Session 66: A Little Bit More Than War
General Summary
The session began on BranchForth 13, 2597 around mid-afternoon as the party had escaped the razing of Skormp to the relative safety of the now once again alive Bloomhaven. Being mostly ignored by druids who seemed off in their own worlds, at the roots of the Great Tree, the party made some strategic decisions. They began by sending messages back and forth with Advisor Sil'a to safeguard the Absolute Majesty III. While Alena Birch was sending and receiving this, they also came to the conclusion that likely their bank accounts from Skormp were very likely lost.
During this exchange, it was brought up whether someone in Foun was in collusion with the devils and demons. It was generally agreed they were, but they would need to be sniffed out. As the conversation lulled, the party was approached by Gorgeogonolphia, the defacto yet ungrounded current leader of Bloomhaven. When Wren asked who was in charge other than him, he told her she could be leader and went back to speaking with a lady bug. In seeking for "an adult", Wren came to the conclusion that the elders of the tribe had not returned from the blight, though whether they were simply last to return or were dead was unknown. Eventually they did track down someone who wasn't in their own world, a woman watching all of the tribe's children, Penelope. She told them she didn't have a lot of faith in the tribe as-is, without the elders. Wren remained determined however, and decided to call a council of all the people within the village using 16 summoned squirrels and Ariata. Of the 1800 remaining people within Bloomhaven, 1500 showed up to listen to what had to be said. Wren turned things over to Atticus, who launched into an epic speech:
Atticus' Battle Plans:1. Healing and Medical Support: 300 druids
2. Logistics and Supply Chain: 200 druids
3. Reconnaissance and Intelligence: 150 druids
4. Environmental and Battlefield Control: 150 druids
5. Summoning and Reinforcement: 150 druids
6. Mental Health and Morale Support: 100 druids
7. Engineering and Infrastructure: 100 druids
8. Communication and Coordination: 80 druids
9. Environmental Preservation and Cleanup: 77 druids
While he was working on these, the rest of the party awoke collectively in a dream. They found themselves on a crystal sea of blue glass, moving like waves but hard like crystal. Avatars of the two deities (Artemis and Silvanus) were expressed in ferocious pillars of lightning and fire respectively. They spoke with a single voice that morphed between their two as it went slowly through its sentences. They gave guidance to the party that something far worse than an invasion of demons and devils was happening. Even before the banishing of the deities from the mortal plane, two of the most powerful and destructive of the gods were bound from it using the blood of mortals as chains. Mephistopheles and Dark Prince Graz’zt are held by a triple weave of cord, of which one strand is now broken with the razing of Skormp and killing of its populace. Should another of the two great bastions of civilization fall, should another of the great concentrations of life wink out, the bonds will be loosed and they will be able to return to the mortal plane. The cities must be defended, but even more, the two gods must be unmade. This can only occur upon the Altar of the Titans, a terrible device. Reconstruct it, tune it, and then use it to remove their power. They will try to kill you for this act of disobedience, they already know your names, your faces. You must hurry in earnest to save all that there is. Start by finding a way to locate the pieces. It will take more knowledge than any mortal has, but you should know the entity through whom such knowledge might be stored...
Upon waking, Kale shared an exact recollection with Atticus. The party then began to plan more. Knowing the great bastions of civilization to be Ji-na and Foun, they decided those should be priorities for defense. Cesantar Spice was sent to Ji-na with Tork's wand of polymorph and Muninn as both a canary in a coal mine and an information transfer. At the same time, the party would eventually find their way back to Foun. Before they did this, Atticus dumped the spell in his ring of spell storing and had Alena Birch refresh it with a sending spell. He then sent a message to the headmaster of Lorehold College Velomatus and received a reply stating Atticus should stop in for a chat next time he was in the area. It was then decided by the party this should be their next direction of travel via cloud transformation (a la Kale) after first transporting to The Violent Tips.
Before going off however, Rodan Spice sought out a druid who could speak to chipmunks. He stated he was a speaker for the chipmunks, and at Rodan Spice's behest, agreed to evidently foment a violent revolution within chipmunk society, ensuring blood was spilled, to rally the chipmunks to the cause of Joint Operations LLC. In exchange, Rodan Spice promised to replace all the squirrels in the Fisk Empire with chipmunks. With the agreement settled, the chipmunk leading druid ran off into the forest, looking very much like a chipmunk in the process.
With this interaction completed, the party transported via tree to The Violent Tips where the session ended in the morning of BranchingForth 14, 2597 in the chill of the wind.
Liberal Wet Dream
Can't Take Them Back
He Dye-ing
I'm Okay
Trachea Lemonade
Church Potluck - The Same Color as the People Who Eat It
No Real Ideas on How to Proceed
Interdimensional Invasion
Prior to the Moon Crashing
Go Inside Our Door
"Hey, You Up?"
Under Attack By the Forces of Hell
Not Just Hell...
Are We Doing This In Front of the Druids?
Does Everyone Speak Celestial? Si!
Pinecones are Edible
I'm Pretty Sure They're Edible
Follow a Known Devil
Our Relationship is Purely Physical
Fuck Marry Kill Advisor Sil'a
Do We Need to Finish the Treaty?
Gold in Bank is Fucked?
At Least We Don't Have to Pay Taxes
Door Among the Roots
Feed Charles... With shit
Our Entire Attack Was Hinged on Not Being Invaded By a Force From Outside the Realm
Should We Mention
The Devil You Know is Better Than the Devil You Don't
Tork Impregnates Zirk
I Don't Know If It Is a Good Idea to Get Married Right Now
There's No Fucking Way They Got Rom Laren
Miz? Likely Not an Ally of the Devils
Good Cannon Fodder
Can You Pray for Other People
I'm Going to Cast Meteor
Attention, You Have Been Defeated
I Can See Everything Now, But I Didn't See That Coming
Queen Wren Needs an Adult
Where Is the Capitalism?
We've Defeated Capitalism
They Didn't Lie & I Don't Like It
I'm Looking for the Teachers
Kale is a Zodiac Fanatic
I'm Just Happy to be Involved
We Need Rodger for War
No Need to Call a Council
I'm Going to Kidnap a Child
Didn't Think I was Going to Add
Who's In Charge, Where is the Government
It Appears All of Our Elders Are Dead
What Do We Want Them to Do?
What Can They Do?
I Would Not Refer to This as a Functioning Society
You Remember Stealing From Here Before
Door Frame Into a Doorway
Do We Really Want to Try to Fight All the Devils & Demons?
We Took the Blight Away & Can Bring It Back Gods Be Damned
Deploy the Druids to Skormp
It Will Be Stuff I Shouldn't Say
I Think I Trust Atticus to Give the Speech
Around Dusk, Calling a Council
How Many Squirrels Can I Summon?
I Can Summon 16 Squirrels
2 Hours Worth of 16 Squirrels
Wren is Back in Town
Let Me Know If You'd Like to be Announced Your Majesty
These People Yearn to the Ruled
Mrs. Snuzzles
A Lot of them Looked
Food & Water -
I Respect
Kale's Done Nothing Yet
We Can Make Goodberries
We Can Control Vines
They Love Talking About Rain
Kale Could Make It Rain on the Right Day
Chipmunk Guy, An Army of Chipmunks
I'll Bathe in Their Blood Rogder
1257 Raise Their Hands
Chipmunk Guy, We Need to Talk
All of Our Many Shortcomings Are Attributed to Our Father
Meet Her Later...
I'm Very Close to Getting 200
Bottles, Dungeons, Salamanders, & Macho
Bottles & Dragons
Zirk Went to Boarding School?
Is The Very Fabric of Reality Trying to Change Our Behavior Again
XL Pillar
On Seven
The Blessing of the Forest, a Pineapple
What Happens to Minotaurs if You Kill the God of Minotaurs?
Pretty Sure Atticus Isn't Mortal
In Atticus' Wheelhouse
Backup Plan: Demi-Plane
Developing Mustard Gas
Use to the Guy Who Died on the Boat
We're the Most Important People on [Ippocis] Right Now
Tork as a Task Dummy
He Really Needed That Belt
We Used to Play "Games" Together
Drop Him Off at the Peak of the Violent Tips
The Spice Ambassador Brothers
Rodan as Grand Ambassador
If It Gets Me Title of Ambassador, I'll Do Anything
Tork Explains How to Use a Wand
Munin is Also Into BDSM?
I'm Edging My Meteor Storm
I Don't Have Faith in Him
Feathers in My Throat Still
He Must Be Really Good at Sex
Well, My Whole Family is Dead Now
I Have No Confidence in Him, But I'm Willing to Send Him Anyways
What About All Those Bastards?
Spice Shortage
When Didn't Have Gmail When I Was In College
Alena Speaks Draconic
I Was Alma Mater
Spice for the Year From Bastards
Queen, Diabolical
Here's Very Cute When Cowering for His Life
Cat PTSD
Rest in Power Fat Cat
Not a Bloodless Coup of the Chipmunks
You Can Strap It To Me
Inviting a Dragon Into Your House
I Haven't Been Back to My College In Years
Next Episode, Joint Operations LLC Goes to College
Last Time I Was At College, I Almost Was Expelled But Instead Some People Died
From Alena to Advisor Sil'a: "We encountered something unexpected. Skormp has been over-run by devils and demons from Hell. I advise you to not continue traveling there."
Sil'a to Alena: "We see the plume of smoke in the distance and gold and red light... Where is the King regrouping our forces to retake the city?"
From Alena to Advisor Sil'a: "The king unfortunately was also a devil and is currently dead. Full retreat, return to Fuon. Crew getting a hefty bonus when we meet again."
Sil'a to Alena: "As ordered from Ambassador Spice, we shall obey."
During this exchange, it was brought up whether someone in Foun was in collusion with the devils and demons. It was generally agreed they were, but they would need to be sniffed out. As the conversation lulled, the party was approached by Gorgeogonolphia, the defacto yet ungrounded current leader of Bloomhaven. When Wren asked who was in charge other than him, he told her she could be leader and went back to speaking with a lady bug. In seeking for "an adult", Wren came to the conclusion that the elders of the tribe had not returned from the blight, though whether they were simply last to return or were dead was unknown. Eventually they did track down someone who wasn't in their own world, a woman watching all of the tribe's children, Penelope. She told them she didn't have a lot of faith in the tribe as-is, without the elders. Wren remained determined however, and decided to call a council of all the people within the village using 16 summoned squirrels and Ariata. Of the 1800 remaining people within Bloomhaven, 1500 showed up to listen to what had to be said. Wren turned things over to Atticus, who launched into an epic speech:
Condensed: Good evening. I wish I could say it was a good evening. Brothers & sisters of the wild, I stand before you not as a fellow humanoid, but as the very essence of nature itself. Our world, your ancient grove, the flowing rivers, are all under siege by a force of unparalleled darkness. Creatures from the Abyss & Hells seek to corrupt, starting with Skormp. You are shepherds of life, you must speak for life and nature. It is your duty to stand against darkness. You fight for the songbirds at dawn. Who is with me to push them back to the abyss?With this rousing speech, he managed to get 1257 of the druids to volunteer with tasks like Food, Water, Logistics, Healing, & Communications in the war to come. With the people rally'd (for making goodberries and providing logistical support), the party took up residence for the night in Zygma - Deceased's former home. As always, Atticus stayed awake at night, working on his distribution of the druids for the war to come:
Atticus' Battle Plans:
While he was working on these, the rest of the party awoke collectively in a dream. They found themselves on a crystal sea of blue glass, moving like waves but hard like crystal. Avatars of the two deities (Artemis and Silvanus) were expressed in ferocious pillars of lightning and fire respectively. They spoke with a single voice that morphed between their two as it went slowly through its sentences. They gave guidance to the party that something far worse than an invasion of demons and devils was happening. Even before the banishing of the deities from the mortal plane, two of the most powerful and destructive of the gods were bound from it using the blood of mortals as chains. Mephistopheles and Dark Prince Graz’zt are held by a triple weave of cord, of which one strand is now broken with the razing of Skormp and killing of its populace. Should another of the two great bastions of civilization fall, should another of the great concentrations of life wink out, the bonds will be loosed and they will be able to return to the mortal plane. The cities must be defended, but even more, the two gods must be unmade. This can only occur upon the Altar of the Titans, a terrible device. Reconstruct it, tune it, and then use it to remove their power. They will try to kill you for this act of disobedience, they already know your names, your faces. You must hurry in earnest to save all that there is. Start by finding a way to locate the pieces. It will take more knowledge than any mortal has, but you should know the entity through whom such knowledge might be stored...
Upon waking, Kale shared an exact recollection with Atticus. The party then began to plan more. Knowing the great bastions of civilization to be Ji-na and Foun, they decided those should be priorities for defense. Cesantar Spice was sent to Ji-na with Tork's wand of polymorph and Muninn as both a canary in a coal mine and an information transfer. At the same time, the party would eventually find their way back to Foun. Before they did this, Atticus dumped the spell in his ring of spell storing and had Alena Birch refresh it with a sending spell. He then sent a message to the headmaster of Lorehold College Velomatus and received a reply stating Atticus should stop in for a chat next time he was in the area. It was then decided by the party this should be their next direction of travel via cloud transformation (a la Kale) after first transporting to The Violent Tips.
Before going off however, Rodan Spice sought out a druid who could speak to chipmunks. He stated he was a speaker for the chipmunks, and at Rodan Spice's behest, agreed to evidently foment a violent revolution within chipmunk society, ensuring blood was spilled, to rally the chipmunks to the cause of Joint Operations LLC. In exchange, Rodan Spice promised to replace all the squirrels in the Fisk Empire with chipmunks. With the agreement settled, the chipmunk leading druid ran off into the forest, looking very much like a chipmunk in the process.
With this interaction completed, the party transported via tree to The Violent Tips where the session ended in the morning of BranchingForth 14, 2597 in the chill of the wind.
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Report Date
30 May 2024
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