Of blacksmiths and Slimeballs
Mood:  bright


Savik has asked us to keep an eye out for interesting materials
Seems starlight mithril can take on the properties of whatever it is forged with
He is most interested in Endurite .. the hardest substance known on leons world

But where to get some it is restricted and very expensive
Leon suggested Anna Gates as she would likely sell for the right price
As it turns out she sold for a very small price .. she has an ulterior motive methinks
But she would not trust leon with it so she came to Titan to watch

Savick crafted it into a starlight mithril blade and the results were amazing
The appearance of the blade changed as well as the strength

He and Anna had a bet as Savik said he could reforge it
And Anna said that was impossible
He has until the full moon

The Commission

Some odd people from Earth appeared claiming to be the true authority of earth
They are staying in the palace but no one trusts them
We realised that battle group perseus is on the jump point
Effectively preventing Admiral Hawke from reaching Earth
Whatever the commission is up to they do not want her at home
We may have to try and help with that

Next shadow mission

Sirrius has located the temple of the mind
And we are to be part of a team sent to clear it out before civilian archaeologists are sent
Before that we are to chose our codenames
I chose codex and Alex chose Razor

Alex joined the combat team and I was on dispel duty
As it turned out I kept their mage team busy with an illusionary force
We cleared out the Black lotus operatives and entered the temple

It was a huge galactic map with some systems glowing
And broken glass where the system magnus wiped out was supposed to be
So it was reactive
It seems the prison of the mind was a prison of minds in all creation

A small shiney blue shard caught my attention
Had never seen that colour before
After some thought I took it
It was one of the Event shards Christian had told us about
It showed me an event that had recently happened
Fabian cortez has figured out that collecting 1 colour shard can bring back the divine
He has decided to collect purple ones in order to forcibly resurrect his “boss”
Who will supposedly give him the power to kill an immortal
(he was playing with a heart)
This will mean mass murder as he can not see the colour before death
Jessie says he is more likely to want to resurrect the returned
A part of deacon less powerful but easier to control

Alex has a thory
Mood:  quizzical
General news

Zapielle is on his way but Loen says he is cautious
He will investigate and think before comming here

Clavel and savik both want to see us
Liams purge of the Cult of Krakken is going well
As is the work of the Earth Red Cross on the world

Wade Halloran is doing less well
He is a blantant Xenophobe and human supremacist
Which is not going down well in Imperiallis

Also the Earth organisation NAXO is filling the gaps left by the cult of Krakken

Shadow mission


Sirus Clavel wanted to see us about an odd assault
A man was assaulted by a youth who stabbed him with an invisible dagger
(1 guard saw a black shard being used)
The victim started to show signs of an imperfect control
As a lot of the other shard control victims are showing signs of breaking it

Alex came up with a theory that collecting large numbers of the shards of a single colour
Would wake some sort of consciousness of the divine it belonged too
If this is true it could be worrying as Tolan was not nice

We were to escort the man to Cawdor as he had a ticket and an inn booked there
We realised he was familiar with knife use on the train

The innkeeper named him as Lance Tyler
A little digging showed him to be VERY rich and influential
But surprisingly unknown
He owns a little bit of EVERYTHING
Including some armour being displayed at the Museum in Cawdor for the exhibition

We went and found him drawn to an exhibit of Tyrial Steelsongs sword and armour

In a private viewing along with Priotus, Lance began to use the sword in an elven fashion
Priotus said it looked like a Legion possession
He recognised that name and began to remember himself

Legion is an entity that was once an elven Prince .. the son of an elf lord and the goddess Shiva
Imortal and unkillable but cursed never to have a body of his own
He body hops and generally causes trouble

He left Lance Tylers body intact and unharmed and we helped him up
May be of use to be known to a man that powerful and secrative

Legion

Everyone though Legion was dead (including him)
Priotus said all they found were black shards in his cell
(the shards we thought were those of tolan)
In using these shards the cult of Krakken resurrected Legoin
And my is he pissed off with them for that

He left to find himself, to catch up with some old friends
and start settling the score

He did not hang around.
A mansion exploded in the distance and when we got there we “rescued” a cultist from death
In space he did the same on Ebons ship but with 1 surprising thing he killed a Terran
She came down to find out what was happening

He purged the Elven council of cultists and also the Royal council

Talking to Vermithrax we discovered that Legion is very powerful
He could destroy the universe but then he would be alone
And he does not want to be alone. He can not die so it would be dull

We may have found an enemy of our enemy

Jessie was granted access to the Shadow guild library
and after that and a visit to the Exhibition with Juan Cortez she headed off to find Legion
The chance to cronicle the life of such a creature was to good

Why Magnus Is Here
Mood:  sharp
Under the Order Of light

We dug down into an organic looking chamber
Sticky and with what sounded like a heartbeat
A dark and oppressive atmosphere

Atlantean technology
But we got down into the chamber

4 exits so we headed south

South

Into another hall of heroes
But one with no divines we recognised
(Jessie explained it later on)

Krakken was the armoured child and he was in the important position
With offerings of blood in his bowl

Rochon a rough statue

A bulky knight with offerings of meteoric iron
(Jessie said it was Odin)

A woman with an bird who was offered food
(unified fate )

And a Mage type that no one knows who he is just yet who was offered paper

West

Much better atmosphere
Seemed to be a dormitory for monks of some description
Very ornate lockers but simple beds

East

An amazing garden still growing and tended by a golem of some sort
A locked shed contained a 6 armed corpse and a diary
The diary was filled in quite recently

Whoever these people were they were fighting against a “him” who had come back first
And they were losing badly

North

This room was half collapsed with a big set of double doors that were welded shut

We opened them and heard sounds of combat and running water

The “water” turned out to be blood and it looked like our heartbeat was a pump
This whole place was an organic creature
A warped corruption of the stuff the shards are made form

The combat was a 6 armed creature fighting constantly respawning Balors
Alex jumped in while Leon closed the portals
Before the figure collapsed it called us “lords” and said they had failed

The last room here led to an statue of the woman who we had seen before
Gurading Alex
At the Keogh house And she bears a remarkable similarity to Gens features

We also found cocoons and a trapped injured 6 armed figure who showed us what had happened
Mordane had come and they, against their oaths, had decided to fight the dark one
They lost and Mordane freed the trapped entity
It was Cerrys

A brief fight ensued and she lost
Mordane was disappointed and promised her a champion to make it interesting
(That champion was young Sam now called Magnus)
She also started the creation of a new master race, that’s what was in the cocoons


We rescued the 2 sentinels (as they called themselves)
And made preparations to leave
When Magnus showed up

He said he could not allow us to leave
One of the sentinels hurt him though and my teleport ritual completed
We went to the palace hoping he would not follow

He did not but Garrin decided the time of the order of light was up
He sent us to help scout out the monastery

While we were doing that Magnus destroyed it and killed everyone in it
He said he had wanted to do it for a while
And was now being “allowed”
It seems the relationship between him and Cerrys is more complex than master/slave
We decided it was best not to push Magnus as he seemed to have some free will
But still follows her orders
And we are not sure what she or he want from us yet

The sentinels

They told us a little of the story
They were created by the “lords” to guard the bits of Cerrys

She was imprisoned in 3 bits and a divine dies to create each prison

Solvoun imprisoned her body and that was what Mordane freed
Rochon imprisoned her soul and that is what was freed at the house of Magnus

1 prison remains, that of her mind, the Lady sacrificed herself to make that one
We do not know who this lady is
But the prison is in the East

The sentinels were created to protect these prisons until the lords returned
They were created using the lanris
They debated for millennia and decided they would fight if it was Krakken who returned first
Which of course he did
And they tried and failed to stop him
But we did learn that all of Cerry’s creations have a back door this may be exploitable

In the flashback one of Mordanes daughters showed up and distracted him
May be worth finding out which one as that could be helpful
But it is a touchy subject with his daughters

In Space

The other Terran battle fleet has arrived
But is not doing anything
It is receiving powerful psychic communications from the planet though
Annas space station decloaked and gave Ebon access to the psychic monitoring system
Under the authority of no one knows who

Ebon also asked her brother Esteban to “talk” to Jean Paul to make him listen
As Earths defence fleet is missing

And Anna is almost finished the rites of fire on the basilisk isles
So Petra can retake her ship

Planet bound help


Alex and Gen decided to help the Fleet by tracking down the psychic on the planet
Leon mentioned a psychic he knew could help
But this psychic was imprisoned on Earth, good job the defence fleet is missing

We talked to the mayor who contacted Savage

Zaphialle is on his way, an Atlantean, powerful and Pauls brother too boot
In their last skirmish Zaph came out on top so he could help us greatly

Smoke And Posion
Mood:  a-ok
Next Shadow Mission

It seems the smoke order had an operative making a play for the child at the same time
He worked out a little of the plan

He had to be prevented from telling the order what he knew
As protection he hit a black legion guard and was in Titan jail

Hard to break into
But with a distraction from Leon and some memory loss poison from general Kass
We wiped the last week from the memories of Titan jail
Priotus was suspicious but the bacteria used was a natural one so he can not trace it

He is more interested in the “distraction”
Leon summoned a lot of balors and had them march on Titan

They then did a dance to a song called YMCA
Which the council now believes is a demon worshiping cult
(it was an earth organisation for helping young men apparently)

Leon made his demands of beer and peanuts

Smoke Order

We asked for a little info on the smoke order
They were a cult who believed in guiding hands
Entities behind some of the world’s greatest heroes who come time and time again
(Sounds like our little saboteurs)

The order was to watch for them and help them
The offshoot of the order of light believed they had to stop these guides
And managed to kill a few before they could influence events

Nowadays the order is just Tolywyn Grayhawkes rogue’s gallery
They have lost the mission

Talking to Ms Keogh it seems though that they never had it anyway
She says they have constantly failed to spot these “hands” even when they were right under their noses
But she did warn us to stay away from them as they could still endanger us
She would not say anymore (although I know she knows more)

Problems in Space

It seems the admiral has possibly 2 mutinies
One from her crew who do not understand why she has not invaded
And one from her government who want her replaced
Battle group Persaus has arrived under the command of their missing officer Paul

It has taken up position outside the system
Petra and Anna are on the planet but unavailable

Priotus offered to help the admiral .. better the devil you know

Dorothy

Jessie met a very odd person called Dorothy
Younger than she looks and came to Jessie for some “fun”
After a run in with fabian she decides not to come back
Intriguing

Magnus

Alex came up with a good point
Why is Magnus outside of imperiallis
Is there another temple under the monastery?
We should check it out

The histories say there were once ruins on the site
We shall start digging there

Fights and Illusions
Mood:  don't ask
Fight

It seems Priotus and Ms Doomfist had a fight
Priotus must have won as Ms Doomfist was very badly injured apparently
Then a riot broke out in Imperiallis between 2 sets of rival fans arguing over who won
Most of the military high command are now in the brig for taking part
This does mean however the League of heroes is heading for the capital
(Good as we have invited all of them to the function anyway)
Along with Vermithrax who everyone says would guarantee the King accepting

Second Shadow Mission

Was a clean up of mess caused by Gage Ohlsfords lack of discretion
He was meant to kill a shapeshifting alien without the townsfolk knowing that it was an alien
He failed and the CSA did an info drop proving that it was an alien

We had to clean up the mess .. find the documents and make them believe they saw something else

Enter the illusionist
We set up a fight with another of these creatures
Alex played the hero
And we played up the Demon angle

We substituted the documents for Demon ones
And leon played a learned Scholar who confirmed it was a Demon
And basically blames Gage for it all
That should amuse the queen at least

The Function

Our official entry into society

Leon arranged it all
Even getting us a mansion to hold it in

The function went well apart from an attack by Stan of all people
Seems the collected league of heroes was too much of a temptation
He trashed the mansion a but leon said Lord Fargo would not mind

Had some time with lanris
And Alex and Garrin seem to be getting on quite nicely too

Lady Swift made an appearance without her husband
But let early
Probably to go and kill someone
Not sure if I can reconcile this with what is “good” for Imperiallis

Surprise Visit

I had a visit from Ms Halloran last night
She came with some advice and info

Her bandit tally almost equals Raptors
She says she does this wherever she settles to make the area safer for her
She knows it also helps the ordinary people but that’s not here primary reason

Raptor choosing only bandits is a conscious choice and the only reasonable one for her
The urge to kill and maim is something she can’t change
So only bandits and only 200 is a minor miracle apparently

Jessie says that does not make it any more right
But it is the least wrong she has ever known raptor to do
And her value as an ally against Fabian is worth a little sacrifice
She also said that her worth as a person was also worth this but I did not understand that

She said Leon was right
But he could have put it better
She said everyone deserves 1 shot at redemption
Even Leon (and I am beginning to realise that Leon may have a lot to redeem himself for )

Made me feel a little better that someone else fells like this
Knowing it is wrong but having to let it go for the greater good

Strife
Mood:  blue
More Visitors

An earth general called Mcallister visited the court and made a huge show of supporting us against the commonwealth .. but according to Leon the Vanguard are their worlds Thraxians so what he is up to no-one knows

Ms Doomfist is up to something and it involves space hopefully it is not selling weapons to the aliens up there

Shadow guild

It seems the incident with the bandits and Sirius Clavel was a test
To see if we were capable of joining the Royal arm of the Shadow Guild
Sirius is the head spymaster and an Illusionist of great skill
The setup was an illusion

We passed the test and were asked to join
We did for the good of Imperiallis

Our first mission was a biggie

Imperiallis’s throne has to have a successor to remain valid
Problem being the Queen can not stand men (understandable)
Further complicating matters is the fact that the king DOES like men

Making the rumours of the Queens pregnancy just that

They had a plan to take the last Scion of the 5 kingdoms
A northern state who greatly influenced King Fenix 1 when he was forming Imperiallis

The plan was to take this orphan and have it raised as the heir to the throne
But for this to happen it had to be gotten quietly

Our part was bringing the child to Imperiallis from Titan
And we succeded in that
There were complications but they were nothing to do with us and were settled quickly


Harpies

Reports had been coming in about harpy activity
And a strange clampdown from the palace led us to believe the harpy was “lady Swift” known on her world as Raptor who eats flesh in a similar way

We had to find out
Wish we had not

She has killed and mutilated over 200 people since arriving here
Leon says that is a drop in the ocean to what she used to do
And that they were all just bandits who deserved it

But they were people
And she ate them

The queen fully knows and condones this slaughter too
Its hard to take

And we had already planned out first function
In order to get closer too her to help in our battles with Fabian
How much help can a monster like that be ?

Clean mission and the Party
Cleanse

A simple cleanse mission from the king
A band of bandits had taken over the steel foundry on the outskirts of Imperiallis .. a major embarasment for the Military

So we were called in to clean it out before the military strike team

Mission acomplished
Alex really seemed to enjoy it
she has been itching for a good fight

Killed the fire mage and got our reward

The Party

We made the introductions to Lady Swift
Her and the queen seem to be very close (yes in that way)

We also met Garrins father .. turns out Garrins mother was Elven
and it did not end well but she is still alive
living in the forrest
He seemed quite taken with Alex luckily

Alex and Garrin spent the night together :)
Hope everything went well

Disturbing Developments
Mood:  sad
After helping the lord general get some sleep

Gen met a young kid who it became clear was the part of Krakken that has been reborn into the world

He sent an assasin after Lanris
but the assasin failed (or was not actually ordered to kill Lanris)

Cass Keogh had promised not to let Lanris out of her sight
she saved Lanris

However it was the Earth assasin Sho
and Krakken had basically told us where to find him ???

we headed to the school and engaged him
his photographic reflexes were a pain in the behind
but he was not opperating at full power due to being puppeted

however close to defeat he pulled some kind of disappearing act
and got away GRRRR

Alex then came up with a plan to farcast him back home and The primeminister and the Admiral were working on those details when we left

We have a ball to prepare for
Jessie suggested a book of Kyotan poetry as a gift for Lady Swift

Forrest blues
Mood:  blue
The trip to the forrest went badly

Master ranger Shae told us she would contact Ares and ask him to meet us
But would not tell us where he is

Leon took this badly and started to act very childishly
Which got him shot many time
Nothing dangerous just a little lesson from the Elves

i have never seen this side of Leon before and its dangerous
If he gets killed and sent home
He will not be allowed to come back and we lose not only an ally
but a friend

I did however visit the Redfern glade
Priotus mentioned that respects were in order if i was to start crafting the redfern rune

Semms faeries do not as such die
not having souls when their body dies their life force returns to the forrest glade they were born in and ramins there till it is reborn

It retains a little of the personality that it had in life
so some part of Aspin still remains

Charming lady she had a look and then not in words but emotion
gave me permission to craft the Redfern rune

It is a moment that will stay with me forever

lanris

My first crafting of the rune is for her
to protect her against the darkness
not that she needs it , the garison has taken a shine to her. seems she can cook really well and they like that

her training is progressing but its hard
Being blind from birth she has no idea what things are supposed
to look like
so teaching her how to create is difficult but Cass is managing
And we managed to steal some time alone :)

Sunken Fortress
Mood:  incredulous
The sunken fortress Under Ashford is the remains of the Dwarven Capital
Before they were wiped out and Cursed for eternity
The curse has been lifted and archaeologists have started in the city
We were interested in what was below the city

We had a ratman trap masters help and discovered a bunch of mercenaries also there
The mercenaries died very nastily
Something was guarding the ruins below

We went anyway and got a big surprise
White Atlanteans all women all very psychic

Not at all sure what they were but they seemed ok with us looking around
They even helped us find the main buildings

The castle from the Dream
We headed for the library and I took the book I was reading in the dream
Hopefully Jessie can translate it

Alex checked out “her” room and found a load of broken weapons
Not sure what that means either
but we were later told to find someone called Ares to help with that
so a trip to the forrest is in order (Ares served with master ranger Shae)

We followed the power source readings and when we got to the tower
We triggered an illusion of some sort
We were back as Greive and reich

And the story jumped back a little
To the night of Brekkens release
Tolan ordered us to deal with “her” new creations
Created by her use of the Lanris
And Rochon told us to play along as his plan was coming to fruition

So we went and found her creations
The Atlantean forerunners, all female and all white
We convinced them to help and went back to Rochon
He mentioned Greives little rabble rouser Solvoun but not much came of that

A bit of deduction also led to Ceres being the creator of the 0110 race
As the Atlanteans were designed to kill the 0110 who had rebelled
Then the Atlanteans rebelled
So Ceres created a new ultimate race
We don’t know what that one is yet

But it seems the women bred with first the divines then other races that followed
And gave birth to more than 1 race
The Atleanteans on leons world for 1

It got a little confusing for us as we have seen this scene from different angles
But the saboteurs could have lived the lives of more than 1 divine
As they have lived countless lives over the Eons

Needs more investigating