Unruly Sonne

Summary

Adventure: Unruly Sonne
GM: William
Session: Autumn 815wk
Night: Monday
Location Chez Ellis
Level: High
Party:

Bishop Velcanthus - a human Wiccan/Rune priest of Chantris - Jim Arona - the Scribe
Sabrina - a Valkyrior Namer/Warrior & Chooser of the Slain - Dean - the Military Scientist
Viola - an Illusionist pacted to Loki, reformed so they say - Bridget
Eric - a dwarf Namer/Warrior & unreformed - Mike Haycock - the Party Leader
Grendel - a human Sorceror of the Mind/Water Mage/Warrior pacted to Itimanuka - Simon White
Kern - an elf Earth Mage/Warrior pacted to Gupti - Chris

Employer: Kali the Nameless and may Chantris keep us safe, Corel the Idiot

Briefing

Yea, and it came to pass that we didst rise yesterday morn to find no sun upon the horizon. And, though we consulted with the omens, portents, oracles, pythonesses and sybils, yet did we find no other answer but that "the Darkness is coming", which, given that the sun hadn't made an appearance, hadst none of the odour of mystic foreseeing that astudying of the skysigns would be expected. Cometh thou to the Guild, saith they, see great wonders, saith they, learn new and powerful things that will bring the light of Chantris even to the ignorant savage, saith they...

Summary:

Scribe Notes

Session 1

1st Fruit

9:00 am

So, the following day, if it be called that without a sun to mark the borders of the night, attended we the Guild Meeting that we might speak the one with the other, and from this speaking, hopeth we that understanding wouldst come forth. But, so sooner than we hadst sat but that Kali the Nameless and Corel the Idiot appeareth before us, acrying that we must all make our way unto three great portals, there to be whisked into hideous danger that we might bring light and hope to prevail against everlasting darkness.
So, didst we rise and take ourselves into them, not without grave reservation given that such instruction cometh forth from Corel, and he hath raised bumbling, yea, unto the level of a Professional Skill. And didst we wonder if this were but some ruse to gain a Master Rank. But, we didst hide our concerns and with a willing mien.
Forasmuch as the Air Flying spell was working, we didst not instantly plummet to our death, from our position on high, we didst see a floating, glowing green ziggurat about 60 feet wide at the base and about 150 feet high, drifting several hundred feet off the ground. It was surrounded by 7 orbiting obsidian spikes, and this was upon our right. Before us and facing away, we didst see a party of artillerists working upon a trebuchet, arming it with barrels of deepest necromantic green. And, finally, to our left didst we see a three-headed dragon the colour of evil which we identified as Bune, the Dragon Duke. We calculated the dragon as the most serious threat, and, it being a tenth of a mile away, advanced upon it at flank speed.
After we had covered three hundred feet, two of the dragon's heads cast, and a pair of undead dragon minions countermoved toward us, so that before we had covered 100 feet, they were upon us. The other head breathed a cloud of evil blackness which assailed the spirit and driveth out hope, but we shook off the despair. Sabrina eschewed the minions as mere distractions and advanced upon Bune, while Kern and Eric engaged one each. Viola, mounted on her bird, closed from the rear so that she might cast Banishment and send it back to whence it came, while Grendel and I rained fire upon them.
And it transpired, much to our sorrow, that these diabolical creatures were native unto the Plane of Alusia so that they couldst not be banished, and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but we resolveth to slay them all and then wail and gnash afterwards.
Chantris was with me, for while Eric didst prevent the minion from threatening me, particularly holy bolts of Hellfire fell from mine eyes and sought it out. So intense were the flames that the rancid flesh and rotting blood of the beast sublimated into a searing ball of superheated offal, and Eric and I were thrown about the sky. Well, I was thrown about the sky, Eric just rose a little higher.
In the meantime, Kern, Viola and Grendel had assailed the other minion, but its armour was steely. It seemed that Grendel's Hellfire might have done the most damage, but it was definitely not being Banished. Kern had bravely clambered onto the beast's back, and was slashing at it's back and neck, looking for a weak point.
In the mean time, Sabrina had confronted Bune, and grown to be a seven hex creature, and she didst belabour it with much pain and suffering. Indeed, they exchanged titanic blows and Barretskyne rang with the grim sound of their battle. The jaws of one of Bune's heads became unhinged, and it threw this gaping maw over Sabrina so that she was trapped somewhat inside it. Fearlessly, Sabrina used a Warrior's stratagem, drove some sharp pointy weapon like thing into the demon's palate, and slid free as it shook its head to dislodge this needle-like splinter. Dragon and Chooser of the Slain exchanged blow after mighty blow until the ground itself trembled.
In the sky, the rest of us concentrated upon the last minion, but one of Bune's heads uttered a Word of Power which tore at our living flesh, threatening to slay us like unto the Whirlwind Vortex spell, but our resolve held and none of us succumbed. Again, we worked upon the minion even as Bune didst strive against Sabrina and Prepare yet another Word. But, on this occasion, Sabrina didst, within an Emerald amulet, trap the Word delivering us from its working. Soon, the minion fell to our assault, whereupon we moved straightway to the demon in support of Sabrina, who barely needed it, really. Eric didst command that we should spread wide, that we might limit the effectiveness of magic that targeteth a volume or many folk, and this proved strikingly wise in the moments to come. Grendel eschewed mighty blows, and instead drew forth an estoc of sinister aspect. For, though it didst but middling harm, yet it assaileth the inner strength of of our foe, thus to weaken it against magic.
Eric and Sabrina delivered stone-shattering blows against the demon, whose reserves seemed endless. Kern looked for places where its armour seemed weakest, while Viola kept watch. After a particularly powerful pair of blows from Eric, yet another head, one that we had but little to do with, cast an Necrosis enhanced to Ranks in excess of 40 upon me, Eric and Grendel. And, but for the way that Eric and Sabrina were keeping the beast focused upon them on the ground, it would have moved to engage me, intuiting a degree of antipathy in me. And, I didst say in the quite places of my thoughts, "Bugger".
Even as we assailed it, the ground beneath the demon's feet didst take on an unwholesome glow the colour of murder, as if it had cast the Smoking Magma spell beneath it. The Necrosis Casting head swiveled over to the other side of the field of battle, and whereupon the flesh of Viola, Kern and Sabrina erupted into wounds, or it wouldst have, but that they shook it off.
Again, Chantris was with me, and she didst lend unto me a great torrent of fire which fell upon the Necrosis Casting head, which hung senseless from its neck. Whereupon, Bune fled the battle, slipping into the molten rock he had been creating. I didst try to summon him back as an Enchanted Creature, seeing that he was now a native creature of Alusia, but either it worketh not or Bune resisted.
Eric didst commnd of us to loot but we couldst find little so we didst gather ourselves up and hied us to the trebuchet, where we found that the artillerists had fled the scene. We rose upon the wind and investigated the floating, glowing green ziggurat, and upon investigating further, discovered that the floating obsidian spikes didst serve in some wise to give to support to the creature within. And, when we didst check the aura of the spikes to discover the name of the creature within, we found it to be "Ick", that vile singular entity that createth super-doppelgangers to infiltrate the elves of Elfheim, and worked such mischief within the Ministry of War (Legion's End).
Sabrina didst from her pack take out specially enhanced invested Web spells, and by entangling the orbiting spikes, didst force them to fall onto the ziggurat to shatter. So, didst we enter of this structure, and we didst speak with the vile Ick, and it seemeth that it didst but wait to discover the outcome of Nightfall, whereupon it would scavenge a new universe to take over from the remains. And Sabrina fell upon the vile thing, uttering the Word of Power that teareth flesh from flesh, bone from bone, sinew from sinew and nerve from nerve. Yea, and though it didst bring about the destruction of the Ick flesh, so also did it destroy the floating, glowing green ziggurat that would have been a proud monument to the glory of Chantris, and there was a moment of wailing at the wholly unecessary loss of loot. For two hours.

Elevenses

And as we didst speak with each other over whose fault it was that had brought such destruction about to a perfectly fine floating, glowing green ziggurat, a Chooser of the Slain appeared unto us, saying that Asgard had need of us, and to follow her on high.
And we didst discover when we were in that place, that Loki had thrown a party where he had passed around such sweetmeats as would pique the palate and expand the mind and that one should but nibble of it slowly otherwise the top of thy head might turn orange and explode into green and purple plumes of smoke and sparkles. And, it seemeth that all of those who had attended the party had turned into animals. Given the nature of the Norse gods and goddesses, and given the nature of any comestible at a party given by Loki, a veil of decency is drawn.
It seems that SÃ³l, the Norse goddess of the sun, didst more than but nibble. It seemeth that she didst take of an unseemly large amount of Loki's cate, turning into a cat of 20 feet, tail to nose, and didst get chased up Yggdrasil by Fenrir. So, didst we agree that we would rescue the treed cat.
First, didst Kern speak unto Fenrir and he didst promise to bring SÃ³l down from the tree so that he wouldst let us pass. Then didst we climb unassaulted. Soon, we found the giant cat, and we didst speak with her whereupon she didst agree to return with us. So, Viola didst Cast her special version of the Mirror Image spell, while Eric returned her to her True Form. She appeared unto us as a beautiful blonde woman, but she had a wound caused by a long, slender blade, like unto the weapon of an assassin. I investigated the wound and found that it was poisoned with a bane to prevent healing. I tried to cure the poison, but it was beyond my Skill. Eric, however, dressed the wound with a special potion, the which cleansed it, whereupon the goddess regenerated. SÃ³l told us that Garn, a frost giant she had been "spending time" with at Loki's party, must have been the one to wound and poison her.
The poison was a kind of blade venom which they that know such things recognise as the work of the Calimari. In any case, Viola directed several of the Mirror Image cats down the tree to distract Fenrir, and after he had chased them away, we descended.

Session 2

And we spake among ourselves, the one with the other, and we opined that we shouldst journey unto a ship near the sun that SÃ³l knew of, and that we might get to this ship by means of the Elven Ways. And SÃ³l spake unto us, saying that she hadst been told that she shouldst not venture unto the Elven Ways, but when we asked of us wherefore not, she couldst not answer because she hadst never gone there, having abided by the counsel. So, we didst decide that we wouldst bear SÃ³l with us and protect her e'en in the darkness below.
And, we didst speak unto Lord Odin and tell him of our plan, and he saith unto us "It be a very bold plan". It seemeth that that the Norse word for our common term "bold" is passing like another Norse word which meaneth "arse-stupid". But, we didst not know this at the time.
Quickly determining that any entry into the Elven Ways were surpassingly dangerous, we didst fly unto Alfheim, there to take entrance at the portal under Eidolon.
So, we didst travel into the Elven Ways, and they were as dark as they always were, but there didst seem to be a black vein of living stone in the paving, for it responded to Empathy.
And, as we made our way to the Inn of the Elven Ways, a darksome creature taller than 3 strong men, with tentacles where a mans arms might be, and a maw that openeth wide enough to swallow a draft horse gaped from its head to the middle of its belly.
Sabrina immediately moved to engage it, growing as she did, but it breathed out a cloud of imps which assaileth the rest of us. Kern interposed himself between the imps and SÃ³l, while the rest of us prepared spells.
Thanks be to Chantris, but the imps caused but little harm, Viola's Mirror Images absorbing substantial amounts of damage, and we didst assail them with Hellfire, Flashes of Light, Telekinetic Rage and mighty blows, so that soon the imps fell away, were crushed or destroyed. And, indeed, Grendel's Telekinetic Rage was funneled into a cone shaped projection, and while Sabrina didst not succumb to it, the large creature, a manifestation of purest terror fell into the darkness of the Ways and we saw it no more.

Luncheon

So, didst we make our way to the Inn of the Ways, and it was an empty place, with none else but us there. And, we spake unto the innkeeper and described unto him the fell beast Grendel had forced into the spaces between realms, and we saith unto him that it was a soulless thing, and he saith unto us, "Well, then, you shouldst drink of this that you not to succumb", yea and I took him at his word and quaffed of the black potion, only to find that it seeketh to eat of my soul, the better to make me immune to the touch of mortal terror. And, all within me didst recall and I didst vomit it up and go white about the lips.
And, it became clear that the drink, even though my soul be specially protected, yet was it reduced by 1 in 50, but Eric remarked that he hadst a remedy for ills of this nature.
And, it turneth out that this drink is the favourite of Drow. But, it seemeth that the inn no longer enjoyed the custom of travelers, and we opined that this might be because many of them drank of the black potion. And, the innkeeper didst speak of something very old that others had mentioned liveth now in the ways. While we didst bicker among ourselves, Grendel didst speak with the innkeeper who revealed that he didst know the place where the ship we sought didst lie, and she didst share his vision of it.
So, didst we travel into the ways, all of us concentrating on the innkeeper's image of the ship, until we came unto a blank wall of night. And, it seemeth that the Mother of Night didst lie across our path, abarring our way out. And her fell voice could be heard upon the darkness, saying "Hast though brought the offering?"
And, we checked of our pockets and findeth that not one of us hadst brought of an offering, and we were about to ask of the darkness what didst she mean by "offering" when it came to us that she didst mean SÃ³l. So, didst we attempt to flee, bending our wills to hie us to Eidolon. But the Mother of Night's will was too great, and we found the way bending us back to everlasting night. Can't remember how we got away from Nyx. Anyone?
So didst we return to Eidolon where we didst speak with a bumptious elf, whose face I have memorised and placed into a crystal, that I might recollect him from time to time, for he saith unto Kern that a mortal woman sought counsel with us. And Kern didst ask how this mortal woman be yclept, and the bumptious elf didst retort "Thou shouldst not name the mortals, for then thou dost have to look after them", which be a conversation that I will not soon forget.
But, didst he take us with poor grace unto a sister of Dissonance, who said that she spake unto us with the voice of one that some of us knew but who is now great beyond our wise. And, we didst nod wisely, for she didst strike a dissonant interval upon a xylophone and say "Lo" for no obvious reason. And the speaker for the Defiler didst ask of us a boon that we bring down the President and Lord of Seekers. But, we didst demur, for Eric once had dealings with the wight, and had parted from him on good terms. But, more tellingly, the Fates had, in a previous adventure, mentioned that he and four other lords of evil must be survive to Nightfall. And, we didst not wish to draw the ire of these great ladies, for they have long memories and vindictive imaginations. Yea, and we spake with the sister and told her of our plan to take SÃ³l with us to find the ship of the sun, there to set it back alight.
And, she didst fall about laughing. Really, in a most unseemly way.

Afternoon Tea

So, we didst fall to counsel again and came to the conclusion that we needs must find a ship that saileth upon the night that we might make our way unto the sun. Grendel and I railed strongly that we should fall upon the Calamari and commandeer their vessel from their rotting, light bestrewn corpses. But Sabrina didst worry that they might offend against her make up and demurred. So didst Eric, for beneath his doughty exterior, his heart be that of a mouse. As for Kern and Viola, I think that they had lost track of the plan or possibly fallen asleep. In any case, it seems that the elves have ships of their own which ply the seas between the signs of the sky, but that we wouldst have to give it back unto the elven navy. So, it was with a heavy heart that Grendel and I abandoned our plan and Kern didst speak with those elves known unto him who could arrange such things.
Then did we rise into the sky in a ship of crystal and saileth sunwards. It was a quiet trip which would take but a little time.

2nd Fruit

Indeed, four and twenty hours passeth in travel when we surprised by a great beak like thing smashed through the ship and seized SÃ³l, bearing her up and away through the shattered hull. Even though we didst try to follow after, we couldst not gain upon a bird-shaped darkness we surmised to be the Dark Phoenix, raised by the Immortal Marquis with the assistance of the Valiant Marquis. And by the arts of those that couldst see into other realms, we realised that we couldst never catch up by means of distance, SÃ³l having been borne to another realm.
Lo, but Grendel didst spy a great portal, and by mystic glances, we didst determine that it passeth into Hell, so we didst follow in the hopes of finding SÃ³l.

Dinner (missed)

And we didst fall into a dire realm, that of the Immortal Marquis. And it was a realm of souls bound by chains against a precipitous cliff, their flesh being torn and devoured by diabolical buzzards and vultures. Below us, we didst see an incandescence, whereas above us we didst see a fortress. Upon the chance that the incandescence was the trapped SÃ³l, we didst fall to them, where we didst see a forlorn hope of fire elementals who brought fiery devastation to Phenex' garrison. And, we didst take counsel with the biggest fire elemental who was not at the front of the attack and we didst ask of him what brought his unit to this place.
And, he saith unto us that they didst but charge unto the evil of diablery and lay waste unto them and that they hadst been occupied in this "plan" for as much as a season. Or more, for it quickly became obvious that, though mighty in combat, the fire elementals couldst only count upon their fingers, and they have but three on each hand. And, it seemeth that they had no more "plan" than to keep charging in this direction until their flames guttered.
So, didst we ask them to charge back the way that they hadst previously charged, that they might bear such intelligences of their travels to the elemental lords at the gates of Hell. And, they didst agree to this action, for, to their eyes, this seemeth a most cunning strategy. And we didst but sigh. So, while the elementals didst make their way back the way they hadst come, we raised our gaze to the fortress above us, and we didst espy such devils that flew and served as warning for the fortress.
Yea, and we rose on high, but flyest we down crannies and narrow ways in the mountainside under Kern's advice, that we might fall upon Phenex' sentry devils from a great height and unawares. And, so it came to pass that we didst visit destruction upon them so fast that we were inside the fortress before the entrails of the first devil didst hit the ground. Where, inside a hall, we found a grotesque avalanche of pallid, dimpled flesh. And, he saith unto us "You have come to late, we have extinguished the sun, and now we have one of its gods. Your worlds will die in darkness and despair!" And we didst quail as convincingly as we knew how and we didst beg of it to spare us the knowledge of our oncoming doom. And, he didst laugh and say "Even as I speak, the goddess SÃ³l lies at my master's mercy". Yea, and we didst cry out, agnashing of our teeth and awailing "No, it cannot be, we canst not believe that SÃ³l shouldst have fallen to such hideous jeopardy. By our hope of redemption, spare us the knowledge of SÃ³l place of entrapment" and it didst take us to a place outside the hall wherein it suppurated like a leprous open wound, apointing to a gate and saith "She lies beyond that gate, mortal scum". And we didst gnash of our teeth and wail yet more. And, it occurreth to me that it was just as well he had engaged in so much practice earlier.
Yea, and we saith unto his obesity "What more evil can you have done to us, bringer of despair? You have crushed our spirits and assaileth our hearts!" and he calleth out "Know ye that Raging Inferno be held in the darkest pit of Naberius' dungeon, there to wallow in helpless defeat?", and we saith back to it "No, but why shouldst we care if an elemental lord be held in durance vile?" And his immenseness saith unto us "Know ye not that only Raging Inferno mayest light again the sun?" And we didst make reply unto it, saying "We kneweth it not, O great wrinkling paleness. Which pit wouldst this be?" Yea, and he told unto us the place where he be prisoned.
So didst we thank him for his assistance and gird of our loins.

Notes for the Times

What's Hot & What's Not
Hot	Not
Emerald Amulets	Words of Power
Jasper Amulets	Draining

Jammiest Bastard: Sabrina - Catching Bune's flesh eating Power Word in an Emerald Amulet and then using it on the flesh monster, Ick

Stupidest Adventurer

Smartest Adventurer: Eric - Spreading out before engaging Bune, which meant he could only cast Necrosis on half the party at a time

Bravest Adventurer: Viola - Advancing into melee range to Banish undead demonic dragons and Bune

Best Death

Intelligence

Entities Encountered

Bune - The Dragon Duke, a practitioner of Necromantic Conjurations and utterer of Words of Power, he is a three-headed dragon the colour of evil. His breath is despair and darkness.
SÃ³l - The Norse goddess of the sun, who is very blonde.
Fenrir - A Great Beast, who represents the calamity of winter and hungers for the sun. A dire wolf of enormous size, who is not at all blonde, really.
Unnamed - the innkeeper of the Inn of the Ways
Unnamed - an elf messenger who may experience a career shift to a torch
Unnamed - a sister of Dissonance with a xylophone and a laugh, both grating

Buffs & Mil Sci

Long Term (assumed always on)

Magic (caster)	Rk	Effects	Dur	FR	Er	Gr	Ke	Sa	Vi
Rune Shield (FR)	12	+17 Def, +3 Prot, avoid a SG	13 hrs
Cat's Eyes (FR)	6	Night Vision 110 ft	7 hrs
Armour of Earth (Ke)	20	+42 Def, absorb 1 DP/Strike	10.5 hrs
Heart Rune (FR)	8	Cures 7 EN when EN taken	9 days
Willow Healing (FR)	12	Cures 3 EN / Pulse for 14 Pulses	24 hrs
Mind Cloak (FR)	10	Conceals thoughts & pact, + 30 vs compel, charm etc	21 hrs
Mind Shield (Gr)	13	Conceals thoughts, + 36 vs Mental Attack	30 hrs
Waterproofing (Gr)	7	All people and items (that are needed to be) waterproofed	21 hours / 40 days (items)
Waterbreathing(Gr)	13	Breath water / see through magical fog	14 hrs
Strength of Stone (Ke)	20	+20 PS or EN	21 hrs	EN	EN	EN	EN	EN	EN
Disguise (Vi)
Rune Weapon(FR)	10	+(D-5) + 4 burning damage	15 minutes
Magic (caster)	Rk	Effects	Dur

Short Term

Magic (caster)	Rk	Effects	Dur
Blessing (FR)	10	+10 SC, +10 vs Fear	110 mins
Invisibility (Vi)
Magic (caster)

Sabrina Mil Sci: Ring of Command (while worn) - +11 SC, Defense and Melee IV; Martial Hymn (while singing) - +40 SC, Powers of Light gain +2 Damage, 1/pulse regeneration; Horn of Battle (when sounded once in battle) - +10 WP for allies, OR, -10 WP for enemies

Military info for the Bishop

Watch Order:

Senses:

Bishop Velcanthus - Rk 20 Witchsight, Cat's Eyes 110' Rg (Because the vision is monochromatic it does not enable Detect Aura, needs some light), can see into proximate planes/dimensions, Spirit Vision 150 ft, see living and undead things through mists/rain/dust clouds/etc but not Rk 20 Darkness, can see in Rk 20 Light.

Marching Order:

Calendar

Autumn 815wk: Fruit (4)
	Moonday		Duesday		W'ansday		Th'rsday		Frysday	Reapsday	Sunday
	Lugnasad		1	Guild Meeting We are hurled into Barretskyne, then Asgard and then the Elven Ways	2	We are hurled into space and then Phenex' realm in Hell	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		1		2	3	4
Autumn 815wk: Harvest (5)
	5		6		7		8		9	10	11
	12		13		14		15	Equinox	16	17	18
	19	Harvest Moon	20		21		22		23	24	25
	26		27		28		29		30	1	2
Autumn 815wk: Vintage (6)
	3		4		5		6		7	8	9
	10		11		12		13		14	15	16
	17	Blood Moon	18		19		20		21	22	23
	24		25		26		27		28	29	30	Beerfest