Do You Want To Buy A Ritual Of Pain?
General Summary
We like to appeal to a broad market here. Our offerings been a bit too tame for you? Well we've got Cultists! Pain Daggers! Deathly trials and creepy dungeons!
- All the force users spend a few days relaxing and sparring with Xelt Pak. The non-force users went gambling and studied droids.
- Niwadi made a friend of the Base Commander, Pess Roulgra, while playing sabaac.
- They return to Torunga, where the Gear Up Works has gotten a landing pad for them. One of the Jawa seems to have joined the Force Dragons.
- Alize conducts the final negotiations with Xelt Pak and Yerba, eventually agreeing that her padawans and their friends can go investigate.
- After a brief discussion of routes, the Starcrawler is en route to planet Nyrian.
- They arrive at Nyriaan and learn they cannot stay overlong as the planet's atmosphere is slightly corrosive. There is a crashed ship and a nearby City.
- The group spends time unable to decide whether to stop in the city first and get permission to go to the wreck, or land on a plateau near the wreck and avoid the City. Eventually Niwadi makes a decision for the group to avoid the City.
- What appear to be salvage workers at the crashed ship confrot the group. When Asha speaks to them in Sith, they inform the group they must see the Priest and escort the party to the City.
- Surrounded by hundreds of people, the group is on a little raised platform in a city square, while the Priest stands on a balcony of one of the buildings and informs the group the only way to access the Slumbering God's Wisdom is through the Trial of Pain.
- No one thinks anything called the "Trial of Pain" sounds like fun.
- The group is attacked by Cultists weilding strange glowing daggers. The group successfully fights back, although Amur's attempt to have Boxy the Droid help is considered dishonorable and cheating by the Cultists. The group is eventually victorious and granted the right to enter the Slumbering God's Chamber to find the Trials and Blessings they seek.
- The group enters and begins to explore a large underground facility. A large central room is protected by a force field. They start wandering through the rooms, often not together, looking for clues and hints as to what they should do.
Rooms and Clues
- Entry room, fairly pretty, several doors off it.
- Small room with trapped chest, with note inside of chest, "I conquer Fear by feeding Passion." Also a terminal with multiple Sith Runes on it.
- Library, with paper books and statue. Voice offers the Blessing of Knowledge, stating it is a slower path but might grant what is needed. Books are basic information on running a society. No other clues found.
- Room with beds.
- Room with sith runic circle and a book. Asha stands in the circle and reads the book. "Peace is a lie and fear is a poison. You have shown courage and faced your fear."
- Tor'vir finds the central room behind force fields that he believes is where they need to go.
- A torture room and a nearby medical laboratory, Sith Runes on the doors. They find a hidden book in the medlab with some of the Sith Runes translated.
- A Revanite healing chamber which offers the Blessing of Healing and Life. Off of that room Asha finds another Runic Circle and Book:
"Peace is a lie. Fear is a poison. I destroy Peace by embracing Pain.
I conquer Fear by feeding Passion.
Quotes
Cultist: I've never killed a Priestess before!Asha, sounding bored and annoyed: sighs
Report Date
22 Nov 2022
Primary Location
Secondary Location
Related Characters
Things Learned
- The Republic Base Commander's name is Pess Roulgra, a Mon Calamari, and he plays Sabaac.
- Nyrian is full of cultists to the Slumbering God
- The City looks similar to Massassi Temples, many ziggurats.
- The cultists have a ritual of pain that includes inflicting pain on others and on themselves. Pain seems to charge up their daggers, allowing the daggers to inflict more pain.
Comments