Session 38 Prep

Set Expectations

Set the expectations for the session and communicate any above table information FIRST before starting the session…

• Mostly a downtime session, give you guys some much needed breathing room after a few jam-packed sessions
• In full transparency; I do not have any combats or anything super concrete planned for this session - so it’s going to be a fun/surprising one for all of us.
• There is one thing I would like to get to; but it’s not a forced thing so we’ll see how it plays for time/energy.
• We’ll do our recap; and I’d like to pickup from The Fated Eight taking their rest whilst the Terralpi celebrated your victory.
  • I’m happy to be loosey-goosey with time here; just throw shit at a wall and see what sticks.

Recap & Re-Familiarize

Recap the previous session events with brevity, then reintroduce them to the world.

Last we left off…

Recap from the headings

And that’s where we’ll pick up from… < reiterate the last thing to happen/change >

Immediate Event

The immediate action for the Party to deal with.

A Moment To Breathe

• The Fated Eight recovering whilst Terralpi celebrate in the central chamber of what is now a large dining hall. You can see that food stalls are being set up, beverages are being served, and music is being played.

Pan to everyone - what are they doing? what is going through their heads after the past few days of journey?

The Terralpi Plan

• They need to buy supplies from the Seelie Court which requires substantial gold (one of the few places in the Feywild that accepts it); so some of them are opening stalls to sell stuff they brought with them or collected when they retrofitted the ruins. 3 immediately catch your attention:
  • Poska
  • Dridge & his friend Bodge
    • Bodge is taller and lither than Dridge; but he’s still pretty rotund.
  • Flick & Quill There’s also food stalls, game stalls, and even a few arts & craft stalls.

Plots Points/Paths Forward

Details about various plot threads that can be explored this session - with a subheading for each one.

Watatsumi’s memories:

Watatsumi - The Blade Of Ramping Tides senses something familiar

• He asks Jin to help him make sense of a memory it is having.
  • A Dragonborn man in ornamental robes carries a hefty bar of metal down a clean, marble staircase. A mage next to him - an elderly woman offers to levitate it but he declines.
    • “One does not cheat the sword whilst wielding it - so once must not cheat the material whilst forging it.”
  • The pair pass through a large steel door that opens at their presence - and into a gigantic room housing a truly monumental, industrial forge.
  • The Dragonborn man places the steel down on a bench as multiple mechanical humanoids attempt to help him. A single kick from the man; his visibly turned to solid stone for the moment of impact, felled them all.
  • You take the anachronism of this man; his robes and fighting style, against every other figure you’ve seen. He’s clearly not from whatever this society is.
  • The memory fades as the elderly elvish woman says “You may begin forging, Ryujin.”

Dridge’s Finest Work

• He’s completed the Barding for Kjott
  • “Chain Shirt Barding” (will be a homebrew item )

Professor OAK’s Check In

• he can see that two of the relics have been collected.
  • no cause for alarm; but please be aware that each time a relic is collected - the associated Aspect shuts down.
  • Once the third relic is collected; the Arcanist Arboreal will be completely defenceless - so it would be appreciated if he didn’t dawdle after collecting it.
• Even he is not sure what will happen if/when SHAI collects all 3 - but he’s confident that SHAI and the gang can handle it.

Aurevald’s Nightmare

• As he falls asleep; he feels a roaring heat take over him as he wakes up to a ball of fire and rock falling down upon him.
• He’s exhausted, tired, and realizes that this is not the body he is used to. He is kneeling on a platform that is floating in a void of stars.
• A man in dark red robes, long dark hair and sickly green eyes is staring back at him.
• RIFF FOR A BIT

Azriel Dream

• He’ll wake up in his mother’s room once again - and he’ll notice her hurriedly finishing her cup of tea.
• “I made sure to finish the tea early night so we had the maximum amount of time to talk.” she says gesturing for you to come sit on the opposing couch. She’s laying with toddler Azriel asleep next to her.
• “I know this must be strange for you, Azriel darling - but please give me this comfort. I’m well aware what the tea is doing to me, but I’m doing it for you; both of you.
• “I understand your lack of trust; so ask whatever you must to make yourself more comfortable”
• Riff for a bit
• As the conversation winds down; she’ll start coughing up blue phlegm and keel over for a second, before slowly getting up. Her eyes are glowing bright blue - like looking into two clear blue skies at midday. Azriel will feel the tug of consciousness pulling him from the dream but he will hear her final words:
  • “Do me this favour my darling; survive - not just for yourself, but for me too. You must survive against man with the Owl Mask to prove I can trust you with my power…”

Toskaldr

• The Terralpi need a leader; and they have asked him to be it. He tried to suggest Aurevald but Dridge said that Aurevald was probably sick of saving the Terralpi by now.
• “Your Mother has made her peace without me. It would only open old wounds if I stumbled back to her so soon and callously…

Castle Pumpkin?

• The PumPrincess will say that “Mummy’s Statue from Daddy is missing!”
  • Aurevald will recall that The Jormun summoned to smite the Gyi’Gantos turned them to stone. This means not only did you save your Father; but his entire species as well.
• Riff for a bit with The PumQueen / The PumPrincess & The Party. See what happens.
• Travel from here to Training Grounds is a few hours; maybe a day if something goes wrong.
  • if timing is good - have the PumQueen give them a pumpkin carriage to speed up the journey

To The Training Grounds

• Riff the travel
• Eventually they’ll stumble upon a strange Human man with mechanical arms.
  • They look like nothing Axton has seen before.
  • Southern accent - he’ll introduce himself as “BAEHL”! (His name is Bell).
  • Lost both his arms when as a kid when one of the exhibits at the zoo he worked at went crazy and killed all the other animals in the cage.
  • The wounds were too badly burnt to regrow tissue from so he had to accept arms from Vaelisor as a compromise.
    • DC 15 History or 17 Arcana to learn about Vaelisor
  • “i’ve just been exploring these woods for the past two-or-so weeks trying to find some ruins where I can find spare parts - my left pinkie has been playing up. Got a tip from a regular supplier named DAEHL (Dell) that I could meet him here and he’d hook me up. Some sick practical joke if he’s pulling my leg I tell ya!”
  • “It’d be a mighty hand if you can help me find these ruins
• Loot along the path:
  • A focusing ring; Axton will recognize this as a key component for a schematic he’s been working on. He has all the parts - he just needs time and the right equipment.
  • Journal Entry