Session 4

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• Gurastoff's Dungeon
• Trahern makes a bucket to contain cursed water
• Cursed water didnt work on the wizard sponge
• Combat
  • Oh hey linda (fire elemental)
• Jump over
• A painting of a handsome wizard drinking wine
• Other painting is of the same one with him nude
• The curtains are odd
  • Hidden lever to a secret door
  • Odd tadpole creatures swarming out of the wall
  • Weaknesses: area/splash damage. Tadpoles created from fowl magics/magics that have gone awry
• Trahern talks to the door and opens it
• Breathing chest - mimic
• Giant smithing hammer for the creation of clockworks
• Side room
  • Has a cage and a musty book
  • Treaty abt different types of bloods of creatures across the cosmos
  • Creature has a habit of teleporting off planet and capturing different ancestries to sample blood
• Another vault
  • 50k gp
• Wizard tower! (wizard Gurastoff’s lair)
  • The wizard is also a vampire and probably isnt actually here
  • Big lava drake blocks our way but we bribe him with statues
  • Drakes are minimum wage workers to wizard, 2000 years to lvl up to draconic by wizard spells
• Tusk motif symbol, similar to a heart
  • Oddly yonic
• More rough draft paintings
  • He thinks v highly of himself
• Another cage room for animals
• Undead
• Basic undead immunities
• 3 statues of dwarven warriors
  • Dwarven and elven inscriptions
  • We dont have dwarven
  • Elven “in honor of our fellow capitalists of the underground, may our fruit be bountiful together”
  • Dwarven is in a different penmanship
• Urn shelf is odd
  • Secret crawlspace
• Run into Irvex
• “Wizard towers are for losers. Anyone worth his salt can cast a fly spell and reach the top, but a dungeon you need to assault.”
• “It needs to be workstone, lest it be penetrated by foul magics like the mole people from Zirkon-6.”
• We get party split
• Fight irvex
  • Weak to electricity and oraculum, resistant physical
  • He’s infected, we could cure it
  • WE GET IT, GET THE PARASITE
• Aetherion Acquisition Terminal
• A lot seem to be modern tech
  • Microwaves, radios, creature has hoarded them here
• Reactivate the creature
  • Very nice robot
  • Lord gurastoff should be in the inner sanctum
  • “We had pupils but 2 days ago.”
  • J: what happened 2 days ago?
  • “The pupils graduated, became full vampires.”
  • “Its an honored tradition, going back 200 years.”
  • T: what year is it?
  • “It depends, you dont seem to be from aedryn.”
  • L: we are from aedryn!
  • “I see! Youre like me then. Servitors.” (500 years ago)
  • L: what have you all been calling the planet?
  • “Of course. La Vetrine.” (old world for paradise, fell out of fashion 300 years ago)
  • “There are many wizard lords. They all serve the oath. (capitalist)
  • “That scoundrel! Do not work with him. He stole the design of our good lord. The clockwork of blood. He uses lava instead.”
  • “The fowl Salvier.”
  • “He talked abt how we needed to come together. He theorized that the other planets would lose their life soon. And that ours would follow.”
  • t: how soon?
  • “He says within 100 years.”
  • “Studies Publical Science.”
  • “He was rejected. But dont worry, you’ll experience paradise within the valleys.”
  • J: would u be able to retrieve your master? We’d like to experience his mentorship
  • “Of course. Let me check” bows, prays “i may not! He deems me not fit to be answered.”
  • The tower?
  • “All wizard lords refer to their tower as The Tower”
  • (describe area)
  • “Ah. you’re talking about the Konseki Tower. A lecherous man that. Though not bad if you dont mind a party. Lord Konseki Mialari had many illegitimate sires before he left on his grand quest.”
  • J: vampire?
  • “No he came in many people.”
  • L: What sort of grand quest?
  • “The founding of this nation.”
  • L: Where did he have to go to be on this grand quest?
  • “To this planet!”
  • J: how long has this nation been founded?
  • “200 years of prosperity.”
  • J: i guess despite his lecherous ways he was able to do that
  • T: how did everyone else get here?
  • “Teleportation. We decided this would be a nation that only the fine arcanes could access.”
  • The planet had natural defense mechanisms but its either redacted or we dont have the perms
  • J: do u know Ulidel?
  • “Of course. Their floating fortress is a mighty thing to behold.” (it fucking crashed on the coast)
  • J: how mnay wizard lords made home on the planet? Is it a lot?
  • “A countable amount. They called it the centurion.”
  • J: at least a hundred?
  • “Exactly 100”
  • J: that sounds very countable!
  • T: were his apprentices not wizard lords or
  • “They were apprentices but not wizard lords!”
  • Hey wahts with the teleportation thing
  • “The teleportation magic of Nos Sodesk. Teleportation stones by which they set up a teleportation circle between aedryn and here.”
  • J: only allowed for wizard lords?
  • “Naturally! Only wizard lords may activate it.”
  • Teleportation goes to aedryn and is guarded, dont typically go out
  • J: set course?
  • “No they should be teleporting it constantly. If its only 1 set then your compass must be broken.”
  • J: no set locations?
  • “They are a magnificent wizard, move it wherever they seem fit, making it untrackable for all.”
  • (its so trackable)
  • Hey what does lord gurastoffs thing means
    • The growing of fangs, just like the green men of Kroson-5.
    • “Harsh ppl from a harsh land. Poor in the skills of magic.” (describing orc homeworld. 5th from the sun. It’s actually called Saurial. He’s describing the elven word for the star)
  • t: obv theyre abt and well. But what kinda thing for that some of them abandoning their post
  • “An apocalypse! And even then they wouldnt abandon their post, im almost certain.”
  • J: the wizard lrod that predicted the apocalypse, did he mention what would cause it
  • “Something from the stars. But bad men always look toward the stars, but we only have under our feet”
  • L: hey the eternal waters
  • “Dhampirism!”
  • T: hey btw the worm?
  • “Idk it”
  • T: i think youve been out of it for longer than 2 days
  • L: yeah that
  • “I base that ive been out for abt. 3 years.”
  • Trahern distracts the robot
  • The thawed
    • Atka - fairly cheerful maintenance man, brenneri
    • Kansivix - tech support, shirren
    • Vulen Reyth - tech support, elf
    • Guilx - IT manager, goblin
    • Ria He - dish pit worker who was born on the ship, they failed every aptitude test, 17 half-elf
      • Nice relative to their circumstances. Guaranteed no payout. Stuck on a ship the entire life. No job prospects when u leave
  • A few even hug!
  • Atka is. So confused
  • Irvex unlocks a door
    • “Is the descent ok?”
    • Elevator that goes into the abyss of the world
    • T: what???
    • “The descent elevator”
    • T: where it go!
    • “It leads into the infinite mazes into the core of the world.”
    • T: WHAT
    • “I thought u understood these things. Was i wrong to assume so?”
    • T: i mean. Its just. So shocking! Everytime! You know?
    • “I understand. Vel’Taro to you?”
    • T: what
    • “Velturo to you?”
    • (Velturo the god of inebriation is also the one that would let u to face things u wouldnt be able to. Asking if u need to imbibe to gaze into the abyss)
    • T: nono thats ok
    • Looks down
    • Can see spirits at the edge of his ethersight
    • “Its where the failed apprentices would go”
    • T: i feel like ours doesnt have one?
    • “They should all be bound to the same service? Which one is that?”
    • T: Almanthir Mialari, but he just got elevated
    • “Let me check the databanks”
    • “Oh! Newly elevated! Congrats to ur wizard lord.”
    • T: he’s still getting things set up, i wont speak bad
    • “Its impressive for a new one to have 4 homunculi already”
    • T: hes pretty busy, not teaching us abt the matters of the world
    • “I can teach you the ways of the servitor. For a fee of course.”
    • T: what kind of fee?
    • “I merely need 2000gp a piece fee.”
    • T: what about credits?
    • “You as a homunculi have credits?”
    • T: hes rich in wealth and not time
    • “No wonder hes a wizard lord.”
    • T: i can also render my services, i’m attuned to the Plane of Metal as part of my arcane studies
    • “What does that mean?????”
    • Shows. Metal movement
    • “No. exchange of currency is how we do things here.”
    • T: ah excellent. Whats the exchange rate on credits
    • “I have to wait to see the master to discuss such things.”
  • Back to the others
    • Escort them out
    • Emerge with all 3 pods fully saved effectively
    • Explaining the situation
    • J: the servitor says theres some natural defenses but either he doesnt know we’re not allowed to know or he lost it. But apparently theres supposed to be 100 of them around
    • Atka “what of the captain?”
    • We think he went down with the ship
    • Goblin “do you have access ot a computer from the ship?”
    • Not yet
    • “I can give u unencrypted logs. It would help you to establish the remembrance stream. Whatever defenses the planet has it cant go faster than light”
    • Almanthier has become a mad wizard
    • J: whats a a gacha
    • “It originates from the aetherion homeworld as part of a vidgame. Part of the youth know this, it could inspire them to fight fervently.”
    • (GAMBLING IS DANGEROUS WHEN UR IN SURVIVAL MODE)
    • Too risky rn!
    • “Almanthier is a wizard lord, of what?”
  • Trahern
    • T: so. What did he actually get put down as his wizard domain
    • “The same that his blood always was. Control.”
    • T: huh????
    • “Hes the wizard lord of mind control it seems.”
    • T: as his blood always being a tagline or?
    • “It says he…. You should be able to do this as a homunculi.”
    • T: awww another thing he didnt teach me
    • “It appears hes the grandchild of the previous wizard lord.”
      • He told lucine his dad was an orphan, he felt he was always meant for greater things. He wouldnt kill the captain ofc, but if the captain were to die, he just. Wouldnt save him.
  • Science team
    • “We found smth. Alien life on the other planets. Exoskeleton. Solid 100 kilometers by another 40 kilometers in size”
    • J: how???
    • “Telescope.”
    • It molted so it might be BIGGER
    • Its omnivore
    • J: planet without life
    • “Yes”
    • “We’re unsure of what it is. But… Olzii has a theory if you would allow him to say it over shortwave.”
    • “He believes its a prime hekath. A bioweapon.”
    • J: something to do with the natural weapon the servitor was talking abt?
    • “Maybe. We’re still looking at it. Currently. Fenxsys believes that orbits of the planet are a bit odd. They are not elliptical as they should.”
    • L: which suggests what?
    • Implies a 2nd force of object unseen. Affects every planet except our current one