Session 008

General Summary

Jamie's Notes 2025-03-01

Day 8 Notos 44, Year 352

• Ponpiketes will provide us with some coin.
• Neesja and Radjic discuss returning to Arra.
• Vasia sneaks about the place. Finds an arcane engine. Touches it. Gains long rest effects. Mira sees her. Goes to tell Cirina.
• Vasia sneaks into Ponpiketes' room, is not noticed. Heads all the way up. Just openings to peer out and a ballista at the top.
• Akito still investigating the mural rooms. Shield Room: Figure that appears to be leader. Pretty seamlessly matches the one that Akito has from the dead celestial.
• Cirina visits the sleep machine engine and uses it.
• Vasia drags the others down.
• Akito and Neesja are thrust into their furry forms.
• Cirina and Vasia are confused.
• Cirina wonders about the evolutionary requirement.
• Gods messing around.
• Wizards messing around.
• Aliens messing around.
• Both Akito and the tanuki's furs are soft.
• Head up to the top. Yvraine waiting and getting the death glider ready. Ponpiketes lifts it telekinetically. He says 'uh oh.' We go hurtling toward the lake.
• Going to end up moving through some planes.. Cirina prays.
• Blessed Dreamer, Mistress of Stars, Lady of the Crossroads, grant us safe passage among the starry night, guide we woeful travelers to the roads where we may find your beauty and grace.
• Air.. to First World.. to Fire.. to Shadow.. to another place. Filled with insectoids, monsters, crocodile the size of the sky whale.. Vasia's saints, fighting the qlippoth.
• We are in Xibalba. Vasia seems super happy.
• Continue onward. The Gatekeeper, Hastur, guides us. Takes note.
• Akito draws a perfect sketch of it.. that's great........
• End up in Cynosure, the home of Desna. See a servant of Desna guide us out. Cirina is in awe.
• Continue onward.. see the world from above. Slam down through the atmosphere and into the ground. Kick up a lot of dust.
• Yvraine notes we've cracked into the dirt deep enough to an underground city.
• First People? Move the glider and peer inward. Drop down.
• Radjic hears something in the darkness. Ia! Ia! Tekeli-li!
• Something monstrous. Eldtrich. A Shoggoth! Not great.
• It is very slow, however. Akito is concerned. Very concerned.
• Akito's latest conspiracy: The gods, fearing the Qilppoth, have influenced the turning of the wheels of fate and directly pushed Vassiliki’s cult in the right direction so that she would interact with the party such that we can prevent the worst case of the confluence.

Evan's Session Report

Notos 44 - Flung Through the Planes at High Velocity

With time of the essence, our heroes (partially) reluctantly agreed to take the glider back to Arra, but not before checking out the rest of Mons Pouthena, the Athetisi fortress. They found a tremendous sleep-machine contained in the basement, an exceedingly complicated piece of arcane engineering with the byproduct of restoring any who touch it to wholeness.

It also exposed Akito as a foxperson, and Neesja as a tanuki, but one of those was less of a surprise than the other. This caused no small amount of confusion.

Once they were certain that the mountain contained no further secrets that they could currently access, the group headed upstairs and boarded the glider, finding a small pouch containing fifty gold coins apiece. After securing themselves inside, they were launched from Mons Pouthena with a muttered ‘uh oh’ from Ponpiketes.

Fired at tremendous speed directly at Lake Saminos, the craft punched through the interplanar ward instead of the water, sending the crew on a brief jaunt amidst the planes. Skywhales, lakes of fire, the strange, twisted landscapes of the First World all rushed by, before the craft emerged into Xibalba, the home of Vasia’s cultic patron.

They saw a Xibalba under tremendous siege, saints of the Tormentors battling against Qlippoth lords, before being scooped up and flung through to the next portal by Hastur the Gatekeeper, who Vasia established something of a bond with and Akito sketched a really good picture of, which will certainly only end well.

Next, they entered the domain of Cirina’s god, Desna. Largely empty save for the maintenance staff, the craft was guided on its course around a sun by a gargantuan butterfly, before finally being deposited back into the material plane.

Into the material plane several miles above the surface of Aurite, about a mile east of Arra.
After a slightly panic-inducing plummet, the craft punched deep into the ground…

And found a buried city that even Akito knew nothing about. And after a little poking around inside, discovered an ancient horror lurking within, the many-mouthed, chattering thing known as a shoggoth. As it wandered off, the group decided to do a little light looting while it was preoccupied.