Aylif = Christina
Xirin customs - we know they have recalled us alive and there is a trial called
Karachar is not popular and this is a warrior culture that respects custom and tradition and authority. it may not be about justice but about reestablishing authority. if it was strength she would have
showing queen mother as strong
showing we didn't do it - evidence exonerates us
getting people to support us
we stand before the Shwarkotath
We decide to go in after we all salt our weapons. we walk inside, light torches and go on. we hear some skittering but nothing perceivable. we lose sight of the entrance
we beat the gollums and the scary wall monster. we pass through the tunnel adn run into
We are still in the Schwarkotath
We are disguised by Freak as Flesh Gollum
the walls are oozing. Freak is not intruding on our thoughts and we don't think he is reading our minds
Schwarkotath is sparse. Keheatys (kay-HEE-tish) - freak turns them down a tunnel and asks about the amule. he leads us down a path that is no longer on the amulet's. we trust him and continue but it is long. he is taking us on another plane to Cloud City.
Freak disappears when we see shadow figures approaching
sturges act like immune system and want to clear an infection
Remourage is a girl boss and trapped in the entrance at cloud city between the shwarkotathkeeps poeple from using shwartkotath
Balto also drew from the deck and disappeared into his whistle
Freak pulls the DonJon card and disappears. I grab the bronze figurine he dropped
I take Balto's Mace of Destruction
I change alignment and lose all my earthly possessions. I am chaotic evil now
The ceremony is at the Septor
the moon knights run everything in Noctis- Enik is the king
Vampire named Starr is the general- leadership
party suspects the sun seed is in the castle
the Castle is called the Rose Citadel
they do tours at the castle - we get a flyer from the bartender TIlly. the next tour is in two days- the fee is 10 kopek
Enik is idealogue - he wants to defeat death and bring immortal life to everyone
military tribunal - Starr administers the laws. soldiers hear the court cases
administer justice fairly
No open fires on the Full Moon.
punishments are severe but laws are similar. they exile more than capital punishment
a lot of parties here. moon knights show up to the night clubs
check out the night club, the castle, pay respects to Char, (enik credits her with the conquest of the sun)
we get stopped by guards a lot - most are vampires but some are not. they want to see our visas a lot
we go to the night market
the castle looks really huge and old so Tilly's comment that it was a new development is strange. I ask if the people are cattle here for the vampires adn they are under teh vampiric spell
vampires have good feet grip and are harmed by running water. damage scales with amount of water
fountains are not running.
we see a wanted poster - human man and dwarven woman - blitz and blista dead or alive - 37,000 kopek reward
we complain that the rent is too damn high and a vampire walking by agrees and says a lot of out of towners moving in
biolumanescent paint is sold and lights the area
Vriz's tower is now known as the Caves of Chaos
We hear of the "villains calling themselves the bonewardens"
I go to the bookstore and find a really old history book
I also buy the vampire smut book, cats of desire, and fish of desire
you have to be part of the temple of shar if yo uwant to go into the magic bookstore
you dont' turn into a vampire but you have to go to rituals
Lily is the bookstore keeper and she says there was an invasion
she tells us of the resistance meeting at the Septor tonight
Hrast is like damn - local term
Subruin - fuck !
warriors - swingswords
a lot of sayings about the moon
*I spend 35 kopek on the books
Morning of Day 2 of our visa
we wake up in the inn having read the textbook.
We each took a long rest
We go see Lily at the bookstore and she flips the open sign to closed
She says the textbook does not give the whole story - Chicot did not want to be revived. He is now a puppet - husk of himself. He was dead for 20 years before he was risen.
Orchid is the orc-human child
December ran a lab in Vara and she was known for doing many experiments on life and mortality
Death Cure is the initial spell that "cured" Chicot
all vampires are "death cured"
Sharr is last of the five - soldier that fell in battle and revived by Enoch to fight a more important war
December's lab is still running in Varra - all moonknights live here in Noctis.
details of ritual is unknown but they used kiyoskivi which took a long time (hundreds of years)
I always have candles lit in my shop - Sharr can see anything in the dark
the Sceptor is hosting a ceremony - parts of the resistance will be there and vampire hunters. December will be there.
half vampire children are known as Dampiers - connection to sorcery and can see vamps through invisibility not attracted to blood eat normally and live long life not immortal not vulnerable to sunlight
rumors about dampiers not having bones but it is not true. they have really wild dark hair known for cunning and courageous nature. some don't have fingernails I dr
Lilly gives me a history book that is banned. she puts a different cover on it - Women and Kings.
small book and not too old. Pamphlet written by Resistance of the whole
I drop off the pamphlet on the way to the Tour.
it's a small group for the tour and its just a few other vampires
Isidora and Vlad become our friends
first gift that december gave enoch was
second gift was death cure
third gift was rose citadel
removing loss, Shar wanted him to succeed and gave him more gifts
carvings painted black of roses, very iconic Noctic symbol - Black Rose
all rooms were transferred from another dimension
wings of rose citadel that are not fully explored. administrative ahppenings happen in one sectin of castel. everything is sectioned off
The Rat is disguised as a tween he asks where is the sun seed but it fails
The tour guide says the sun seed was a myth created by Ojaian spies by those who wish to reestablish the sun
Isidora brings us into large grounds. there are gardens and statues. symbol of death being vanquished. skeleton of death is on the ground nearby
five individual statues for the founders
the people we are with are spending time looking at Enik. he looks like a priest
if we go to the temple of Sharr we can possibly meet Enoch
are all the statues looking in the same direction? Chicot is not.they all look up at moon and chicot is looking down and to the left
Vlad Vance: "Chicot is such an interesting character. there is debate re whether he wanted to be revived at all"
Full Moon starts in Two Days. Moon cakes to celebrate - market will have special pastries, worshippers don't like the moon
Chicot does not have an audience anymore. its an open secret - he is brain dead now
We enter a hall and see a ton of banners
Banner from Varra - people there recognize Noctis
we bribe the tour guide to get to see more secret parts of the castle
First we go to the Lab. exudes mastery, knowledge, and elegance
Keheatys (kay-HEE-tish) notes some points of entry,. they lead to a supply closet. one door leads to another part of the castle.
we next go to the library it is Huge. It reminds us of the library vessel works in. Vessel's is bigger
books are in languages we don't recognize
soltarri description of invasion of the sun
library - Isidora is less nervous that we are here.
some people may read the books
I steal one of the Soltarri books on invasion of the sun
Isidora's fav title is Sun Setter
the Vances tell us that they are artists
WE are now in the treasure room
isidora tells us we cannot leave the circle of trust
she takes us to the throne room
and seayarin and Vlad are like we want to see the sculptures
some parts of the castle can be quite dangerous
Eddie Mullen is in the Temple of Sharr he is a priest.
we leave the castle tour and plan for next moves
Casing the castle, we learned we can get in it again by joining the guard, wearing robes, or through hidden alcoves. we also learned there is a main entrance that is not the entrance we entered for the tour
The Waxing Square was the courtyard we stopped in with the statues during our tour
the rat can disguise us as guards to get back in*
we think it could be a good idea to make holy water to back us up in the night club if any shit goes down. the club is themed tonight - fey wild
Blitz and Balista could be there. December gonna be there
we decide to make holy water and go to Lilly's to do it safely. We disguise ourselves as dragon borns to go into her shop so people don't get suspicious of us going in there alot. When we go in there, Lilly says she's closing in one hour. I ask why her sign says she's open until 8 and she looks around and gets grumpy and says "I open at 8" she doesn't recognize me because I am in disguise. she wants to see my papers. The rat switches himself back to the rat to show her its really us and I write a note to tell her I'm lemetia.
Lilly doesn't know that we are bonewardens so when we start asking about the resistance she is starting to get suspicious. we tell her we want to use her shop to make holy water and she allows it but doesn't want to know anymore. she gives the rat a red bow tie to be recognized by the resistance at the club tonight
we make the holy water in the book shop .the rat and Alif are inside. I'm outside. We decide to illusion magic disguise Maude as a Wagon to block some of the light that the holy water process emits. After 4 hours, two guards walk by and tell me to move the cart. I tell them it can't be moved because it's broken and i've got someone coming to help fix it. They wnat me to move it now so I attempt to Maude is smart as hell and doesn't budge. They leave me be for one hour so I send Maude back to the inn and disguise myself as a sign - it works seamlessly
We go to the nightclub in disguises - I am baba yaga and I find a ton of other babas. they buy me a drink and we party
I drink spider byte and take 4 poison damage
i finally get to do psycho the walls are moving my heart is beating fast and loud
i feel a powerful urge to scream. i do it. they hush me and tell me no one can know we are going psycho
theneeda is a member of the resistance. the rat and Keheatys (kay-HEE-tish) are talking to her
she fought against noctians and she lost
she is ashamed of how she reacted when vampires invaded but is not willing to share
ive been partying with the babas and i went psycho - the babas talk about noctian night life
one is a vampire, one half elf, one human
i dance with a guy named November.
i go to the bathroom and encounter december. i tell her i like her vibe. her bodyguard hands me a card of a snowflake
we r gonna meet the resistance at the bridge tomorrow
*Lemetia used a fate point, but gains fate point at end of session
The Noctis Guard is - the Night Watch
we wake up to a loud bang. the door to the inn kicks in and there's a small orc child
Orchid is there - she's holding a picture of what could be Kehytish.
Starr - leader of the military tribunal. Enik + him are big whigs
Sun God - Monotaur(Sun is also known as Lethander)
Tolona is Rat God - creates monsterous life
God of Luck - Tomorra - goddess of good luck. She is fae goddess
if you are on a win streak start saying prayers. being lucky attracts her favor
we meet up with Nakindle - he shows us a map of where the sunseed is located in the castle
we can get in through a ventilation station. we could try to get access to guards. there is a wing of the castle that has monsters in it that connects where the sunseed is
December's quarters is far from the sunseed but the lab is nearby
chicot's sleeping quarters is closest to the sunseed
the sunseed is black and porous currently. it does not emit light
it is heavy - one person can carry it at half speed and if carried for multipel rounds, need to make con save
the sunseed has two layers of antiillusion and one layer of anti transmute
watt - potion lady
we go through potions
I'm thinking about getting the potions:
charisma(50), swap body (250), ethereal (go through walls)(5000), luck(500), transparent (300)
sleep (1000) sleep for 10 minutes deep sleep won't be woken up withouttaking damage
we get one free potion AC increases by 3 but movement speed is half
the rat says he will give me the cash for the potions i want if i give the gem that Alifoffered me. I agree
Kehytish goes to the resistance and discusses the second book stuff how the sun god was overthorwn
Moira is the guard lady and she tells us about the Slotty the big toads who are scary. they enable chaos in the world. they talk directly in your mind. they reproduce by using mortal hosts. its possible they are good Slaiddy
instead of a brain they have a magic gem
december is methodical, she defines her experiments. her reputation is a hard ass. the city thrives bc of her
the guards aren't there very long because they can't stand the screams down in the chicot chamber
sometimes the screams
I take the antidote to truth serum (280)
i go to the sceptor the bar to discuss december
decembers card = meeting at her private quarters
we are talking to a human male named Arz
met once at the sceptor and then at the lab on a testing call
she's haughty and full of herself and think's she's Schar's gift to Palmorra
she can solve magic Schar is using and sever the tie. Schar has desires that december doesn't agree with and she's considering going it alone
she works with another scientist named Gulenyonvocich (not a vampire, is a man)
I go to the castle intending to meet December and take the charisma
I talk to a guard who asks to see my card
they're not rare not common - once or twice a month
i'm waiting for a long time to see december i am viewing the books
i speak with december and i tell her i am part of teh bonewardens and that their end mission may not be mine
she said Enoch will lose this war and all she cares about is continuing her experiments on elongating life
we make our plan to do the heist
what are our decisions?
1. where do we put little rat and Nakindle - between three spots. close, 70% chance signal goes through, 30% but in the mountains
2.
i plan on talking to december next session and this is my agenda:
1.
six step plan
1. part of party sneaks in as guards/part of party goes into mountains with scroll
2. jack blast and alif turn off illusion circle at outter rim and then they send sending scroll to tell party they did that
3. party goes invisible and disables second scroll in lab
4.pick lock or get in through wall to the vault(backup plan bust door down)
5. signal to little rat in mountains
6. little rat and nakindle use sending scroll to open portal
we open by drinking in the bar.
Veneda offers to help us in our heist.
we drink a little bit of the luck potion each. I give alif the charisma potion
jack blast drinks grow arms and now has five total arms
A squad sneaks in. they get in. jack blast makes a loud noise getting in. alif gets in quietly.
they open the door. its usually busy but it seems like no one is there. down the hall there are rooms
there are beds in the room they appear not made. someone might be up and about - 2 of them
alif and jack blast do the first circle well. one guard stirs and and alif paralyzes the guard
guard says the summoning circle has changed location
the lab could be one spot
4.pick lock or get in through wall to the vault(backup plan bust door down)
5. signal to little rat in mountains
6. little rat and nakindle use sending scroll to open portal
Potions:
swap body (250),
ethereal (go through walls)(5000),
transparent (300)
sleep (1000) sleep for 10 minutes deep sleep won't be woken up without taking damage
free potion AC increases by 3 but movement speed is half
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we are in the library, together, disguised as Night Watch (elite guards)
we start heading for the Vault but get intercepted by guards
we do a ton of combat getting to the sun seed
we get to the other end of the portal with the sun seed
we are at the hut and are told things are dangerous
Lethander is the Sun that feeds Palmorra and is diseased. He is a monotaur
Do we replace Lethander? it would sever ties to Soltarri that exist today
maintain Lethander and elevate but would sacrifice Soltarri- three Soltarri to sacrifice