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Day - Thursday


Diary

Session One

We were approached by the Secretary of the Subcommittee liaising with the main committee dealing with the end of the calender in ten days. It looks like another potential Nightfall scenario, or maybe just that the calender is passing from one epoch to another. Evidently the committee isn’t taking any chances, just in case there is some cataclysmic event coming up.

When we got to the meeting room, Guild Security brought in, in this order: our employer, a cloth covered cage, and a tray with ice on it with half buried potion bottles. Inside the cage was a parrot who Guild Security said used to be a Greater Summoner, We were told, by our employer, that he had the Astrorophium Codex and that the vials contained a potion that would protect us from the necrogony effects caused by even discussing the contents of the Codex, that would turn us into undead, So, after some convincing, we drank the chilled potions.

The Codex was written by the Black One – Astaroth, and was written in a form of ancient elvish. Even with my knowledge of Eladrin and Elvish, I was having difficulty puzzling it out, especially as it was written in a series of spirals. It did seem to be counting down to something though. According to our employer, it was some sort of harvesting ritual which would take souls from everyone within the radius of the ritual. The ritual was being performed in a temple somewhere on the isthmus between the two Terra Novan continents. The ritual had something to do with the Battle Tiger Dynasty, an ancient drow family, and had been going on for thousands of years. The temple is known as the Blazing Pyramids lit with the Flames of a Hundred Souls and, as far as we could tell, the range of the ritual was limited to a few thousand miles. Part of the ritual involved the Summoning of Heroes for a sacrifice to bring the ritual to a climax, and the heroes were us. The ‘parrot’ was really interested in joining our mission to witness what was going to happen. It also had something to do with the Second Ascension Crisis or the Great Blooming, which occurred 15 years ago and since then, the elves had considered the situation more urgent.

After taking the antidote to the potion, which had caused some sort of ‘time stasis’, we discussed what we should do. Sister Clench reassured us that Michael didn’t intend Nightfall to occur for a while yet, but other observations led us to the conclusion that Michael was actually a committee of Michaels with differing opinions on the subject. Sometime in the past, this ritual had caused the disappearance of an ancient reptilian civilisation in the area which had spanned the entire continent south of the isthmus. We could evacuate the entire area so that not enough souls could be gathered causing the ritual to fizzle out, or redirect the area of effect to somewhere uninhabited – like the moon.

That was when Kilroy mentioned that the Beltan Elves had a time travelling ship. He then reached under the table and found a note addressed to him which said “Don’t do it – Kilroy”. Still, given that time travel was a possibility, we could use that to beat the deadline. It also caused me to ponder things such as ‘fixed points in time’, ‘cause and effect’ and ‘temporal paradoxes’.

I also had a visitor at the Guild Gates. This turned out to be a sister from the Reformed Spiteful Sisters of Perpetual Dissonance, who had a gift for me. I thought that was rather odd, especially when I discovered it was a small cloth bag containing something rather heavy. I had a quick peek inside and all I saw was darkness. I immediately suspected Liessa’s involvement but I thanked the sister and headed back inside to consult with the rest of the party. Several DAs and a divination later, we discovered that the bag had containment magic on it, it was made from all four elements and contained anything put in it. What it contained was a rather small nascent Dark-sphere which had been in there for the last six months.

That was when Kilroy smacked himself in the face and realised we hadn’t discussed what we were going to be paid, especially since we’re saving the world again. Kilroy said we had to remember to leave a note later – it’s a causality thing.

That evening, a ship that looked like a butterfly arrived. This was the Beltan’s time-ship and I was really interested in how it worked, especially the science behind it. There was a crystal rod that slowly rotated that ran the length of the keel that provided lift, something that would be useful for the star-faring vessel and telescope platform I wanted to build, especially since there were a lot of objects in this solar system I wanted to visit – Merlyn for example. There was also a rather complicated clockwork timepiece which I presumed was the time controller. Definitely would like to discuss the science, maths, and engineering behind that too. They also were sure that time paradoxes were resolved by the timeline being rewritten, not by the alternate planar theory. I also figured I’d have to do a lot of astronomical calculations to work out planetary and stellar positions for time jumps. I’d even have to allow for precession. The room containing the clockwork was also warded to prevent entry by short entities. It seems that, earlier, a hobbit sized person had tried to steal the time controller.

While I was doing that, Kilroy suggested we visit the Oracle. He could be found on top of a mountain and was usually reached by climbing up an extremely long staircase that wound several times around the mountain. However, since we weren’t actually seeking enlightenment, we flew straight to the mountain and landed. We were actually here to see the other ‘person’ there, a man shaped entity, named Zelnor, that was the embodiment of a Dark-sphere. ‘He’ had also swallowed Seir’s All Seeing Eye. He turned out to be a six ft tall black cloak and hooded entity that ‘floated’ across the ground.

He immediately told us that the answer was ‘Galthous’, before we even asked the first question. It turned out that Galthous was an entity we had to slay to stop the ritual, being him who set it off in the past in the first place. However, we had already done that in the past. So we were either dealing with a fixed point in time that had to happen or an event that had yet to be properly determined. I tried to describe Galthous as a chronotomic state that was either ‘alive’ or ‘dead’ at the same time until the actual event is observed by us. Galthous was a drow who had obtained the knowledge of doing the ritual and had started it 20,000 years ago, a bit after the War of Tears itself. Obviously we couldn’t kill him before that as it was possible someone else would have taken his place in history. We then showed him the bag containing the Darksphere and he said ‘Yes’ He then explained we had to ‘take the child out and feed it to Galthous’. That Darksphere was revealed to be a relation to Zelnor, and once eating Galthous, it would grow and then go home.

We also had to obtain a shield that Raphael had dropped in the Black Desert near the Whistling Mesa and, on the way there, we would be attacked by the prophets.

Mil Sci

Daily Pattern

  • Sleep/Camp 10 Hours
  • Travel 10 Hours
  • Meals 2 Hours / 2 Hot meals + 1 tea
  • Rituals 2 Hours

Sleep gives 3/hr 6 hours sleep = 18ft

Travel Magics

Instilling Flight {modified} 48mph for 7.5 hrs (<360 miles)
Up to 5 objects each with its own pilot can lift up to 850lbs each.
Flys only for that pilot, No concentration, landed contact can be broken without ending the spell.
Cast by Rowan.

Star Wings Rank 12
Cast by Phaeton.

Wildfires Rank 12
44 mph for 260 min Cast by Flamis.

Watch Order

Marching Order

Main body front:
Main body rear:
Tail Guard:

Formations
Single file:
Open area:

Buffs

Buffs listed in the table don't need to be detailed, other buffs not on the table must be mentioned at the time they are cast.
Y means always on, N/- means never on, 'Sit.' means when the party has time for buffs before a fight.
Weapon Spells which weapon/s it is going on normally should be noted also.

General notes.
The Circle Magic Ritual to put buffs on all at once.


Long Duration Buffs

Magic Rk Effects Dur Ft / cast Dr J Row Ph Fl Ki SC Golems
Runeshield 20 +25 Defence/+5 AP/Absorb 2 Spec Grevs 20 hrs 2 Ft Y
Smite 20 On Strike - D+21dmg/Stunned/Prone, resist for none 21 hrs 1 Ft Y Y Y (4) Y (4) Y
Greater Heart Rune 8 Cures 7 EN when EN damage is taken 9 days 5 Ft - has his own Rank 8
Willow Healing 12 Cures 3 EN / Pulse for 14 Pulses when triggered 24 hrs 2 Ft Y
Armour of Ithan 11 120 pts Damage ablative, before MR or Amour 12 hrs 2 Ft
Fire Armour 16 64 pts Damage ablative versus Fire 16 hrs Touch
Name ## Does stuff ?? hrs ?? Ft Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

Short Duration Buffs

Magic Rk Effects Dur Ft / Cast Dr J Row Ph Fl Ki SC Golems
Mind Speech ? Comunication for ?ft ? 2 Ft Sit Sit Sit Sit Sit Sit Sit
Blessing 10 +10 Strike Chance, +10 vs Fear 1 hr 50 mins 2 Ft Sit Sit Sit Sit Sit Sit Sit
Resistance to light 7 +16 MR vs light attacks 80 mins 1 Ft Sit Sit Sit Sit Sit Sit Sit
Resistance to Light 20 +42 MR vs light attacks - see in R20 Light 210 mins 1 Ft Sit Sit Sit Sit Sit Sit Sit

Calendar

Autumn: Fruit (4)

 MoondayDuesdayW'ansdayTh'rsdayFrysdayReapsdaySunday
  1 Guild Meeting 2  3  4  5  6 
7  8  9  10  11  12  13 
14  15  16  17  18  19  20 
21  22  23  24  25  26  27 
28  29  30