So in my campaign time, the Mad Emperor who ended the third empire with civil war 70 years ago has finally been killed. He went from a royal line squire in the royal guard to a crusader hero killing mutants on the frontier of Chagrinspire. Killing him has been on to do lists of adventurers for about 12 years.
The Party gave up exploring the very distracting pit imprisoning slime gods (Bottomless pit of Zorth on drivethrough). They had avoided it, but recently a gnome gave them a flying carpet to kill two wizards spreading cartridge ammo to the modern world, who use mostly muskets. They did fly around their new domains of their kingdom a bit and that's where they saw the pit they had been avoiding for a year or so. So they quit and went to get the Bishop to join them to finish the mission.
With a 10-foot-tall giant King Nebos, the Bishop with his chrome sphere helmet, the Man With No Name and his best rat gal pal Sonya departed with a tight fit on the magic carpet. Nobody noticed it has some flourishes of behaviour.
The team mostlt outfitted for stealth and detection. After 24 24-hour flight, they reached the tiny castle on a peak on the Emperor's estate. The wizards were working on new arms and armour. The party with the silence spell flew around the windows and saw the emperor's guard with plates and halberds on the ground floor. Middfloors had the torary planers. On the top floor, they found two maids in servant rooms adjacent to the Emperor's bedroom in this private retreat. They saw the wizards in a lab working on guns, and they were not really making cartridges, but instead had revolvers and multi-barreled volley guns and bullet-resistant armour. There was a restful garden next to the emperor, two stairs down, stairs to the roof anda final room with Astrological images and magic circles on the floor. The Bishop was concerned that they were to summon monsters or aid.
The giant king bent the window bars and the bishop and the nameless one sneaked inside. He climbed up the walls with magic and went to spy on the wizards carrying a rock with a silence spell on it. The Bishop studied the occult sigils while King Nebos unbolted the roof access door.
The nameless man dropped from the ceiling, stabbing the wizar,d and nobody saw anything or heard much. The lesser wizard stepped away and used a lightning bolt; the greater bleeding wizard cast a spell to send a message of help. The giant heard the lightning and peeked at the battle and signalled the Bishop. One of the circles, a teleporter disk, crackled and the feaking Emperor arrived. Near seven feet tall in his ornate imperial armour and glowing. He branded them as heretics and commanded them to join him. The bishop called fire from heaven, and the giant attacked. The Emperor backed off, drank a potion and threw three lightning bolts. The Bishop dispelled the teleporter magic, stopping the Emperor's retreat and high-level followers' arrival. The nameless man manages to finish the greater wizard and Rat Sonya on the flying carpet, throwing her javelins, killing the last wizard. He grabbed spell books and started a fire.
The giant king had to hold off guards in the stairwell and returned to the Emperor, who was fighting the priest. Most of the party were one-hit to death. Rat Sonya saved the day, drawing the emperor's fire and people discovered she actually had over 90hp all along for a 7-foot-tall rat javelin skirmisher. She flew outside and hit the emperor again. He stepped back into cover to have the invisible man with no name run him through. The Bishop healed Nebos, who held back fresh 5th-level guards, which he was very good at. The nameless man sawed off the emperor's head, and they began to debate what to grab and do in a burning, explosive building. So the nameless man rescued the maids from their rooms, and they piled the body on the carpet so he couldn't be brought back to life. The Bishop had a solution. Rolled the body up in a carpet and cart word of recall and returned to the high cathedral in his homeland's city.
The others, now on a 50% overburdened carpet, were slow and wasted speed on keeping altitude. They reached a good height and fled home. But they could see the capital city of Lamnutainia, the Emperor's city. They also saw a dark shape arise in the river that flowed from Chagrinspire. It fired volleys of incendiary rockets, creating a firestorm, destroying their fleet and harbour.
On the way home upriver and resting, they saw armies of frog and fish folk marching down the river like a highway. By the time they got home, they heard that mutant chaos warbands and undead crusaders from Chagrinspire were pouring over the border to wreck the empire. Rumours said dark clouds dropped flaming devices on other towns, crippling the last remaining state of the once continental empire.
The Bishop met the Archbishop, and the Nation of Light Templars decided now was the time to liberate the Emperor's domain from heresy. The Bishop presented evidence that a false sun cult had corrupted the emperor. The Emperor's items were mostly evil, but they gave his +3 plate to the Bishop.
Meanwhile, the B-team of the party's best followers had taken over the False Sun cult Outpost in the Chagrinspire wastes, allowing the Eastern domains of the adventurers to now all be linked by underground rail.
Almost 2 weeks later, the chaos in the former Empire was over, and the Light Templars were in control. There was talk of appointing a new archbishop and then a king. Nobody wanted a new Emperor.
The Archbishop returned with the Bishop to crown him in the foundations of the new cathedral. He also crowned King Nebos. Publicly, the story was that Nebos killed the Emperor in single combat. He left 100 Templars to help on the Cathedral and the defence of the new gateway kingdom.
The Gnome agent of the Black sphere (wink wink) came to reward them with magic items. A staff of healing and a wisdom boosting book for the bishop, a titan maul for digging in rock for the Giant King and a couple of wands (magic missile and polymorph) for the man with no name. They now controlled 9 hexes. I let them level up to 11. We had plenty of time, but players were happy to work more on planning and domain stuff after this. Now they have continental-wide fame. He explained that the dark sun cult wants eternal bondage of darkness. Which the Gnomes of the Black Sphere oppose, instead offering the sweet release of eternal nonexistence. Obviously, players are troubled about their success in helping the Black Sphere plans that coincided with their own plans so far. They are unsure if freeing slime gods is a good or bad thing. Killing the slavers' global network, they were fine with. The gnome contact left. He always implies he serves other gnome factions within the Black sphere.
Arsh, the dog man druid (absent) generally less tolerant than the rest of the party when it comes to allies. He has been exploring elemental templar lands and checking out the dragon templars he has discovered. All remnants of prehistoric factions who have not done much since the apocalypse war a thousand years ago, when the world attacked Chagrinspire for a millennium. The non-faction merchant gnomes of the Alchemist town have moved to the player's territory.
The Emperor's high-level warrior followers (one is 18th lv) all swore vengeance.
The Party gave up exploring the very distracting pit imprisoning slime gods (Bottomless pit of Zorth on drivethrough). They had avoided it, but recently a gnome gave them a flying carpet to kill two wizards spreading cartridge ammo to the modern world, who use mostly muskets. They did fly around their new domains of their kingdom a bit and that's where they saw the pit they had been avoiding for a year or so. So they quit and went to get the Bishop to join them to finish the mission.
With a 10-foot-tall giant King Nebos, the Bishop with his chrome sphere helmet, the Man With No Name and his best rat gal pal Sonya departed with a tight fit on the magic carpet. Nobody noticed it has some flourishes of behaviour.
The team mostlt outfitted for stealth and detection. After 24 24-hour flight, they reached the tiny castle on a peak on the Emperor's estate. The wizards were working on new arms and armour. The party with the silence spell flew around the windows and saw the emperor's guard with plates and halberds on the ground floor. Middfloors had the torary planers. On the top floor, they found two maids in servant rooms adjacent to the Emperor's bedroom in this private retreat. They saw the wizards in a lab working on guns, and they were not really making cartridges, but instead had revolvers and multi-barreled volley guns and bullet-resistant armour. There was a restful garden next to the emperor, two stairs down, stairs to the roof anda final room with Astrological images and magic circles on the floor. The Bishop was concerned that they were to summon monsters or aid.
The giant king bent the window bars and the bishop and the nameless one sneaked inside. He climbed up the walls with magic and went to spy on the wizards carrying a rock with a silence spell on it. The Bishop studied the occult sigils while King Nebos unbolted the roof access door.
The nameless man dropped from the ceiling, stabbing the wizar,d and nobody saw anything or heard much. The lesser wizard stepped away and used a lightning bolt; the greater bleeding wizard cast a spell to send a message of help. The giant heard the lightning and peeked at the battle and signalled the Bishop. One of the circles, a teleporter disk, crackled and the feaking Emperor arrived. Near seven feet tall in his ornate imperial armour and glowing. He branded them as heretics and commanded them to join him. The bishop called fire from heaven, and the giant attacked. The Emperor backed off, drank a potion and threw three lightning bolts. The Bishop dispelled the teleporter magic, stopping the Emperor's retreat and high-level followers' arrival. The nameless man manages to finish the greater wizard and Rat Sonya on the flying carpet, throwing her javelins, killing the last wizard. He grabbed spell books and started a fire.
The giant king had to hold off guards in the stairwell and returned to the Emperor, who was fighting the priest. Most of the party were one-hit to death. Rat Sonya saved the day, drawing the emperor's fire and people discovered she actually had over 90hp all along for a 7-foot-tall rat javelin skirmisher. She flew outside and hit the emperor again. He stepped back into cover to have the invisible man with no name run him through. The Bishop healed Nebos, who held back fresh 5th-level guards, which he was very good at. The nameless man sawed off the emperor's head, and they began to debate what to grab and do in a burning, explosive building. So the nameless man rescued the maids from their rooms, and they piled the body on the carpet so he couldn't be brought back to life. The Bishop had a solution. Rolled the body up in a carpet and cart word of recall and returned to the high cathedral in his homeland's city.
The others, now on a 50% overburdened carpet, were slow and wasted speed on keeping altitude. They reached a good height and fled home. But they could see the capital city of Lamnutainia, the Emperor's city. They also saw a dark shape arise in the river that flowed from Chagrinspire. It fired volleys of incendiary rockets, creating a firestorm, destroying their fleet and harbour.
On the way home upriver and resting, they saw armies of frog and fish folk marching down the river like a highway. By the time they got home, they heard that mutant chaos warbands and undead crusaders from Chagrinspire were pouring over the border to wreck the empire. Rumours said dark clouds dropped flaming devices on other towns, crippling the last remaining state of the once continental empire.
The Bishop met the Archbishop, and the Nation of Light Templars decided now was the time to liberate the Emperor's domain from heresy. The Bishop presented evidence that a false sun cult had corrupted the emperor. The Emperor's items were mostly evil, but they gave his +3 plate to the Bishop.
Meanwhile, the B-team of the party's best followers had taken over the False Sun cult Outpost in the Chagrinspire wastes, allowing the Eastern domains of the adventurers to now all be linked by underground rail.
Almost 2 weeks later, the chaos in the former Empire was over, and the Light Templars were in control. There was talk of appointing a new archbishop and then a king. Nobody wanted a new Emperor.
The Archbishop returned with the Bishop to crown him in the foundations of the new cathedral. He also crowned King Nebos. Publicly, the story was that Nebos killed the Emperor in single combat. He left 100 Templars to help on the Cathedral and the defence of the new gateway kingdom.
The Gnome agent of the Black sphere (wink wink) came to reward them with magic items. A staff of healing and a wisdom boosting book for the bishop, a titan maul for digging in rock for the Giant King and a couple of wands (magic missile and polymorph) for the man with no name. They now controlled 9 hexes. I let them level up to 11. We had plenty of time, but players were happy to work more on planning and domain stuff after this. Now they have continental-wide fame. He explained that the dark sun cult wants eternal bondage of darkness. Which the Gnomes of the Black Sphere oppose, instead offering the sweet release of eternal nonexistence. Obviously, players are troubled about their success in helping the Black Sphere plans that coincided with their own plans so far. They are unsure if freeing slime gods is a good or bad thing. Killing the slavers' global network, they were fine with. The gnome contact left. He always implies he serves other gnome factions within the Black sphere.
Arsh, the dog man druid (absent) generally less tolerant than the rest of the party when it comes to allies. He has been exploring elemental templar lands and checking out the dragon templars he has discovered. All remnants of prehistoric factions who have not done much since the apocalypse war a thousand years ago, when the world attacked Chagrinspire for a millennium. The non-faction merchant gnomes of the Alchemist town have moved to the player's territory.
The Emperor's high-level warrior followers (one is 18th lv) all swore vengeance.
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