Session x 127 "The Nether Sea"

Session 127: The Nether Sea

The trip towards The Dreamer took more than a week sailing through the stormy Forgotten Sea, the weather approaching nearly the level of Umberlee’s Asshole. A few days travel into the sea you came across a peculiar island, one not on any map, one that Bucky realized you had been to before on your first trip to Thylea. It was no island, but rather an ancient being known as The World Turtle capable of traveling through different worlds.

Gram and Bucky found this out by way of talking to the entity that ran the only establishment on the island, Shazum, a Marid, a type of piscean genie associated with the plane of water who Bucky ended up learning some painful secrets of.

Days after that encounter you reached your destination, where the constellation of The Dreamer had been leading you. All told the journey from Mytros to this point had taken a fortnight. Even though The Charm faired better against the elements than any ship any of you, even Gram with a lifetime of sailing, had ever known, it still succumbed to the enormous whirlpool known as Charybdis, The Ravening Mouth. Gram made the ship completely water tight just in time and gaining some control over the descent, made sure you did not capsize as the ship sank into the unknown.

After the movement and noise subsided you found yourselves upon a strange but much calmer black sea under an alien sky with stars that none of you recognized. You realized you had done it, you had reached the Nether Sea. Bucky spotted an enormous whale of a staggering magnitude breach the surface of these waters for air some couple hundred feet away and going over on the carpet of flying, found out a bit about where you now found yourselves. Using the ring of animal influence she was able to converse with the creature. The whale spoke of a being even larger than itself trudging through the waters dragging something massive. Gram and Bucky thanked the whale and said that if the whale ever needed any kind of aid they would repay the kindness.

Without an idea of where to go next, Bucky suggested Lola explore below the surface and when Lola returned 20 min later without much to report she was as large as the ship’s Chief Technology Officer, Something. An effect like the enlarge spell had taken place somewhere below the waves, but it seemed to subside as you continued on.

Eventually after finding what felt like it might be the boarder of this strange sea you doubled back, past the towering water spout that seemed to be the other end of the whirlpool that had brought you here. You spotted dancing lights in the distance. As you got closer you could see it was a structure made entirely of mirrors at strange angles to one another forming pyramids and geometric patterns. There was a hole in the structure large enough for The Charm to pass through, jagged as if something (not the formal Something) had smashed through.

Inside there was a smaller island filled with gems and jewels and the like, and as you approached, the internal surfaces of the thousands of mirrors all became filled with one face: Lutheria.

She laughed and taunted you, and as Bucky asked her about Lorelei she laughed even more. When Gram threatened to destroy her she laughed hardest of all and then sent a baker’s dozen worth of banshee’s from the ethereal plane to kill you and the rest of the crew of The Charm.

We pick up now, the fight just concluded, Chadwick and Pythor restraining a rhinoceros that appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the fight. But first let’s find out what Muffy, Rensig, and Rhys were doing during the fight...