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Ganbaatar
Brotherhood of Evil: Orbghuz Forktongue joins the Empty Circle
We are back at camp, having pissed off both snakes and bugs…
Our army is badly wounded and in the middle of a raging war…
We form a council of war with Ganbaatar, Hundreds, and Hoargrim…
Ganbaatar is retraining Malik to ride slithers…
Casualties in the last battle are shockingly low…
For the ass-whupping we took…
We’ve got 500 visitor sand-devils…
Of questionable (or non-existent) loyalty…
We sacrificed a bunch of deathworm eggs…
To create a bumper-crop of baby warblers…
Thebanites (snakes) are to the west…
Something is ringing the desert like a drum…
Sorq apparently got fed royal-jelly and is spouting flies…
As the new black super-node (a.k.a. queen)…
The black ants are friendly(ish) but scared…
We need to smuggle the eggs past the snakes…
Khad throws some herbs on the fire to talk to the Gardener…
The yurt is overgrown with flowers and vines…
Blue smoke flowing up to the cieling…
Squee chases a whisp around the room…
The bees are hibernating, not a good time to be abroad…
Ado asks if the gardener could hide blacks in the fade…
Vadim suggests we dive into the fade and sneak past…
There are some concerns about the scale…
Gardener says he can hold “rot them” and hold them…
So they can “sprout in a new place”…
But will need “Her help”…
ADO: “What if we call she who shall not be named?”
Vadim: “Ivy?”
ADO: “SHE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED!”
Sorq suggests calling a meeting of accord with S’t’t’t’t’t…
And then pulling them into the Fade for a chat…
Ado goes to chat with the head weaver, Ruven…
Who is wrapping twine in and around…
Like a five-dimensional Rubic’s cube…
Sorq: “Ruven’s Cube”…
Ado: “What would make this interesting?”
Khad: “Because being high and watching a guy weave
a five-dimensional basket isn’t interesting enough”
Ado casts Plant Growth…
And gets picked up the head by an apple-smelling woman…
She says she can help…
We get ready to go…
Ellen-Dear drops a triple-fabricate for the caravan’s craftsmen…
Makes a pile of new saddles and fittings for the cavalry…
And wheels and struts for the wagons…
Arandyr heads west to scout the Thebanites…
They are camped out on bluffs to the west…entrenched…
Massive snake-muscled behemoths pounding on the sand…
Trying to summon some death worms…
She comes back dragging one of those drum-hammers…
Khut runs out looking for a way to flank the snakes to the north…
He runs full speed, sneakily, without rhythm…
And that hill starts to unwind…A giant tentacle…
sliding, sliding, sliding…beneath the sand…
Clearly the Thebanites are where they are to attract the thing…
Khut decides the best move is to shoot it…
MEANWHILE…
Sorq gives some regurgitated-ant-food to the minotaur cavalry…
Ado takes Ganbaatar out for a hunting trip to exercise the slithers…
They return empty-handed…
Squee gives them a little performance to boost their spirits…
Vadim and Khadagan cobble together some uber-drugs…
With the plan of tempting the snakes to jack our crazy minds…
(grants +3 bonus on checks to resist getting jacked by snakes)
(and makes the smoker bat-shit crazy)
And Khadagan raises some fungus zombies to reinforce our infantary…
Sorqutani walks out into the desert, spreads her arms wide…
The smell of lavender and apples wafts on the breeze…
The bees pour out of their hives…
Settling on her like black and gold armor…
In the distance, a farm-girl leans on a picket fence…
The sand erupts…ants swarming up a black-barked apple tree…
And strait into the Verge…
AND Sorq feels a sudden burning flash of cinnamon…
and her fingers burst into blue-white flames…
Khut shoots the worm…a mile long worm…and whistles for Littlewing…
“Exeunt pursued by sand kraken!”
We hit the road…moving fast on refitted wagons and beasts…
Altan humming happily amid bags and bags of looted treasure…
Khut comes flying in, the worlds biggest duststorm on his tail…
A massive thunderhead building…
Ado asks the Gray Lady if we can open the spire and let out the dead…
“They’ll need bodies…”
They can have ours when they fall…
Rust comes to Khadagan for black lotus on Gray Lady’s behalf…
The Caravan heads for the center of the Thebanite army…
Sand-devel cavalry on slithers…giant burly snakes with hammers…
Hoargrim sends our sand-devils out ahead to warn them that “its coming”…
Vadim shouts with the voice of the storm…
And throws down seven chunks of gold for the white-tent snakes…
“Take these if you wish to contact us in the future…”
WE CHARGE…and Vadim lights up a six-foot bong…
The cavalry are hit from behind by mind-controlled members of the caravan…
So the nohai scouts chow down on the traitors…
Their seven Phanin take over our cavalry’s inds…
We toke up and charge them…
Khut, still in the air, picks out S’t’t’t’t’t and shoots him in the head…
They start dancing, snaking and weaving through the sand…
S’t’t’t’t’t’s wounds start healing at an insanely rapid pace…
Sorq unleashes some fire…
Ado fires a warbler arrow into the air…which turns into a volley…
And death rains down en masse…
S’t’t’t’t yells “END IT” and our own cavalry charge us…
Vadim calls some lightning down on S’t’t’t’t’s head…
Suddenly Ado and Sorq are terrified…
AND Arandyr decides to kill Ado…
AND Squee decides it would be fun to drive Khadagan insane…
Khut: “I’m high and I’m angry! Come get some!”
And he leaps headlong off a Holy Mountain Beast’s nose…
And slaughters two of the priests wholesale…
Then Squee drops a pink tiara OF MADNESS on Khadagan…
Ellen-Dear rolls out four tiny metal figurines…
Which stand up, animate, and charge…
So do the bodies of the two dead priests…
And the beatings commence…
Arandyr misty-steps up and shiv’s Ado…
Right between the arm-pit, and he dies…unconvincingly…
She misses him again and again…
and finally believe’s he’s dead…
A second shot from Khut hits S’t’t’t’t right between the eyes…
Sorq steps up aaaand…PIXIES!
“I don’t super-charge, I make things bigger and longer…”
Ado locks down two of the remaining ones with a Hypnotic Pattern…
The gnawing pixies tear their attention away…
Vadim drops a lightning bolt on their heads…
Then stomps one down with his HMB…
Khadagan stands staring at the pretty colors…
Squee pokes him, fixes the tiara, and says “Kill something”…
AND he leaps on Ellen-Dear…to surprisingly little effect…
Arandyr sees Ado up and moving and starts stabbing some more…
Khad drops another one with an arrow in the eye…leaving one…
Sorq unleashes some more fire at the remaining one…
And a stray bolt of lightning from the storm finishes him off…
With the Phanin dead, our cavalry, in disarray, turn and rejoin us…
The Gray Lady and Rust do their thing…
The spire opens…
Golden light pours down from the sky…
Things stand up across the battlefield…
Golden marks on their foreheads, wings on their backs…
Their weapons shedding glowing light…
Accompanied by completely alien music…
(Western choral music)…
Meanwhile tentacles come slithering around the battlefield…
The warbler archers rain death on their cavalry…
And the spire opens again…and the glowing army grows…
Their infantry charges our cavalry, gets cut off by the shroom-zombies…
THEN The Kraken catches up to the fight…
The glowing armies of the spire turn and charge the Kraken…
They fly towards the kraken, reveling, screaming ancient cries…
Khut swings up onto littlewing’s back and divebombs it with a lance…
And gets backhanded and sent flying…
Littlewing (intelligent creature that she is) bugs out…
Our cavalry break through the lines and run for the mountains…
The Thaabanite slingers mow down our infantry as they follow…
Lightning begins to fall among the troops…
Vadim raises a wall of wind to cut off their archers…
Hoargrim and his stack break through and flee to higher ground…
The warblers mow down the Thaabanite cavalry…
The spire breaks through and their slingers run as well…
Their infantry smack down the warblers, then run…
The glowing angelic horde holds our back…
And the author said, “This is good, this thing I have done.” And he went for lunch and a drink. And it was good!
- From the ramblings of Khut
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