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Devils and Dragon Turtles

2014-10-04T02:58:16Z

Melanie: Created page with "Turns out we spent more time in the past than we thought, and it's now the end of June! As we leave Le Chateau des Fausses Flammes the ground shakes ominously. It's probably noth..."

Turns out we spent more time in the past than we thought, and it's now the end of June! As we leave Le Chateau des Fausses Flammes the ground shakes ominously. It's probably nothing important. We rest then return to the pirate fleet, which is now passing the Zange on its way to Madagascar. Af-Af identifies our lightning scemitar and the Pelazgus rock for us. The scemitar belonged to Telepanu it gives extra lightning damage for each hit. We consult our astronomer-in-a-hole, they tell us the the 9 Unknown Men's mission is on *AUGUST 12*, some time in the evening, more details to follow.. We also discover that Phillip IV has started to re-form, he tells us he can guide us to Quaf, near Baku.

Lila and Harald return Saiiq to Egypt where they say many fond farewells. The Caliph is dealing with lots of civil unrest, particularly concerning the exploding Cabbah, and wishes he had a real governor for Jeruselem. H&H probably have the rock, and the Caliph would love for us to go fetch it for him next time we have a free moment.

As we are sailing along the boat suddenly runs into an enormous sheet of ice, which we are pretty sure wasn't there before. We are hailed by two well-dressed Abassids, one fat and one thin. They are representatives of the Council of 9, and seem rather put out when we have no idea who they are. They leave in a huff.

Moments later, an enormous turtle surfaces under the Ayeesha. We spread out the fleet and prepare to attack, only to discover that some jerk has gouged both of the poor turtle's eyes out. On his back someone has painted "call us when you want a deal". Our toughest guys sail out on the Ayesha to capture the turtle, which we do with some difficulty. Akim surprises a devil of some sort hiding halfway down the turtle's throat, and beats him up. Having subdued the turtle, we cast speak with monster and make friends. Really, he's just a big sweetheart and those jerks who gouged out his eyes had better watch out. Quiteria kindly re-grows the turtles eyes, we gouge one out again and she re-grows it again and everyone is happy. We raise some fog for cover and rest.

June 989

2014-10-04T02:46:10Z

Melanie:

* 1 [[Danger Gang]] [[Unknown men hug the danger gang, Diogenes experiences loss and reunion.]]
* 1 [[Danger Gang]] [[Unbeknownst to them, a new friend joins the danger gang]]
* 1 - 2 [[Following Alexander Party]] [[Sri Lanka side-quests]]
* 2 [[Danger Gang]] [[Tying up loose ends and unraveling others]]
* 3 [[Danger Gang]] [[Recent studies show that traveling to or through the plane of shadows remains as terrible an idea as ever]]
* 3 - 6 [[Following Alexander Party]] [[Return to Kandam]]
* 6 [[Danger Gang]] [[My constantly shifting personalities have me confused about the date, but not about smashing monsters]]
* 6 [[Danger Gang]] [[What a difference a death makes--probably none]]
* 6 [[Danger Gang]] [[Fools or Holy Fools?]]
* 6 [[Danger Gang]] [[Grmlch we hardly knew ye]]
* 6 [[Danger Gang]] [[Its three AM and the Danger Gang know where they are and who they would like answering the mind-talking-spell]]
* 6 [[Danger Gang]] [[some swords, some sorcery, and a lot of talking]]
* 7 [[Danger Gang]] [[On the nature of causality and religious doubts]]
* 7 - 10 [[Following Alexander Party]] [[Astronomers, Astronomers Everywhere]]
* 12 [[Danger Gang]] [[How many times can one ranger die?]]
* 12 [[Danger Gang]] [[Gwyn's big mouth and big stab]]
* 12 [[Danger Gang]] [[Keeping promises and taking names]]
* 12 - 13 [[Following Alexander Party]] [[Party in Rome]]
* 13 [[Danger Gang]] [[If this earth's a quakein' don't expect to find any names of god or items for your quest-kin]]
* 13 - 15 [[Following Alexander Party]] [[Soul-Rending Adventures in Carnac]]
* 14 [[ Danger Gang]] [[Finding lost thread and tigers in the forest]]
* 15 [[Danger Gang]] [[A remembrance of things past in search of lost thread]]
* 15 [[Danger Gang]] [[ Monty's Hall]]
* 15 [[Danger Gang]] [[Honor among thieves]]
* 15 [[Danger Gang]] [[Letter's from a novice to an old man]]
* 16 [[Danger Gang]] [[Diogenes has an epiphany]]
* 16 [[Danger Gang]] [[Hyena's gnaw on our chocobones]]
* 16 [[Danger Gang]] [[Who is this Jerk?]]
* 16 [[Following Alexander Party]] [[Escape From the Past]]
* 17 [[Danger Gang]] [[Genealogical Reevaluation]]
* 18 [[Danger Gang]] [[It was all a case of mistaken identity all along, or, the plot thins]]
* 19 [[Danger Gang]] [[In which Diogenes stares in the mirror, recoils at what he sees, and them promptly forgets the lesson he learned]]
* 19 [[Danger Gang]] [[mistrustful Kubians throw their best hope for justice into a sunless pit, which is just where they want to be]]
* 19 [[Danger Gang]] [[Duped again, this time by some super dupers!]]
* 20 [[Danger Gang]] [[Through blindness Diogenes sees the light of truth]]
* 20 [[Danger Gang]] [[Collectively we make minor progress, while Diogenese makes great moral strides]]
* 21 [[Danger Gang]] [[The plot thins even faster than my hair]]
* 22 [[Danger Gang]] [[Diogenes is in a foul mood]]
* 22 [[Danger Gang]] [[Nine devils and one guy who speaks in a really gross way--could he be the third?]]
* 28 [[Following Alexander Party]] [[Devils and Dragon Turtles]]

Escape From the Past

2014-09-20T15:26:26Z

Melanie: Created page with "Current Party: Quiteria, Ailyll, Haizea, Deirdriu, Richard Son of Odo, Thora, Lila, Mamun, Dawa, Akim, Saiq From Tartarus we scry on ..."

Current Party: [[Quiteria]], [[Ailyll]], [[Haizea]], [[Deirdriu]], [[Richard Son of Odo]], [[Thora]], [[Lila]], [[Mamun]], [[Dawa]], [[Akim]], [[Saiq]]

From Tartarus we scry on the balcony of Nicea's palace. It has been partially repaired, and we can see ropes hanging down, though they are apparently not attached to anything. We decide to teleport to the forest nearby, sending [[Haizea]] ahead to build a platform. We conjure an earth elemental and send him to scout out Nicea's chambers. He located [[Harald]] for us and we summon Kuthonomus via stone tell. We spend way too much time casting protective spells then charge in via Dimension Door.

We find statue Harald attractively posed on top of a fountain, and confirm he is indeed made of ice and slowly melting. Nicea is waiting for us with 9 or her followers, including the erstwhile Celdrix, who has been transformed into a bear. Thora is nowhere to be seen. We attempt to negotiate, and Nicea very kindly gifts us a caged cockatrice, but is loath to part with either Harald or Richard's ring. A tough fight ensues, but we are able to hold our own as Haizea brings Harald outside for Kuthonomus to fix. Noteworthy opponents include an archer who does crazy damage and a lightning-wielding berserker, as well as our old friend Upazius and a lamia.

Kuthonomus takes quite a bit longer than expected, and when he arrives he explains he was busy removing some wards "like your demoness friend told me to"... The ground starts to shake and a giant Chaos Worm emerges, driving all of Nicea's 100s of animals mad and generally messing with the integrity of matter. Nicea flees and we retreat to the forest with Upazius and some loot.

We dither for a while, and Lila and Akim teleport back to Tartarus to ask for advice. He gives them some useful info and fixes Upazius's rope for us. They return to find the rest of the party in the midst of combat with the Chaos Worm. Thora seems to have made good friends with him, and is busy fighting Nicea inside his mouth. Upazius tells us that Teshub defeated the chaos worm after being defeated himself. The chaos worm is an alcoholic, so we send Celdrix off to get some barrels of wine from Nicea's palace. Illuyanka. We finally figure out Nicea's true name - Innara. Dawa ropes the chaos worm with Upazius's rope and binds him once more. Nicea, looking extremely unhappy, returns Richard's ring and tells us to just leave.

Meanwhile, Haizea and Kuthonomus take a temperature controlled Harald inland so Kuthonomus can summon a friend to fix him. They pass hordes of animals fleeing in the opposite direction. When asked what they are fleeing they respond "the lady calls". Phew... At a river we meet Kuthonomus's friend Lucios, who returns Harald to us usual, fleshy self.

Harald is very dissappointed with his daughter's recent behavior, and as punishment we Quest her to stay in the past for one week and find us a live Amphisbena and bring it back so we can get its' skin. Richard goes along as her shaperone.

And at last, thanks to Tartarus's binding, we all go safely home, souls intact!

2014-08-06T17:56:42Z

Melanie:

Back in Basra, we go looking for Al-Haithem, who has just gone missing.

On the boat a message arrives from the Papal throne, inviting Quiteria to come to Rome on June 12 to meet with him. Our good friend John Chrisentius arrives right at that moment to invite us to dine with him and his father on June 12, at the very same time. He will take it much amiss if any of us don't show. He also gives us a scroll case with the following written in latin:

Demogorgon Occus
Juiblex Pezuzuzaz
2 2
Yenogas, a prize for the tiebreaker
- The council of 9

Yenogas is the demon god of Hyenas. Cave in the Bugid Emirates, east of the Abbasid Caliphate. Kut-E Kaftar, near Kermin, ruled by Bugids

We scry on Al-Haithem and see him on a cold mountaintop with a confused older Asian man. We send a message to the danger gang then teleport to the mountain. Everyone there is very surprised to see us. Ibn Unis is there, and the Asian man introduces himself as Jong Xi-Xun. We have apparently arrived at a great astronomy contest, organized by Ibn Unis to find the best astronomer for the Danger Gang. The contestants are Al-Haithem, Maslama al Madria, Vidjianndi (from India), Muhammed Al Busjani (Spain), Ariavatha (Basra), Jong Xi Chang (China), Issac Ibn Sassan (Jewish, Spain), Othric (HRE), and Yelenthiel (Jewish). They wanted Utpala and Gerbertus too but couldn't find them.

We propose as a contest that the astronomers look at a star chart from the south pole and try to deduce facts about the land under those stars. Whoever gets the most true facts wins.

Astronomers on Southern Hemisphere: Kandam, Jungleland, Australia - other 4 get. Dwarves born beneath these stars live on an island, attacked by 2 sides. Women whose heads detach and fly around. Dwarf dinosaurs who live on islands. Volcano worshippers, gigantic brain corals, sons of the eagle: Fled a sunken continent.

We reveal Ariabata as a cheat (he knows nothing about astronomy, but is very good at reading minds) and declare Al-Haithem the winner.

We take Jong Xi Chun back to Dong Jing, stopping by Basra to pick up the relevant princess. We land at Jong's jewish friend Shi's house.

Shi goes out to do bureaucracy for us, accompanied by monkey Ailyll. We see lots of horseshoe crabs everywhere. The calligrapher we seek is sequestered, working on calibrating the ancillary. A group of strange characters employed by Lao have been seen around. Lao himself, his daughter and the emperor left yesterday.

The princess says she can get us partway into the palace, but there are tons of guardian spirits everywhere. We bring her to the palace, fill out forms, answer some questions, then are locked in a room for a while. We squish a little crab who's looking at us funny, then sneak out. We find Hakim's room and go through his stuff, fight some guardians, then make it into the palace gardens. We encounter a grizzled old man who tells us he's under a geas to rob or bother us in some way. We turn a blind eye while he 'steals' some gold, and he offers us some tea in his lean-to later. We sneak around the gardens more, and finally find the golden pyramid within the maze of To Lazo. The pyramid is guarded by two 8 foot tall ladies, who we kosh. Inside we find our calligrapher, as well as a terrible tiger headed monster who can decapitate three people with a single stroke of his sword. Every round. Quiteria Suggests to Chu Yan that he flee with us, and he complies. We barely make it out of the palace alive, then teleport back to Basra.

Back at the boat we talk with Chu Yan and Al Hithem, but are interrupted when someone casts Earthquake on Basra and a bull headed man rather reminicent of the tiger man from earlier tells us that General Gao has found his prey! General Gao is very tough but the entire population of our fleet band together and fight him off. We hide Chu Yan in the portable hole and sail away to hide from further animal headed antagonists. We raise our dead and heal, but when we try to raise Dawa his head says "Cho Ya can get you out of your pickle. Scry on him." We augur and scry, and apologize profusely for missing our tea date. Cho Ya proposes a clever plan by which he duplicates Chu Yan for us, using Tillism in Eon, Lao's city, to slow down time so he can cast the spell. He will then leave us the duplicate and return the real Chu Yan to Lao so he'll stop attacking us. He also promises to tell us the results of the real Chu Yan's calculations before Lao finds out.

We point the boat towards Madagascar and rest.

Planet Impact predicted for September 9!!!

2011-06-28T01:27:21Z

Melanie:

Fetching More Potion Ingredients

2011-06-28T01:18:21Z

Melanie:

Now that we have our hard earned Styx water, we divine about our Corpse Tearer fighting plans

blood most beautiful is bane to those who wear the human stain
better than one like farrow, guy who shouts "harrow"
remember that the expiation not only dread occasion
it has never been an error to fear the corpse tearer
within dread lair, skull floating in the air
crystal with fewer folds, heart and mind of crystal
it teareth with its single fold jewels, gems and gold
hate though bollux up status quo
but though I've dwealt upon this devil, Nidhog's Spawn a greater evil
but though its powers great indeed, he is the one you need

at this point we speculate on who the floaty skull is while Hal thinks of more rhymes. We decide it is probably the terrible Demi-Lich

in only one way is he rich
ps there is no demi-lich
a strict perusal of the rules creates a date from cost
one eye land of narts - eyes and time cut in half
to recharge the staff, read the book

So we head off to Gungard, leaving a charming undead chimera to guard our stuff. We meet Saredon, last of the Narts. He's a real jerk and turns us into monkeys for no reason. He tells us to stay away from the Cave of Prometheus and not trust the white snake. We ditch him and go looking for some Cyclopes. We meet a white snake, guardian of the star of the winds, who asks us to please not plunder the temple of Maya Erdu. We find the Cyclopes labyrinth and are about to explore when Saredon comes back to bother us. [[Harald]] tells him how the (Sword that kills what you love most) was broken and he hurries off looking rather distressed. We beat up all the Cyclopes and steal their gold and their blood.

April 989

2011-06-28T01:08:06Z

Melanie:

* 1 Harald unites the Muslim world...against him. No fooling. [[Fun and Games with Ramses, Octopus]]
* 1-3 [[Danger Gang]]--[[Avalon Calling]]
* 3-5 Following Alexaner Party [[Searching for a bath in Jerusalem]]
* 3-5 [[Danger Gang]]--[[Deja Vu at Dr. Lao's Tournament PLUS Cornish Adventures!]]
* 4 [[Round One]]
* 5 Following Alexaner Party [[Hacking the Pyramid of Nineveh]]
* 5-9 [[Danger Gang]]--[[Jack IV: Little Dude, Giant Twerp]]
* 9-10 Following Alexaner Party at [[Castle Ruodlieb]]
* 9-12 [[Danger Gang]]--[[Who's the Cutest Little Dungeon Ever?!? YOU ARE]]
* 10 [[Monte Argiento]], [[Harald]] beats [[Richard]] son of Odo in a chastity duel
* 11 [[Round Two]]
* 12-13 [[Following Alexander Party gets beaten up on the banks of the River Styx]]
* 13 [[The Danger Gang Has a Bad Day]]
* 14 [[Following Alexander Party gets beaten up on the banks of the River Styx again]]. It's awesome! Harald gets killed for real by a Styx river elemental, and Saiiq knocks his teeth out.
* 15 Following Alexaner Party [[Further Beatings at the River Styx]]
* 16-17 Following Alexaner Party [[Fetching More Potion Ingredients]]

Further Beatings at the River Styx

2011-06-28T01:04:52Z

Melanie:

We go back again in a last shot at rescuing our friends and getting some Styx water. The river has frozen over but we manage to find some further upstream. We fight piles of demon and Find the Path to a place directly under where our friends disappeared. On our way we meet Kentimentiu and Maskini, who claim to have recently emerged from spheres in which they were imprisoned about 10 000 years ago. They came looking for the Guardian of Ra, a mechanical scorpion and generally seem pretty dodgy.

We fight some brass minotaurs and get to the end of our path. We use various means to dig in all directions and fetch spheres. Quiteria comically Magic Resists her way in to a sphere but fails her roll to get out, leaving her trapped as well. Pouring Styx water on them opens them and we free our friends, the river lady's bear man and an adorable miniature chimera. We squash it but [[Quiteria]] puts it in her pocket to animate later.

April 989

2011-06-28T01:00:57Z

Melanie:

* 1 Harald unites the Muslim world...against him. No fooling. [[Fun and Games with Ramses, Octopus]]
* 1-3 [[Danger Gang]]--[[Avalon Calling]]
* 3-5 [[Searching for a bath in Jerusalem]]
* 3-5 [[Danger Gang]]--[[Deja Vu at Dr. Lao's Tournament PLUS Cornish Adventures!]]
* 4 [[Round One]]
* 5 [[Hacking the Pyramid of Nineveh]]
* 5-9 [[Danger Gang]]--[[Jack IV: Little Dude, Giant Twerp]]
* 9-10 [[Castle Ruodlieb]]
* 9-12 [[Danger Gang]]--[[Who's the Cutest Little Dungeon Ever?!? YOU ARE]]
* 10 [[Monte Argiento]] [[Harald]] beats [[Richard]] son of Odo in a chastity duel
* 11 [[Round Two]]
* 12-13 [[Following Alexander Party gets beaten up on the banks of the River Styx]]
* 13 [[The Danger Gang Has a Bad Day]]
* 14 [[Following Alexander Party gets beaten up on the banks of the River Styx again]]. It's awesome! Harald gets killed for real by a Styx river elemental, and Saiiq knocks his teeth out.
* 15 [[Further Beatings at the River Styx]]