Session One Hundred and Eighty (Graveyard of Empires Summary)
Session 180 : Ball of confusion… that’s what the world is today… hey hey
6am 4th On’Relden – Orbital Command Center
Battle has just ended, but there’s little time to mourn the party’s loses.
Sutung explains the situation – it’s dire. Since we last encountered him he’s tried to break the security but without success. What he has been able to do is adjust the range of the defense system, but even reducing it to its lowest setting the zone overlap, leaving a hole large enough for a small bird.
As he explains Nash speaks with Sarathos asking to speak with the image of Prix in order to find out if the re-virus has been completed – it isn’t complete.
Bavmodra ask Sutung to lock the door, instead he hands her a pass-card and instructs her to wave it over the control panel to lock it.
Setuung believes that the party is still in league with Marchmain and explains that the Dwarf Lord does indeed have a nearly functional shuttle on the Lonely Isle.
Sutung explain that he can’t break the security code, seems that a random number is is displayed and an answer is required. He can’t seem to figure it out.
A screen rings and a message comes in from a native wearing a crystal circlet – warning us that our attempt to destroy the Lords of the Silver Thrones has failed, that we can’t possibly win. He warns that reinforcements are on their way and demands our surrender and threatens Setuung with punishment for his second transgression. We have one hour.
Nash has Sarathos ask Prix if she knows. She knows the formula, but is missing information to complete it, the price time and date that the virus was activated – which she doesn’t know.
Bav and Ralion ask Sutung to reach into the portal and grab Axel – thing the countdown clock could help. Kauri is surprised that his conversation will Axel is suddenly interrupted.
As they input the date, Sarathos has Prix assume control of Nash’s body so that she can finish the re-virus.
The date doesn’t work as we don’t have the the minutes and only tells us when doomsday will happen. The party figure the Dragon Emperor would know.
Sutung is worried he’s not going to be able to escape, not without Edan, so he begins to explain things to us that should be transmitted to Marchmain:
1.)Vargen has been overrun by the “Infected” – creatures thought entombed deep inside the research facility of Xen’tel. They followed Marchmain and the giant bridge automaton.
2.)Xelum Kehl has been sealed from the outside – and guarded. Likely to seal in the infected. Likely released from the research labs where the anti-virus egg was burried by Thorfus and his gang. Setung says Marchamain had some mercenary dig it out.
3.)The Dragon Emperor has launched his ship and it’s heading towards Curabel.
A ship of monks has landed at Lonely Isle and are fighting for control of the Order of the Celestial Dragon’s fortress
As he speaks a staff pokes out of the portal, Sutung grabs it and pulls Kauri through the portal followed by Oskar – a lazardman.
Kauri is overwhelmed by the amount of spirits in the roam and can barely hear the party through the cacophony and temporarily stops using the mask in order to explain himself.
He explains that he and Oskar have been on the trail of Lord Throfus Ironhand and his band for the last month since discovering what the Dark King and the Silver Thrones were up to. Months ago his tribe met Uthrik and a friend, once part of Thorfus’ band, and briefly hosted Edan – both of whom he, regretfully, asked to move along. Not long afterwards the Dark King and his forces (under the command of Ilske) overran his tribe killing everyone and making them Undying. He was left for dead in a burning hut – he survived but is horribly scarred. Seeking vengeance, he spoke with other natives and eventually found the Bioforge facility (long after everyone). Investigating further, he began to piece together the Dark King/Silver Thrones plan and heard stories of a band of heroes attempting to stop him (up until his recent talk with Axel he thought the Silver Throne/Marchmain and Dark King were the same). Thinking Thorfus and his band could help him he went out in search of them.
With Kauri’s help – the party is able to summon Kalguun who remembers when the virus first hit and begins calculating the number of 10 minute intervals.
With the program finish Prix calculates her part of the equation and give it to Kauri who takes Kalgun’s calculation (so that Sutung can’t see it) and calculated the proper response.
- shown on console /131399568 (#of 10 minute intervals since virus activation) = Quotient; Quotient/1036800 (#of days Prix was imprisoned)= Answer 516,221,218,144.9714
While the calculating is being done, Sutung explains there are millions of messages backed up in the network. Thanks to Kauri’s ability to see & speak with DVLs the party deduces that messages are those between g_ds and their clerics. So instead of deleting the message like the Dark King ordered, we decide to let them go once we unlock the console. Which we do.
Nash and lambertus fall unconscious. As sounds can be heard of large objects being moved (likely Finkleworm body being moved aside) so the party decides it’s time to go. So they push Nash and Lambertus, Edan, Kotar and Axel back through the portal.
Sutung smashes Prix’s head in to prevent the Dark King from using or probing her mind. We collect 2 vials of her blood (we now have 1 Black, 1 Bronze and 2 Red)
Raillion collects the battery from Lambertus’ armour as it has one charge left.
Kauri, using Edan’s spellbook, manages to shrink Sutung enough for him to fit through the portal.
Once across – Kauri and Nash figure the portal must be destroyed after Sutung confirms that the Dark King wouldn’t be able to follow them with only ½ of the portal. Raillion destroys it with a shot from the Axel’s lightning axe – freeing the DVL stretched across its surface.
Through Kauri, Nash asks the spirts of the fallen wether they’d like their copies to be placed into automatons should the opportunity arise – Edan and Kottar agree if only to see the end. With that Edan, Kottar and Axel slowly dissipate.
Exhausted – the party rests and decide to head west from Glavnone hoping to find a village to resupply in and train. Maybe even finding a ship to take us to Lonely Isle or least somewhere we can find a ship that can.