After transitioning into
the world of gold the players wake up in a deep forest, one with tall
trees thick with foliage and colorful flowers.
Graywing flies up through
the trees while the rest take a look around the immediate area. He
sees a carpet of imperial purple butterflies that rest on the tops of
the trees like a gleaming carpet. He watched for a while then
notices a winged serpent preying on them. Since its nearly five time
his size, it sucks up the butterflies in masses. He drops down
below.
The rest had discovered a
road in ill repair. Serviceable but heavily overgrown. They follow
it for a time until they hear movement in the trees. Something was
coming, something of good size but strange sound, more akin to
rolling stones. They fan out and wait, taking concealment.
What comes from the trees
is a mass of water, rolling and frothing, taking on humanoid shape
and limbs as it rolled into area. It seemed aggressive, sending
water tentacles unerringly to their hiding positions. Feeling
threatened, the player attacked. Fire, blade, and Fist made short
work of it, its seemingly watery shape turning out to be gelatinous
and solid enough to damage. When hammered on enough, it pops, akin
to the bubble, sending water and spray flying everywhere. Out of its
core comes three spears that fly out at 90-degree angles. It misses
the rest, stabbing into trees.
Puzzled, they investigate
the remains, or, at least what they can. The spears are serviceable
but nothing special. Everyone falls into disagreement about why or
how got here. They are trying to figure out why they are in this
strange world instead of in a mine like they thought. They figure
out that it may have meant in the mind not “mine”.
The Amazon had taken hurt
and Sultrani tried out her medical skin. Unused to healing any but
herself, she fared poorly (fumbled; can't use it for a week). They
move away from the site and set up a campfire and huddle next to it.
Sultrani fumbles (again) her self control and pees herself in the
process of trying to “marshal” her senses.
After a time and some rest
they hear a squeaky cart sound (wheel) on the small road that
meanders through the forest. Graywing takes flight and goes and
investigate. He sees an old man pushing a rickety cart full of junk
along the road. They decide to head towards the squeaky wheel.
The next bit is long mess
of interaction as they all banter and talk back and forth. The old
man is feisty, cantankerous and rude, something that doesn't endear
him to the rest. The old man doesn't tell them anything, alluding to
the idea that he too was pulled into the world and did not dwell
here.
Unsure of his intentions,
they choose to have him come along in order to keep an eye on him
instead of leaving him at their back. They travel for a time and are
accosted by a fiery being, like the watery one. It was less humanoid
and more avian, though it dies like the water one. At its death –
three spears. A single fiery feather follows the hawkman but he
avoids it and it falls to the ground and dies out.
Party tries to identify
what the spears are, from what culture. They have no idea.
The old man, unhappy with
things, decides to mess with the group. He has keen higher senses,
and uses them to pick up a movement in the mental construct of the
world and pushes. The world speeds up, zipping from night to day,
noontime, in a heartbeat. Everyone mini-freaks out.
The shadow of a great
raven passes over and Graywing feels better (he follows Skirin). He
puts away his flute and flies after it. He fails to catch up to it.
Perched on a tree limb, he uses his questing sight to find the way.
He gets the vision of of rock, bursting out of the ground, pointing
towards the distant mountain.
Sultrani, thinking back to
the song they sung back in the mountains, ponders on the last song,
and remembers it “felt” like a cool breeze flowing through the
trees.
Clouds stir and move,
coming together, time speeds up (old man again) and storms around
them, forming into a windy being that dies like the others.
Old man pushes again when
he feels the mind construct moving. The rest feel the world teeter
with them, and then they move, a million miles an hour along the
road, to the edge of the mountain.
Graywing, Sultrani, the
Amazon projectile vomit in the tilting world. Graywing gets a vision
of a tree with rotting roots, about to fall.
They run, drawn toward the
mountain in some way. They bust into a clearing with three ogrish
beings, stabbing spears in the roots. Graywing sweeps up Sulrani and
drops her over one of them. She drops on it, invoking her inner
power, killing it with a single shot (critical hit), splatting it and
sending a shock wave 50 ft around. Graywing swooped again and drops
her on a second one, slamming it and knocking it down but not killing
it.
Sultrani and Graywing
pound another ogre while the Amazon charges another and joins the
fray. They all mix it up with the three ogrish beings, coming out on
top, especially after Klaus joins too.
The tree starts
regenerating but the old man pulls and kills the tree. It splits and
then falls. The world feels weird and starts fading out, showing
“worn” spots that fades into nothing.
Sultrani attacks the old
man with a tea cup, breaking his nose. Sultrani and he start
fighting. Graywing dive bombs him. The Old man tosses her into the
cart with his mental power and Graywing swoops on her and takes her
up to a tree. Seeing it as useless, they flee, especially as the
world shows more fraying.
The old man and the Amazon
catch sight of a stream of golden butterflies. They follow them
while Graywing, Sultrani, and Klaus flee back to the place they
started. The golden butterflies lead to a massive vault of them and
the two make it inside right as the fold crushes in around them. The
other three flee back to their starting point, seeing the world split
with golden light around the edges. They make it thorugh right as
everything implodes behind them.
Session end.
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