This is a second day adventure at the Astral plane, that runned from 20:12 May 01, 2010, but it was a short day of play, of only four hours. We passed most of the time discussing the setting, and what the players want, 'cause a player without a goal is a master's nightmare, so don't miss the sequence of the adventure. Remember the posts are reverse, and it all starts at the older posts. Thanks to Sheep, who's always trying to mediate things within the group, but that extends to Lord. My friend Demo also take notes of everything, and that helps me to keep my notes updated.
(Previously)
At the moment they got to the room of passage, a giant Amorphious with many eyes, a type of Abyssal, appeared at the windows and casted paralyze at the first in line.
It was Flausin.
They had gathered at the passage, and they were at the other side.
They did it, and teleported, just in time.
Flausin fell to the ground, but Torian levitated him.
It took four hours to the alchemist Daytel to make a potion to cure that. These paralyzes can't be cured by normal Negation, explained the bakemono hunter.
At the same time, the group was investigating the area.
Big ratlings, extense areas of savage magic, beetle the size of a table, strange clouds in the sky, christal trees, small fungi life, but black, a smell of rot, and a purple water obviously not pure. This is the place the coordinates takes to, they see on the maps.
Resume of this Day of Play
The trigemei worlds, as well as the rest of the Universe, are all connected by the Astral plane, which is in a way a higher plane compared to others.
It's full of creatures, but they doesn't change much as it happens at the Dream.
Professor Primus decided to make his weekly ritual of Arcana, but there he sees traces of divine energy risking the sky in all directions. It means gods can't hide their influences at the Astral. It may be good. Tack Primus, even he himself being a religion master for the Academy of Magic, doesn't like the divine, because they create a sense that everything's under control, while it's not.
He invokes his staff, and start to walk side by side with Hadesh.
Soon, they see the natural inhabitant of this area are giant beetles, and one came to see who they are. It came running, and stoped only measures away.
"Ggghhhrrroooaahh!", shouted the giant beetle.
- Don't move, Tack (said Hadesh). Use languages on it.
They tried to talk, but all they could understand it saying was "No-no", and they saw it was not much more than an animal from that place.
It soon gave space to the group walk, seeing they're not here to attack 'em.
All the group passed the day investigating the area. They found holes on the ground, as they were created a long time ago and probably by ant giants.
If the beetles doesn't helped, at least they didn't disturbed the wanderers, but that was clear no one come to this place usually.
So, Tack tried to conjure a faery fire to help and it broke in a large "Bang!".
A medium size Nightmare appeared.
It happened this one in special had the ability to assume people's fears, like a licanthropi, and it immediately assum the form of a dark spectre.
This way, Flausin shrinks at a corner, but the creature did nothing.
Hadesh advance, while Lena run to help the goblin.
So, it assumes the form of a meltling, and they don't know if it aquires the ability from the monster. If the answer is yes, it would melt all their weapons and armours in seconds.
Tack, whose weapons are not made of metal, advance and attack it.
"UuWwwoo-uuoo-aa... aohuwwwhhhhh", it whispers fear, but it seems only the djine is affected. He hides on the back of a big stone.
- Attack when a head appears! (shouted Bake).
And it assumed the form of Tack's wife, but in the form of a zombie.
He stoped, understanding his fear for the first time, and Lena the rogue princess come to his assitance, at this moment and so stoped almost in fear.
The nightmare assumed the form of the Mummi King, with a dark crown, and Lena understood he was happy 'cause he won the war.
Tack got out of the trance and attacked with his whip in a movement Hadesh had tought him.
He got the creature's head off with a strong pull back.
- It's dead. (said the princess, most to herself than to the group).
- Savage Magic land (said Rude). We need to take care, while doing magic in here. Good move, Tack. What you think, Bake?
- This is not the only savage magic area.
- Probably. Professor?
- Let's get somewhere, first. I can't see where the portal could be in here.
- We need to find it (resumed Lena).
They got to rest a few moments, before keep looking for hints, and now they know.
Magic can make it the wrong way here.
Two hours later, while investigating the area of rocks on the other side of that valley, Lena had an intense feeling that they're being observed. She talks to Tack the specialist in negation, attentive to keep her voice low, but he could not identify any focus of magic observation.
She swear to him she's right, but that's no help try and see to negate in the void of whatever'd be watching, if there's anything.
Well, the rogue princess always had a second sense for that, and two minutes later Daytel called the attention of everyone to say in serious low tone, he had "Sense of danger" something, but then from the sand on the ground a gigantic scorpion steped on the way and attacked Hadesh.
He's the best combatant, though.
Tack tried a paralyze, but that cracked out away doing no damage. Fortunately, it didn't hit anyone. And so, the elementalist Torian started to concentrate earth smash, planning to change place from body to stone, while Hadesh assumed his beast form.
There emerged a total of five enormous scorpions, and the takkar defended Tack from the forceps attack from the one who emerged from the right rocks.
Lena the rogue princess lifted her and the djine Báech upwards.
Daytel attacked the one on the frontside, and smashed it's left arm with a rock. Hadesh, back there, was handling two at once.
- This must be their nest. We came the wrong way. (shouted Rude). Princess, you cry the strategy from there up to us in here.
And Lena started to shout positions, while the djine asked her to throw him up the number three, turned back to attack the sting.
Did that, she cried to Spike their positions, and he advanced with an icebaal prepared, to confront the third and fourth forcing 'em to the rocks.
- Daytel, (he shouted), force that one on the wall and I will.....
He sank into the sand.
- Spike! (screamed Rude).
Spike's icebaal escaped and freezed everything with snowish christals, at the time Tack could force his magic knife he doesn't know yet what is it's power into one of the monsters.
- Perfect! They won't be on their best now. (shouted the alchemist).
- I petrified this one! But I can't take the knife off! (cried Tack, while Hadesh pushed the second one with a double attack of claws, and a defense move back).
Tack slipped away to a corner that's cracked.
- I've found the nest! (he shouted, and Hadesh advanced making a friend grab move, so now Tack's on his back to be the essencial target for the monsters).
Báech cutted the scorpion's sting off, while Rude was fighting the hard two forceps.
They all turned to attack Hadesh and Tack on his back. "It worked, Christalla! Organize our flank attack, now, and they're gone!", shouted Rude. He advanced through the back way to where Spike desapeared on the sand, and screamed "Spiiike!".
- I'm ok! Stay alive! (Spike shouted from a deep hole).
The elemetalist smashed a second one, with a rocky centered storm of bolts, and Tack took his whip from the hip to get the fifth one's left pincer. So, he pulled it with all his will, for he's not strong. Only enough to make it open space for Hadesh to attack it and cut it's other forcep pincer off.
- Only two now! (shouted the djine, with his scimitar inside the third one which was squeezing in pain).
And so, Hadesh gave triple attack on the one without a left pincer Daytel had first attacked. Two claws opened the head and the tail smashed it with a clockwise spin.
- Wohww! (shouted Tack, holding on).
The goblin, looking everything from up together with the rogue princess, used telekinese to hold the last one, and they all attacked it at the same time.
Rude thrown his sword to Daytel, who together with the djine and Bake they stuck the monster from down until a dark liquid fell, fetid.
They did it.
Torian freezed the nest, with all his power.
They all looked each other, and it was Torian the elementalist who went running now to Rude, to look for Spike that fell into that hole.
- Spiike! (he screamed).
- Are you aliive? (shouted Rude).
They gathered beside that hole, still sweting, and Hadesh put Tack to the ground to get back to takkar form, so they listened to Spike's voice.
- I've found it!
(End of Session)
Some considerations necessary
Some are the choice who form a Destiny to self, some to the many. A portal's opened? Who's the ones whose nature's being taken? A fish can't see the sea he lives in, the same way one only vision of a world cannot show everything.
Hold on, and the imersion world will get itself revealed a step at a time.
Thanks for reading.
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