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Mission Report


Thursday, Dec 28, 2017 ((May 26, 2019))<br/>
Team: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Proud Flame (Aunne), Cyrus Riggs (Sielic), Cadeos (DragoN), Haelra Vayn (Basil)
== Briefing ==
* Zoraida Gurrande (Quorgi): some of the lore and loot was stolen goods from the Metaphysical College of Paris; she's escorting these items home
* Nails and Max are preparing for presenting the Raptors' plan to CRA
* Magical inventory taken
* Team situation
** Building a better team takes trust. We've had some challenges building trust in this team
** The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: first is Trust
** One challenge in the different loyalties many of you bring. Having multiple loyalties isn't a flaw. In fact, it's a fairly-usual part of being Unbound. By nature, you are often drawn to different causes, and want to make the best use of your finite lifespan.
** But it's healthy to get the loyalties out in the open
** Let's go around the table. Please describe you current personal loyalties (besides R3M and Raptor Blue) and relevant individual goals.
** Lyndi: has Safire Starfire's right arm, Chicago PD Special Threats, trickster gods (Lusifee, Erevan Ilesere), orc goddess (Luthic), Greek god (Hermes)
** Proud: We can now speak openly about Proud's situation and how it was resolved. Proud and Lyndi, please explain. Also, what you want to be called
** Nails reminds Max to have Proud sign a contract
** Cyrus: Cryos sent you to this team to represent your world's interests.
** Nails: 3 dragon souls: Draco, Cyrus, Bron. The Herald and retinue of the Wyrm Princes of the Celestial Circle.
** Cadeos: The Order of the Four Dragon Paths is becoming significantly more involved in events. This includes loaning talent to this team, and taking ownership of the fortress of Ramshead. Do you have anything to add about the Order or your personal goals?
** Jane: Where are the druids in all this? "Zookeeper of the world", wants to protect the Chicago zoo (after what Mr. Smith slew the apes)
** Haelra: Please elaborate on what brought you to Earth
* During the team building discussion, objects magically appear in Lyndi's possession, and she spontaneously speaks Gnomish
** Lyndi Fletcher: Lyndi gets up and starts doing some movements using a glock in one hand and Shadowbiter in the other.
** Lyndi Fletcher: Lyndi nods a little to herself, and slips them both back into her holsters, tucked into the small of her back. Then she sits down at the table and begins to finger through the bag, picking one of the vials (because it's lavender and looks glittery) and looks like she's trying to remember what it is.
** Haelra Vayn: Haelra looks over at Lyndi and just gives her an expression of "Do not drop that" and "maybe figure out what that is before you pick it up and move it close to your face"
* Sielic requisitions gloves?/exotech to improve strength
* Lyndi needs to rest, Nails will run some scans and tests
* Priorities
** Talking with Ordin Zarn
** Purifying the jumpcore
** Then the "camping trip"
== Talking with Ordin Zarn ==
* A male half-elf wizard. He is tall and lean, with long, wavy brown hair. He wears simple gray robes, a large leather shoulder bag, and a guitar. His age is difficult to judge, perhaps fortysomething.
* The Zarn family has been victimized by the Adintech conspiracy
* Ordin's father is Tundin Zarn
* Tundin Zarn married Bree Ambersheaf, traveled in The Dawn Chaser (a spelljammer ship)
* Tundin was made into the living book Tundinzarn
* Silent until Haelra uses a spell
* Ordin's ghost is weak and confused, and fades in and out of existence for hours or days
* Ordin haunts pages of Tundinzarn; currently Through A Mirror Darkly
** '''Through A Mirror Darkly:''' This is a thick page of parchment, approximately 19x13 inches. The left edge is torn, as if it's been ripped from a book. The medium is colored ink, in a pointillist style. It depicts an aristocratic woman in a conservative dress of Victorian style, looking in a mirror. Her reflection is the same woman, but in more suggestive makeup (e.g., bright red lipstick) and clothing (e.g., plunging neckline, short hem, fishnet stockings). The title of the picture is inscribed in neat text under the picture. The reverse side is blank. The page holds a very strong aura of transmutation.
* Wrote Hymn 101, put it out in the multiverse
** First verse: his father is Tundin Zarn, who he was looking for; the scene of throwing pennies from the seatop matches a tradition in Icewatch, where Tundin raised Ordin
** Second verse: "lazy horses" are ignorant, useless government people
** Fifth verse: legendary takers could be devils, the League of the Rusted Crown, illithids, or the Takers faction of Sigil. We know from Haelra that the Takers are allied with the League.
* What Ordin knows
** Cyrus (military debrief protocol): their servants and their surplus = League and the surplus bloodstones, the League demands a cut, which often serves to drive up overall production
** Cadeos (intimidating him to review the verses): the more I buy the more I’m bought = selling your soul by using bloodstones
** Haelra (strengthening her spell based on technical knowledge and experience raising undead): their raincoats and their speed = Reaver Cloakers; we don't understand how the Reavers are involved in the Adintech conspiracy; we know that a Reaver Cloaker named Gelganag was a leader in the League until the Raptors slew him
** trade the harvest for the seed = the harvest would be bloodstones, metabiotic crystals, or something else; Ordin was collecting it, and was ready to trade it for the secrets of Adintech
** "Find the Circus Divergia"
** Haelra has Ordin's ghost move to Towers of Greed page
== Ancient Ocean Power ==
* Nails returns with Lyndi, Max explains that a new kind of soul threading is happening
** Existing connection through Safire and Ivy
** The explosion of the Chaos Orb used the connection
** Perfidy's soul is merging with Lyndi's
* Op briefing
** Team has a jumpcore from Fortune's Edge, corrupted by a Great Old One of the ocean
** Dol'modeen, She Who Claims the Last, a face of the Devourer
** Know the location of a temple on the eastern shore of Oban on Tessera, on the Salfina Ocean
** Kingdom of Gray Waters, ruled by lizardfolk
* Some research on Dol'modeen
** Not much is available
** Max: The, uh, elves of the Shangon Empire in the west didn't put much effort into understanding and documenting a lizardfolk demigod in the far east.
* Cyrus prays to Bahamut
* Bron flies the team to Talarin Crystal Tower, team uses a jumpgate to Tessera
* Arrival on the hill
* Proud finds the temple
* Proud and Lyndi sneak up, find the undead lizardfolk in the first floor; they smell awful
* Temple walls have inscriptions in Draconic about Dol'modeen
** The essence of the dead are mine
** Burned, ashes travel on the wind, fall on rivers and lakes, flow to me
** Burned on the water, come to me even faster
** Buried, the worms eat your flesh, the wood of your coffin decays, traces of you seep into the groundwater, flow into river and lakes, flow to me
* Team climbs up to the second floor
* Temple is weather-worn and abandoned
* Team finds a barred metal door with an abstraction of a sea monster
* Inside is a small shrine to Dol'modeen, with a statue of her form (tentacles, teeth, eye stalks)
* Dol'modeen reaches into the team's Chain: "At last, more servants to execute my will!"
* Lyndi offers mushrooms
* Team bargains with Dol'modeen
* Enemies
** Lizardfolk, Crude Mechadead (14)
** Lizardfolk Brute, Crude Mechadead (6)
* Dol'modeen, She Who Claims the Last
** Actually a face of the Unraveler
** Hates undead
** Gave the jumpcore to the Astrid for Fortune's Edge, because the Astrid promised no undead would ever ride aboard the graven hulk
** She lied, and sent undead to break my temple and cut off link to this planet
** My faithful followers tried to stop the undead but were corrupted by the Astrid's machines
** Cyrus and Draco have dragon souls, can accept Dol'modeen's blessing
** In exchange for Dol'modeen lifting her curse from the jumpcore, team agrees to: clear out undead from temple, carry teachings of Dol'modeen to Sigil, and not carry corporeal undead on a ship that uses the jumpcore
* Team starts fighting the undead
** Lyndi uses Turn Undead
** Jane casts Wall of Fire
** Phobos tanks
** Undead use clubs, javelins, and spiked shields
* Battle continues

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