2022/08/17: Corruption Denied Report
General Summary
Knight, Ruby, Sith, Eldrin, Sunderfury, Malakai
Malakai took a look at Ditz. She’s apparently a portal to something/somewhere else. While checking her material, Sith detected a giant solcite crystal under the capital, and there seems to be an (invisible?) solcite cylinder with a large radius centered on Ditz.
Sith, Knight, and Malakai went on a dream adventure to check the post-explosion dream landscape. They encountered some good and evil factions of naga. Or rather, a demon naga (who’s evil) and several of the friendly nagas. We fought the evil naga with the help of the good nagas. The evil one is the “Lord of Nightmares”. The big bad of the dream plane. Knight managed to hit him once, and he left, verbally cursing Knight as he went. Knight has acquired an enmity! The friendly nagas were very scared of the Lord of Nightmares.
We were taken to meet the queen. Apparently our ritual disrupted dreams and mindstates across Shisui. Some enemies of the nagas have taken the opportunity to make plays, or have otherwise been driven out of hiding. Most of the nagas survived the blast, but some of the stronger ones are stuck fighting their way out of a dream dungeon of some sort. There’s no apparent remnant of the child’s dream, but it’s possible parts of it are somewhere. It is considered likely that, given his small dreamscape, he doesn’t have much imagination.
A guard naga named Nakaia has been assigned to shadow Knight and relay further communications as needed.
Doyle provided disguises for Knight, Ruby, Sith, and Eldrin, making them look like a doctor and his entourage who will be summoned to aid the Apprentice. Sith was the doctor, Ruby was the innocent assistant, Eldrin was the old swordmaster bodyguard, and Knight was the invisible and sudden death radius when Eldrin drew his sword. Doyle was everyone else.
We used redemption on the kid, then woke him up. At around the same time, Sith detected one of the most intense concentrations of Corruption he’d ever seen, a little ways away. The kid told us we needed to run. We absconded with him via transport. Apparently there’s an embodiment of Corruption wandering around and learning. It’s characterized as “a man with a knife”.
With little information about its capabilities and an unknown time limit, Knight, Ruby, Eldrin, and Sith quickly gathered themselves, relayed what potentially final messages we desired, retrieved and activated the respawn flag we (and specifically Keel) had retrieved from Cubit, and went to fight Corruption head-on.
We found it in the sunken first floor of a shop. We buffed up and Sith summoned two Purifiers, a man and woman (possibly twins) with metallic hair and pair fighting. Then Knight kicked the door down. The first threat was an apparently undead old woman and a very furry (and possibly also semi-dead) mastiff. Knight killed them both. The dog took Knight’s leg in return.
The Corruption was in a room towards the back, and it first took notice of us when the Purifiers tried to cast a purification spell on it. It decided they were a novelty, and it enveloped them in some sort of fog. They began screaming. Sith hit it with a multilayered probability manipulation spell that made all of its rolls -7. Mind you, that’s not a penalty on the rolls, that is the value of the rolls. Ruby whacked the thing with a staff, with little effect. And then Eldrin shot it with a Death Strike mixed with True Strike and an Existential Reintegration provided by Sith.
It’s unclear precisely what happened next. We think the enhanced effect bounced off the massive crystal network of solcite under the capital, drawing the ancestor spirits into the fray and giving the gods a chance to intervene directly as well. For a moment, we were naked, and in the next moment there was a flash of bright nothingness, a flash of pain, and then we were gone. We walked back into the radius of the respawn flag 24 hours later, having been completely annihilated in a clash of divine and Corrupted energies that had cut a 300 foot wide and very deep rift across the breadth of the city. Chaz-Achk-Thuum contacted Sith and told him all our gear was safely back at his tower. The Corruption was finally gone, and we had a little while to rest.
(Knight was still missing a leg.)
Missions/Quests Completed
Destroy Corruption on Shisui.
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Report Date
17 Aug 2022
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