A fight for survival
Parting ways with Althalus the party finds itself further up the mountain but no closer to their goal. As daylight slips away and the atmosphere becomes more difficult to breathe a strange noise catches the parties attention…
DM: “Cast in silhouette by the burning sky of a setting sun. A Creature unlike anything you’ve seen before approaches… it’s burning eyes all that’s visible within the creatures outline.”
Fight: The Nevajin appears
Difficulty: 4 (12)
Health:
Head (10)
Body (30)
The point of this fight is to push the players and burn through as many pools as possible and end the scenario once all the players have at least one pool pushing them into an impaired. To that end it might be worth speeding up the process with an AoE cypher that generates an inertia bubble or life drain, or intelligence drain. It might be worth spawning another creature but the encounters got to be fun rather than oppressive.
A Night in the cave
The part finally arrive at the entrance… accension is just beyond the next door…
DM:“Your trek up the mountain has ended. Before you lies the cave entrance exactly how it appeared in your vision. The stone arch a dull orange with engraved black ‘ADBADBDADABADCDABDBADBAADCDBDABDBABDADCDBABBDBBBDAABDABADCDAABADAADABADAAADBDCDAAADBDADABBADCDBDBBBDABBDABDABADBAADAAADCDABDAAADBABADADBADAAADAADBBBDBA’”
Althalus greets the players
DM: “”
Visions
DM: “After the trials of your journey here, the easy atmosphere of the ascension chamber and the dancing fire obscure the change in environment. You find yourself surrounded by darkness”
Players describe how their “matrix” self looks
Althalus no longer appears to be with you, around the fire there’s just two books. They look identical but for the embossed symbols upon them. ***Possible DM Intrusion as the book of chaos must be touched***
Book of Life: The group have a vision of a goddess. DM “Gravity vanishes and you fall into the sky, you keep falling, further and faster, the universe around you vanishes away under your feet. Before long you stand in black before the face of a god! She is infinite, she is life, she is ordered existence. For a brief moment you feel seen, filled to your very souls and upon your skin glows a pair of green eyes. As you look back up from the tattoo only the slowly flicker flames of the campfire can be found in the black…”
Book of Chaos: The group have a vision of the end. DM “As you sit taking in the natural beauty around you. the air fractures, gravity goes mad, increasing and decreasing randomly. Before you stands a mechanical deer, the glowing embers of the fracture behind it robbing you of all though as you die silently screaming into the void. As your vision goes black other images flash through your mind. A giant spaceship laying waste to a city… people of different races impaled on spikes… an army of robots killing all that off resistance and dragging off those who do not. Your eyes fall upon the fire once more…”
Ghend
DM: “As the final vision fades a blue eyed gentleman is sat before you. Welcome! My name is Ghend, I need your help to change the world…”
DM – Notes
Suggested Intrusions