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| ==== Or' | ==== Or' | ||
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| + | ===== Session 73.26.10.17 ===== | ||
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| + | Takes place from 1869.3.23 - 4.22 | ||
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| + | === AI Summary === | ||
| + | === Act I — Or' | ||
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| + | * The session opens immediately after Or' | ||
| + | * Drift receives a letter from Covos thanking her for helping collect a soul long overdue. Drift gains a blessing that lets them reroll damage dice showing ones or twos. | ||
| + | * The party searches Or' | ||
| + | * Odri discovers that bonding with the staff would allow communication with the dead. Its presence resists further examination and suggests an appetite for conquest and control, so he initially keeps it without bonding. | ||
| + | * Doc, still in dragon form, burns Or' | ||
| + | * The party flies back to Nightmore to cheering crowds. Doc returns to his normal form and shares an emotional reunion with Ramses. | ||
| + | * They learn that the defense cost approximately 23 lives, largely from shades passing through fortifications. Doc asks that the fallen be recorded for the future memorial at Brave’s Landing. | ||
| + | * Ollie preserves the bodies until their families can attend the funerals. Nightmore celebrates the victory with a feast, music, dancing, and fireworks, while word goes out that evacuated families can safely return. | ||
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| + | === Act II — Planning the Next Campaign === | ||
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| + | * Doc contacts his sister, Rallah, and learns that their allies have secured the border. He asks her to bring the Sovereign to join preparations for the next campaign; they expect to arrive in about a week. | ||
| + | * Ollie proposes an expedition with the Night Sisters to recover the remaining treasures from Or' | ||
| + | * The party holds an initial council about confronting the Church at the Fortress of Light and freeing Mithras. | ||
| + | * Mithras can offer little intelligence beyond confirming that he remains caged in his lair within the mountain’s principal holy site. | ||
| + | * Jacq favors an overwhelming assault, but Ramses warns that artillery and magical warfare inside the inhabited mountain would cause extensive civilian casualties. | ||
| + | * The discussion develops three connected objectives: | ||
| + | * Free Mithras. | ||
| + | * Eliminate the Trinity. | ||
| + | * Win over Pale Riders who might support Mithras and the old faith. | ||
| + | * The party considers using unused Church favors to request an audience, infiltrating through a diplomatic visit, teleporting to familiar locations, or approaching from the air. Security restrictions and the fortress’s defenses complicate each option. | ||
| + | * They settle on gathering better intelligence from Anton and their contacts at the library before committing to an attack. The Sovereign’s diplomatic standing may provide another route inside. | ||
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| + | === Act III — Odri Bonds with the Staff === | ||
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| + | * During the days before the memorial, Odri and Ollie continue studying Or' | ||
| + | * They uncover its ability to raise an “Army of Darkness”: | ||
| + | * The party debates whether using the dead could spare living soldiers. They distinguish animating empty remains from imprisoning souls or killing people to create undead. | ||
| + | * Persuaded that it might serve as a useful tool, Odri **bonds** with the staff. | ||
| + | * Its presence immediately tries to overwhelm him. He resists, but learns that its greater powers will require further contests of will. | ||
| + | * He also discovers that demons and undead spirits created it to bring ruin upon the world. Breaking the bond—or moving too far from it—would require another struggle against its influence. | ||
| + | * The staff can function as a magical weapon without the same contest, but communicating with the dead or raising an army exposes Odri to its presence. | ||
| + | * Odri briefly collapses during the bonding, then explains what he has learned. He asks Ollie to intervene if he loses control. | ||
| + | * The group raises the possibility of destroying it, although the staff’s whispers claim that doing so lies beyond the world’s capabilities. Odri remains bound to it, increasingly aware of the danger he accepted. | ||
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| + | === Act IV — Honoring the Fallen === | ||
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| + | * Three days after the victory, Nightmore holds the funerals and memorial. | ||
| + | * The group establishes a local burial practice combining enclosed interment with returning bodies to nature: the dead are placed in hollows carved into trees, packed with nourishing material, and sealed inside. | ||
| + | * Families conduct individual burial ceremonies before gathering for a communal remembrance. | ||
| + | * Ramses reads the names of the fallen, thanks those who fought, and promises that the names will also appear on the memorial at Brave’s Landing. | ||
| + | * Doc follows with a brief address, describing their sacrifice as an important chapter in a story that is not yet finished. | ||
| + | * Gilbert and the clowns then turn the gathering into a wake, with music, shared memories, and at least 23 pies—one reflecting each fallen person’s favorite. | ||
| + | * Throughout the occasion, the staff tempts Odri with opportunities to speak to the dead, sharpening his unease about the bond. | ||
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| + | === Act V — The Sovereign Arrives === | ||
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| + | * The day after the memorial, Odri accompanies Ollie and several Night Sisters to Or' | ||
| + | * While they are away, Doc uses Nightmore’s magical surveillance apparatus to observe the Fortress of Light. He sees regular train traffic, flying riders, and military supply movements, but cannot see inside the mountain. | ||
| + | * Several days later, the Sovereign arrives in Nightmore with Rallah, Frankie, and a small entourage. Doc arranges an honor guard and formal welcome. | ||
| + | * Rallah and Jacq promptly slip away together, leaving the others to handle the initial briefing. | ||
| + | * Doc updates the Sovereign on Or' | ||
| + | * The Sovereign supports removing the Trinity and freeing the city. She also recognizes that victory would ease the eventual advance into the Twilight Wilds. | ||
| + | * Doc explains the party’s intelligence resources, including the Dark Library and the secret surveillance device, then demonstrates the latter to the Sovereign and a limited group. | ||
| + | * Frankie confirms that her operatives can get their entire train into the fortress station without close inspection. | ||
| + | * The Sovereign proposes bringing the soldiers and equipment inside aboard the train while a smaller group investigates covertly. If negotiations or infiltration fail, their armed support will already be in position. | ||
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| + | === Act VI — Recovery, Rearmament, and the Final Council === | ||
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| + | * Over the following two weeks, the allies prepare troops and equipment while Doc gives the Sovereign a fuller account of Mithras’s history and their work at Nightmore and Brave’s Landing. | ||
| + | * The Sovereign takes an interest in Jacq’s industrial achievements and the possibility of improving production and finding elderite deposits in her own territory. | ||
| + | * At Or' | ||
| + | * The expedition returns with approximately a train car’s worth of artifacts and supplies. Ollie continues studying the recovered collection. | ||
| + | * At the final council, Frankie reiterates that getting the loaded train into the station is secure; the remaining question is what people and equipment to bring. | ||
| + | * The party favors capable volunteers and strong equipment suited to fighting inside an inhabited mountain, rather than indiscriminate destruction. | ||
| + | * Odri recognizes that the staff could jeopardize an infiltration. He resolves not to let it endanger the mission, even if that means attempting to break the bond. | ||
| + | * Ramses explains that rallying sympathetic Pale Riders will depend heavily on how Doc reveals himself. Building support district by district could help, but would take time and risk exposing their intentions. | ||
| + | * The group clarifies the fortress’s enormous scale: its districts lie inside the mountain, linked by rail, trams, and footpaths. The surveillance device cannot substitute for interior maps or local intelligence. | ||
| + | * The expedition’s roster includes 40 Night Sisters, 100 selected soldiers, the Sovereign and her accompanying staff, Jacq, Rallah, Ramses, Ollie, and the party. The recovered artifacts will travel with them. | ||
| + | * The session ends before departure, with the library as their first intended stop inside the Fortress of Light. After speaking with Anton, they will decide which objective to pursue first: freeing Mithras, striking the Trinity, or rallying the Pale Riders. | ||
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