Aerois - Episode 55: Explosive Revelations

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## Explosive Revelations

### Chapter

Aerois
55
Seven: Maiden Voyage

## Cast

### Players

Chris Trott as Lucius Virion-Elluin Elenasto

 Katie Morrison as Aila

 Kim Richards as Nova V'ger

Rhiannon Frost as Sentry

 Tom Hazell as Qillek Ad Khollar

## VODs

### YouTube

High Rollers: Aerois #55 | Explosive Revelations

### Podcast

Spotify: Part 1, Part 2
Apple: Part 1, Part 2

## Episode Guide

### Next Episode

The Last Brookstone
Hearts of Glass

**Explosive Revelations** is the 55th episode of the Aerois Campaign. It was broadcast live on both the Yogscast Twitch channel and highrollersdnd Twitch channel on 5th January 2020 from 5PM to 8PM GMT.

*Tensions are running high as truths are finally revealed...at great consequences.*

## **Summary**

### **Announcements**

* Mark welcomes everyone to the new year - 2020, "The year of the double crit" Katie interjects.
* Sponsers this week: DND Beyond. Trott plays a game "2020 Resorolltion" where he uses the character backgroundsavailable on all the sourcebooks that is easily searchable on DND Beyond.
* Mark thanks everyone for supporting the jinglejam
* Merch "prime collections"
* patreon and twitch channels to support directly and people encouraged to subscribe especially on twitch prime. Also podcast and youtube channels mentioned.

### **Recap**

*"Our adventurers in Aerois were in the Vivex city, a dragonborn society, a military society, where they were waiting to speak with the draconic general to get permission to leave the city, having reported various facts about Starbane and the world to his subordinate. However, the majority of our last time was spent aboard the Stormchaser, as party secrets became revealed. Nova's interaction with the ILS became apparent to Qillek Ad Khollar, who then proceeded to ask many, many questions and even use his Eye of the Storm to gaze into things beyond even Nova's knowledge. Conflict nearly occurred, but was avoided. However, the rest of the party spent their time searching the ship to try and find them, or having conversations with crewmates, new friendships were formed between Lucius and his current... wife, I suppose? Or bride, or, or companion... a member of the wolfpack, whose name I've not written down - Faeth, thank you. Bonds of friendship were formed as the realities of Lucius's drunken escapades became clear, in that it is a friendship bond of wanting to help somebody who is in a difficult position, more than anything else. And I believe we literally left the session with the Stormchaser taking off, having been given permission, to head off to the City of Glass, with a pseudodragon who has joined as a... scout is an interesting word, some could also say spy.*"

### **Part 1**

*High Rollers is back in 2020! The party are split and things are... awkward. Time for a nice meditation session!*

The party try to discuss their plans without the pseudo dragon Vis being aware. Lucius asks Oriya to give the messenger ring to Quill, for this meeting only. They pretend to meditate so that they can talk via the messenger rings. Lucius and Aila confront Quillek and Nova about their falling out. Quill lies and says it was about reaching an A. Plumbus' book. Nova is cold toward Quill and Aila picks up on it. Quill continues his obvious lies about their missing limbs and Nova is silently seething at him. Aila threatens them both. Nova denys anything is wrong.

Aila starts to leaves to go to Nova's room, Nova asks if the meeting is over and leaves too. This prompts the group to disperse and Aila, Nova and Sentry go to their own rooms, Lucius asks Oriya what is happening with the Stormchaser. Sentry's notes on the meeting just say "improvements need to be made".

They travel to Gisella for a week and a half. In this time Lucius makes it clear to the crew that Faeth and him are bonded. Quill and Nova have another conversation. Nova is surprised Quill didn't tell the others, he says it would have been too awkward. Nova asks Quills permission to show ILS a map to show Starbane so they can maybe get some more shards of Tiangong. Quill says the only way to win back his trust is to tell the others. He starts to question the gods, and whether they are gods at all. Sentry is resting as much as possible to try to see the beautiful visions of her past, but is beginning to shape them in fantastical ways and begins to forget that she is not remembering but inventing a perfect world for herself, making it more difficult to come out of them into reality. As they get close to Gisella, Oriya suggests finding some treasure in the city of glass so they can restock the ship.

Towards the end of the trip, Quill falls into an exhausted sleep and has a vision. H'esper seems older, more greying, tattered and weary. On the clouds they look down upon Aerois. H'esper explains the titans energies are waning. Quill ask what questions he should be asking. H'esper explains that Quill needs to figure that out or he will not really learn. H'esper explains that he is more like a ghost of a God, an echo of Siaska, rather than a God himself. H'esper tells Quill he is leading the way but it is Quill's choice to go down the path he believes is right. He tells Quill that something great is coming and that Siaska may be able to be brought back, but that the faiths of Aerois may not be on their side to defeat Kalus. He reiterates that Quill must go to the valley of storms to secure weapons and says that the future is in mortal hands. If the Cradle is destroyed, mortals are the only hope. A last note to him, Kalus is offering Nova something, find out what it is. Find another way to save the the universe.

The team are woken in the morning, flying over Gisella and going towards the northern tip to where they believe the City of Glass is. The crew is excited as they look over this new pretty and forested area, with quaint villages dotted around. Sentry tries to distract Quill as he attempts to pinpoint where the City of Glass is. She successfully delays them by 3 days, but Quill finally sees it on the tip of a peninsula, covered by forest. An eroded outer city with a swampy forest, surrounds a jagged scar of a city, a pristine glass city. A camp is spotted outside waving the flag of the capital's government. They have to land a couple of hours away from this camp due to the forest and prepare to disembark. Nova and Quill decide to tell Sentry what is going on after the city of glass is explored. Helios joins with Sentry again (as a 'fun cape'). The crew stays with the airship as the team of 5 leave to explore. Quill notices a group of 10 soldiers in tatty uniforms and armour. Led by a half elven soldier and a goliath woman, with a mixture of humans and dwarves making up the rest of the people. The half elven leader greets them and tells them to fuck off...

### **Part 2**

*Nova has some things to share with the team. Some reaaaal interesting things.*

Going back to the morning before the party lands. Nova is having difficulties holding in the huge things that have happened with Kalus and so seeks out Quill to say she has to tell the group, Quill unsurprisingly agrees, although questions telling Sentry. Nova calls a meeting... Lucius suggests another 'meditation session' to hide a meeting from Vis, and also suggests not only locking it in a cupboard but getting a hat for it, and then Nova gives it 50 gold to play in so it is distracted from the team's meeting. Lucius comes to the meeting happy that things are finally going the right way, Quill quickly brings him down by telling him that Vis is not his permanent pet. Aila stinks the room out by taking off her boots and the meeting begins...

Nova tries to warn them to stay outwardly calm as this information cannot get back to the dragons. She tells them about the ILS that she brought back to the ship, Sentry smashes the table in response and walks out of the room, and Nova and Aila follow her. Nova begs Sentry to listen, and mentions the letter Sentry wrote to her previously, a message of trust. Sentry is upset that Nova kept it to herself and they return to the meeting room. Lucius turns on captain mode, Nova explains what ILS is and how it has helped her see what is happening, but that she is not fully aware of its capabilities. She also relays that it thinks she is working for Kalus, but that it has made no demands of her. After some back and forth Nova lets them know that Kalus wants to destroy the cradle and Lucius suggests that Kalus is using Nova to collect all Tiangong pieces as he alone can destroy it. Lucius suggests destroying ILS and Aila and Quill relays that H'esper agrees. The group only believe that Nova is being manipulated. Quill tells the group of his storm eye vision, and the thread connection between Nova and Kalus, who is on a dying sky city. They all want to destroy ILS.

Quill wants to use his storm eye to try to discover where pieces of Tiangong are, a way to find them without Kalus' help. Just as they decide this is a good idea, Nova remembers that Kalus is sending a spy to her for information. Quill finally uses a charge and asks

"Where is the nearest shard of Tiangong that is not in my hand right now?" He travels north away from Gisella across the waves towards the hawks dawn archipelago it plunges beneath the waves and there is a sunken battlefield in the depths. It is Solwynn. A core in a hollow shell, there is a hilt of a bladed weapon in the style of Tiangong.

The revelation that Quill can find pieces of Tiangong makes Aila want to destroy ILS more. Lucius stays with Vis (who is trying to go with the others) while the others go to Nova's room. Aila smashes the crystal of ILS with her hammer and it cracks. They are all hugely injured, and the Stormchaser takes a huge amount of damage to its hull and it starts to descend, one of the wolf pack is killed in the explosion. Nova has a tomb of ice around her that Tiangong activates to protect her as she falls from the ship. Both Quill and Nova have feather fall tokens on them so start to slow as they fall. Aila manages to grab an unconscious Sentry to save her from the fall, but she is not strong enough to pull her up and she calls to Lucius to help in the messenger ring. Nova looks up as she falls and sees Aila struggling with Sentry she casts Levitate on Sentry to get her level with the ship. Quill casts fly on himself and flies up as he hears Aila's cry for help with Sentry. Aila pulls herself and Sentry up onto the ship and gives Sentry a healing potion, it saves her from dying but an eye is destroyed.

## **YouTube Timestamps**

00:00 - Episode Start
06:51 - Intro
08:02 - Recap
13:32 - Part 1
55:30 - Vision of H'esper
1:14:22 - City of Glass discovered
1:24:33 - Break time/Donations
1:31:30 - Part 2
2:26:20 - Quill uses his storm eye
2:32:25 - BOOOOOOOM
2:49:04 - Outro/Donations

*feel free to add extra timestamps of significant events!*

## **Featured Characters**

#### **The Stormchasers (Player Characters)**

* Aila
* Nova V'ger
* Lucius Virion-Elluin Elenasto
* Qillek Ad Khollar
* Sentry

#### **New NPCs**

* Character 1
* Character 2

#### **Returning NPCs**

* Oriya (crew)
* Vis - Pseudo Dragon
* ILS
* Helios

#### **Mentioned NPCs**

* Smeek
* Wolf Pack (crew)
* Kamarra (head of wolf pack)
* Faeth (part of wolf pack)
* Howard (crew)
* Lancion (crew)
* Penny (crew)
* Greylauno (crew)
* Lookout (crew)
* Kalus Starbane

## **Featured Locations**

* The Stormchaser
* Korsadi
* Gisella
	+ City of Glass

* Solwynn
* Hawks Dawn Archipelago

## **Trivia**

* CptnClusterDuck (39SaltyCookies on the High Rollers Discord) posted the stats and analysis for this chapter on Reddit.

## **References**

1. ↑ Chris Trott suggests "friend bond / bond friend"