Day 25

• It’s 5am, we’re walking through a cave with Daphne (currently possessing Cecil)
• Daphne asks: who maintains the facilities, we tell her that it’s abandoned.
• “Its one location that can access the divine. So who is accessing
• Abjuration barrier keeps the “Effects” of the guysers contained. It also keeps the entities in the pool
• ABILITY CHECKS- +1d4
• We round the corner and find ourselves in a wood paneled room, stone doors with the eye of the Martus
• There are half a dozen constructs in the room, look semi- humanoid. They come to life
• I read the prayer from the stone, the construct asks about how we came to worship martus. We are welcomed to the Sanctum of the Witness
○ Under no circumstances can we past the barrier
○ We get into the pool, floating in the center of the pool are two bodies (not moving)
• Daphne runs into the pool, breaking the barrier, the constructs attack
• Daphne leaves Cecil’s body, expanding above him, saying a prayer in Chacledon.
• There’s something swimming beneath the surface.
• A brown zombie emerges, it’s been here a while… [Cecil?]
• A school of carnivorous fish show up and attack Cecil too
• Something else is swimming under the water? Some undead fish creature?
• Daphne channels a vision from Martus to us
○ There’s an unfamiliar cargo vessel, gaunt people speaking archaic sheffan with celestial, one word is strangely obscured, we hear a different word in it’s place, “wanderer”
○ One of them steps out into space, disappearing and sending the ship towards its destination.
• An ancient construct appears in the pool
• Diaphanous Daphne provides us another vision
○ We see a circle of mages chanting around a circle of ruins. They’re invoking a name which is obscured
○ They’re doing a summoning ritual, trying to drain magic from the creature in the center, maybe that’s why we can’t hear the name.
○ The shadows emit an indigo glow
• We get another vision
○ The corpse of an angel, has a beak and wings of an albatross. It’s not an angel of the twins
○ It’s in an elliptical orbit around the twins. We hear the pulsing song of the void song being, angels eyes open with the indigo light
• Another vision!
○ We see the laboratory we discovered on Tefesia, the braziers are lit, tubs are bubbling, a corps imbedded with shards of crystal, has a circlet on it. It’s garth, speaking with a different voice
• Twilinger Cecil is curious about who we are and what we’re doing here.
• We don’t mention the cash bounty.
• Yilosia lets the snake touch the water. The ophidian aspect of the twin sisters accept the sacrifice of the snake (“All snakes go to sneven”) There is a moment of hissing.
• Water has swirling golden essence.
• Rikavon discloses that they’re afraid of water.
• Bramble jumps into the water, then gets visions of Martus’ divine retribution, nearly dies but makes it to the other side
• Cecil jumps in, makes it to the other side, points at Bramble and says “What are you doing in this sacred place” looks confused.
• Yilosia casts bless on herself, Rikavon and myself.
• Rikavon dives under, has a vision of the celestial realm.
• I roll 20- 1d4 to ability checks.
• Cecil calls themselves Daphne, a guardian of the pool, Rikavon casts charm person, gets them to calm down.
• Rikavon asks Daphne if she knows anything about the daughter of Martus
○ Prophecy Martus will send a daughter to the worlds to unite the followers o all the gods against a greater threat.
• Daphne- There was an accident with on of the geysers. Daphne is a ghost.
• Rikavon asks about the greater threat
• Daphne doesn’t know about the void, so she’s over 1000 years old.
• A mud elemental awakens and flies down towards us.
• Another elemental appears, I kill one
• Another appears
• We get away after killing 3/4 elementals.
• We’re about 2 hours from the pools.
○ They’re protected by an abjuration barrier.
○ There’s an antechamber
• Eskaton Engine- “That’s not for locals to know.”
• Portalis- may be related to the prophecy? “We’re not aware of the full extent of when or where when the daughter would arrive.”
• Twins Eye is the stone of the Prelate for this planet
○ Find our way to their office. It’s always in the possession of the Prelate.
• We break it Daphne that she’s dead.
• Would like to see the pools one last time
• Daphne starts singing the prayer that we found, Jacques and Kito sing along and Bramble plays the lute
• We walk for two hours.
• We see a warm golden light at the end of the tunnel
The gate is opening, harmonic planar distortions will increase in frequency and amplitude, this is unavoidable but will throw off the logistics of our enemies
• Combat continues! We win!
Cecil gives a potion to Isabel to bring her back up
• Enier and Isabell had visions while in the water
○ Enier- A hill, with sending stone around it with a woman addressing a crowd (gold, green gown.) There’s a spaceport at the bottom filled with organic looking ships. The woman is speaking - this reminds us of Bluestone Green and gold are the colors of Martus.
• Jacques heals everyone, Enier and Isabell tell us their hunt. “To find the prophecy this place is made for and to bring it back to the publishing house” Isabell’s quest: “Repair the elevator to the pools”– These are absolutely their quests? The snake goddess is proselytizing for another god?
○ Either they are great at lying, the Twin’s priorities have shifted drastically, or something else gave them the quest.
○ Isabel does not feel like her quest isn’t complete yet.
• We throw the robot carcasses in front of the door and bed down.
• Ylosia spreads spores of harmony in the pool room.
• Cecil has a lot on his mind. The twins are asleep
○ Cecil found true faith from Daphne. “It moved me to make a confession.” He pulls out a pendant of a stone carving of a shark. Bramble has a more stylized version of it (from the mercenary group). Carried by the Zelnor Mercenary Company. Sent by the Transit society
○ Cecil was hired to rescue the twins from a team sent by someone who collaborates, but does not trust. (Kel sent us)
○ Cecil doesn’t want us to return the twins to whatever drop-off has been set.
• What to do with the twins?
○ Take them to the drop off with Kel Brightmoon
○ Leave them to complete their hunt? Help them finish their hunt?
○ Let them go with Cecil, who is working with the Transit Society
○ Take them somewhere? New School, Reformed school, home?
• Cecil has been told that the twins are in danger if they fall into the hands of Kel Brightmoon. The Transit Society is working with another organization that is interested in the Twins
• We offer to take them to the New School.
• I get a vision before I fall asleep
○ Floating through space, warmed by the light of the suns. No vessel around me, but I don’t feel like I’m dying. The thrum of the void song is felt through my bones. I’m in an orbit that will intersect with the Albatross Angel. I’m moving at an “alarming” speed, all alone. Time slows, the void song beings to become
○ The angel speaks to me “We have an opportunity to change this work for the better. Forces are agitating against the forces of the Sheffa expanse. On the way we can find the Twin’s eye” I accepted the angel’s pact.
• We wake up! It’s about 2 pm
○ What do we know about the tablet? Edir: It’s prophetic. The ofidian aspect said there would be a lot of copies of the same text and we just need to get one and bring it to the publishing house on Devorats.
• We walk out into the antechamber. It’s a very different room. Yilosha knows that the room were disguised with illusory magic. There are pits with spikes on either side of the door that we could have fallen into
○ We find another archway leading to another elevator
○ Bramble finds a tablet with archaic musical notations on it and Chalcedon script . Bramble plays it and it sounds familiar.
§ It’s documentation
○ I get my tablet back
○ We find the clay tablets with ancient Chalcedon
○ We find some flakes from gemstones (invaluable spell component) Given to the busty gemstone dust
○ I hold onto the signet ring
• We disassemble the robots and help Isabel fix the elevator (6 hours)
○ She says this is her great hunt, but it doesn’t look like she’s completed her quest.
• We all get into the elevator and start heading up!
• We travel up the elevator, traveling up. It’s a rougher ride than the last elevator we went up.
• Cecil is talking to the twins about taking them to the Transit society
○ This is where the Alchemists said we should go to Tsedamt Tavern of the Red Rose. Ask for Woodcarver”
• Jacques removes the crow from Kito’s head. Kito hears “Don’t worry, I’m still here.”
○ Jacques thinks that the New School might have more info on this (But that would mean that we have to see Kel Brightmoon again…)
○ Ylosia thinks this might help us find the Witch of the Wanderer
• We approach a farmhouse near the tunnel. We get a ride into town from
• We get dropped off at the Central Administrative Offices.
○ Comrade Tethera meets us, with someone else (we met her at the Spaceport)
○ On the way in we notice that the population is building choke points and barricading buildings.
○ Comrade Tethera has heard word
○ Corps traders on Goen- A ship showed up asking to do some business with the gemstone vaults. The ship was a false flag operation and they accessed other vaults that weren’t there own.
○ I cast Comprehend Languages. We end up providing a copy to the printing house. I provide a 99% accurate translation
1. As the peoples of the Witness and the Standing Circles prepare engines of destruction, the Witness has sent an envoy to the people of the Standing Circles.
2. This envoy shall deliver to the people of the Standing Circles a message of peace, unity, and the coming strife.
3. The engines of destruction are humbled in the shadow of the coming strife.
4. The danger approaches from a throne beyond the orbits.
5. This throne beyond the orbits has bled the ichor from a forgotten fellow traveller and shall bleed the ichor once again.
6. This throne beyond the orbits sings the corrupting harmonies of the cold empty dark.
7. As the throne beyond the orbits seeks to bleed the ichor once again, the corrupting harmonies of the cold empty dark shall rise in crescendo.
8. In unity, the peoples of the Witness, the Twin Sisters, and the Standing Circles can still the corrupting harmonies of the cold empty dark.
9. Without unity, the corrupting harmonies of the cold empty dark shall rise to become a clamour of death and undeath.
10. The Witness, the Twin Sisters, and the spirits of the Standing Circles speak with one voice in the face of this coming strife.
○ Enier gets a flash of red and gold lights and believes that his quest is complete
• Tsedamt has some supernatural thing that protects them from the war.
• We take off!
We pass an ice covered planet and keep on going.