Session 49
Recap
- Coralis
- The Watchmaker
- The fight
Plot Points
- The return to Danu
Coralis
As you take a moment to breathe, with the last of these invaders vanquished. You hear the faint sounds of battle?
Djinn hears triumphant orders - As the nightmare creatures gather round the weak point.
Elswyth hears panicked orders (Celestial) as the gods are fighting
"You called me a villain. A tyrant of time, a man so obsessed with order that I would chain the world to a clockwork fate. Perhaps... you were not wrong."
“But now, you’ve seen what I saw—what I tried to prevent. The storm outside this moment breaks through, and it cares nothing for your choices, nor my calculations. Chaos has no loyalty. It devours the dreamers and the cynics alike.”
(He turns a delicate gear in his palm—one of countless pieces once part of a greater machine.)
"I once believed that the only way to save the future was to shape it—to deny choice, to enforce harmony through certainty"
(A pause. He looks up. His tone softens, not in weakness—but in resolve.)
"We stand on the edge of a future none of us wanted—but together, perhaps we can forge one that still has meaning. Not because it was written... but because we wrote it together."
My message, to the Council of Seven is being delivered as we speak by the Angels. They attend peacefully, in an attempt of allyship against the darker times ahead.
Danu
En route to the Palace, a guard bumps into Zanotah and hands him a note before hurrying around the corner.
It is sealed with the familiar seal of the Crimson Scale
"We have the fruit of the sandbox tree. The salve is ready"
Setting:
A tall stone chamber lit by silver braziers, flickering light casting shadows across banners of old wars and forgotten victories. Rain smears across the high windows. The King and High Priestess stand alone before the throne. Tension hangs thick.
KING: (staring out the rain-streaked glass)
They tried to end her life before it even began. And now—now they dare to offer peace?
HIGH PRIESTESS KORRELL: (calm, unshaken)
Because they fear what comes next. What she may become. They believe she was not meant to be.
KING: (turns sharply)
They believe in a cage. A world nailed down to prophecy and gears. My daughter is not a mistake. She is not their error. She is mine.
KORRELL:
And yet they saw her as a fracture in the weave. A threat to the ordained line. You would call them monsters—
(She steps closer)
—but I ask you, Thalen... would you have done differently, if prophecy said her birth would undo the realm?
KING: (his voice lowers—dangerous, trembling)
You speak too freely for a servant of the gods.
KORRELL: (cold, measured)
And you listen too little for a king on the edge of war.
[Suddenly, the massive doors to the chamber slam open with a thunderclap of wind and rain.]
[A heavy silence falls. Even the braziers seem to dim.]
KING: (stepping forward slowly)
What have they done?
KORRELL: (quietly, to herself)
Or what have we already set in motion?
The Grove
Loot
Soul Echo Pendant
Wondrous Item (rare, requires attunement)
A swirling silver disc that hums in sync with your heartbeat. When held close, you can feel a subtle vibration—like a second pulse waiting beneath your own.
When you are reduced to 0 hit points, the pendant activates automatically:
- Instead of falling unconscious, you drop to 1 HP.
- You immediately become invisible until the end of your next turn.
- The pendant shatters after use, its magic expended.
