2020/03/15: Battle at New Hallownest Report
General Summary
Rodger, John, Pele, Knight, Starlight
The dwarves are helping with defense. Thorandul Empire. They can lay rail and build the supporting bridge as fast as most people can walk. 180,000 dwarves, plus thousands of others.
There’s now a dwarf-built/upgraded command post (and plenty of other facilities) in New Hallownest. They like Knight's maps!
The last group to come through are a bunch of human guardsmen. They have odd livery: Black with a red V. They set up a ritual in the Lolth dungeon leyline.
Met Rapsity. Very short, ~3.5 feet tall? Human. Dark skin, is a Transmuter. Archmage.
Ritual will “piss off all the liches.” Will shut off all magical abilities. Magical items and creatures still work.
500 guardsmen at each entrance, 1000 on the ritual. Nailmasters on rear entrance. Ogrim, God Tamer, Mantis Lords, Quirrel on front entrance. Knight, Hornet, Ngel Sfet in command center (with Knight roaming as needed).
Ngel Sfet can produce (very unsettling) Void ants as constructs she controls. We’re putting most on the front lines, and the rest are being placed around the city to provide surveillance and communications.
Void ants are soul-animated psionic constructs.
Knight can learn to make Void constructs/summon Siblings independently of the Banner of Bound Shadows (or at least use it as a sort of psionic ability that bypasses anti magic and the like) with Ngel Sfet’s help.
The army attacking New Hallownest was led by that lich (necropolitan?) warrior who hates Knight and wanted a rematch. He was riding his dracolich. Knight managed to play hide and seek with him until Knight brought him close to the ritual site, where a psionicist caught him with some psionic effect that held him in place. With him held, Knight was able to hit him until he collapsed, and the attack tapered off after that.
The runebearers made it to the dark god’s necropolis, there was a huge explosion, and a large chunk of the Underdark above it was blown away. The dark god has been destroyed, or at least split into three weird big spirit things that were tossed in different directions. The necropolis is now being swarmed by adventurers. The fate of the runebearers is unknown.
The dwarven train station is named Bug City Station, since the dwarves named it after the first name they heard.
Morgan (daughter of Kelsey) is now wandering the Underdark with an army of adventurers. Knight may encounter her at some point. Hopefully they won’t mistake New Hallownest for a hostile zone.
Now Knight has been recruited for a mission to fight Corruption for the sake of the universe. Working with Pele, Sith (in non-god form), Terana, and Humphery. The party is going to solve Knight’s mask problem and then go to fight Corruption. We first went to find the Prophet (Ziz), where the undead had been rather thoroughly torn apart. We got some advice, had Terana’s baby megalodon friend eat a submarine undead pirate ship, and then killed Pele the Piratical and most of her adventurer buddies, then took her ship and remaining crew.
Missions/Quests Completed
See the Necropolis War brought to a close.
Report Date
15 Mar 2020
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