Attack On Czar
General Summary
The grand Czar Empire was under attack and the Northern Territory of the land was under siege. The leaders of Czar quickly dispatched the 144th Legion to serve as a first strike against the attackers and to capture “Castle Reich”. Lead by a Czarian Human named Captain Zaroff (Wolfen Zaroff), the party consisted of Deglan Von Gotz the fabled monster hunter and revolutionary, Luther Hero Wizard and Austmann, Oskas the jello gunslinger, Lucona the confused centaur, Ezra the stoic rouge Glade, and an Owlin cleric. Alongside them were several hundred devout Czarian soldiers ready to die for their motherland. After rallying with General Makrovich, the 144th Legion set out to retake Castle Reich. Immediately they were encompassed by a grand fog and ambushed by strange looking penguins that were thrice the size of normal penguins. Afterward, they realized only the party remained with Captain Zaroff to lead them. On foot they made way to shore and entered Vosky Harbor. There they found the village destroyed and fought against strange thrall creatures known as Rift Thralls. Inside one of the houses they found a blue rift and Deglan Von Gotz entered briefly and saw a darkness on the other side with lightning and thousands of Rift Thralls everywhere. Captain Zaroff then killed a survivor from the village since they had orders to fulfill their duty. They then climbed up the mountain and found two giant polar bears that then were assisted by an even bigger giant polar bear that appeared after a strange orange lightning came down behind a mountain. They then continued towards Castle Reich and found it abandoned but with orange lightning discharging out of it from within and then arching towards the sky. They entered and found more Rift Thralls that then got hit by the orange lightning and became giant bloodthirsty elongated creatures. They dealt with them and pressed on deeper into the castle and found a secret doorway. Inside was a research/laboratory room that contained much research about some kind of device.
At this time the party became to suspect something was wrong with Captain Zaroff and confronted him. Meanwhile, Luther found and played a strange device that projected images on a screen. The party watched as the projector showed a series of events, detailing how the The Czar Federation discovered a strange orange crystalline artifact (The Behemoth Artifact) and how while studying it they accidentally transformed a rat into a massive creature that destroyed a small town. To keep the discovery a secret they killed any survivors from the town. The projector showed tests and how the artifact worked. It has the ability to transform creatures into massive ‘Behemoth’ who’s size and power are determined by the weight and strength of the creature's soul. There were two methods of transformation, one via direct contact with a shard of the crystal or the crystal itself, or via a orange lightning coil that comes off of the crystal after a significant amount of energy is placed inside it. The Czar Empire tried to weaponize the device but ultimately kept it hidden under Castle Reich. However, the scientists discovered that the artifact was extremely unstable and must be kept inside a metal containment device sphere to prevent it from going critical and possibly destroying the whole world if kept unshielded. After the projector ended, Captain Zaroff tore off his czar patch and turned to leave the mission and his duty to Czar behind, but suddenly a blue rift opened and countless Rift Thralls came crawling out. One of the behemoth thralls impaled him and the party left Wolfen Zaroff to die. The party ran into a separate room and found themselves in a massive vault. Ahead of them they saw a lone hooded figure in front of the contained artifact trying to make the artifact explode, who then turned around and explained "I’m sorry, but there’s a chain of events that must be set in motion, I, we, are helpless to stop it." And with that the stranger ignited a blue blade made of bright blue celestial energy and attacked the party.
The party fight against the stranger, who bends the properties of time to combat hte party. However, the party still manage to slaughter him and in his final moments he reached out to Deglan Von Gotz and touched his shoulder. Then the stranger became erratic and questioned "is this really the will of the Gods?" and in an instant the party watched as time stopped and he threw blades at all of the party members and casted time stop and call lightning. When time resumed over half of the party was knocked unconscious. Sensing defeat was imminent, Deglan Von Gotz jumped in front of the artifact and allowed himself to transform into a massive Behemoth that then reached down and ate the stranger alive. In doing so Deglan Von Gotz also broke the runes that were along the walls of the vault that prevented outside magic. The artifact then went critical from the breach in it’s containment and lightning began to fill the room. Looking up at the control room, the party were shocked to see Zaroff still barley alive but we’re horrified when he grimly tells them that they left him for dead and that if he opens the seal to the doors to let them leave the vault, czar and possibly the entire world could be destroyed. So Zaroff left and at that the party tried to avoid the lightning as best as they could. However, everyone except Ezra were hit by the orange lightning and were seen transformed into massive Behemoth creatures. The artifact sent lightning into the sky that formed a storm of lightning which crashed down, transforming creatures and the approaching Czarian armies into massive Behemoths.
In the end, Ezra watched as The Behemoth Artifact transformed her comrades into massive Behemoths that then marched towards Czar, and in the dead of night, she could do nothing but watch as she heard the thousands of screams as her former comrades attacked Czar.
Report Date
11 Nov 2023
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