Aerois - Chapter Ten: Far From Home

Katie Morrison as Aila

 Kim Richards as Nova V'ger

 Rhiannon Frost as Sentry

 Tom Hazell as Qillek Ad Khollar

**Far From Home** is the tenth chapter of the Aerois campaign. It was broadcast live on both the Yogscast Twitch channel and highrollersdnd Twitch channel between 3rd May and 21st June 2020, and consists of seven episodes.

*In Chapter Ten, the party seek to return to Aerois after being flung across Astral Space! They navigate alien worlds and encounter a host of new enemies and challenges, but find they aren't the only ones evading the Empire’s clutches. So many miles from home, can they trust their new allies?*

## Summary

After exploring Ishtar City, the party makes their way to the Star Port, a large floating ring above Ishtar where astral ships dock and refuel. They hope to find a captain in one of the bars, The Last Feather, who will be able and willing to take them home. They briefly consider employing a skull who accidentally suffocated his last crew before settling on Thalia Whisperwind, a Medusa, and captain of the Twinstar Longbow – she is mightily drunk but is prepared to leave in eight hours. Nova is rather taken with Thalia and becomes a gibbering mess around her.

While they are making preparations to leave, they are contacted by The Wings of Ishtar, a rebel cell of Celestials that opposes the Valkyrian Empire and its oppressive rule, and meet with its leader, a Solar called Zellion. Zellion offers his aid to the suspicious party and offers to assist in infiltrating the Tassadar and rescuing Valla – all they need to do is provide uniforms, ship schematics, officers’ medals (that will allow them access to various areas of the ship), and a time that they plan to raid it. The group departs to leave with Captain Thalia, and they are pursued by Valkyrian forces before they manage to get on the ship and blast off.

Thalia tells them that she has heard about a contest with a Demon lord that may result in them winning a ring of three wishes – Thalia says that she will assist them with this but wants one of the wishes, and that playing this game can be their payment for her transportation services. As they enter a region of space called the River Styx, a slipstream between the planes that connects worlds together, they are attacked by a number of small raider ships. The party aids in fending off the attack before an Illithid nautiloid emerges into the slip-space and attacks them, too. They manage to fend off a boarding party, avoid psychic attacks, and escape the Illithid ship, but Thalia’s Imp navigator, Bym, is lost in the battle. She recommends meeting with an Ultraloth, Zaxravos, who owes her a favour and may be able to supply them with schematics of Kalus’ flagship, the Tassadar.

On meeting with Zaxravos at an old, ruined mining station in the astral plane, Nova is surprised to see that Zaxravos bears a shard of Tiangong. It is soon discovered that Zaxravos has set a trap for them, hoping to hand them over to Kalus for a reward, and he sets a number of constructs and his henchmen, Glorp and Glarp, the Mezzoloths, on them. They manage to defeat the foes arrayed against them, make their way into the asteroid to storm Zaxravos’ ship, and recover both the schematics and the shard of Tiangong, just in the nick of time. Zaxravos is allowed to live but is warned not to come after them.

The party heads to the world of Azagrat and the pleasure city of Zelatar. There, in a place called the Argent Palace, they hope to help Thalia win a ring of three wishes in a game against the Demon lord, Graz’zt.

## Major NPCs

List of major NPCs encountered in this chapter.