Saturninity

*Saturininty* is the title of the ninth episode of the fifth season of S.H.A.D.O.W. and the fifty seventh session of the entire game.

This session was played on August 18th, 2019

## Saturninity

### Writer

Jonny Christie, Matt Christie, Richie Maynard, Eric Rios

## Synopsis

Complete silence. Not even wind. Phylyco opens his eyes and finds himself, somewhere. He believes he is dead, and this is the afterlife. Saturnine. He stands up and begins to walk into the blackness. The Stormcaller has been summoned and appears on the roof of an unmarked building. He looks around to see who summoned him and doesn’t find them so he attempts to climb down but hears someone get to the roof so he begrudgingly climbs back up to find Lara. She catches him up on the state of the group and he doesn’t believe this isn’t his fight since he is no longer a member of the circus. She reminds him that this isn’t about his place in society or his ego, it’s about the entire world and beyond. He understands and follows her in. Aguero and Sirobe are on their way back to the capitol when Aguero stops and drops to his knees. He sees nothing, he feels nothing. His magic is gone. He feels his left arm begin to expand on him and scream in pain. Sirobe knocks him out and throws him onto his back, double timing it. Lara and Stormcaller arrive in the meeting room to find Hylophagous sitting in silence, staring at the map. Lara gets called to the lobby so she leaves the two alone. The ranger takes this time to try and apologize for Mal. The Saint doesn’t acknowledge it and asks if the man found “what he was looking for”. Before Aragi can respond he is called to help Lara. He sees Sirobe carrying Aguero and goes to hug them. He is shrugged off and helps the Tebaxi get Aguero into a bed. Aguero wakes up and immediately begins to wriggle in pain again, shouting about the totem. Aragi goes to retrieve it but Sirobe has already brought it to the Saint. After a brief catch up on what they are all looking at, Aguero’s screams begin to overtake the entire building. They go to him and find his arm growing at an alarming rate. Hylophagous steps up and takes the entire arm off to stop it from spreading further and Aguero passes out again.

Phylyco is honestly in his element. Dark, brooding, quiet. He can see for miles yet nothing at all. There is a single source of light what looks like could be hundreds of miles away. He heads towards it. Darrow is following the dead woods, hunting his target. He shouts out to the sky for the Demon to come and fight him. He gets no response and believes that the world is full of cowards. He starts to understand the path he’s on might be too grand but he can’t turn back yet. He continues on. The party are standing above the unconscious but stable Aguero. Hylophagous has returned to the war room and the others contemplate what to do. Aguero awakens and informs them that the totem is the key. Sirobe suggests they go to the Primarch’s castle and get some numbers. But Aguero mentions the bag Locus left so Sirobe goes to retrieve it. Aragi in a moment of realization calls for Echo who appears and is finally reunited with her savior. He reconnects with her and gets on her back. They all go to the war room to assess the items in the bag. Most of it doesn’t help the situation but it has a bunch of magical rings and other items. They feel a bit unimpressed with the stockpile but Aguero knows they all have meaning. They just need to find the right time to use them.

Darrow arrives at what was once the Gladelake. Only now, it’s a large pit of Monsters. He contemplates going down but decides to go into the city of Maeurt instead. He finds the destruction here is far worse and he calls out for his brother, Arcos. He only gets the sounds from the pit so in a rage he turns and sprints at the hole and jumps in. Phylyco arrives at the light. He believes it to be campfires but as he approaches, he determines that it is a group of Candle Men with floating Eyeballs on fire as heads. He asks them where he is. They answer him but only he can understand. He finds out they are Candelabras and they are the bringers of light to this plane. He confirms this is Saturnine as a large creature made of smoke and lightning approaches and attacks. He blinds the Candelabras and destroys the monster. As he allows the monks to see again, he spots another candelabra off to the side, standing and waving at him. The party are planning their next move. Aguero takes charge and explains they need to fix the totem and then they can take the fight to the Demon and finish this. Aragi asks how so Aguero explains how he got the Demon to this plane in the first place. Maybe it works both ways. The only problem is, they have no one who can repair it. Lara realizes who can but they need Darrow so the four leave to find the barbarian.

They eventually arrive at the former Gladelake to see a flaming sword fighting in the darkness below. Aragi and Aguero go down to help Darrow and get surrounded by Wyverns. They fight them off as best they can and Stormcaller attempts to transport them back up before they are outnumbered but his training was never completed and he only manages to get Aguero out, putting them back into the original dilemma. Phylyco approaches the odd one out and it introduces itself as Feonix. It is much more chipper than anything else in this world which is honestly refreshing. Feonix informs Phylyco that he is not dead but they know someone who can help him get back home. Phylyco follows the jester deeper into the blackness.

## Cast

### Main

* Aragi Maxul
* Phylyco Brokenwhisper
* Lara Youngheart
* Aguero Cryhawk
* Sirobe
* Darrow Emberstorm
* Saint Hylophagous

### Supporting

* Gris Soulspark
* Echo
* Feonix

## Trivia

* First appearance of the plane of death, Saturnine.
* Candelabras are a completely original race created by Matt Christie.