Orhan 3 Day 24 TE 6062

Drunken Beetle Riding Through the Sands of Death!!

We make it through!

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Crossing into the deep dessert we notice an oasis in the distance. We approach. The water seems clear and cool. Haeraan scans the past for 19 months and finds three significant events. Most recently, five tall humanoid figures dressed in glittering crystaline armor standing around. The event before that has a single figure in crystaline armor trailing blood and drags himself into the cave. Before that, he sees a fairly dark wind, with the edge of a bladestorm whooshing about. There are several figures battling in the bladestorm. When we get 10 feet into the cave, an image in glowing crystal armor appears. It speaks in Linear, "Password". Whatever we say it says incorrect. When we back out of the cave, the image vanishes.

We search around outside in the oasis. Alynna gets lost. We track her. She's off somewhere following a glinting light reflecting off of a piece of glass or something. She's escaping us with her fast walk, so we go back and get our riding bugs and chase her. She arrives at a small metal pyramid half buried in the sand. It seems fairly old and weathered. She clears out around it and it seems to be quite large. It gets bigger as she digs down. She uncovers a glowing symbol. She vanishes. Dah.

Well, we head on in. We get closer in, and Oathar sees the glowing symbol and vanishes too. After a bunch of fretting, everyone else follows.

We show up next to the big giant metal pyramid falling down to ground level. There are a bunch of people there watching Alynna. They start bowing to her C3PO style.

Kyrik casts Speech and gets two ranks of spoken Worim. Alynna and Oathar have an aura and get many bows...

The great party of the gods begins. Alynna sings and dances in Linear. Kyrik and Oathar get volunteers to slurp the language from. Kyrik has a dream:

There is an artist working on a workbench with a bunch of little figureines. On the shelves around him are other figurines that he's made. He puts them on a shelf and leaves the building which then collapses. He goes to a new building with empty shelves. He thinks a bit and then a figurine appears on a shelf. He looks at it, and recognizes it as his work, but he's pretty sure he didn't make that one. He shrugs and put it back on the shelf. He thinks for a while. A long time later, he starts making figurines again. Later he makes the figuring that appears and he takes it and puts it on the shelf.

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The next day, we hear a flying thing approach, and when the villagers hear it, they scatter briefly and then all run towards the pyramid. When they get there, a giant golden pyramid descends out of the sky and lands on the metal pyramid. Rings come down and a couple of anubi appear. We blend into the crowd. The anubuses are yelling out to the crowd, "Bring the other gods to us, now!"

We discuss a bit and decide not to go expose ourself. Kyrik convinces Oathar to attune once more to the ring of Andraax. He does so, and contacts Daenku. Daenku says that he can't show up lest defenses be activated that would surely doom us. But we should try to take out the guards and get into the pyramid. "Can you kill him?" "Um...we can try?" "Then do so and contact me then." Once inside, he will tell us how to disable it.

We spend three rounds buffing and attack the anubi (AT 20 DB 100). We attack. We take down the anubi, they seem to be robots.

We take them down, and Alynna uses their technology to ring us up to the ship. In the transporter room, there are two more anubi, we fight! Lot's of mad parrying, since ~350 DB doesn't seen quite sufficient on occasion...

We take down the other two anubi and are hosed down a pile, but still conscious. Imre starts healing people, while Oathar contacts the boss....