Chapter 3, Part IV: Nothing is Redacted Here

Rix

   Written by MC

Pieces of Solana are vulnerable with Blessed around? Unsure? Raveth doesn't have her powers any more.

ORC want the pieces of the dead god--for unleashing Solana or for personal gain/more power?

Raveth's favorite sibling was Lysandra?

Warden would go to meetings and give visions to the Keepers of Destiny. Wiltspar established by the High Keepers fairly early on to protect the manage of the world. Aurifer built it. Warden disappeared after the tree/Wiltspar town was established.

Who created the High Keepers? Maybe the Warden? Brio created the Warden. Brio also created all the other gods, at the same time as Fynali.

First High Keeper to leave was Aurifar, then Thanastra went together to Wiltspar. Lysandra after that. Then Raveth/Tali.

Fayble. Nicest dock we've ever seen.

Chauncey is so excited to see us. The Wiltspar created a golden leaf. He's only ever seen it once or twice ever. It's ready to choose a new Guardian. We haven't had one in hundreds of years.

Louie lit up the leaf!! And then remembered somebody handing out food to the homeless in the merchant's ward. Giant coliseum? Teardrops on a photo. Maybe it's not Louie's mom after all.

Leaf bursts when she touches it. Everyone is fully functional, most healthy, ready to do anything. Louie's mom is glowing. Her hair spikes up. Good smells. Delilah is now a guardian of the Wiltspar. She has a special ability. She can cook for the whole town now and make everyone healthy once every two weeks.

Okay, we're back in Fayble and at the AGI. Only the concierge is here. Jodie this time. Creepy crypt noises. Barely getting paid though. Ridiculous.

Ford picks up the necklace and destroys the skeleton. Justin tries to understand and it hurts his brain.

We go into the next room, and Rix casts light on another sigil. An altar appears, with an orb of light pointing down onto a bowl. Bowl seems to be attached to the altar. It looks like an offering bowl.

Next room is small stone room that has a gold chest. Chest has a small glow of transmutation magic from within the chest. Mage hand tries to open but fails. Eldritch blasts destroys the whole chest. Perfectly round red stone.

Red stone does nothing in the bowl.

Next room, where there is another sigil to light up, and a skeleton that is kind of a statue.

More skeletons statues, and when Theo lights them up, they are in three different stances. Everybody matches the statues and then the crypt opens and there is a scroll inside. Ichor. Yuck.

Here comes the groaning. Purple and green phlegm monsters.

We're back to the altar room. Dancing lights in the bowl. Sudden, sharp noise, broken and loud. 50 silver pieces, which Theo pockets. In the light, red ball turns into a regular stone.

We break a statue's face.

Backpack. Shield. One broken medallion. Broken orb. Shortsword.

Pouch with 20 gold. Health Potion. Mana Potion. Arcane recovery, Sorcery Points, or one spent feature.

Louie is thinking about the bowl and the chest and the rock. Lure us to do something?

Rix is not proficient with shields. Sad. Repulsion Shield goes to Party Inventory.

We're gonna go check out the chest again.

Uh oh.

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Ziri was taking a nap and now he's walking out of the room. Everybody's freaking out, and Louie is threatening priests. Brio doesn't have a temple anymore in Fayble. We need to blow it up, probably. Ziri is on board for blowing it up.

Back to Wiltspar, talking to Aurifar. He doesn't seem like he's helping at alll.

But he does tell us to go to the ruins in the desert, and Jonas helps us fly there. Ziri and Ford have been before so we remember.

Louie is using Titan's Aid. Something is happening!!!!!

Louie has spectral claws--actually, everybody. Claws pulling them away. And then we're back on the Moonlight Express.

Gnome woman yelling at us. These must be the Titans that run the boat. They touch hands, and the astral sea fills up with light, and the world spins and twists. The sea is moving backwards.

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And then we all black out, and find ourselves back in the basement of the Brio temple. ▓Rix is back!!▓!!!!▓ Trixie says, DO NOT FUCK UP AGAIN.

"Ziri's all right." Ouch.

Btw the monsters that were down there are monsters that have never been seen before.

▓Maybe the scary god eater ▓only works on us Blessed?▓

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Louie Dahlia

    Written by Sean

Dunno what it is with us and AGI quests but, they always seem to go tits up in the most spectacular way. You hear about strange noises from the crypt of an old temple and you think something logical like ghosts or undead. Nope, fuckin' crazy ooze monsters that just explode when they feel like it. Oxford got his shit kicked in, I even came close to a dirt nap but we managed.

We weren't satisfied cuz we never are and continued to look around the abandoned parts of the temple to find a source or at least more information but, there was none. What we did find was a room, a room that had a single chest in it. Theo did that thing that lets him see magical shit, saw something that looked magical. He and Rix did the smart thing and safely grabbed the thing that was registering as magical from far away so none of us would need risk going inside and set off potential traps. We were doing really well.

The thing in the chest was just a rock, wasn't special, didn't even do anything. We found that out and that got me thinking. Turned out to be a honey pot meant to draw people into that room... I volunteered to go in there and check it out but I didn't get far. I can't even describe it. I felt fear. I could only feel fear. Something deep inside me told me to run, not just turn around. Run... So when I finally came to my senses, I only thought about you I left.

I came back out and told everyone what happened when I went in there. Theo went in but thankfully, he trusted my judgement enough to turn around when he felt the same thing I did. ▓Rix, on the other hand...▓ I guess I'm not doing enough. That's the only thing that makes sense. I try not to be overbearing. I try to hear everyone out cuz we're a team but, I guess treating everyone like adults is a mistake cuz they don't fuckin' listen when I try to tell them calmly to NOT FUCKING TOUCH SOMETHING and it makes me feel like I'm losing my mind. I really don't know if I can keep this up. I really don't.

▓Rix went in, Tziri came out.▓ It felt wrong but all anyone could remember was Tziri being with us, ▓we didn't remember Rix being with us at all...▓ ▓We didn't remember Rix...▓ Makes me nauseous even thinking about it. ▓Rix didn't die, Rix didn't disappear,▓ ▓Rix was fuckin' erased▓ like she never existed in the first place.▓ Wasn't just her either, ▓her patron Korzo was gone too.▓ ▓A FUCKIN' GOD WAS ERASED.▓

I panicked. I completely lost it... Everything that happened was a blur after that. I barely remember what happened, it was all so mixed up. What I remember was Theo trying to go back in, I threatened the priests of the temple to close the whole thing down, going back to Wiltspar to press Aurifar for information. Theo trying to go back in hurt the most out of everything. He's a good kid, I really care about him, and I wanna keep him safe because he has so much potential but he keeps sticking his nose in things that he shouldn't. I was fed up when he tried to go back into the room so I grabbed him, tried to hold him back. Asshole threw me off with a spell. Maybe I was doing too much but, ▓why? Why would you go back in there if you ▓know what happens to people when they go in there?▓ Why won't they just listen to me? Why would I open up to these people only for them to take stupid risks when they know I care? Why do I feel like I'm the problem?

Aurifar sent us to an old hideout of his in the desert, said it was the only lead we had at getting Rix back. Went there and there is a room with statues of all our patrons. Everyone was there but, when I tried to go to the statue of ▓Korzo▓ my head started to hurt and I felt that same fear again. Next thing I knew, we were on that boat that sails through the stars. The two that act like they're in charge of everything, Trixie and Adalair gave us an earful. Woulda told them to fuck off if I weren't still in shock over everything. Told us this was the last time they'd do this for us. Useless cryptic bullshit, fuckin' assholes, fuck them.

Woke up and it was like none of it ever happened. ▓Rix was back and I remember.▓ ▓I remember it all and I wish I didn't.▓ I don't wanna remember. I wanna forget. I don't wanna do this anymore. I don't. I wanna go home. I don't wanna do this anymore...

Theodore

    Written by Justin

Raveth dealing with the fact that Tali and her are like one

High Keeper gots a vision of the shattering of Solana and spread across the world

Typhon thought they needed to find those lights, bring them together, fix the pieces?

Tali was a simulacrum of Raveth?

They found a few of the pieces, couldn't destroy them

The pinpricks of light were people that had divine power in them, the pieces were vulnerable and destructible when near said people

Wiltspar was established early on by the High Keepers to protect the magic of the world. Wiltspar existed before the Warden disappeared

When the High Keepers broke up the first to leave were Aurifer and Thanastra*

Long rest Portent are 16 and 16

We are arriving in Fayble*

It's a countryside town

Rix sees just outside of the village is a Wiltspar sapling

We are allowed to dock with no issues with the Archon and FPC's blessings

DOJO gets us a room, we are too meet him later tonight for a pre-peace talk briefing

The 5 of us harmonize with the sapling and head back to Wiltspar to see what Chauncey wants

The Wiltspar created a golden leaf, Chauncey has seen this only once or twice ever. It means that it's ready to choose a new Guardian. We haven't had a Guardian in centuries

The leaf has to be transferred to the chose person by someone who has a deep connection to that person

I pick up the leaf and the golden glow dissipates

I hand it to Louie and the leaf begins to glow really brightly, he has a vision of a busy street corner, an overwhelmingly comforting smell catches his nose, the people on the street come up to him and he hands out meals to the hungry. This is the Merchant's Ward in Platinum City

Louie asks Ford to fetch Mrs. Dahlia, she has given out food in the Market Ward

Another vision, looking out a window, toward the colosseum, teardrops on a clutched picture

Louie's mom retrieves Miku

Another vision, a tiny apartment, cooking away in the kitchen, look over at a nondescript looking bodyguard trying to slip away unnoticed, he's staying for dinner whether he likes it or not

Louie hands his mom the leaf, a burst of energy, the whole town washed in a wave of energy, everyone is fully at the top of their health, ready to rock and roll. Mrs. Dahlia is glowing a little bit, she's going Super Saiyan

Delilah Dahlia is now a Guardian of the Wiltspar, she can cook for the whole town once every other week to make everyone healthy again

Louie goes to check on Zara, Zara is at the punching stuff stage of the 5 stages of grief

We head back to Fayble and go to the AGI, we take a quest to clear out the catacombs under the Brioic temple

Yobin and Hera are the priests we need to talk to

Small little temple, lots of reflective glass and mirrors among the outside, priests are in long white robes with large reflective amulet around their necks

The church was built upon ruins, they aren't really sure what's in the catacombs

We handle some weird light puzzles

We fight exploding goop monsters

I hear in my head, a sudden, sharp noise, jarring and loud and broken

Rix finds a bunch of stuff in the pit, shield, short sword, mana potion, healing potion, 20 gp

There is something horrifically evil beneath the temple

▓Rix is no longer with us,▓ Ziri is

We go back to Wiltspar to see if ▓Rix is there▓

We are forgetting ▓Rix▓

Talking with Aurifer about all this

Aurifer wants us to go to the desert ruins

Theo doesn't trust it and wants to go back to the ancient evil

We end up going to the desert ruins, inspecting the statue rooms

Louis uses Titan's Aid to try to figure out what's going on here

We are pulled to the Moonlight Carnival

They reset us, bringing us back to the basement of the temple, ▓Rix is back▓

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