Session 20: Sins of the Father
General Summary
Within the glitched white hallway leading to our final challenge, Lysander remembers the manual override of the AI. He utters the word "Starlight", and a separate hallway appears. Lysander enters and the rest, a little puzzled, follow suit. The group enters a room holding a console. With a little help of Raine, Lysander manages to find out someone attempted to meddle with the trials, making it so no other group could ever finish all three areas. Unfortunately for the culprit, they were unsuccessful. They did however manage to mess up the AI a bit. In an attempt to fix it, Lysander attempted to turn it off and off again. He does, but in the small gap of time the AI was out, the engines of the ship failed and overheated.
That's right, it turns out this entire "realm" is actually a giant space station orbiting the planet Ekellos. The AI scolds Lysander, claiming his rash decision makes him unfit to hold powers such as the one of the shard. The group exits the computer room and are now in the final challenge room, where they were supposed to be. The room is completely dark for a moment, until it all coils up in the middle, revealing two figures; Rashall the demi-god, and Arulo Kedrisk the traitor.
The group position themselves and say the starting sign, and the final trial battle ensues. Yash, not wanting to piss off a demi-god, goes toe to toe with Arulo, while the rest focus on Rashall. The demi-god however, has no interest in anyone besides the lizard. After some time Usze reaches his limit and falls, at which point Rashall calls for a time out. He gives the party two options; either give him the lizard and they will be free to go, or continue fighting. The group idles too long until Seraphina says she's here for a challenge, and the fight continues.
After some more blows are dealt, Yash calls out to Rashall saying they are on a time limit, telling him the station is falling to earth. Rashall stops, and is confused. Yash then asks why he wants Usze dead, and he tells them what happened. Yash is appalled, but still wants to hear Usze's side. He is brought back to his feet, along with Lysander who was also downed. Usze explains his side of the story, but it is not enough to sway the demi-god. Things look grim up until Rashall's father is mentioned; Atrox.
Yash, being a follower of Atrox, immediately kneels for the prince. Rashall is set aback by this. After some talk Rashall, for some unimaginable reason, gives Usze a chance to right his deed. He is to go to his father Atrox' old planet, and save it from that which is tormenting it. Again, for some weird reason, Usze actually agrees to do it, unaware that such a task is guaranteed suicidal. Rashall and Arulo leave. The group gathers themselves and presses on into the room holding the shard. Finally, they have reached it.
They enter, a glass panel in between them and the shard. On the other side, two groups argue with one another. To one side the group containing the General, Morra'Callovin and the paladin. The other Zelthin and his guards. Behind them, a figure. The group moves closer to the panel. There, laughing and celebrating his victory, Killos stands. He has given the shard to his comrade Yeenoghu. The group was too late, they have lost. Killos disappears, and the Zelthin group retreats back to the safe zone.
Worried they cannot use the shard to save the station from falling, the group asks the AI if they can return to the console room. The AI refuses, claiming it has everything "under control". Not trusting it, the group makes a few attempts to re-enter it, but it is to no avail. Lysander then comes up with the idea to inform his father, and heads back to the safe zone, Seraphina following him. Usze approaches the General and Mortem's group, thanking them for their help earlier. Yash comes in too and they all talk about Zelthin, and by extension the war of Telarus.
Lysander finds his dad in the safe zone. His father is delighted to see his son is doing well, even seeming slightly stronger. Lysander tells him about the AI, the engines, and about how odd the AI has been acting ever since. His father goes off to fix it, leaving his son in the safe zone. He and Seraphina sit by a table with Rashall and Arulo.
Yash and Usze learn from Mortem that Alister owned the laboratory where The Qulvo spawned from (to our knowledge). Usze thanks them for their time and dashes towards the safe zone to interrogate him or at least his son, and grabs Raine in the process. Yash follows. Once through he sees Lysander and approaches, questioning him about what he knows. Lysander explains he knew about them experimenting on different races, but only recalls something going wrong, and that his dad got him out of there right away.
Usze explains to everyone, more specifically Rashall, what he knows about Killos, how he isn't from this planet and was brought here after losing a big battle, experimented on, and is now a complete basket case. The group makes one last attempt at trying to get into the control room, but to no avail. All they can do now, is sit and wait for Alister to return.
Report Date
08 Jan 2022
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