Frayed Ends
Frayed Ends
| Frayed Ends | |
|---|---|
| Date | 3/12/26 |
| Storyteller | Tire |
| Tier | Master |
| Player Characters | Vliegen the Windborne, Sanguine, Rowyn Lloch |
| Rewards | 350 exp, Sturdy Shield (Greater), Jaathoom's Scarf, Eidolon Cape, Ruby Capacitor (Greater), 2x Greater Ethereal Crescent, 2x Vanishing Coins |
| Result | Technically a success, we'll get there |
| Author | Vliegen (Slayzo) |
| Downtime | 6 |
Associates help a Jotunborn out, getting a much longer trip than expected.
Log
Alright, where do I start on this? Uhhh, guess I'll just start from the beginning. We went to meet up with these tooth fairies to see if Groth could borrow their portal to go home, but they had an issue with some "bad fey" taking over the portal area. Obviously we're great at killing stuff, it's basically all we get paid to do, so we told 'em we could handle this. So we went to go fight some problem children, ended up looking dead in the eyes (kinda) of a weird ghosty-hydra thing and some dudes with hyena faces on the back of their heads. Not too bad, Groth helped us out with his bow, and we eventually handled them all. Rowyn and Valena (and this crazy strong Vordine Sanguine summoned) handled the hydra since I couldn't cauterize the heads at all after cuttin' 'em, and I hunted down the last hyena-face that tried to run into the forest. He was waaaay too slow, so once he got caught in my rhythm he was pretty screwed. Too slow to run, too slow to turn and rush me either. Bet Hshurha loved that show! Anyway I got lost and had to find my way back, apparently Groth gave the fairies something to get the portal up and running and they got to work in the meantime.
Once I got back I started healing some wounds, Groth told us some cool stuff about the Jotunborn and their whole deal. Apparently when the gods made reality, the Titans were pretty much the first things they made. They were the carpenters of reality, more or less. They got to work building everything, then some got real mad and started a rebellion. The gods exploded them or something, put away the bad ones and let the good ones that didn't rebel go hang out in Elysium or something. Fair enough, I guess. So the Titans were a bust, but building still needed to happen, so the Gigas got created next. Super big, but not as super big as the Titans, definitely couldn't rebel. Once they were done building they went into a long sleep, but before one did it made the Jotunborn to keep the work going. They helped make the material plane we all live on now, pretty cool dudes for that in my opinion, then made a demiplane to go hide out in known as "The Fray". It's the opposite side of the material plane from the ethereal plane, like a mirror. A mirthereal plane. Anyway the lower planes Giga, like hell and stuff, started stirring in its sleep occasionally and that coincided with the apocalypses, but they're pretty sure it's just a coincidence and not actually the cause. Maybe the apocalypse for Gigas is bad dreams or something.
After we got all this cool information that I really don't know what to do with, some weird machine guy with an electric crossbow showed up and started telling us to close the portal and leave it alone, stop trying to open the portal to your friend's home dimension, all that stuff we obviously weren't gonna do. Normally I'd just throw a guy like that really far away and be a little mean, but he brought these two giant metal centaur guys with spike chains for hands to fight us. To make matters worse, he distracted the tooth fairies and the portal blew a bunch of them up! Now granted, they were doing a pretty bad job of attuning it to the fray in the first place, but now they were running and the portal was doing all kinds of crazy stuff like shooting acid or I think water? I hope water? Anyway, me, Rowyn and Valena start beating down these weird centaur guys that rushed us, while Sanguine goes and tries to get the robot guy to stop fucking with the portal and let her fix it. Groth also tries to get him to stop, and gets shot for it. Seeing that these guys are really stubborn assholes, we kill the muscle and go to deal with big shot over there, but the portal gets really fucky right about that point. Sanguine got it to chill out for a second, but it locked onto something with a really big eye. The big eye really didn't like us peeping at it, so it blew up the portal and created some crazy vacuum effect that pulled us all inside. And I'm real good at handling wind currents, so you know it was strong. I think it even took the ground Rowyn dug into with 'em, crazy stuff.
If it makes anyone feel any better, and I know it made me feel better, on the way in our freefall situation inside the portal, the machine guy hit a tree and gets flung somewhere way off into the distance. He definitely wont come up again. Anyway Groth figures out where we are, and I'm glad he did because I couldn't fly in here for whatever reason, and tells us to just imagine we're on the ground or flying or stuff like that. I don't really remember what the explanation was, but we were in the ethereal plane! The opposite to the mirthereal plane! We're pretty beat to shit after two fights and that crazy scene, so we rest for...I guess you could say 8-ish hours? Time's weird, the big yellow sun thing never moves. We set off the next "morning" though, and ran into some green skull-faced misty lizard-goat things. Phantom Beasts, things that are basically just pretending to still be old animals after getting lost on the way to whatever heaven animals go to. Heaven, I guess. I should ask someone where animals go when they die, do we have an animal-religion person in town? Actually I'll figure it out later, it's fine.
Oh right the Phantom Beasts. So we ended up fighting them because they're kinda aggressive and do weird mental spell stuff, then some phase spider things showed up and started swarming around. I'm pretty used to flying so this weird changing-gravity-to-fly rule the ethereal plane has didn't really bother me, and made it pretty easy to dodge all the spiders. Couldn't really rest after we did it though, ghost hands in the fog, by the way don't go into the ethereal fog it'll take you or something, start reaching out to get us. We had to run for like 5 minutes before spotting an opening up ahead, Groth said it was The Fray so we just went for it. Ended up in a nice pavilion with a giant blue lady playing some music. Okay I'm gonna go look into this animal god thing real quick, I'll finish the report when I get an answer or get bored.
Frayed Beginnings
| Frayed Beginnings | |
|---|---|
| Date | 4/2/26 |
| Storyteller | Tire |
| Tier | Master |
| Player Characters | Vliegen the Windborne, Sanguine, Rowyn Lloch |
| Rewards | 250 xp, Homeward Wayfinder, auroch's might tattoo (moderate), aeon stone (pale lavender ellipsoid) |
| Result | Inverse success? Successn't? We got him there, then he came back. |
| Author | Vliegen (Slayzo) |
| Downtime | 15 |
Associates learn even more about the Jotunborn culture, then someone tries to kill them for existing.
Log
Okay so there's a lot of animal gods. Apparently the best answer to the question of "Where do animals go when they die" is "it depends". Back to The Fray, we got to meet this nice Jotunborn woman named Sylvie! She's good at playing the piano apparently, and gave us a rundown on things. She also called us "smallfolk", but I guess that makes sense since we're pretty dang small comparatively. So they work for a gigas called "Atropos", or that's the name they gave it at least. The big guy's probably real upset if he finds out we're in The Fray, so we gotta get outta here. So we all set out, Sylvie even joining us for the trip, to meet up with a nomadic tribe of Jotunborn to get their help. Things get "dark" by time we get to the camp site (the sun is just like, less visible) and we settle in for the night to rest. I just kinda hang out outside and watch the sky while I wait for everyone to wake up, so I got to really observe how weird it is. Basically nothing up there moves, the sun definitely doesn't. I don't even think it's an actual sun, but I don't know what it is to be honest.
After a night's rest and half the camp getting weirded out by Rowyn's hour-long diabolic roast session he hosts in his tent every morning, we got to meet up with the Jarl of the tribe, Gunthar. This guy glows dark blue, as opposed to Groth's yellow and Sylvie's lighter blue. Probably some significance to that, but I couldn't tell ya. Anyway the weather's gonna be foggy as can be based on my chime's prediction, so we talk with Gunthar and he lets us hang out in their group for a few days. They're gonna travel to a place where the line between realities is thinner and get us out that way, but we gotta lay low and not alert Atropos to our existence. Gunthar's sure we'd get at least kicked out, if not smited.
Along the way, we do some observing and thinking. I think their weird shaggy aurochs are pretty cool, they're a bit bigger than ours. We also end up suspecting the yellow skin and big saggy eyes hint to some creature called the "oliphaunt of Jandelay" in an apocalypse archive demiplane. stores apocalyptic worlds or something? Sounds funky, and way above my pay grade. Anyway on day 8 out of 10 on our big trip, a letter rolls in that lets Gunthar know the metal guy with the stick up his ass about portals went and visited Atropos. Got a "pet", probably a wyvern or something. I figure he got hired out to go hunt us down if he didn't just immediately get kicked out, and the big Jarl agrees with me, so we're getting a move on even quicker now. On day 10 we're finally getting close to the opening, then that asshole finally shows up to kill us. We spot him ahead of time luckily, so we separate from the crowd to fight him in a nice open area. Brought an umbral dragon with him apparently, so that's cool. Rowyn couldn't identify any weaknesses of it, which I really wish it had one because it was pretty sturdy. During the fight we eventually hit the machine guy with electricity, which he's weak to. The guy that shoots electric bolts. Yeah it confused me too, considering I shoot a lot of lightning and I resist electricity pretty dang well.
Anyway we killed both of 'em and rejoined the tribe, and Groth decided to join us! There was this whole journey of self-discovery along the way for him involving how he was basically sent outta the Fray with no plans for him to ever come back, and he felt kinda abandoned about it (which I don't blame him for, that sucks buddy!) so he wanted to head back with us. His job was to figure out this apocalypse business and help us put a stop to it, and he was gonna do his job. He also has a key to the fray with him now, so that'll solve that problem if it comes up again. But yeah, we went through a little slip in reality, got back to the material plane, then headed straight back home. Crazy adventure, but we technically did get Groth home so I call that a job complete!