Session 76: Piss, Holy Water, or Blood?

General Summary

  The session began on BranchForth 26, 2597 around 11PM in the depths of the earth for Atticus while the rest of the party and contents of room TT008 were nowhere to be seen.
  Kale, Alena Birch, Wren, Rodan Spice, and Tork found themselves in a 20'x20'x30' room made of jet black rock and absolutely freezing. Kale detected an aura of necromancy but was unable to pinpoint a source. Ice was at the top of the walls and coating the ceiling, but Wren created a bonfire to fight off the creeping exhaustion of the cold. Kale discovered that holy water damaged the rock and in combination with Tork's smashing broke through a wall. The chamber beyond (as discovered by Tork, Rodan Spice, and Parrot Kale) had an anti-gravity affect causing some blunt force trauma after a 150' fall. Eventually the party discovered several other rooms thanks to radiant damage from Wren's summoned dragon and Kale communicated the location of four sigils (circumscribed percentage signs) in the adjoining chambers. Tork and Rodan Spice touched them and took the disentigration force damage to power them. Once all were glowing sickly green, the floor of the original room lowered to reveal an archway.
  The room within contained an altar 5'x5'x8' of jet black stone with two black candles atop lit with black flames that did not give off light and a black stone dish between them. Within the dish was a rolled scrap of parchment reading:
Artifact of Ascension - Here within lies the artifact of ascension. It alone will grant the bearer the ability to displace the pantheon. Its power is not complete, but still useful it is. Remove at your own peril.

  With this the party noticed the top of the altar could be pushed off and within was a skeleton with a piece of the altar of the titans embedded in its skull. This was retrieved (skull and all) by Rodan Spice who also got into the crypt and found a lever which transported the party back to the original room with Atticus. Atticus shared with them a hidden note he found behind a removable brick in room TT008:
 
"If you find this, it means something horrible has happened likely. Warn others of Ta'jat"

  While in the room, Alena Birch cast speak with dead on the skull and the following questions were asked:
 
What is your name? Jordan.
How did you die here? The thing in my head.
Why did you get a whole tomb in here? The thing in my head.
What does it do? Nothing of consequence.
What was Ta'jat doing here? Ascending.

  After this Rodan Spice asked it what its favorite color was, but it did not reply. The party then backtracked to the original room through which they came in the vault and found along with the gold being gone, so was the painting portal as well as Zirk and Jandar. Atticus banished himself and Kale to the demi-plane the portal connected with while Alena Birch sent a message to Zirk. Zirk and Jandar were within the demi-plane (having hidden there when they heard voices and door opening to the vault) and Atticus and Kale constructed a tuning fork to the plane using a regular kithcen fork. Huh.
  With this Atticus and Kale were transformed invisible and they went out of the portal. They found themselves in a small office with a desk, two chairs, and two people entering, Gasta (the head of internal investigations for the bureaucracy) and Atticus' Benefactor, Charles Atticus Fitzgerald. They were discussing how the Benefactor had provided information to Gasta about the criminals that had taken him hostage earlier that day and also how the Benefactor would take the portal back to his estate to deal with the criminals. As three henchman of the Benefactor came in to take the portal, Atticus seeked the invisibility upon himself and Kale. The Benefactor smiled widely and shut the door to the office in which they found themselves.   With this, the session ended on BranchForth 27, 2597 around 1AM under the headquarters of the bureaucracy. Atticus and Kale were squaring off against the Benefactor, Gasta, and three apprentices while the rest of the party (minus Zirk & Jandar) were in the vault about 40 floors beneath them in the entryway to the vault, opening the extrodinarily heavy door.  

Rejected Session Names

  • Makes Me An Honorary Asian
  • Friendship, Being a Dick
  • Shane is the Grace of God
  • Tile Maker
  • Spirited One
  • My Name Feels Like Not a Real World
  • Cleetus, Last Name Big Dong
  • Tiffany - Theophany
  • Why Is She a Table?
  • Dirty 14s
  • Filthy 14
  • Penetrating Cold
  • Which Way Is North?
  • Better Not Be a Demi-Plan of Meta-Gaming
  • Rodan, Incapable of Shame
  • Anything That is Something
  • No One Likes Kale in That Way
  • Recording Stopped
  • Sharing My Social
  • Wall of Fire
  • We Need a Bonfire Wren
  • Is This a Room Where We Throw Up Until We Die
  • Is This Hypothermia?
  • Not An Escape Room
  • Magical Prison?
  • Warming Up to Wall of Fire
  • Are There Seams?
  • We're Fucked, Might as Well Drink Until We Die...
  • Trying Necromancy to See If It Will Do Anything
  • Anointing!
  • I've Got More Holy Water!
  • I Crave Death!
  • Upside Down Parrot Flying
  • You've Got the Hilt
  • Tork Goes Crazy After 7 Minutes
  • Blood on the Floor
  • Bloodcicle
  • Below a Natural 1...
  • Wine Staircase
  • Come on Parrot Kale
  • One Other Fluid...
  • Sick 180
  • Sigil, No Piss
  • Take Care of Kale
  • Perfect, Again, Another
  • Can You Send Another Dragon
  • Sucked Into the Box
  • Take the Dish?
  • Everyone Is Watching from the Doorway
  • Whoops
  • Crypt Cuddler
  • He's My Friend, His Name is Beauregard
  • Kale "Pleasant House Guest"
  • Found a Scroll Daddy
  • Crazy How Simple It Was, In & Out
  • Jordan, How Exotic
  • Zirk & Jandar Ran Off With the Gold
  • Petty Theft?
  • There's No Bathroom in Here...
  • I Think Your Husband Remarried
  • Find the Fork
  • Who Is In the Room?
  • Does Kale Trust Atticus?
  • Atticus Has Never Told a Lie
  • Never Tell a Lie Nor Tell the Truth
  • Kale & Atticus Hold Hands
  • Kale & Atticus Elope
  • You Know the Time Change
  • With My Special Ears
  • The Dinner Fork Tuning Fork
  • I Would Have Came Out
  • Holding Hands While Watching
  • Report Date
    15 Aug 2024

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