Category: Graveyard of Empires: The Islands of Curabel

SESSION 213 – August 8, 2018

After nearly a full complement of rest and healing magic, our breather is interrupted by a loud crash, banging and unearthly “screams.”

Rallion takes a peek and it appears that a noncarbon golem, like the one Thorfus couldn’t best, that later housed Kalgun and was smashed by undying fire giants, was fighting itself and unable to maintain its form.

Nash uses the ESP helm and Serithaz asks if we are torturing the creature, if so, we are doing an admirable job.

Nash attempts ESP but detects nothing. He asks Serithaz to take a closer look. Serithaz is reluctant and soon reports that two intelligences are fighting for control of it. Kauri looks on and sees a large dwarf with flowing beard (Xenotel) and a woman (Lysander) locked in a strubble to control the nanocarbon golem.

Occasionally it lurches forward, and suddenly bursts through the wall to the hallway where the last of the pair of dwarven engineers, Angus, was hiding and he is killed as the golem senlessly barrels forth in the titanic struggle between divine AIs.

As the struggle continues, and with the information from Kauri that it is Lysander and Xenotel, Rallion hopes that hitting the golem with his ESP blocking ring will allow Lysander to take control. Rallion has not used his sling since his last hunting foray before the druids sent him on his mission to learn the secret behind the Dark King, and misses.

Nash tries to do what he can and the others stay out of the way.

Rallion and Nash work together with the help of Serithaz to time dropping the ring on the roiling mass of nanocarbon. The timing is not quite right, and as the ring falls, there stands Xenotel. Before Xenotel can smash us to nothingness, we snatch away the ring, and the struggle resumes.

Rallion and Nash do better timing their efforts and this time the ring falls and the golem rises fully formed, but immobile. Serithaz relays that both are striving to reach the golem, but are cut off from it.

We finish searching the level, and find two more overseers and 3 more spiders. We all stay back as Bavmorda goes after them. The spiders are not stopped, and their poison still works. We pull Bavmorda out and Nash finds her cure poison. Rallion fights the spiders, using the adamantine spear he’s carried since the deep gnomes. He and others defeat the spiders, and Rallion finished off the helpless overseers, freeing them from their ancient prisons.

We find more weapons. The weapons appear to be in working order, but the rounds are dark. So the shard of the mothers defeats the magic in the laser weapons, and also prevents laser weapon fire from affecting it.

We rest and heal, then proceed upward. We find some of the giant beavers crucified, and Written in blood at base of crucified beavers and pentagrams.

“Death to the False Gods and their Servants! Make Way for the Master of the World Between Worlds and His Mortal Instrument!”

This reminds us that last session, Last session Bavmorda was told: ” That is not the master; you must weild the master against XenoTel2 to free us. You are the savior.”

A ten minute journey by elevator takes us nearer our goal of the biome. We find some more weapons, and a hologram of who we thought was the last Lord Marshal, whose sword Thorfus carried until he fell. Now Bavmorda carries it.

We find out way, with a divine vision given to Nash, and find a sign pointing us in the way of the Biome. Rallion has adopted the urgency of Nash, let’s get to the Biome. While Rallion stands near the tracks of the station ready to head towards the Biome, the rest of the party, following Nash’s lead, find and activate another Robot Nano Ninja….

*ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE!!!!*

SESSION 212 – August 1, 2018

Survive the fight, “demons” come and take out the giant beavers who seemed to be on our side. Demons communicate that we are servants of the master who have come to free them from Xenotel. the “demons” have clay/mudmen things with them and raise a wall of fire so we can’t follow.

We pull back to rest and are gravely injured by two overseers but take them out. Bavmorda uses the shard.

We end up with more laser weapons.

We rest and heal up and get some repairs on Axelbot.

SESSION 211 – July 25, 2018

We defeated the spider bots and gun as they were joined by an automated suit of dwarven armor, and damaged &an a out of control “zamboni” automaton.

Alys whacked the zamboni with a stun stick and it returned to normal operation. Nash thought the suit was on our side and it pointed it’s lightning axe at tha zambonie and it went wild again, seriously injuring Kauri and Oskar by ramming.

The party ganged up on the power armor and Bavmorda beat it down. Nash put a keg of gunpowder in it.

We learned that the spiders would explode after being damaged, and the zambonie came towards Laris and the ancient elf and hit one ot the “dead” spiders, crushing it against the wall and it exploded. Laris bracer with a magic shield saved him, but Peronel was hurt.

The party all ran for cover while Nash lit the fuse, the zamboni rounded a corner and there were a lot of explosions. It turned around and was acting “normal” again, keeping its appointed rounds.

We soon learned that the location it exploded was the same as the location for the lift to the trams towards the biome.

Laris took a quick peek to see what was up there, but nothing appeared to be happening. Nash prayed aloud to Lysander and a “naked” man peered over and seemed to connect Nash and Lysander and was excited. They invited Nash up.

Before Nash could go up, laser canons shot the “man”. When Nash went up he found two dead centaurs that had a lot of mechanical parts.

Rallion and Bavmorda joined Nash and found a cannon shooting and then more popped up to shoot.

Three “ninjas” appeared and one did a backstab on Ralion taking out his magic shield. Another fired a rifle like Rallion’s, and a third had an electric garrotte that was used against Bavmorda.

Rallion was not hitting, but learned the rifle had a different damage than the pistol and a big kick. He learned the hard way that they do massive damage as his leg was hit.

Kauri magic missiled the one who backstabbed Rallion, and it dive/charged Kauri.

Nash got a rope around the cannon above on the upper tram and Axelbot pulled it down. The garrotte wielding ninja charged Laris.

Bavmorda jumped down into the lower tracks and drank a healing potion.

Can we survive to find a safe place to rest and heal?

SESSION 210 – July 18, 2018

The fight continues….

Oskar removes the circlet from Rallion and puts on his blocking ring back on.

Two laser guns slide out of the wall, and one blasts towards our ship, and misses ship and crew. The other turns and shoots the other gun, while Oskar runs behind the gun and takes it out the next round.

Back in the room, the fight with the berserker automaton continues, and Axelbot’s body is taken over by “something”, and he phases. Kauri could still see him, Axel put his hand through the window. Axel struggles and thinks he understands how phasing works, and thinks, phase back. He does, and the window shatters, but the exterior has atmosphere, so there is only a minor decompression that does us no harm. Axel is able to speak and warns us that he is not in control.

Nash asks Serithaz to do something and puts the circlet on Axel, and Axel agrees to let Serithaz re-write him so he can’t be taken over, and reassures Axel that he is “pretty sure” Axel won’t go insane. Axel gives Nash back the circlet and does not lose control.

Meanwhile, the fight with the berserker wages on and the battle of magic missiles and blows from Bavmorda finally take it down.

The dwarven engineers join us and search the quartermaster room and grab up all the miscellaneous gear they can.

Rallion comes to, and informs the others that XenoTel knows all about us, after having encountered a blinding light with a gigantic eye and thousands of smaller ones. Rallion is shaken and stirred, and won’t put on another control circlet anytime soon.

The engineers at the prompting of Axel remove the gun that helped us (thank the electronic gods), hoping to figure out a way to mount it to Axel. It was powered directly from a wired connection. The berserker is powered wirelessly and has no battery. We learn that most other automatons here are powered wirelessly.

On the desk of the quartermaster we learn that there is a map and figure out where the tram is to take us to the interior. We learn that Xenotel can just jettison the part where we are, so we are in a hurry. Nash wants his levels he was promised.

We go to the security level and are greeted by four passageways ending in doors. We pick one and four guns and four automaton orbs appear. Two of each are on our side. The guns of the gods shoot the other guns, and the orbs of the gods crash into the other orbs. The guns of the gods shoot at the party and the crash of one set of orbs is close enough to injure the ancient elf, and kill one of the dwarven engineers. The door was locked and we couldn’t pick or force it, so Laris used Knock. We rushed in and the corridor had a closed door that also did not respond to the key, and we tried to force it, but the corridor heated up, so Laris used another Knock.

We got out of that corridor and closed and locked it. We found a circular corridor around the four security offices, each with a detention area, and a customs office. Four monkey automatons approached and pinched the flesh and blood among us and ignored us, and eyed Axelbot. They looked to repair him, and when they couldn’t began to try to rip him apart. Serithaz couldn’t get through to them, something was wrong with them. We ended up destroying them.

We got into one of the security offices and went to the command office where one way glass showed us the way we entered and had a command console and two lockers. Rallion was reading the display and Laris moved to a locker.

Four spider automatons dropped down. Laris was bit and fell frothing at the mouth. The rest of us jumped into the fray. Rallion dropped two of them, and Bavmorda was bitten and fell frothing. In the midst of the fray, Nash used his two cure poison positons on the fallen, while the rest of the party finished the fight.

We found laser pistols and a sort of laser rifle. In the immigration and customs office we found records of those going planetside, and another laser pistol. The pistols were deemed forbidden to go planetside, so they must be quite powerful.

Before we can formulate our next plan, a walking gun and four more spider bots approach, we rush out to them, and two of them are dispatched by Axelbot. The others move in to attack the living.

Nash reminds us we need to hurry, he wants to be a better cleric by the gift he was promised for coming to help the gods.

The battle continues….