"The mind is a doorway...
...one that you can walk through if you wish."
Summaries from Nathan's interactive storytelling sessions (otherwise known as DnD)
"The mind is a doorway...
...one that you can walk through if you wish."
- while Allano, Leo, Kino, and Pendragon rest at Velka, Keyra and Go fly the Phoenix back to New Dragonsden
- they are picking up the rest of the group - when they get there Mags has brought back a small brown bear cub from the city - before they set off, two academics from the Academy come to the ship - they wish to join the crew - it is Pierre le Fleur and Jack Daniels. - also a crazy conspiracy theorist named Jones yells at the ship for half an hour, so Kage brings him on the ship to intimidate him - Jones isn’t intimidated - Kage is impressed, and allows him to stay - on the flight back Pierre reveals he is a Ritualist and the group get a a little wary of him - they all meet in Velka and convene - they talk about what to do next when someone knocks on the door - it is a man scarred with burns, and a zerkonite ax, and white short hair - it is the reaper(a famous mage hunter), he is looking for his son: Clint de Bullier - the group tells him the bad news - the Reaper gets emotional, and thanks Pendragon for being there to support his son, even if he couldn’t save him - the Reaper says that they can call on him at any time, and speeds away on his Kinetic Cycle - Pierre gives a speech about how Ritualism isn’t as spooky as people think - he also shows them a cool bullet project he was working on - the group is talking about the Weylanian broom closet, when Keyra rushes out of the room - they ask her what’s going on and she tells then the story - she was preparing to read the Fallden Mirror when suddenly the writing stopped appearing, and the page burned up - she sent word to one of her contacts in the Mirror, and she just got a signal that they had wrote back to her via Ritualgraph - they check the ritualgraph and apparently the great expedition found a new world - they landed and met(peacfully) with the natives, who massacred the explorers and destroyed a zeppelins - the remaining zeppelin(the Alweni one) is badly damaged, and has landed in the ocean - before the Fallden Mirror could print it, Inspectors rushed in and destroyed the page being written - the group decides to go on the Phoenix, and head towards Dragonsden - they see dozens of Battle Zeppelins congregating - they are stopped mid air by two zeppelins, and Inspector Clemaine boards - he interrogates Pendragon, and offers them a military contract for 50 marks per person - they agree and Go to meet the general - they arrive at the military complex, and are escorted to the panic room by Strafen - they meet with General Edmund Strafe who is pretty young(39), with a limp, black hair, and he is hunchbacked - he is looking over an illusion map of the new continent: Rüden - he answers a few questions, gives them their orders, assigns an officer to brief them, and resumes his work - basically there are two zeppelins already on their way to the surviving ship - they are on their way to repair it - The General wants the crew(named the Ashes) to meet up with them at the wreck(the Phoenix is very fast) - the Ashes gear up and head out - in a 36 hours they arrive at the wreck - they examine the remains of the crew and help get the ship in the air - Pierre does get on the bad side of Captain Huxely, commander in charge of this new world campaign - there is a war council, and they have been ordered to do some exploration - 30 battle zeppelins will be on their way(20 Alweni, 10 Sudari) from New Dragonsden in a month - the new continent: Rüden, is made up of giant fauna and flora - the natives do not make sound, can jump very far, and are almost snake-like - they use stone weapons, made out of an obsidian-like material known as Merkanite - one zeppelin explores the coast, while the other and the Phoenix will see how far up the massive trees go - it is a misty foggy evening, and the zeppelins and the Phoenix rise above the clouds to see the tree canopy - then they are attacked - despite being far from the trees, the natives jump hundreds of feet to the zeppelins - they can crawl the vertical smooth sides of the balloons - everyone takes heavy casualties - Keyra is slain in combat - the Ashes are badly wounded - Leo amplified by Jack saves the day - but Kage captured a native alive - the other zeppelin exploring the coast also got attacked - due to the brutal battle, the captain’s agree to wait for the rest of the fleet - when the fleet arrives an Inspector interrogates the captured Native(who didn’t eat the whole time) - the native responds to the hypnotism, but doesnt speak - Mags has the idea to infect him with Lungrot, and he is sent back to the forest - then the fleet moves across the coast(very far away) and gets to a huge mesa - a fort is set up called Fort Keyra, which is very effective against native attacks - the group gets their pay and heads back to New Dragonsden - when they arrive they see Shed giving a speech to a massive cheering crowd - she is running to be a senator Comments are closed.
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