DW Session 17: New Year's Massacre, Pt. 1
General Summary
13/4/896 - 1/1/897
- The party goes shopping around town
- Wilbur and Elan pick up some healing potions
- True to form, Wilbur scams the shopkeeper with 'Suggestion'
- Cereus goes to Waldo’s Weird Stuff, pisses off the shopkeeper
- Adam and Cereus buy some new armor
- Adam’s AC is improved by 3 with Half Plate armor
- Cereus gets it improved by 2 with a shield
- Adam also checks out a cat cafe, gets scratched by a cat and drinks a coffee
- Jax speaks with Mariner, asks him if he has any potions
- Mariner only has one, but he suggests visiting Waldo’s for items
- Jax also mentions the Mariner’s true name, Prospero, to Waldo
- Waldo's intruiged, Prospero went missing at sea three centuries ago
- He’s an old soldier, but he doesn’t rat out Jax
- He agrees to offer a discount, satisfied to hear about Prospero again
- Jax buys a rope of climbing for a good price
- Back at the Character Safehouse Adam checks out supply room
- Finds some bitters to treat his curse hangover
- But he does a double-take when he realizes that Amara’s body is missing
- Adam gets freaked out, but the supply room keepers don’t know where it went
- The ledgers have it listed in the room as recently as the night before
- The Mariner promises that he’ll see Amara again
- It’s almost time for the battle, just four hours till the new year
- The Characters will attack royal palace from all sides
- Guards are spread thin keeping track of citizens and rowdy parties
- Rumor has it that Bianca’s in town to beef up palace defense
- The party will infiltrate the palace, eliminate any enemies inside
- Mariner will reunite with them after enemy has been taken care of
- Together, they’ll race up to the tower to kill the Empress
- As soon as the bells of the Temple of the Ageless One usher in the new year, the Characters begin their attack
- The party climbs over the palace walls, sneaking inside the central ballroom
- There Bianca is waiting for them, channeling her patron deity's remaining strength to transform into an adult white dragon
- The fight's pretty intense, but Cereus summons some spiders to trap the dragon while Wilbur summons some Deep Ones to attack nearby elven guards
- In the end both Bianca and her deity Iver are killed by the party, Bianca transforms back into her elven form
- At the top of tower, Empress Ophelia pleads for mercy
- She says there are darker forces that need fighting like the Sunken God
- The Mariner says he’s already working for the Sunken God...
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