How Oelios Got its rings

This is a dnd session summary written by @ Napsaur on most socials!!

The intro: We begin in the town of Sonas of the Lumierenth Empire, where modern day Solaris now sits on its ruins. This City was large, being a passageway through the Lusepar Mountain range that separates the Lumierenth Empire and the Aeslitriral kingdom. The city is just a glow with celebration, there are children running everywhere, a bard and their band plays music in the town square as paper stars are hung from market stall to market stall. You see couples dancing their hearts out laughing and swaying to the music. For everyone knows that tonight is about the greatest meteor shower to ever happen, for high Vothulean mages are gathering to try to bring the comets just close for everyone to see without getting too close to the planet. Lucky you! You have just saved the city from a local dragon terrorizing it, as a thank you they are letting you have the summit of this particular mountain all to yourselves tonight, the best view seats could ever buy, and you didn't even pay!

Intos

Bootlace Donna - 2 ft Amanita. a tiny mushroom guy having a baller time. El backflipo.

Amaya Juno - Llavaine, 4 ft, outcast, farmer lumberjack who decided to become a wandering hero.

Vivianite Cryptkeeper - 7’7” mozimite, many limbs, death aura and unsettling silly, sentinel, grave guard, old as hell, nature reclaimed, being silly, stoic but zippy.

Orion - Vothuela circle of moon druid, old as hell, arcane guy, became an adventurer for knowledge

Plot time!

Tall spiraling towers, vothuela, purple/blue/gold banners, a joyous time, a power show in the Lumierenth Empire.

About noon, early afternoon. Music playing, bards singing, ect. Perception check! Someone put shoes on Bootlaces Donna. The moss was too fuzzy. Amaya sees some kids running around chasing a cat. There’s a lot of people dancing and music playing. Vivi notices stalls along the way, run by navese, vothuela making her way toward the group. There’s some kids making flower crowns. Orion sees a lot of generals hanging around and having fun in the celebration.

Bootlace wanders around, Viv looks at stalls, Amara approaches the kids. The kids offer Amara flower crowns, and she accepts. The kids hug Amara :) Bootlace does a funny dance for the kids, and they dance back. Bootlace uses echolocation to see! It looks so neat! Like Toph.

Viv approaches the stalls! A common navese is at the stall and welcomes Viv! She’s selling 9 things: bracers, a color changing rose, a horn, a mask, a medallion, another medallion, a jar of salve, a rope, and a stone. She asks what Viv would like. Viv looks at the mask. It looks like a big cat, lionish, fluffy, scary. Viv looks toward the rose. Bought a chromatic rose. It’s black, acid.

Orion talks to some generals, they want a break. They’re like 20s and bugging Orion as an old man. They’re smirking at each other, people watching for partners. One of the generals is . a little uncomfy because Orion didn’t get the joke. Did he miss something? He doesn’t get out much. They can tell . rip. They’re keeping the Lieutenant from making more jokes. Orion heads off after a handshake. He goes to dance.

Amara and Bootlace are buddies because feywild magic

Think of Tangled for the dance scene. Orion is listening to music, not focused on the bards. There’s three, an arceax playing cello and singing, a becalies playing bass, and a mimiku playing the fiddle and dancing.

Bootlace goes to dance with the band. Everyone is vibing.

Amara wanders to the stalls with Viv and looks at the stone and bracers. She buys the bracers of archery.

Bootlace dances a mushroom circle and dances into it to become invisible to hop to the stalls. The saleswoman explains her wares and Bootlace looks at the stone. It’s shaped like a cat head with gems in the eyes. Bootlace tosses some gold up. Luckstone!

Sun begins to set, the party keeps going. The party members roll out a blanket to have a picnic on! The mountain is super pretty, swirling marble structures. The meteor shower begins!

Perception check! That one comet is. Looking a bit too close. OH NO IT CRASHES. This is glowing. Orion can’t quite tell what it is. The thing is rolling. Paws and tail. A giant white lion!!! It also has a sword in its mouth! Super long tail. Viv asks if attacking is the best option. Orion and Amaya agree that not killing is the best idea. Nonlethal damage agreed. Bootlace dances at the thing. Amaya holds a hand out to it. It wants to play!

Roll initiative!!!

* Viv runs up to the lion and tosses a trident in its general direction to play with it!
	+ It looks confused. Stick? Why stick? Already have stick. Viv says trade stick. Why? Why trade? Fetch. Already have stick.
	+ The lion is playful! Viv moves closer and casts shield of faith on Bootlace for a +2 to AC
* Big Lion gets closer to Viv and swipes at her for 38 radiant damage.
	+ Viv reaction grave escapes 60 ft away because holy shidd. Ouchie. Bootlace stops dancing. Smells like rotting fruit now :(
* Amaya asks why the lion hurt them. The lion says it is playing. Amaya says you have to play carefully. She moves forward to the lion and casts shape water to make a cat toy for the lion to play with. It splashes it, gets soaked. It is not happy with the water :( it wants to keep its stick. It made the stick! Amaya wants to look at the stick. It almost drops the stick, but snaps it back up. It wants to play! Play with Amaya! Amaya casts hunter’s mark.
* Bootlace sees Viv get hurt. He can see it kinda? 55 movement speed. He runs up to the lion! He’s not here to hurt the lion! He’s here to play! He activates his godly shenanigans and hits the lion for 30 damage and an additional 24 damage. Second attack! Hits for 28 damage. The lion is super excited to play! 4 more damage. 19 damage. It looks less excited, but still playing. Bootlace then moves away
	+ Lion opportunity attacks for 44 damage.
* Orion moves up to Bootlace and asks about lethal or nonlethal damage. Boot is just playing. Jamming. The lion jams too. Orion pats Bootlace and then casts investiture of ice on himself. Immune to ice, difficult terrain. He morphs into a liquid for like 2 seconds and becomes fire! Elemental wild shape into a large fire elemental with ice.
	+ The lion thinks Orion is made of the sun and is very excited.
* Viv moves to the lion and casts vampiric touch. She casts spells. 16 necrotic damage to the lion. She gains 8 back! Her hand inks her fingertips and sorta infects it. Bonus action! She turns into a form of Dread! She backs up. Dark energy surrounds her and she gets horns! Spooky!!
	+ It whines and is afraid.
* Lion goes invisible! (Bootlace can still see it because of vibrations). Viv counterspells it. Invis pops away. It casts healing on itself and gets points back.
	+ Mysruth is watching with “something else”. Harvey . haervye. Harv. the guy. The man ever. I am part of the harvey apologist team. Harv. he’s betting on the fight too
* Amara shoots at the Star Lion for 10 damage.
* Bootlace jumps over the wall to fight the Lion. He dropkicks the Lion for 51 damage, and then attacks a second time for 28 damage, then disengages and moves 5 ft away.

The lion turns around and looks upset, swiping its tail at the party. Combat ends. Bootlace is jumping over the tail of the lion. Amaya runs over, Viv runs over too. Viv gets within 5 ft of it and also starts jumping over the swiping tail.

Orion drops his wildshape and ice, and then approaches the lion as well to try to heal it. He gets swept up by the tail though, and lands like 10 feet back. Viv tries to grapple the tail and fails, but keeps jumping. Amaya approaches the tail and tries to grapple as well. She makes it to the tail! Her hands have gone into the tail and she cannot get out of it. Uhoh.

Viv tries to grab onto Amara and makes it! The lion is getting antsy. It looks like it’s about to jump. Orion scoops Bootlace up and grabs onto Viv.

The Star lion leaps into the sky, dragging the heroes with it. They do not feel afraid. They are safe. They watch the planet spin. There is no life or death up here. Just you and the comet. You circle.

The lion runs faster and faster. You watch the world evolve.