Session 15: To Leave Home Report

General Summary

After a narrow getaway, the team heads off to the Sindarim Coven to get Snyde's permission to leave the Mountains of Cherezhia. As Snyde waits for the team to gather, he is informed that they found someone along the road and picked him up. In the Workshop playing a horrible tune in front of his skeletons is the Half-Elf Bard A.A. Prince who tells the Gnome that just happens to be wondering. The team gathers to discuss future plans when a wounded Bogling messenger arrived. It bought a holo vid of Milady informing them of the Apostle's large scale attacks on the Ranger Corps 1st Division base and Hodichev. Spade replies with their current information and orders Milady to rendezvous at the Planar Research Base they found. As the Bogling leaves; The team prepares to face the Coven. In the days following, Snyde made a deal with Prince who marks him with Radagast. The Bard then proceeds to take a tour of the Castle. Spade tries to get his Heavy Support Gear equipped with the help of Tonraq the Artificer Druid but because he's unfamiliar with Sky ranger technology, he is unable to help. He did however discovers Spade's Unique physiology and informs Snyde that he could be the key to getting the fighting Spirits to work properly. In heated revelation Snyde asks Spade to fight the Golem Spirit who is still docile after being released.    Just as Seth and Prince walk in; Spade enters rage and blasts Radiant Energy from his Core into the Golem. Coming out from behind the golem due to the Radiant Energy blast was a figure bearing Maulnesh's Symbol. As Spade begins to interrogate, The Acolyte casts Banishment only to be counter spelled by Snyde. Spade lays only 4 punches into before he revealed he was a spy sent by one of the Apostles and threatens that what he sees, they can see. Seth then unceremoniously ends his life with Kometsu No Yaiba. Snyde argues that he should be kept alive to know more information with Spade and Seth countering that no good comes from keeping a Acolyte alive due to their experience. Prince takes the opportunity to be useful and offers to get the information without the use of the Speak with Dead spell. He uses Mantle of Whispers to capture the dead Acolyte's Shadow and adopt his persona. A wave of memory rushes through as he discovers the Acolyte was a simple farmer who was convinced by the Apostle April Slysilver a Hobgoblin into joining the cult. He was then asks to spy on Snyde by using a spell scroll that allowed him to hide within a body of a creature. He then searched for body of a Sky Ranger and hid in body until the Undead Legion came across him and he has been spying ever since.    The Bard informs them of this new information and Snyde - in paranoia asks Tonraq to bring out the Burning Spirit. The Necromancer asks it if anyone was watching to which the spirit replied by no longer jerking around and addressing Spade and Seth. Seth summons Grey Shadow as April Slysilver reveals herself to the party and threatens them with reaching their loved ones while also warning them of the impeding arrival of another Apostle, May the Mortal Weaver by telling them to look out a window. The Spirit deactivates and Snyde tells Tonraq to smelt the body while the party head outside. It starts raining but its oil instead of water and in the distance they see a large split jaw whale flying towards them. Knowing they were outmatched, Spade plans a frontal attack as their only solution. Prince plays an aspiring song as Spade delivers a speech to Seth, Snyde, Clint and the Undead knights that will be flying with him. As they fly out to meet the Aberration, it shoots out globs of human like forms at them, eliminating several knights in the process. on the last stretch, Spade had them line up behind him as he shoots a coil of lightning from his planar lightning cannon to form a corridor.    As the team lands upon the Whale, golden hands shoot out from the whale and grappling several of the Knights preventing them from reinforcing Havoc Squad. A little Girl comes out of the Whale with two golden hands covering face with a dirty robe revealing herself to be May the Mortal Weaver. Without mincing words she delivers a Tsunami at them and opens the battle. The tide begins to turn as Prince casts Hold Person allowing the team to deliver critical hits against the Apostle. Feeling her life threatened; she retreats into the whale and plummets her familiar into the Earth . Prince and Grey Shadow manage to plant themselves but Spade and Seth roll off the beast and plummet several hundred feet. Snyde has wings of flying. Prince dives for Seth and uses the Cape of Mountebanc to Dimension Door to his lodged Hunting Horn and leaped onto the Beetle along with Grey Shadow. Spade is saved by his Wyvern mount as the team watches the Whale dive into the sea of oil and the rain completely stops with the sea disappearing.    The team returns to the Castle with only 80 undead knights remaining. As the team gathers in the Dining Room, Diamond makes his opinion known that he doesn't trust anyone as Snyde and Knowledge Seeker reveal themselves to be a Raider and former Apostle respectively. Arguments and finger pointing begins, creating distrust among the team. Prince decides to join the team without much of choice.   As a way of earning trust, Diamond convinces Spade to let Snyde and Prince pull a card from the Deck of Many Things. Princes pulls Flames that brings the Attention of a powerful devil as his enemy. Snyde pulls Gem and Ruin.    Mysteriously; two more cards are drawn by an invisible hand; the Fool and the Jester, changing the world forever.

Missions/Quests Completed

Repel May the Mortal Weaver - Completed Seek permission from the Sindarim Coven - Failed

Character(s) interacted with

April Slysilver May the Mortal Weaver Acolyte

Notes

Party pulls the deck of many things.