Helo, and again Be welcome to my Adventure Blog.
This time the adventure happened on March 13, 2010, at our friend Lord's lair. I lost track of the time. The Story's arch is settled at a moment of talking. Some of the roleplay discussion are too long, so I decided to put in here a version of resume. This happens because of the many meetings the group is exposed to during the sessions of play, but the resume don't diminish the play.
A resume is much more interesting that reading about things not important mixed with others important, and I had to cut off unimportant facts to make the play more interesting, and focused.
Hope you're enjoying your reading.
(What leads to War)
The two groups teleported back from the Desert Temple.
Back to Rudyn's Mansion they gather with Ayasta. She questions what they want to do now that they have this Orb, and Torian try to use the Orb with a question, as it were a simple device to uncover a wonder. It may answer, or not. How to know without trying?
- What started the war amongst the Dragons? - was the question.
So, the orb started to show images backward, and a time passed til it show the Saint Group more than 600 years before, camping on the area where Rudyn's Mansion is constructed now, and Torian was attentive. Tweet tried to make a spell, and it was an area of Savage Magic, so a portal opened.
Trees were more involved in a silver appearance, at that time.
A man, from a race known to be servants to Angels, the airlings, comes from the portal and looked through the land around.
- Are you here to help? (asked firmly Ayanima).
- Wow. There are too much demons, in here. - he said - I need to go back and tell them.
So, the airling has gone back through the portal.
Torian said what he's seen, and everyone started to question what the Saint Group had made to create a war so long after their time. They talk about their stories to Ayasta, and about their first mission, in the lost city of Oktania. It's the city where the old Mummi King ruled, and the spirit of Tachiza had attacked it with some kind of Weird Magic.
Oktania is maybe the last place someone will take a look during all that's happening now.
Specially because no one know where it's located. This was clear by Ayasta's comments, that no noble at Realms of Ayanima knows where it's located.
They decide to go to Octania.
So, Torian send a magic message to Tack, to come.
The needs to investigate are various, and they had to give the city of the Old Mummi King, the first, a close look, but the actually important thing is to know why it's hidden from the rest of the world. Ayasta is convinced that they need to go there to uncover this matter.
Tack asked for the first student to organize the preparation for the end of the year exams, for he would in fact to have to be off for another week.
When Tack came to Rudyn's mansion, he imediatelly agreed with Ayasta.
(At Oktania)
They took components from Torian's apothekary, for a teleport home. Going to Oktania, as it's obviously a cursed place, all their senses tell them that. It's called Echo. Things may be sensed beforehand because of this thing that causes events to mirror forth and back in time, the same way a person of power can understand which powers were used at a location, for a limited time.
Torian used the memory of the place to teleport there, even if it's a very dangerous way to teleport. They could have gone other place, or worse, they could have gone a place in the Planes that was similar, and get lost.
Well, Torian and Hadesh confirmed it's Oktania.
They all start to fly, but Ayasta, and she went walking on the ground. Soon there were a lot of blurred moves on the ground, they see from above, and Hadesh decides to go save Ayasta, as she's teleporting to flee from the attacks.
She's being attacked by a growing number of catlike shadows, and Hadesh sees them with his monster senses, so he attacks with his acid breath, and use a licanthrope power to make them attack each other.
Torian levitates Ayasta.
The catlike shadows start to attack everything on the ground. They see the square which was probably the center of the old city, and decide to go there. Getting there, Torian looks through the Orb of the Beginning to ask a question.
- What I need to know about this place?
It shows an enormous number, maybe more than 2,000 parallel planes and constructs in there, at the present.
He speaks about it with the group.
- Some of the original Rings of Power is here? - suggested Hadesh, and Torian asked.
It shows the present, and the group.
Ayasta ask to her Ring, the Ring of Time, and it explains there is in fact a Ring of Power there, but not a Ring made by Ambar.
It's the Ring of Darkness, explains the Ring of Time to Ayasta.
Ayasta says it to the group.
They get disturbed now, because no one said anything about this Ring in the Triplet Worlds history. Ayasta's Ring says it's too dangerous to stay there.
So, they see a huge number of creatures coming to attack them.
More than eight hundred creatures.
They start to attack, but Torian used his recent Sand mastery to manipulate the land. It turned he transformed some of the creatures into undeads. Obviously an effect of necromancy, but now's not the time to worry about it. He'll probably face corruption of his abilities on the next to the combat.
Hadesh started to attack the creatures, with acid breath.
It looks like Hadesh attack with his licanthrope powers to make them attack each other awakened every creatures at a round of kilomeasures.
More are seen to come, saw Hadesh from the air.
Some creatures passed the barrier of spikes created with sand and land. Time after time, more creatures come. Some time later they started to see a huge bell jar made of energy, holding something.
Ayasta sees a sacerdot on the top of a stair, in front of them. All creatures looks to ignore him, and he's holding the bell jar with a hand.
She say it to the other, and they look too.
They can't see the sacerdot's face, and Ayasta sees a hole on the black clouds in which an "angel" is seen after the clouds.
Time after time, they stress a number of creatures hand to hand, and with powers.
Tack was being protected from all attacks, in the middle of a circle. He was imensely concentrated, doing a Ritual for them to get off of there. He sensed the very land is cursed, with a power of corruptive darkness that is in fact the unknown Ring of Power that's hidden there.
Would the Gods know? Would this be the reason for this damned land be hidden from everyone? Holding a secret no historian, no religion master knows? He was imensely angry with the Gods, now. He knows there is a terrible meaning for this all. A thing he tried to pass on to students all his life, was in fact that the study of religion is a serious matter of investigation, not adoration.
Now, his recent deeds are being confirmed, through experiencing that the superbeings called Gods can't solve things definitely. They put the dirt on a corner, but this should be cleaned. Not now. And maybe not by them, but it's a prove that Gods are not all potent. They fail, like this. Fail to end something that should have beging ended more than two millenia ago.
Hadesh is hurted, and Adria's hands are raw flesh.
Adria's using her bow as a hand weapon, for it's points are blades.
Oktania was watching. Everyone sensed. The dark power that was in there, holding a curse over the land, and the thick air. The creatures were only an effect of that presence. A presence of evil. A presence of corruption. That could transform life into the echo of a corrupted pulse. No fungus would ever live there, not while a power of so deep wrong hollow, so evil presence is present into every piece of this land.
Wave after wave, they're attacked by the corrupted inhabitants of that place, sepulcral and necrotic, shadows of what should never exist.
During all this, Tack's making the ritual to go home, while the others endure the attacks to protect him.
It worked, and the ritual's ready.
Torian remembers the huge cry they listened the other time, and deduce the bell jar's holding the imense abyssal who's the guardian of these Ruins.
Now, the sacerdot looks to the "angel", and makes a gesture showing they could deal with the teleport ritual, and another gesture to send the "angel" away. It was a bit rude. The "angel" closed the hole on the clouds, and was gone.
The group all got together, still protecting Tack and the Ritual.
The sacerdot bowed, and Tack activated the ritual of teleport back to Torian's territory.
They did it.
(Back at Torian's Castle)
Everyone looked at each other. They teleported using a magic name for a wanderer teleport, at Priatel territory, in a side road.
In silence, they walked to Torian's Castle.
- So, there's a Ring of Power more powerful than the Rings of Ambar. - concluded Ayasta, walking to a corner.
- Hadesh, help me with my hands - asked Adria - They're bleeding.
It was a two hours combat, and everyone's on their limit.
They all rested.
On the next day, Torian tried to go and talk to wanderers, but the negative energy that's near him make all people he went to see didn't like his presence. It's a consequence of having done black magic.
Adria explains to some wanderers that's because he challenged ancient elementals, because she's a wanderer too. Every wanderer noticed the negative energy around Torian, and Hadesh explained it was not a good time to deal with people.
He knows it, because people usually get goosebumps when he's around.
(Hadesh and Adria on the Mountains)
The following morning, Hadesh looked for Adria and invited her to go beyond the icy mountains, where the angry Ice elemental lives.
He needs to make some study of his powers and magic.
They go.
Two days later, they passed west of the mountains and came to a valley. They stoped at a higher posing, and camped. Now, Adria entered meditation, while Hadesh started to make his study of what he needed to do.
He looked inside his Bag of Things, and took the Dark Grimoire.
Posed the Grimoire in front of himself.
- Open. - he hissed, using snake language to do the order.
It started to change, from it's form of an innocent book to a Black Magic Grimoire.
- Who do you serve?
- You. - hissed the Book.
- What do you exist for? - continued Hadesh.
- I exist to serve my Archanist.
- Show me.
Suddenly, it opened in a page and that magic was activated by Hadesh without his intent to do it. He negated the effect, not to kill Adria. He changed the page. Looked to the book, and started again.
The local temperature went to -20ºC, in a matter of instants. A vicious and charged negative change.
- Why it activated without my consentment?
- Because you're a wizard, and not a mage, but I'm not sure of it.
- Can you teach me Magic?
- That's my reason of existence.
- Why am I your Master, now?
- Because you killed the last user. Now, you gained the right to be my Master.
Question after question, Hadesh was inquiring the Book. It showed some intentions in the direction of transforming Hadesh into a great black wizard.
- How you're created?
- From the flesh, bones and skin of a Basilisk.
- Can you tell me how to kill a Basilisk?
- Who would do that, if you can transform it into a new Dark Grimoire? It would be an enormous waste of a so cursed life.
The inquiry longed for hours, and it explained Hadesh he's just a beginner at Magic.
The Book stated there are 5.213.526 taboos at the 17 Magic Languages in existence, but most of them are not applied to the Triplet Worlds, the Trigemei, being most of it local taboos in every other worlds in the Near Universe.
Satisfied with this talk with the Dark Grimoire, Hadesh ordered it to get to his normal form.
- I am on my normal form. The other's a disguise.
- Right. Close. - hissed Hadesh.
It continued for a day, while Adria was in meditation state. Hadesh asked various important things to the Dark Grimoire. While using it, he understood that the aura of that place were becoming darker, supernatural, that allied to his own presence.
- I've finished for this time, Grimoire. Close.
The Book closed, and he looked Adria, who was awakening from her meditation.
- Let's go back, then? It's too dangerous in these mountains. And I'm still recovering from that day's combat. My hands hurt.
Hadesh starred Adria.
- We should go back, now, can we? (said Adria).
- Ok. Let's go back. (Hadesh agreed, and they prepared to go back).
(Torian's talk with his family Elder)
Torian went to talk with his elder family member, but only after talk to his guard. The soldiers explain there's being thievering on the neighbor territories. Wanderers say things are being stolen during travel.
Then, Torian explains to Antonidias the elder all what's happening.
He says basically everything.
- There's a message from one of our founders about the Ring of Darkness, Torian. - said Antonidias - It says we must not get involved into this, because it's too dangerous. I advise you to be very careful with your actions.
Antonidias talked about the Priatel's foundations, during the Great War, about 608 years ago. The Priatel were founded by a master artificer, who was Raja Tweet's master, after he marry one woman from the Lost People who wandered the planes for 1,000 years, the people of Tachiza, and the Old Empire who fought the Old Mummi King. Now, there's a new Mummi King, and the family needs to be united.
This master artificer's son was the one who helped the Coper Dragon, disguised as a wanderer after a combat, and that's the reason why Naraleiva the Coper Dragon is the family's Patron.
- This way, I advise you to be careful, but I'm on your side.
Antonidias paused.
- Well, there's a lot you don't know, young Torian. The Universe is all inhabited. Every inhabited world has it's own races, and when Pan ruled, He took many races from planet to planet to create Civilization.
He paused again, to let Torian think.
- You should not tell this to anyone, because it's a Secret. Gods will know if you say this to someone indiscriminately. Everyone's looking for a new Era of Civilization, but that's being disturbed by Trisebus. There's pressure from other worlds for us to take him dead. The case is that Civilization will never be the way it was before, and other races are ready to war against this anomaly that killed the Leader God just here.
- So, this means everyone knows, and I didn't knew about this all?
- No only you. Only the most important nobles know. This can't be said to population, specially now monotheists are running against other religions.
- How people travel from planet to planet?
- Now, using the Astral plane, but you need more than ten years to travel to other worlds. We know it was different, before.
- The entire Universe is inhabited?
- Yes. Well, almost the entire Universe, and specially the Near Universe were Old Civilization was located, but some places are not apropriated to life.
- I understand, now.
- Remember you can't go speaking about this to anyone.
They talked more, and the councellor Antonidias explained more about what happened on the Great War. The semi mythic relation of one ancestor to the Saint Group. He was an artificer, Tweet's master. He once sat his Tower of Magic at Sama. That's what permited the ancestrors to get contact with Naraleiva, so the family is really thankful to the Saint Group, or they were never to exist.
Torian let the room with another understanding on the worlds and the Universe.
(Back at Torian's Castle)
Hadesh and Adria were at the castle when Flausin came, asking them to go the constructions of the Tavern. They went there, and gathered with princess Lena and the djine Báech. They all talked. Hadesh said them about his new form, when transformed into licanthrope.
Then, Adria and Hadesh went back.
When they got to the Castle, Torian was at the veranda in front of the Voivoche Lake on the back of the Castle, and they talked about everything to try and see if they find a way to find the Rings.
The recent discovery that there's a more powerful Ring worries everyone.
So, Torian ask everyone to wait in there, because he needs to talk to a Tome of Magic what it thinks, and was gone to his apothekary.
Opened the Vault, and got the Tome.
Ayasta got to the veranda, and entered the discussion on how to get the Rings of Ambar, and confront the other Rings.
- I'll have to depend on you again. What do I need to do to assure my family's survival, mine, my group's and all into my circle? - asked Torian to the Tome.
- It's unespected, and the consequences are impredictable, but now you started to go and become a Master Elemental, and you're master in more than one element already, became a Master in all elements. Just take much care, much care, because all Master Elementals suffers some kind of mutation with their victory.
Torian went back to the veranda.
During their talk, Torian remembers that on that reunion he saw at the Light, the High Priest of Shadeza said the five Rings were lost, and if they gather the Rings they would be able to deal with the War, getting an enormous advantage in the War.
It changed his mind, and he decided that he would help Tack, Hadesh and Ayasta to get the Rings of Ambar.
Tack says the Academy of Magic, Politics and Power received news from the Nine Realms, and the Báech Kingdom's surrounded by an army that don't let anyone enter that territory, but it probably is happening because of the death of the Obsidian Dragon, there.
Torian disagree.
He think the Rings are at places oposite to their Power, and the only way to confirm is trying to teleport Baech Islands.
Explaining, Torian says the area is "dead", so the Ring of Death must be there.
They chose Torian and Hadesh to go.
Hadesh is immortal, being a draconic licanthrope, and Torian will survive anything for he has the Ring of Life.
They tried, and almost died, when the teleport was "killed".
The Ring of Death is at Báech Islands.
(End of Session)
Some considerations necessary
May the power of the Five Rings of Ambar be strong enough to confront the Ring of Darkness? How will they get the Ring of Death? How will they get advantage from the items they got from their mission on the Ancient Temple of the Wastes, the Orb of the Beginning (while Rude has the Orb of the End)?
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