Disaster at Dwindor 9171?
Sets up the circumstances to lead to the re-capture of the Tarnysian Peninsula by Dunstrand years later.
The Celestials begin a slow retreat from Helca.
The Twin River powers of East River Run and West River Run are broken; Their bid to become their own duchy’s fail and their reach and power diminish.
Anubis: I knew he was on the battlefield, I will be pale. His shadow will be gone.
The cloak of Stars comes off and the skin comes off with it.
Blood eagle
Taken by kynar to Braddon Bog
Through library
Guards in compromising positions
Put a new sacrifice on the throne
Feather got journals
Dragon gave dragon scale eyepatch scale – can be scryed
Dragon said she knew where helm was
Discuss LRS and lack of crew
Feather summoning familiar, not going crazy
Guards helped load treasury = 1st time back to castle
Floor compartments
DC 20
See Finale: Outcomes from the Dunstrand Rising Campaign for the outcomes.
Feather to learn rituals
Witch
Once king break (recover memories) 19; learn ritual of breaking once king (5)
D100 damage when battle starts (4d8+4 = 38 out of 40)
Learn the ritual of assigning the witch of dwindor (keen mind)
> witch was a seer – a the heartlands seer role was enhanced to cover the change in naford and once king imprisonment
INT check DC adj 20 to understand (Iziah gets adj 20; nat 1 for feather)
Mary assigns it and gives up her life force (undead means you can get 1 hour reprieve)
Mary rolls 1 in her memory of fazeel and how things might have been different with true love (fazeel killed her lover)
The book describes madness DC 16 save; 19 for Sanity mary; nat 20 feather
https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Madness#content (short)
Beach the boat during day – tide change and ensure there are fishing + shell harvesters witnesses
5 they fail save to cause them to investigate = see, hear, run appropriately
Perform the ritual DC 20; 22 adj
Broken seal Once King is first alerted; thundercrack!
Hangman tree animates – 15 vs. 3 = held for a while
Sacrifice ends the crew with once-king exploding forth from his prison and tearing the guardian tree from the earth.
Once King: stands 2m tall
Gwinnish peace delegation > 2 Immediate ALL forces
> KYNAR kills wave watcher; priest and herald live and make their way on the shore
Primary wave = DC 20
Forces of Dwindor and Once King = No tsunami
Dark Gods (Sun Stealer = manifest) vs. Once King + clash of the temples = TSUNAMI
OSMAIL MARK 7 (54% of pop)
BRADDON BOG 14 + Malek Temple = NO , Perception check notice aftermath; “just lucky with land shape”
House Malor = 4, People = 4, Ducal Inspector = 6 > 10% of pop
BERGEN 12 (69% of pop is gone)
Tarly Castle 12 = Wendel Tarley awakened, tarly castle gone! He fights once king
— secondary wave = DC 15
REST OF LOWLANDs = 17 (9% of population)
Richfield = 10 (28%)
Crestwold = 18 (14%)
Lilymarch = 14 (but peace delgation and house malor = +1) 15% population
SCAR FLOW = 3 (Dwindor of Orrish; 15% of population dies)
HOOLIP COAST (liz/half) = 9; 15 = pranin moorswood ; lizard folk flee to delta then return
Halfling reactions = 11
Elancil’s reaction;
Does she work with once king and give him the north 25% 45 / 34%
Or not try and split her empire and side against him? 75% 55 / 66% DC 7 = 11
Causes peace retinue to go there – immediately
Alert priesthood and command on the tarmysian peninsula = ALERTED
After watching sun stealer fall, she commands her clergy to go sink APSHAI to deprive Once King
> rital of closure
Moorcats attack once king
Rastur + bastet = golden child
Golden child .. is enlightened one? Another seeress – Golden child link to seeress.
Whas sup to take nerislens place; Witch of Dunstrand is no more. There is Seeress of Dunstrand + moorcats
The Golden Child – Zeresthre
Baronial council of Tarmysia (Fish Barons) > 1 = revolt in tarmysia!
Council of Bronzefolk > 5; stab political enemy (Umbak!)
Earl of Bar-Innis > 3; Immediately join battle ALL (earless)
Druids of Pranin Moorswood > wait and see; primary = barony (need stability!)
Athena frame bank of silver stacks
= she will need to decide on gallants or druid
Orrish of Dwindor / Kynar (Feather told him) > 1 ALL IN = attack Gwinn ship and delay (38% warriors killed)
= intercept and kill avatar body of elancil 19 vs 8; 20 vs. 9 = dead to Cordweaver; nat 20 = gets away
I KILLED A GOD!!!
Mud Vipers incursion = Do nothing; stopped for 4 months!
Umbak’s navy (wait and see; non gwinnish exterminate anyone trying to flee – opportunity!)
Umbak’s priesthood > get as far away as possible
Witch Amerou > Primary is killing another celestial (knows they will come after the cloak of stars), then once-king
> Anubis/Thoth attack Amerou;
Her agents roll a 5 to divine any intentions or connection to Bella = no bargain with her
> sends 2 bats to carry kynar to drop on the ship and kill himself killing the peace delegation of gwinn
= 2 nat 20s, lands directly on ship, pink mist goes through deck, into bilge, kicks out broken board and swims away as ship pulls into shore and races north; dwindor hides kynar from Gwinn
Celestials (anubis says do not do this to feather) > ALL in
Anubis plan to get the cloak of stars back
Cloak wears as it wearer – bridge of light ? memphis
Anubis manifests as a target = save 12 (memories of how to beat it)
38 damage = tsunami
Fail = Feather; Wave carries
Shoreline position… see the boat going by, see the boat beach, “observe anything in the area”
= on horseback! Cavalry horses = no; pick up on your way out of town. If you can ride = help (animal handling)
Ride = adv, if save = horse lives.
19 = save DEX for Mary = 19 damage
= immediately get separated! 600m away
Sphere of annhil
Eye of dimov, void wash, Mary
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https://incarna.net/verse/set/glim/sys/hyp/srlm/char/entities/once-king/
DAY 1 EARLY CONTESTS
Moon Breaker vs. Ragemar (sun stealer) > 2 v 7 / 2 v 7 (fate 1) = beyond first half day
= fate = Sun Stealer PHYSICALLY MANIFESTS (godspeak) = This is trigger for light gods.
= save vs. permanent blindness (DC 15) 28% of local survivors are blinded!
Feather = 16 / Mary = 22 / Jesse = adj 18
+11% to all DEATH TOTALS = wave of radiant damage
Sun stealer rolls a 1 = SMOKED down!~!~! They leave the field! Sun Stealer loses power to manifest for 100 years and the Orrish on the rise fizzles
Save vs. Dexterity for radiant 2d10 – success = no dmg. 17=22 adj for Feather = 30 damage for mary (rolled 1)
Sun stealer blood … 3 for feather (aura) / nat 20 mary / 4 Jesse (50% blood fire, 50% aura fire) aura
Aura fire = +1 essence
Anubius sneaking up… ROLLS natural 1 (aura)
PER check Witch to see anubis = 6 (18 stealth anubis)
Once King (13 vs radiant; 6 perception to see anubis)
To hit with cloak of stars = 15; save for once king nat 20
18 hit vs. 16 save
19 vs. 13 Per = Anubis steals the feather from feather! The conduit is created to the Cloak of Stars!
At this point ground is flying and tearing apart
> troops coming from lowlands (18 +2 vs tsunami; 19 vs radiant/9 vs blindness – 62% blind) , gwinn retinue (1 adv 18 +2 vs tsunami; failed save vs radiant (79% dead)/16 vs blindness = a few senior crew and agents ALIVE),
>> dunstrand ducal forces coming from Mev and peace talks (35% dead from secondary tsunami) 19 save vs blind; 3 vs radiant 54% dead + 35 = 89% dead;
50% of all the initial witness dead – the rest blinded perm
Djeruth = part of a conclave of heralds…
CONCLAVE OF HERALDS is real name
Moon Breaker vs. Cloak Stars
Hanging tree origins – guardian trees corrupted by chaos storm/storm times? 1 in swamp, one mid ridge, 1 uplands culahey tower area > culahey hung on it and was promised power as clavel vaide (imparted with undeath?)
> why? Headlands of the nanford river (one in the middle went bad without nanford river power) = anchor points…
Now lies in dwindor, kynar considers it his sacred duty to prevent it being found.
DAY 1 LATE CONTESTS
Crestwold forces arrive
The soldiers of mist and ice arrive from the temples
SPIRITUS saves?
Elancil’s boats arrive at apshai to enact ritual of closure
> Umbak navy tries massive attack on fleeing forces, not incoing strong ones, just outgoing weak ones
THIS IS WHERE the event horizon boat attacks, and is set adrift.
Elancil = WTF, how did i not see that!? Directly intervenes directly; 1 she void washes it and tries to send it to another dimension; fucked up in blind rage. BALTHAZAAR tries to reverse it = brings it back; GAIA calms the seas and settles the CHAOS and storms of Elancil
Elancil = blasts the temple with lightning / and wades out physically into the ocean and grabs the ship, bending her will and casting the vessel upon the shores of a strange land.
Gaia draws her back into the sea – she becomes water and dissolves!
SCREAM!
SAVE vs Sanity; DC 10 Feather = 14 / Mary = 11 / Jesse = 18
Cannot cast storms for a year; the ________
DAY 2 EARLY CONTESTS