her potion of extra healing.

We opened the doors labelled biome and saw the long habitat with bodies of water to the left and right, and above us.

The sight of 20 centaurs with laser rifles righting 17 mecha wasps greeted us.

Nash looked in with the Eye of Lysander and saw a glow of energy that “looks like heaven”.

SESSION 213 – August 8, 2018

After nearly a full complement of rest and healing magic, our breather is interrupted by a loud crash, banging and unearthly “screams.”

Rallion takes a peek and it appears that a noncarbon golem, like the one Thorfus couldn’t best, that later housed Kalgun and was smashed by undying fire giants, was fighting itself and unable to maintain its form.

Nash uses the ESP helm and Serithaz asks if we are torturing the creature, if so, we are doing an admirable job.

Nash attempts ESP but detects nothing. He asks Serithaz to take a closer look. Serithaz is reluctant and soon reports that two intelligences are fighting for control of it. Kauri looks on and sees a large dwarf with flowing beard (Xenotel) and a woman (Lysander) locked in a strubble to control the nanocarbon golem.

Occasionally it lurches forward, and suddenly bursts through the wall to the hallway where the last of the pair of dwarven engineers, Angus, was hiding and he is killed as the golem senlessly barrels forth in the titanic struggle between divine AIs.

As the struggle continues, and with the information from Kauri that it is Lysander and Xenotel, Rallion hopes that hitting the golem with his ESP blocking ring will allow Lysander to take control. Rallion has not used his sling since his last hunting foray before the druids sent him on his mission to learn the secret behind the Dark King, and misses.

Nash tries to do what he can and the others stay out of the way.

Rallion and Nash work together with the help of Serithaz to time dropping the ring on the roiling mass of nanocarbon. The timing is not quite right, and as the ring falls, there stands Xenotel. Before Xenotel can smash us to nothingness, we snatch away the ring, and the struggle resumes.

Rallion and Nash do better timing their efforts and this time the ring falls and the golem rises fully formed, but immobile. Serithaz relays that both are striving to reach the golem, but are cut off from it.

We finish searching the level, and find two more overseers and 3 more spiders. We all stay back as Bavmorda goes after them. The spiders are not stopped, and their poison still works. We pull Bavmorda out and Nash finds her cure poison. Rallion fights the spiders, using the adamantine spear he’s carried since the deep gnomes. He and others defeat the spiders, and Rallion finished off the helpless overseers, freeing them from their ancient prisons.

We find more weapons. The weapons appear to be in working order, but the rounds are dark. So the shard of the mothers defeats the magic in the laser weapons, and also prevents laser weapon fire from affecting it.

We rest and heal, then proceed upward. We find some of the giant beavers crucified, and Written in blood at base of crucified beavers and pentagrams.

“Death to the False Gods and their Servants! Make Way for the Master of the World Between Worlds and His Mortal Instrument!”

This reminds us that last session, Last session Bavmorda was told: ” That is not the master; you must weild the master against XenoTel2 to free us. You are the savior.”

A ten minute journey by elevator takes us nearer our goal of the biome. We find some more weapons, and a hologram of who we thought was the last Lord Marshal, whose sword Thorfus carried until he fell. Now Bavmorda carries it.

We find out way, with a divine vision given to Nash, and find a sign pointing us in the way of the Biome. Rallion has adopted the urgency of Nash, let’s get to the Biome. While Rallion stands near the tracks of the station ready to head towards the Biome, the rest of the party, following Nash’s lead, find and activate another Robot Nano Ninja….

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