Session 43

Date: 8/2/2015

Attending: Jake, Chris, Aaron, Dave, Justin, Joey

Absent: None

Start Time: 7:35 pm

End Time: 10:10 pm

XP awarded: 5,000

Game time elapsed:  110 days

Enemies Defeated:  Vespatius

Notes:

The Party, on the Shores of Night, explore the Arks. They are immense, and outfitted with giant ballista (Grigor sketches). They find evidence of significant attack, and inside are many dead orb creatures with eyestalks and a central eye. A large hole in the bulkhead has a giant skull that looks like it never had a body, instead having massive tentacles descending from where its spine and jaw would be. An attempt to speak with dead on the skull reveals nothing pertinent, and suggests that it had animal intelligence at best. The party finds a journal that mentions being followed and attacked by the Dominion, which is also fleeing whatever attacked the origin world of the Shard Peoples. Some of the Dominion forces were trapped and locked in the hold, which the party finds but chooses not to open.

Coming out and returning to the beach, the party sees Vespatius land on the shore, having returned from the void. He announces “I am the Herald of he who Returns.” The party attacks and after a hard fight, slays him. Connecting it with Osgood’s letter (see Communique #8) they realize that he was the Harbinger on the Shores of Night. The party rests up and heads back into the world.

Bajol summons his mount Zephyr, and rides ahead. He reaches the Sea Hero to find that more time has passed than the party thought, but Bartholomew has decided to wait longer than the original agreement in hopes they would return. When the rest of the Knights arrive a week later they learn it has been 24 days since they left the Sea Hero.

The sea Hero begins the long journey back, which for the most part mirrors the journey in. They row, and eventually the sky lightens, and the sun begins to rise and fall again. They hit the Storm Barrier, but do not encounter the Sea Lord. Ellicor had promised to speed their journey back, and they find that the normally western blowing winds are reversed, and the Sea Hero is able to return in the same time.

When they sight land, they realize that they have returned much farther north than they left. They sail for another week into the great northern bay, and dock in a port town in Norhall, a rough and lawless kingdom. It has been a total of 242 days since they sailed from Westport – almost 10 months. End Session