PC's:
Alivia - A Swift Glaive who Hunts with Great Skill
Corbin - A Rugged Glaive who Controls Beasts
Elif - A Clever Jack who Fuses Flesh with Steel
Feylor - An Intelligent
Jack who Controls Gravity
Natan - A Mechanical Nano who Talks to Machines
Session 3
The party decided that they needed to see what the bird men
had blocked off behind their makeshift wall. They could see that there was a bright light somewhere behind it.
The wall section turned out to be heavier than they
expected. They attempted to lower it quietly but failed. It fell with a loud booming crash. As the boom faded they waited for something
to come attack them attracted by the noise.
But all just became quiet again.
Beyond they found a corridor that led around a corner. The
light was coming from around this corner. Along with the source of the light,
which was a large section of wall that was replaced by bright swirling energy,
they found a roundish four legged mechanical thing. It did not immediately advance on them so
Natan tried talking to it.
Vortex Maintenance
He found out that it maintained and protected the
"vortex portal" that they now stood before. It did not know where the
portal led only that they would need protection to go through it and they could
get the protection in a room farther down the hallway.
Natan also accessed files to see when this portal had been
used last. He scanned through years and years of logs but gave up looking after
he found that it had not been used for thousands of years.
They decided that they wanted to see where the portal led so
they headed off to acquire the protection.
They found a room with a ramp that led to a pool of something that
definitely wasn't water. Feylor deduced
that you had to dunk yourself in the pool. So, without any discussion with his
companions he ran up the ramp and jumped into the pool.
The others saw mechanical arms extend out of the ceiling as
Feylor neared the top of the incline. After he jumped the arms stopped moving
then receded back into the ceiling. When
Feylor stepped out of the pool he had a complete coating of stuff. They assumed that this was the protection
that they needed so they each decided to use the pool. However, the rest of the
group walked up the ramp and let the mechanical arms pick them up, dunk them in
the pool and then put them back on the ramp.
When they returned to the vortex portal room Natan checked
with the portal guardian and found that they were indeed protected and were
allowed to use the portal. So they
stepped through.... with a bright flash they were some where else. This facility was very different from the one
they just left. This one's walls were all green and there were no sharp angles,
everything was curved.
Moments after their arrival they were contacted mentally by
someone calling themselves Aerridomos.
Aerridomos welcomed them to the Citadel of Radiance and begged them to
come find him as he needed their help.
They tried to think back to Aerridomos but got no response.
In their search for Aerridomos they found a storage room in which most of the stuff had decayed away over the years but a few odd things
survived. They also noticed that there was a small red light flashing in the
ceiling. No one could recall if it was
flashing when they first came in.
They traveled down a curved corridor with many large round
windows that let in a great deal of very bright light. Along this corridor a
small room was found with control panels in one wall. A button was pushed. Shade screens slowly
proceeded to cover the windows blocking most of the bright light. There was much relief... until the screens
started malfunctioning! They jerked to a
stop and a loud grinding noise started.
They could feel the grinding as well as see cracks forming in the floors
and walls. There was intense panic as
they worked at turning the screens off.
Not long after they stopped the shade screens from
destroying the facility they saw a mechanical guardian coming toward them. Natan thought to try to talk to it but it
sprouted a sword made of some kind of energy and advanced aggressively.
Feylor was sorely wounded by the time they defeated it. Natan disassembled it arm and took the energy
sword for his own. Elif took the shield.
Guardian in the Citadel of Radiance
At the end of the hallway they found Aerridomos. It was
actually some kind of artificial intelligence that had never known anything but
this place and it had known this place for a very long time. It told them that the Citadel floats in the
sun and was built to send energy to complexes on the planets within this solar
system. The Citadel of Radiance
still mostly continues doing just that
but it is decaying and the party's presence here has made things worse. Aerridomos begged them to free him. It did not want to be destroyed when the
Citadel collapses. It told them of a panel that would allow them to transfer
it's essence to a complex on one of the planets. It knew nothing about where it
would be sent but anything should be better than destruction.
They decided to free Aerridomos. In return Aeridomos told
them that a very powerful device, some called the Wishing Well, was in a nearby
room. It might be able to help them in
some way. It might even be able to fix the Citadel. But Aerridomos wanted to be
gone before they tried it, just in case. They sent Aeridomos on to where ever it
went then went to have a look at the
Wishing Well.
There was a great deal of experimenting with the controls
for the Wishing Well. They found that Natan was best suited for using it. His first experiment with the power at his
disposal was to heal Feylor, which was quite successful.
When they were first told of the Wishing Well their first
reaction was to let it be destroyed because they felt that it sounded much too
powerful and it could fall into the wrong hands. However, after Natan got familiar with it he
found that it has some severe limitations... and it could be useful to
them. They also discussed the
possibility that there were villages and cities built up around places were
this power was being sent. The power suddenly stopping could ruin the lives of
many people. They decided to try to fix the Citadel. (A great deal of XP was spent on making sure this worked)
Natan needed a long break after his work with the Wishing
Well. They calculated the time they had
left on their protective suits and let him rest as long as they dared. They
then returned home to their home planet.
Upon their arrival Natan checked with the portal guardian to see if
anything had happened while they were gone.
There had been only one incident. A birdman had stuck his head around a
corner, looked things over for a minute then left.
With a quick check around the same corner they saw that the
murden were in the process of lifting their makeshift wall back in place. If successful they would be trapped! They made a headlong run at the wall and
jumped on it hoping to crush the birdmen beneath it. Their ploy was mostly successful though
several rolled out of the way and there were a couple leaders standing back
watching over the proceedings.
In the fight that followed one of the leaders threw a cypher at Feylor but missed. (Feylor
now carries it with a note; Throw at enemy.)
The other leader "changed." He grew a couple feet taller and
more savage. He ended up being the last of the murden to fall.
There was only one more level to search below them. They found more living spaces and a common
eating/living area. They also found a
pile of cyphers and about a hundred shins in a finely carved box.
They then left the facility realizing that this place had
nothing to do with the thing that was knocking down trees but someone sure
wanted them to think it did. And sure
enough when they got back outside and had a look around they found bits of
tracks that had been mostly wiped away.
These were left by the people that had the well worn, sturdy boots that
Alivia had tracked here. These people
had made no effort to hide their tracks until after they had led to the murden
hideout. Someone was definitely
manipulating would be pursuers... and the murden.
The tracks led through the ravine so they followed them. As
they neared the far end they saw a large beast laying dead in their path. Oddly
this dead beast had large blue flowers growing out of it. Or so they
appeared. As they neared the
"flowers" launched into the air any flew at them.
The end of session 3
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