2024/11/01: PR Efforts in Space Report

General Summary

Buzz, Lillith, Daedalus, Johann

Buzz called Saheeb for info. Trying to find the party responsible for possessing/controlling the lady who was impugning Humphery's good name.

Lillith loves playing with locks. And magical wards. They're fun to test against.

Daedalus makes an amazing portrait of Johann. Lets him join the group. Johann is joyful on finding that Lillith and Buzz are also in the party.

Robot parasites that may have been in the undead they were fighting. Apparently there was a big attack on the whole place in the last few sessions.

Johann makes record of appearance and details of the parasites. They're most vulnerable to being swatted with tennis rackets.

City we're currently in is a sort of temporary adventuring hub. The Badarans don't like them and would like to shut them down, but the place is built to scatter on short order.

Whole bunch of interesting villain names. Canith Vaede (sort of Darth Vader figure), Xaratchulus (lich is rampaging out in the asteroid field)...

Friendly captains: Aethir Darkstar, Sturm, Captain Kite

Whoever did this to the ships has been planning this for a while. Some of these ships have been missing for 20 years. We still don't know what effects/artifact(s) were used to disable everybody's helm.

Greenglass figured out where the ships came from or went to. Came from different locations initially, appeared out there (painted black, so nigh invisible) at just about the same time, then loaded the stocked undead onboard.

Update from Saheeb. Whoever did this is quite well warded. Most of the known threats are not it. Most of the powerful known psions, up to and including Canith Vaede and the neogi lich, were definitely not involved. None of the mind flayers currently living in the sphere are involved. Baede the Prophet, most powerful psionic on Renedge, also not involved. So probably someone either very old or very new.

What if this wasn't this guy's goal? What if it was just a test run?

Aura Starchaser's hair glows. (This is just a thing. Probably not fully human? Unclear what she is.)

Villain maybe a mastermind type. Plots that also progress other plots that progress other plots...

"You've been getting in my way for far too long." That's what whoever was possessing Aura said to her last.

Captains and Lillith and Buzz went to go question Aura. (She's currently badly injured and maybe sort of comatose.) To properly wake Aura up (she asked for Aspirin and maybe a drink), Buzz pumped Phoenix Gate into her. It encountered resistance. Something near her head burned. Burned away several runic wards that were on her. Her head felt a lot better, but she was sort of woozy.

Group got a list of where Aura's been and went over her equipment.

Buzz's holy symbol suddenly blazed with light and power. Something just tried to hit Buzz. Chaz-Achk-Thuum intercepted it.

Aura managed a list four pages long, front and back, of people who might have a grudge against her. One of them was proficient in "mind poison".

Visit to Orb by Buzz. Diagnostics to figure out what the villain tried to hit him with. Several foot long scaly clawed leech-like being. Little wings that shouldn't work. Buzz screamed. Mind-soul parasite. Latched onto Buzz's soul and died for its efforts. It was still on his soul, though, until Orb teleported it off.

Orb thinks the runes that were burned on Aura might be Aelf (sp?). Old One runes. Not common in the multiverse for at least the last 5-6 thousand years.

Buzz paid a visit to Azhar and gave her a kiss before heading back out to spelljammer.

The bugs that were possessing people were the larval form of the thing that was on Buzz's soul.

Bards set up a team music thing. Got Loric to show up via Lillith wishing for an amp.

Remainder of session was spent discussing what song to play for best effect.

Character(s) interacted with

Humphery, Saheeb, Aethir Darkstar, Sturm, Captain Kite, Captain Greenglass(?), Aura Starchaser, Chaz-Achk-Thuum, Orb, Azhar, Loric