Negotiating with Oberon (Session Summary)

**Negotiating with Oberon** details the events of the March 29, 2020 session where the party meets with Oberon to try to prevent a war with the Fae.

## Session Summary

* After three days of travel from Astropolis, the party arrives in The Strand with 20 minutes until moon-rise. Victoria volunteers to lead the party to the door, while Anastasios, Cecily, and Talos stay behind at Aneid Sparrow’s quarters.

* The group notices fog coming from the door at the seaside cliff in The Strand and makes haste for it. Just before arriving, a group of black birds descend upon the team’s carriage — it’s Eli, whose sudden appearance unnerves King Simon. After brief introductions, Eli notes that Oberon is building something in the water and encourages the team to hurry; they arrive at the door just in time for the moon to begin rising.

* As the team positions themselves in front of the door, Aedan moves to take Clara hostage, holding a knife against her throat. When Oberon makes his grand entrance, he is none too happy to see Clara at the edge of Aedan’s knife and suggests that the negotiations will end in violence, sparing only *Puck’s girlfriend.* Oberon summons several Kelpies in the water below.

* King Simon offers Oberon the option to open an embassy, which Oberon refuses. After some back-and-forth discussion regarding Oberon’s intentions, Aedan interjects with an insulting question that causes Puck and Oberon to fight, revealing some of Oberon’s insecurities. Using his insecurities to their advantage, the team is faced with an offer to propel the realm into a technological revolution to aid them in a fight against the gods. The team realizes that they don’t have enough information to help them make a decision one way or the other, and Puck urges Oberon to tell the team the truth of the situation.

* Oberon recounts the creation myth that mortals once co-existed with the Gods but were expelled to the world and shown mercy in the form of the Breath of the Gods to help guide them back to a righteous path, and reveals that this is only partially true. Oberon explains that, after a series of misadventures in claiming the world for their shared society, the Gods seek to gain control over mortals and their realm by exploiting them through mental control and forced obeisance. He further reveals that the Gods cannot come to Trafarna directly as the Fae have, due to King Simon’s Choice to reject his Vision.

* The team is faced with the dilemma: go to war with the Fae and risk countless lives in a fight over the city, or go to war with the Gods.

* Oberon states that he has no desire to rule the people of Trafarna but wants to have an easy means of transporting resources and individuals between the realms to assist with a fight against the Gods. King Simon allows Oberon to build an embassy north of the city’s walls, and Oberon’s crew sets to work.

## Quotes

**Oberon**: He takes a moment and rubs his forehead. "I will try to keep this as simple as you can all understand. You know the old creation myth - that the mortals once lived with the gods, but were expelled from their number and forced to live on the world, and then the gods took mercy on them and brought them the Breath of the Gods to help guide them back to the righteous path? Every legend has a kernel of truth hidden within it. This one - you once did dwell with the gods, and you left them and came here. " He scowls. "It's easier to tell one person."

**Oberon:** "Thousands of years ago, you mortals, the gods, the fae, we were all the same society. Your ancestors were colonists, sent to claim this planet for our society. Something went wrong. So the 'Gods' as you call them, were sent. And something went wrong for them, too. Then society collapsed, rebuilt itself, and then we were sent, to find out if any of you were still alive. You are. But we have to take control from the Gods, because the society they are trying to represent will kill you all."