RB 2-14: The Chaos Orb

Mission Report

Saturday, Dec 9, 2017 ((Mar 17, 2019))
Team: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Edward Chase (Aunne), Cyrus Riggs (Sielic), Zoraida Gurrande (Quorgi), Reina "Teacup" Saros Mireson (Basil), Cadeos (DragoN)

The Battle Continues

• Cold, wind, wall of blizzard separating the battlefield from Chicago
• Mr. Smith as dracolich has Chaos Orb in his chest
• You have grease and holy beer bombs
• With Unbound senses, dracolich is a being immense power, at least 275 HP, you've done 145 damage
• Exannarq motionless in the snow, observing
• DM: > Lyndron transforms from gunship to dragonbot, breathes fire on Mr. Smith
• Mr. Smith uses Wing Attack to knock Cyrus and Teacup prone
• DM: > Mr. Smith's jaws and claws both miss as Cyrus evades even while prone
  • Cyrus Riggs: Cyrus just throws Mr. Smith the bird the entire time he is dodging attacks while prone.
• Teacup hits Mr. Smith with Guiding Bolt, Lyndron follows up with a Bite
• DM: > With Sneak Attack, Proud takes down his former slave master, the dracolich known as Mr. Smith
• Aunne (D&D): Proud will run up his back and introduce him to a serrated longsword through the skull. "I quit!"
• DM: > Bron describes the Chaos Orb as containing positive and negative energy, in continual conflict, and barely contained by any vessel
• DM: > Lyndron punches into the dracolich's chest and wrenches the Chaos Orb out
• DM: > Lyndron is flung northwest by the power of the Chaos Orb
• DM: > Pixies try to polymorph everyone into cheetahs.
• DM: > Just Jane does cheetah
• Some Raptors move north to Lyndron, others salvage materials from the dracolich corpse
• DM: > Exannarch moves north to the crash site and observes
• DM: > Teacup uses Spiritual Weapon to dislodge the Orb
• DM: > Chaos Orb lashes out: opens portal, brings Hans statue to life, zaps Lyndron, Lyndi ejected (still unconscious, holding phylactery)
• DM: > Wasp ship (a spelljammer from the Astral Plane) crashes downward to the field

The Fulcrum Moment

• Time slows, snowflakes pause in the air
• DM: > Haelra: broken arm, something visible in her arm
• DM: > Time freezes, except thoughts in the Chain
• DM: > Perfidy: hit by a chaos bolt, disappears, drops Ivy's soulstone
• DM: > Danja and Res stayed in Sigil
• Hans Christian Andersen statue animates and speaks with Granny Bones' voice
• Granny Bones explains that this is a fulcrum moment
  • Attention of several gods attracted
  • Directions to statue
  • Take the Orb, the flesh golem, the dragon's skull
• DM: > Zora polymorphs Cadeos into an black allosaurus
• DM: > Bron and Lyndi are still unconscious
• DM: > Hans Granny Bones gives directions
• DM: > The Unbound are able to move, although the storm and snowflakes remain motionless
• DM: > Cadeosaurus moves the flesh golem and skull to the field
• DM: > Zora rides the dinosaur
• DM: > Chaos in the orb is frozen
• DM: > Hans statue, its swan, and the faeries make a ritual circle
• Lyndi and Bron have chaos energy in them
• Ritual starts
• Otherworldly presences
  • Exannarq: Primus: clockwork, cogs, gears, sparks
  • Perfidy (ghost): Luthic: orc woman, bags, pouches, talismans, bearskin
  • Lyndi: Lusifee: Wabanaki native American man, hunting leathers, beads, lynx
  • Haelra: Sehanine Moonbow: willowy-beautiful yet sad Mediterranean woman, long dress of silvery-gray fabric, plaited hair, with a silver bow and quiver over her shoulders
  • Ivy (ghost): Corellon Larethian: beautiful Mediterranean elf, flowers in his hair, wearing a light toga, casual and loose, with a starburst amulet
  • Safire (ghost): Erevan Ilesere: handsome, cunning male elf, black leather armor and black leather cap, raccoon on his shoulder
  • Draco (machine spirit): Herald of the Wyrm Princes of the Celestial Circle: Bahamut: platinum dragon
• Ordin Zarn (ghost)
• Skill challenges: Limited time and choices
  • Hans Bones suggests some
  • Free Ordin Zarn from the phylactery, let him pass on
  • Destroy phylactery and banish Mr. Smith
  • Free Safire Skyguard from the flesh golem, let him pass on
  • Free Ivy Skyguard from the soul stone, let her pass on
  • Resurrect the chimps and gorillas
  • The last act must be unmaking the Chaos Orb and spilling its energy where it will do little harm
  • Anything else
• Task: Destroy phylactery and banish Mr. Smith
  • Cyrus uses Bardic Inspiration on Haelra
  • Haelra uses necromancy to weaken the magic
  • Cadeos tries to channel Bahamut's will but fails
  • Proud uses Tradecraft and dismantles the box
  • Success
• Task: Free Safire Skyguard from the flesh golem, let him pass on
  • Phobos channels Lusifee's power
  • Success
  • Lyndi's arm is restored
• Task: Free Ivy Skyguard from the soul stone, let her pass on
  • Perfidy ghost steps forward, and lifts a wicked primal looking knife from a sheath at her hip and she whispers something to it in orcish. "Luthic, I call upon your wrath. Inside this beast there must be flesh of your children. Inside this beast there is the arm of a paladin that aided me, and the soul of a paladin that sacrificed for his gods and for love. I ask that you rend it, that you separate out it's pieces, and return to wholeness the ones who served."
  • Jane channels druidic power and Stygi bites the crystal
  • Success
• Task: Save Perfidy
  • Haelra uses necromancy to restore her life
  • Cyrus orders Perfidy's ghost to keep fight (20)
  • Success
  • Perfidy can't cross back to the living, but Lusifee and Erevan Ilesere show her how to merge with Lyndi
• Time's up
  • Chaos energy released from the Orb into the sky, harmlessly
  • Stasis effect ends
  • Spells cast: Jane, Erupting Earth; Haelra, Lightning Bolt; Zora, Fireball
  • Proud threw a dagger at the ship, too
  • Enough to deflect and destroy the Wasp ship
• Otherworldly presences depart
  • Bahamut gifts both Bronislav and Cyrus each with a dragon soul
• DM: > Hans Bones touches a hand to the skull of Mr. Smith and dusts it
• DM: > Ordin leaves with the Raptors
• DM: > Raptors take the pieces of the phylactery
• DM: > Flesh golem body moved to dracolich body, then Lyndron burns the pile
• Bron's Oath
  • As Bron speaks, a second voice blends in: someone feminine, intelligent, and supremely confident. Then a third voice blends in: someone huge, masculine, old, and cunning. Cyrus also join in, now knowing the words.
  • "By Haela Brightaxe's hand was I wrought, and by Bahamut's grace was I raised up, to inspire armies of the Light and to join my strength to their vanguard. May a wise and righteous general make shrewd use of me. May my jaws and claws stay sharp and strike true. May justice be served. May I bring honor and glory to the Wyrm Princes of the Celestial Circle."