Last Session Recap

Pyramid of Peril

The Party crosses a chasm by solving the chess puzzle

A series of mirrored chambers are solved to retrieve a few magic items

The Party battles an arachnid construct and Bingus Bongus is paralysed repeatedly

Gurpo’s living quarters are explored, and many Key Items found

The Dark Seal is retrieved from the trapped room, before a rupture in the Weave

The Party finds the Ziggurat of Gurpo teleported into the Wildlands

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Summary

Awakening the Arcane Network

The Party leaves the Ziggurat of Gurpo in the Wildlands, and heads North-East towards Constanbul, and further through to central Eoris
After defeating a Yeti on the mountaintops, The Party follows Luc’s pulsing Mystical Amulet which leads them to a ruin with architecture from the Age of Empires
Inside the ruin The Party is faced with multiple visions of the past, and events of great magic
Luc is informed we are in one of many sites in the Arcane Network, which provides magical bonuses in the vicinity, and identifies his Mystical Amulet as the Amulet of Saidar’s Chosen

Full Session Notes

While hiking away from the Ziggurat of Gurpo through the Wildlands, Luc’s Mystical Amulet begins pulsing, and becomes quicker the further we travel towards the North-East
While crossing a mountain pass The Party encounters a yeti, who is summarily defeated by Bingus Bongus’s double nat 20 and double nat 1 roles, rewarding a Pristine Yeti Pelt
Over the next cliff The Party sees below them a very old ruin, likely from the Age of Empires
The Party uses the Magnificent Golden Spirit Pagoda, aka Jorg’s Yurt for the first time for a long rest
Using Luc’s Mystical Amulet as a key, The Party pass through the stone doors, engraved with Saidar’s emblem of a half crescent moon and a star, to enter the ruin
After descending a staircase, we enter a large muti-levelled room with glowing, arcane lights
Through the central hallway Jorgrim spots a tripwire and a divination field
After disabling the tripwire The Party walks through the divination field which collapses the roof
Further through the hallway The Party appears in a vision where a party of five adventurers leave a dungeon with the Blade of the Horned Rat
A later vision then shows a battle between the Aridonian Empire and Waldavan Empire, where the Blade of the Horned Rat slashes through the Waldavan troops
Returning to their bodies, The Party progress further into the structure and encounter a sarcophagus, touching which brings them into another vision
A vision of a huge amphitheatre at night, filled with people. Gurpo is chained to the centre of a large ritual circle, which appears to be the events of the Festival of Rot
A robed figure walks up to Gurpo and enchant words, draw the Blade of the Horned Rat and stab Gurpo, everything around turns blood red and the vision fades into another
The party is in their bodies in a green glade with a white stone tower to the far North
Touching the obelisk on the Southern hill, a manifestation of Saidar appears and says
“The Third Age began with the actions of the Chosen, magic returns, old empires waver, and new heroes are born. This is the Age where Peril fights Prosperity, and the Gods must not stand idle”
Back in the temple The Party progresses into a larger chamber, where Luc places his Mystical Amulet onto a central altar, initiating another vision
Floating above a massive magical battle where Godfrey fights off hordes of soldiers, mages, and dragons
Finally he is brought down with glowing magical chains, where an Elf casts a 9th level spell to construct a Ziggurat where he stood, the Ziggurat of Godfrey
Shaidarahn was with the other Heroes, next to her were the warrior Dwarf and a small frog Wizard
As The Party awakens from the vision, they see a clone of Luc that says “prove yourselves” before attacking
With the cumulative efforts of all members, The Party slays the enemy, revealing it to be a flesh golem. Killing it over the altar enhances the Mystical Amulet with unknown powers
The next room teleports The Party into another battle where we are a part of the Vlaanderen Empire, fighting off an siege by Iskander and a Vrankish Empire army
After a lengthy battle, the Vrankish Empire army is defeated, and Iskander calls down a ‘Meteor Swarm’ to wipe the battlefield
Returning to their corporal forms, The Party loot the chamber and find a set of magical shackles and a magical chime
On the bottom of the sarcophagus lid on the next room, is a carves symbol of horns and upon touching them another brief vision begins
In this vision Iskander in his ugly human form is casting barrage of necrotic spells at the smiling human Hero
The smiling Herocasts a beam which slams into Iskander and explodes, leaving a massive magical crater in the magical landscape, approximately 100km wide in Eberia
The visions suggest that if a Chosen is killed, they release a huge burst of magical energy but can also be revived through some unknown method
Upon picking up a map of connected nodes in the final room The Party sees a series of visions
First of The Party entering the Ziggurat of Gurpo previously, before changing to Godfrey entering another Ziggurat in the Wildlands
Later on that same Ziggurat explodes with a wave of pure darkness and a vision of a Dark Seal breaking
Returning from the vision Luc receives knowledge directly from Saidar that the Mystical Amulet is actually the Amulet of Saidar’s Chosen and we are in a node of what was once known as the Arcane Network
Luc also sees a vision of a silhouetted figure, and receives the knowledge that at any time he can ask one question of Saidar and receive the answer, like the Vizier card
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Bead of Force
Chime of Opening
Dimensional Shackles
Map of Arcane Network
Amulet of Saidar’s Chosen

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Awakening the Arcane Network

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Pyramid of Peril

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Awakening the Arcane Network

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