RB 4-10: Defeating the Hag & Destroying the Vault

Mission Report

Fri, Jan 12, 2018 ((Dec 1, 2019))
Party: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Cyrus Riggs (Sielic), Proud Flame (Aunne), Cadeos (DragoN), Haelra Vayn (Basil)

The heroes continue their fight against the hag and her shadow mastiffs. Lyndi and Phobos arrive, and they help turn the tide. The team triumphs. The hag rapidly decays. Haelra locates an astral conduit out of Nails' mind. Proud finds Phoebe Wyrick's face. Daria Blake (the psychomancer) appears and offers the team a choice: they can accompany her in the Prime to check on Phoebe or backtrace the hag through the conduit. The team goes through the conduit. It leads to the Vault of the Box, which is still guarded by a large flesh golem with mechadead tech. After some preparation, the heroes battle the golem and destroy it. They gather further intel on the vault and the conduit device in its center. Then they open the conduit back to Earth, set explosives on the device, and depart. They safely return to Talarin Crystal Tower, outside of Nails' mind. The explosion evidently destroys the vault.

Drusilla

• Battle continues
• DM: > Through Jane, Dol'modeen says, "Dol'modeen says Fuck You!"
• Lyndi arrives, riding Phobos
• Lyndi delivers a silk bomber jacket, the Mantle of the Dancer, to Proud, who rolls n20 to slip it on
• Lyndi casts Bless on most of the team
• Proud attacks Drusilla
• Draco: > I extrapolate that the hag is beyond 50% injured
• Lyndi 4.0: Roger that, Draco. CYRUS! DRAW IT UP AND REPORT!
• Proud Flame keeps that huge grin... which displays his fangs to full effect. That's... a happy creature that's about to rip something's throat out.
• Cyrus animates a swarm of bullets
• DM: > Cy tries to Bardic Inspire Nails (whose mind they're in) and succeeds
• Drusilla drops Cadeos
• Lyndi 4.0: Lyndi watches Cadeos goes down, and she shakes her head like, "Oh no, that won't do." She sends to Jane, "Don't worry, I got Cadoes."
• Proud Flame: Chain: I'm on Draco. Cyrus - she's at 10 o'clock, 15 feet. Cadeos is at 12 o'clock, about the same distance. Don't step toward your left hand. I'll be back.
• Haelra's fireball takes out the remaining shadow mastiffs
• DM: > Lyndi's Spiritual Weapon appears as a lil UPS Truck
• DM: > UPS truck hits Drusilla from behind, Lyndi shoots her in the head, Drusilla is dropped

Regrouping

• Proud Flame [Common]: I got you. I'm on your left.
• Proud Flame [Common]: Also, dude? Your eyes are /really/ gross right now.
• Proud Flame [Common]: Remember the creepy dude? That level of gross.
• Cyrus Riggs: They do not feel good.
• Proud Flame [Common]: I can't imagine they would. They do make you look fairly bad-ass, however. In a 90's kind of Rob Liefiled sort of way.
• Proud Flame [Common]: Uh. Spawn. Comics. I'll loan you some.
• DM: > H finds an open astral conduit from the remains from the blood hag
• DM: > Lyndi Dispels the blindness on Cyrus
• DM: > Proud finds Phoebe Wyrick's face
• DM: > Daria Blake the psychomancer plans to investigate what happened to Phoebe Wyrick. The heroes can accompany her out of mindspace, or try to backtrack the astral conduit out of Nails' mind to where the hag came from
• DM: > Proud gives the face to Blake
• The heroes decide to travel through the conduit

Vault of the Box

• A room In the deep Astral Plane. Completely cut off from all outside connections, including divine and druidic
• Floor decorated extensively with tiles touting victories and accomplishments of the master across the multiverse
• Statues of captains and lieutenants who have fallen in service to their master.
• The Guardian of the Vault: a flesh golem, with Lyndi's arm
• Tiles in the Vault of the Box are the anchors for a ritual that creates and sustains astral conduits
• The dais in the center opens and closes conduits
• Several memories are drifting near the guardian, including some that Haelra believes are Nails' memories
• DM: > H perceives more memories, belonging to someone else
• The team spends a minute on healing up
• Draco: > The conduit back to Earth has closed. I believe we can reopen it, from the mechanism on the dais.
• Haelra: I don't mean to frighten the rest of the team, but those memories are here temperarliy, we shouldn't wait longer than we have to.
• Draco: > <-- used the healing time to perfect their record of the Vault
• DM: > A ripple of glittering light ripples up and down the sleeves of Proud's silk bomber jacket
• DM: > The flesh golem includes mechadead enhancements
• The team attacks
• The Guardian uses a thunder burst and fights with its fists
• Lyndi polymorphs Cadeos into a Giant Ape
• Proud Flame: "Evil begins when we begin to treat people as things." - Terry pratchett.
• bumblebasil (Haelra Vayn): I won't hesitate - Kaitlyn
• Haelra drops the Guardian

Wrecking the Vault

• Jane Irwin: Jane kinda... blinks a little. "...Huh. We /are/ kinda strong, aren't we?"
• Proud Flame moves up to the control pedestal - and around its base, he begins placing his two breaching charges.
• Proud Flame [Common]: We've grown up a bit.
• DM: > The heroes try to collect the drifting memories. Cyrus and Proud are the most successful
• Proud Flame will, after Jane's done, go and check her work, then slave those two charges to his P3. And then? He pulls out a dagger, and on the side of one of the columns, begins carving... something. It's just a series of symbols.
• DM: > Proud gets the Earth coordinates from H, which were left set in the mechanism, and carves them into the pillar
• Proud Flame carves the symbols for an escape - and really basic instructions - in thieve's cant around the base of one of those columns.
• Proud Flame will, finally - set a timer on his P3 ... and put it /on/ one of the breaching charges. He doesn't start it yet.
• DM: L burns her arm. J and H inspect the remains of the golem
• DM: > L burns the rest of the golem
• Cadeos: Ape plays with the spirit UPS car, letting it roll onto his neck and then jumping, launching it up into the air, before catching it in a king-kong fashion-all the while oo oo -ing
• Jane Irwin: JAne writes DOLMODEEN SAYS FUCK YOU on a pillar. In Sharpie.
• Team opens the conduit back to Earth, removes the bloodstone from the dais, and departs
• They return to the hospital room where Nails is recovering
• Proud urges everyone to get out
• The first explosion echoes through the conduit, followed by a much larger explosion, debris from the vault, and the collapse of the conduit