Death of Decadron
Adelle Displays Her Power
General Summary
It is March 3rd, 1000 PCE. The Party survived a brief battle with Decadron, which ended when Adelle unleashed a wave of energy that disintegrated the Void empyrean.
A newcomer (Darmok Sin-Nasir) approached the Party on behalf of Zoran Mander with an invitation to come and dine at the Turquoise Palace on the north side of Tabazan City. The Party, stricken by various mental and chronal infirmities, delayed giving Darmok a clear answer, and continued searching the meditation chambers of the Invisible Terminus.
A newcomer (Darmok Sin-Nasir) approached the Party on behalf of Zoran Mander with an invitation to come and dine at the Turquoise Palace on the north side of Tabazan City. The Party, stricken by various mental and chronal infirmities, delayed giving Darmok a clear answer, and continued searching the meditation chambers of the Invisible Terminus.
Against Demons
The Party braced to fight against the reawakened form of Decadron. The motion of Decadron’s limbs and armoured plates created a peculiar noise that had a stultifying effect on the PCs. Those of weak will experienced an almost total loss of rational thought, and were reduced to instinctive, animal action, including Edmund, Tobias, Everest, and Fulbeard.
Decadron lurched forward to attack, and Math was immediately cut down in a flurry of razor tendrils that rended his flesh and left him bleeding and unconscious. Tobias, driven by no greater strategy than “attack,” charged to Mathias’s aid and launched a rending doublestrike of his own. It was now Tobias’s turn to face Decadron’s full might, which he withstood in order to bash the empyrean with another flurry of his own.
The ranged fighters in the Party found their weapons of little use against the empyrean and, robbed of their wits by the maddening sounds of the Void, they were helpless to devise any battle plan more complex than “keep shooting.” A potential ally closed in to assist the Party, but it seemed as though Tobias, teetering on the edge of unconsciousness, was likely to meet a fatal end.
Decadron lurched forward to attack, and Math was immediately cut down in a flurry of razor tendrils that rended his flesh and left him bleeding and unconscious. Tobias, driven by no greater strategy than “attack,” charged to Mathias’s aid and launched a rending doublestrike of his own. It was now Tobias’s turn to face Decadron’s full might, which he withstood in order to bash the empyrean with another flurry of his own.
The ranged fighters in the Party found their weapons of little use against the empyrean and, robbed of their wits by the maddening sounds of the Void, they were helpless to devise any battle plan more complex than “keep shooting.” A potential ally closed in to assist the Party, but it seemed as though Tobias, teetering on the edge of unconsciousness, was likely to meet a fatal end.
The Archon Unleashed
In this moment, Adelle Mirodar, who had been minding Jayne (once again mired in his own catatonic fugue precipitated by Decadron’s hypnotic chittering), stepped into Decadron’s prison chamber and raised her “kinetic disruptor.” Unfazed by Decadron’s mind-crushing aura, she unleashed a devastating beam of negative energy that obliterated everything in its path, including the emitting device, which fell from her hand like so much scattering dust. Decadron was annihilated, leaving no trace.
Tobias was one of the first of the Party to recover from Decadron’s aura. Knowing that what he had just witnessed was no mere parlor trick of a dilettante-technologist, but rather the unleashed power of a master psion, he asked “Adelle” how she would now contrive to conceal her true power (and true identity). Acting bashful, Adelle bemoaned the loss of her kinetic disruptor: “Alas, I had to overcharge my grandfather’s kinetic disruptor. Overloading it released enough power to kill Decadron, but, in the process, I had to destroy the device.” Tobias, seeing no clear way to dispute this matter with the woman he knew to be Delora Delarmi (and perhaps feeling a slightest debt of gratitude towards her) left the matter there.
After all, Delora’s story was at least partially true.
Tobias was one of the first of the Party to recover from Decadron’s aura. Knowing that what he had just witnessed was no mere parlor trick of a dilettante-technologist, but rather the unleashed power of a master psion, he asked “Adelle” how she would now contrive to conceal her true power (and true identity). Acting bashful, Adelle bemoaned the loss of her kinetic disruptor: “Alas, I had to overcharge my grandfather’s kinetic disruptor. Overloading it released enough power to kill Decadron, but, in the process, I had to destroy the device.” Tobias, seeing no clear way to dispute this matter with the woman he knew to be Delora Delarmi (and perhaps feeling a slightest debt of gratitude towards her) left the matter there.
After all, Delora’s story was at least partially true.
Darmok’s Arrival
As the fight with Decadron concluded, a local fixer named Darmok Sin-Nassir entered the Voidseal pyramid and joined the PCs in the meditation chambers of the Silent Terminus. He came bearing an invitation from his patron, Zoran Mander. The Party had met Mander a few days earlier after following rumors of a foreigner (Tobias) hauled out of Tabazan’s harbour by Vril troops. The Vril had brought Tobias’s technological gear to Mander to be appraised and identified. When the PCs paid a visit to Mander, they took the gear, but Mander requested a finder’s fee in compensation (to be paid at a later date).
The Party was in a poor condition for parlay, and Darmok’s entreaties to the PCs were lost in a confused swirl of cross talk and abortive exploration.
The Party was in a poor condition for parlay, and Darmok’s entreaties to the PCs were lost in a confused swirl of cross talk and abortive exploration.
Temporally Displaced
The Party came across another alcove shrine beyond Decadron’s prison chamber. Much like the first, this shrine was set in an alcove and bore the psionic mark (and trap) of Golan Trevize. Rob attempted to disable the trap and stuck himself and Math in a temporal loop (again). Trying to keep a low profile now, Adelle did nothing as the two of them played out a ceaseless pantomime around the Edrolim shrine.
Shattered Tombs
The rest of the Party examined a disturbed burial chamber containing several cracked burial boxes. The bodies inside were decayed with age and their hearts were removed. The center of this room was dominated by a large obsidian statue depicting a four-legged canine creature. An inscription in Old Ornish was found on the floor in front of the statue. Without Rob, these words could not be read. The Party searched the walls and found a hidden passage way leading back to the central shaft of the pyramid structure.
After the passing of about an hour, Rob and Math silently walked to the entrance of the Hidden Terminus sanctuary and regained consciousness with no recollection of anything that had transpired within the meditation chambers (the death of Oliver Chastain, meeting Makarios, fighting Decadron, none of it).
After the passing of about an hour, Rob and Math silently walked to the entrance of the Hidden Terminus sanctuary and regained consciousness with no recollection of anything that had transpired within the meditation chambers (the death of Oliver Chastain, meeting Makarios, fighting Decadron, none of it).
Report Date
18 Feb 2023
Against Demons
The Archon Unleashed
Darmok’s Arrival
Temporally Displaced (again)
Shattered Tombs
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