RB 5-5: The Covenant of Chain Breakers is Revealed

Mission Report

Wed, Jan 17, 2018 ((Mar 15, 2020))
Party: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Haelra Vayn (Aunne) (Basil absent), Shiro (DragoN), Sylvi (Daewendriel), Kromrak (Sielic)

The heroes finish taking the train, including killing Bolinoth. The train becomes a hydrofoil boat and follows the River Styx into a storm. A fulcrum moment occurs, in which eleven gods appear. The heroes use the moment to get a Hornwood Solution for Baator, free Proud from the archive shell, bring Ordin Zarn back to life, catch the essence of Bolinoth, and learn the identity of the Puppetmaster. The Puppetmaster is Quarsis, "The Patient One," an illithid elder brain. The moment ends. The team takes the slaves and Ordin Zarn with them. An eldritch whale consumes the rest of the train. The team meets the Tardigrade in Baator and returns to Sigil.

The Battle Continues

• Sylvi continues fighting her way to the front of the train
• Shiro starts freeing the archive shell
• DM: > Shiro deploys Chikara, who snaps one of the restraining straps with its mouth
• DM: > Jane turns into a giant owl, grabs Haelra, and dives inside the boxcar
• DM: > Gatriel is knocked off balance by the owl, but Sylvi helps her stay in the pass-through
• Lyndron attacks Bolinoth
• Bolinoth tries to flee
• DM: > Bron's tail attack ends Bolinoth
• Spined Devil shoots Phobos and flies away
• Lyndron takes out the last turrets
• Gatriel and Shiro break the last straps
• Shiro and Chikara move the prison to the end of the boxcar
• Spined Devil surrenders to Sylvi; she kills it
• Jane Irwin: The owl hoots and braces herself!
• The owl doesn't shove the prison much
• DM: > Kromrak levitates Proud's prison and moves it into the passenger car
• DM: > Train hits the Styx and hydrofoils towards Baator
• DM: > Sylvi confronts the engineer merrenoloth
• DM: > Train-boat is speeding into a storm
• DM: > Gatriel breaks a slave's chains
• DM: > Jane gets some Styx water
• Kromrak blasts the remaining chains of six other slaves

The Fulcrum Moment

• Fulcrum Moment
• Time stops
• Gods in the air, each at least 100 feet high; more vivid and present that in the park in Chicago; Outer Planes, their homes
• Lyndi has chaos in her, and Perfidy's ghost
• Haelra: wand burns
• The gods:
  • Bahamut (he/him): a platinum dragon with majestic wings; he has a regal, wise expression; a milky nebula slowly whirls behind his head like a galactic halo
  • Corellon Larethian (they/them): a beautiful Mediterranean elf, flowers in their hair; they're wearing a light toga, casual and loose; around their neck, a starburst amulet gleams with platinum and diamonds
  • The Dancer (they/them): a proud tabaxi of indeterminate gender; they are agile and wary, like coiled energy, whether speaking, moving, or just crouched and observing; their appearance melts and shifts every minute or so; now they have sleek black fur and a matte-black, strappy leather corset; now they have mangy brown fur and roadworn travel leathers; now it's something else, and now again; only their eyes remain the same, which is to say they constantly change
  • Erevan Ilesere (he/him): a handsome, cunning elf with Korean features; he's wearing black leather armor and black leather cap; a raccoon perches on his shoulder
  • Haela Brightaxe (she/her): a fierce, fit, cunning dwarven woman with pale, freckled skin and long, braided red hair; she wears sturdy studded leather armor dyed in a camouflage that matches the terrain around her; she carries a sword wreathed in flames
  • Lusifee (he/him): a Wabanaki native American man; he's wearing hunting leathers and beads; he's carrying a wooden spear with a metal head; at his side, a lynx is watchful
  • Luthic (she/her): a weather-hardened orc woman; she's wearing a massive bearskin with the head on her own, like a hood; beneath the skin, her robes are criss-crossed with bags, pouches, and talismans
  • Primus (they/them): a genderless clockwork humanoid made of plates of polished brass; the plates only partly cover innards of incredibly complex cogs and gears; the clockwork sparks here and there as they turn and spin; their eyes are featureless gray metal
  • Sehanine Moonbow (she/her): a willowy-beautiful yet sad Mediterranean woman; she's wearing a long dress of silvery-gray fabric, plaited hair, with a silver bow and quiver over her shoulders
  • Dol'modeen (she/her): a hulking humanoid of eldritch horror; five glowing red eyes lurk beneath a prominent brow-ridge; below diagonal nose slits, a tangle of long tentacles surround a circular maw of serrated teeth; her neck has gills that slowly ripple; her massive, muscular body has rubbery, black-and-purple flesh covered in slime and scales; her flesh is semi-translucent, revealing alien anatomy, muscles, and organs; she is draped in wavy fronds of bioluminescent seaweed; her arms end in finger-like tentacles, and she carries a fishing spear of salt-rusted iron
• Primus calls out Gatriel: she was pledged to Tempus, Lord of Battles
• Gatriel: I have forsaken Lord Tempus' banner and he cast me down; now I fight beside these mortals
• Corellon greets Dol'modeen and hugs her
• We lead the Covenant of Chain Breakers. We have called upon our followers and our allies to oppose the Malign Quintet

• Each Unbound can request one task, and receive help from up to 2 allies
• Rule of Three: each Unbound may contribute to up to 3 tasks
• Possible Tasks
  • Free Proud from the archive shell
  • Expedite Proud's recovery from the shell's effects
  • Capture Bolinoth's essence
  • Hornwood Solution for a location near here, so that your ship can reach you
• DM: > The heroes can sense that the merrenoloth engineer is fully aware of what's happening but can't move

• Much discussion among the team
• DM: > Haelra asks for a Hornwood Solution for Baator and succeeds, with help from Shiro and Sylvi
• Chaos builds
• DM: > Sylvi frees Proud from the archive shell, with help from Lyndi and Shiro
• Jane brings Ordin Zarn back to life, with help from Haelra and Kromrak
• Lyndi tries to catch the essence of Bolinoth, with help from Bronislav and Kromrak
• DM: > Dugmaren Brightmantle arrives, catches Bolinoth's essence, gives it to Lyndi as a black diamond
• DM: Dugmaren Brightmantle (he/him): an agile, hardy dwarven explorer; he has a big black beard, and it's a little wild; he has some twigs in his beard and some mud on his armor; he's wearing high-quality but well-worn brown leather armor; he wears a heavy pack; at his belt, he has a book on a chain and a pair of climbing axes with leather-wrapped handles
• Shiro asks the identity of the Puppetmaster, with help from Lyndi and Sylvi
• The Puppetmaster is Quarsis, "The Patient One," an illithid elder brain

The Moment Ends

• Time resumes
• DM: > Sylvi tries to warn the merrenoloth not to finish the contract
• DM: The merrenoloth tells Sylvi his name: Alroth Grenol
• In Sigil space, Max orders the Tardigrade into the Maelstrom, then to jump to the Hornwood Solution in Avernus, Baator
• All the heroes are in the passenger car, except Lyndron
• Shiro breaks the coupling
• Lyndron carries the passenger car away
• An eldritch whale rises from the river and eats the last of the train

• The heroes fly through the storm, into fog
• They witness the Blood War on the banks of the Styx
• They fly away from that, to rendezvous with the Tardigrade
• DM: > Team destroys the essence of Bolinoth
• Aboard the Tardigrade, the team returns to Sigil

• Slaves freed
  • Miley Nainyr, Aasimar Alchemist (she/her)
  • Thalanil Northana, Half-Elf Falconer (he/him)
  • Kymil Northana, Half-Elf Storyteller (he/him)
  • Rosania Skyguard, Elf Butler (she/her)
  • Diazo Cloudcrest, Human Parchment Maker (she/her)
  • Tarron Gris, Triton Midwife (they/them)
  • Piknup Daringsox, Gnome Shepherd (she/her)
  • Musaric Daringsox, Gnome Weaver (he/him)