To Catch A Fallen Star
Summary
Adventure: To Catch A Fallen Star
GM: Carl
Season: Oct 1990
- Party
- Shinji Donetello Wiccan Human Male Scribe
- Darien Shadow Human Male
- Lady Carla de Beurgenac Mind Human Female
- Spinner E&E Human Male
- Sowlean Mind Human Female
- Kilroy Rune Human Male Leader
- Phaeton Solar Human Male
- Employer
- Guild Rep
- Mission
- Investigate strange happenings near a meteor impact site
Scribe Notes - Summary
Plane
- Alusia/Akratz (an Alusian copy)
Places visited
- Gugnics Hope
- Village near Mt Brandon where meteorite landed
- Inside the meteorite
Major NPCs encountered
- John - villager
- Beatrice - village wisewoman
- A demon in the meteorite - The Guardian
30/06/90
Our mission was to find out about a bright light that swept across the sky and impacted near Mt Brandon. There were strange happenings in that area, such as the dead were rising and villagers disappearing
01/07/90
Prepared to leave
02/07/90
Rode out of Seagate and arrived at Gugnics Hope. That night, at the inn, some members of the party were involved in a bar fight. The party is split up.
03/07/90
Manage to be reunited. Some party members captive of the Watch. The remainder head back to the Guild.
04/07/90
Go back to Gugnics Hope with a Guild representative. Arrive that evening.
05/07/90
Guild rep negotiates with the Watch. Manage to get all the party released except one. We all pay fines.
08/07/90
The remaining member is to receive a flogging for ‘sinister habits’. The rest of us (except one) decide to leave.
13/07/90
Other two members catch up, on Wings.
14/07/90
Finally out of the forest and into the plains. Can see Mt Brandon in the distance.
16/05/90
Reach a village at the foothills of Mt Brandon. The wisewoman tells us that she saw the falling star land on the other side of the mountain and a couple of days later a man ran in yelling ‘Flee! Flee!’ Some people went to find the crash site but they never returned.
17/05/90
Head off to the village on the other side, near where the meteorite landed. An overfly shows it completely deserted. Crater is 300 metres from the village, in a patch of forest, and there is a dark rock, with purple and orange markings in it. Kilroy tries a visitation but, after a while his body vanishes.
Go to the crater and find a strange, yellow, tulip like flower. Can’t see it in a reflection. Then manage to spot it and everything goes dizzy...
Day 1=
Wake up at dawn. Noone else in sight. No sign of the flowers or the meteorite. Discover I’m on the plane of Akratz. All the rocks are magical - Greater Illusion. In fact everything is a Greater Illusion. Find Kilroy who had also beeb zapped by a strange plant. Discover that spells have altered effects. Get selective amnesia. The others turn up. Someone managed to disbelieve one of the illusions and saw a sandy plain with giant worms crawling around.
Reach the original village - with inhabitants. Later on, Spinner manages to ‘break through’ to the sandy plain and sees a tower in the equivalent location of Mt Brandon.
Day 2
We decide to head towards Mt Brandon then try to ‘break through’ to the tower. That night, get attacked by ‘flying puffer fish’. I managed to get ‘killed...’.
Day 3
Woke up in a cell surrounded by the bodies of my companions and those of the villagers. Everyone else in a very deep coma. Couldn’t wake them up. On the other side of the bars was a strange desk with several coloured knobs and tags. A strange person with two horns on his head and wearing a tailored black coverall with red and gold filgree plus a black cape entered the room. He wasn’t very communicative.
Kilroy then woke up. He discovered the stranger was some sort of demon and our spells were working normally. Started trying to bend the cell bars when the others woke up.
After I had left, the others returned to the village for resting then continued up the mountain. On the way Kilroy is ‘killed’. Managed to reach the tower and discovered it was some sort of monitoring station. They also found out that the meteorite was some sort of vehicle and was able to copy planes. This copy wasn’t going too well because of the presence of mana. There was a Guardian controlling the whole thing. Finally the party were transported to the Mercenaries Guild of Seagate.
This version is a lot more shabbier and unkempt than ours. Taken before Wogan (the equivalent of Wegan) then they are thrown in the cells pending execution. They try to escape and are ‘killed’.
Kilroy did another visitation and discovered several other rooms full of strange wonderous things. Sowlean squeezes through the bars and manages to open the cell bars. Encounter the ‘gentleman demon’. Tells us we are a threat and wants him and the meteorite left alone. He explains that the meteorite has the task of copying worlds but is having problems with this one because of the mana. He’s trying to fix it but that will take some time. He doesn’t want to attract the attention of the Guild. The villagers’ souls have been dissipated. Decide to move the meteorite to a more isolated area.
19/07/91?
Leave the meteorite and end up just outside the crater. Kilroy flies off to the Guild to get help to move the meteorite. Unfortunately the ‘help’ is ‘acquired’ by a ‘daffodil’ leaving the body in a coma. Attempts to communicate with the Guardian are unsuccessful.
An incubus also turns up and is also ‘acquired’. Looks like another demon has taken interest in the proceedings.
Suddenly we are all compelled to leave into the forest and are tied up. Once we’re free, the bodies and the meteorite have gone. What had happened was that Shinji had contacted a very powerful entity who had first sent the incubus, then instructed Shinji to move the meteorite and drop it down a very deep hole in the middle of a mountain range. The hole was sealed over. Find we’ve all got several curses and we make our way back to the Guild. Contact was made with the ‘entity’ that assured us that the meteorite is imprisoned and no longer a threat. Have the curses removed.
Scribe Notes - Details
This being the diary of Phaeton Tama, Solar Mage and novice adventurer.
30/06/90
We all assembled in the Guild meeting hall in order to find out what tasks awaited us. The one that sounded the most interesting was the story about a bright light that swept across the heavens and impacted somewhere to the west. Yes I'd certainly like a piece of that. So I volunteered for that mission and met my fellow adventurers.
- Shinji Donetello - a person dressed in dark blue (it looked black in the shadows) and looking
very mysterious. For some reason, he was wearing a face mask. He also had a falcon with him. He didn't give out much information about himself. I later found out (via the Guild Records) what he was but am not recording that information on his request. Darian - Like me, he was a member of the Celestial College but he was a Shadow Mage. Medium build and tall with dark clothing & cloak and a large, thin, sword.
- Lady Carla de Beurganac - a female, novice, mind mage. Tall and thin with wavy, blond hair and
well dressed.
- Spinner - an E&E mage. A weedy looking guy, short, cute and well presented.
- Sowlean - another female mind mage. Brown hair, short and skinny.
- Kilroy - this guy was obviously a rune mage as he was wearing strips of cloth with lots of
wooden sticks in it. His pockets were also bulging with food items (I later found out) and there were food stains on his tunic.
I introduced myself as Phaeton, a freshly graduated Solar Mage from the new College. I thought I cut a striking figure in my bright yellow tunic, sky blue trousers & rainbow cape.
Anyway we met the Guild rep in meeting room #2. He explained that the local Star Mage had tracked the path of the meteorite and it had landed somewhere near Mt Brandon. A messenger had come in from that area telling us about strange happenings in the vicinity. Our job was to go and investigate the situation. I resolved to get a small piece of the object for a souvenir.
