Log Seventeen
At the beginning of the session, Crowley was besieging Vailliard's Haven, and all of the PC's except William were there. Jessica was trying to stop Benedict from drinking any more, Bronwyn was drinking with Gerard, Aneirin was watching everyone, and the Irregulars were just drinking. The average DragonLord can outdrink a Cossack, and there were plenty of Cossacks there, eager to show what men they were.
"Old characters never die. They just come back as NPC's." GM
"You don't understan', Jess. We are all going to die. Me especially. He hates me." Benedict
"I'll get you yet" Dierdre, last words. These may be taken as a deathcurse, for all intents and purposes.
"Yup, the way I see it, the problem with the mountains to the North is that we can't see behind them." Jessica
"Just the sea there-" GeltCarl, trying to forestall Benedict and failing.
"Yes, thank-you, Jessica. Next time I need to know an obvious fact which I could see for myself or solve with a simple question, don't hesitate to think I shall call on you. However, if I need something done which requires intelligence, I shall do it myself. Benedict, sarcasm mode
"William, I shot your mother." Jessica.
"Oh. Never mind." William
"Well well! Two miscalculations in as many days. Something is wrong with the world in general, as it can't have been me." GeltCarl, on the subject of odds.
"To be or not to be... remember me in thy orisons." GeltCarl, last words, alt. Hamlet, soliloquoy
"Good night, sweet Prince, and flights of angels hymn thee to thy rest." Hazard, first words.
"Strikes me that Pointy has just done something really mind-bogglingly stupid. Must have been learning from you." Carrion
"Legolas is dead. But GeltCarl invites you to her funeral and his." William, to "Pointy's" mother.
Right at the beginning of the session, the news was broken to everyone, via Trump, that Random had disappeared.
William, out by Amber, once more climbed to Tir Na-nogth, to see what could be done. He saw Hazard there, and when he touched her with her own sword, which he had borrowed from Brion, she spoke to him, and told him that it was his job to bring her back to life so that she could find and rescue the Unicorn. He needed to make a hollow statue of her and fill it with ichor, and the statue needed to be made of adamantium. With Legolas in tow, he set out for Shadow, to seek what he needed. His alter ego, Carrion, was starting to trouble him, by actually answering rhetorical questions, and generally being a different person while inhabiting the same brain. Brion had headed out into Shadow to look for the Unicorn or the black cloud that had kidnapped it. (Nothing like a good old deathwish) Jessica, Aneirin (son of Corwin) and Bronwyn (probably Random's daughter) were still in the Haven.
Back in Valliard's Haven, Benedict had been pretty badly cut up in battle, and needed to head out into Shadow to heal if he wanted to get back in time to cause serious harm to Crowley. With GeltCarl, and competent general, holding the fort, Benedict Trumped William, and found him trying to bargain with a goddess for her blood. How exactly Benedict got a virgin goddess to flirt with him is unknown, but she gave William enough ichor to do what he needed. (It must be his animal magnetism, because nobody really thinks he's human.) William conveniently forgot to tell Benedict what he needed it for, and Benedict, having stuck around for a while, left, to arrive in the Haven only a few hours after he had left. He found it in a bad way, with Julian, Fiona and Bronwyn all in the infirmary, and Jessica in shock...
It had happened like this; GeltCarl had asked if Jessica would feel safer in the inner Castle, which only she and Alastor knew the way into, and Jessica had gone with her. Once within the actual walls of the Castle, Deirdre had appeared. Thinking in the dim light that the one with the purple cloak was Jessica, she had killed GeltCarl. Jessica had shot her, and as Alastor arrived, grief-stricken over GeltCarl's death, the Elf had woken up, and sworn loudly. The pact she had made with the dark gods over Aurora had also included her, so she had three days to live, and then Yog-Sothoth would take her soul. Naturally, Jessica was distraught, although not as upset as Alastor. GeltCarl did not seem perturbed. The Irregulars were not informed, except the leaders of the DragonLords. The 'Regs continued to hold off the army, now composed mainly of demons, by sheer force of will. GeltCarl made Jessica swear to protect Alastor, who was her ward.
That night at dinner, Jessica seriously annoyed Benedict, by repeatedly stating the obvious. Benedict, rather than killing her, was nasty to the dragon-kittens instead, and he and Marlon, the nominal leader of the DragonLords, ended up playing a variety of ping-pong with them as the balls. Marlon lost. When Benedict left, Jessica found out that he had engraved the table with a map of the Haven, and had written "Opaque" by the mountains, as Jessica had said that that was the bad thing about rock.
Less than a day later, GeltCarl died. It appeared she had miscalculated for a second time. William was present at the time, and so was Benedict. William had pitched up to see if Benedict had any idea where he could get any adamantium. GeltCarl, in true mad style, managed to quote all of Hamlet's Soliloquy before she died, on the grounds that she would never get another chance, and it summed up all her feelings about death. William left, the fight continued, the funeral of GeltCarl had to be delayed for a while, but for some reason, her body did not decay. The battle continued. Bronwyn tried to seduce every male present, because Brion was out in Shadow.
William, meantime, was walking through Shadow looking for a devil or an angel with a burning sword, because everyone knows their swords are made of adamantium. He found, although he didn't know it, a direct devil-Shadow of his uncle Osric, who had somehow managed to survive everything that Oberon threw at him. The devil, calling himself Lord Lux, persuaded William that he wanted to give up half of his immortal soul in exchange for the sword. When Lux had tortured Legolas for a while, William agreed. He took the various things and made a statue, but couldn't make it come to life. He left Legolas in charge of it while he set of for Tir Na-nogth again. He had gone less than twenty yards after leaving the treehouse when a pale yellowish-white light, of the sort that Legolas tended to give out anyhow, shone out, brighter than anything. William walked on, until Carrion remarked that he reckoned "Pointy" had done something very silly. William ran back, to find Hazard collapsed on the floor, and Legolas dying. A sort of Karmic blood transfusion had taken place.
As if to link herself with GeltCarl, Hazard also murmured words which sounded like Hamlet, after the bloodbath bit. Then she walked out of the treehouse. When William went to check on how much she had hurt herself in falling, she had disappeared.
Back in the Haven, morale was non-existent, but Benedict had decided that if they were all to die, Crowley would too, and there was one way of taking out enough demons to get close to the palanquin that presumably bore him. A virtual suicide charge. When he asked for volunteers, everyone stepped forward together. As they started moving, another demon army appeared on the horizon, but they decided to take out the leader of the first and fight their way back.
At the end of the session, most of the PCs were watching the remainder of the Irregulars make a death or glory charge on the main demon army. Hazard was off rescuing the Unicorn while Crowley was occupied. Random was still missing.
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