Midnight Oil

"Midnight Oil" is the 2nd session of Season 2.

 

The party has an eventful night after coming to rest in the waystone circle.

 

It was played on April 27, 2023.

The date in-game is the 7th-8th day of Fall DST.

Synopsis

The session starts with a long rest in the middle of the newly found camp, by the fire pit. Rey mentions to Mariana that her culture sees waystones as a means of travel, not necessarily to a specific place but to somewhere one needs to go. Later in the night, Quill sees something and wakes Aella up. Locust-like coin bugs fly out of the bag, which they defeat after some time. Rey and Mist notice a shadow in the largest building during their watch, and the information passes along throughout the night. Early in the morning before everyone wakes up, Orchestra and Daisy Daisy do their best to move their party members away from the shadows, which revealed themselves to be statues slowly creeping towards the group. They successfully complete a long rest before Orchestra gets attacked from behind and petrified.

Plot

  • We are starting with the long rest in the middle. By the fire pit
  • The fire pit has coals enough for this one night
  • It notably dims as we settle down to rest
  • Block 1
    • The sisters are doing their nighttime routine, they are having a hard time with no reflections–this is why their perception is so bad
    • Aella then prays for spells
    • Mariana is trying to teach Aella how to be nice
  • Block 2
    • Rey mentioned that in her culture, waystones were seen as travel, not going to a specific place but taking someone where they need to go
  • Block 3+4
    • Skipped bc Üllanor's player wasn’t here
  • Block 5
    • Quill wakes up a little early and goes by the fire and wakes Aella up
    • Quill noticed something, initiative
      • He was trying to make the obsidian into an arrowhead, the silver coin things were let out of the bag, they are kind of like locusts–coin bugs 
      • They are trying to eat Quill
      • Mist’s coin has burrowed through the pouch and through Mist’s clothes and is trying to burrow into Mist now. Quill grabbed it and pulled it out
      • Aella killed the swarm
      • “I assume this is the first time money has been a problem for you”-Quill
      • Quill goes back to the fire and continues to attempt to make arrows from the obsidian. He made like 3 good arrowheads
      • Quill mentioned that no matter where he traveled, he thinks he's looking for a family and he said he thinks that is what Aella is looking for too
      • Aella's backstory time!!!! Family trip, Mariana has no memory of the events and now has powers that she doesn’t understand
      • Aella wants to be better
      • Quill woke Mist up
    • Block 6
      • Both Rey and Mist noticed a shadow that had previously been in the largest building was gone, it later came back so Mist set up a snare in the doorway to try to add give them a sense of security
      • story time with the cat
    • Block 7
      • Mist told Aster about the shadow and the trap in the doorway
      • Nice talk
    • Block 8
      • Aster was trying to get an audience with the Magi and didn’t have any luck
      • Talking about the towns people and if they survived 
      • Daisy Daisy has a shard of glass, Daisy Daisy in the glass is also on watch
      • Astraea told Daisy Daisy about the shadow in the doorway
    • Block 9
      • Daisy Daisy asked Orchestra about Aella and Mariana and why they seem crazy
    • Block 10
      • Cleaning instruments
      • Threw a pebble into the doorway
      • A statue is standing in the inside of the doorway, it is just standing there, it is 30 ft away
      • Dripping from the hands of the statue is a kind of black ooze
      • Orchestra woke Daisy Daisy up
      • There is a second one
      • They don’t move with blinking but each time they move, they move about 10 ft
      • A third one was from the building, it got caught in the snare
      • They were closing in on the sleeping people with 7 minutes left
      • 3 minutes
      • The one that was in the snare is gone
      • Aster got scooted out of the way
      • The third one appeared behind Orchestra attacked him and is petrified

Quotes

"Everybody knows you can wallop ass" - Mariana to Aella

 

"I assume this is the first time money has been a problem for you." - Quill, after shooting the last coin bug

"And it'll probably be the last" -  Aella's response before collapsing

Trivia

  • This session was almost named "Witching Hour." There are not even hours in this campaign. (learn more about timekeeping here)