Alabaster Jaguar Azimuth Session I

## Preparation

Ensure all players have models for their characters

Pull out a model for:

* Four guards
* Grand Master General Hu
* The foldman
* A Crazy Wizard
* An amount of worm models for every member of the player party minus one.

Draw out the visible portion of the prison complex.

Recap story so far!

> Prisoners almost escaped the testing facility after having almost drowned, burned and fallen to their deaths.

more of the prison complex remains!

## The Remainder of the Prison Complex

Crossing the chains, they are bound to a portion of the wall. This leads to four guards who are keeping a door guarded. The walls of the room are a dark obsidian stone and there is an artificial lighting that pulses with a crimson hue. The guards are easily dispatched but ensure that they have asian theme with their attacks and style.

The door states 'Do not enter, Rayg generation in process'. Players have no where else to go and as such must proceed through the door or get very bored. Inside the room is a brass cage with copper plates in a matrix surrounding something that is sending out a glowing red energy. The rear of the plates that face the rest of the room and the party are attached to a complex array of vacume tubes, electrical systems and instrumentation. The vaccume tubes are cracking with a coarse red electricity as they seem to siphon energy from the source within it. Investigation rolls gain advantage with formcaste based dust plain hailitage or an engineering background to see with a 13+ that this is Rayg™ energy generation (15+) and is considered the harnessing of hatred and passion into electrical energy. (18+) This is considered by those in the trade a 'dirty' energy that is volatile and harmful to many electrical circuits (20+) and must have systems build specifically built for it that can take its level of stress and eratic wave formation.

The chamber can be broken open and the explosion will deal 5d10+10 lightning damage that deafens and paralyses those within 100ft (larger than the room) for several minutes. This can be prevented if the chamber is disconnected at the wall where the chamber is sending the syphoned energy. If this occurs, the chamber overloads and explodes dealing 1d10+2 lightning damage and 1d10+3 fire damage but releases the prisoner.

A PC fire genasi by the name of Phi is present and will likely join the party

A hole is blown in the wall and natural light floods the room and the party may escape to the arena.

## The Talentstone Arena

The party walks through a corridor. There is a stern shift from black to white that contrasts intensionally. Natural light floods the area and a short distance has the players see the surrounding obsidian stone go from dark to light in a deliberate line. Players feel themselves stronger and more confident than they regularly feel and a nature check of 15+ can be made to detect this as white talentstone. Those with mining or stonecrafting background can take advantage on the roll.

The area looks as if carved out of the peak itself. Where many disciplines have removed the peak of the mountain to make a flat expanse, the peak has been hollowed into an arena where all surfaces from seating to tables and every ornamental fixture inbetween has been whittled from the mountain itself with nothing added.

Grand Master General Hu stands at the top of the arena and announces himself. He introduces himself as the reagent lord of the land since the disappearance of the Temperial Emperor. He describes the threat that faces the land which is the Oni Isles far to the west. Although the threat is kept at bay for the majority of the time, once every four years conflict descends and it prevents the land progressing in a way that he sees fit. Many lives and resources are consumed by this conflict and he sees no need for it to continue and cannot explain why it has been tolerated for centuries. A full scale invasion is impractical and the Oni will defend their land with a homeland advantage costing the mountains of one thousand disciplines much. The only solution is for a small specilized 'Azimuth' to go and cut off the head of the beast and let the body wither.

He reminds all that there is a potential for any parties formed in this arena to become sponsored by the government of the land earning the official title of 'Azimuth' even before the mission of proving is complete. An Azimuth has the complete support and backing of the governing body of a land and may aquire lodging, resources, gear and even reinforcements if requested with few things declined.

If seen as one of the four parties expected to win, the party will be notified that their group is sponsored and will upgrade from a standard adventuring party to an Azimuth. while at least twenty parties are departing, only four Azimuths will be selected at any one time by the Mountains of One Thousand Disciplines.

All parties, Azimuth or not are still in the running to be selected for the task of assasinating the Oni King. Each party must bring back an item of immense power or significance with the party with the most impressive item being selected.

## The Steel Arrow Foldery

The party that seem to have bonded in their escape attempt find themselves heading in a western direction. Unsure of what they are looking for or their end goal, they begin travelling to the nearest public aerodrome that is used for public and private transport over great distance, a foldery. The Steel Arrow Foldery is considered one of the greatest folderies in Kuroken second only to Foldery Prime, an equally large foldery that is logistically close by only a few hours road travel. The Steel Arrow Foldery deals more so with freight and cargo, crafting parchment vessels that are reinforced with wood and in some cases alloys for increased structural integrity. This depot also dispenses packages with smaller crafts piloted by magic.

The foldman, the general manager of the facility is racing around the place ordering people about left right and center putting out fires and structurally trying to repair things. It seems that there has been a catastrophe here. He informs the party that there is no time to chat as a disaster happened last night. One of the machines exploded and many came to work in the morning witnessing dead guards and their place of work on fire. The party is interrupted by an executive who comes over with what seems to arms full of golden acorns and a piece of parchment. "Foldman Geyobe, we found evidence of a break in and theft but it's... strange"