Chapter III: I Wish That I Could Turn Back Time
General Summary
- We see a dark, smoky shadow over the Megalio as we ride on, blowing out over Pol; it covers the sky above us and rains dark, viscous lumps of ooze with owl faces
- Large, white, falcons swoop down and scoop off the owl pudding to carry them off
- As we reach Tathur, Cecil notices that all of us light up with an enchantment magic, except Loro, who was hit by some owl pudding and has patches of necromancy on him
- We board Double Force in the stables (run by Dam and Don) and Cecil makes his tower so we can rest and Loro can heal up
- Dr. Jor does the best he can for Loro, but says we might need a healer in Kier
- Captain Dav is now under our command
- In the Tai'Jei building, we find Subcommissioner Warui Hito laughing hysterically over a report about how high the demand for amber has risen; the price has risen by 18,000%
- One of the great houses is getting close to conflict with the Empress
- He tells us to go to Livson and hit For Xath on the way
- As Cecil stays up to watch over Loro, Thaw, Vivian, and Vergil find themselves in a field of metallic purple grass, surrounded by flames that get ever closer
- When Thaw pulls up some grass, a hole comes up and darkness flows up out of it; the fire and the dark avoid each other
- We step into the dark as it meets the fire, and it rises up to envelop us
- Vivian banishes the darkness, and the fire consumes us; we wake with darker Marks
- In the morning, we try to help Loro; his fever has broken but there is now a strange necromantic lump on the back of his neck and his irises are purple
- We return to Kier via Dav; Vivian plays Krak with him and wins
- In Kier, we find an aavaroki coeth healer named Kilind, who is on her deska (mission traveling journey from abt 25-mid50s)
- She tells us he is infected with discord from Na, and that nymphs can be corrupted through relationships with corrupted individuals; the purple-exploding tree is the fruiting body of it
- We can help Loro by finding a wound in the Rift, where the walls between realities are thin (either in the Megalio or in the heart of the mountains in the middle of Seasend), and then Vergil and Vivian can perform a ritual called Willful Crossing and get help from the Djanna
- Cecil appears to have a strong connection to the Abyssal Plane but a weak connection to the Phantom Plane
- We plan to keep Loro in the brig of the ship so he doesn't infect anyone else when he wakes as we travel to Seasend
- We meet with the Commissioner, brief him, and he and Thawsayer have a small tiff
- Thaw, Vergil, and Cecil install Loro in the brig while Vivian brings Kilind cookies
- We leave for For Xath, and Loro "wakes", standing up and reaching through the bars with bloodied knuckles from banging on the door; his eyes are purple and his blood has purple flecks in it
- Thaw tries to spy on him with a spell, but the spell mysteriously does not end or return
- We dream of a purple eye staring at us and are unable to move; we wake exhausted
- When we get to For Xath, Cecil notices a spot of magic near the wall; he dispels it
- In For Xath, we find a store that sells zkant, a type of sweet broth with noodles, meat, and eyes
- We go buy a weapon shop and get new weapons
- We board the ship and set out for Livson; we see giant striped seals on the way and talk to them
- An ancient one mako shark eats the seals and sends a rogue wave smashing into us
- We recover and patch up the ship with the help of Xi, a blue oni bosun, all the while keeping Loro at bay with webs
- In the morning, we find the brig covered in webs, and Loro in a strange cocoon in the middle; when we start to cut into it, the cocoon bleeds
- We reach Livson, a city of clay and sedimentary rock, and go to the Tai'Jei building
- We go to the Tai'Jei building and meet the subcommissioner, a friendly but new shadow dwarf named Shion Gada
- She tells us that the amber mines in Sellace keep losing their foremen (as well as the previous subcommissioner they die every few days and have been doing so for about a cycle
- We rent two sandrunners: one is a dark beige/yellow one named XXX Stomp Batteries and the other is a light grey one named Dinobot Gangstadog (as well as a cart, tarp, and goggles) and head out to Sellace
- In Sellace, we find a bustling town of red goblins making flatbread, many of whom have blackened stumps for hands
- We are directed towards the foreman's office, where we meet Foreman Gred, a young goblin who seems pretty dazed by the fact that he has had the job for over 5 days and hasn't died yet
- He explains that working with amber for an extended period of time causes the miners' hands to fall off, and that he doesn't know why he hasn't died, but the first few bodies (which have been dumped in the desert) had the mark of The Phoenix carved into them
- He also tells us about the Bright Seed, a place in the mountains that glows occasionally (usually around Brightrise or Brightset), so we set off to go there
- On the way to the Bright Seed, we notice little cracks in midair start to form and fizzle out; they start grower larger the closer we get
- We reach weirdly flat, large place in between two mountains that is drenched in chaos magic
- We wait for Brightset while Vivian and Gan gamble
- Eventually, a turkey vulture flies down holding a message and a box; the message reads, "I forgot to give you this", and the box holds a set of incense (presumably from Kilind)
- Cecil lights the incense and we begin to feel sleepy; as the Bright sets, the air shimmers purple
- As Thawsayer falls asleep, he notices a bright red and blue butterfly landing on the incense
- Thawsayer wakes in his mothers arms as a toddler as she tells him about coming to the League from the mainland when she worked for Tai'Jei; her parents live in a small village near the capital
- She sits and knits something impossibly long, and after a few hours he notices that things are off, and the house looks like it did after the explosion
- He gets up and turns around, older now, and finds her sick in bed; she tells him to stay with her, and he does
- After a while, Thawsayer screams for help, and a butterfly flies to the door, so he leaves for help despite his mother begging him to stay
- Vivian is running with a young dark elf boy named Take on ice, and she is unable to reach him as the ice cracks beneath him and he falls; she runs and runs but cannot get close enough to save him
- A colleague, Torid, bursts into Cecil's room looking for a thesis paper Cecil had borrowed to cite for his work, but Cecil can't find the paper even as he searches the strangely empty school without any magic; eventually, he gives up
- Vergil is in a dark forest as wolves approach; he has nothing but children's clothes and a stick he used to drag around
- He tries to charm the wolves and climb a tree, but neither work and is forced to accept his fate
- Thaw, Vergil, and Cecil find themselves in a room full of ice and an ice throne; Vivian has not escaped the Dread
- Graupel the winter djanna asks us why we came, so we ask for help in fixing Loro and Ald'Seit; it says it can help, for a price
- There are a bundle of red strings that connect to the back of our necks up to a bundle of strings
- Graupel wants one of our memories of someone precious to us, and in return it will give us what we need to have a chance to save Loro
- It takes away something from all of us, and then gives us the memory of "the white one and its master":
- We see a point in the Megalio from above, in between Kier and Har, where a giant maple tree rests with Ald'Seit attached to it
- Next, we are in a cave underground with a vein of amber with a large fang stabbed into it and a barrel being placed down next to it
- We all wake to find a young white goblin named Gendd who we don't remember who seems to be a part of the group
- Gan says we picked him up in Ourha after his parents were killed by Son Yao Jin, and that he has abandonment issues
- We head down to Sellace, ready to get to know our new Fuckling
- We sleep in the tower, but in the middle of the night, it begins to crack and fall apart, and we leave it to find it being taken over by plant life from the inside out
- The next day, we drop Gan and Gendd off at Sellace while we head over to check out the amber mine to look for what we saw in the vision
- Deep in the mine, we find a vein of amber and the fang, which looks very old, as well as barrels full of amber As we are heading out, Mot appears and begins to monologue before attacking us
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23 Oct 2022
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