Session 27

Session 27

Session begins

The party has just climbed out from the wagon to observe the fighting treant and mountain giant

The hill giant seems to be winning the fight. Ryan wants to save The Treant. (how well did that go?)

Vjenga approaches and casts Calm Emotions, the Giant is affected but The Treant is not. In the time that the spell is cast, The Treant takes an opportunity to strike the giant.

Langar approaches and asks if the giant will allow them to pass if the party helps them. They say yes.

Ymna approaches and asks The Treant to stop, using druidic. It doesn’t seem to acknowledge him.

Vjenga casts banishment, The Treant disappears with a fun pop. She tries to convince the giant to move and asks why they were tusslin’.

o    The Giant says they moved into the woods and were attacked by The Treant. Considering that they are whippin around a whole tree as a weapon this makes sense.

Langar asks Vjenga what the plan is, as she begins to explain The Treant reappears.

Initiative

o    Qo goes first. He holds his action to cast lightning bolt until Ymna moves out of the way, and tells him to do so.

o    Langar is next. More lightning. As he takes out the javelin, dark clouds curl around his forearms. As he throws the javelin, lightning follows its path and strikes The Treant. Fuckall damage. As the javelin returns to Langar, the party can see amber bubbling within The Treant’s damaged shape.

o    Venphira moves up closer to The Treant. She hits it with the homestyle classic. This Treant is getting clobbered. Venphira realizes she can heal people. She hexes The Treant.

o    Solla uses a radiant sun bolt. Mo big damage.

o    The Giant moves in and smashes the fuck out of it with the tree club.

o    As Ymna moves on his turn, Qo’s lightning bolt goes off. Venphira, Langar, and the Giant auto-succeed their save with the help of metamagic. Ymna casts entanglement.

o    On Vjenga’s turn it is established that the amberification has been described as a plague, or a curse by the Aesir to forsake the people of Midgard.  Pretending it wasn’t spoilt 😔. She spends the rest of her term healing the giant.

o    The Treant explodes. Langar, Venphira, Vjenga and the hill giant all fail. Vjenga takes no damage because of the insurance. Venphira fails the subsequent wis save and has a vision of the sun, surrounded by stark pillars. The ground beneath her rumbles as she sees the sun open up. Like Sylvi’s vision, the sun is winged and screaming. In the places of her friends, she sees multiple versions of Ulfred and Morgana.

o    Qo moves closer to Venphira to try to cast cure wounds. She pushes him away because he looks like Ulfred.

o    Venphira is still screaming. As Qo had looked like Ulfred and tried to approach her, she attacked him twice.

o    Ymna grapples Venphira, it’s a Christmas miracle.

o    Vjenga tries to cast remove curse, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

o    After being grappled again by Langar, Venphira shakes off the amber illusion.

She asks Langar what he’s doing. Solla is right up against her face. She explains that she saw multiples of the Lumleys rather than the party. Ulfred and Morgana ride up on the carriage on the left.

THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA BURNS AS MY CONNECTION IS TERMINATED BY THE TRIFLING OF JOSEPH.

o    Please fill in what happened hee hee.

Solla and Langar help Venphira back to the cart.

Ymna and Vjenga have a look through The Treant shrapnel. In the corpse, there is a squirming root. Vjenga picks it up and offers it to Ymna. She wants to replant it in the woods. Ymna sees that it can be used as a druidic focus, and knows that they can take the squirming root without harming the forest additionally. He explains this, keeps it, and gets in the cart.

The next day, the carraige’s travel is calm.

On the road, the party crosses paths with an older (Saoki) man who is drawing out the landscape.

Solla politely questions them about their facial hair.

The party can overhear Ulfred talking about commissioning this person. While they are talking, the party can see into his bag. There are maps and art supplies. Ymna spends 12 platinum on an ornate map and art supplies, and one silver on parchment.

Solla explains where they learned the fourth rule of wizardry. They continue their discussion with the party members and try to draw a line between magic and facial hair.

Is Solla cold-blooded? The debate continues. Here’s some related reading about arctic dinosaurs, found in Alaska’s North Slope, which lends credence to the theory that they were warm-blooded.

Ymna makes a painting of Langar while Vjenga inspects the map. Ymna finishes his painting and gives it to Langar.

o    He thanks Ymna for the painting, and awkwardly reaches up to ruffle his hair. He gives it back to Ymna to hold on to until it dries.

The next day, the party arrives at the Queen’s castle in Thorath. It is circular, builds upon itself, and resembles more of a fortress than an ornate building.

Leonidas joins the party in the back. Langar asks if his armor will be an issue, Leonidas doesn’t think so.

Vjenga gets to a cliffhanger in The Radiance.

As the party enters, they can see the Queen(s). Queen Bergljot is wearing plate armor, has red hair, and is seated in a throne beside her wife. There is an ornate battle ax at her side. Her wife is not at all muscular compared to Queen Bergljot, and wears a pink dress. They have two children who are trying to escape their formal wear.

The lockers lock and unlock with the touch of their respective guest.

Vjenga keeps her healer’s kit and component pouch.

Langar, obviously, keeps his armor and waits outside Ymna’s changing room. While he waits, he can overhear two guards gossiping about his armor. They tell him he looks great, he tells them they do not.

Langar hurts their feelings.

Morgana and Ulfred have changed. For Morgana it’s more of the same Lady D drip. Ulfred is twinning Venphira. He changes into a trix yogurt outfit to avoid matching her.

Ymna tries to bring the flask of fuck you. It takes no less than 10 minutes to figure out how Ymna attaches a branch to his boob and stuffs a flask in his pits.

Ymna emerges from his changing room with the world’s next big accessory and a flask in his pit. He tries to convince Vjenga that this is a Jotunn cultural practice to woo a mate.

By the narrowest sliver of luck she susses him and offers to put the vial in her component pouch. She holds it for him.

Vjenga goes over to talk to the guards, Langar joins her. She asks if she can bring her healer’s kit, they say that there will be no need and it’s not permitted. She eventually backs off to change and sneaks both the pouch and healer’s kit under her dress.

As the party leaves the locker(?) area, they bump into a pair. One is a translucent and refractive dragonborn. They have amber eyes, are 6’3” and hunched over. They are trying to keep a low profile but struggling. Their gem dragon heritage is moissanite. 😩😩😩😩 The other is Burt’s character, Kijin. (Like Kaiju with an N)

 Kijin is a finely dressed tabaxi. They wear a hood.  They introduce their dragonborn companion as Eðr. (pronunciation - Etr?) Kijin asks for the party names. Langar introduces the party as The Deliberators, and Vjenga introduces him and herself (to his chagrin).

Kijin asks Jinx if she’s part of The Warrens. She and Vjenga get defensive.

Solla asks Kijin where he’s from. Kijin says that they aren’t “from” anywhere in particular, their work takes them to all sorts of places.

Solla introduces themselves as Thirashtath Grekax. Vjenga would be taking psychic damage if she could.

They also say that they are from the south of Alsvartr and are working for the Lumleys.

They seem completely nonplussed by Solla’s lie and ask to talk to them in private. Kijin stays with the party while they enter the hall proper.

Kijin asks for Langar’s name again. He gives him the deliberator name again. Vjenga apologizes for his ‘tude and has a short conversation with Kijin. Kijin says that they are a courier of important items and they seem to be honest about it.

Langar continues to be rude and then wanders off to find Johannes. Before he goes, he tells Vjenga that he’s looking for someone. He walks off before she can ask him questions.

Johannes is blond and has a slightly disorganized beard. He has a red cape attached to his armor, and is carrying a HERD of pigs-in-blankets. He doesn’t notice Langar initially.

That changes when Langar shouts his name, startling nearby people. Johannes speedruns a few pigs and runs over the Langar to lift him into a hug. What a beautiful reunion.

Langar gives Johannes the rose that does not wither. Johannes seems to be considering eating it.

Johannes asks why Langar is present. He explains that the party is employed by the Lumleys. Johannes has ranked up, promoted by the master of the military who has taken a liking to them. They are trained in order to succeed the current military master.

Langar explains in vague detail how the party came to be employed by the Lumleys. He also says that he knows where Jongar is. This seems to concern Johannes. Langar says that he needs to train a little more, and Johannes offers to help him. He says he’ll “drop everything”.  Langar says that his friend is a spellcaster who can get in contact with him.

Langar asks what he’s doing later. Johannes says he’ll be eating, and offers to eat with Langar. They discuss getting a room as well. 👀 They agree to find each other and head to a tavern after the party's over.

In a different area with Solla and Eðr, the latter cuts an apple and hands a half to Solla. They briefly discuss their shared confusion over beards. Eðr asks Solla if they have heard about the gathering to the west? East?  ??????????????????????? It’s west but I’m not sure if we’re doing a lying thing.

They try to grab Solla’s face. Solla avoids that. They say that they can’t see so well in their old age, and then they namedrop Solla.

Solla tries to pass it off as a common name, Eðr says dragonborn names are generally unique. They then namedrop Esirar.

Solla tries to lie/stretch the truth and explains that The Phantom Queen’s troupe mentioned them, Eðr seems nonplussed. They ask to join Solla at the dragonborn gathering. They say that they are both interested and responsible as Master of Information for what happens at the wedding.

Solla says they don’t know much (cap), and have to talk to their party before they can get the a-ok.

As Solla and Eðr are moving back to the party, Solla encounters Sihinionwho seems surprised to see them.

When Solla says that the party is here with the Lumleys, Sihiniondescribes them as a “bad batch”. They also describe the council as made up of 8-9 people.

As they return, Vjenga and Jinx are having a conversation about alcoholic indulgence. Kijin is an enabler. He flags over a waiter and gets a drink. He ignores Langar when he says he wants one.

Langar explains that he found his friend, and he’ll be going to a tavern after the party. Vjenga moms.

Kijin’s drink goes missing. Coincidentally, Jinx brings Vjenga a glass of wine as a peace offering at this time. Vjenga slugs it.

Langar asks Ymna if he’s enjoying the party. He says he doesn’t go to social gatherings much. Kijin and Langar are passive aggressive to each other.

Riley was 50% sleeping.

What’s new with Venphira? Qo has been eating.

Venphira puts a hand on Vjenga’s back. She observes that she’s never seen Vjenga drink before. She says dryly that she was thirsty. The two of them split off to go get Venphira some wine and a replacement for Kijin.

I’m really sorry. There’s a good chunk of video where about 25% of the screen is taken up by sigYmna’s shaft base.

Venphira and Vjenga cross paths with Johannes as they go winehunting. Johannes is still wolfing down pigs. He cautiously offers them some pigs in blankets as if feeding a wild mare. He says he’s not familiar with the “upper crust”, Vjenga laughs and asks if he’s making a joke. Johannes is perfect for Langar. He asks Vjenga to explain knock knock jokes to him.

Sihinionis eyeing Qo, he appears to be very curious about him. Qo explains that he’s an air genasi. Sihinionhas heard of an air genasi but doesn’t seem to have seen one. They continue to ask Qo questions about themselves.

Session ends

o    Closing Notes

§  Sylvi still has the sending stone.

§  The party was unable to tell if antimagic was present.

§  My bedtime reminders are largely ignored 😔