The Plot So Far

[Maiyrhia]

Attention: Anyone who isn't an EXISTING PLAYER should completely ignore this thread. It will not make sense to anyone else.

Existing players, please read and ADD TO THIS; it's incomplete and I'd like your feedback on a) parts of the plot I've forgotten and b) things you considered important that I missed out.

I'll turn it into something resembling coherent later.


EDIT: This is now out-of-date. Please ignore this thread.

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- Drawn to Marstow
- Met Ekkhoen and Melasni
- Melasni mentioned the legend of the (fictional) Sanctuary, supposedly a source of all nine Elements (impossible for more than one reason) that arises when the Children of Power do. They had no way of tracking the thing down, if it even existed.
- Melasni sent them to Oakwood to investigate the college
- Ekkhoen sent one of his soldiers, Hairah, to accompany them
- They got there to discover Melasni had failed to mention the college had been burned down a month before they arrived. It had been looted by bandits and they discovered nothing of use.
- Found one mage had survived and eventually tracked him to the city of Lundrig
- On the way, Kairo revealed a number of prophecies he has had for most of his life, written by someone called Niron. They can only be read in full by a Water mage; Ice mages can read only the parts of them that come true later (regarding true prophecies made by a Child of Water). This is later revealed to be suspiciously similar to the two Elements' Full Powers. Nemos remembered that Niron was the previous Child of Water, who saw many visions of the future and was driven insane by them.
- On the way, they met, saved, and befriended a trader from the city
- Once in the city they discovered he was blackmailing people and turned him in to the guard, befriending a trader with the decidedly odd name of Alonzo Jack, who (THINGY) had been blackmailing. Mr. Jack has promised them help if they ever need it.
- They tracked the survivor across the border to Aiwelleah
- Hairah was unable to leave the country; she turned back at the border and returned to Marstow.


- 3 subplots in Aiwelleah
- Bandit camp (dealt with the old-fashioned way)
- The CoPs mysteriously losing their powers - all mages of each Element were losing their powers over the course of a few days, and nobody knew why
- Cultists causing the power loss - Melasni had infiltrated them
- The cultists were doing a ritual called Kendra's Disruption that completely cut off all access to each Element in turn over a few days, when it completed it would have opened a portal to the Old Domain (which is quite literally hell itself, according to many scriptures)
- Melasni revealed himself to the Children of Power, and they debated how to disrupt the ritual with the CoPs still beat up from the bandit camp
- Nemos remembered that CoE would Burst with uncontrollable destructive Energy magic if pushed too far, and realised that he was about to do so -- so they did that, and the cultists were no more (except Melasni, who CoE never wanted to harm)

- They discovered the survivor had researched a place that's supposedly very reflective to Energy magic (the Energy Hub) and had left towards Ostran. The CoPs went after him, with Melasni in tow as there was little he could do to help by going back to Marstow.


- They tracked Jason (survivor) to the Energy hub and rescued him; they used their powers to invent the sauna and he felt a lot better, quickly coming to trust them.

- HOW DID YOU GUYS FIND OUT WHERE THE SANCTUARY WAS??
- Talking to Jason (the college was researching the Sanctuary legend -- that's why Melasni sent them there in the first place!!!)
- Nemos realising that Jason's description is something he was staring at for his entire life

- Journeyed to Wrackdene
- Purchased winter supplies
- Travelled through Panest
- Went up to Rhewacoum and to the base of a mountain
- The party was split by a sudden and very fierce snowstorm
- All tried various tactics to stay warm and find their way back, all failed, saved from hypothermia (with the exception of Nemos, who is immune to cold) by Freezing Rain Elementals and taken to the Sanctuary, but Afreeti was nowhere to be found
- Previous Child of Metal (Meran) - in a magic bronze mirror in the Sanctuary, appeared thanks to a very powerful spell allowing her to speak through the mirror, advised party to work out what's important and not to get distracted from it. The magic has since faded completely.
- One of the Freezing Rain Elementals took Ronan and Nemos to the Ice Hub to fetch the Artifact
- Returned to Marstow with Melasni
- Jadyr, Nemos and Ronan went to the Earth hub
- In the Earth Hub, Ronan picked up a small stone and put it in his pocket. As everything in a Hub is an Elemental, he gained the immediate adoration of a tiny (level 4) Earth Elemental who came to be called Aron. Aron is currently residing in Ronan's hammer, or failing that in one of the stones in his pocket.
- Everyone else went after the Water Hub
- Requested a ship to get them near the whirlpool (Water Hub), Kairo, Melasni and Neko went in. They found themselves in a bubble of still water under the whirlpool, and swam from bubble to bubble (with various magical effects to help them breathe). They eventually found themselves in a bubble with a big water elemental and the Artifact Trident of Water; attacks were futile against it, so Kairo simply swam past and snagged the Trident.
- Melasni was booted from the bubble by the Elemental, and vanished from sight. The three returned to the boat and spotted him when they returned to the boat; the boat would not have reached him in time, so Kairo swam over to save him.
- Afreeti was eventually found shortly before she succumbed to hypothermia, even with her Fire magic giving her an innate resistance. Since everyone had already left, the Elemental took her to Marstow, where Melasni's apprentice took her in to look after her - and drugged her. She woke up in an underground prison cell and tried to pick the lock with a hairpin to escape, but due to some spectacularly bad luck she managed to break the pin in the lock and render it permanently unopenable. She was wearing a collar of Ice/Water magic that drowned her into unconsciousness if she tried to use any magic, so was stuck waiting for rescue.
- The Water Hub team got the Artifact and left
- Team Kairo met Melasni's apprentice on the way to meet up with the others while they travelled through the Drylands towards Aiwelleah; he handed Melasni a booby-trapped item that exploded and nearly killed him. The apprentice did not survive the encounter.
- Jadyr went off on his own from an inn 3 days east of WHERE? - wandered into a forest and got ambushed and kidnapped by persons unknown
- Water Hub team found him drugged in a cult's camp shortly outside the village of Death Springs - he came around after being rescued
- Melasni's team depleted Death Springs' entire supply of bacon in one morning, then he went back to the cultists' camp and Burst, destroying the lot
- The entire group meet back up; Ronan and Nemos are unsurprised that he wandered off and got captured, they were trying to track him but failed to follow the cult, so made their way to Aiwelleah to meet up with the others and form a plan.
- The Children of Power work out the Main Plot for Verse 1, 3 rituals being cast in tandem by three mages, each involving the sacrifice of a Child of Power. Afreeti is still in the hands of the cultists, Jadyr's cultists are very, very dead and won't be casting much of anything, and an unknown Child of Darkness is being held too.
- They travel towards Death Springs, around which the rituals are all being cast.
- They dealt with a Level 90 (!) Lava elemental by virtue of running like hell and leaving it well enough alone.

- Kairo, Jadyr, and Nemos rescued Afreeti and the four Children of Power sabotaged that ritual while Flint distracted the cultists - he was badly injured but survived, albeit severely weakened
- The Child of Darkness team failed to save him - they weren't quick enough and that ritual completed
- Beastie summoned - Energy ritual never took place, Fire ritual backfired, and Dark ritual completed so it appeared as a Dark/Fire thing with the Fire trying to destroy it!
- It still would have kicked their asses
- So they ran up to and annoyed the Lava elemental and left the Beastie to its tender mercies
- The Lava elemental won, obviously.

- The 3 mages casting the ritual:
- Melasni's traitorous apprentice was the first one; he was on his way to meet up with the cultists who had kidnapped Jadyr when he got overconfident and tried to attack Melasni. He did not survive the encounter.
- An unknown mage had kidnapped Afreeti; he died when his ritual was detonated.
- An unknown mage had kidnapped the Child of Darkness; he is alive and free to plot his revenge.

- They returned to Aiwelleah, with Melasni planning to go from there straight back to Marstow to check on things. The others are debating what to do next.


NPCs:
- Winters - a level 54 Water mage in Aiwelleah, close friends with the party
- Jason - a level 67 Energy mage, the survivor of Oakwood college - slightly traumatised still, friend of the party, currently in a mages' college in the capital of the top-right country (north of Yal-Kash)
- Aron - a level 4 Earth elemental, residing in Ronan's hammer or in a stone in his pocket, picked up at the Earth hub
- Flint - a level 21 Explosion elemental, currently wounded at an effective level of 2 from distracting the cultists while the Children of Power rescued Afreeti, residing in Jadyr's Artifact Sword gem
- Melasni - with the party, will go back to Marstow ASAP
- Ekkhoen, Hairah, and a soldier escort - in the capital of Yal-Kash, trying (failing) to negotiate peace
- Level 3 Fire Mage trader in Lundrig - enemy of the party as they threw him in jail for corruption

[darky]

- typo: On the way, Kairo revealed a number of prophecies he has had for most of his life, written by Nemos. Nemos did not write these prophecies. he may be old and balding, but not that old.

- 3 subplots in WHERE? (Aiwelleah?)bingo!

- figured out the sanctuary location through talking with Jason and Nemos staring right at it all his life without realising it

- east off an inn not too far inland from us arriving at the port up in the north western country- names escape me that's all a little fuzzy... guess they hit Jadyr a little too hard

-before going boom, the group there kind of delepeted the supply of bacon for the village in death springs

- Kairo, Jadyr, Nemos and Flint saved afreeti. then all 4 children sabotaged the ritual. Jadyr being surprisingly stealthy for the child of energy (and out stealthed the child of water)

- the battle of the two elementals would of been a good time to have shades and popcorn. i think we may of had the popcorn.

other notes: every cultist camp that has been entered by Jadyr has not been left standing when he leaves

[Maiyrhia]

Oh yes, Niron not Nemos -- this was a straight-up typo, I knew that!

Ah, yes, the college had been researching the Sanctuary, hadn't it?? I forgot that! And now you mention it I remember the hilarity that ensued when I revealed that Nemos had been staring at it the entire time...

I can pull up the name of where it was, it's on my map. That one's actually a reminder to myself.

Oh, the bacon, I wasn't sure when the bacon happened... I remember now, I'll add it in.

Thanks for telling me who went where, I'd forgotten how the groups split.

I'll add in a note somewhere about the camps not surviving Jadyr!

Edit: This thing keeps double-posting me by accident. If it happens to anyone else, just ignore it, or edit the second/third/etc posts to be blank, and an admin will clear them up later.

[Kairo]

Ok, not much I can add to this, but from what I remember:
- You said that Ice mages see the truth in the prophecies, whereas water mages can see the whole thing, true or not.

- Also remember that in Rhewacoum in the icy tundra, we got separated and Kairo tried to sustain himself in a ball of water, to get away from the biting wind, to some limited success. Was then saved by a Freezing Rain elemental.

- As for the Water Hub, it was East of Yal-Kash, we'd requested the help of a ship to take us near to the whirlpool where the Water Hub was, and Kairo, Melasni and Neko, went in. After going down to the bottom of the whirlpool we were deposited in a bubble of still water, and we swam from bubble to bubble, fighting water elementals along the way, and eventually got to the end where the Trident Water Artefact was being guarded by a huge scary elemental.

-So, Kairo swam past the elemental to grab the trident since no attacks were working, succeeded in doing so, but Melasni was catapulted out of the bubble by an attack, and disappeared from sight. So we left the hub without him. But when we got to the surface and the ship, spotted him on the other side of the whirlpool, so Kairo dived off the crows nest and swam over to save him, and we managed to get him safely back to the ship, preventing him becoming an ex-Melasni.

- Don't recall where Melasni's apprentice came into it, or even his name, but he had stolen some of Melasni's enchanted items.

[Maiyrhia]

Ah, yes, I'd forgotten what exactly you guys knew about that.

I actually know *exactly* where the Water Hub is, I was just too lazy to find the map. It's on there, I can snag the location later. I'll upload a map for you guys containing the locations you know so far. But thanks for the Hub details

Gahh... I can't remember how the apprentice, who I don't think I ever named, got from kidnapping Afreeti to being offed by you two... unless he came out to find you just to try to kidnap another of you? Was that it?

[Kairo]

-The country Kairo and Jadyr are from is the Drylands, from a small fishing village in the south-western part of it, along the river. We met up with Neko on the road to the northern part of the Drylands, on the way to Marstow for the first time.

-Also remember that during Afreeti's rescue, flint distracted all the guards, we walked in the front door, checked the rooms, nobody was there, Jadyr stabbed the lone guard and we escaped. Melasni's apprentice wasn't, I don't think, with us at the time. Think he joined us later, or was with the other group. Could it have been we met him in one of the cities, or he followed from Marstow? I really don't remember.

[darky]

the guard apprentice met the water hub team on the way back from the water hub. i recall the entire event happening not far from a town. it resulted in an explosion that nearly got Melasni in a bad way, i remember that much

[Maiyrhia]

Speaking of Neko, is her player (who I shan't name on a public forum) going to be joining us at all? I'll miss her if she can't...

[darky]

refer to Keza on that one, but if i understand correctly, is suffering from lack of internet availablity

[Maiyrhia]

I seem to recall Melasni dumping Afreeti on you guys one day without warning, but when exactly was that? If I'm not mistaken it was in Aiwelleah sometime... Must have been close to the end.

Edited the first post; it now contains more details.

[darky]

i believe that happened after Jadyr blew up the first camp, just about to leave to continue the trail of Jason

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