Perceptive to Peculiarities

"Perceptive to Peculiarities" is the 11th session of Season 2.

 

The party comes face-to-face with the dangers outside the waystones.

 

It was played on July 10, 2023.

The date in-game is the 9th day of Fall DST.

Synopsis

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Plot

  • Quill is trying to explain how he thinks the movement in this place works by drawing in the sand
  • Daisy Daisy is carrying 3 bombs
  • We are going backwards
  • We hear what sounds like thunder rumble above us, something is falling, reactions
  • Aella runs and misty steps away, Mariana jumps out of the way, Mist stays in the Barrel and just makes it go forwards instead and Quill makes to almost jump off essentially pushing off the Barrel to try to get farther, others are also jumping out of the way(i think)
  • Aster sees a dark shape slightly tinted red as it tries to move forward, as they go to dive off it but it clips them and smashes into the sand below, Mist hears a loud crash, Quill sees it fall
  • A mass of red fabric, Aella said it probably isnt the only one, it looks like fabric but the sound it made implies that there is something in it
  • Aella sees a someone who clearly suffered a long fall and also at some point in time a bad burn, the cloak itself is undamaged
  • Aella casts detect magic the whole bundle evocation, the cloak its self abjuration or transmutation, it is definitely a human working, the back of the cloak(full over the head cowled, cloak) is marked with a spiked compass rose(a circle with four blades coming out from where the center would be and the ring inbetween each blade has two spikes
  • An absolutely shattered spinal column, collapsed chest cavity, head is not right shape, its pretty crispy so who knows what it is, arent sure if all its limbs are there but they arent in the right places
  • Underneath what or whoever this was is a broken stick as in an improvised staff, its like inside the everything
  • Seems like the staff is a twisted wooden almost walking stick, probably intended to have been a focus but something is broken off the top, there is also a piece of metal around what could be called the neck, its was a chain, it reminds Quill of  something Aella is wearing oddly enough, the Perras soul chain thing(a spell storing chain), its like a reddish metal, not copper, whatever magic the chain did have has probably drained out of it
  • Quill looked to check what he could see, he cant see the flower anymore and still no dunes, he does see something grey to the left, its either a mountain range or a boulder
  • We are going to cast identify and move closer to the grey thing at the same time
  • The crabker barrel turned to go towards the grey thing, a roughly 75 degree turn
  • We get there almost immediately so we couldnt identify anything, There is a big large grey person drawing an intricate pattern across the sand, it keeps getting blown away and they redraw it, they are about 45 ft off, it is bent over on its hands and knees but we think if it stood up it would be about 18ft tall, they are thin and tall, tall and lanky
  • Aella said not to go near it because about 30ft around it has some sort of magic thing, a 30ft radius thing around it that is a cloud of nono magic, maybe a cloud or fog or something and it is slowly crawling in our direction
  • It hasnt noticed us yet
  • Quill is moving 30ft away from the group then using hunters sense to learn about it
  • Quill slinks back to the group, he says we shouldnt mess with it, it looks like stone but there are objects coming out of it, bear trap out of its head, maybe part of a boat and maybe a petrified person who tried their best to crawl out but is stuck
  • We turn around and are moving the way we came, we looked back and it wasnt closer but it looks closer than it should be considering how fast we are moving, Quill 
  • Twice Aella blinks or loses focus on it and it halves the distance, it moves super slow when we are looking at it but halves the distance when focus is lost on it
  • We are trying to go perpendicular to it to see if it is following or just moving
  • Aella, Quill and Daisy Daisy are focusing on it to try to keep some distance from it
  • It recedes as we would like it to 
  • Astraea found out what happened to the body, it is a complex cloak, it cant be damage by fire but the wearer can still be damaged by fire, Daisy Daisy took the cloak
  • (with a 20 perception)Rey sees the sand, she doesnt see the giant baby, she doesn’t see anything 
  • We travel for hours, it goes from mid almost morning to mid late afternoon, roadtrip!!
    • Music from Dorian and Orchestra and Quill with maracas
    • Eye spy
    • Mist tells Quill he should try to climb the next spit of sand, Quill jumps off and falls through the sand
    • Aella gives Astraea the bomb to identify, the green crystal is something that is no spell, it kind of just exists and is violently reactive to both air and water, the green crystal thing is called Orantium
      • Daisy Daisy mentioned about how we are surrounded by air, be careful what you mention
  • Aella points out a fin(about a foot in length) in the sky/sea of sand above us, it is like a triangular shape following slightly behind where we are, it seems like its behind us 20 or 30 ft
  • A second one slides in from the side and follows as well, we see two more, as we spread out, the spread out with us, there are now four more(8 fins in total)
  • They are slightly closer and spread out with everybody, 20 ft up and 10 ft back
  • 8 more show up(16 total), a bunch more approach, probably 32 have shown up
  • Aster suddenly goes unconscious and falls off the barrel(they have the lowest amount of hit points so it could be something similar to sleep however half-elves are immune to sleep)
  • Aella casts shatter on a group of fins, it shoves some of the sand out of the way, almost all of them (9) dissolve into sand and fade off back into the sand, Rey mentions that they are the imp things from before
  • Daisy Daisy is now unconscious as well, 10 sweep towards Mariana
  • 23 left, 10 swarming around Mariana
  • Quill runs over to Daisy Daisy and shakes them awake
  • Ullanor is using big axe, able to hit 14 all are hit
  • 9 left, Dorian thunder wave them and got blinded by the dust of 6 of them dying
  • 3 left, Daisy Daisy and their friend took out the last 3
  • Mist ran to wake up Astraea

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