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[Rumrunner]

I think Billie's style is better for discus throwing...

Anyway, Quick summary of tidbits, not sure if we should be recording these somewhere or if someone is:

• The Slivers are understood to be fragments of the corrupter's heart, a powerful artifact that can As we understand it compass is composed of slivers from the corrupter's heart that was shattered by the archon Thalisios' golden spear, the artifact grant the power to control the will of others. They seem very attracted to each other, and will combine when in close proximity.

• "Compass" composed of slivers in box given to us by the avatar of death, seems to be pointing due west, which seems to be Antropoi, that's a ways off... like six to eight weeks, depending if we push it and change horses at the various towns along the way.  It's supposed that the compass points to other shards.

• Message Scroll "The Serene turns to Smolder and the World to ruin. It starts at the Akropoli when the moons overtake the sun" given to us implies that there's something likely to happen here in Baromenes on the eclipse.  Bi-moon solar eclipse is within the next month, happens approx every 18months, Akropoli is where policital decisions are made, so a political assembly of sorts.

• Theovanya was the longest sitting prophet in Thespoe, and was referenced by the leaders of the chained Andropeclis(Paleface) and Krykon(Orc) as having predicted the heros(us) would be hanging out at the Mall.  Theovanya's dead, grave in the Xorinofot mountains in between Baromenes and Thespoe.  Since we're dealing with undead, obvious conclusion is that the prophet was raised by the Chained.  That may be a slight detour, off the main path but seems like a worthwhile one on the way to Thespoe.

• Signet Rings Each Andropeclis and Krykon had signet rings, seem to be associated with the Chained.

• Painting Scroll: "A depiction of a great battle between a shadowy figure wrapped in onyx chains that move from and about his body versus six heroes. Their battle dances across the parchment as if animated. The scroll shows the entire events of a war waged between the two groups until finally, the heroes manage to slay the shadowy figure and bring light to the realm. Under each hero, a name in gold glittered and shined, waving like banners in the wind. From left to right the names read as such: Dae, Mags, Damaia, Wilhelmina, Lulani..." It painted itself 5 years ago. There was a  6th hero, Serysh from Erenae (village near Baromenes), he died and villiage destroyed in an ambush when Deypho had set up a meeting with him. Shadowy army wasn't originally there either, appears to change when one side or the other gets closer to the goal or dies.

• Nightmares/Dreams: we all had similar dreams of the end of the world, we do not know their origin, neither does Deypho

"An unfamiliar smoke-choked sky is lit ablaze with cinder, every breath burns at your lungs and sears your throat. You are unable to stand just like every time before, blood fills your vision and you can feel your strength and life leaving your body. The roar of battle and blood-curdling screams fill the air, and the usual drumming of heavy footsteps moves closer to you. Above you like every night before you see a massive beast of muscle, fangs, claws, and steel stand over you preparing to deal the finishing blow. As it moves to do so you prepare yourself but something is different. 

The sky splits open, a ray of light splitting the darkness, vaporizing the beast that has tormented your dreams for the last two months. The silhouette of a person can be seen between the rays of light so bright that you can not make out much more than that. "You must find me before this becomes a reality." The man says in a voice so strained that they are barely recognizable as words at all. "The Serene turns to Smolder and the World to ruin. I am trapped, Halaea.." The man's voice falters and a long pause is followed by the ash clouds beginning to overtake the man and his light.

From where the man floated he is replaced with a blazing yellow eye whose mere gaze seems to sear your skin. The next words are what shock you back to the conscious world, sending a shiver up your spine and a cold sweat across your body.

"You shall be the final one to die." The voice this time is warped, sounding like two voices overlapping one another."

• Marks Our animal marks are symbols from the divine to indicate our roles.  Marks manifest when multiple marked people are together: Billie - Wolf, Lu - Spider, Dae - fox, Mags - Cat, Damaia - Ox.

•  Oria in the Storm Quarter. I don't know where or what that is... but we may be able to find information there about the prophesies of Theovanya.

 

Current Date: Baromenes Wineday (Wednesday), 17th of Midsummer, 495 AC

Maps of places discussed:

 

[fenrirlokison]

😮 nice. Any chance we can get a thread of notes or something @TheWordWeaver?

[ariel]

Nice! I have something similar offline, missing a couple of those things, but I can add:

• Orc's name: Krykon, Human's name: Andropeclis (and he was the sliver bearer), but both had signet rings (one given to Deypho for "further investigation")
• Compass addition: Death was at the initial meeting and gave us the box for it
  • Personal speculation: that Death or his king, Siarus, was sending the dreams... he cares about what happens here.
• Re: "the Oria in the Storm Quarter", I thought it was to find more information about The Corruptor? Also, such information can be found in the libraries of Anthropoi.
• Re: painting, the 6th hero was Serysh from Erenae (village near Baromenes), was a sixth name, he died and villiage destroyed in an ambush when Deypho had set up a meeting with him

There might be more notes to add, I'll look later when I have more time. 🙂

 

Re: WordWeaver, the map... I was wondering if it was regional or if it had any more details for the cities... particularly of Baromenes? If it did not, I might edit for Dae to ask for one of the city.

Edited April 8, 2023 by ariel (see edit history)

[Wizard of the Coat]

Oh, I've been keeping campaign notes too. Maybe we should make a thread where each of us can keep our own campaign notes (if we want to), and others can see them.  

Sorry, #1 is yet to be revealed in game, so I've omitted it. 

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2. Signet Ring from Orc. Maybe leaving it with Deypho. 

3. Deypho's magic sliver: "She held a black cloth and laid it on the table. Grabbing the corner she threw the cloth off revealing what she had been hiding. "Do not touch it." She instructed. On the table sat a splinter of wrought metal about an inch in length, it was shattered and jagged on either end. It was the deepest black you have ever seen, darker than the night and it seemed to call to you. Almost willing, begging even for you to pick it up."

Mags senses a very powerful form of magic emanating from the sliver even in its shattered state. While Mags is unsure of what item the sliver is from, he remembers the Master telling him a story about how certain magic items could never truly be destroyed and that even when broken the pieces would seek each other to be whole again. 

Damaia said, "It does make me think of the Battle of Eternal Fires.. If anyone here is familiar.. The Spear of Varaxis shattered a black wrought artifact. I do not know much about the spear itself."

4. The Oracle of Thespoe's Note: "The Serene turns to Smolder and the World to ruin. It starts at the Akropoli when the moons overtake the sun." As you focus on the note you find nothing peculiar about it, you do however recall that a total solar eclipse with both moons covering the sun happens about every 18 months, with the next happening sometime this month by your estimation. 

5. The Acropoli: the Akropoli is the Head of the city-state that is Baromenes. It is where all the political figures argue laws and where the leader of Baromenes resides. It also contains a large temple to the Sea God Pnigménos.

6. Serysh: the 6th member of the team who died due to Deypho's interference in the prophecy. "An ambush. I had set a meeting with him in a village nearby called Erenae. When I went to meet him the whole town had been destroyed. I found him, butchered. He was just a boy."

7. The Map of the Prophecy created itself five years ago before Deypho in her temple. Why five years ago? "I've only seen it change twice. Once when Serysh died, and the other when the Shadowy One's army appeared. I believe it changes whenever either side gets closer to reaching their goal."

8. The Marks on the Heroes: "The marks, yes. uh," Deypho gathered herself "They're indicators, symbols given to us by the divine's to give us our roles."

(Mags) Cat = Curious, self-reliant, savage murderer, likes to knock things from high places

(Billie) Wolf = loyal, wild hunter, playful, easily distracted, torments doggedly, licks inappropriately

(Dam) Ox = Steadfast, calm until roused, unstoppable, big ol' teet, delicious

(Dae) Fox = clever, quick, tricksy, charming and you never know what they might say

(Lu) Spider = secret keeper, deadly, comfortable in a hammock, gives best hugs

9. Mags' Vision of the Chain Forger: When Mags hears "Chained Ones" He is given visions of the past. Of battlefields littered with bodies, he is kneeling in the dirt holding a wound on his stomach, the pain is nauseating. The sound of battle can be heard around him. His lungs are choked with smoke and burn from the heat. A once-slain soldier rises to their feet five feet in front of you, his wounds stitching back together as he closes the distance. Before he can reach you you are brought somewhere, sometime, else. A forge, a man striking a length of metal, he is forging something. You try to get closer, but the man turns to look at you, reaches for you and you are jerked backward, back to your body. Back to the mortal plane.

 

[ariel]

Not a big deal at all, but I had hoped Dae's last interactions with Deypho were before being dismissed by the triton. I wasn't clear and I'll try to edit. I don't think she'd have been that bold... to keep talking after the lady had said goodbye... lol.

[fenrirlokison]

@TheWordWeaver I think I recall you saying the voice sounded familiar? I can't really seem to find it, but did it sound similar to the voice in the dream/nightmare/vision?

[fenrirlokison]

Looking back over the dream it does say "I am trapped, Halaea..", maybe it's Theovanya. 😮 Planning on bringing it up in IIC, unless someone else dose, I'm pretty forgetful and wanted to put it out there once it crossed my mind.

[Wizard of the Coat]

50 minutes ago, ariel said:

Not a big deal at all, but I had hoped Dae's last interactions with Deypho were before being dismissed by the triton. I wasn't clear and I'll try to edit. I don't think she'd have been that bold... to keep talking after the lady had said goodbye... lol.

Oh, yikes, sorry. Retconned my post--removed the sentence about Dea speaking up after practically being dismissed. 

[Wizard of the Coat]

@fenrirlokison I was going to post Mags suggesting that the remaining four not separate themselves (i.e. he doesn't want Lu and Valyv to leave on their own). But then it occurred to me that the continuity of our timeline in the IC thread is a bit fluid, so maybe we ARE all leaving with Lu (because Dae's questions have already been asked and answered). And then it occurred to me that Lu might leave in the middle of Dae's post--before Deypho has moved to the door and dismissed us. If Lu is leaving before the others, Mags would suggest that either himself or Damaia escort her back to Billie (and the Tavern)--and although he would never admit it, he has a strong preference to not be the one escorting Lu back to Billie. 

So for now, I have a question for you: Is Lu leaving in the middle of Dae's post (after Dae asked her questions of Lu, but before Dae finished her stuff with the map and her questions to Deypho)?

[Rumrunner]

It takes a while to Summon that floating disc

[TheWordWeaver]

5 hours ago, ariel said:

@TheWordWeaver Dae assumed Deypho could at least lend her a writing instrument. Let me know if she can keep it? 😄 

 

As for next steps, I guess we can discuss them over dinner at the pub! 

Of course, that's fine 😛 

7 hours ago, Rumrunner said:

A carriage with 4 to 6 horses or individual horses would be fastest... Unless there's an airship 😛

Could be something even better here in Baromenes if you guys make the right connections 😉

5 hours ago, fenrirlokison said:

😮 nice. Any chance we can get a thread of notes or something @TheWordWeaver?

Most definitely ill put it in the Game Threads

5 hours ago, ariel said:

Nice! I have something similar offline, missing a couple of those things, but I can add:

• Orc's name: Krykon, Human's name: Andropeclis (and he was the sliver bearer), but both had signet rings (one given to Deypho for "further investigation")
• Compass addition: Death was at the initial meeting and gave us the box for it
  • Personal speculation: that Death or his king, Siarus, was sending the dreams... he cares about what happens here.
• Re: "the Oria in the Storm Quarter", I thought it was to find more information about The Corruptor? Also, such information can be found in the libraries of Anthropoi.
• Re: painting, the 6th hero was Serysh from Erenae (village near Baromenes), was a sixth name, he died and villiage destroyed in an ambush when Deypho had set up a meeting with him

There might be more notes to add, I'll look later when I have more time. 🙂

 

Re: WordWeaver, the map... I was wondering if it was regional or if it had any more details for the cities... particularly of Baromenes? If it did not, I might edit for Dae to ask for one of the city.

The map is a map of the city, Which I will be giving yall access to once I finish it up. The Oria is Baromenes's biggest Archive/Library so their could be info about the corruptor there?

2 hours ago, fenrirlokison said:

@TheWordWeaver I think I recall you saying the voice sounded familiar? I can't really seem to find it, but did it sound similar to the voice in the dream/nightmare/vision?

This is correct

[Wizard of the Coat]

  

18 minutes ago, Rumrunner said:

It takes a while to Summon that floating disc

  

Oh, she's casting it as a ritual?  Well, that would eliminate an early departure--for Lu.

I suppose the issue might remain if someone doesn't want to wait for Lu to summon the disk--we might end up with a "someone should stay with Lu and see her back to Billie." 

Edited April 8, 2023 by Wizard of the Coat (see edit history)

[Wizard of the Coat]

@TheWordWeaver Link to unanswered question about signet ring (which I need answered before I decide if Mags gave the signet ring to Deypho). 

[TheWordWeaver]

On 4/5/2023 at 2:11 PM, Wizard of the Coat said:

According to the DMG (Ch 7, Identifying Magic Items)... 

So Mags has handled the signet ring. Does he sense anything extraordinary about it?  

Sorry missed this. You do not sense anything magical about it.

[Wizard of the Coat]

Thanks! I'll go back and edit into a previous post that Mags left the signet ring with Deypho as per her request.