For those of you that joined in with me on Twitch, thank you very
much. I'm still getting used to all this live stream nonsense and trying to put
on a good production while also GM'ing is a little on the difficult side but
I'll get there eventually.
For those of you that haven't caught the
streams, here's a little update.
Falco: The Village of Stone - Next
Broadcast Friday 24th 18:00 UTC
After launching an asteroid in the general
direction of the village they eventually found their way to Ebon Along the way
they found plant life that had turned to stone and a group of Griffalo
defending a Griffalo statue. After a tough fight they found that the statue
used to be a living Griffallo who only a few inches left of its internal
structure still flesh while the outer part of the creature had turned to stone.
The village of Ebon was deserted, although
a lot worse from surviving the shockwave from the asteroid impact near the
area. Statues of two guards were found in a rickety lookout tower but found
nothing more so they pressed on. The empty village only held one person, a
young girl found crying in the Elder's hut. She told them that the Elder had
told them to find shelter, her mother had gone to go find her father who was a
village guard and she had been left alone. Around the village they found
cracks in the ground and more statues. One of the group took a tumble and as he
tried to steady himself during a quake and a gas cloud from one of these cracks
turned his hand to stone.
They tried to climb the guard tower, only
for it to collapse but found the statues inside had vanished. This phenomena
was found across the village, statues which once were there had moved or disappeared
and others they had found were smashed. The young girl gave no more clues apart
from a beast living under the ground which the Elder was afraid of. They
returned back to the hut to put the girl somewhere safe and found the statue
of the Elder trying to scribe something. It was a note to save him and his
village, they needed flesh to be whole again and warned them about the beast;
the girl. She vanished with an artefact that the group had beneath a locked
domed bunker hatch inside one of the huts, leaving the group to deal with the
hungering statues.
Lanius: The Shadow Excavation - Next
Broadcast Saturday 25th 16:00 UTC
They entered the excavation site with one
of them taking the face and uniform of one of the guards outside. He along with
the two that had the smoky eyes were accepted as support for the excavation.
However the last member was seen as a fraud and immediately taken by number
assigned guards to a holding cell. He was accompanied by the imposter guard to
make sure he had back up. The other two were taken to task by the head of the archaeological
dig, given excavation tools, chained up to weary slaves and sent down to dig.
The prisoner tried to escape with the help of his undercover teammate which was
interrupted by the chain gang.
They were soon all freed with the guards
now dead or unconscious, one of whom seemed to have died from the shadows in
his eyes dispelling from his body. There were shouts down below for help as
another digger had somehow been suspended in the air by a shadowy force. The
group managed to pull him up to the top of a pillar during which another member
was suspended by this same force. They found a consol and deactivated whatever was in play but activated a crystal disk in
the centre of the pillared chamber. One member went to investigate and found
themselves stuck on the crystal, with the rescued excavator now lumbering
forward towards them. The excavator fell onto the crystal and shadows dissipated
from his eyes, which were sucked underneath the crystal and he died. With frantic efforts they managed to
turn off the device and free their comrade. They investigated another room,
turned on the crystal plate, only to find more shadows bubbling up through the
crystal which started to fill the room, latching onto any form of intelligence.
They ran back to the previous chamber and with all their effort closed the
doors to stop the invasion of the shadows but as the door closed, the space in
between fused with crystal.
Vultur: The Grand Orators Tome - Next
Broadcast Sunday 26 17:00 UTC
Just over fifty miles along the Black Raige northwards, the squadron came face to face with the raw mountains. They had combed the area for an easy route to where they believed the Oraea monks had gone to but found no trace of a trail. They instead opted to use what looked like a vast storm drain channel cared into the mountain side, which lead up beyond the clouds. They were however presented with multiple problems. The first being that the access to the route was a sheer vertical cliff face, the second once they had gotten up, was a storm emanating from the top of the mountain range itself.
As they reached a third of the way up they
found a place to pause, a large ledge that held a sinister artefact. Upon investigating
a copper looking stain, they found that a recent land slide had covered up a
perfectly severed arm. There was no sign of struggle or the body attached
but the material was the same as the Order's robes. Within moments they
were surrounded by Pallones, disk like creatures with razer sharp edges that
floated in the air almost invisible like jellyfish. They seemed to never end as
after some were slain and more were revealed in the lightning of the storm
overhead but all we slain by an explosive which warped the face of one of the
group. Rain now started to fall and along with it, shards of metal, some shins,
but most jagged fragments of larger metal objects. The channel they were
climbing had filled with water and was gushing down the mountain impeding their
travels. The darkness however highlighted a pale flickering light in a cavern
above.
They decided not to enter before resting
and all ended up in a dream state. A happy village with pure skies, laughing
children. The town itself stood still while the villagers seemed to move at
lightning speed, leaving a pale trail of their movements. They entered the
tavern and saw shades that were inhuman, with arms and claws that reached to
the ground which slashed into the villagers splashing red across the floor. The
group tried to call out but heard a sound to hush them before everything fell
into silence and they awoke. Inside the cave was a Oraea monk, barely holding
on to life. He was stemming the blood loss and infection from a severed arm. He
told them they avoided the village that held a religious right over the bridge
they were heading to. The villagers were violent towards those who wanted access to the bridge and
recent merchants had brought back tales of the Night Shusher, a nightmare
creature whole stole children from the village but no cries could be heard from
the screaming children. They were said to have been taken to the bridge. The
monk told them he had been left by his fellow monks who had possibly gone up to
the bridge without him but they had left him before he had awoken. As the storm
raged outside the squadron could see a group of pale figures with abnormally
long arms watching them from far up in the distance, on the way up the
mountains.
Elanus: The Dodona's Twin - Next Broadcast
Tuesday 28th 16:00 UTC
On the Old Road Amphos the squadron
literally stumbled into an invisible man. The crash caused his cloaking belt to
break and soon an argument broke out between him and the squad. He seemed in a
hurry to leave and it became apparent he was carrying a satchel and documents
from the Aeon Priests. He said that the leader of the priests in the swamp had
told him to send for reinforcements and was headed to the city but when he was
asked to come with them he outright refused saying that Master Wrenn did not care
for his life. This was suspicious and was only compounded when they wrestled
the papers off of him, one of which that had names crossed off along with other
vital and no doubt secret documents. The man fled for safety leaving what he
had with them.
The group pressed on and encountered a
warrior whose suit of armor, sword and shield were all made of the same grey
material with glowing blue lines etched into them. She was a formidable foe who
demanded that they handed over the documents but they managed to eventually
wear her down and knock her out. When she came to, they demanded answers,
finding out that she might have been protecting the man they had just
encountered rather than trying to hunt him down. She refused to follow them
into the swamp, causing a Cypher to explode creating a nanosecond of intense
gravity that forced them to the floor, knocking one of them out. They decided
she was too much trouble and although they did not unbind her from her
restraints, they showed her a piece of paper which she interpreted as the group were new recruits for her
organisation and left them in peace. She threatened her return or sending
others after them if she could not get the restrains off easily.
They arrived at the swamp and the fog from
the swamp had started to thicken. They found a dimly lit encampment with an old
man near the central fire looking over documents and another digging a large
hole. One of the group went to investigate but the fog obscured him just a
little and although he panicked the digger, he was dismissed by Master
Wrenn as a figment that were plaguing the researchers. The artificial
intelligence went in and pretended to be someone sent from the Aeon
Priests from Auspar and was condemned to being a faulty AI as they did not know current events.
Another entered, who pretended to be one of the researchers, which
fooled Master Wrenn and convinced the digger he had taken a Cypher to
change his appearance. However, he questioned why they out there and was deemed
mentally unstable and was told to wait for medical assistance. He escaped and returned
to Master Wrenn who told him who he was and although the digger questioned
Master Wrenn's acceptance of who he was in light of what he himself had been
told.
Strix: Kaledon's Reprise - Next Broadcast
Sunday 3rd May 16:00 UTC
The squadron found themselves mid morning
in the Grey Market of Auspar. Although they weren't local to the area or the
floor of the city, the citizens didn't notice. Partially due to the rebuilding
of the market itself but also of the discovery of a dead body. It had been left
in a dumpster behind a restaurant. It turned out to be a man called Braxx, the
leader of the Guldspar in Auspar. He had not been seen in quite some time and
the fact he seemed to have been murdered by multiple blunt force injuries
deemed it a murder. The group tried to gather information but the crowd, baying
for someone to blame, turned on one of the group. The Guldspar of the squadron
turned the tables on the woman accuser and soon the crowd turned on her for her
lack of even circumstantial evidence. The body was secured, the
investigating Guldspar departed and the woman was escorted away by another
guard with a metal eye, who shouted at her for disobeying the kings orders, his
orders. In hushed tones however he told her to never breathe a word of what he
had said to the priests who were coming for her.
The group eventually found their way to
Ample's boutique and their contact Elvira. She forced them to hand over their
Silver Coins in exchange for more fitting clothes of the current fashion to
blend in and told them they needed to head to the Papal Spire. People were
getting sick, perhaps a contagion, only affecting people who had mechanical
implants. She had called in the Scry Hawks as she had illegally augmented one
of her own guards which was also against the tenants of the Silver Palm. The
man in question, Hotch, burst into the room from guarding outside and slew his
fellow guard for insulting royalty before turning on the group. They eventually
subdued him but not before the Guldspar came into contact with Hotch's
mechanical arm and his golden veins turned purple with a voice telling him to
kneel. They were interrupted before the killing blow by Elvira, her other
guards and two Aeon priests, they were there to take Hotch away to the Papal
Spire and to Holva's Ward.
They followed the Priests inside the Papal
Spire and used the Guldspar's new condition to try to get them into restricted
medical areas. They found that the ward housing the patients suffering from the
new infliction were heavily guarded. Luckily, after taking a vial of Gate to
the Forking Paths, the Guldspar was wheel-chaired to a nearby secure ward which
already housed a patient; Zevran Narrkonis, Lord Narrkonis' third born son.
While outside, one of the group was crashed into by a cart carrying medical
vials and was accidentally injected with a substance which created a crystalline
cast over his wounds. He tried to seek help from a nurse, who after signing him
in and away from the group and the general staff and public, violently interrogated
him for information on the King and the Scry Hawk's involvement, before
knocking him unconscious. The Guldspar, while unconscious, had dreams of being a
cobbler in a small shop. It then turned into a room filled with banners, high
backed seats and a very unique staff. As he awoke he saw the staff on one of
the screens on Zevran's skin and soon found out via the Datasphere Zevran was
next to the Kaldon's tomb when the seal was broken. The Guldspar wanted out but
the doctors and guards wouldn't let him in case he infected other Guldspar and
moments later, Zevran asked him for help.
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