Session 24: Cafka Campaign Report

General Summary

it was a fine session, but i noticed a slight issue in terms of characters being mostly reactive and not active, I'll just repost what I said in the discord chat here:

--- We spent a lot of time talking about plans and less time actually doing them. They were plans that were kinda simple and could have all been resolved in 20 minutes but instead took like 40. Forgive me for being blunt but it kinda seems like coda is the only proactive player. I feel like things would move faster and be more engaging if more players just acted on what they think their characters would do rather than debate everything in committee Basically, less thinking and talking, more doing. Should i be offering advice and trying to get things moving more? I feel like I tried that in the past and was asked to stop. I know raime can act on his own, I've seen it, and I know Ariange asks a lot of good questions and uncovers important things but I feel like he hangs back since he's usually at odds with the party. And I've talked to rosie about adamah already. As for coda/fafnir. We really just can't see eye to eye as player to dm but I'm grateful he's so proactive and basically I'd just like all characters to be more like that. I think we'd get more done and have more fun as a result.

As for the game the players all reunited, Ariange apparently woke up alone on a beach and was picked up by Thelexipiea who made a deal to exchange unnamed favors with him in order to take him to his friends. They arrived and violently attacked the outsider, seeming to hate it deeply. Tsara'Noga slithered off and the harpies got their eggs back, all was well, they decided to part ways with the slaving caravan in peace in the morning and set off down the glass road:

They spoke with Ally and Belial about where they were going (the chess pieces of "trophies" know each other and like each other, with Belial seemingly having enemies who removed him from his station of honor after he was turned into a trophy while "guarding the engine"). The Tomb of the titans. During the second outsider war, Addus was the youngest of the gods and sought to end the conflict once and for all as the forces of light were losing due to the outsider onslaught. He crafted the titans and for the first time in their existence the Outsiders knew fear. They were the greatest warriors of the light and singlehandidly held the line for decades before the corruption of the other firstborn races prooved too potent and they began to falter as their own allies turned against them. The rest of the story is known, with Martius arriving and saving the day but soon after that, Martius turned on his fellow gods and with the aid of Addus and the titans bound them in chains of starlight. When Addus realized his mistake he met Martius here... in open battle. All 3 titan legions stood against him that day, the battle waged for 7 days and 7 nights and when victory finally came the legions were shattered... the other firstborn that had stayed neutral during this bout then imposed the Celestial Compact on all parties, to enforce peace after witnessing the horrors of the wars between gods and mortals. A compact the titans were forced to sign due to being so horribly weakened... in shame they left their brothers behind and are forbidden from returning to collect their dead, these red wastes being a tomb for them forever, a reminder of the last battle.

One night Ariange noticed a tiny slug of an outsider observing the fire, he decided to hurl the thing back into the mass of snakes who promptly tore it apart. Tsara formed and stared in silence at the spot where it had once been

Teresa asked Raime and the others to keep quiet about the fact that the Cardinals appear to be machines. Raime spoke with Marcus about it anyways and inffered that he may be a mechadrone, the Cardinals do not seem to be taking this well and didnt know anything about this, thinking they were all real and alive.

Each night Tsara drew closer and closer, she was being agitated by another party traveling on ahead of them, the Saxons. The inqusition spotted signs of the Saxons in the equipment they left behind, any metal that has "lost its purpose" seems to rust and rusts faster the closer to the tomb of the titans it is. The camped nearby the Saxons and Tsara began to become furious and threatened to attack everyone, to break her deal, because the Saxons were singing, laughing, and celebrating a national holiday "Zieg day". The party was able to convince her to let them pass (taking Ally with them) and they reached the Saxon camp to find Rommel leading them. Rommel explained he was here as part of operation paperweight, on orders from the Kaiser. This is concerning cause thats the same name as the cultists of martius operation so the two are likely linked thought Rommel claims to know nothing about that and that he and the Kaiser are not cultists. Rommel agreed to let the party go on ahead and join up peacefully with the Inqusitors.

The party finally arrived at the Tomb, the sand around them is red, they realize now its the rust from the titanic metal bodies lying buried in the crater and the ruins of their final battle. Massive hands rise from the sands as heads and legs lay strewn about, the sun glints off the burnished metal and ahead of them they see a huge mountain of metal that looks like a city lying on its side, big enough to house multiple titans and indeed they can see more titan corpses laying over it. The Glass road is a fused solid piece and discarded metal instantly rusts. There is a small oasis in the middle of the crater and they are ahead of all other parties. They've been asked by Nautila the water elemental demigod to not let anyone else get in the tomb... we will see how that shapes out. (especially with the zombie horde coming from the south)