Chapter 10, Session 8: The end of Archania
General Summary
'What did you expect? Fate doesn't give or reward. It just IS.'With the rest of the party completing their long rests, Fen and Thordak began to face off against Archania and a set of the Siblings of The Chaos... however... before the fight could even begin, Fen felt the Chaos giggle in his ear and the ground opened up beneath him and removed him from the fight entirely... leaving Thordak at the mercy of the enemies whilst he was trying to work the ship. However, lucily Thordak had Ez, still wildshaped, with him and so he decided to throw Ez in cat form in order to wake him up and get him to retrieve the rest of Persicorum. Something Ez succeeded in to great effect, using Thunderwave to destroy the doors to the crew sleeping quarters and waking up the party as he did so. The party sprung into the fight, noticing that there were another group of siblings in the room with them, prepared to kill them in their sleep. This is when Kodo and Olympia noticed one of the siblings had taken on the form of Baralas, expressing that he made a good replacement after their last sibling was killed by the party. Mimsi meanwhile went straight for Archania whilst the rest of the pary dealt with the rest of the siblings. The sibling groups seemed to share damage and Mimsi noticed Archania seemed to be linked to one of them so continued to batter them. Meanwhile, a rogue sibling unattached and unaffected by any groups seemed to specifically chase Ez, causing him significant damage with sneak attacks, Ez responded by using a grappling vine to keep this sibling away from him. Eventually, Mimsi managed to batter down Archania and defeat her but watched as the assassin's face melted away and revealed one of the siblings. She had used a disguise to lure the party into attacking the wrong target! The real Archania (the rogue sibling that had assaulted Ez) then showed herself and the party continued to do battle, with Thordak notably almost killed as Archania made a point of trying to take out party members whilst they were unconscious. During the fight, in a moment of frustration, Ez used the 7th level Whirlwind spell to create a tornado that caught Archania within and bludgeoned her as well as restraining her. Mimsi dove into the tornado and continued to do battle with Archania, with Archania screaming her frustration that Fate had done nothing but doom her to torment, Mimsi retorted by explaining that Fate doesn't doom or gift, it simply IS. Leading Archania to accuse Mimsi of sounding just like The Woven Providence and shaking Mimsi in doing so. Archania used her Misty Step ability to teleport out of the whirlwind and continued to target Ez as the weather became chaotic and the druid accidentally cast Blink on themselves, giving them respite from Archania's attacks as the party fully focused on defeating the assassin. Thordak was returned from near death and managed to get the skyship back under control before, in a moment of madness, attempting to retrieve Mimsi from the whirlwind that she was still stuck in... however, Thordak missed Mimsi and accidentally got himself caught in it too; leading Ez to cancel the spell in a moment of pure rage and frustration at the pairs idiocy. This aside, the party continued to do battle with Archania and, after Kodo used a stunning strike on her and Thordak talked her down and intimidated her into seeing how lost her cause was, the party watched as the assassin who killed Gwydion and had tormented them for so long simply gave in and allowed herself to die with nothing but regret and misery in their eyes. Mimsi landed the final blow on Archania, slitting the former assassins throat but she then expressed her real feeling of misery: this was another moment in which Mimsi was robbed of choice and she felt no fulfilment at all from being freed from Archania. The rest of the party reassured her that she had helped save Olympia but it appeared to not be particularly effective and so, knowing they had to still finish their long rests, the party returned to their beds in the hope that Fen would return soon and that they would be ready to face the Utrunks. However, before the party could finish their long rests. Ez had a dream in which he felt himself groping in an over-encroaching darkness, before finding something cold and metallic and pulling on it; revealing a stream of light and a multitude of sounds. Thordak, lastly, watched as during his driving shift a pink portal opened 65ft in the air and the dark silhouetted shape of Fen came thudding onto the top deck, sword limp in his hand and seemingly non-responsive.
- Mimsi debates Archania Weave's thoughts on fate.
Rewards Granted
The party defeated Archania Weave and thus freed themselves of risk of her attacking them.
Report Date
24 Feb 2024
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