Session 99: Animaesus and Tarrasques: Friendly Dragons, Marut Shuffles, and Sleepy Birdman
General Summary
Amu is falling, in some plane of air. He sees no ground, but he knows he just escaped the maw of a dragon. The dragon is above him, reaching for his moustelin life. However, the dragon is also confused, and calls out towards the caster to blame for this odd predicament. Amu sees an advantage here, and he changes into a eagle briefly to control his descent, or ascent? The directionality seems unimportant: maybe he isn't even falling. He is able to persuade the dragon, and they find common enough ground agains the gods who have thrust them here. Amu begins to ride with Bar'Mak, the Red, and the look to find a way out of this plane of air.
Kaly is returning to the campsite, and she finds Tenebris and the other members of camp being encircled by constructs from Primus, her adoptive father. They have a claim for power, and she may be part of that claim. However, Tenebris is awake, and he is also able to get most of his followers and the animaesus with them to move, to escape, before they are surrounded.
Birdman is in his own dream: that of the Stagecourts. Finds himself with his attorney mentor, Stur Waterbrand, the most horrendous judge Zursusk, his old friend--at least of vestige of her--Eros, and then a much taller, ominous figure--an elemental woman. Birdman is asked if he will take responsibility, and he sees not what this is--but it is something in the future where he has lead the group, the beast to destroy all of the Animaesus Lands. The book is their focus, their blame; a book of laws and balances, of gods and truths. Birdman steals it from the judge after a ring around the room, and he even has flashes of the other options he could have faced: the kenku horde vying for his body and soul. When he has the book, the time stops. And the elemental shows herself to be Eember, the lady sacrificed many centuries ago to first put the beast to sleep, one recently unleashed from her imprisonment within the 11th House proper. She suggests he destroy the book: the symbol for his soul and connections with the gods and the afterlife. OR, he could have destroyed the shadow, let his body be consumed by the kenku horde. The gods, the primordials, they are changing the game. They are making new rules and alignments. Eember doesn't agree, and neither does Birdman. He lets her destroy the book, and as it fades into the dream, he awakes back in the material, Barur. He is somewhere outside the city. The tarrasque has brought him here. He is thirsty, and he drinks.
Eros sends a magical message to Birdman about going to war. He hates his predicament, and he hopes to see her soon.
Amu flies with the red dragon, and he sees now that he is more incorporeal. He warns the dragon of the primordial meddling, and the dragon hints to another course, a group he has joined that will give them access to a new order, a new alignment for the planes. They soar on, hoping to find somewhere to land. The dragon must rest sometime.
Two Inevitables, bullish Maruts, surround the group, and the desperate escape is hatched. Gorgmongr summons his wildlife staff and plants it as a tree while his archdruid Jhir opens a stride through the trees roots and earth to another tree far away, way from this terror. They are in a forest, far in the west. On the other side of the lapid lands.
Kaly is returning to the campsite, and she finds Tenebris and the other members of camp being encircled by constructs from Primus, her adoptive father. They have a claim for power, and she may be part of that claim. However, Tenebris is awake, and he is also able to get most of his followers and the animaesus with them to move, to escape, before they are surrounded.
Birdman is in his own dream: that of the Stagecourts. Finds himself with his attorney mentor, Stur Waterbrand, the most horrendous judge Zursusk, his old friend--at least of vestige of her--Eros, and then a much taller, ominous figure--an elemental woman. Birdman is asked if he will take responsibility, and he sees not what this is--but it is something in the future where he has lead the group, the beast to destroy all of the Animaesus Lands. The book is their focus, their blame; a book of laws and balances, of gods and truths. Birdman steals it from the judge after a ring around the room, and he even has flashes of the other options he could have faced: the kenku horde vying for his body and soul. When he has the book, the time stops. And the elemental shows herself to be Eember, the lady sacrificed many centuries ago to first put the beast to sleep, one recently unleashed from her imprisonment within the 11th House proper. She suggests he destroy the book: the symbol for his soul and connections with the gods and the afterlife. OR, he could have destroyed the shadow, let his body be consumed by the kenku horde. The gods, the primordials, they are changing the game. They are making new rules and alignments. Eember doesn't agree, and neither does Birdman. He lets her destroy the book, and as it fades into the dream, he awakes back in the material, Barur. He is somewhere outside the city. The tarrasque has brought him here. He is thirsty, and he drinks.
Eros sends a magical message to Birdman about going to war. He hates his predicament, and he hopes to see her soon.
Amu flies with the red dragon, and he sees now that he is more incorporeal. He warns the dragon of the primordial meddling, and the dragon hints to another course, a group he has joined that will give them access to a new order, a new alignment for the planes. They soar on, hoping to find somewhere to land. The dragon must rest sometime.
Two Inevitables, bullish Maruts, surround the group, and the desperate escape is hatched. Gorgmongr summons his wildlife staff and plants it as a tree while his archdruid Jhir opens a stride through the trees roots and earth to another tree far away, way from this terror. They are in a forest, far in the west. On the other side of the lapid lands.
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03 May 2025
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