USPS Session 35: Eyes in the Sky

General Summary

As the USPS continue to ascend Kavios's great tower, we zoom in on Harvoni who tumbles her way into a blindingly-bright chamber humming with energy
As Diaga goes to her in a leisurely pursuit, Harvoni looks around the room to find a difficult gravity effect slowing her down the closer she moves towards the room's center
She spots a large shield and a blue crystal on the room's North side, pocketing the Large Shield, she finds Ondska's staff laying mysteriously beneath the shield
The staff greets Harvoni politely, however as Harvoni takes a defensive stance against her adversary, Diaga enters the room
Surprisingly, the crew don't devolve immediately into brawling, instead the staff inquires whether Harvoni and her crew are here to assist in its master's plan
Harvoni absolutely bluffs the staff, asking about what Ondska's plan is
The staff reveals that Ondska's grand plan came to fruition after the ship he had called to lead him to his home planet, in the form of a meteor, crash-landed mysteriously into the Promatican Coast
At the time, Asteri/Ondska's backup plan then went into play, resulting in him founding the Leyndar Mining Company and building up a stockpile of Fantasma Crystals to begin amassing enough resources to return to his home planet with plenty to spare
The tower would act as an energy-gathering conduit as well as a launching platform for his ship, this tower would then be prepared by a spell to rise from beneath the city for when the time is right
Ondska would also eventually return to the ship's crash site, obtaining plans for his ship from the lost souls of the crew whom he was able to rescue
Ondska apparently needs more crystals to put his plan into action, however he doesn't have much time, as apparently he fears something he has heard from the stars themselves; All of this culminated in him pulling the trigger now of all times
The staff then asks Harvoni again for their help, however Harvoni responds with a 6th lvl Blight on the crystalline energy convert in the room's center
The staff flees the scene by turning into a globby blue form and phasing through the tower's structure, leaving Harvoni and Diaga in this bright-white room with an oppressive gravity
As Harvoni does some experimentation around the room, she finds out that the gravity effect only happens as she is in the light
She sets the shield in front of herself and walks directly to the room's center with no problems, Diaga following soon behind
As Harvoni and Diaga exit the room, the two ascend to find Willow and Rumple, all of whom recount their recent trials they just overcame
At this time, Willow notices that souls are no longer rising from the bottom of the tower, which she is unsure of whether that is a good thing or a bad sign
The whole crew go upwards towards the next room, which appears to be a greenhouse of some sort, with a steady-eyed staff sitting in a desk chair
As the staff floats in the air, it grows massive and splits into three alien bodies, those being a Star Spawn Seer, Star Spawn Hulk, and a Beholder
Before they all square up, Harvoni throws a smokescreen into the side of the room, disabling many of the Beholder's abilities immediately
A short battle rages on, as spells fly from Harvoni and Willow, Rumple goes in for deadly sneak attacks from the fog while Diaga completely invalidates whatever's in front of her with her Misimi Morningstar
After quickly dispatching the Star Spawn Hulk, Diaga smashes in the Seer soon after, leaving just the Beholder on a beeline towards the room's East side
Diaga uses quite possibly the best Action Surge I have ever seen, hitting the Beholder and completely invalidating its abilities thanks to the effects of Misimi Bronze
After surrendering to the completely unwinnable scenario, the Beholder lets Diaga and company know more details about the tower, and specifically Ondska's plan
It leads them up to a chamber full of pipes, where Ondska, filled with tubes throughout his body, can be seen constantly morphing into different humanoids
The Beholder lets them know that Ondska has been absorbing the thousands of souls of the city and beyond to charge himself up for the ride home, and is using the Fatasma Dynamo to do exactly that
Ondska will not speak of whatever he had learned from the stars, and has kept that secret for his entire immortal life on Aekko
Supposedly, Ondska's ship is located beneath their feet, however this chamber is completely inaccessible by nearly any means necessary.  Their next best bet is to weaken the man himself.
As Ondska's staff begins to explain their options to weaken its master, we take our second-last session to its closing...

Campaign

Lines Drawn in the Sand

Protagonists

Harvoni Bodma

True Neutral* Shifter (Apothecary)
Druid 7

59 / 59 HP

STR
10

DEX
15

CON
17

INT
15

WIS
18

CHA
11

Roger

Neutral Evil Fallen Aasimar (Outlander)
Warlock 7
Fighter 1

59 / 59 HP

STR
13

DEX
12

CON
14

INT
9

WIS
13

CHA
18

Willow Ulgen

LG Satyr (Noble)
Bard 9

72 / 72 HP

STR
10

DEX
16

CON
17

INT
13

WIS
14

CHA
20

Diaga

True Neutral Yuan-Ti (Mystek Punk)
Fighter 10
Wizard 3

132 / 132 HP

STR
16

DEX
10

CON
16

INT
16

WIS
9

CHA
10

Rumple Bumpskin

Forest Gnome (Noble)
Rogue 8

34 / 34 HP

STR
11

DEX
18

CON
10

INT
14

WIS
9

CHA
7

Report Date

15 May 2025

Primary Location

Kavios