KKO Session 6: Mother Oda's Machinations
General Summary
10/1/875
- Party waits a week for Judith to arrive
- Hokan and Adam stick around, Tevlin keeps party moving from inn to inn
- Party confronted by couple of Ageless One priestesses, still mad at temple murder
- Balasar explains how technically Bucephalus is the one who killed wounded guy
- Priestesses agree, decide to pin curse squarely on Bucephalus
- Judith arrives in town, reasonably impressed by party’s success in Suika
- Gives them 200GP each
- Party passes mountains to get to Clan Oda capital of Olenjii
- Nyana’s suspicious of clan after what Saoirse said
- When party camps one night, they get ambushed by assassin!
- She kills Adam with single shot, tries to kill Saoirse
- Nyana tackles her to the ground, unleashes primal savagery and tears out her throat
- Saoirse explains that was Kyo, Paper Dragons’ head of assassinations
- Party arrives in Olenjii for audience with Mother Oda
- They have dinner with her in fancy outfits, but first Nyana takes party to forest
- She gives party spiritual lesson on Aoa, Guppy tries to fit her in with his Seevo belief
- Close enough
- That night Mother Oda meets with the party for feast and festival
- She thanks them for all their help defeating Paper Dragons
- Promises to vouch for party and clear them of any blame for wedding murder
- Rewards Balasar and Bucephalus with nicer armor
- Gets a wolf hound for Nyana, Guppy gets a stronger mace
- Bucephalus tries to play lute, it breaks
- Curse of Ageless One strikes again
- He goes to AO’s shrine, prays and offers paltry sum
- It’s going to take a lot of work to lift curse
- Party goes to Younashi for next Paper Dragon target, Houkasai
- It’s the capital of the Kiri Clan
- They recently won decisive battle against Kawas, town’s in festive mood
- There are wanted posters for the party
- Nyana finds some paintings made by Houkasai, Bucephalus gets curator to give them some info
- The artist is holding an exhibition of his origami sculptures at Orange Pavilion
- It’s invitation-only, but that’s not going to stop this party!
- The night of the exhibition, party heads over to Orange Pavilion in fancy garb
- They bribe the two dragonborn guards to get inside so long as they disguise as valets
- Nyana doesn’t put on a disguise
- Bucephalus finds Houkasai talking with nobility, his sculptures move like living things
- Nyana convinces origami cow named Bo to escape
- Bo crashes through pavilion gates, ramming into guards
- Wild Fight: Guards and Houkasai
- Nyana gets slashed a few times, but she gets her licks in
- Balasar runs over to join in fight
- Meanwhile Guppy and Bucephalus take advantage of confusion to kill Houkasai
- Guppy cripples him with his mace, Bucephalus slices Houkasai’s throat
- They try to go over to help others, but a paper samurai shows up!
- Back at the gate, Balasar and Nyana are using acid attacks
- Balasar knocks one guy’s head off, makes the other guy melt with acid breath
- But as they’re taking back the bribe money, ten paper samurai show up
- They manage to hide/escape from guards in time
- Guppy and Bucephalus try to catch up, but they’re KO’d and captured
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