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Oddities and Obelisks

A Numenera game In the world of Numenera
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Supporting Cast
  • Gireth
    Rather sketchy individual who approached the party on the streets of Stirthal to ask for their help retrieving research materials from the university on behalf of his friend Uala Sav, and the Chain Cutters.
  • Aeon Priest Orina Var
    One of Fira's Parents. An errant member of The Order of Truth. “Risks are necessary to understanding, but they must always be taken with eyes open!”
  • Proctor Durdas
    Instructor in charge of Workshop Red at Asaranti University, where the research had been conducted on, and the iron wind samples were secured. He has a reputation for dabbling in relatively dangerous/risky subjects accompanied by the occasional explosion. Seems very dedicated to and interested in his work.
  • Proctor Siduras
    A friendly, helpful instructor at Asaranti University. Notably has a pet bird that sits on his shoulder.
  • Provost Daroon
    The Provost of Asaranti University. Has been distracted and worried as of late due to rumours of a potential imminent threat posed by the Chain Cutters to the University. Though she doesn't know the exact nature of the threat it worries her enough that she asks our group if we'll look into it for her.
  • Uala Sav
    A member of the Chain Cutters and researcher interested in the Iron Wind, who wants the samples her mother was working on at the Asaranti University before her connections to the Chain Cutters led to her arrest and execution. She claims to want to analyze the samples to prove that her mother was NOT attempting to weaponize them.
  • Professor of Doors Zarah No
    One of Fira's parents A past professor at the University of Doors “Doors are meant to be opened! Always be prepared to face and learn from what you find on the other side!”

Sessions Archive

16th Oct 2021

The Obelisk of the Clock

We begin our explorations of the obelisk within the Clock of Kala, discovering that the obelisk builders considered the Mlox their enemies and that both civilizations considered the other to be the aggressors and invaders in the war that destroyed their world. We also learn that the obelisks were meant to act as life rafts.



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18th Sep 2021

City-ception and General-ly putting things in back in order

We explore the remaining areas of the sub-sub city complex, encounter beings known as Philethis (which apparently are known to show up to observe turning points in history), and report our findings with regards to the Monks of Mitos' plans and progress infiltrating the power-structure of the city to the General (aka Hamilcar's mother).   The General moves quickly to root out the imposters and any who may be tempted to ally with them (due to social association) and nearly overnight the city's leadership and power structure is turned on it's head and transformed.



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4th Sep 2021

Imposters and Spores

Fira and Yfra take the place of a couple of the imposters (fake!Whilhelm, and fake!Zuri second in command of guard), we uncover evidence of the Monks of Mitos and Kolos' plans to supplant powerful members of society and take over the city. While investigating further we disturb a cloud of spores that Fira inhales becoming "high as shit" and becoming fascinated with an ancient generator that is powering something within the complex.



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24th Jul 2021

Confronting the Imposter

The man who stole Whilhem Whethern face and life reacted badly to questioning about it, and despite clearly lieing is insisting on maintaining his lie and has called the household guards to dispose of us for him.



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10th Jul 2021

Face Stealing

We take Karna to Ishlav to get a new face and find that a local self-important merchant has apparently had his face stolen.



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26th Jun 2021

Nutrica Node

Having found our way into the Nutrica Node we fix the datasphere process making murderous copies of the dead Karna and allow it to make a single "perfect" copy before ensuring it will not continue to produce more. This completed we need to find our way back to the material world.



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12th Jun 2021

Violent Rein-Karna-tions in Sada Emidu

We travel to Sada Emidu, the capital of Augur-Kala only to find that they are experiencing a most unusual and distressing happening of one of their deceased citizens repeatedly reappearing, alive and well only to burst into uncontrollable murderous violence that ends only with her death, again... until the cycle repeats.   We offer to investigate and attempt to help stop the cycle from repeating further.



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15th May 2021

The Ambush

Ambushed in the Chain Cutter's Hideout, presumably to relieve them of the samples of Iron Wind and possibly their lives, the group fights back.


17th Apr 2021

The Heist

The group decides whether to do as Uala Sav asks and steal the Iron Wind samples for her to analyse.



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This unlikely group found themselves thrown together by circumstance when they were teleported from many disparate locations in the Steadfast and Beyond into an obelisk, a remnant of a long disappeared civilization still floating above the earth, in which a rather unethical nano had set up his laboratory for experimenting with the effects of the iron wind on living organisms. After escaping the obelisk, and learning a few of its secrets along the way they decided to travel with one another, for their own various reasons, from enjoying the companionship to debt, and are wandering the world seeking out the mysteries and wonders of the 9th world and the network of Obelisks that a people in a long forgotten war left to "preserve civilization".   (Cover image: TM and © 2019 Monte Cook Games, LLC. )

This story is told by

The Protagonists

Fira No'Var

Augus