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Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:45 pm
A NekomimiTabaxi Bard, hiding from their past... Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap ?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside%7C723%3A1024&composite-to=*,*%7C723%3A1024&background-color=black

A Halfling Cleric(?), not letting her amnesia get in the way of carnal pleasure... Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap 401bd9f0972723f3ab5be20bd74d6e0d--character-ideas-character-art

A Kenku Samurai, who without his alcohol, is slowly getting worse memory...Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap 180?cb=20080412225928

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And a Human Sorcerer, hunted down for atrocities...Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap JOQV6W7

These are the people that find themselves summoned to the guild hall near the capital of Isaela, Murgon. As they were all new recruits, it was up to them to journey together as a group of adventurers to tackle missions until they could prove their worth. Introductions were made all around and a base sense of their personality was presented.

Terra was the Tabaxi bard, a shy timid girl who tried to keep to herself. Nera was the Halfling Cleric, and although a very bubbly person who couldn't stop thinking about innuendos, there was an underlying sense of kindness about her. Xavier was the Kenku Samurai, a mostly serious sort with an obsession for anything shiny, like most of his race. Taklinn was the Dwarf Barbarian, somewhat stoic and cautious until he got into a fight. Jay  was the Aasimar rogue, a playful, slightly mischievous girl. And then there was Dale, the Human Sorceror. While he mostly kept to himself, you could feel the determination pouring from his aura.

After a little banter, the group set out on the road toward their first mission; find what was causing livestock in a farming town to die off. Along the way each revealed at least a little more of why they came to the guild in the first place. Terra went for protection, Nera for the pleasure, Xavier for the hope of memories, Tak because what else could he do, Jay for the fun, and Dale because it was the best way to blend in.

The night before they arrived at the farm, a bear was seen sniffing about the campsite. While Terra had forgotten to pack a tent, Xavier let her use his and stood watch. Upon noticing the bear, he offered it some food and was at first rewarded with curiousity and indifference.  However, after being fed more, the two formed a bond, and Xavier thus gained a loyal bear companion!

Upon their arrival at the farm and some investigating, they wait for nightfall...

and are presented with THEIR FIRST FOES!Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap Latest?cb=20141026205236

The group quickly realizes Fire is the way to go, and begin igniting their arrows, blades, and the very air itself. Realizing that this could get bad, one of them tries to escape, but Terra sprints off to intercept them! Meanwhile the other, in a desperate attempt for his life, begins to fight back, slashing Xavier across the beak and paralyzing Jay! As the rest of the party continues their igniting onslaught. Terra gets hit and is paralyzed. As Taklinn, recovered from paralysis himself, takes down the other one, Terra recovers, whispering madness into their foe. Its eyes drain of life and it keels over.

The party, exhausted, sleeps until daybreak and claims their reward, moving back to the guild for their next task. Along the way, Xavier stumbles across a bag of gems, seemingly being guarded by a flock of faerie Dragons. Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap 350?cb=20171010161947

Promising to just watch and bring ... a kind of luck to the party, they all but vanish.

The party, after deciding to take two quests, one to investigate noises from the forest and one to stop goblin raiders, then decide to step into the main city of Murgon to upgrade their equipment and see if any items can help them, as well as see if they can armour Pandy. While Terra is reluctant to go, she is rather easily tricked with a ball of catnipped laced yarn. The first stop they make is to exchange some of Xavier's gems. Priced pretty steeply just to see the appraiser, the party pools funds together. While he tries to rip them off, Xavier will have none of it, and sells half his bag for a little more than what the dwarf had wanted. As he grumbles back into his shop, an astral projection of him begins to follow the party, showing up on occasion. Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap 4c8fcd818d700489bbf4ee9fa24535b7--fantasy-dwarf-fantasy-rpg

The next stop is the blacksmith for bear armour. The relentless pounding of the anvil causes Terra to scream, breaking her out of her high and get the attention of the blacksmith. After a little negotiation, he agrees to do it, as well as a kite shield for Nera... which amusingly enough almost acts as a tower shield for the little halfling. They then set off for the docks to get fishing rods. While Xavier and Taklinn fish with Jay watching, Terra, Nera, and Dale go to haggle about a cart that Pandy (the bear) could haul, Xavier giving her the platinum he believed she needed to acquire it. She manages to find the carpenter stables of Buzz, who fashions himself a woodsmith instead of a carpenter. Looking at the two sets of carts they believed the bear could haul, Terra's eyes fell on the more ornate one. After being told a rather high price, she began to paint Buzz a picture of just what them having the cart could do to his business, easily causing him to jump in popularity. and with popularity, comes skill level. Essentially the young Tabaxi told him "PAID FOR IN EXPOSURE" and he bought it, giving them a 90% Discount.

So after a short rest the group sets off again, Pandy in Bear armour and a shiny cart leading the way.

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Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:01 am
On the road, they met a satyr, who challenged an unwilling Terra to a music competition. After much coaxing from her teammates and the promise of a magical lute, Terra accepted.... and won by default as the satyr broke his pan pipes. Xavier, not wanting to have the satyr feel too bad, gave him some platinum for his troubles, in exchange for strumming the lute before Terra. It performed well enough to immediately become obvious that it enhanced his performance by quite a bit. Happy with her new lute, the gang continues on..

only to be immediately met with THREE WOLVES! [img=350,250]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Three_wolves_growling.jpg/800px-Three_wolves_growling.jpg[/img]

Luckily, Terra was able to immediately cause one to lose interest, bringing the total wolves to TWO! And Both had their sights set on Xavier, who took one very hard clawswipe to the beak. BUT PANDY, HEARING HER FRIEND/MASTER IN PAIN, CHARGED TO HIS DEFENCE, SHREDDING THROUGH THEM LIKE BUTTER! Well, it took a bit, but the hate remained on her enough for the party to take them down! One wolf was shot by Nera, right through it's back leg! And then it was shot by Nera... right up the anus. It died, thankfully. The other one met Xavier's blade and passed on as well.

So the heroes continue on their journey, taking their time of arriving to the forest. Not too far in they see a little girl and a THINGY THING PICTURE HERE!

Talking with the girl, they discover that while they were the source of mysterious sounds, it was because a group of evil baddies pushed them out. So, in order to investigate further, the group gets a ride on A GIANT SPIDER! [img=500,250]https://i2.wp.com/articles.mtgcardmarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Ishkanah-Grafwidow-Eldritch-Moon-MtG-Art-1.jpg?w=1005[/img]

Unfortunately the journey was still long, but no real character story happened. After a long rest, they come across a stone monument. With some fiddling, a fishing rod, and a halfling, the monument opens up. Dropping a torch, a collumn of fire SHOOTS UP! IT WAS A TRAP! And this caused bickering on who should go down. Terra was for the dwarf, making surprisingly racist remarks, though only the dwarf seems paying attention. This causes a little bit more infighting between the two, and Nera decides to take action and tie a rope to herself and jump! Everyone panics and tries to grab the rope. Terra, being the weak little girl she is, almost immediately gets rope burn and lets go. She won't be playing her Lute for a while.

After determining it's safe, but detecting a great evil, Nera is ready to get the hell out of there. The group convinces her otherwise, and they all get down. With the exception of Pandy, who they use as a holestop and weight. Going through a small curve, they spot CULTISTS IN THE MIDDLE OF A RITUAL! Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap 325px-Messenoire

While most of the group stares and watches, Xavier decides to be an HERO and attract the attention of them, bravely brandishing his sword and calling out to them. This attracts the attention of three of them, who begin to approach. Xavier meets them HEAD ON LIKE AN HERO! One slips, knocks his head against the stairs, has Nera bash his head in, and Xavier stabs him through the heart. Tak beats the hell out of one of them, knocking them away. Dale is blasting fireballs left and right. Terra is just casting Blade Ward over and over praying to not get attention.

Eventually those fall and the three left notice. One of them, clearly the head cultist, starts running off. Terra tries to get him to stop with a joke, but he gives a small chuckle and runs off. The other two just simply get their asses handed to him. Unfortunately, the dark ritual managed to be complete, and a DRAEGLOTH IS BORN! [img=250,250]https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dungeons/images/f/f6/Draegloth.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20091008225243[/img]

It feasts on the bodies as everyone else hides. SOMEHOW, Nera talks with it and it offers its name. Xavier, master Tamer that he is, says that it can join them for food, maybe even the dwarf. And then they get to a treasure room. Terra finds a scabbard for a wakizashi, Xavier finds said wakizashi, and Nera finds a spider broach.

So with demon companion in tow, they set off to find a way out of the forest.
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Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:02 am
The group come across a river, and upon following it find themselves just a little ways out the clearing. While taking a short rest, they ponder their next move. After listening to Xavier talk, they come to the only conclusion they could think of; tell Astral and the little girl, getting there by Ishkannah. After mimicking the call he heard earlier, the Spider Queen crashes through the forest, stopping a respectable distance away from the Draegloth. With a slightly bemused, puzzled expression, she looks at Xavier... who realizes he has NO IDEA how to get her to take them to Astral. With some impressive miming from Terra helping him, she gets the idea and they are off!

After a while, they come upon Astral. Unfortunately, THE DRAEGLOTH GOES MAD, GIVING INTO HER DEMON URGES! IT HOWLS AND GOES TO ATTACK! But Ishkannah flicks her away, and she becomes a speck in the sky! After a slightly bemused Astral spots this exchange, the little girl gets an update from Terra upon what was going on. As a reward, they got a spider-silk lined kimono for Xavier. After promising to stay in the deeper parts after that, Astral allows Ishkannah to take them to the edge of the forest.

Afterwards, the heroes see that a small rinkydink town is just a couple hours walk, compared to the three day trek that would take to their next destination. After a bit of discussion, the group decides if they're lucky enough to find a wagon to cut down the time, it would make the trip more worth than they realize. As well, it gives them a chance to rest properly and inquire about the magical items they found. So they set off!

Terra decides to be the one to grab the wagon, and she finds one with little problem, tossing some gold out and signing a small contract, not even bothering to haggle. Meanwhile, Nera and Tak are getting... somewhat plastered, after having been given no clues to the identity of any magic items the party has. So with a small stint at the inn, the group heads off to their next destination!

Nothing happens, so Dale decides to share a little bit more of who he is and why he is adventuring. The Circle want him to answer for a few minor crimes, and he's hiding from them. With this revelation, and no answers as to what kind of crimes, everyone falls asleep a little restlessly, except Terra, who elects to keep the driver somewhat busy so he doesn't fall asleep. In the course of the night, they run over a bump. Xavier wakes up, mumbles something about the sea and how it smells horrible in the wagon, and falls back asleep. Terra's confused, but dismisses it.

They get dropped off as far as the wagon is willing to go, and sprint off down the road, where they see ten goblins laying waste to a decently fortified town. Five of them spot the heroes and come running to meet them! [img=500,250]https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/overlordmaruyama/images/2/23/Goblin_Troop.png/revision/latest?cb=20150410120705[/img]

Battle starts, with Xavier and a goblin getting in what appears to be a fierce duel! Dale is throwing fireballs left and right, and Nera, while wanting to bash skulls in, has to heal Xavier after his foe took a chunk out of him. Tak gets engaged in his own goblin, and one of them fires an arrow at Terra, but misses. Then, Terra displays a fearsome feat of magical power by getting in just the right position and casting her Thunderwave spell. This massively shocks all five goblins, while fizzling out juuuust out of range of our heroes. One goblin becomes dust through the sheer magical power. Tak, finishing off his goblin, mutters his approval. Xavier dashes behind the three remaining goblins and does a whirlwind strike, cutting cleanly through two of them and stopping dead in the spine of the other. Satisfied, the group races off to meet the other five!

And, because of how they were positioned, Dale gets right in front of them, channels his magical power into both hands, and unleashes two Rays of Frost, freeing all five of them before they could act. The party throws open the gates, expecting more goblins, but instead they get a relieved town, thanking them and letting them stay in the inn immediately to heal their wounds.

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Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:02 am
A week passes with the party keeping an eye out for another wave of monsters, yet none come.

The gang is at a pub, having a good time. Xavier, drunk off his ass, notices a new person sit down at the table. "Ah, Terra! Why sit so far away from me? C'mon, get closer!" He waved to the stranger. Terra, who WAS sitting next to him, sighed. "I'm right here."

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"Who are you?" Tak asked, hand on his blade.

"I am Sabrixia Tabitha, an adventuring Ranger. I heard this village needed help. The more the merrier, eh?"

"YOU GOT THAT RIGHT TERRA!" Xavier yelled.

"I'm Terra..."

"Oh hush Sabby... *hic*"

"Oooh, new friend... I think I'll call you Tabby, if that's okay?" Nera asked.

"Sure."

"By the way... has anyone seen Jay?" Dale suddenly wondered, looking up from his book.

As everyone's (Minus Tabby) eyes grew wideTHEN THE CHURCH BELLS OF DANGER RANG! So they sprint off, only to find the town wall is on fire! Terra grabs a bucket, ready to splash it out before it gets to big, as the party readies to fight against six goblins and...

a hobgoblin! [img=250,250]https://d1u5p3l4wpay3k.cloudfront.net/wowpedia/3/31/Hobgoblin.png?version=9536deb83891c76ff57181674c50339c[/img]

Xavier's the first to strike, and instead of using his normal weapon, he pulls out the wakizashi the party found and slices a goblin with it! as the wound opens, SPIIIIDEEERRRS come pouring out of it, attacking the goblin, who is now screaming and panicking, flailing.

Nera and a goblin get into a duel, the goblin getting more and more confused on why the hafling just doesn't up and die, and Nera missing repeatedly.

After Terra deals with the fire, she uses dissonant whispers on the hobgoblin and it falls over, defeated.

Tabby shows off her archery prowess by absolutely unloading arrows in all directions that a goblin was, impressing the party.

As Nera slays her opponent, the party finds a note in the hobgoblins fist. it was a crudely drawn map of their lair, with one letter written on it.

J.

With a gasp, the party hurries off!

Quickly arriving, the party gasps upon seeing Jay, chained up against a wall...
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Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:03 am
Jay is quickly freed, and, though hungry, is satisfied with the party FINALLY REALIZING SHE WAS MISSING FOR SO DAMN LONG. After a brief introduction to Tabby, the group ventures further into the hideout at Jay's insistence. The party is all too eager to wipe out the horde, and so they follow.

Eventually, they get to a deep room with low lighting. While the party seems hesitant and feel danger in the air, Jay casually strolls up. The brassieres on the side lighting as she goes. The room now fully lit, they are face to face with a beautiful dragon.

(You know the one. C'mon.)

The party gasps and reach out to Jay, who holds her arms out and...

hug the dragon?

The party is very confused as the dragon simply smirks and snorts the Aasimar away.

Tabby, entranced by the dragon, pulls out a paintbrush and some paints and starts painting it's scales.

"What... What is she... what is she doing?!"

"We... have no idea. We just met her."

"I... see?"

"Enough nonsense." Tak said, shoving his way forward. "We came here for the horde. Well, okay, we came here for Jay... but we also came for the horde!"

"Why, I turned the horde to that town." The dragon went on to explain that there were evil cultists in that town, and the quickest way to kill them before they did any damage was to kill the whole town. Nera and Terra went against the dragon, telling him that what he was doing wasn't right because it was costing actual innocent lives, and if the evil cultists were so powerful, then they'd just protect themselves and let the whole town burn anyways.

So the group fashions a deal. The dragon will hold off on the attacks for two weeks to give party time to track dwn and bring back the head cultist, so that he may kill him personally. "I don't care how you do it." Said the dragon, "But two weeks is all I'm giving you."

So the gang sets off once more toward the town, planning on how to efficiently gather enough information and get to the cultists. Unfortunately, the gang has differing methods of getting in.

Jay decides that she'll go up and interrogate EVERYONE IN TOWN claiming she is challenging their leader and that she DEMANDS THE ADDRESS OF THE HEADQUARTERS!

Nera, Tabby, Dale, and Tak decide that they'll brew some sleep poisons to slip into the drinks of the townsfolk, then ransack all the homes for clues, and, upon identifying the leader, drag his sleeping corpse to the dragon.

Terra and Xavier decide to keep their ears and eyes open for anything suspicious and act then, with Terra going to the pub and playing, and Xavier watching everyone from the rooftops.

Team NDTT go to an apothecary and ask for some sleeping poisins, but alas, the brewer is out of Nyquail feathers and Nightshade. So the four set out to get some feathers and plants.

So they come across... three Nyquails!

[img=250,250]https://thepeoplespharmacy-graedonenterpris.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/Nyquil-400x400.jpeg[/img]

Oh wait no...

THREE NYQUAILS!

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(Being honest, I do not remember much of this fight other than Tak getting into a rage and smashing one of the Nyquail's into a bloody pulp. So, ya, that happened.)

As they are fighting, Xavier is watching the town, sipping from his flask. He feels a small prick, but blows it off. Then two small pricks. He looks down and sees three tranquilizer darts on him. Looking around, he then feels about twenty darts before falling off the rooftop and losing consciousness.

Jay, in her room, finds a note on her pillow. "Come to the catacombs. Alone." It seems her way was the most efficient.

Terra, who had kept her eyes open almost as well as her ears, barely noticed with all the villagers coming in and out. She notices Xavier on the floor outside and goes out to play, hoping that it appears that she just played him to sleep.

As team DNTT enter town for a brief reprieve, Jay tells the party, minus one knocked the fuck out kenku, that she got a note. her part done, she decides to help them find the nightshade. Terra decides to stay and watch over the kenku.

So the five come across a thing of shade sitting around some puddles. After suspeciously hitting them and spalshing around, jay glides over and..

GETS SURROUNDED BY A GUshiNG WALLL OF WATER AS TWELVE BULLYWOGS SURROUND THE PARTY!

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Two of them surround Jay, while ten go for the others.

Bullywogs-12

Jay at crit heth from 1 attack
Tabby misses with dagger
Nera's mace gets stuck
Jay kills 2 with double daggers.
Tak gets rage-kills one of them
Dale ray of frosts again, freezing four. Five left
Tabby half healrh
Tabby shoots one, killing it
Nera shield bashes but misses
Bullywog hits nera, hits.
Tak hits one, and misses other, paralyzing one on the left.
Dale double rof, miss boths.
Bulky misses nera, muss tabby
Tabby shoots and kills

(That's what I got. We won, all you need to know.)

Presenting the apothecary with the ingredients, they pay a paltry sum and are told they must wait a week for twelve poisons. They begrudgingly do so, killing time as they are wont to do...
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Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:03 am
During the week, Jay and Xavier get particularly drunk. Declaring an everlasting bond of friendship, they pluck a feather from themselves and jam it into the other. And then of course they continued getting drunk off their asses.

After the week's wait is up, the gang grab the potions and decide to first visit the town's abbey, which was one of the view to welcome patrons of all deities. Arriving, Terra knocks on the door and...

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Terra, incredibly happy, applauds them as the head monk, named Al, coughs and more formally introduces themselves. "We have very little guests here, so we like to let loose from time to time. We appreciate you very much. And your bussiness?"

"I NEED A KEG OR THREE OF ALE!" Xavier shouts. "Wait, no, Kegs of Holy Water. My bad."

"We can give you a couple cases, but our coffers are low..."

"I'll make a 200 platinum... donation." The FILTHY STINKIN RICH Kenku offers.

"Done." Al says, accepting and tossing them into the coffer. Jay sneaks into it and plucks some platinum from them, and then also makes a donation of 60 platinum. For a total of 200 platinum.

"Fantastic! Blessed travelers, take this blessing!" Al blesses the party, and Terra commits the hymn to memory, translating it into a perfect song for her lute.

"I can use this prolly once or twice..."

"I say," Nera begins, "There's so many dieties here, but mine is certainly the best, allowing us more... pleasurable... desires."

Al sweats nervously and, having a crisis of faith, gestures a nun over. "W-we have a symbol of that one, yes. Palor I think his name was. .. Come, take the holy sword Dixon!"

Nera takes it and unsheathes...

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"I LOVE IT!" She says, as a visibly uncomfortable Terra books it the hell out of there.

Eventually, the rest of the party leaves too, and, picking up Pandy at the stables, they set off for the catacombs...
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Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:04 am
After some uneventful traveling, Jay leads them to the catacombs, with Nera zeroing in on the entrance. After some light discussion, Jay goes in alone as the instructions said.

The other party members find a secondary entrance, and with some walking, come to a closed door.

With Jay, she pulls some schlock about how she just wanted his attention so she could join. She's lead into a chamber, where she tosses a holy symbol she received from the Abbey into a brassier, where it melts away.

The party peek through, just as the leader begins to speak, showing off some draegloth in this massive catacomb.

Eventually, he has them tear away a cloth to reveal... the dragon the party was supposed to help! Terra gasps loudly and they sneak into the room.

The dragon, though displeased, is defiant, even as the lead cultist stabs him fatally. Then he has two other draegloth's rip away more cloth, revealing purple pulsing sacks of decayed meat and bones.

The mere sight causes Nera to scream as they converge on the dragon as the leader begins to rant...

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Then the newly resurrected Dracolich fried the hell out of the remaining cultists, and began to rain havoc down and attempt to break down the catacombs. His eyes then set on the party, a murderous intent in his eyes...

Nera is paralyzed in thought and recollecting, some memories coming back. Terra and Tabby, having insane speed, just book it the hell out of there. Dale follows, and Jay starts dragging Nera to the exit. Xavier stumbles and falls as the dragolich goes to scoop him up!

There comes a time in an adventurer's life... where they decide to save as many as they can at whatever cost. Even a fallen angel knows it, despite oblivion being what awaits them, sometimes, others just have a destiny that you have to help them reach...

Using all of her strength, she dashes to Xavier and picks him up too, then spins and, summoning every iota of her being,, tosses them both to the exit, Nera rocketing through with her shield as a sled.

Not minding the cut from Xavier's not spiderblade, she doesn't even gasp in pain as the dracolich picks her up and stares into her soul, hate and anger in his eyes. She lets out a deep breath, one she didn't know she was holding, and pats the dracolich on the snout. "H-heh... Good Dragon?" She quips before being rent assunder by it's lightning breath. Her ashes flowing on the breeze, a sole black feather remaining and following...

and going right over an almost flattened Terra and Tabby, who combined were not strong enough to match that speed and weight of Nera's rocket shield. The Dracolich bursts through the ground and leaves a crater, flying off.

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As everyone save Jay gathered there thoughts, Xavier noticed the white feather Jay had given him pop out and fall off...

"Oh no..." He whispered, as his eyes scanned the sky. Spotting ashes on the wind and his old feather, he closed his eyes. "Fuck. Jay... didn't make it."

Terra and Tabby were both silent with shock and despair. But Dale, Xavier, and Tak had to check up on Nera, who was certain she remembered something about her past. She told them they were guarding those bones. She says she wasn't a cleric, but she can't quite remember what she was doing back then.

Tak, ever the respectful barbarian, gets to work making a tombstone for their fallen ally.

"Here Lies Jay, Whome Lived as she died: A Bitch." He wrote shakily. He was a stonecutter, but that was completely different to engraving.

Taking a few more moments for respect, they set off back to town, hearts heavy...
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Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:04 am
Everyone is in the pub, drinking or playing their sadness away. Nera notices a twinkle out the corner of her eye, and leaves. Meanwhile, near Tak and an INCREDIBLY drunk Xavier, there was another Tabaxi, awfully angry.

"I saw THE BIGGEST PAYCHECK OF MY LIFE! and it got AWAY! I just... I JUST... GAAAAHHHHH!!!!" And then she picks up a table and knocks Tak over the head with it, who instinctively reacts by punching Xavier, who goes to punch the new girl..

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And thus a barfight between the three ensues, with punches going everywhere and a chair NEARLY hitting Terra, who noped the fuck out of there and watched from the window. While she wasn't certain, she DID think she heard Xavier yell "CA-KAW BITCH!" Only to be replied with "MEOW BASTARD!"

As the fight was raging, Nera was lead to the stables and a faerie dragon manifested into her patron deity, who gave her directions to become a paladin. "All you have to do was go here and complete the ritual that will be given when you get there." They explained, and sent her on her way..

She arrived to the fight, and, watching through the window with Terra, Tabby, and Dale, informed them.

But inside, the Bartender had enough, and coughed, placing a sword on the bar. The three pub fighters looked all at each other and nodded, simultaneously punching him, causing him to fly into the backroom and clatter is heard.

Eventually the royal guard comes in to break it up, one going to punch and knock out Tak, but knocks out Xavier instead. The other guard knocks out Tak. The female fighter on the other hand, stands at attention and passes off a lie that she was trying to break up their fight. As they go to arrest them, Terra steps in and explains the grave loss they had. Issuing a warning to not let it happen again, the royal guard help clean up and leave.

This leaves the new girl to explain who she is...
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Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:05 am
Everyone rests up and the next day comes. Tak leaves sometime in the early morning, muttering something about damn cats. Everyone goes off to do their own thing pretty quickly, Dale and Nera wander around town talking with various townspeople, and Tabby feeds a pet slime she keeps in a jar. Xavier and Terra are in the bar, Xavier desperately trying to get a drink from a near-blind bartender and Terra just playing her lute, keeping her ears open.

"Did you hear? There's a bunch of treasure in Rosepetal Lake!" A gruff mercenary mentions. Xavier was already out of the door, and Terra follows him to keep him out of trouble!

And immediately gets into trouble herself, being pounced by the girl from last night, a Tabaxi named Vivian. "Ah There you are TABITHAAAaAaaaa... YOu're not Tabitha." She sniffs. "Why are you wearing a dress?" She asked, climbing off of her.

"I.. like my dress?" She explains.

"Well, whatever. Such a shame, I could use a male tabaxi around to get the treasure..." She pointidly looks at Terra.

"Well," The bard saya through grit teeth, "Too bad there aren't any here."

"Look. You want those shinies? I'm in need of treasure. My coffers are running... well, not enough for my tastes, fuhuhuhuhu. So tell you what. Hire me. I charge five hundred gold for a battle." She spots the lute hanging behind Terra's neck. "Or... we could duel for it? I could give you a discount, saay... one platinum instead?" She smiled like a predator. Terra didn't fall for it.

"I know enough about money. I may not care about it, but even I know that is the same thi-"

"I'LL PAY JUST TO SEE THE DUEL!" Xavier interrupts with a drunken hiccup.

"Ooh, I'll have to sign the contract with him definitely." She muses as Terra hands her the old lute she used to use. "Okay. Are you ready? I'll go first. I'm something of a lute aficionado, you see. The music runs in my soul, you might even say."

This lit a fire in Terra's eyes the likes of which the party hadn't seen before. "You know nothing of music, I can tell by the way you hold the lute! Merely a poser!"

"Ha! Like you should be throwing THAT accusation around." Vivi says as she begins to play.

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"Is that all?" Terra replied coolly. She began to strum, and the lute's magic sprang to life as it sounded like a full orchestra. In this moment, Terra has all the confidence and justice of what she does on her side, and it shows through her music.

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Xavier, in the rather large audience that has gathered, feels a strange stirring in his chest. "YOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!" He yars as the epic force of Terra's playing causes a crack in his first sword.

"Wh-what?! NO! REMATCH!" Vivi exclaims!

"Bring it on." Terra says.

The next goes the same way, vivi's mediocre playing being no match for Terra's Orchestral Lute.

"That... was... good..." Vivi says with grit teeth. "Let me... inspect... your lute..." She reaches for it, but terra backs away.

"N-no. I don't feel comfortable with that." She backs up some more, but Vivi lunges with her claw open, and attempts to cut the string.

Fortunately for Terra, as soon as she touches it, a bolt of lightning streaks from it, shocking her and sending her back. "O-oof... dammit. Fine, I'll join you at the crow's expense." She says. "But first, can I borrow this for a bit? I won't sell it or pawn it or whatever."

"Fine, but I'm following you."

"Damn." Vivi complains as she sets up shop... and proceeds to play so bad that three people give her a whopping one gold each to let her not play again. "What? I don't... ugh, it must be you! Go on the other side or something and leave me alone." She says as she attempts to play again.

"Heh, look at you, thinking your a superstar. Let me show you... how the fuck it's done." Terra softly says to her before going to the opposite end of the marketplace. "Let me show you... what a real bard can do!" She says as she prepares.

A wannabe just looking for money, and a bard feeling challenged. The stage is set...
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Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:05 am
And the stage is trashed. Vivi plays her heart out, but only manages to atract four people, who give her a combined total of 12 gold.

Terra, on the other hand, bursting with confidence, plays and manages to attract...

the whole rest of the town's population. Everyone, from baker's about to pull bread from their ovens, to patrons in the bar, to the apothecary, to the children playing in the streets, to the whole rest of the party! Terra is showered in gold from the village, coming out to a total of 350. Parading back to Vivi, Terra confidently smiles. "And that... is how it is done. Don't ever, "She takes the loaned lute back as she says this, "Try to tell me how to fucking do my job."

"Um, I'm really proud of you Terra, but Xavier has already started to leave to-" Tabitha starts to say, but is pounced upon by Vivi.

"YOOOOOUUUUUUU! TABITHA I FINALLY FOUND YOU! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY YOU OWE ME?! ALL FOR FINDING THE SLIME FRIEND OF YOURS?! SURE YEAH YOU THINK IT'S AN EASY TASK, BUT THEY ALL! LOOKED! THE! SAME!"

Tabitha, panicked, tries to make a small comment and run away, but Vivi chases her, Terra following.

"I LOST GOOD MEN THAT DAY! OVER HALF MY CREW! YOU BETTER PAY ME BACK! DO YOU KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE FUNERAL COSTS A...AAAAhhhhh...AAAHHHHHHCHOOOOO!" Vivi suddenly sneezes and looks around at the town's exit. "Wha, what the he-" She spots Pandy the bear and her eyes go wide. "Oh no... Not bears! I'm Aller-CHOO!-gic to bears!"

"What." Nera asks, overhearing.

"Yeah, they give me the sneezes! HEY CROW! I'M ADDING AN ALLERGY FEE TO YOUR BILL!" Vivi yells at Xavier, who turns around and grins.

"Hey. If we keep NOT GETTING TO THE TREASURE, I'll gut every last one of you mateys, got it?" The kenku says, in a voice his party members had never heard him use before.

A shiver runs down Terra's back as the rest of the party, likely too shocked, keep marching forward.

"Good." He mutters as he sharpens his weapons.

They move out, Xavier, Pandy, and Terra leading. Xavier is posed on top of Pandy heroically, who, while annoyed and trying to half-ass shake him off, is actually not minding that much. Terra is riding in the wagon, and Vivi is right behind her.

"Who is this Buzz person anyways?" Vivi mentions with another sneeze.

"Oh, he's our wagon guy. Made this top of the line wagon and sold it to us very cheaply." Terra replies.

"This thing has got to be worth a fortune though."

"I was the one doing the talking." Terra smiles.

"Boy, remind me to watch you work sometime..."

This sparks a conversation between the two all about Vivi. She likes money because it helps make the world go round... and it helps her rig arena battles in Dunwall to make even more money. The more money she has, the better off her mercenary troupe is. She has no problem giving answers for free, since words are, in her opinion, not as effective as money. She also just doesn't want to be bothered with adding a walking charge. If she gets hit, even a scratch, she charges 5 gold, and every normal hit she does will be five gold. If she uses an actually ability, it'll be a huge amount of money... all out of Xavier's pocket, of course.

Then, Pandy smells roasted meat, and cannot control her urges and rockets forward, knocking both Xavier and Terra off. The group hurries after it! They see these blue skinned humanoids and Terra, while playing a song to calm Pandy, pleads for them to peacefully stop the bear!

They spring up and bones spring out from their elbows and they form a guard, as Pandy skids to a stop... so suddenly the cart topples over and loud crashes are heard.

"FUCK THAT WAS MY HOLY WATERS!" Xavier yelled.

"This is why I keep Slimy with me." Tabitha happily says, holding up her jar.

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So the group, after helping the wagon up and making sure it's okay, sit down to see what exactly is going on here.
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Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:06 am
The group causes a bit of commotion, Nera and Terra exchanging some quips that get them a few snickers from the caravan's members. Xavier belows out "DO NOT LAUGH! WE ARE PERFORMERS!"

This only causes the people to laugh harder. Indeed, such commotion is made that the tribe leader, an elderly old woman comes out. Though she is clearly struggling not to burst into laughter herself, she manages to reign her emotions in and gestures for the party to follow her.

This makes the caravan's members very weary of the party, though a few look away after Terra exclaims they mean no harm. They enter the tribe leaders caravan, and... the Tabaxis immediately get sidetracked upon entering, as a curtain of beads was in the way. The three play with it for a bit before a loud cough snaps them back to reality.

Gesturing to some cushions in front of her, the elder sets about throwing various things into a pot. The group sit down, with Xavier setting his blades on the pillow provided and sits himself on the floor.

(She prolly sounds like this, lesbehones.)

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"Ah, I've been waiting for you all." The shaman says with a smile. "If you don't mind..." With that said, she addresses the group one by one.

"Nera... You have a great journey ahead of you. But what you are meaning to do right now... it is just the start, my dear." The halfling could only nod in response.

"Dale... You need to go back to the circle. I do not know if they will forgive you, but... Changes are imminent, and you could make a great difference there." Dale nods and mutters a swear under his breath. Clearly he wasn't looking forward to that.

"Sabrixia... This is a grave mission you and your friends are on. Try and bring a little more focus to the table, hm?" Tabby, off in her own world staring at the various decorations around the hut, startles and blushes.

"Vivian... You should not trust those you think are trustworthy."

"HA! I KNEW YOU GUYS WERE PIECES OF SHI-"

"Not them. They are."

"My money is in danger, isn't it?"

"I will neither confirm nor deny that."

"SON OF A BI-"

"Terra..." She breaks out into a shit-eating grin. "You have secrets your hiding from them. And not just one. How long do you think you can keep it up? Be careful, lest your inaction brings ruin." Terra uncomfortably shifts in her seat, a look of deep concern on her face.

"And... you...You are housing more than you know, yet you know exactly what you are doing, do you not?" She turns to Xavier, who blinks in confusion. "Ah, my apologies, not you Xavier. Eizen, come on now." This elicits confusion from the whole group.

"With that out of the way... There is something I must show you." With that, the embers and smoke coalesce into a form the party is far more familiar with; the Dracolich! It shifts and swirls into the shape of a volcano. "You do not have forever, I'm afraid. This mountain has been dormant for centuries, and it's sure to explode soon. If IT harnesses the power... it could mean very bad things for our world, do you understand? Luckily..." The smoke shifts once more to clear waters. "Where you are going, there may be a companion who is more than willing to help. Now, I'm getting a little tired. so-"

"Will my country be okay?!" Terra asks, clearly forcing it out.

The shaman elder smiles knowingly. "That depends... on the side you are on."

"You know which side I'm on..."She softly says to herself.

"My people, they are very... Isolationist. But still, if you need anything for the journey, they may be willing to barter with you. Pray, stay this night in safety and continue your journey in the morning." With that, the elder dismisses them and the party disperses to see what's up.

Xavier looks at the wagon. There's a little damage, but it's not too bad. He's more concerned with his flasks. Luckily, he finds two crates bundled tightly in the party's traveling clothes. The rest were not so lucky, being smashed everywhere. "Well, at least the wagon will be protected from undead for a while..." He mutters as he goes to clean up.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WON'T BARTER WITH ME?!" Viv's voice rings out. A couple minutes later... "FINE I DIDN'T NEED NO STUPID ARMOUR!" She grumbles and walks over to the weapon shop, and spots a trident. "Th-That Trident! Please I must have it! Look, I need it! Here's plenty of money, I swear! Just please give me that weapon!" She was practically begging, and thus the caravan took pity on her. After accepting a bag of platinum, they put some into a counterfeit checking machine... and find that ten of her coins were fakes!

"What?! NO! My money! Grr... I have an orphan to deal with back in Dunwall!" She exclaims before digging out more money and tossing it on the counter. Somewhat touched by her sincerity, they don't bother checking this time, and give her the trident.

Terra is looking at some miscellaneous supplies when Vivi walks up. "Three bundles of rope please!"

"Fifty Platinum each."

"Errrr, how about... fourty? For one? I'm rich... just not here." Terra tries to hide a facepalm at Vivi's horrible bartering attempts, but they are both interrupted by Xavier. "I'll take the ropes just so she won't have them!" He says, placing down one of his diamonds.

The Caravaners' eyes go wide and they pick it up, inspecting it. "This... this is not diamonds! This is Moonstone! Far more valuable!"

"FUCK!" The astral dwarf yells, storming away and muttering.

"Here sir! Take the ropes! and thirty pounds of freshly smoked meat!"

Vivian grumbles and storms off toward the centre of the circle. The caravaners laugh.

Terra, looking around, spots a cloak of displacement and her eyes light up. "I... I want that cloak please!"

After some haggling, they come to a half agreement: fifty platinum, she performs tonight, and she pisses off the Dragoon. Terra gives a mischievous smile and leans in, as if to let them in on a secret. "Look, last town we were in, this incomptent ass thinks she can outplay me, thinking I was some amateur, and that it's just an easy way to earn money. I whooped her thrice. She's not getting anymore angry at me than she already is."

The three share a good laugh at that, and they agree to drop it just a little more. "Mm, your offer is most generous, but I just don't carry that much on me. Now let me see what all I so ha-"

"TERRA NEEDS A THING?! CATCH!" Came Xavier's voice as a moonstone comes sailing out of the air, smacking Terra on the head, and bouncing between the two traders.

"Ooow..." She says, rubbing her head.

They laugh their asses off, and then focus on the moonstone. Snatching it up, they hand her the cloak and tell her not to worry about performing tonight.

She does it anyways, and the next morning, they set off!
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Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:06 am
The ride is uneventful until they get to a bridge, where the group hears a commotion under it, looking down, Terra's eyes go wide and she pulls out a knife and fork. "Tabby, Vivi... it's fish time." She says, and the three cats leap down.

"GET THE BLOODY HELL OFF ME!" The thing says, cutting some of the seaweed.

Nera rushes down to the river to get a closer look...

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"GET THIS BLOODY THING OOOOOFFFF!!!!" He slashes at the seaweed and flops on to the bank. "Finally!" He straightens up and points his sword at the cats.

"BACK OFF I'M NOT FOOD!" He warns.

"It's okay, they don't mean to harm you."Nera says, convincing Terra to put down the fork.

"Oh, okay." The Triton immediately puts down his weapon. "I'm Zelos!"

Vivian, Xavier, and Dale all huddle together with evil grins on their faces, seeing how readily he accepted her word.

"You know," Vivi whispered. "Some tritons are known for being incredibly stu-er, gullible. Especially if it comes to customs, since they are almost always under the sea."

"Oh, we're going to fuck with this one, aren't we?" Xavier said in his gravelly voice.

"Wouldn't have it any other way." Dale says as they proceed to tell Zelos various lies about the world, all of which he accepts with a smile and a nod. This includes giving a kenku a scale every morning, saying Woof and lifting your hand like a paw to greet everyone that isn't a tabaxi, to tabaxis you greet them with a nya, anytime a halfling crosses your path you have to squeeze their breast with the exception of Nera, and many MANY other lies.

With a new companion in tow, they come to another town. It's recently been hit by an earthquake, but everyone is okay, for the most part. Terra keeps an ear out for rumours of Rose Petal lake, and comes to learn that there may be something in the center.

Meanwhile, Zelos notices a brothel in town. "What is that?"

Xavier in his gruff voice responds. "Ah, every time you see one of those, you go in and ask for the biggest of the big. Then, you just do what they say."

So Zelos does so, to be met with, at the end of it all...

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Realizing what happened, he nopes out of there, saying he had tadpoles. As he leaves, he passes by a halfling and squeezed, only to be slapped away. Nera, who was in the brothel because OF COURSE SHE WOULD BE, tried to pick her up, only to also be rebuked.

After a quick night at the inn, the group sets out yet again!
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As they are travelling, they come across of group of four kobolds, all eager for a fight! Xavier takes a moment to pull Zelos to the side. "Okay, new custom for you to remember. If you're a guy, the first thing you do is aim for their groin, got it?" He asks, and, upon receiving a nod in confirmation, charge into battle and uppercuts a kobold right in his nether regions.

The kobold, unamused, pulls out some brass knuckles and slips them on. "Alright, if you wanna play it that way!" And punches him back! Fortunately, he misses.

Pandy charges in and goes to bite a kobold in the groin, understanding her partner's intent to fuck with Zelos, and sadly misses. Zelos, understanding, goes to slice one right there sure enough, and manages to kill one.

Nera unsheathes Dixon and slashes mightily, her foe taking a strong hit to the stomache. And then, Dixon gave a mighty shudder and SHOT OUT A SPLOOGE OF WHITE ACID, BURNING THE KOBOLD TO NAUGHT MORE THAN A SKELETON!

Terra, knowing her friend's got this, strums her lute to encourage Xavier, who picks up the leather clad kobold by the throat and SLAMS him down to the ground. He's bleeding badly, but he gets up.

"Well..."He says as his bloody throat heals up and starts glowing. "I can see This... This is going to be FUN!" He laughs as he tosses a smokebomb and disappears.

This causes his companion to freak out and start running away, after Pandy tries to use the cart as a weapon, and misses.

Nera aims her bow and launches an arrow, killing it. A short looting of the bodies reveals two amulets of Scrying, one dropped by the leader and one on another kobold. Clearly the party wouldn't be getting in touch with him easily.

"Oh I'll remember this! I'll take you down the SAME WAY!" Xavier yells in his gravelly voice. Having found both amulets, he gives one to Terra. "I only need one, and well, all kitty cats need a bell, hm?"

"You racist fu-"

"Hush Vivi, he meant it in a good way." Terra says as they continue on.

They come across a jetty, with a lone old fisherman in a shack next to it. "Hey! You need a ride? That'll be thirty five gold an hour!"

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Terra tries to persuade him to let them go for free because HOLY MISSION, but the old man doesn't even so much as blink in her direction. Xavier, taking a look at the rinky dink boat, gets a fire in his eyes and marches right up to him. "You listen here you sodding old cod," He began in his gravelly voice, "I don't give a parrots ass if there's sea creatures right out there ready to eat us! I see the state of your so-called-ship, and let me tell ya, that rinky dink LIFEBOAT would sooner sink than even make it halfway there! So because we are RISKING OUR LIVES on your SHODDY repair work, cur, you WILL let us pass without so much as a copper!"

The old man stared him down. "You haven't seen the horrors I have, whelp! I know what's out there, and that boat's all I got. So you ARE going to pay. 35 gold, three hours max, you got that, sonny?"

Xavier didn't even flinch as he stared back. "Fine. But your ship is a wreck, truly it is. So I'll go about fixing it for you, and we'll see if maybe we get something after I'm done." He angrily slams some money down on the counter. "Come." He says, ushering everyone to the ferry.

"And WE! ARE OFF!" Xavier dramatically exclaims, unsheathing his Daicho and pointing it, posing off the bow.

And that's when Davy Jones locker broke loose...
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A dark beam emanates from Xavier's daicho, and a shattering is heard. The weapon broke, and a dark cloud envelopes Xavier. when it rises, he's still there, but his stance is off. "Heh heh heh heh..." His gravelly voice came. "I'm finally free! and... ugh, who uses a fucking kimono?!" He rips it off and tosses it upwards...

And there it remains, floating in the air. "CAN IT BE?!" Comes a familiar heroic voice from the kimono, now hovering in the air.

"What." Came from Nera, the others lookin on in confusion.

"Heh heh heh, poor little lost souls. But it's no wonder now is it? You ARE on a ship, and the only here with any know-how is me."

A moment of silence, then Terra's eyes widened in realization. "Eizen?"

"That's my fuckin name."

Terra looks up. "And this Kimono is..."

"I AM XAVIER VON GESH!" He bellows. "Please, permit me to explain!"

"You do that, I'll let us NOT SINK!" Eizen proclaims as he starts to fix the ship, dragging Tabitha down to help him.

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"You see, I've been trapped in that blade for 200 years before someone picked me up. In my life, I was a proud warrior. In one fight, I was rendered near useless without my trusty katanas. So I had to make a retreat, and I stumbled into a castle. I picked up the first weapon I found, and bid my time. Within a day, I was trapped in there. Of course, my body was still there, so I definitely DEFINITELY died... and then no one, not ONE person picked up my blade. Until our new pirate friend did, of course."

"Friend, ha." Eizen mutters as he, now naked, puts on some trousers. "Mm, a rusty cutlass eh? Maybe I'll just fist em all."

"Snrk." Nera covers her mouth as Eizen draws his blade on her.

"Do not make me toss ye o'erboard."

"Sorry."

"Anyways."Xavier said, waving a... sleeve..." So then I took over his body, due to the curse. I've journeyed for seven years to figure out a way to get back my own body, or at least break the curse somehow. It's why I wound up joining the guild. And then I got a taste of alcohol, and well, Eizen had a bit of control back there, heh. You see, short of sake, I don't drink."

"YOU CUR!" Comes Eizen's voice as he tosses some stairs aside. "You, artist! I found some pink paint!" Tabby nods, pulls out her brush, and gets to work.

"Hey, Sake is all we needed. You know it means water in my language? Even the babes were raised on it!"

"Wait..." Terra says, looking between the two.

"Oooh, the little kitty cat is having trouble wrapping their brain around it. Well they do say females are smarter..." Vivi quips. "Though since that's the case, does that mean my contract is null and vo-" The contract floats up from her pockets and magically rips itself into shreds. "MOTHER FU-"

A twitch of Terra's nose. "No, I understand that. But... does Eizen know what's going on? How did the blade break? And how, if it and therefor the curse, is broken, is Xavier still around?"

"Well I DONT GOT ANYWHERE ELSE TO GO RIGHT NOW LASSIE!" Eizen yells as he replaces a plank. "You, body stealer!" The kimono kinda bends down.

"Yes?"

The damnable dark blast cut the sails! We haven't been going anywhere! So make like a sail so we can GET TO OUR DESTINATION!"

Xavier salutes with his sleeve and latches on as the wind picks up, blowing them forth.

"So the thing is, the blade breaks when the soul inside it is in enough control and is hit with nostalgia. When you played that pirate theme, a large crack happened. and on this ship, the lake in my nose... it was just enough for the memories to trigger. But the thing is... I, am a samurai. I am bound to protect those I chose and see their duty through to the end! I guess that feeling was just so strong, my soul HAD to help some how. So.. here I am! Kinda."

"Well, we're glad to have you!" Terra says with a smile.

Suddenly, the water ripples and a shrine slooooooowly comes into view from the bottom of the ocean

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"HEY! YA OLD BASTARD! TAKE A LOOK!" Eizen yells out.

The old fisherman storms out of his cabin "WHAT THE BLOODY HELL YA WANT YA SODDING CU-" His lazy eye focuses for just one second, he yells, and runs back into his shack.

"I'm so not paying him." Eizen mutters. "The ship's certainly enough."

And with that...

One halfling paladin, on a quest to find herself and her destiny... Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap 26375563373_ef0d571b46_b

One Human mage, thoughts of the Circle on his mind...Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap Latest?cb=20100526135333

One Tabaxi Ranger, head in the clouds and heart open to friendship...Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap Mithra_ranger__final_fantasyxi_by_tool_maynard_apc

One Kenku Pirate, freshly freed and eager for blood...Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap 200?cb=20070928224715

One Tabaxi Dragoon, concerned with possibly losing her fortune...Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap Mithra_DRG_%28FFXI%29

One Triton Spellblade, eager for learning all about the world whilst saving it...Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap Tumblr_p16b47EYEc1so4f1jo1_500

One Living Armour Samurai, sincere about protecting his friends... (Image is literally the same one, I hit an image limit uploading this hahahaha)

And a Half-Tabaxi Bard, secretly distraught about her country...Doomsday of the Dracolich: Recap Latest?cb=20110414185013

Begin to enter the shrine toward Nera's destiny, and Eizen's treasure...


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Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:08 am
As they come to the entrance, fresh water still rolling off the spire clearing up some of the gunk and algae, Nera takes a look at the tower and sees, off to the side, the word 'dragons'.

"This aura," She states, "it feels like home for some reason..."

"Really?" Vivi questions. "I feel threatened."

The rest of the party didn't really feel anything. Except Tabitha, who felt like she needed to stay near the boat. "Just in case."

Nera looks closely. "I.. I remember something... The fire that burns within burns pure?" As she says this, the gate keeping the doors closed open. Inside, the party sees some flame sconces. Terra and Zelos light them at the same time, and they chain light up the rest of the tower. There's a giant pit in the middle, but after Xavier borrowing and then throwing a torch from Terra into it, it seems endless.

"Well I'm not going down there." He mutters as the party clambers up the stairs. They eventually climb up and enter another room full of books. Clearly it used to be a library. Vivian takes a look at a book, reading to herself.

"And it turns out that there were... DRAGOONS HIRED BY THE DRAGONS TO CLEAR OUT THE BAD ONES AH!"

"Hey Viv, whatcha Reading?" Nera peeks over her shoulder, only for Vivi to SLAM the book shut and it crumble into dust.

"NOTHING!" She says, huffing off.

Eizen, desperate for shinies, starts knocking over bookshelves. He winds up knocking one unto his foot, and in his anger, knocks over another one, which hits and breaks a table, as well as a book that Terra was reading. In another fit, he knocks down yet another bookshelf, and a door appears behind one.

"A DOOR?! I DONT NEED A STINKIN DOOR!" He mutters, going to put that one back. But Xavier stops him and opens the door.

"It's dark in here... Everyone, come look." He motions with his... cape. Most the party does.

"Wow sure enough, I can't see a thing."

"I've got this." Nera summons up a ball of light and it brightens up the room. Terra briefly sees a ... something phase out of existence out of the corner of her eye, and stares at where it was until rattling chains get her attention.

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"Please help me." She says.

"Oh my gosh are you okay?!" Nera running toward the Harpy.

"Do I look okay?!" She asks, before clearing her throat. "Sorry, just been locked up in a dark, can't-see-for-shit, tower ever since I could remember. But yeah no I'm fine. Plenty of... mice around here, I guess."

in an effort to break her from her chains, Eizen goes to slash at them, but is met with a bolt of lightning for his trouble.

Nera thinks on how she entered. "Hmm... The Fire that Burns Within Burns Pure?" She tests out, touching the chain. It glows, and in a burst of light the parts holding her captive fizzle out, freeing her.

"Ah, finally. Nothing to even do for fun around here." She mutters, rubbing her arm.

"Ah, we should all introduce ourselves!" Nera says. The party, minus Vivi and Eizen, who have gone on-Eizen to knock down a few more bookshelves, of course, start to introduce themselves with their name and basic abilities.

"I see. I am Sophellia, a Bloodhunter. You may call me Sophie."

"A bloodhunter?" Dale questions.

"Indeed. Fiends fear me, for I know how they taste. How they smell... How they bleed."

"Well, Sophie. The biggest update on the world today is... Well we accidentally unleashed an evil Dracolich so now we must put it down or else the world could be destroyed." Terra pipes up. "Ya want in?"

"Well I currently don't have much of a choice now do I? Safety in numbers and whatnot." The harpy snarks.

So the party starts climbing the next stairway, with Eizen giving one last bookshelf a shove. Terra tries to find out something about Sophie, but she cannot recall anything of importants, since "Again, EVER SINCE I CAN REMEMBER ITS BEEN DARK AND I COULD ONLY MOVE FIVE FEET AWAY IN TOTAL! DARKNESS!"

Going to the next, double doors block the way in. Eizen, in full 'I have my body back I'm going to push it to the limit' mode, runs back and FUCKING DROPKICKS THE DOOR, CRASHING THROUGH IT WITH A LOUD "CA-KAW MOTHERFUCKER!"

"Nice, but hey. You open a door like this." Sophie snarks yet again, opening the other door normally. "Huh? Who's Buzz the Woodsmith?"

"What?!" Terra says, looking in the corner to see the same bumper sticker branding that is on the party's wagon. "What the..."

The rest of the part briefly looks around, but there didn't seem to be too much here.

"Hey..."Eizen said, getting up. "Do you guys hear..." He turns around, certain he heard chittering..

AND GETS BIT BY A GIANT SPIDER!

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"Mgfmm.." Is all he makes out as he feels poison flow into his blood, and not the Alchohol kind of poison that it would be used to, and he passes out, bleeding everywhere.

The party, hearing a loud snap, all turn to attention and enter battle!



The first thing that Viv does is search for a ledge, but they are all occupied by web. Terra springs to Eizen's defence and heals him, but he's still a little woozy. The Spider goes to snatch Sophie, but just misses.

Zelos goes to toss a fireball, but he also misses. Nera goes to shoot it, dealing a little bit of damage.

"Ah, now watch me... work. " She slides her finger down the edge of her blade and a blinding light shines through it.

"Howd you know that if you were..." Dale begins to question, only to be quickly shouted down.

"I HAD A LOT OF TIME TO MYSELF OKAY?!"

Watching as the spider fizzles out of existence, the party goes on watch.

Eventually, it phases back in, and Vivi and Sophie launch prepared attacks on it, wounding it badly.

Eizen, rather than just asking for it, is true to his pirate routes and just steals a health potion from Terra. He downs it and, in a fit of murderous rage, cleaves a leg off the damnable thing and jams his blade in the wound. It keels over and does the dead spider thing, and Eizen gets to stabbing its corpse, reminding the party of Tak.

The party go on to explore. Terra, finally using her knife to cut open something, finds some money and a rapier.

Eizen, after having finished his stabbing fit, cuts it open...more... and finds some gold.

Sophie opens another one and also finds some gold.

Vivi leaps on a ledge and spots some spider eggs. Not saying a DAMN WORD, she slooowly leaps off.

Xavier uses some of the spider webbing to reinforce his armour and make small indicators of his shoes, hands, and face.

There's a few antics with a treasure chest covered in web, but just as the party opens it,  a loud scream comes from Nera, having cut open the last of the webbed things.

"MY HUSBAND! THIS WAS MY HUSBAND!" Nera wails.
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Mon Oct 08, 2018 8:28 pm
Nera's hysteria attracts the other party members, and she explains who that person was to her. The decent members of the party offer their condolences. Xavier tries to open the chest, but finds it locked. He hits it with his blade, but it just vibrates. Viv cries in frustration. Terra looks for a key for the now freed chest, and finds it as rather interesting dialogue was occurring.

"What the bloody hell was that?!" Zelos asks to the party.

"Mutated crab." Eizen says, no trace of sarcasm in his voice.

"I'll say!"

"Yeah, we call them Spiders. They aren't fun." Dale shudders a bit as Terra unlocks the chest and pockets a moonstone. Nera, having slipped her husband's ring  on her necklace, pockets 24 moonstone. Eizen pockets 12 platinum, much to the chagrin of Zelos, who believed they could split it.

"Pirate tax." The Kenku said, pocketing it and two flasks.

Viv pockets the remaining thieve's kit. The party discuss their next move. Xavier is ready to go up, but the party determines that taking a rest would be the better idea. Vivi pockets some spider eggs, but everyone notices her pocket something. "Diamonds." She passes off. Most the party believe it. Terra, on the other hand...

"Those weren't diamonds." She says as the group goes back into the library, Vivi chucking the eggs back in the room where Sophie was.

"A business investment is what they were.. do you not believe me, mister?" Vivi hisses that last word, the rest of the party oblivious as they half-ass set up a camp.

"I don't know what you are talking about." Terra hisses back. "Those.. they're something dangerous, I know that. And you think they're just going to be safe?"

"Relax. Those spider eggs won't even hatch. Consider it safekeeping for later." Vivi admits, again to an oblivious party minus one half-tabaxi.

"Hmph. If you truly think they won't get through the cracks..." Terra turns and sets up her own little nook and cranny.

The rest passes uneventfully, Vivi watching her bookcase and Zelos bonding to his weapons on his watch.

The party wakes the next morning and goes to the top of the spire. Seeing iron doors, our favourite reckless kenku charges at it with his signature dropkick! "CA-CAW MOTHER FUCKER!" He yells... as his foot collides against the door, he falls and stumbles back down the stairway. Nera sighs and gently opens the door...

"Ah, there you are." A voice comes from within the room, and sunlight creeps its way down, revealing a man in armour not unlike what the party had seen on lower floors, but darkened. Nera instantly recognized him as her mentor. "And to think, it only took you eight hundred years." He said with a soft smile.

"Fuck this means im old as dirt." Sophie piped up from the back.

"Eighthunwhatnow?" Nera asks. Pushing that aside, she has a more concerning question for the man. "You... did you do that to my husband."

"No, I did not. After... a while, lets say, a spider moved in... you should be pleased to know that he was likely the last one to put up a fight. But, regardless... the queen has been waiting..." With a slightly sinister chuckle, the man crushes something in his hand, and disappears.

Concealed behind him in the shadow, a large, pulsing purple egg.

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Viv immediately jumps into action. Literally, she jumps up into a crossbeam and sits down, watching and waiting.

Zelos lets out a Mystic Blast, which serves to just create a hole in the spire.

Dale lets fire four Magic Missiles! They hit the egg, which causes the shell to look a little less pretty.

Terra Paces a bit, but believes earnestly that the party can do it, and strums her loot. Her allies seem inspired!

Xavier floats his way toward it, drawing his sword.

Eizen, almost right behind him, comes charging with a dropkick to push him further... but misses. "CA-CAW MOTHERFU-Whoa!" He slides a little forward.

Nera, filled with sudden clarity, runs up and BREATHES LIGHTNING STRAIGHT TO THE EGG! "Oh, right, i can do that!"

The Egg wiggles seductively.

Viv watches carefully.

Zelos tries again and creates another hole.

Dale goes for a fireball, but just misses.

Terra gets a little closer, thinking.

Xavier floats all the way to it and chucks two books that got stuck to him. Unfortunately, one turns to dust and the other bonks him in the shoulder.

Eizen chucks alchemist fire, but he misses the egg and the flames create a cool backdrop.

Nera spends a few seconds breathing small sparks of electricity out her mouth, then lets loose with another bolt!

The egg wiggles seductively. Xavier seems to find it fascinating!

Viv still watches.

Dale and Zelos miss with their spells!

Terra gets juuust close enough... "Okay, I've felt this chord... Let's test it out!" With a dramatic flourish, she plays Thunderous Orchestra, and a lightning bolt streaks out toward the egg! "Hahaha, yes!"

Xavier appears to try to slash the egg, wiffing.

Eizen, ever the pirate, decides to play it risky and get close enough to Terra to steal her rapier. He reaches for it... and grabs her rear.

"NYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH NONONONONONONONO JUST TAKE THE DAMN SWORD FUCKIN AAHGHGHGHGH!" Came the ear-piercing scream from the cat, who chucks the rapier right into his toe.

Nera, on a roll, does it again!

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Vivi, crying with laughter and burning with an urge to not let "That punk ass bitch" show her up, harnesses her Dragoon training and plummets down, hoping to move the egg. Due to the laughter tears, she misses the egg completely and Xavier winds up getting pushed away from it, Vivi getting near the egg now.

The mages keep casting spells, and keep missing, putting on a hell of a show with their spells going through the holes Zelos made.

Terra slaps Eizen and stomps off to the other side of the thankfully large room.

Xavier goes to almost attack himself, but misses.

Eizen, deciding third times the charm, rears back and comes chargin at Xavier. "CA-CAW MOTHERFUCKER!" He roars, pinning the living armour and seemingly snapping him out of it.  Xavier, as if a reaction, tosses a holy water vial on the egg. it glistens like money.

Nera does more lightning breath.

The egg Seductively wiggles. With it glistening like money, Vivi, knowing damn well what she was being forced to do, silently falls under its spell.

That instant, she stabs her toe with her spear.

The mages miss more.

Terra strums, hoping for another strike, but it arcs rather impressively and misses the egg.

Xavier gets out from under Eizen.

Eizen has the idea of going to the bookshelf, scooping up an armful of books, and CHUCKING THEM AT THE DAMN EGG. It causes quite a lot of damage, and the shell takes on a festering purple colour.

"Bastard stole my idea." Xavier mutters.

Nera does yet another lightning breath.

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Vivi hits herself again, and then her eyes light up. "Ah, better."

The mages miss.

Terra strums, but she can't seem to find the right cord to summon the thundah.

Xavier, not wanting to be outdone, chucks his sword and it jams to nearly the hilt on the egg. Eizen follows suit with books, and the cavalcade of books seem to seriously damage the egg.

With one last triumphant roar, as images of her life she once had flash before her eyes, Nera lets out one final, ear-splitting thunder breath, and kills the egg, causing it to shatter.

Vivi wastes no time and stabs the hell out of the small, lifeless black baby dragon that was in the egg. She also takes two malformed horns and about a dozen teeth, saying she has a very good reason for doing so, even as Xavier bemoans the fact that that skin could have made some great armour.

Suddenly, a blinding light shines through the window, and Nera's deity appears, ready to speak with her...
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Tue Nov 06, 2018 7:47 pm
Disregard that last line.

So the party clambers down the tower... and finds out that Tabby must have rowed the boat back and went on her way, likely assuming the party all died. Wondering how to get across (Excepting Eizen and Zelos, who were ready to start swimming), suddenly Hlal actually appears in front of the party. Being a goddess, Nera can't help but start flirting and making suggestive motions and sounds. Hlal, both amused and annoyed at her follower, snaps her fingers. An expression comes across NEra's face and she is eerily quiet. "So, it appears one more has left your party, hm? And now you are stuck here, yes? Well... I can give you some help, as a small reward for helping to awaken my follower. LEt's see, where shall I put you... ah. Here."

And with a wave of her hand, a pink wind swirls around the party, and they find themselves a couple miles infront of Ormkirk, the Dwarven capital. Most the party immediately go quiet and start trudgin. Notably, Terra is not strumming her lute, and seems beaten down in this environ. They get to the gate and... Terra is too hot to try and convince them. As the functioning party members mull over what to do, a scream echoes throughout and Rodney, the dwarf who is cursed to forever hold a Rod of Wonders, crashes into the gate. "Fuck, ow, goddammit... Mm? Oh hey nice to see you guys again. They need in, right? Let em in boys!"

So the gates open. Mercifully for Terra (and Zelos, who was practically steaming), the city is ventilated. Wondering where to go, a guard pipes up and informs the group of the general layabout of the city, as well as the important events going on: A tavern in the Cloud District has a drinking contest after the Tournament in the pit tomorrow. Informing them of where the shopping district was, the group set off to make preparations, going their own ways.

Nera just passes time in the Red Light district, because of course. Eizen does... Well no one is sure, but he comes back with some new duds and a flask in hand. Curiously, there is a flask pocket in the threads. With a flask in it. Terra, Xavier, Dale, and Vivian go to get Sophia some better threads, as well as Dale wanting some. Dale finds himself in a bit of a pinch, however. So...

"Hey. You need this, right?" Viv asked him, tossing the robes back and forth in her hand.

"Y-yes."

"And you can't haggle for it?"

"Er, no." Dale admitted, even as a chill ran up his spine. He knew what he was about to get into, but he was too squishy otherwise.

"I assume you're smart enough to know where this is going. Soooo" Viv pulls out a contract. " Sign here, here, here, initial here, sniff that, don't sign that, sign this, aaaand we're good. You now owe me enough gold to pay it back with interest. I'll be collecting every week."

Defeated, Dale puts on his new robes... and is a little horrified at what Vivi had just done, though he shook it off as him being a victim.

Terra just pays for Sophie a new outfit. "I know what it's like to want to be pretty." She mumbles softly to herself.

Eventually the party gather around again, somewhat rested. "Right, the pit then?" Everyone minus Terra nodded, and away they went. They saw two other groups, one regal looking and the other just looking like coal miners. "Hey." The attendant said. "You guys want in? Give me some gold to sweeten the pot, ye?" Eizen, confident in his bloodlust, plucks out some money (Where he got THAT, no one is sure either) and heads inside after the attendant explained the rules.

The other teams were up first. The Crimson Royals were up against two snakes, and, although they got one down, the other went to a rage and killed all of them.

The Coal Miners efficiently dispatched their first foes, some knolls and the like, with no casualties.

Finally, the attendant (who seems to be the only one in the Pit) runs up to the group. "Fuckin... Damn... they gotta... get some new people here...Give.. Give me a minute... uh... think of a name in the bit, okay?"

The party lightly discuss names, but Nera, in a burst of inspiration from her Diety, shouts out "The Drakengard!"

"Um... Nera, we're literally trying to save the world FROM dragons, not..."

"Exactly! Guarding the world from the forces of Drakens!"

"Uuuuhhhh-"

"ALRIGHT SO ITS SETTLED DONE!" With that he runs off and announces them, bidding them into the arena.

So they go in, and the Doors BANG open... and smaller doors behind it just... wait.

So the party waits with baited breath...
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Thu Nov 08, 2018 7:47 pm
And after a minute of psyching them out, some weird blue chicken/praying manti/scyther combinations come out.

The battle is bloody, multiple members of the party taking some pretty serious wounds. Terra heals the party very minorly, but ecentually, some how, the party manages to win. Sophie takes a sigh of relief. "Phew. Being intimidating and big is exhausting."

"Sophie. They were blind." Xavier gently reminds her.

"Oh."

Some clerics fully heal the party as they get back to their tent. They watch as the Coalminers fight an old blue, clipped wings wyvern. It knocks out all but three of the party, but they are victorious.

"Oof, I hope we don't have to fight that..." Terra says softly.

"I'd love to fight it!" Vivi says as she polishes her spear.

Afterward, they are ushered in and the doors immediately open, tossing out some dwarves, unarmoured and unarmed.

"Drakengard! Begin your second match!"

The dwarves immediately change into... werecorgis.



"They may be adorable! But they are still deadly! Everyone! I believe in you!" Terra says as she strums her Lute, and the party feel inspired! So inspired, in fact, that Eizen decides to chuck a flask of alchemist's fire right to the middle front one. It spreads and now ALL THE WERECORGIS ARE ON FIRE AAAHHHHH.

Sophie, in a bold move, dispatches one by RIPPING OUT IT'S SPINE!

Nera and Zelos dispatch two efficiently.and quickly.

Eizen, surrounded by the last three,, roars and crushes the two in front of him, then spins around and punts the last werecorgi to death over to the bodies of his former team.

"KENKU! KENKU! KENKU!" Comes the roars of applause as Eizen did incredibly badass in the fight.

"THE NAME! IS EIZEN QROWE, THE DREAD PIRATE! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" He bathed in adulation for a bit, and then the party was ushered away, to see the few coalminors left fight.

They are up against an ogre. Eventually it grabs one dwarf by the head and crushes them. The coalminors eventually when, but at such a heavy cost they decide to withdraw.

"Right. Well we still have some monsters in the pit, so... Eizen and Drakengard, get on out there and clean em up!"

And they do so gloriously, with Vivian Comet impacting two baby snakes right into the barrier protecting the audience, and nearly killing the mother, the wounded snake from earlier. Dale goes to flash a fireball at it, but misses. Zelos however, blasts a hole through her. The party watches as her heart beats once. twice. Then stops. She falls down, and the crowd goes wild.

Naturally, Nera decides to flash her tits as a victory celebration. Terra plays a victory fanfare. and Eizen looks perfectly at home. They are lead to a viewing pit above it, and the mc proudly announces "THE VICTORS... DRAKENGARD!" Everyone is happy. Terra even does a cute little Nya and pose. Eizen is celebrating by drinking from another flask... amusingly a different colour than the ones he previously had. Eventually they are lead to their reward. 750 gold for each party member, and two knuckles. Eizen immediately grabs them. "They cheered for ME. And none of you guys hit as muchas I do,"

The party concede the point, and are escorted to the tavern in the cloud district...

also known as Eizen's favourite place...
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Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:32 pm
After a round of applause from everyone currently in the tavern, the barmaid gets right to the point. "Alight! So here we are doin our Every other daily Drinking contest! Now, Roger died, so..."

Eizen was quick to point that he was already sitting down and FUCKING READY! "Ah, okay. How about Smokey and the Gnolls! Whataya say?!"

"The fucks a gnoll going to do?" Zelos snarked, only to be swiftly put in his place by an expert karate technique by a gnoll, Smokey.

"Now, I haven't had a good foe in a while."

"I'll do it!" Eizen hiccuped happily.

"I got thirty fi-"

"800 gold!" Eizen booms out, placing a pouch on a table.

"I'll match." Smokey said confident.

"Now, which of you two fuckers wants to warm the mugs?" Eizen said, turning to his party. Everyone muttered noncommital noises, except Terra, who was tuning her lute ready to provide "Battle" music. Vivian and Nera volunteer, and then the fun starts.

Nera and a Dwarf, Lydia, are up first. The first mug goes to Lydia. The second to Nera. The third, Nera almost upchucked. "My bad, My bad. I'm not used to this type... Heeey guuurl you're cute."

Sophie drags the sloshed Nera away, and Vivian is up against the unnamed Gnoll. The gnoll puts up a fight, but Vivi just barely wins.

And then Smokey and Eizen stared off. Terra changed her tune to something more appropriate.

Eizen takes the first mug! Smokey downs the next! Eizen downs the third, but Smokey is just seconds behind! He was looking a little woozy, but now he's right up! "NO! We're going until one of us passes out!" Eizen snarls as the barmaid shrugs and slides more mugs their way. The fourth one they tie at the EXACT same time. "Aye.. You're great, truly ye Are. But.. I am EIZEN MOTHERFUCKIN QROWE, AND I DO NOT LOSE DRINKING CONTESTS! GWAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"He barely even looks drunk." Zelos whispered.

"Judging by the trail of flasks he leaves in this city alone, I assume he's almost constantly drunk." Sophie offers to the Triton. "So he really does have the advantage. Truthfully I'd hate to see him sober."

"Well then. Here/. we. GO!" SMokey said, and the two contestants raised their mugs at the same time.

Unfortunately, Smokey raised his right into his face, and passed the fuck out right onto the floor with a loud thunk.

The party celebrates loudly! "GWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! IT'S ALL MINE BOYS!" Eizen said, putting his winnings in his pocket.. and promptly blacking the fuck out.

"Wow. We finally got him to black out. Damn." Vivi mutters her approval, and the party goes to bed for the night after some minor money talk.

And then they were all woken from their slumber! Vivi was screaming, and kicked the door to another room open.

"WHERE'S MY MONEY YOU MOTHER FU-"
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Thu Nov 15, 2018 7:18 pm
The party congregates downstairs, mostly at spearpoint. Eizen's already down there, muttering darkly and cracking his knuckles. Notably the tavern is looking like a tornado came through it. Nera though she isn't as dark or bloodlusty as the other two, is expressing mild concern.

"What the hell are you guys doing to my ta-"

"WHERE! IS! MY! MONEY!" Vivi roars.

"Oh dear. It happened again. And to the wrong people this time, I see." The barmaid calmly responded. "I'm not telling you to go to the slums, buuut...."

Vivian took off like a rocket, barreling toward the cliff. She leaps up, falls for a bit, slams her trident into a wall for purchase, does a gymnastic flip, pries her trident out, and barrels down, landing a few feet from the elevator... which immediately opened. "You have now entered  the bottom floor." Piped a gnoll from the top of the elevator. "Have a nice day!"

"How the fu-"

"They are engineers, Viv." Dale says. "They can go fast."

"...Right. Well, only one thing to do!" Viv took off, BANG BANG BANGing on every door like surface she can, only to immediately zoom off. She knows what her money smells like. The rest of the party go to look around, Eizen and Nera entering an alley where the kenku thought he had seen someone dart down. After a small investigation check, he finds nothing and punches the stone wall next to it, leaving "Thoughts" and "Prayers" imprinted on the stony surface. Nera, taking a closer look, finds a manhole and pries it open. "Hey, it looks like someone went down this  ho-" A BLUR OF VIVI flies past her and jumps in the hole, plummeting down. Eizen follows, and the two see tracks. the kenku notices one looks slightly lizardly, and a near audible click and understanding dawns on his eyes. Without another word, he takes off in that direction, and Vivi follows the more human like ones. Eizen, thinking for once, pulls out the Scrype amulet. "SEWERS!" He says, sprinting.

Terra gasps as the audio comes through her part of it, and manages to ask someone for directions. "You... aren't with the crazy cat lady, are you?" The resident asks. While Terra puts on a face of shame, Xavier responds heroically.

"Indeed we are! So we need directions so we might make her pay for her crimes!"

"Err... there's a manhole there. Imgunnagobye." The resident took off.

So the rest of the party manages to get in the sewers. Terra, with Sophie holding on, bolts off in the direction of Eizen, fearing he may be killing someone today.

The rest of the party follows in Vivi's tracks.

Eventually, Eizen comes to a room with a few supplies and a bookshelf. He trashes the supplies and moves the book case, bolting in the room that appeared. Terra just barely gets there, and Sophie jumps in behind him while the bard stays behind, in case it was a trap.

On the other party's side, Viv is wading in a shit pool, looking for a button. Nera, having caught up, looks and points toward a stone slab that was a bit out of place. In a move that would prolly make Eizen proud and Jealous, she does a flip in the air, and dropkicks the button, which opens a door. She bolts in and runs into Eizen. The two snarl as all the party, minus Terra, are in the room... which is now closed up, and very very dark.

After Eizen ambushes a figure in the dark, chokeslamming it like he did a kobold, it's just straw. A voice comes out, taunting the party. Vivi tosses some shuriken, but just clatter against the wall, except one which lodges in a a torch. Finally, recognition dawns in the voice. "Ah, shit. ZEL! We got the wrong guys! These are the guys that wanna kill me!"

"Well it's not my fault."

"You were the one who robbed them!"

"You were the one who told me when and what seats!"

"HEY!" Vivi roars, interrupting them. "GIVE ME MY GOLD BACK YOU BAST-"

"Can I come in too?" Terra interrupts from Eizen's amulet.

In a remarkable display of missing a spot check, the kobold in the SAME room, pushes the bookshelf open from the other side for Terra, who hops in without a second thought, even as it lightly pinches her tail.

Eventually, through much banter, the kobold and Zelda, his human companion, reveal themselves. "Look, we gave you back your gold." the kobold says. "Leave us alone."

"Oh no pally, not until I"

"Hit me? Fine. One punch. I'll treat myself to some Dragonfire afterword and be fine."

"Dragonfire, eh? I've never had that type..." Eizen says.

"I'll give you a bottle if you don't punch me."

"Deal."

So he grabs a bottle, tosses it to Eizen, and opens another for himself. They down it at the same time. "Not bad." Eizen says. "But the stuff in my flask is far stronger." He says, tossing one toward the kobold. A flask appears in his pocket with a dinging sound.

"Meh. I've had better."

"YOU CUR!"

"Hey, heeeey... Y'know... these sewers suck, yes?" Viv asks, happy that Terra managed to distribute all the proper money to the proper people. Terra was almost shocked that she put on such a charismatic performance, but then she realized what was coming. "I can get you out of here, if you want." She says, throwing an arm over the kobold. After some discussion, a scroll is produced. "Now, to make sure the magic works, you have to sign in blood." She says, and the kobold slices into his hand and signs with a flourish. "I mean... I was kidding, but okay, I'll take it."

And thus, did a Kobold Pugilist and a Divine Tiefling join the party! Turning their collective gaze toward the exit, the party wondered what would be next...
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Mon Dec 03, 2018 12:01 am
The ever-growing party make their way out of the sewers. The GNOME on top of the elevator, staring at Terra for some weird reason, asks if they were going up. She briefly muses on if the elevator can hold such weight, but then lets the party in. Nera and  Xavier decide to go on a small (Council above I hate you guys so much for making me write this...) panty raid. at two pm. As soon as the floors under them creak, the two (and Sophie, who had gone to make sure they wouldn't get hurt or in too much trouble) book it out of there. They then head to the stables, where a black dragonborn with piercing yellow eyes approaches Xavier in a fit. "YOU! I KNOW THAT'S YOUR DAMN BEAR! GET IT AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY STABLES! ITS BEEN SHITTING NONSTOP SINCE IT GOT HERE!" After some minor gold to somewhat placate her is thrown her way, Sophie and Zelos eye some Chocobo-Raptors. Xavier eyes it too, but the dragonborn grabs Xavier and she tosses Xavier aside.  He flutters harmlessly in the breeze. Eventually gold is paid, and the two own them legally. She says if any of the rest of the party want a mount, to go to a ranch about a day's travel away. They decide to do so, but not before paying a visit to Rodney.

The party eventually get directions to a rather fancy building in the merchant district. It was connected to the finest cleanest brothel, but Nera was A) having none of that and B) too distracted by her patron deity's daughter to go in. The party learn that Rodney was turned into a chicken, and to wait a week. A few members asked if they could eat him, and one shopkeeper piped up that if he was still a chicken in a week's time to feel free. But they then told the party to get out, as they were dirtying up the fine shop. Terra looked a little wounded, considering she had some pride in her looks, but she and the others did eventually leave, albeit wanting to eat chicken now.They eventually set out, with the goal of getting to a Ranch.

They come across a watering hole and, after breaking the lock and lockpick, Draza, the kobold fills the trough and the animals drink. Terra asks if Eizen has any empty flasks. While Sophie mocks her,

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Eizen pulls out several flasks and downs their contents, tossing them at the party. Zelos is the only one who doesn't notice, and it beams him on the head. The party use these as canteens for the trek ahead. They notice a shimmering oasis off in the distance away from the beaten path, and, after a quick vote, the party heads that way. A forest practically springs up around them, and a tower looms in the distance. Terra, in the wagon, is confused as all fuck why there's suddenly a forest when minutes ago it had been desert. As the party splits up to investigate, a DIRE CHICKEN attacks Terra, Pandy, Zelda, and Nera, while in a shack off to the side Xavier and Sophie are attacked by two Cockatri! Dale is off doing his own thing with Zelos, Draza decides to just watch, and Vivi is doing an Assassin's Creed scan of the surroundings. Eizen had drunkenly dropkicked "CA-CAW MOTHER *hic*FUCKER!" where he thought the door was going to be, but just passed out on the ground a couple feet in the entranceway.

With the Dire Chicken, Terra casts Dissonant Whispers, and the chicken is pretty terrified. Zelda pokes it with her rapier, and Pandy bites it and tosses it out of the wagon. The chicken goes to run away from Terra, and runs a whopping five feet. Nera shoots it with her bow, scoring a direct hit. Terra goes to electrocute it with Thunderous Orchestra, but sadly winds up snapping her string in two, causing an arc of lightning to gash a hole in the wagon, which Terra reacts to by swiftly mending it. Nera and Zelda both laugh, causing their next shots to miss and hit the tree where Draza was, but luckily he's on the floor, also laughing. The chicken pecks at the bear for revenge, but it doesn't appear to go too deep. Terra, somewhat blushing, stows her lute away and whips out her violin. Playing a melody on it, she looks the chicken dead in the eyes and cast dissonant whispers again, killing it. She then mends her string and the burnt wood. "Well, we wanted chicken. So we ca-and Pandy ate it."

With Sophie and XAvier, the cockatri had the first bite, and one of them seemed to enjoy the flavour of Xavier's fabric. However, they were no match for the "DON'T TOUCH ME IM BIG LOOK AT MY WINGSPAN" Harpy and the floating armour, being dispatched with a mere couple of talon scratches and sword pokeys.

Right as Pandora ate the chicken, they come to rejoin the party with three pounds of cockatrice meat. Drakengard look toward the tower looming above them, and can only wonder what's in it for now....
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Sun Dec 23, 2018 6:56 pm
So Vivian goes inside the top floor, trips, and basically winds up pulling a Roxas, as she is absorbed into a tube of some sort. "Nonononononono Fuuuuuu-" A not robot takes her place. His name is Relc/Relk. Well, his designation is R E L C, but close enough. He, not used to walking, falls down the stairs and the party gathers around. He turns invisible and fools Drassa into thinking he left. Sophie isn't fooled, and kicks the tin can lying on the floor. Drassa, attuning to his knuckles, brings down the tower in an attempt to get Vivian to come down. But amidst the rubble she isn't found just an empty tube and her trident. Terra picks it up and is hesitant to give it to Relk so he can safely store it in his pocket dimension, but after hearing a voice in her head shout "SHE'S A HE, FU-" She tosses it at him and he dematerializes it into his book.

So, tying him up to make sure he wont escape, the party make it to the Raptor ranch, where they see a not so sublte thief trying to break in. Shenanigans ensue, but eventually she, Lexi, is somewhat coerced to join the party, and the party buy seven raptors. Lexi offers her cart, as she was just trying to steal them so she could keep going.

The two wagons come across some Giant Scorpions. Though Terra gets wounded really badly due to their stingers, the party eventually make it out okay, with Eizen having drove a stinger into a scorpion and Drassa having dropkicked one. Some minor scavenging, and the party sets off once more to the next major town!
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Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:57 pm
There is a mountain pass between them and their destination. on the Not-Orzimar side of things, a fighter is arguing with someone. Lexi's eyes go wide and she starts to argue that she didn't do anything to him, and they both get shot by heavy crossbows. Terra, healing them both, gets a better look at him. He looks remarkably like Jay, and introduces himself as Kay. For the members that knew her, Eizen included, a small pain is felt, but they welcome him to join them... and he's forced to by the guard anyways.

Terra decides, not knowing whats through this pass, that they better be cautious, and has the wagons move at half pace. Along the way, somehow the conversation gets to Jotuuns, and Eizen mentions that his first mate was a jotuun. Mostly female, but one of the heads was male. Lexi mentions that is sure to cause some gender dysphoria, and Terra mutters to herself that she understands that one. Drassa quirks an eyebrow, having heard her, but says nothing. Still, for all their troubles, a boulder is hurled at the wagons, and Terra, having had a VERY LONG MONTH, is SICK AND TIRED of being attacked, so she just unleashes a new spell, Shatter, on the attacking giant. Relc/k tries to mimic it, but finds himself unable to successfully produce the same effects. (In retrospect, the giant should have still taken half damage from a failed save, but it is funnier to have Relc/k disregard the spell after his failures.) Nera tries to seduce the other giant, but he has none of it, and hurls a javelin at her.

Eventually, the party wins, and crosses the path... where Kay is immediately apprehended as a famous criminal with a bounty of 10,000 gold. Noticing the guild insignias on their clothes, he assumes they caught him to turn them in, and Nera accepts the reward, splitting it amongst the party. This causes the criminals in the party some definite discomfort, wondering if she'd sell them if she knew. Lexi wisely decides to book it the hell away before getting paid herself, stealing back her wagon and stealing two raptorbos to pull it.

The party move on, picking up a dragonbord who says she was heading to their destination too. They stop as they see a wrecked wagon and dead, pulsing horses. One explodes, and a Land Wurm pops out of it! The party swiftly defeat it. Two more appear. Relk decides to summon Viv's spear. "SHE'S A HE YOU FU-" Came a voice in his main processor.

"You tell me nothing my sensors haven't already picked up. Analyzing Trajectory. Yeet." He says with a toss, landing a hit on one of them. Eventually the party kill them both. Sophie finds a blade, and Relc/k analysis it to be a Vampyric blade. Sophie takes it. and make their way on.... Terra spots a merchant cart. It's revealed that they are hauling 2 million platinum worth of things to Rodney. After Terra informs them he's currently a chicken, Eizen and Sophie proceed to break him with half the remaining moonstone and an absolute shitton of alchohol. Eventually the party walk away with everything on the cart, and the wagon itself. Rodney will not be happy about this.

The party rest, and the dragonborn leaves in the middle of the night. She left what appear to be strange ramblings carved into the wood. After they all make notes of it, Terra heals it so she, Eizen, and Xavier don't throw a fit over their wagon. they arrive in Fillwood, but its on FIRE! Well, half of it is. The party run in to stop the fiend (Eizen temporarily lags behind, but basically finds a car lock for the wagons, preventing stuff in them from being stolen), who turns out to be the dragonborn from earlier, yelling insanity about Needing his Queen and whatnot. And Lo, an Ancient Amythist Gemstone Dragon appears, and most of the party get a glazed look in their eyes. Relc/k and Xavier, unaffected because of what they are, knock some sense into the party. They wonder how to stop the Fire. Drassa tells them to get out of town, and performs SAND burial again... but he doesn't appear to make it out. Eizen proclaims that his ale now belongs to him then, since he's dead... and Drassa shoots up from the sand and tells him not to touch it.

The party are thanked by guards, and granted a free weeks stay at the inn. Eizen, with fortune in tow, wonders how he would go about becoming mayor of this town... and is told he'd have to ask the current mayor.

So with dreams of being a leader once more in his drunken kidney, he (And the rest of Drakengard) wait...
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Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:33 am
So After a couple of days of just relaxin, Eizen goes off to meet the mayor. Drassa decides to accompany him. Xavier floats about town looking for an armour shop, Nera goes off to look for some prostitutes, and the rest of the party stays at the inn. Eizen and Drassa find themselves at the mayor's manor. Eizen actually knocks for once, and after a minute of hearing wood scrape against the other side, a gnoll gnome answers. Eizen still can't see him until he swings his beard out the door, where it lands in the pavement below. He mentions that they are recieving Canaanian emissaries at sundown, but after some negotiations, he is eventually let through, and the gnoll gnome is spinning in the mechanism he's using to open the large door. He begs for help. Eizen tries to grab his shirt to pull him out, and grabs... just the shirt. Drassa tosses a dagger, and eventually it gets stuck in the gears. the naked gnoll gnome, beard mostly gone by now, passes out, and the two spend a surprisingly long time looking for the mayor's office. They eventually find a small door. It opens, and Drassa starts laughing, leaning by the door. Eizen goes to do his Dropkick, and enters the room, though he clips his beak on the entrance.

He starts to argue with the voice that he should be mayor instead. The voice, in between snarfing down food, asks him his qualifications. The pirate mentions his leading a crew before his soul got siphoned, and that he is co-leading a group with a guild now. He mentions he's whipping them into shape. In the inn, a chill runs down the groups spine. Nera, with her prostitutes in tow, mentions its prolly something to do with Eizen, then she gets to... work... Back with Eizen, he also mentions that he used to rule a sea coliseum called Altissa. The voice mentions that sunk six years ago. Eizen says he knew that they wouldn't last without him. Finally, an orange looking goblin appears. "I'm the mayor. No one's seen me. Guy manning the door is the older mayor." After Eizen tears into him verbally, he's noticeably frightened,  and sweat drops down his brow, revealing green underneath. Eventually, Eizen tells the goblin to book it to Rosepetal lake with a message for an old seaman. He does, and thus, Eizen becomes mayor. Instantly making Drassa the new Knight Captain, he tells him to tell his subordinates to Arrest their party members. They drop a net on Xavier and enter the inn. they... extract Nera from her bussiness. Terra looks like she's ready to book it, but after a few questions, she surrenders. The party eventually are corralled below the balcony. Eizen does a Kuzco entrance, and proclaims he's the new mayor, and tosses out titles and responsibilities to Drakengard, who, having nothing better to do for the week, begrudgingly accept.

And then Eizen mentions that high ranking officials can drink whenever, but because he needs to buckle down, he will be sober for three days. The mere thought scares the party, and Eizen lets the emissaries stay in a seperate inn while he prepares for them.

Three days later, Sophie and Terra are terrified and annoyed at their temporary boss, who has demanded tea from them pretty much constantly. it seems like when he isn't drinking something with alchohol in it, he prefers it. Also, he speaks entirely different. too kind. his mannerisms are proper, almost noble like. Drassa has been drinking almost nonstop for him though, and seems to handle his liquor well. Eventually a package arrives, and another after it. Drassa opens it and out comes the head of the former mayor. Terra sees another package and opens it, revealing a pair of orange and green boots. Eizen sends them to the other former mayor and forces him to wear them. The pirate then mentions he needs to actually get ready for the Cannanian Emissaries. Terra stops doing whatever she was. She says she needs to leave. Eizen denies her, telling her he needs her. Terra FIRMLY says she will go whether he lets her or not. Eizen asks her if she wants to go to jail. Terra, being just done wit this bullshit  then icily lays into him. "Pirate. I know what all you've done, or can take a good guess. You have no idea what I've done. What I'm capable of. I AM leaving. and then, when the Canaanians are gone, you WILL drink until you are drunk again, or I swear I will kill you myself." Fear flashes into his yellow eyes, and he nods slowly. Then he directs her to the guest chambers. Terra says that Sophie is coming with her. though Sophie is a little awestruck by the bard's tranquil fury, she finds it completely understandable given the past few days.

At the entrance, Relc/k tells the three Canaanian Emissaries that he isn't quite ready for them, waiting for permission to let them in.

Thus, the new mayor begins to plan for this, while a former Canannian elects to hide. Why are they here? What information do they have? Time will tell...
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Mon Feb 11, 2019 7:22 pm
As the emissaries approach Relk/c, he analyzes them. One looks to be a fighter, one seems like a high-ranking rogue of some sort, and the other is, while passable, a crossdressing full tabaxi. Relk/c just assumes it's a part of their culture, and they are let in. Drassa is waving them into Eizen's office, but he's just staring at a wall doing it. Another guard officially lets them in, and Eizen apologizes for the delay. They seem understanding enough, and get down to business. They want to build a port town south. Eizen tells them to feel free. They then pull out a contract, and Eizen, though it feels familiar to him, just signs it. The emissary also mentions that they are looking for a blonde half-tabaxi who has committed high treason. The finders fee is 5,000 gold. Eizen thinks about it, but tells him he can't place it. Then, as another aid whispers into his ear, he demands Drassa to toss him his Cloak of Alcoholism. He does, and Eizen starts drinking. The emissaries tell him that, if he or anyone else he knows has information on this half tabaxi, they will be in Claxton until their town is built. Eizen, now proper drunk, dismisses them, and after they leave, barges into the guest room.

"5,000 gold huh?! I LIKE IT!" He says before passing out. He continues to divulge more information between periods of blacking out and regaining conscious. Eventually, Terra decides to gather the party and come clean. The bard reveals that she was actually the spymaster/go-to-diplomat for a rebellion in Canaan. This causes Relk/c to crash, as his eyes are replaced with a blue screen. Nera asks why, and Terra says that the current ones in charge are some of the most corrupted leaders she has ever known. Xavier wonders how his lineage would dare become so filthy. Terra asks him if that means he's from Canaan.

"AM I FROM CANAAN?! I FOUNDED THE BITCH. YOU HAVEN'T HEARD OF THE GREAT XAVIER VON-GESH?! YOU DARE CALL YOURSELF A MEMBER OF CANAAN! YOU DISGUST ME! GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!" He says, tossing the headband the party makes him wear so they have some approximation of where his head is at Terra. "Now give me that back, that's my head." When Terra's response is a blank stare, he seems wounded. "What did they teach you in history books?" He asks, tears forming up from somewhere.

"Well, The Van-Gashes fled 700 years ago and, landing on an island, decided to make that the first of Canaan's city-states. Are you saying?"

"Yes, I am 825 years old. We... don't talk about the first 125." The living armour affirms.

Though some of the party consider bringing her in for the reward, and busting her out later, Terra says that it's unlikely that they'd actually send her to jail, and instead execute her on the spot. Eizen tells her they said she would be standing trial, but Terra, upon asking for information upon what the emissaries looked like, says that IS the trial. The Judge, Jury, and Executioner. Well, as it turns out, the party like Terra. So they're willing to kill them for her. The problem with that is, if they die on foreign soil, it causes problems for them as well, and this country has enough to deal with, since impending Dracolich.

So Eizen says they'll kill them at sea then. Pirates are the only law on the ocean, after all. They plan out a route of where Eizen last left his ship, and then set out to inform the replacement mayor, the captain of his archery squad, and the only person that scares Eizen. Specifically, when the party is in disbelief that he's afraid of anyone, Eizen actually says he's afraid of only three people in his life. And this chick, Pandora, is all three,

It's about a mile outside of town, the pub F'N'ell. Eizen says those are their favourite words, and tells Terra to poke her head in and ask if Lissa is around. She does, and her reply is "FUCK OFF". Eizen informs them that she's his ex-girlfriend, and he owes her sooooo much money because he launched her bow and some VERY expensive glass arrows out of a cannon, as a way to deliver them. The instant Eizen shows his face, Pandora pulls out a cannon and shoots him not once, but twice, knocking him out. The commotion causes Lissa, a white mage, to wake up and, upon seeing one of her favourite humanoids, smashes him with a mace with a pink heart body. The group is confused, but somehow this heals him. Upon seeing it causes him pain, Sophie makes her do it again, She obliges, then, noticing she's ALSO a bird-person, goes to pester her.

The party try to mention their woes, but PAndora has eyes and ears everywhere, and knows what happened. She mentions that the emissaries were in the back, and Terra immediately casts Vanish on herself. The party, along with the Ranger, assume that she just ran off. But then Terra speaks. They wonder why Relk/c hasn't spoken, but...

Relk/c is still DDOS'ing, and is now emitting a loud noise. Pandora decides to blast him to the counter. Many other sounds were heard, but eventually he just shuts down and then reboots. He'll be doing that for a while. Eizen is similarly held down by Lissa. Pandora asks the party if, as payment for not narccing on them to the emissaries while she can, they would hunt deer with her. They agree and the party, minus Eizen and Relk/c but plus Pandora, set off.

The party actually have some PEACE AND HLAL DAMNED QUIET FOR ONCE. Right before where Pandora says where the deer were, she confesses that she's actually hunting down bandits because they owe her, and if she can't get their money, she will get blood. Pandora, knowing that Terra is Terra, tells her to go with her to try and persuade them. Drassa sneaks off, his own method of peacekeeping in mind.

Pandora, after being rebutted so easily, says that Terra could take all six of them by herself. And then Drassa attacks.

It's a quick fight, all things considered. Pandora tries to shove some arrows in the leaders neck, but he's not having it. Nera cleaves one in half, and Terra inspires and then melts the brains of two bandits. Xavier Lightning dashed through the leader and two of his followers, as spiders start to nom them.  Spiders eat one bandit alive, and Zelda shoots one right between the eyes. Drassa finishes off the one he tried to sneak attack, and the party make their way back.

Along the way, Pandora, with three arrows, manages to kill and bring back 2 young elk, 3 normal sized elk, and one grand elk.

Then thay arrive back at the tavern, wondering about how best to spend their preparing days.
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Mon Feb 25, 2019 12:02 am
So the party prepare, Relk talking to the smith of the town to forge him a war axe with the axe beak's beak. He has it finished by the time the party are ready to leave. Xavier purchases a Full Plate set in the event he needs to disguise himself somewhat better, and the party set off a few days later. The trip there is uneventful.

Inside the cove, which had taken them a bit to find, it eventually lead to a library. Eizen didn't like the look of it and started badmouthing the place, which gets him struck with lightning for his troubles. Terra apologizes on his behald, and a giant fey owl swoops infront of the party. With Terra leading the negotiations, they find out that the ship is still there, down one of three paths. Three minions come and offer to help guide the party, though only one of them knows the safe route. Relk casts Zone of Truth on the three, and find out which one can lead them safely, and the party depart.

They finally see Eizen's ship, and the Kenku drag along Terra and Sophie to help. He tries his key, but it doesn't fit. He pounds on the door and a scrawny looking man opens it, sees that it's Eizen, and slams and locks it, calling for help. Soon the three are surrounded by six pirates, doing the traditional backing against the boat thing. Terra starts to try to converse with them, but they aren't having any of it. So, apologizing to Eizen and Sophie, she strums her lute and casts Thunderwave, sending five of the six pirates flying. They hit the cave walls and die. The sixth one surrenders. Eizen knocks him out anyway, then goes to dropkick the door.

The pirate on the inside, Johnny, was expecting this, and opened the door at just the right moment, sending the kenku crashing into his old bed. This does however, give Terra the chance to dash inside, and she holds a knife to Johnny's throat, saying that it's over. Johnny surrenders and gives Eizen back command, and also confirms that Altissia did indeed sink. Eizen then suckerpunches Johnny, and he's out like a light. The party then free the ship and set off, fifteen other pirates having hid below deck all too eager to help Eizen... while some help Nera.

Eizen tries to tie Johnny up to the figurehead of the ship once they are on the river and moving, but winds up dropping him into the ocean. Terra finds a crew list, and the party is somewhat amused that most of Eizen's crew had names that started with a J. Johnny, Jim, James, Jam, Jamal, Jpatty, Jade, Janice, Jafar, Jordan, Jackal, Jmisha, Jidus, Jerra, Jera,... When he asks if his second mate had died, a pirate confims that the Etton hadn't made it, though they had grown some more heads that had to be systematically killed off so the crew "could have some Stress relief"

So the party disperse a bit to rest up and talk. Eizen trusts Sophie and a Gnome with steering the upper and lower halves of the ship while he rummages through his old quarters. Terra asks Dale's thought about everything, and he says that he is willing to burn down a village or two, he does feel a little seasick, though not as bad as Zelda, who was puking her guts out, and he knows that Terra isn't biologically a woman. He'll support her anyways. This causes Terra to clam up, and she politely excuses herself and walks away. She asks Eizen what the plan is, and he informs her that they will be posing as a merchant ship coming in, then, everyone will be in pirate outfits and lay waste to the entire town, Canaaneese included. Terra's had to break a few eggs to make some omelettes in her life, so she's on board with trying to protect not just herself, but also now her friends.

And then Xavier fishes up a baby turtle dragon. amidst the attacks on it, it lets out a powerful steam breath, but Terra was ready, and healed the party with a great bit of magic on her part. Eventually, Xavier beheads it with his spiderzashi, and the spiders eat up the corpse, leaving behind only the shell. Sophie was able to pluck a few scales away, and Relk a few teeth, an eye, and some claws.

Thus, the party get ready to wreck shit up for their friend...
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Sun Mar 10, 2019 11:06 pm
Eizen sets tha party down and explains the plan, passing out pirate garbs from the Crimson Cardinals to the party. He also passes to Sophie a necklace, containing one of his feathers and the feather he had gotten from Jay. Telling the party that they have 3 days to prepare, Drassa goes ahead and starts dunking the clothes. During the voyage, Terra hears Relk testing his next spell, Messaging. At night, Eizen is steering.  One of his crew members asks him to tell the story about his red headed daughter.

"I had came up with a plan to finally destroy the crimson cardinals. I got on board and noticed there sail was down. I slipped through the night and discarded fourty of them. I went to the captain's quarters and noticed a girl, beaten with her wings clipped. I went to help her, Tiara, that's the name she likes, and the captain had gotten me good, and I was stabbed! So Tiara, I don't know how she did it, but copies of her appeared and cut the bitch up. She said the Cardinals had razed her village. This is why I had wanted to deal with them anyways. Me and my crew, we take care of others that aren't up to my code. I need to send a message to HQ, prolly in Dunwall since Tiara liked that place. "

A storm brews up and Drassa Yeets Terra out. Yowling is heard. Terra gets her revenge later by attempting to keep him up. The only one it keeps up is Sophie, who drags her back to bed. Later, Eizen sends a letter via Psuedodragon. On the crow's nest, Relk gets struck by lightning.

Nothing happens on the second day. The third day they see the port town. Worriyingly, buildings seem to be mostly constructed. It seems like they may have started before they got permission.  Eizen has a few boys start up a song, and he's handed a beautifully violin. He tosses it overboard and the ship changes to one of the Crrimson Cardinals. Eizen goes over the plans one more time, and sends Relk and Sophie off. Sophie talks with some of the town in an attempt to get people to flee. Relk takes a couple hours to find the Canaaneese.  The crossdresser and the Hokage go leave, and the Samurai blocks Relk's way. Relk asks for information, and clarifies that the crossdresser is, well, a crossdresser. The Samurai doesn't believe him, saying that he is slandering royalty. Still, he is unsure of it.

But that is when his update finishes. Relk sends the signal up, and messages Terra that they are evil and the Canaanese are good. He then initiates a safe mode lock, and the party heads off to the canaanese. Relk guards them with his axe drawn, though the crossdresser is nowhere to be found. He informs the two Canaanese left that Terra is the one they want to look out for, and the one they were looking for. Terra shoves her way forward, and says that she'd rather skip the formalities.
And thus the battle starts! Zelda goes first, running up and she goes to stab the Samurai with her dagger, but she misses. Nera runs up to Relk and goes to slash with Dixon, but misses. The Samurai returns a slash at Nera, who deftly dodges. Sophie goes to summon Feather missiles and they go to peg Relk. The Ninja feels the ground shift, but keeps his wits about him. Relk, Sam, Nera, Dale, Eizen all fall prone. He goes to punch the Samurai, but trips and rolls over , going prone. Terra inspires the party, and then blasts Whispers into her lute at the Ninja. Dale gets up and magic missiles Relk. The ninja goes to attack, but misses. Relk stands up and throws Vivian's lance, Conjuring Barrage. Drassa and the Ninja take quite a bit of damage, and the rest of the combatants also get scratched.

Eizen gets up and smacks the ninja with Thoughts and Prayers. The ninja doesn't like that very much. Xavier summons the art of the founder king, and LIGHTNING BLADE's the enemies. Relk Deactivates. The Samurai and Ninja get hit as well. Zelda goes to slash and hits the ninja, then swings again. The Samurai stands back up and swings at Drassa. Sophie goes to slash at him with her new blade, gashing him. Drassa gets back up and goes to punch him. He hits, and the Samurai isn't looking so good.Terra pulls whispers into her lute and blasts the Samurai, who goes to run away. Drassa, Nera, and Xavier go to pounce on him as he runs, and Nera finishes him off with a lightning breath. He convulses, and then falls back, defeated. Dale throws a firebolt at the Ninja and it blasts his shoulder. The ninja goes to cut at Dale, and gashes into him. Relk reactivates and a rock falls, momentarily hurting his sensors. He takes a swipe at the Ninja, and then Eizen dropkicks the ninja. He drops dead. The crossdresser charges in with a knife, and Terra and Nera try to grab it, but Relk just knocks them out unconsciouss.

Suddenly, a roar peirces the heavens, and the Dracolich swoops down, picks up the Eel, and drops it in the centre of the now ruined town.  He unleashed a lightning cone and Relk, Eizen, and Eizen stops. He tosses the coat off to Drassa. "Make sure to not get this dirty." He says, running off to find a cannon. It takes him a good minute, but he does seem to find one that seems in good condition.

There comes a time in a Pirates life, when they finally find out what's worth protecting. They're willing to lay their very life on the line, all to give one bug fuck you in an effort to protect their loved ones. So Eizen starts the cannon... and it blows up, Eizen's final attack beaming the Dracolich right in the snout.

The necklace Eizen gave Sophie pops out, and the party gasp, realizing what happened, run off to see Eizen's charred body, on the brink of death. Pandy runs up to her comrade's body. Nera sees this and kneels beside him. "The fire that burns within burns pure." She says.

"Ugh. I liked you the least." Eizen says, sputtering. "And you." He gestures to Terra. "I hated you the least. Do me a favour and heal that robot up. And take care of my fucking bear."

"Eizen, I can heal this." Terra says, repeating to herself over Eizen's objections.

"No, focus on the idiot." As Terra goes to heal him regardless, he takes his talon and punctures his heart. Terra takes a bit to cry, and then Nera and Terra mend up Relk.

The party then inform Relk that Eizen's dead. Relk says that he's just rebooting, and the party gently correct him. This causes Relk to freak out, causing his emotional sensors to activate. "I've been working on this for quite a while. I've seen it succeed at least once with an inanimate object and your Tabaxi." He casts a spell, and a bright light heads to Eizen, but the spell misfires and a light envelops Nera and Zelda. When the party can look again they see just Zelda, in Nera's armour. This pisses Relk off, and he leaves the party to find his old master.

It takes them a few hours, but they finally find a perfect cannon. They hold their funeral, everyone crying, or trying not to cry. They launch Eizen's body out of a cannon and it lands into the sea as a lightning bolt cracks near where he landed.

Then the psuedodragon lands, and Xavier persuades it to come to him. He reveals a letter, but it's blank. Another letter says to stick it in water. Xavier does so.
Its a letter from his daughter, talking about how she's given up hope that Eizen's returning, but she's glad that he seems to have found a stronger crew, and some people he hated a little less.

The party discuss what to do as Xavier engraves a flask. "In memory of Eizen Qrowe, the Dread Pirate." They discuss that the next plan is to inform Pandora the human and Lissa, and they go to head off...
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Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:28 pm
After a long twelve hours of travel, the party come to the doors of F'n'Ale. A sign is hanging on the tavern. Terra goes to read a sign, amd then goes behind it, squeels like a pig, then runs back and opens the doors like nothing ever happened. Laughter is heard, though it's not Pandora's laighter. The tavern has it's usual patrons, but no Pandy. Instead, Lissa is behind the counter. She apologizes for the sign. Then they inform Lissa, and Lissa eventually slides drinks toward the party. Dale gets something stout. Drassa gets a refillable cup and stares contemplatively at it. Sophie gets apple juice, but she's told it's wine. Nelda is fighting herself for control, and eventually the Zelda personality wins amd puts the beer down. Terra goes out to talk to the hostage, and Xavier follows to learn about what his country became.


Terra wakes up the hostage, who is immediately terrified of the girl. She starts with sayin that the rebellion did win, but He wasn't satisfied with Canaan. A book falls from her pocket and she goes to reach it, but just flops to her side ineffectively. Terra takes the book and asks if it will answer most of her future questions. The noble replies that yes, though likely not personal ones. Terra confirms through several questions that they were sent to kidnap her and send her alive, as she would make a nice present. She asks for Xavier to leave for a few minutes, and he begrugingly does, going to look in the tavern.


Dale and Drassa are passed out, Drassa because he was given some incredibly powerful extract. Sophie is dancing, believing herself to be drunk. Nera and Zelda are fighting for control over their body, and it looks like Zelda isn't giving any ground. Dale tries to wake up, but is given another drink and passes back out. Drassa's tail is swinging to the beat, despite him being unconscious. Xavier thinks about it and puts his sleeve in a bowl of sake, and almost immediately gets drunk. He's quite happy. Suddenly Zelda's arm shoots out and downs the beer. "HA I WIN BITCH" Lissa thinks that one bar fight wouldn't be too bad since they are mourning the loss of a pirate. Sophie and Dale egg her on, and she aquieces.


With the interrogation, Terra asks if the two are... similar. The noble agrees eventually, and Terra asks if she is expected to not return if she doesn't have Terra. She says that she would be killed if she returned, and killed if she was ever found to have failed Him. So Terra tells her to go north to the Dwarvern town, and tell Rodeny that she has all of his stuff. She agrees, and after being kicked out, the tabaxi runs off into the night.


Terra kicks open the door and starts pounding down drinks. It doesn't take too long for her to get drunk, and she starts ranting about the rebellion and what good it even did and hey does everyone know she's trangender and oh hey everyone does and it's just really hard on her. Meanwhile, Xavier gets into a fight with a goliath and wins. Then Pandora comes in. She passes everyone some drinks. They drink, and most of them bar Sophie pass the fuck out because it was actually a sleep potion.


In the morning, the party bar Terra walk downstairs. Pandora is making breakfast, and starts explaining her services to the party. And by that, it's the bill for her services. She says that since Lissa overheard that Terra was the leader, she'll be footing the bill. Sophie goes to wake Terra up. She moans in pain from a hangover, then heals her condition and goes down to talk to Pandora. So she gets to talking about their bills, and eventually Pandora brings up that there is an errand she could have them run.


Suddenly a half orc comes in, after squeeling like a pig and tells Pandora that Altissia's beacon is lit. This confuses the party, since Eizen is passed away. Pandora explains about Altissia and says that this must mean that a new dread pirate has taken command. The half orc, Jisco, says that this is the location of a Man-0-War. Hidden in a maze. Walk straight, turn left, front door. Terra goes up to her room to read the book, and Drassa informs Pandora in secret that there is a huge cache of platinum. He writes down the quest upon her assistance, because he really wants his siblings dead.


Terra reads the book. She reads multiple paragraphs detailing her capture, what should go down, and build the city as a ruse to gain an audience for the king of Iselia. With this audience, an assassination attempt is planned, three weeks for today. This is definitely in His writing. So Terra goes and informs the party and PAndora offers the party ideas. Eventually, it's decided that they will go to the Serpent's Quarter, where there may be a hydra. If they can defeat it, they will be granted an audience with the king, who is unfortunately dying of an illness anyways. Terra questions what all she said last night, and Lissa cheerfully informs her. She goes to take a bath while the rest of the party prepare. While preparing for the spell, Lissa is talking up a storm. She looks at Pandy and says "You know, I still have the spell that could transport us back to our world." The party all adopt confused looks as they are warped to the entrance of the Serpents Quarters.

They stare at the entrance and get ready to go in, hoping to be able to save their country, adopted or no....
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Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:37 am
So the party, at the gate, notice a lever. Sophie and Terra pull the rope and a gonging sound drowns out Xavier's knocking on the gate. Eventually a small giant comes to the gate. He winds up asking the party to pay a toll, and though he eyes Terra's Thunderous Orchestra, Drassa pulls out a bag and tosses it to him. He appraises it and then allows the party through.

After one booby trap filled hallway, the party notice a torch on a sconce, shining blue. Xavier, ever curious, sticks his sword in it. Blue fire coalesces around the blade, and the spiderzashi grows in power. The party come to a room with a split in the middle. Terra, Xavier, and Drassa go down one end but it's just a dead end with some incriptions that Xavier can't make out and refuses to tell anyone about. So they easily make their way back to the rest of the party. They see a dozen of what looks to be corpses, and a large pile of bones in the corner. Sophie goes to inspect the corpse, and it shrieks out art her, frightening her. The sound alerts others in the area, and the mass of bones form an undead skeletal hydra!

Drassa is on it quickly though, and punches a zombie in the face! The hydra clambers up toward the party and gnashes it's teeth menacingly. Nera goes to stab, but a zombie shows up. Terra inspires the partty and then whispers madness into her lute, causing the hydra to back away. Dale starts chucking fireballs as Xavier ignites his spiderzashi and goes to town on the zombies. Sophie is clawing and tearing one up as best she can. The party get wounded only a little bit, with Terra and Dale's AoEs and the attacks they provide the rest of the party to perform. The Hydra heads (skulls?) at one point fall off the skeleton, but start withering around! But Xavier is on it, as his Spiders, now flaming, start tearing into them. Dale stomps on one of them and kills it, commenting that it felt good. Sophie and Nera shred into one of the zombies. Terra blasts a lightning bolt from TO, and then, with a light bulb going off in her head, uses a Mending Tune on the last foe, killing it. Terra mends up the broken hydra skull and the party is off!

It's a long four day journey through the cavern that Serpents Quarters were on, but eventually the party find themselves in the royal library. There's the smell of smoke and the sound of battle! They put their plan into motion sooner than had written! Terra opens the door and sure enough, the royal guard and Canaanese Tabaxis are fighting, with the royal guard losing. Suddenly an Axe comes flying in and bats a tabaxi away. R.E.L.K appears in the doorway, and explains to the party that the one who damaged his arm is in the throne room. He follows the party into it. The group bust open the door and see Alver, Terra's Ex-lover, former leader of the Canaanese Rebellion, and current Emperor of Canaan, fighting the very Throne of The King itself.

Terra screams out. "ALVER! I'M HERE YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
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Sun May 05, 2019 11:23 pm
"It's been a long time no see." Alver says without looking.

"Shut the fuck up and DIE!" Terra yowls.  Drassa is the first to make a move, running up. He notes that the king's corpse is on the ground. The party was too late. Terra yowls up "CHARGE!" She says, infusing the party with inspiration. She then dashes up to Alver and claws him in the face. Zera goes to slash at Alver, but he parries it. Terra hisses. "Mine!"

RELK shoots the throne, but the arrow harmlessly glances off. Sophie bolts off to the throne, keeping an eye on Terra. Xavier dons Firestance and attacks the throne twice. They glance off. The Throne retaliates with claws. Alver casts Wall of Fire, and it scorches Zera and Sophie, but Terra jumps over it and is in the ring of fire with him. Dale casts magic missile at the throne, and 6 arrows plant themselves in the throne.

Drassa moves up on the guardian and punches the shit out of it. Terra heals the group and goes to claw at Alver, who dodges with a cocky smile. "That damn smile." Terra snarls. Zera walks around the wall of fire and slashes at the throne with Dixon. It splooges acid out.  Sophie's claws glance harmlessly off the throne. RELK brings the Axebeak down on him. He hits in a burst of inspiration. Xavier Lightning Blade;s to the side of it. It takes a chunk of Damage and he slashes at it again. The dragon throne spins around, catching most of the party in a whip. Alver finally sighs and goes to swing at Terra, who deftly dodges out of the way. Dale sprays the throne with Acid. Drassa punches the throne again.  Terra heals up the party with her words again, and slashes at Alver with her claws, just barely scratching at Alver. Zera attacks but just misses. Suddenly an Elf Aasimar bursts through the door and shoots at the Throne, but misses.  Sophie climbs into the hole the broken leg had made, and grabs the magic crystal causing it to function. She pulls it out and leaps out of it as it falls down, defeated. Relk walks into the ring of fire, pulls out the Vivian spear, and swings it, missing.  Xavier sheathes his sword and walks out. "It's her chance for honor." He says. Alver summons a cloud of magical darkness and starts to walk away. Dale also leaves. Drassa is also going to leave. Terra pulls out her lute and strums madness into it. Alver shrugs off most of the effects. and counters with his own magic spell, viscious mockery.

"A nice try my dear." He says. Zera also leaves. Sophie remians on top of the throne, watching the orb of darkness worridly.  RELK walks into a wall. Alver leaves using the same secret passage he got in, and the darkness disperces. Terra hastily looks for the entrance to said secret passage, but finds nothing.
What will she tell the party about Alver? What will happen now they are in the same room as the dead king?
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Mon May 06, 2019 11:37 pm
The king is dead [s]because Drakengard sucks[/s]. RELK is embedded in the walls, and Sophie is still in the Automaton. Terra is angrily clawing at every inch of the wall she sees. Xavier comes back in and carelessly takes jewels off the king's body. Suddenly the captain of the guard comes in and pointedly asks Xavier what he's doing. Xavier says that he's the spirit of the king. The captain doesn't believe him, and says that the cat is a dog. This confuses Terra, who stops in the middle of scratching the walls. He goes to grab the crown and leave. Drassa stops him and gutpunches him. He falls to the floor and warns them that the other guards will be here shortly. upon hitting the floor he drops a vial with a feather in it that looks familiar. He's kidnapped and tells the party that there's a secret button behind the throne. "GOD DAMN IT!" Terra says, running behind the throne and slamming it. The passasge opens and Terra bolts through it and the rest of the party (and RELK and the Captain) follow. Terra slips down some stairs. Zera also does soon after. Terra comes to what appears to be a sewer room with three other exits. Terra runs off to the west. The rest of the party head west too after Zera concentrates.

Terra doesn't see the grate in time and smacks right into it. RELK senses this is the wrong direction and  goees to head off. Terra passes him, then runs back when Sophie says there is a door right there. Sophie grabs her and asks if she's going to run. Terra lies. Sophie believes her/ Terra gets up. Relk calms Terra with Magic. Terra is now laser focused. She runs off and follows the grate out. She runs up the rocky outcropping. RELK tries to JUMP, but misses the ledge and falls a bit. The rest of the party comes up and sees Terra chasing her own footprints. Zera offers her a sleep potion and says Alver is in it. This confuses Terra enough that she stops, and Xavier takes the chance to poison her with a sleep potion. She passes out. He also does this with the Captain. Then summons Pandy with the Bear whistle. He also passes out. The duo are tied to seperate sides of the cart. Sophie lightly smacks Terra when she mutters about Alver in her sleep. As dawn comes the party wake up. Terra is cut free and climbs in the cart. Xavier notices a malformed human creature, but just runs it the fuck over. So the party travel off.
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Mon May 27, 2019 12:21 am
Terra, along the way, explains about Alver to the party. She says that it's her mission to stop his madness. She also says that if the party would have her, she'd be happy to actually, properly lead them. The party appear to agree and let her. They then come across the guild. What remains of it. It appears that these were the defences for the invasion. The party, sans Xavier and RELK, go to investigate. Terra checks the shelves, but nothing. Sophie does find a locked box, however, and easily opens it to find some healing potions.

The party see a lone figure in the hall they used to have meals in. She's clutching a cup of ale in her hand. It's Lexi, the thief from earlier. Terra, after confirming such, asks her to join them. "Welp. I don't have anything better to do." She decides. Terra, Ley, Sophie, and Lexi all look around the hall. Terra finds the casket that Lexi used to fill up her mug, Lexi finds the mug, Ley and Sophie found the Guildmaster's body. Ley grabs the guildmaster's sword, and Sophie the guildmaster's circlet.

Meanwhile, RELK gets attacked, and crumples. Ley is pounced on by a shoosuva, a scorpion-dog thing. The party see this one. RELK's stays on his. Zera runs up and tries to hit Ley's, but falls flat on her face. Terra encourages her allies and blasts a lightning bolt with his lute. It seems to absorb it a little. It's hurt, but not much. Xavier approaches menancingly, throwing up a stone wall. LExi, done with trying to get a damn drink in peace, goes to slash out the stinger from the one the party all see. The first dagger glances off, but the second one barely knicks it. Sophie flies in to swing with her blade, but misses. "DONT TOUCH ME IM BIG" She says. RELK, pummled, activates his final attack: SELF DESTRUCT. The hound is blasted into the wall and scrap metal is scattered throughout the hall. A glowing gem stone and a charred green book remain. The other Shoosuva bites into Sophie. This messes with her psyche a little bit. "I can deny it no longer. I am small." She mutters to herself. Zera goes to stab at the thing. Terra uses Dissonant whispers. The thing gets bodied by Zera and Sophie. Xavier Lightning Blades the one that got blown up. Lexi dashes over and stabs twice with her blades, finding home both times. Dale charges up and blasts a Fireball, barely singing Xavier, heavily singing the green book, and cracking the glowing stone. Ley finally shakes off the paralysis, sits up and shoots at the fleeing thing. One of them bites at Xavier and then gets stuck to his kimono. The other one runs up to hit Sophie, and bites her. The second one misses. Apparently they can't get with the tails. Zera slams the one with Dixon, and a holy splooge of acid follows her movements. Terra kills it with a whisper. Xavier chops his up with a quick three slash.

Zera picks up the glowing stone and Sophie picked up the book. The stone glows in Zera's hand and the light gets brighter and brighter until it envelops the area. When it disspates, the party see a human that looks like RELK. He informs them that if you die selflessly, the universe can grant your with.
Drassa's response is to run up and punch the human in the face. "SO WHY ISN'T MY BEST FRIEND BACK?!" Drassa yells. "WHAT WAS HIS WISH, HUH?!"
Terra comments that the beacons were lit in Altissia, and his city has returned. Drassa has anger in his face and sorrow in his eyes. Relk grabs his book, which is fully repaired upon his touch. A holy light bathes him. "Only problem is, you have to agree to a task." With that said, Relk, now a priest, runs off to Iselia's capital to tend to others.

Thus Drakengard wonder about their next move.

The party decide to head off to Dunwall, if only because they haven't hit it yet and are in desperate need for a town. Other caravans are also fleeing the capital, so they decide to take to the roads in an effort to blend in. That night, as they are huddled around the fire, a voice begins to sing. Terra hears it and perks up. It's the satyr that had given her the lute! At first the now emoldened woman asks him for a duel, but sensing her dangerous confidence, he declines. She offers to let him stay the night, but he tells her that he must get to Mordrid as soon as possible, since they are in need of healers. Terra kinda gestures to herself when he mentions the attacks, but he claims to know her well enough that there is no way she could have been involved. So he sets off immediately.

Upon getting to the swampy area that is the entrance, they see an old woman holding up a sign that she needs food. A few members take out some gold and hand it to her. Terra's gets handed back after the beggar writes down that she's not hiding her sex very well at the moment. The party carry on and see a small child, playing with a sign that also implies he's looking for food. Lexi has wised up to this by now, and doesn't give him anything.

Then the party enter the town. By the fountain, they see a younger looking Eizen. Terra stares dumbfounded. "What? Cat got your tongue?" He says in Eizen's voice. This causes Drassa to absolutely lose it, and he charges up and decks the illusion in the face. It disintegrates.

"ALRIGHT YOU BITCH I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR MOTHERFUCKING GAMES NOW!" He roars. An Aasimar with clipped wings, matching the detail that Eizen gave of his daughter, walks out from behind the fountain. Drassa, originally held back by Lexi, yanks free and goes to punch the kid. He trips over his tail and hits his head on the fountain, passing out.

Sophie and Terra confirm that yes, it is Tiara. Tiara challenges Terra to a music duel and, after Terra warns her to play nice, the aasimar loses. Terra gives a triumphant smile, then asks where they can stay the night. Tiara leads them to her HQ and, after tricking Lexi and Ley into entering, beckons the rest of the party in. They see, in this tiny entryway, a portait of Eizen in his younger years. "Big Ego." Tiara writes on her paper. The party nod, affirming this. Terra starts to warn Tiara.

"You might want to be careful with illusions of your father. He and our kobold friends were best friends, and honestly I'm starting to think they were lover-" No sooner than that comes out of Terra's mouth does she get kidney punched by said kobold. "Worth it." She smiles weakly.

"They weren't?" Sophie says with a tilt of her head.

"That explains the long bussiness trips." Tiara quips. The party then seperate and go to get some good nights sleep...

Dawn comes. Drakengard awaken in their seperate rooms. Sophie goes to wake Terra, and Ley and Lexi appeared to have shared a room, waking up and exiting from the same bedroom. XAvier is nowhere to be found, and Drassa is smoking a cigar. It's an illusion, but he doesn't seem to notice. He runs off to find Xavier, who found the sake and is currently drunk. A maid appears and tells them that Tiara awaits them in the library. Drakengard follow her into the library.

Sophie mentions something and Tiara causes illusionary flames to sprout around her. Sophie regrets opening her mouth. Terra asks if the wingless wonder wanted to talk to them, and Tiara shakes her head. Drassa says that just because someone wants their presence, doesn't mean that she wanted to talk to them. Terra disagrees on the meaning, but whatever. Tiara goes to write on Terra's hand, but Lexi presents her with some parchment. She writes down something and hands this to Drassa. It says that some Canaanese are in town and tells them to be careful. Terra asks if she can borrow Tiara's disguise kit. Eizen's daughter does one better and casts disguise other. She looks about like a normal human, albeit with pink hair. While she's going over her reflection, Drassa tells Tiara that he doesn't really trust her, since she is such her father's daughter-

"That you want to fuck her?" Ley says. The Astral Dwarf appears in a beam of light and cracks Ley upside the head. Drassa resumes his talk. He then turns to Lexi, who had stolen Ley's stolen crown.
"As to trustworthyness, aside from our bard" Whom he flashes a middle finger to, "I think I qualify the most of our seedy companions."

"Hey!" Xavier says.

"You're a drunken suit of armour." Sophie says.

"She has a point." Drassa grins. The Samurai hangs his head.
Terra says that she's going into town, and says that Xavier should go with her. The rest of the party decide to accompany her. Drassa hands Thoughts and Prayers to Tiara, explaining that they were her father's. She hangs them in the memorial room. and taps all the party to protect them.

Outside, the party discuss plans for the town. Sophie says that her and LExi are going to go and sell the crown that Ley stole. Terra wasn't even aware of this, and briefly affirms the condition. At the end of it, she says she trusts Sophie enough to keep Lexi out of too much danger.

Xavier is looking for something from his time, and eventually comes across a Canaanese-looking shop. Lexi finds a dog and asks if she can keep it. Drassa says that since the leader is a cat, it probably wouldn't end well. Lexi sadly puts the dog down upon Sophie's badgering. They also see Xavier. The four of them go into the antiques store. Press bell for service. Xavier picks it up and tries to ring it like a ringybell. Sophie gently puts it out of his hands and dings it. A kobold pops out and hops up on a stool. "Wattchuwan?" He says. Sophie dumps the bag containing the crown. His eyes go wide. "Pretty."
"Hey. Cut it out Bill." Drassa says, it appears they know each other.

He focuses again and looks at the crown. "It is very shiny. They are perfect! They're really nice. I've got something familiar, ancient Canaanese. But I'm not selling it or anything."
Xavier pops up from behind Lexi. "I'll trade you more shinies for it." He says, offering Bill the king's signet ring.
Bill gives him information that Rodney had bought it. He gives Sophie 6000 platinum and the four leave.

Ley is looking for someone to appraise his sword. He goes inside the weapon shop and Dale and Zera follow. Takk is there. He's concerned that Ley has the Guildmaster's sword, but says that he can find out what enchantments it has in the circle of Magi. Dale says that he's not going back. Takk nods. Zera suddenly storms up to him and smacks the piss out of him with Dixon, leaving a dick shaped imprint on his cheek. Zera and Dale leave too.

Terra and Xavier pop into the shop after seeing half the party exit this one shop. Terra says hello and heals him, though she informs him that there will be an imprint for the rest of his life. She then peruses the wares on the wall. Xavier floats in and Takk asks who that is. Terra informs him and Xavier asks if he has any artefacts from Ancient Canaan. Takk goes in the back to check. He's rummaging and curing. "Ah ha!" He comes out with a box and a dagger broken in it. There's a couple scripts of ancient Canaanese, reading Genbu. Xavier asks for his Dagger back. Takk says that he needs to make some sort of profit, and Xavier pulls his sword out. Takk doesn't want any trouble from him and gives it to him. He thinks about who he last stabbed and comes to the thought that it was an ancient leader who wanted to build another country. Ley walks in, hands the Guildmaster's sword to Dale, and Walks the hell off. Terra goes to purchase two daggers and Xavier does it for her. The party leave, Drasa, the last one to exit, caves in the entrance.
The party go in to the armour shop, meeting the goliath shopkeep. Xavier asks if there are any samurai armour, or perhaps armour from a Peasant King. Lexi also asks if they can find any armour for someone with sticky fingers. Xavier, looking at the one eyed goliath, snarks that he can't quite keep an eye out for both at the same time. He pulls out a helmet and a chest piece but the chest piece is missing the left pauldron. Xavier asks if he can have his stuff back. The Goliath offers to let him pay 1200 gold for it. He does, also buying some greaves. He then asks Lexi what she's looking for. Typical rogue stuff. He pulls out a chest piece and hands it to her for six platinum. Terra asks if they have anything for a healer, and the goliath pulls out some gloves. They heal a bit extra on each heal, and can lay on hands thrice per day. Lexi asks about enchanted artefacts and he informs them that the circle of magi would be better for that. Zera asks if they have anything for her. HE pulls out some gauntlets.

Xavier goes upstairs, searching for a circlet. He finds several circlets, even finding a moonstone circlet. Shopping all done, the party go back to Tiara's. The eel tattoos on the back of Drakengard dissapear. Xavier goes to a room, yells at the party to leave him the fuck alone, and sits down to concentrate. Zera goes to the bar to drink. Drassa goes to accompany her. Dale and Sophie follow. Zera passes out awhile later. Lexi is getting used to her new equipment. Terra goes in and offers to help Tiara, who is practicing her violin, with advice. She denies. So Terra offers to play with her. The playing attracts some fairy dragons, and they speak to the duo.

"H'lal is pleased that her daughter, and what is left of her follower, are doing well. In addition, she loved your ladies' performance, and will bless you both with more potent magic for a week."
Tiara offers the moonstone that Drasa had given her. The fairy dragon wonders if she is trying to bribe a herald of the gods, and Terra offers a different reason. She postulates that Eizen must have told her about them guarding the moonstones and is offering to return it. The fairie dragon takes it.

The party thus think about what their next move is...
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Thu Jun 13, 2019 9:18 pm
the party wake up. TErra wonders where Xavier is, and he proceeds to fall down the stairs in his Shogun form. he apologizes because he isnt used to the heavy armour. Drasa bangs on the doors, ordering the rest of the party to wake up. Zera walks down the stairs, naked as Terra, Xavier, and Sophie leave the manor. Drassa, looking a little more red than normal after Zera shakes her womanly features at him, leaves to go get drunk. Xavier, eager to test out his new armour, is ready to blast some Canaanese, but Terra suggests that it might be easier to start a brawl. Drassa is all for that, and drops down. Xavier picks him up and the four go to enter a tavern. Zera peeks out her window and sees them going, and goes down to join them, beckoning Lexi to join. She does.
The party go inside the tavern, Zera notices the poles, presumably for something illicit, and goes to start spinning on them. She performs well, having no issues. The tavern patrons are glued to the scene. Notably there is an excitable gnome and an elf as well as an orc. There's a bell there. Xavier goes to toss Drasa at it, and the kobold wiggles free. "AIIGGT IMMA FIGHT THE NEXT SUNABITCH-"
The bell rings and the highly excitable gnome shows up with crazy eyes. "WE GOTTA FIGHT READY SO ALL YOU SHITS THAT WANNA FIGHT THROW WHATEVER YA WANNA BET IN THE PIT!" Some of the patrons toss various things, including a bigass moonstone. The elf woman? tosses in 20 gold. Lexi and Sophie also join in. Xavier tosses in the sapphire ring. Drasa tosses in ten platinum. The elf twirls their daggers flashily. Terra declares that this calls for music, and starts to play!
Drasa looks around "So when do we star-" DING! "Aight. My turn!" He spins to hit Xavier, who dodges. Xavier says that he apologizes, and goes to bring the hilt down on Drassa, who understands. Xavier misses though. One bugbear turns to the orc and tries to hit them with a morningstar. he hits the orc square in the chest.
The second bubgbear charges across the pit. "TINY BIRDY!" Sophie nimbly dodges out of the way. It's then sophie's turn, So she turns to the bugbear that just missed her and claws the shit out of it.
"DON'T TOUCH ME IM BIG" She screeches. The orc returns the favour and cleaves into the bugbear with his axe. Lexi sneaks up behind the orc, Prickling Flame at the ready. She doinks him. The elf focuses and unleashes a perfect circle of thorns it'll be pretty difficult to move through that terrain. He starts to move toward Sophie and the second bugbear. Drasa slams his fists together for his EarthDiggers to activate. A small earthquake knocks Xavier on his ass. He then slips into the earth and pops up past the spike pit.
"The prey always has to flee..."Xavier says. HE puts his weapon away and pulls out a torch. He glances at Lexi and tosses the torch, but he releases a bit early and bonks himself on the head. The peasant king sighs. Lexi notes that he was aiming for her and teases him a bit. The bugbear goes to hit the orc with the morningstar, but the orc bats it away.
"BIRDY!" The bugbear slams down his weapon and sophie dodges again.

"When will you learn?" She says. She tries to claw into him again with her talons but only deals a glancing blow. Lexi's flame from the dagger burns the orc, who lays into the bugbear. Lexi doinks the orc yet again.Flame erupts over him.
The elf runs up and stabs the bugbear twice, missing the second blow. Drasa runs up to him and slams into him with a solid stone fist. Xavier prepares his sword. "With the crackle of thunder...LIGHTNING BLADE!" He dashes around the ring, striking most the foes, then turns around toward Drasa. A fire lights where his eyes would be and he punches the kobold twice, then activates stone stance. The elf, upon being hit, vanishes out of the ring, forfeiting his gold.
"DONT KILL STEAL!" The bugbear states, bringing down his morningstar to lexi. Lexi dodges. The other bugbear brings down his morningstar. Sophie blocks with her shield, then draws her sword and stabs into the bugbear. The orc slams his ax into the bugbear. Lexi stabs the orc yet again.
Drasa looks a little woozy. "I want those shinies but I don't want to die." He slams his fists together. The bugbear falls, but Xavier and Sophie are fine. "That didn't go as I wanted..." He says, then, glancing between sophie and the bugbear, "Yeah I'm gunna hit the bugbear." He slams into the bugbear with aplomb. He's out cold.
"How are you doing, Drasa?"
"That motherfucker..." Drasa jerks a thumb toward Xavier "Is a motherfucker."
"Everyone! Make this an interesting fight!" Terra cheers them on!
Xavier grrabs Drasa by the tail and YEETS him out of the ring. The bell dings as his unconscious body hits it. Sophie carves into the Orc and feels some lifeforce come back into her. Lexi sneaks into the shadows and shanks the bugbear from behind, but barely misses. Xavier slowly walks up to Sophie and brings down the hilt of Widowmaker. Sophie doesn't even look as she blocks not only XAvier, but the bugbears attack as well. She then sends some magick missiles XAvier's way. Lexi hits the bugbear with her flame dagger. Xavier dons Fire stance and takes a blue coated spectral fist into the bugbear. The bugbear retaliates by yet agai trying to hit the birdy. He misses.
"These poor dumb creatures." Sophie shakes her head and goes to hit the bugbear, but misses. Lexi also misses. Xavier goes to smush the bugbears head with both his fists, but misses. Lexi's flames burn the bugbear unconscious.
It's just the three members of Drakengard. Sophie immediately lashes out with her blade at Lexi, scratching her. Lexi whips her head around and her eyes narrow. She runs toward sophie, but faceplants to the ground. XAvier calmly goes to the other side of the arena. Lexi delivers two slashes to the prone rogue. Lexi stands up and goes to stab Sophie but she misses. XAvier calmly walks out.
"HEY! IT'S JUST YOU TWO! MAKE IT INTERESTING!" Terra says again, continuing to play.
Lexi slashes twice, but misses once. The two keep going at it, and eventually...
The bell rings.
"Ladies you'll keep at this until closing time. I don't want that. Split the earnings and get the fuck out of my pit."
Drassa is muttering angrily into his cup as Zera approaches behind him, her and Terra having made 25 platinum each.
"HOW YA DOIN?!" Xavier says, glasping him on the shoulder.
"FUCK YOU" Drasa responds.
Zera gives him marshmellow hell.
Lexi and the elf, who introduces himself as May, are off in a corner talking.
"Zera you may smother him." Sophie points out gently. Then she goes to LExi and, with May, go off to sell their winnings.
Zera eventually releases the kobold, who passes out unto the floor. Terra, looking over the party, heal their wounds and they retire to the manor for the night.
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Sun Jun 16, 2019 10:54 pm
The party awaken in the middle of the night only to find the manor is on fire. The party all gather up and go to leave, Xavier carrying the sleeping Tiara. Three tabaxis, foaming at the mouth and with bloodshot eyes, crashing through the windows and the door. Terra tells the party to prioritize getting out first, moving closer to the door. Sophie and Lexi follow. One tabaxi goes to slash at terra and one at Sophie, but the girls just deftly dodge their attackers. Drassa goes to grab Eizen's outfit, shatering the glass and tucking it into a pocket. The third tabaxi goes for Lexi, hitting her with a longsword. Zera follows the rest of them, going to cut at the second tabaxi with Dixon, then going to the window, ready to jump out. He wails, almost sounding non-humanoid. He's still standing, Eyes narrowed now. XAvier tosses Tiara to Drasa and plants his blade. "I am the true king of the tabaxis. Your quarry is me." He says, summoning the blue fire. Two of them don't care, but the one that attacked Terra does show some surprise before going back to a crazed state. Terra whispers madness into her lute and tries to get hers to run away, but he shrugs off most the effects. Terra dashes past him while he's distracted, leaving the manor. Sophie follows, her target slashing at her and getting a few nicks. The one Terra targetted gives chase, but Xavier cuts him down. "I said your target was me."

Outside Sophie and Terra wonder if, the way he said it, that means Xavier was a tabaxi in his life. Lexi quickly joins them. The tabaxi slapped with Dixon goes to attack Xavier, but barely misses, the tip glancing off the armour. Drasa makes his way toward the door carrying Tiara. "She would KILL me if I did this." He says, briefly thinking about beating the tabaxi with Tiara. The tabaxi looks at Drasa and just misses. Zera jumps through the window. Xavier cleaves one of them into cubes. Drasa disengages and runs outside. The tabaxi runs up on Xavier and claws into him. In return, Xavier slashes into him, gouging him =. He's still alive, spiders crawling all over him and biting him. Tabaxi attacks, missing. Xavier goes to kick him with his boots, but he can't lift his boots. Tabaxi claws into him again, missing. Xavier calls upon lightning blade and dashes outside. As Xavier gets out, the whole manor crumples. Drakengard looks around and the whole city is on fire. Lexi expresses a desire to help the burning citizens, but Terra tells her that War comes with casualties. Drasa also points out that there aren't enough people in the party to save. So the party start to run for the carts. Sophie manages to calm the raptors down. The party load up and haul ass.

They see the large fountain in the center of town flowing a dark, slugde like ichor. Above it are three night hags. Terra recognizes that they are casting the Madness spell, and immediately springs into action by playing a countersong. As the party speed off, the goliaths spring into battle and then nothing. The party can tell its about 5am. A few members of the party feel some dread as they could have saved some of them, but at the cost of their life perhaps...

a group of guardsmen are gathered at the edge of the swamp. They enquire as to what happened and the party jumble through it. The lead guard says she should detain them on grounds of being suspecious. Xavier asks what they should do with Tiara, and then muses that the only one she might listen to would be "Her father's work vacation buddy" Indicating Drasa. He takes a swig and glowers. Sophie says that at this point its better to just run with it. The party discus their next move and decide to go to Claxton. With some banter, the party make their way, coming up to the gates, which are shut.
"State your bussiness!" Comes from the guard on top.
"Traveling merchantsl." Xavier says.
The guard eventually gets the party to pay up, and Xavier wants to prove himself so he tries to yeet his head over the wall again. It doesn't work. He suggests they take refuge in The Broken Candle. They do so, being hit by the smell of the ocean. They're greeted from behind the check in desk by a lizardfolk. Terra sees him counting and strikes a deal that eventually culminates in the party gaining the rooms for the week for 60 gold. Xavier heads off to go fishin with the guard.

"It's a fish" -Varix, 2019
Terra plays and attracts a massive crowd. Xavier comes in with his marlin and tosses it toward the coo, earning some gold for it. Terra has already made back the gold for the rooms. already. Xavier goes to fish some more. He comes back and the party eat well, learning about some job postings near the magistrate's office.
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Sun Jul 14, 2019 10:59 pm
The party wake up and eat breakfast. Terra says that the party need to be careful since Claxton is so huge, but Xavier is already out the door. Terra sighs and follows Sophie. Xavier goes to search for his gauntlet parts. He comes to one pawn shop and, upon being told that he would not talk with him because of customer confidentiality, Xavier pulls out a torch. "Well. I've lived long enough." The goblin quips as Lexi pokes her head in. The goblin relents and tells him that they were stolen from him. Xavier distracts him and stabs him, disintegrating the old goblin.  He sees a letter to the former mayor from Filwood giving an exorbant price for his gauntlets. He goes off to another pawn shop. A tortle is behind the counter there. There's a bit of small talk and the tortle points to a side door. Xavier barely avoids a dagger as he enters, and then comes into a smal room. He seems some bookshelves.  He starts chucking them aside. A drow leaps out from the shadows and it clinks against his armour. XAvier calmly takes the dagger and stabs himself. Then he notices her hands are covered by his gauntlets. He tells her that she has two choices. To take the gauntlets off and keep her arms, or lose the arms. She takes the gauntlets off, he goes to slap her but misses, yet she's still frightened. She leaves after he gives her a platinum and some tips on a score. He sits down and performs his ritual.
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She decides she wants none of that and goes to a new shop. A centaur is tending and gestures toward the daggers on display. With Lexi, she sees some nice daggers, but it doesn't scream obvious magic. She asks the centaur about them, and he says that two of them will deal poison. He says the next one seems that if you stab someone with it, the cuts wind up on you. The last one, he says, had a partner. The partner weapon was said to release spiders from the cuts. This one entangles enemies in web. The webs are covered in Acid. There is also a swordbreaker dagger. Lexi decides to buy the Web and Swordbreakers. She also asks for any protective armour. He shows her a Ring of Magic Shield. She buys it too and goes back to the inn.
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Terra, Lexi, and Drasa look at the bounty  board. Terra scans it for her name, but nothing. She does see Alver wanted for the death of the king. They also see Eizen's poster.  They take a request about an infestation under the church and go to talk to the mayor/baron/duke. They aren't allowed in the keep, but an outpostman gives them some information about it. they then go back to the inn.
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Zera goes to hunt down information about her sister, but doesn't come up wth much information.
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The party all meet up at the inn, Terra and Sophie a little sad that Xavier is unable to catch any fish, but the dragonborne in the back says its fine. Lexi looks at Xavier and asks to see it, and the two do confirm that they are same. The party sit down to a good meal and Xavier talks about his day. He mentions that the girl drow might be under orders from Alver. Terra's eyes Narrow and she looks at Xavier.  She calmly gets up and right in his face, as close as possible. "Do not. Ever. Say that he is behind something when he is not." She lets go of him.  Then they inform the party of their dealings tomorrow. Xavier offers to go stakeout. Drasa follows.  
The rest of the party make it there in the morning. Terra notes that Xavier went the long way around, and educated them on BOATS. Drassa notes that there was a drow girl that ran in, smelling like pee.
The party enters the   church. Xavier drops a torch down a hole. he hears. "Son of a bitch!" The voice sounds familiar to him and he jumps down the hole. He lands on the torch. The rest of the party use the convenient rope.
Terra questions the drow. She explains that she's been down here for most of the night and has heard some worrying noises. The [party run off and come face to face with two malformed lizardmen and a Big Boi...
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Sun Aug 25, 2019 6:20 pm
I just realized I never posted the last DotD session, and that Word is long gone. Whoops.
Well, it was just a boss fight+reward+Xavier being all like "LAND OWNER BIYATCH" so
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Thu Aug 29, 2019 2:54 pm
Xavier notices someone ducking with a fancy cloak. He follows. They duck behind another corner and Xavier listens in. He's informed that a shipment is arriving at midnight. He approaches at them, spooks them, and LIGHTNING BLADE's one of them down. But the other keeps running after he accidentally tosses his head down a drain. Then his left leg gets stuck in a different drain.

The party on the other hand, are dining on snacks and waiting for Xavier to appear. They think he'll be fine. Xavier eventually finds himself. He then goes to drag the unconscious dock worker back to the docks. After about 20 minutes he's approached by guards. They look at the unconscious scorched man and ask him what the hell. Xavier tries to BS his way out of it, then eventually gets escorted away. He's locked up.
Terra, counting on her fingers, predicts to the second that guards show up. Sophie expresses a bit of amazement, but Drasa assures her that someone in her field would indeed have to know how guards work. So eventually they pay the bounty and go to get him. Xavier escorts them to the docks. He says that everyone else will stay behind while he charges ahead and-
And Terra interrupts him, shouting about how she's tired of all this bull shit and dudududududu, and Xavier knocks her out and sends Zera to the inn with her, forming a plan with the others. It takes two hours to properly stealth, during which Terra wakes up. She's a little furious, and stealths away. When Xavier mentions something, Terra speaks up, expertly covering his mouth hole in anticipation, drowning out his vocal chords as the boss is yelling. The party all watch and form a plan. Xavier, Zera, and Dale will wait on the ship. The others will trail behind. The explosion causes them to run over, and Terra confirms a plan of action with Drasa, and runs off to heal and talk to them. She then blasts them with Thunderwave, alerting everyone. She gets the hell out of there and the rest of the party follow. Xavier actually comes with a good idea and they wear their deputy badges and run up.

Xavier gloats to the captain of the guard, and then some magick fucky wucky shit happens, the abyssal runes inside the crate glowing upon any magickal thing going near. Xavier even gets absorbed a little into it. The rest of the party, seeing this, back the hell away. The guards send in a rookie and he gets destroyed. Terra recognizes the laughter as Alver, and she almost goes into a rage, with Sophie and Drasa knocking her out. They go back to the inn. They wake the next morning and they decide to blow off some steam by entering a singing competition. Sophie and Terra go for sure, but Xavier accidentally signs up fo this instead of the fishing contest. When he challenges Sophie before leaving, the harpy takes it personal and demands he try to out-perform her.

It doesn't work, though he does place a modest fifth. Terra comes in second to Sophie. The three members of Drakengard all perform at the same time for some bonus cash, and get handsomly rewarded. Then, a thundering noise echoes throughout the chamber....
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Sun Oct 27, 2019 5:06 pm
Xavier gained wings, Sophie some memories, Terra's sex was corrected. The deity gave out prizes. Terra and Xavier learned that they are related. Lexi is also of Xavier's bloodline. There's also Terra's parents, whom happen to be not far from them. After scaring away the bodyguard, they do away with them. They travel back to filwood, and see Pandora and Lissa, as well as the FnAle gone. Xavier gets a staff of Indignation. They attend a festival.
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Sun Feb 09, 2020 12:33 am
Fuck okay...

So the festival was interrupted by a tiefling ranger who had a skeleton horde problem.

Xavier used his staff to clear out a path. Everyone agrees that that was actually pretty awesome.

The source is revealed to be a necromancer, who revives someone buried in the catacombs under the manor they were in.

this lich, Sophie knew, was her abusive dad. So after wrecking the necromancer, she unleashed murder on her dad. Terra commends her for it and lets her work out her anger over the ashes. Sophie feels much better as a result, much the same way Terra had. They set torch to the manor, and after a pitstop back at town, go on to an elf village, following a map they found at Sophie's.

Along the way they meet Furred Tabaxi, Ren and Katthrine. Ren says that the Shadow clan sent him after Terra interrogates him, and that he picked Katt up for protection. They're permitted to join the group.

The group comes to the elf village, where the Ranger that had accompanied them told them she lived. This gains them access and they hang out for a couple of days, Xavier getting buddy buddy with the king for mayoral processes. Sophie and Terra perform in a theatre, and Sophie says it was thanks to Marianne that she was able to do it. The town loves her, so they convert. Marianne cheers.

the party then get on their way toward some mines. So far the most dangerous thing they've incountered is a chasm that does fucky things.
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Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:24 pm
That was immediately countered by a small green dragon As the party fights on, Sophie and Xavier focusing on digging up a diamond pile. Terra is having none of that shit, and she tosses ten coins at it with Animate objects. It shreds through it like a hot knife through butter. She then uses the All cancelling staff (which had turned into a pillow) to break a barrier in front of the party. The diamond pile turns out to be a legendary warhammer that Kat immediately takes for herself, calling it Tiffany. They attempt to smash the phylactery, which was guarded by the barrier, with Tiffany, but it doesn't work. After some digging in the room, they find a manuscript that tells them they need a special hammer. Terra grumbles and they find a secret passage right before the yawning chasm, and they go back to town and inquire where to find the hammer. As they get answers, the Dracolich himself appears and taunts the party, setting fire to the elf village. Xavier, in a move to distract, tosses the Inignation staff at the BBEG. It hits and obliterates a huge chunk of his shoulder. Luckly, the Church of Marriane is enormous, so she saves all her followers by teleporting them away, along with the party of course. They petition Tiara for aid, as they found out the hammer was on the volcano island. The selfsame one that the dracolich has parked his butt on.

Well the trip there was mostly uneventful, as the two newcomers were not taken in by Tiara's tricks. The journey the rest of the way however, was fraught with peril, and they had to use a skif to shield from the falling rocks. It was also hot as hell, literally. At one point they get across a rickety bridge via Alchoholic Flaming Jet wings with Drasa and Xavier. They do manage to enter a cave, and find Eizen's Man-o-war... with voices coming from it! A skeleton crew is there, having been cursed to remain forever, apparently by Eizen. Luckily, with Xavier still having a bit of Eizen's aura and the party namedropping Tiara, they are free to enter.

Terra wonders about where to find the hammer on this forsaken place, and one of the people point at a small mallet framed above the captain's quarters. It glows a soft orange, and an inscription on it confirms that it is the hammer they are looking for. Terra has an aneurysm as another skelecrew talks about how he won it in a game of poker. Presumably the same one he won Altissia from. As Terra is staring at the hammer and having a conniption fit, a loud roar dislodges some rocks, and a cannonblast from Tiara's ship causes a hole . The combined oomph shoots the party and their ship out, and Tiara happily takes helm once her ship docks in the other ship.

The party begin to make one final trek. With the Dracolich knowing what they are going to do, Terra wonders how it would be quickest to get back. Xavier offers to rocket jet them there, which would shorten the journey time significantly. For lack of better ideas, they do it... and Xavier wrecks the entire cart once they get there, having been unable to avoid a tree in time. Terra looks at the cart that she had haggled for something like a year and a half ago, briefly reflecting on her journey. She wordlessly gets up and picks up the bumper sticker that says Carved by Buzz the Woodsmith, and stores it in her bag. She gives no fucks and takes Xavier for insurance in case something else is there guarding it. Luckily, there wasn't, and as Terra smashes into the phylactery, basically the Titan summon from XV plays, destroying the phylactery completely. Sophie gets wrecked by some rocks , having been staring at the entrance. Terra warps them out.

"Now, we probably only have a limited amount of time to deal with that before he like, finds another or something, so do you think you could talk to your goddess and-" Before Terra can even finish the sentence, they are in front of their watery fortress they call a ship. "Well at least she's on our side."

The trip there is almost as uneventful, though Kat does try to go netfishing, though she only comes up with rocks. There's some minor stealing shenanigans from Lexi and Tiara. As they dock, Tiara wishes them well. The party begin the slow climb up. Ren doesn't fare too well during any of it, but Kat has her mate's back, pulling him up once and just missing the second time he falls. Xavier,who can fly and thus "doesn't need to worry about this bullshit", carries Ren by the tail the next time he falls. Zera falls once, but Drasa is right there, catching her and tossing her into a somehwat shallower path.

They get to the rim of the volcano. The Dracolich sees them, yet says nothing. It seems he's prepared to fight. Terra gives one last rousing speech, showing gratitude for her friends and newfound family. As she ends the speech, Sophie's feather necklace glows, and a corrupted looking Jay is there, thanking the party for bringing her here. She draws an ethereal dagger, intent on standing in their way. Sophie, who doesn't know who she is, hurts the shit out of her with her vampiric blade. Shen, who ALSO doesn't know who she is, Waylays into her with a special ninja tool, scorching her. She's already looking pretty bad. When she's about to point her crossbow, Terra holds up her guild pin.

"Jay. This is you. We journeyed together for like two weeks. We got to know each other and grow close. Come and end this with me." Power and light drain from the pin and the rest of the feather, restoring Jay to her full celestial form, though she's still nothing more than a ghost. Lexi dashes over to the dracolich, ready to attack. Xavier flies up, and the dracolich does as well, eyeing him. The armour tosses two needles at his foe, and it begins to slowly petrify his wing. Katt raises her hammer and unleashes the Light of Judgement. The dracolich recoils, then yells out in indignation. Terra brushes it off, having nothing to fear now. Jay and Xavier also brush it off. Zera seems frightened, and lets out a big yell of surprise which turns into the biggest thunderbolt she's ever let fly from her mouth. Ren tosses shuriken, and then another via his bird companion. Lexi says something in draconic and then tosses a pile of platinum. The dracolich lands to inspect it, having lost to his base nature.

"Keh heh heh. You don't think I could join in on the fun, do you?" A voice cackles around the arena, and descending from heaven, Eizen shows up, a bright halo around him. He drinks like his unlife depends on it and then picks up the cannonball that had dropped from the dracolich's snout. "By the way. You fuckin dropped this." He spins and YEETS it back on the snout, hurting it severly.

"Enough games! Everyone! Go!" Terra shouts, imbuing her coins and flinging it to the other members. Drasa and Kat Megaton punch and Baseball their coins, while Ren throws his like a shuriken.

Xavier flicks his coin up to Eizen, who kicks it and his with an expert, final cry of "KA KAW MOTHER FUCKER!" Jay shoots hers like a crossbow bolt, and Lexi runs up and slashes with hers. Zera shoots hers at the dracolich with another bolt of lightning, as Sophie splinters hers and launches the pieces via the cutting gale from her wings.

"For those we have lost, and those we can yet save! I liberate this world from you!" Terra says as she sends her coin over to its good eye, and then she shatters them all with magical power.

The dracolich lets out one final roar, still refusing to speak to the lowly mortals (and Xavier, Jay, and Eizen) that bested him, and drops, defeated. Xavier IMMEDIATELY makes sure that this flesh will never corrupt anything ever again by condemning it to fiery spidery consumption. As the party begin the climb down, they see Relk and Vivian, who had escaped the confines of her book apparently. She says that they wanted to help, but then shrugs, stabs Relk, and runs off before he could reabsorb her into the book. Relk heals himself and mutters.

Eizen goes to talk to Tiara, but she's already there with a cross. "Fuck you this is my ship now begone thot!" She writes, yeeting said cross at him and condemning him back to his own personal hell of heaven.

H'lal shows up then, and splits Zelda and Nera, and gives Tiara back her tongue. "Words cannot express how grateful I am toward you, adventurers. Your journey hath been a hard one, with many loses along they way. Yet you managed to overcome the trials and tribulations, and save the world. The journey has at least been exciting, and I hope you all learned something. You have my eternal gratitude for avoiding the Doomsday of the Dracolich.Thank you, and may your next adventures not be carried with the weight of the world."

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Buzz, the woodsmith- Buzz became filthy fucking rich due to the exposure that the legendary heroes gave him, and has stated more than once that the heroes are more than welcome to come back and get a new, even better wagon at any time.

Vivian. the Greedy Mercenary- Free from her binding, she stays where the cart had crashed to pick off anyone looking for a fat coinpurse. "Would you like to sign a contract with me?"

Tiara Qrowe, the Magnificent Mesmer- She sailed the seven seas until she found Altissia. "If you ever tell anyone I was nice to you I'll keelhaul you faster than Father ever could even think about doing it."

Relk Olcase, the Multi-talented Pastor- Relk went on to preach for Sophie's religion. "Calculating Trajectory. Yeet."

Jay, the Rogue Celestial- She became a constellation in the night sky. "N-nice Dragon?"

Pandy von Gesh/Qrowe- She became Nobearlity, always treated with the utmost respect and reverence. "The bear looks annoyed and irritated, though you get the feeling she's trying to hold back a smile."

Nera Tealeaf, the Motherly Thot- With the dracolich defeated, she decided to go back to the tower and begin to rebuild her order, training new would be paladins her ways. Some say she's got thousands of children roaming the land, and she'd agree, in that those she taught would keep her legacy alive. "I'm always down for a good adventure, be it in the world or, preferably, the sack."

Eizen Qrowe, the Dread Pirate- Whilst he did remain dead, a memorial was erected in both Filwood and Altissia. Tales are still being told of the fearsome pirate who, underneath the alcohol and scowling face, did have a soft spot for a very few select group of people. "KA KAW MOTHERFUCKER"

Xavier von Gesh, the [s]Peas[/s] Samurai king- After a celebratory party which the party all got drunk, he left them for Canaan, talking about how he would reclaim what was rightfully his whilst putting a stop to a certain evil tabaxi. Word of his reckless yet brave heroism spreads to this day, "For the good of all, I will not allow myself to die!"

Zelda Stormblood, the Unfortunately Subjugated- She decided to live out in Fillwood with Drasa for a time, being sure to avoid the hell out of Nera whenever she showed up to catch up. "For the love of my mother LET ME HAVE THE BRAINCELL!"

Drasa'kul (something), The Weary Pugilist- Settling down with Zelda after finally confessing, he spent his days in relative peace, training new members of the guard. "With due respect, I'm suicidal. Any plan's a good plan."

Sophia (something), The Longing Siren- With so many followers to Marriane, and more that kept coming due to her word being spread, Sophie decided to give in, and became the Archbishop of a new church, one that eventually found its way all across the nation. "DON'T TOUCH ME I'M BIG!"

Ren, the Shadow Stalker, and Kat, the Silent Bruiser- They decided to settle down in Fillwood as well, for a nice peaceful fishing life. "Kiss me my darling!"

Terra Delnos, The Tigress' Tongue- Terra went on to follow Xavier, as she also felt responsible for Canaan's situation. Being sure to spread word of the heroes of Drakengard along the way, always sure to keep herself unmentioned as to not draw attention. She stayed in contact with Sophie to the end. "I'm not a good person, but I do have good reasons."
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