Difference between revisions of "September 19"

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Continued immediately on from July's game:

The enemy stands before us, it is am avatar of Mephistopheles. He is easily 8 foot tall, and is brandishing a couple of Japanese long swords.

Ruben sneaks away and puts his journal down in the light spilling out of the doorway. Nothing seems to happen.

Ophion is lying on the ground, exhausted.

Mephistopheles attacks Nandi, shooting rays of ice at her.

The party attacks Mephistopheles. We try to banish him, but it fails. We hurt him a little. He casts ice spells, eventually creating an ice wall splitting the group in half.

Ophion gathers his strength and stands. He takes Nandi's hand and makes to leave. Mephistopheles tries to win Ophion over (telepathically) but Ophion stands firm.

The avatar of Mephistopheles disappears into blue light, which bounces around everywhere, as huge glowing orbs.

The kids and the dholes all reappear. The kids concentrate the energy into a single ball which Nandi blinks away.

Nandi thanks us for saving us. She explains he is trying to circumvent his own demise. The places are drifting further apart and he doesn't want to go the way of the others, he thought he would 'hitch a ride' on the new divine spark.

Nandi explains she and the other children are the guardians of the gate. The gods can't come here. Mephistopheles was only able to because he was linked to Ophion. It becomes clear to us at this point that we have all been manipulated into thinking the Leopard Orchids were the bad guys in order to get Mephistopheles to this place of power.

We learn that the gods have divine spark - radial energy that moves through The Spaces, and accumulates at the edge of the Great Beyond. This Lifelight has awareness and cannot be controlled, only coerced and with difficulty. It produces new divine sparks, each round different to before. It is anathema to the outer plains beings (such as the modern day gods).

We learn that the gods and the planes are not eternal. Gods rise and fall with and as the planes do. The more they ascend, the lighter they get, so it becomes harder for them to descend.

The power behind the Elder Gods makes them last longer than the new modern gods who come and go sooner.

We learn more about the Spaces - Chaos, Great Beyond, Lifelight, Otherwhere, Quanti, Threshold, Timevoid, Void

Nandi gives us a blessing each, specific to our needs.

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We leave, and we arrive back at Coro's Court. It has been about a week. Everything has returned to how it was before we left the town the first time - the tear in the sky, the riots (although they are calming down).

Ruben is sad to discover that he did not bring back any of the Lifelight in his journal (the trick with the book in the doorway).

We receive a message "The Semseers request your permission to attend". We give them permission. We hear them start to arrive instantly. We meet them at the teleportation circle. One steps forward, introduces themselves as Semseer Audell from House Gaoro, and asks a favour of us.

Semseer Audell tells us that the Semseers are unaligned so they need our help in putting off the White Wasps mega swarms which are expected any day. They explain the White Wasps are leftover energy from the Elder Gods being destroyed. Whenever a rift is created between The Spaces, they are attracted to it, to destroy. During major discontinuances, they can congregate into mega swarms, massive balls measuring up to 40km diameter.