At the base of a large cliff on the river’s edge Kerrilion and Pibble squared off. Pibble threw punches and shot icey arrows at Kerrilion and dodged and deflected enormous, thunderous blows that the ancient elf champion rained down on them. As the battle progressed the others realized that the cliff was becoming unstable due to the thunderous sounds of battle. Suddenly that hillside gave-way and everyone scattered. As Kerrilion flew away on his Gryphon he shouted down that Pibble would be allowed to remain at least until Pibble’s grandmother heard what had taken place here.
In celebration of Pibble’s victory Jimothy organized a hair cutting ceremony and both cut Pibble’s hair AND renamed Pibble “Pibbalion Thryace”, a true, recognized adult. Everyone was excited and so proud. The group recounted several of Pibble’s adventures and accomplishments within the group.
The Croisant continued upstream through rocky canyons headed to Diplomacy Island, but that night many strange dreams were had, even Pibble was briefly polymorphed into a physical copy of Ra’Cheep and took a brief nap in order to experience a dream. Pibble dreamed of a strange, flamboyant Goat-like creature with several large birds in it’s entourage? It was an odd dream.
Meanwhile Flow dreamed of a being DEEP within the earth that had no name or face and did not want to be known. Ra’Cheep dreamed of his family and… an offering to join a meeting of the Gods in two days. The next morning the group discussed their dreams and this invitation and everyone agreed to go including Cree’a’Ka and Pra’Kreen!
The following day the group finally opened up the boardgame that they had purchased a few days before, Owls and Obliettes! Toki has read the rule book and acted as GM while our party of adventurers created a party of adventurers and went on a quest… in a game… within a game.
That night Ra’Cheep used a new spell to enter the dreamworld of Caylix, the Gaoshan flying knight that the group had met very early in their adventure. She informed Ra’Cheep that there had also been a destructive explosion in the Orcish capital city, very similar to Hernfell!
The following night Ra’Cheep appeared in the dream of Daffodil, the now defacto-mayor of the town of WolfBridge, she was dreaming of endless piles of paperwork flowing across her desk. Ra’Cheep invited her to the gathering at Diplomacy Island to represent to survivors of HernfFell, because if she didn’t come they both worried that leadership would fall solely to the Wolf Brigade and they couldn’t let that happen without a fight. Daffoldil felt unable to claim leadership without the support of the Gnomes and her mother’s ring, which the party still had!
At last the night came when everyone gathered to meet the Gods! A beautiful portal opened as the moon’s silver light shone down. As the group stepped through they found themselves in a massive room somewhere underground. This meeting of the Gods seemed to be reluctantly called to order by a god so ancient that it had no name or face, very similar to Flow’s dreams. The RavenMother was there in all of her stark, beautiful power. Also that strange goat-like God with the bird posse’, his name turned out to be To-Ag. There were many other Gods there but the one that caught the eye of the now patron-less Devi was a fierce, strong female huntress god with a bow strung from a rainbow named Meritittes. Bear was there. The simple but powerful God of the northlanders. Hool’Hool’Ka The largest bird every seen arrived with several Aarakokra, and many other Gods as well. Even the diminished Idyia was skulking in the back. The counsel proceeded to claim that the new God was operating well outside the laws of the Gods and needed to be dealt with, but the Gods were unwilling or unable to strike it down themselves. They needed… somebody else to do it. Devi stepped up, then Ra’Cheep and finally the whole group agreed to hunt this God down. Many powerful boons were granted to them to aid them in this quest! Pibble was claimed as the champion of To-Ag, Flow was nuzzled by Bear, Devi seemed to be accepted as the champion of the huntress Meritittes, and Ra’Cheep was blessed by the Ravenmother. Kree’O’Kree had a conversation with the God of Love, Persinion, who swore to protect Ro Ro as he would inevitably out-live his adopted parents. Lastly Pra’Kreen was given new wings by Hool’Hool’Ka and followed his brethren to wherever they had come from in service to the creator of Aakokra. With these powerful blessings the group headed further north to another meeting, this one of the nations of the world!
After such a powerful meeting, with grand boons and a grand charge everyone felt exhausted, but Ra’Cheep stayed up to preform a seance on two small bones that had appeared in his pouch during a strange dream a few nights before. The first one seemed totally lost and repetitive, but told a story of being sacrificed by Idyia during her accent to Godhood. The second vowed to aid Ra’Cheep for freeing them from Idyia’s influence and Ra’Cheep named her “Dahlia”.
Two last things…. To-Ag had let it slip that there was a spear capable of killing a God with the elephants… maybe that little piece of info could tip the scales. Also Kree’O’Kree told the group that the God of love told her that this new unnamed God was recently a human man who ascended to Godhood through a powerful cult following and the hate and sorrow of those he afflicted.
Leave a Reply