DW Session 5: Only a Matter of Time
General Summary
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- The rest of the week
- Adam goes on a date with Cassandra
- He tries to get intel out of her while she’s drunk, but he gets nothing
- They go see a play, but he’s not a fan of it
- They still hook up by the end of the night
- Gell buys a moonshine kit from an elderly dragonborn named Morkos Flamehaven
- He cooks some moonshine with Amara, it’s ok
- Amara does some flirting, Gell doesn’t get it
- When he gives dragonborn a jar to try, he absolutely hates it
- Gives him six months to make the best moonshine he’s ever made
- Cereus gets sick, starts coughing up violet phlegm
- He’s diagnosed with rare disease, Asuria’s Illness
- Named after famous sorceress who first contracted it
- Elan and him will stay in Kassadeia until condition stabilizes
- After that, they might return to Gameria for further treatment
- Cassandra shows up to give party their next assignment
- There’s a business deal going on in Silvio
- It’ll fund the Characters for years if it goes through
- However, Gremio of the Elflands' Avon royal family may intervene
- It’s their job to run interference
- It’s a three-week journey there, and the deal’s in one month exactly
- Gell brings his moonshine kit along
- The party stops in Galway, capital of the Elflands’ gnomish territory
- There’s a festival going on to celebrate the start of fall
- Adam and Cassandra get drunk, still no luck on intel
- Amara and Gell get drunk at a different tavern, get to know each other
- Amara talks about the complicated relationship w/ her father
- Gell talks about how his mother was abandoned by a nobleman
- Favorite foods, etc, they get very drunk
- A couple of gnomish tavernkeepers insist on getting them drunk
- One drink knocks Amara out cold
- Gell has a stronger constitution it seems
- Why did the gnomes try to poison them?
- The party is on the way to Silvio
- A sign on the trail says the road’s blown out, have to take detour
- Amara cooks for party that night, a sumptuous BBQ boar
- Guess pirates make better cooks than you’d think!
- Adam hears chanting in woods nearby
- Party decides to get away from it
- As party leaves they hear a magical explosion near the chanting
- Now they’re leaving the place a little faster
- In a couple hours Cassandra stops the wagon
- An old human man is standing by the side of the road
- He’s in a cloak with a gray/black beard
- The man asks for the ‘child of Fireheart’
- Amara leaps out, gets pushy with the guy
- Turns out it’s Arvyll, former member of the Erivo pantheon
- He wants all of Amara’s time (i.e. her life)
- The next best thing to draining Roland of the rest of his lifespan
- Amara disagrees, tosses handaxe at the deity
- Boss Fight: Arvyll, the Rogue God of Time
- Adam and Amara get some good licks in
- Gell does ki attack, but doesn’t look like magic attacks work as well
- Arvyll casts his aging spell on Adam
- It kinda works, but he only ages three years
- Not much for a very young elf
- Same spell gets cast on Gell several times, and he turns 31
- Arvyll also casts a spell to slow down time for party
- They have disadvantage on attacks, really hurts Gell’s fighting
- Good thing Amara is on a warpath in this fight
- She inflicts SO MUCH damage, eviscerates Arvyll by the end
- Arvyll’s body is torn apart like pinata, god starts begging for life
- There’s nothing but oblivion for a dead god with no followers
- At Adam’s request, he agrees to reset the ages of everybody he’s cursed
- But Amara still kills all that’s left of Arvyll
- Thousands of miles away, Roland de-ages eight years during council meeting
- Congratulations, the party just killed a god!
- Meanwhile in Gameria…
- Nikolaj has an meeting with his patron god Rexfur
- Rexfur thanks him for his decades of hard work and advocacy
- Times have never been this good for the church of Rexfur
- In return, Rexfur offers to give Nikolaj back his mortal form
- It takes a lot of energy, but Nikolaj has earned it
- But Nikolaj refuses!
- He can’t explain why, but there are other things he wants to do
- Queen Astrid has returned from her diplomatic mission to Elflands
- Roland and Nikolaj barge in to have a private meeting with her
- The two of them have been talking, and they have a propositon
- Let Nikolaj go down to Myltev to overthrow his brother Tarkov
- Rexfur can appoint a new high priest
- Nikolaj can be the figurehead, Astrid can appoint advisors
- It’s better arrangement than Tarkov’s tyranny of the sea
- Surprisingly, Astrid agrees immediately
- Turns out she gave her silent blessing to a coup in Elflands
- Amara and rest of party joined resistance group
- But she reassures Roland that Adam will take care of her
- Astrid can provide funding and intel
- But it’s up to Nikolaj to get the ground support
- And he’ll be the one to kill Tarkov and his higher-ups
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