The Eclipse Cathedral

### Date Played

22nd of August 2020, 5th of September 2020, 19th of September 2020, 3rd of October 2020

## Premise

### Session Pitch

Our Heroes have found a flyer asking them to come to a small town in the Piksar Protectorate called Timeless Hollow. It requests that they meet a mysterious VV in a tavern called the Layzee River in the middle of town for the details. It promised a reward to those who showed up and answered this call. The five heroes; Tutu Kid; Millie Nair; Decimal, Weaver of Fate; Lincoln C. Rulean; and Elexa Unit 41-3A all make their way to the town nestled at the foot of a mountain range. They learn that they are here to find the residents of this town, all of which had disappeared in the night.

## Plot Summary

#### **The First Episode**

The five heroes join together to investigate why the sign says the population is three rather than any normal amount you would expect for a town. After some confusion about where they were supposed to meet the one who put out the flyer, they arrived at the Layzee River. They went downstairs into the main part of the tavern to find Victor V., the toon who called them all here. Victor and the other members of the town fill them in on what's been going on, with a brief pause on the story quest to ring the town bell. When they arrive at the Eclipse Cathedral they find out that a Genasi man named Sirius has kidnapped the members of the town and probably a man named Rags that Victor told all of them to look for.

Tutu Kid takes the initiative, attempting to scale the side of the Cathedral to get higher quicker. With a failed wisdom save, they were unable to climb past the second level. Millie Nair brought Tutu Kid back inside, reuniting the group. They check out the two doors available for them and find that the rooms beyond are strange and possibly reality bending. They make their decision to go through the left door, where a small Wild West town awaits them.

#### **The Second Episode**

The team entered the Wild West town to find that the only occupants were two people that our good Doctor Elexa recognized, Bandits, and a couple of suits of Armor. A battle commenced as the Bandits attacked, Elexa's friends diving behind a barrel for safety. Many things happened during the fight, including the rescue of a bonnet, a display of quite a few of the party's abilities, and a very angry Elexa splitting one of the Bandits in two with a surgical saw.

Afterwards, our friends talked with the two people and realized that something weird was going on. Decimal specifically noticed that these people aren't who they think they are. Tutu Kid makes friends with one of the Armors, who told them with pictures and movement where they should go. The party leaves the suspicious people and Clink Clank behind, moving ahead through the jailhouse. They acquire some loot, and pass on into the next room where they are greeted by Axiom the Fox. Through a short conversation they learn he was hired by a Frankenalie Toon, and that the people they had met in the last room weren't real.

The party ascended the stairs, preparing for their next choice between two doors.

#### **The Third Episode**

Our intrepid adventurer's checked out both doors that they had come across. The left lead to a large room with shelves and shelves of hats. The right, lead to a forest recognized by Tutu Kid. There was some heavy argument about which door to go through, with the aforementioned child pushing for the room full of hats. They ended up going into the Hat Shop, thus meeting a Yupyean Bluebird named Sophia.

Sophia told them that there were some scary noises coming from the back room, and they opened the door to find a broken fountain that wasn't supposed to be there. The team worked together to fix the statue, causing the fountain to start pouring water. It started to turn, moving to the ceiling which opened up. The team makes it up into the next room, where they saw Axiom the Fox all set up. Another argument ensued, with Tutu Kid ending up tossing the fox gold for a box of treats.

With that transaction done, the team moved up the staircase to the next level. Here, they saw a single door, through which a lonely wind blew. Decimal took a moment, and realized that the Eclipse Cathedral itself did not like what was happening here, and wanted the team to succeed. They moved into the room, seeing the wasteland before them, the ruined town, and a castle in the distance. As they moved to the town, a man with white hair ushered them over to him.

They meet up with Roderick, aka Rags, and they all discuss what's going down. Roderick had only been able to spring Nimbus Affray from the cages before being chased out of the one room in the castle. He asked the team if they have a plan, and Lincoln sent his familiar, Bit, in to scope out the scene.

##### **What Bit Saw**

Bit spirals above the ruined town, flying easily over to the castle. In front of the large, intricate doorway in are two dark, shadow creatures. They are definitely guarding the way in. In the upper part of the castle room is a window, that they fly into. Catching on the rafters, they look down upon a room covered in cages. A Genasi Man stalks the room, two keyblades at his hips.

Sirus: "Where are they? You idiotic creatures, I need them. All the others are all burned out."

The cages seem to be containing cowering shadowy creatures with yellow eyes, in all different shapes and sizes. As Bit is watching, the five chairs that are filled with Toons spark, causing the ones in the chairs to seize in pain. Each of them are pretty unique, there's a toon Stapler Remover, a teenager-adult with pure white skin and spiral glasses with a strange symbol on their red shirt, A pink and purple hairy monster with ties in her hair like pigtails, A rather large bird that is speaking completely in Grawlix and waving their bird-like legs back and forth, and a Yupyean Lighting bolt-like Toon who has a very jagged witch hat and is definitely the color magenta.

The three shadowy creatures outside the cages are moving along one side, turning over various boxes. They all seemed to be on the left side of the room.

#### **The Fourth Episode**

The team create a plan to try to not have the hostages be involved. They don't go with the plan at all, and things go funny. They all had a good time fighting, with Decimal, Weaver of Fate getting caught in a couple of traps. They end up causing Sirius to laugh so hard that he fell to the ground, leaving it very, very easy for them to turn off the machine that was draining toons and turning them into shadow creatures. With that taken care of, Millie comes over and separates the pendant from Sirius' neck using her scissors.

In doing so, the pendant sends a Negative Energy Flood out, downing two of the party members and harming Millie. Lincoln started to turn into a shadow, his feet having been swallowed by the darkness. Luckily, Elexa used her last third level spell slot to bring Lincoln's feet back to normal. With the pendant destroyed, Sirius was released from Zeyah North's control. He then proceeded to tell the part about Zeyah North and how Roderick and him knew them.

Zeyah North was responsible for an attack on Roderick and Sirius' home town, which pulled the two boys and their friend Katarina into the conflict. Katarina's soul was stolen in the process, but was returned to her through the efforts of Roderick and Victor Vole. Sirius doesn't remember what happened, but Roderick remembers. They left the room with the castle inside the Cathedral with the hostages all free from their cages. They meet up with Axiom the Fox again and manage to gain some old information on the whereabouts of the Frankenalie Toon who hired him. The last time Axiom had seen the toon was in the largest city in U.P.A. dressed in the same dark robe that Axiom is wearing.

Axiom the Fox left disgusted, before the party left and rejoined Victor Vole in the Layzee River. There, the Vole gave them the rewards he had promised them.

## Cast

* Heartless (GM)
* Snailcomix as Tutu Kid
* Noa as Millie Nair
* RJMeta as Decimal, Weaver of Fate
* CaffeinatedCryptid as Lincoln C. Rulean
* D as Elexa Unit 41-3A

### Other Appearances

* Victor Vole
* Sirius Emmerich Theydark
* Roderick "Rags" Asgrim Gylass
* Axiom the Fox

## External links

The Eclipse Cathedral pt. 1

The Eclipse Cathedral pt. 2

The Eclipse Cathedral pt. 3

The Eclipse Cathedral pt. 4