4/24/2024 - Operation Entangle

4/24/2024 - Operation: Entangle

Players: Brandon, Caleb, Athena, Peter, Jamie

Characters: Zey, Angel, Bee, Koilos, Talisman

Knewidi 715 A.D. 7th
We begin with Zey in his tent. He is currently sitting alone with bottles around him, labeled with the names of those close to him he has lost, such as Cordel and One-Eye Bren.
Zey downs his wine and heads over to the Maidens tent. There he sees the rest of the characters gathered.
Bee and Angel get Ki and Zey up to speed with the events of the previous session, such as the capturing of Loveday and the fact Storm seems connected to Zolona now, so that’s something to keep an eye out for.
The maiden looks up as we enter her tent, she seems very tired. Thanks to some great effort, we have gathered the information necessary to try and seal Unravel. The Maiden will pour it over with holy water, bind it in metals, and place 12 protective circles over it. Doa is going to tie us to Unravel using Ligiomancy, we will be going into the book to release the essence of Cordel that has been bound within. Enola will be going with us, she has been practicing with Doa to track her mothers essence.
Bee mentions that we might be able to free the essence of the one named Oasis trapped in the book, Angel’s face drops at the name and tells us that when they were looking through Bloom’s things they found letters sent by them.
Bee lets Angel and Talisman know that the creature we will most likely encounter in there will mimic voices and if it touches it, it will begin to unravel you so keep far away from it if you can. We decide on using hand signals to communicate.
Zey goes to the Maiden for healing, and the rest of us go to Margeux for her spirit shield giving us resistance 1 to both spiritual and magical damage. Brandon is asked to choose odds or evens, it comes up evens and the Maiden struggles for a moment but is able to heal his health block. Zey asks if she is fine and the Maiden briskly leaves.
Bee and Ki visit Claudia and she is beginning to succumb to hunger. Koilos goes to find her something to feed on. hear crunching as Claudia begins consuming even the body itself
We head to Cordel's cabin, it is overgrown with briar but inside it is mostly dust. The Maiden and Doa greet us, warning us of the foul magic in the book. Its strange magic permeates the air even now. Whatever it is, today we make an effort to try and reseal its power. The maiden will soon begin to wash the book with holy water and wrap it in platinum, during which Doa will do her things and bind us into the book.
Enola walks in and glares at Bee, warning her that she doesn't like her mother but if Bee tries to ax Cordel like she tried to with Loveday, Enola will kick her ass.
The sheer depth of Doa’s knowledge becomes clear as she begins to draw countless runes in the air, one rune floats towards the center of our chest and our vision goes dark and we find ourselves in the rising detritus of past civilizations, inside the grimoire we can feel the thinness in our bodies.
Enola can feel something in the distance, in a spire about a quarter mile out, this is probably where Cordel is. It is perhaps a few hundred feet tall. As we go towards it, we pass by some glowing orbs, some as small as pearls, others larger, but all giving off this energy. These are the essences of those consumed by the book.
As we approach the spire, we see that the ground is covered by not dust but broken and decaying bones turning to sand. The sides of the spire are finer than the rest of the destitute city, the ornateness of it reminding Angel of something but they can't pin it.
As we approach at about the middle of the tower we see the spirit of the grimoire phase out of it. Ki mad dashes up the side of the tower using her speedster 2 ability and gets right next to Cordel’s essence, this draws all of the argo from the spirit. Everyone attempts to climb the wall but makes little movement as it’s difficult. The spirit uses its abilities to try and take me out, I fail the physical save and mental save, this makes me lose a health block and my most recent power is locked, thankfully Ki was able to succeed the spirit check and not go mad.
To sum up the combat Ki gets kinda messed up but we were able to get three stray essence orbs and Cordel's essence. The Spirit bails when it senses that it is being sealed away and a red tint falls over everything. We have run out of time and need to make a mad dash out of the grimoire before the exit closes. We were unable to get enough successes and Bob speaks to Angel with a deal. He will get us out of here if Angel accepts his little protege to take them under their wing so that they can practice and make deals with the rest of camp. Angel accepts and we are able to escape the grimoire.
Doa asks if we were successful, to which we can gladly say yes!!! She asks Talsiman to help her with the reconstruction of Cordel, asking for his fire. Jamie rolls for mental, spending the rest of their resources points for this and can roll an additional 10d6 for a total of 12d6. Somehow they only get 3 successes lmfao. They spend two health blocks to roll an additional 10d6 and are able to get a total of 8 successes. Using their flame to add that spark, to fuel Doa’s magic as it reforms the body of Lady Cordel. It was successful!!!
Enola runs up and sucker punches Lady Cordel for her troubles and leaves. Lady Cordel is obviously confused, the last thing she remembers is working on her book but then it all went blank. She asks how the brigade is doing but we say she should take a day to recover before we dump all that info on her. She leaves to go speak with her daughter, abhorred that
Glass that grows from the skin, barbed wire that wraps around her flesh. Anahi smiles at Talisman “Hello Initiate, may I come in? I know this is a shock but don’t worry, I don’t mean any ill will. I was out of my mind. Coronia? HA what a sham.”
She decided that there needed to be some changes, that it would be better if the mirror was her. She says this and forms some of the glass in her arms into a small mirror. Talisman is speechless, but as Anahi’s eyes fall onto the Maiden she thanks her and everyone else for making her what she is today. That if the Maiden had just tried a little harder to help her then this ‘blessing’ would never have happened to her. We interject that this is in no way on the Maiden, we were the ones that failed. But at this Anahi interjects that Ishin would have been able to have saved her and this absolutely devastates the Maiden.
Anahi goes and kneels before Angel, excited for her tutelage under them. Angel says that perhaps they should go for now and Anahi agrees, saying that if you ever need anything “just stay into the mirror and view what you truly are, and receive all that your heart desires.” Her barbed wire tightens and her body shatters like a mirror.
The Maiden is crushed and wishes to walk out alone for now, Ki insists on keeping her company though anyways because it's not healthy nor safe for her to deal with this alone now.
Bee leaves to try and find Zetian but there is a note on his door that says to leave a message later. Bee goes to Mace Crane's cabin and informs him of the successful mission, to which he sends out people to spread the word and celebrate. Morale goes up to 8! Bee asks if he has seen Zetian and apparently he has not seen him for a few days now.
Bee leaves to visit Claudia and tell her we are back safe. They have a heart to heart, Claudia will not let her vampirism take away her ability to give her family a hug. Claudia is still out of it and worried she is a threat with this hunger so strong.
We spend 3 emeralds to bring pressure down to 4. If we roll two 6 then the game is over…6,1,1,1 is rolled by brandon. THANK GOD WE MADE IT TO WIDOWSTONE PEAK
Colin says he would like to prepare us, this is the big one, the place where all the Blossomed and impure are gathered. We seriously need to prepare for this and we all need to make peace with the high possibility of our characters dying.