C6xS15 "Cliff Hanger"

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"Cliff Hanger" (6x15) is the fifteenth session of the sixth campaign of Auraliyaen. Just when the party thought the hardest part of the island trial was behind them, they end up having to face their past to reach the future...
== Synopsis ==
=== Announcements ===
* Changes to Medic SS (Procedures). Also teased the release of the Engineer class and the return of multiclassing. 
=== Part I ===
As the infant island guardian curls up in Rolym’s hands, Xavier is reminded that he has another life he could be living. Deciding that he really is too old for this, he bids farewell to the group and leaves his shield and filled-in bingo slots with Rolym.
As Rolym finds a skull lying around to put the little amphibian in, Lavi asks Vex to find something on the raccoon girl as a memorial to give to her family, should they find them. After going over what was left of her, she is able to find an ID.
Deciding to camp just behind the waterfall entrance to the cave, the four call it a night. Owing to her debilitating skull fracture, Lavi rests through the night, while the others take turns keeping watch of a questionable quality; With Rolym being effectively blinded again, owing to the crashing waterfall blurring his vision; and Vex falling asleep.
In the morning, as Rolym takes the little guardian out to the bathroom, Vex helps Lavi patch up her wound as best she can. Holding mirrors and lights as she bends to stitch what she can reach.
After some discussion over breakfast, Rolym decides that it would be best if they finish the bingo sheet with as little combat as possible. Leaving “Locate and plunder a treasure or relic worth K7,500 or more” as their only option. So, they make their way to the riddle settlement where Rolym summons Tazza, who gets to digging before his master can even finish his request. Thanks to his determined digging however, Tazza missed the instructions discerning what was treasure and what was food. Eating pearls and gold, whilst leaving worms and burrowing creatures behind.
Taking advantage of his summons, Lavi suggests that they ride to the beach where she saw the burst of lightning, in the hopes of finding lightning glass. Rolym increases the bird’s size, and all four are able to mount him. He gets a running start atop a cliff, where he then keeps running - instead of flying - through the air.
At the beach, the team quickly finds glass in a crater on the beach. After checking his tablet, Sade notes that nothing has changed before realising that the glass is all too new to be considered a “relic”. Shortly after, Tazza squarks from the water to Rolym, telling him that he found a shipwreck under the water, after following some crabs. Upon closer inspection, the party notices a trail of crabs carrying necklaces, gold, and other treasures to the water and back to the shipwreck after the tide had carried it away. They swim to the bottom with Tazza ingesting enough gold to satisfy their bingo sheet. Lavi pinches the ship’s flag as they swim upwards. A Jolly Roger with fangs and three eyes. On the beach, she notices a golden, glittering crab still holding on. Tempted to take him home, she names him Jolly Roger after the flag she found him on. In spite of that, realising he may be the crab captain, she throws him back into the ocean. As Jolly Roger slowly sinks, tugging at the flag, the group’s tablets light up with a pixelated Lewah cheering, and a countdown to the end of the trials.
After Lavi patches herself up again, a set of coordinates is sent to them. On their way to the location, they come across a camp and consider taking a break. Unfortunately, their rest is short-lived as four boars emerge behind their albinistic leader, who crashes through the tent.
Feeling on her toes having recently fixing up her injury, Lavi analyses the leader before going in with a scalpel from her kit and slashing at one of the smaller pigs. Only wanting to stay near it if she’s attacking, she quickly hops out of the way again, only to be knocked by him as she runs past.
Rolym lands a punch on the leader before flying into the air.
Vex summons her Ekisona snow storm over the swine, freezing their fur and not much else. The snow makes Lavi nervous.
Frustrated and cold, the pale pig goes after Vex. Doing significant damage as he tosses her in the air, and makes her lose concentration. Fading out the snow storm.
Going in, Sade attacks one of the smaller pigs. He misses several times before finally landing a hit.
Realising the damage on Vex was actually intense, Lavi injects her with a revitalising serum.
In an attempt to keep the healer alive, Rolym then grants Lavi a barrier and hovers in front of her, taking the brunt.
Not done with his grudge against Vex, the big boar flips Vex. In her frustration, she summons the snow storm once more before coating herself in a shroud. She is then shielded by Sade, who notices the leader charging again, and slashes it. The pain from the attacks accumulates into a rage. Triggering it to stab Sade with his tusks.
Under Rolym’s guard, Lavi heals Vex once again. Feeling that she’s safe, Rolym then flies off to try and finish off the white pig. Launching it into the air, he lays into him, like a character from ‘Wyvern Orb X’. Vex also joins in the finisher with her scythes and intensifies her snow storm.
Sade keeps the smaller boars at bay with his sword. He manages to kill one, but the other two retaliate by ramming him. Wanting to help, Lavi uses her Syringe Singe to burn them, but gets hurt trying to jump away again.
Rolym powers up one final punch and defeats the boss boar. Scaring the others away.
=== Part II ===
Finally, free of danger, the party takes a short break. Lavi preserves the big pig in the hopes of making a barbecue to celebrate with the other contestants at the end of the trial. However, at the location, a beach, there is no one, and nothing but a finish line marker, as well as footprints leading off into the forest. The party is able to determine that other contestants may be hiding to finish off other contestants in order to make the final trial easier.
After heading some distance into the jungle again, Rolym brings forth Tazza once again and asks him to do what he does second-best. The muder chicken excavates a burrow for them to rest in, as well as several decoys to trick any nosy contestants, and the party rests for the night, hoping that 9am will come quickly.
In the middle of the night, Lavi was woken by a disturbingly large earthworm at her feet. In a burst of adrenaline, she quickly stabs it and kills it before noticing her tablet glitching. In a panic, not wanting her bingo to be forfeit or worse, stolen, she turns the tablet off, and hopes for the best before going back to sleep. Morning comes and the tablet still displays a cheering, counting Lewah.
On their way back to the beach, as they walk through a ravine, three men reveal themselves. All with ties to some of the party’s past:
One one cliff, Resi, a monk two years senior to Sade who was at the top of his training. He cracks his bones and somehow his pecs as he revels at the thought of thrashing Sade.
On the other, A swordsman who has a bone to pick with Rolym. Intent on seeing just how he shamed the family.
A scientist sent by his superior Artemis, Vex’s little brother, who says little more than needed before running off.
Wasting no time, the swordsman goes straight in. Sending two air slashes straight at Rolym. One hitting him, and the other he decides to chomp as a taunt. 
Resi, meanwhile, rapidly and firmly claps, sending harsh airwaves and hitting Sade, deafening him.
Vex summons her Ekisona again, creating another snow storm as Rolym summons Tazza and flies onto the cliff where the swordsman stands. Just in time to avoid a sudden explosion that affects the rest of the party. After climbing up the cliff, Sade flashes behind the swordsman only to get hit by his hilt, despite his flawless technique.
Looking at the other cliff Lavi hopes to corner the monk by firing a dread hedge behind him. However, her trajectory is wrong, and it spreads across the face.
After pointing to and taunting Rolym as he hides in the trees - revealing that he, too, has blind sight on top of his regular vision; the swordsman parries most of Sade’s attacks before unleashing a flurry of swishes that slice both Sade and the area around him. Adding insult to injury, the monk lands a flying kick on Sade, knocking him both in the teeth, and unconscious. 
Whilst both opponents are occupied Tazza digs beneath Resi, taking the ground from beneath him. In his nimbleness, he grabs the side of the cliff, but his exposed back proves to be a clear target for Lavi who fires a shock shot. The electricity fizzles, but the bullets do their damage.
However, their wounds quickly vanish like nothing happened.
Wanting to give him a taste of his own medicine the monk then throws Tazza off a cliff before grabbing a torpid Sade by the ankle with a morbid grin. He’s able to steal a scroll from his pocket before Vex sweeps in and misses before successfully grabbing her ally back. Down in the valley, Tazza scoops Lavi into the sky in time to sight the scientist hiding behind a rock and casting another explosion over the main battle. Sick of his hidden antics, Lavi fires a D.jhii behind him, flushing him out of hiding as she shouts to the party that he’s healing them.
Thrilled by the act of throwing creatures off cliffs, the monk decides to make Vex fly, where she once again summons her snow storm. Wanting to be far away from the storm where she can help it, she asks Tazza to drop her near Sade where she revives him. Royally peeved, Sade wastes no time in throwing Resi off the cliff again where the scientist unapologetically causes another explosion over both Vex, and the monk…
== Featured Characters ==
=== Party ===
* Lavi Yelu
* Sadé Zayassi
* Rolym Lamus
* Xavier
* Vex Rydiah
=== Non-Player Characters ===
*Giant Worm
*Unnamed Swordsman
*Resi
*Unnamed Gaudy Scientist 
=== New ===
* Giant Worm
*Unnamed Swordsman
*Resi
*Unnamed Gaudy Scientist 
== Inventory ==
Adjustment	Count	Item	Source	Location	Notes
 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
== Quotes ==
*Madge: "Who wouldn't be sacred of a 3-sword-worm-man?!" (When GM accidentally reveals the swordsman standing in the den before describing the worm)
*Sadé: "I always hated it when you did that | Resi: "What? It makes 'em piss their pants! | Sadé: "Hoo, I'm gunna enjoy this..." (After Resi cracks most bones in his body, and somehow his pecs)
*CaramelBus: "Are you a willing creature?" (To Madge before Tazza picked up Lavi)
== Trivia ==
* Crit Counter: # 
*Goroawase: The session number (15) can be read as 'Ingou/いんごう/因業', which can be written to mean a 'results of actions in previous life'. This may refer to the three characters who ambushed the party having strong relations and connections to the past of several player characters.
== Memes ==
File:It's further than we thought.jpg
File:Hope VS Reality.jpg
File:Rolym Vex Sade VS Backstories.jpg
File:Team NPC VS Party.jpg
File:Sade VS Resi.jpg
Category:Campaign Six
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