Orhan 2 Day 63 TE 6064

They're up to hundreds of sacrifices a week, and the royal treasury is empty, we're getting smote. We'll withdraw from everywhere, if you'll get rid of Sendar and Sendil.

We are left to consider.

We discuss our options. We mostly settle on the one presented to us. Kill Sendar and Sendil, and get Lankonok out of the war business for a while.

We teleport to Selkai. We go to talk to Gireg Jan.

We explain the plan. He asks if we can take Sendar and Sendil. Oathar assures him that both 1) we can, and 2) he's the overconfident one.

Sendar is a Priest/Sorcerer. Sendil is a Seer/Mystic. They can pray to get a direct connection to Klysus or Akalatan if they cooperate.

We send a note to Voorig Kye asking him for advice on the last time Sendar and Sendil were here. That evening, Kye's ambasador shows up at our villa. We have some small talk. We brief him on our problem and ask for advice.

He says, "Well, Voorig Kye mostly just ignored their spells and breathed on them. I don't really think that's going to work for you."

He does at least recall that they are surprisingly resistant, but are certainly not undefeatable by any means. Oh, but don't forget the primal blasts. Oathar and Imre brief the party on primal blasts.

Orhan 2 Day 64 TE 6064

Vast emergency shopping appears.

Details of the treaty we'll propose.

• We kill S&S.
• They withdraw from Pocantos and NK.
• The sign peace treaties with reasonable terms P and NK in good faith with the intention to keep to them.
• They return all prisoners unharmed.

We teleport back to Kenezan. We are met by the secret police. He takes us to the Kurtum and High Priests of Akalatan. We discuss the treaty with them. They want access to one port on the coast. They propose making one port from Nuyan Kom an open city with free access to the port.

Oathar and the Kurtum sign the treaty in the presense of Akalatan and Neela. Great.

They say they'll get us into the temple of the sun tomorrow night after the sacrifices. We'll get briefed and taken into the temple of the sun. We have to get to Sendar and Sendil ourselves.

Oathar dips his cloak into the pool of Neela and prays while sacrificing 1000 gold. It glows slightly.

Orhan 2 Day 65 TE 6064

The day of chopping arrives. We disguise ourselves and male Lankani 5th level priests. We show up.

Several guys show up. They have a bunch of robes of Akalatan for us to wear, etc. AT2 priest robes. Holy symbols of Akalatan. The works. Follow us.

They lead us through the city into the great courtyard to the pyramid of the sun. We are taken to the base of the pyramid. There are steps leading up. "At the top of the steps is the platform. There are five inlays there. Four gold and one silver. Hold down the four gold and press the silver. This causes the platform to descend. Once inside the central chamber: west are priest quarters, east are underground sacrifices, south is the archives/library, north leads to a pair of sentinals (torcs of priests of Klysus needed to pass), a cleansing chamber and then the passage turns east and goes to the throne room. The twins are likely there. They have a bedchamber off the throne room.

Our plan: Go inside, change on the way down, go went to the priests quarters and steal 5 torcs, then head to throne room.

We equip and start the mission.

We head into the priest quarters. There are six. They are waking up due to our tears of Eissa. We start putting them down. Wow, those Tears of Eissa really work. We get a bunch of torcs. Imre covers the bodies with illusions. We take five torcs and head out.

We head back to the middle. then we go north past the sentinels. Yay tocs. We get to the washing chamber. We swap our torcs for other items. We get to the throne room. 50x50x30'. Holes at the top. Pair of golden thrones. Pair of doors on either side near the thrones. Big red carpet. Tapestries with sacrifice scenes along the walls. One of the doors opens as we come in and a young woman comes out. She looks at us dreamily while saying, "Why do you not wear the torcs?" She has golden robes and a tiara, with a jeweled dagger at her side.

Her tiara flashes and she says "Sendar doesn't like it when you lie."

We fight!

Oathar seals us in the room so reinforcements don't come. Sendil is AT20 DB130. She turns invisible, but Alynna tags her to make her visible again. Kyrik spends a fate point on his attack but she negates it.

Sendar appears. Golden robes and golden sun torc with a scimitar. Sendil screams and seems furious at us for not being dead already. They reach for each other and touch. We take damage from our beneficial spells. Sigh. Ouch. Imre heals us while we keep attacking.

Sendil heals herself and Sendar puts a shield around her. Then he casts some horrible Black Channels but we all resist. Imre determines that his shield is a damage reflector so we switch to Sendar. Sendil heals herself some more.

More fighting next time...