Aerois - Episode 99: Shadowsong Pinnacle

Katie Morrison as Aila

 Kim Richards as Nova V'ger

Rhiannon Frost as Sentry

 Tom Hazell as Qillek Ad Khollar

'*Shadowsong Pinnacle* is the 99th episode of the Aerois Campaign. It was broadcast live on both the Yogscast Twitch channel and highrollersdnd Twitch channel on January 24th 2021 from 5PM to 8PM GMT.

*A snowy weapons facility, crates full of metal gear...will the party manage to pull off their stealthy recon mission?*

## **Summary**

### **Announcements**

* Mark welcomed everyone and introduced the players.
* There is a January sale on Fresh Merch.
* There will be something special for episode 100 next week.
* Keep an eye on Twitter through the week for new reveals and previews.
* Curse of Strahd returned last Thursday, the VOD should be up soon.
* Chaos Twins will be returning on Tuesday, and it will be CoS-related.

### **Recap**

"*Last time The Stormchasers, after pursuing a number of personal endeavours on Gusthaven - catching up with Captain Thalia Whisperwind as well as making plans with the mysterious Moonstar AKA Edea Elenasto - the party have begun to infiltrate a mysterious weapons facility. Quill, using the power of the Eye of the Storm, has learned the teleportation runes necessary to travel to this mysterious place and pursue Democles Magrona, who seems to be involved with the Cloud Barons and the Valkyrian Empire.*
*Setting themselves up, getting themselves geared up and ready, the party travelled to this place and discovered a very strange dock - an airship dock with a number of guards patrolling it and automated construct defences. The party have begun a stealth mission - successfully managing to avoid any detection thus far. Making their way into a loading elevator, they have made their way up into a snowy courtyard of some mysterious floating castle in the northern mountains...*"
### **Part 1**

*This uniquely successful stealth mission carries on in the Shadowsong Pinnacle!*

The Stormchasers and Moonstar make their way out into a large, open snow-filled courtyard filled with crates, two metal wagons and three buildings. They are clearly in some mountainous region in northern Aelseraph and the wind and snow is bitterly cold: Nova believes this is Shadowsong Pinnacle, a castle that existed pre-Sundering that has been rebuilt or refurbished. Shadowsong Pinnacle had a number of temples to the gods of Aerois built within it, and she recalls that when H'esper lifted the sky cities from the lowlands, sometimes other structures were lifted with them (in the same way that a lake was lifted up alongside Gusthaven). Shadowsong Pinnacle was lifted up alongside the Sky City of Kassatoris, but not bound to the sky city, so it was just left there and remained in the air.

Edea wants to find and destroy weapons, find schematics and discover who is responsible for this place. Quill uses his Arcane Eye to scout the courtyard while the party hides as best they can behind crates nearest to the elevator. There are five guards present, some patrolling and others on platforms around the courtyard; the party successfully uses stealth to take down and subdue the guards. They open some of the wooden crates to find supplies and weapons: rope, wood, steel and iron ingots, ballista bolts, short swords and crossbows and bolts. They then open some of the metal crates to find modified thunderstone rifles, small round explosive spheres as well as gigantic mechanical arms that are 10-12 feet long.

Nova sneaks into one of the buildings and sees rows of weapons and hears noises that she thinks is coming from an armoury.

### **Part 2**

*Sentry decides to take things into her own hands as the Metal Gear style stealth mission continues!*

The plan is now to move into the same building as Nova (which appears to be a barracks). Sentry wants to call the soldiers into a room, pretending to be an officer - she fails spectacularly. An actual officer enters, holding a hand-crossbow, throws a flashbang grenade and blows a whistle to alert other guards - he shoots Sentry twice.

The party attacks him and he is killed, however, more soldiers approach from other rooms. Quill manages to blind one of the three guards, before they manage to darken the room with magic. More doors open from somewhere above the party and footsteps are heard: thunderstone rifles are fired. Aila steps out of the Sphere of Darkness and kills two of the guards. Lucius takes heavy damage from two poisoned crossbow bolts. Nova and Lucius attack guards on an upstairs gantry while Aila chases one guard who runs away - she sees him just about to escape in the lift and throws her hammer to kill him, Sentry finishes off one of the last remaining guards.

They capture one of the guards and attempt to question him, but he declines to answer any of their questions and insults Lucius by referring to the murder of his family, telling him that the bomb was "one of the boss's". Moonstar hears his reply and asks him for information again; the guard replies that some things are more important that one's own life, at which point Moonstar is done with him and incinerates his skull.

Aila goes to recover the body of the guard that she left near the lift well and notices that the lift starts descending from their level, and seems to stay on some lower level. They find a Level 1 keystone on the officer and open the door to the forge/armoury area. Lucius wants to destroy the armoury - they enter the Forge and see an older human standing in the centre of the room: he has long grey hair that is tied back, a short grey beard, he is wearing a long coat with a high collar (that looks like a priest's robe), and on it is a symbol of an anvil with a sword laid across it with flames around it.

As the party moves into the room, he says, "Ah, welcome! It seems that you've made short work of my followers above, but now the Reverend is ready to give his sermon".

He summons into his hand a magitek pistol - a golden hand cannon.

"Welcome to Reverend Ocelon's holy temple!"

## **YouTube Timestamps**

**Compiled by *Themythicmystic* on YouTube**

00:00 - Intro (Songs: They Came From The Sky - Epidemic Sound at 0:45, Apollo - Dream Cave at 3:06, Tomorrow Is Another Day - Jo Wandrini at 5:28)
6:03 - Episode Start
7:10 - Announcements
8:28 - The P Shenanigans
11:07 - DUN DUNS
12:05 - Recap starts
13:22 - Recap ends
1:30:24 - Break start
1:40:51 - Break ends
2:57:32 - Gameplay ends
3:00:34 - Ending donos

## **Featured Characters**

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

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

## **Featured Locations**

* Aelseraph
	+ Shadowsong Pinnacle

## **Trivia**

* Mark mentioned after the episode had ended that the Duergar in the lower levels is called Volcor Draven
* Trott finally realised this week that this portion of the adventure is based on Metal Gear Solid