Session 21

**Session 21** is unofficially titled “Clockwork Revolution”

## Summary

After Falcher murdered Nesisk and escaped from the headquarters building, the crew leaves to pursue him. After exiting the building the crew hears rustling coming from a nearby bush, Leon spits into it and yells at whoever’s hiding to come out. A man with pointy ears and purple robes exits the bush. He asks for Leon to introduce himself and extends his hand to him for a handshake. He then reveals himself as Agiarn, who has been hired by a “certain rebel group” to capture an individual. He asks the crew if they are aware of haki, and demonstrates his proficiency in armament haki by creating a barrier in the air capable of absorbing strikes.

He then demonstrates his observation haki by leading to the crew in his direction by sensing his aura. The crew and Agiarn enter the central tower and go down the elevator. Along the way he explains that Falcher has a strong aura, meaning he has good potential in haki but is unaware of it, and that he detects strong auras among the crew as well. After entering the basement once again, they investigate around the room and come across a vent cover leading to a narrow hallway. After Leon breaks the vent cover with his fist, the crew enters one by one before coming across a split in the path. One path leads to a room with an oversized treasure chest, and they enter it.

To get onto the chest, Stede transforms into his beast form and Kushay throws pieces of his skeleton onto it until he can reform. Stede manages to open the chest by driving the end of his spear into the latch of the chest and forcing it open, revealing another oversized chest inside. Stede manages to open the next chest perfectly, revealing a chest of average size inside of it. Stede attempts to open the last chest before it suddenly begins to speak. The chest turns out to be sentient and has a pair of legs, and introduces himself as Chester. He thanks Stede for freeing him and Stede tosses him out of it before climbing out. After Stede tells Chester his name and that he’s a pirate, he asks if he could tag along with them and how he could be of use to their crew. Stede happily accepts his offer and welcomes him aboard, as does the rest of the crew. He explains that he had been imprisoned inside of those chests for weeks after Falcher deemed him a rogue golem, despite being different from any other golem.

The crew and Agiarn begin to traverse deeper into the vents coming across a room with a single rock golem. They enter and see that it is cranking a lever, but it stops and sets it to be automatic after noticing them. Stede tries to offer it a handshake but it attacks him, Stede then turns off the lever in retaliation and ends up getting hit once again. A fight starts with the golem and Low destroys it. After having dealt with the golem, they reach the end of the vents and enter a giant circular room with a massive gear on the floor. They see Falcher and multiple golems of various types beside him, as well as an inactive robot. Falcher uses Nesisk’s soul to animate the robot into a golem, and it bursts into a rage. The crew engages in a battle against Falcher’s golems and attempt to get Nesisk to come to his senses. Eventually, Low’s words get through to him and he turns against Falcher. After Falcher is cornered, Stede tells him to give up, which causes him to accept his defeat. Falcher asks Leon to come over to him, he whispers something in his ear and tears off a piece of his suit and hands it to him. Falcher has one of his golems face him and then speaks “Clockwork Revolution” out loud, causing it to launch a gear out at him.