DRAFT Run log for 020924

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Major Events:


Characters represented by players at this run: Cailin, Ilk, Jean, Neville and Osric.

A Mob Attacks Mikail

Osric goes off to check in on the Fringe before the attack starts. Johnny says that there is a virus in the system -- gates are opening and closing randomly. Osric is annoyed, and recommends that Johnny reboot.

Osric returns with a sphere and creates an anvil, and Jean whacks it with his hammer. The anvil shatters; the sphere and hammer are fine.

The sphere is moved to the Paths of the Dead and placed on Verra's throne. Osric draws power from it, and acquires contact with Verra. They experiment, and Verra can't break the contact, but she can break Osric's mind. Osric falls over and is fished back to Darkover. The sphere is now too large to fit into the fish, so it is left there, but not on Verra's throne.

Norton suggests calling to all of the undead to see if they've seen Mikail from the temple with the grass, Norton, Titania, and Faythe are to head to the temple.

Ilk takes Cailin to Cataan. Cailin grabs signatures and accumulates power.

Jean, Norton, Titania, and Faythe go to the temple with the grass. Ilk brings the variable-Pattern hammer. Jean asks for a Jean with Pattern-armor. Ilk Logrus-pulls in a boba-Jean. Boba-Jean grabs the hammer and wears the saucer-Jean like a halo.

[Titania sends the image to Verra so she can incorporate it into her religion.]

Norton concentrates, clears his throat, goes dead, then concentrates again. Ilk can see that it looks as if Logrus is pouring like a mist, through the ways, across the floor, and all around Norton. He's going more and more bat-shit crazy. Norton's eyes are glowing bright red. His fangs are almost vibrating.

Anywhere where Jean is where there is undead, they are calling out, "Mikail!"

Corpses all across shadow rip themselves out of the ground and join in the search.

He stands up, points his finger in a direction that is meaningless to anyone else, rants, "I see him!" and disappears. Faythe, who has her hands on his shoulders, also disappears. Titania dives for him, but lands on the floor. All of the Logrus in the room except for Ilk's core self has gone away.

Ilk begins the search for Norton.

In most of the places, the zombies' cry has changed from "Mikail" to "Brains! Need to eat brains!"

Jean is still singing the "Mikail" song. There isn't even a flicker of god lightning left.

Cailin is looking for magical signatures and power. There's a lot of energy over by the planets, but it seems to be due to the settlers. He notices a mess of power over that-away, but it has Jenoir's signature tied up in it.

Cailin is trumped back to Darkover by Darkstar, who then sits down, complains about the power of the active block, and collects a drink from Yuri.

Ilk pulls Titania and the Jean company back to Darkover.

Ilk has finished Logrus-raiding everywhere in this reality, and no sign of Norton or Faythe. He found several Pattern-weenies, most of whom were not familiar. None of them were surrounded by undead pointing and shouting, "Mikail!"

Ilk sends one of him through to the next reality over through the rift in the sky over Arden, towing a Jean.

Darkstar slumps over. Cailin is pulled into the trump contact, and huge gouts of power are drawn from him.

A trickle of trump contact comes from Jean, along with a power drain. Jean notices the power drain. Verra is also involved.

There is a lurch across this entire piece of reality. Jean notices that there is now a bridge between Darkover and something else on the far side of Darkover.

Darkstar says, "Mooring" through clenched teeth.

On the far side of the mooring is Dalkantyr. Dalkantyr is not floating free; it is resting on something else. The power drains on Cailin and Mikail drop.

Streaming over the boat's edge are locusts. Thousands and thousands of Caine-eating-style locusts heading towards Darkover. The locusts don't appear to have a target.

Jean ramps up the speed and charges.

Ilk notices that the locusts are all emitting that anti-Logrus field and are heading towards the Logrus, and asks Osric to wall off Darkover from Chaos -- from the Chaos side of the bridge.

Osric walls off Darkover and starts trapping locusts in boxes of blucite, and starts building a wall. Cailin feeds Osric power.

Darkstar is still concentrating.

Ilk explains the situation to Melk, and asks him to stop the locusts. Locust-statues fall out of the sky. One of them is eaten by a slug, which starts slowly dying.

Osric calls Jean over to him; all of them do so. Osric orders Jean to ground.

Cailin opens up with an 0.5% fry on everything that is in flight. The skies are now clear.

The Serpent's Apprentice hooks a locust statue on a rope and brings it to the Serpent's antechamber.

Osric turns into a small tank-like form, chameleon-colored to the ground, and heads over the bridge. Jean heads over the bridge, surrounded in wrath-of-god red shields. Cailin comes along, too. The locusts are trying to eat shields, and are eating the magic in Cailin's shields. They're trying to eat Jean's shields, but his shields are frictionless.

Osric dives off the edge into the Sea of Chance, proving to all present that he is indeed an Old Lord.

Cailin is down to four percent of his capacity, and starts to panic. He starts throwing marbles into the air, and locusts start marbling, are hit by other locusts, and the process chain-reacts. Cailin continues pushing towards Dalkantyr.

None of the locusts are bothering Darkstar. The only Jean still in Darkover is inside Darkstar's carapace.

When Osric gets to the far shore, he tries to draw from the Fringe. He gets power; it tastes of Cailin.

Jean makes it to the other side. There are six or eight ziggerauts that are generating locusts. Jean starts smashing. They're a lot better defended than the old ziggeraut in Toram's lands.

Osric notices a bunch of undead attacking a settlement. He slithers his way over.

The locust-generated marbles are now waist-deep, and continuing to expand back towards the ziggeraut. Jean dodges the flood.

Cailin advises everyone to relocate to the tower, and asks the Dworkins for cleanup.

Kieron asks about the stasis'd locust. The Serpent's Apprentice explains. The Serpent appears and looks at the locust. "That is not mine." Ilk explains. The Serpent goes away, comes back, and spits out a box. "It's a locust trap." The Serpent turns to Kieron and says, "Go with him. Learn."

"Okay. Should I carry the box, or should I carry the locust?" Ilk hands the box to Kieron, and brings the two of them down to Chaos. Each time Kieron puts the box over a locust, the Logrus in Ilk relaxes a bit. The locust in the slug doesn't fit in the box. Ilk burns off the rest of the slug, attaches a rope, and dips it in the Sea of Chance. When Ilk pulls the rope back out, it is a tongue that quickly evaporates.

The Serpent's Apprentice heads to the end of the bridge to Darkover, enters the Sea of Chance, congeals into a dragon, re-emerges from the Sea, engulfs Kieron in his mouth, and heads back out into the Sea of Chance.

--EORun--


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