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Runtime Break start 4h 18m 1h 53m
Episode 108: Looming
Bell’s Hells (after being granted one of the highest responsibilities in the days to come) had intercepted via your (Imogen) mother psychically telling you of a meeting between (a Simulacrum of) Ludinus Da’leth, the Sorrowlord Zathuda, and the Unseelie Court in the Fey Realm to shore up and discuss the coming conflicts.
You then traveled to the Fey Realm to intercept this communication. You slowly destroyed all the guardians on the outside of the abandoned Arch Heart temple where they were having this meeting, and then stepped in to talk, and then ambushed them. A massive conflict ensued in which the structrure of the temple was heavily fractured, and then eventually set to collapse. With the Sorrowlord brought to near death, the emissary left onconscious as well, Ludinus’ simulacrum destroyed, and Gloamglut, the fey dragon, escaped through the temple roof as it collapsed. You all rushed to the exterior, with only most of you making it out. However, Imogen and Braius, who were left in the rubble, found themselves protected by some unseen force, and the crumbled temple reassembled itself and called you all into its sanctum. There, the (now restored statue of the) Arch Heart spoke to you as you were plucked from your current awareness and brought to the Arch Heart’s realm into communion with one of the gods of Exandria, the one that you saw in your vision of the fall of Aeor.
Here, you conversed. Here you were asking questions of each other, debating, and then eventually given a surprising message of intent from the Arch Heart. That the god (of beauty, art, arcana, and the fey) seems to believe that the time of the gods is done and wishes you all to be the harbingers of Predathos’ release, to chase the Pantheon away and begin a new age where mortals reign over their future.
As that vision came to a close, you all found yourselves set back into the sanctum of this Shrine of Gilded Gifts.
As you still process the moments that have just transpired, you glance around at this quiet space, at each other, and the two unconscious prisoners that you keep here.
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Highlights
Dorian:“Do you mean that the way I think–”
Imogen:“No, Braius. No.”
Fearne:“Like a sandwich.”
Braius:“When we played Spin the Bottle, I just felt like there was maybe something…”
Imogen:“There was nothing…you’re great.”
Travis:“Oof, the You’re Great.”
Modify MemorySam makes a joke about a samovar of wine and chicken cacciatore
Psychic LanceThe guard that falls is called Ademadon by the one still conscious.
Spirit of DeathRobbie:“Well…”
VA Lore
several of the CR cast did the English dubbing for characters in an animated series called Code Geass (pronounced like geese). Sam was Clovis la Brittania, Laura was Rakshata Chawla, Travis was Andreas Darlton, and Liam was Lloyd Asplund.
Fearne:“Okay, Negative Nancy.”
Braius:“No, that’s positive! That’s where I wanna go…Rents are crazy.”
Liam:“T-pose, please.”
Taliesin:“Too many moving parts.”
Travis walks off laughing loudly
Fearne:“I’m gonna cover my head.”
Imogen:“No, get out. You have hooves!”
Persuasionroll gets Ashley to hoot like a monkey.Sam:“Chimp stuff.”
INTERMISSION
Coasting across the fey horizon, you guide your (currently mounted) fey dragon, clutching half of your team and the corpse of Sorrowlord Zathuda in the direction of the Ligament Manor. Behind that, Dorian carrying the emissary atop your dragon horse. The third troop is being held by the bird form of Nana Morri (Morrigan, the Fatestitcher). Not quite knowing where to go, you pull back a little bit until Morri can lead the charge. An hour transpires (getting you to the Harrowcall Fens, the fey marshland where the Ligament Manor sits).
Following the stretched black feathered wings, of the Morrigan as she circles down atop a large reaching portion of the Harrowvall Fens canopy, you pull the dragon to follow and you shortly thereafter towards the treetop garden topiary that she has cultivated for quite some time. As you begin to circle and come to land amongst it, you can notice, the two of you for the first time, the extensive, hedgemaze-like experience here. Numerous overgrown hedge tops reach up to eight, 10, 12 feet tall. Fountains throughout the entirety of this beautiful (if slightly Tim Burton-esque garden). Numerous colorful flowers all turn and greet you as you begin to arrive. You can see little firebug-type glowing bits, or are they will-o-wisps? Too far to tell. Numerous stone statues and massive green sculptures of carved bushes in the shapes of people (whether they be dancing or reaching, just a beautiful expression of art in this somewhat dark and lively space).
A number of critters and creatures begin to skitter out from the nearby roots, brush, and branches to watch the arrival as Nana Morri scoots down and then plops her clutched payload down into the center of this central garden region. She flaps her wings twice and they shrink in quickly and she returns to her hunched, hulking hag form.
She steps off the side from the center stone plinth-like raised platform in the middle of the garden where you had previously had your awakening ritual of the Titan shards within you. There you (Dorian) land with your mount, and the dragon glances down, you can feel tension in it. In the vicinity of this space, you get a quick sense (especially with your psychic connection towards it) this has been previously considered to be a “Do Not Go Here” type of location within the Fey. An off-limits locale and Gloamglut just hovers.
Imogen:“You hear somethin’?”
Fearne:“I didn’t hear anything. God it’s beautiful here.”
Sam:“Are you a Russian asset?”
NM:“It’s good to have hobbies. Isn’t that right?”
Zathuda:“That’s right.”
Primal Savageryon top of it.Blood Magicis useful for bonding with dragons.Zaddy:“It’s an extermination squad. It’s an invasion. So the question is, who is going to strike first? And why are all the exaltants disappearing?”
Misty Step.”Dorian:“Oh, I absolutely saw it…”
Imogen:“Dorian, that shit was nasty.”
(continued)
Laura:“Damn the man, save the empire.”
Sam:“Geass it.”
Braius:“Oh, never. We’re on a mission to save the world.”
“If what is to come is inevitable, then chase the rest away, and we remain.”
Nanna Morri:“I’m in the Cherry Blossom Suite”
(reference to a game Date Everything that Robbie is part of)