#silvanus/notes

04 - 09.18.2023 - Timberfall 5: Freefall

Last Session

• Time loop 4 happens, we figure out what's going on and we confront the Mage about it and then we somehow come up with a plan to try to save everyone and release everyone from the time loop

Timberfall

Relevant Characters: картошка | Silvanus | Nessa | The Mage

• We need a way to know when the island is 10 ft above the ground
• Use sending stones, send someone above the island to see when and then tell them
• Mage returns to the town square in order to tell the citizens that they need to strap in and whatnot
• 3 of us dragged along
• The crowd is bemused
• "We'll be entering freefall, do not panic, get into a bldg and tie urself down"
• "Our buildings are pretty stable"
  • Are they?
  • Mage says: "if doubt structural integrity of building, go to city hall instead"
• Nessa has one sending stone, I have the other
• Mage: I might pass out, so both of u guys put one arm in the tree, u need to control the tree
  • One arm each
• Mage attaches to the rose
• Blinded by flash of light, then loud crack
• Floating now in 0G
• 2 letters fall off so the sign says "Welcome to Timefall"
• The mage collapses the tree spits him out
• The tree is angy

Round 1: (at the end of the 5th round you will hit the ground)

• Kartoshka: Casts Levitate on himself
• The tree is avoiding us now, so we need to levitate to the ceiling of the atrium to get to it
• I lasso rope at Kartoshka, Kartoshka grabs the rope
• I tie rope around myself
• The Tree: sees K. as closest threat, attack him with spikes, nat 1, attempts to leaf storm Kartoshka
  • Glowing a slightly better red than before
• Nessa: Are you still there?
  • "We're doin great"
  • "Good luck"
• Kartoshka: Mold Earth to pull up the ground, because every action has its equal reaction, so if you pull up a mound of earth, you will push yourself down so you won't get smushed
• Me: I climb up the rope towards Kartoshka and grab his leg
  • I do Dodge action
• 120 feet from the ceiling
• The Tree: attempt to surround us in a tangle of roots
  • I matrix dodge them
  • Kartoshka: just doesn't hit
• Round 3
• 90 feet
• The tree is pulsing brighter red
• Kartoshka: Mold Earth woot
• Me: ready action to lasso a root, push laterally off root to end up under the other root
• 45 feet
• Increasingly bright pulses, explosion up above, we were not in range
• The Tree: shoots crimson lightning, I take -14 dmg
• Round 4
• Nessa: "We'll have about 12 seconds before we hit the ground"
• Kartoshka: lassos root to put hand in
• Me: lassos root
• Tree: lighting, it misses
• Round 5
• Nessa: Somewhat panicked "you have to do it now"
• The mage's body is sparking red electricity, his eyes fly open, starts little fires on the roots
  • Sole witnesses to his atrocities, so wants us to die
• Kartoshka: stick hand into tree, see island pulse in out of existence
• Me: I stick hand into tree, tree simultaneously wants you out and also wants your lifeblood
  • Trying to hang onto energy
  • The island just stops, and then begin slowly falling again
  • We have blinked back in time
• The Mage: looks up, smiles, "you fool"
  • shoots Kartoshka with a lightning bolt
• The Tree: no action(?)
• Round 6
• We crash into the ground, we are resistant to the earthquake
• The Mage takes damage
• Spikes
  • 3d6 dealt, heals 1/3 of dmg dealt
• Lightning
  • 4d8 damage
• Root Tangle
  • 3d6 damage, makes him prone/trapped
• Explosion
  • 5d8 damage, push target away, 1d12 self-damage
• Nessa: she's okay but can't get to us
• Kartoshka: Root Tangle
  • He is prone on the ground, 8 dmg
• Me: Lightning, -20 dmg
• The mage is worn down
• The Mage: explodes in a burst of flames
  • Flies 30 feet upwards
• Kartoshka and I hit with spikes together, in a nice little square so he can't dodge it, peppered with spikes
• The Mage: lightning beam at me, -22 damage, flies 30 feet upward (60 ft from us)
• Kartoshka and I: pull him closer with root tangle, and then exploded
• He dimension doors away the piece of shit

Post-Combat

• I will myself from the tree, feel its dying
• Pulses of scarlet red light grow more erratic and land on the ground
• Walk out of tree, some of the bldgs were ripped up and then plummeted down
• Make it to entrance, see rope attached to tree
• Look over edge, see Nessa hanging by rope
• K. levitates her up
• It's chaos
• Find MAMCAT: for the first time in decades i wanna drink
  • Wait I want to drink?
  • Looks at tree and goes "oh shit"
  • The rose is wilted
• Landed on a forest
• Nessa asks how we got here: fire breathing potions and stuff
• Nessa is a mermaid, has boots that create portable water to swim in
• Sees balloon flying above you
• Andrea: I FOUND YOU GUYS OH MY GOD
• She lowers a ladder
  • What happened to Nessa?
  • Nessa: I saw this island in the sky, I arrive, I see a hole in the ground, in the air there's a pitch black island, except once every hour it flashes, and I decide to go in and what could go wrong and bam I'm stuck
  • Explain what happened to Andrea
• Return to Katal
• Andrea: We've successfully investigated 2 of the 3 major disappearing cities
  • The third one is not even a city, it's paradoxically a..
  • This information is not for anybody, we'd all be executed
  • Unlocks a safe in a safe in a box with a ritual and whatnot
  • 45 steps later, she pulls out an ancient looking map
  • See bizarre, see one specific square which has been bleached out by a person, very faintly see the words "Military Base" very faintly
  • Weird square in the ocean, feel like I've been to this place before (this or last life? I dunno)
  • This seems to be what we're dealing with, there was or still is a Ke'ath military base in this location
  • Even figuring out this is a disappeared town was hard because by necessity we don't know about this
  • Don't ask how we found it
  • K. grimaces
  • The last of the major disappearances we need to investigate