2022/06/29: Rift Dweller Aftermath Report
General Summary
Knight, Sunderfury, Sith, Ruby, Malakai, Eldrin, Kenju, Reela Su
We handed off the Black Wakizashi to the Rat Clan members. Kuro took the artifacts Malakai made from his shards, including the still-intact Void Fang. The chasm has turned back into a more mundane big chasm.
We made our way back to the fox village on foot with the aid of some items and the Staff of the Wandering Monk. We ran into a big friendly butterfly. It and some other bugs were attracted to Buzz, who doesn’t like bugs. The butterfly is named Achi and is a kami.
We went to talk to Kenju’s dad. There’s something at the entrance of the Rift that’s eating the nature around it. It was already happening, but now that the Rift Dweller is dead it’s happening faster. If we check on that and take Kenju on more adventures (and keep him safe), we’re even.
The nature-eating is the result of an army of terracotta soldiers (including two colossi) chopping down all trees and even tearing up the sod. They’re turning the sod into clay and using the burnable organics to burn it into terracotta and further soldiers. The army has banners with a golden ten-pointed star. There are some humans in the mix, mostly spellcasters. The banner is the personal banner of General Shen, one of the most effective and brutal of the Emperor’s generals.
Sunderfury, Malakai, Kenju, and Achi are going to help the forest dragon fight the army. The rest of us are going after the Phoenix Clan party.
We teleported to the capital of the Phoenix Clan as it was the closest location we had anyone who knew well enough. We found it under siege, with no civilians in the streets. We fought some ghouls, then met some unfortunate guards who seemed out of their depth. An out-of-shape sergeant, his apprentice/squire, and four little girls, one of whom is using some sort of magic bell that lets her locate undead/demon appearances. The others appear surprised by this.
We killed more demons/undead, including a demon lord thing and some assassin monkey zombies. That prevented the walls from getting hit in the back, and the outer demons were driven off, buying a few days for the defenders. Some party members left some good gear for the friendly defenders and then Ruby called her ship and we headed for the Tower.
When we arrived at the Tower, it was a pillar of ash and burned material. There was a giant emerald pagoda thing floating in the sky, which is apparently where the Phoenix Clan adventurers are. There are multicolored phoenixes surrounding it.
Then we got attacked by an invisible kenku rogue who was part of the enemy party, though we didn’t know that at the time. He nearly blew up Ruby’s ship, but we managed to land and save it.
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29 Jun 2022
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