Session Date: 08/18/2025
Last We Left Off
Faylen was burned out of existence with Bosch trapped in the box, building a clunkerjunker (car). Mary and Tabby were recruited by Ron. Bosch used the clunkerjunker to escape the prison.
The party sans Faylen then ran through the castle where he was chased by a number of people including soldiers, the kitchen staff, ne’er do wells from the groups trying to recruit him, and a special type of Warhawks soldier. He went up the stairs of a tower where he found a piece of the Seal of Infinity that the Warhawks hold. The piece was joined and then they barricaded themselves in a tower. The Lady had threatened to destroy everyone because they refused to play along, but she is not physically there.
Faylen
In front of a cell is a figure with a hood on, with a very big cigar being lit. The figure says that he’s been nixed and explains that a lot of people want him and the entire party. Faylen has a small conversation with the figure pointing out that Faylen annoyed Kaymanth and Kaymanth does say hi. This makes Faylen grumpy and the figure asks what Faylen expected when annoying an immortal.
The figure leaves and Faylen focuses on Salaavethor and tries to get ahold of him. Sal’s voice shows up in Faylen’s head and he asks how Faylen got here. Faylen asks he doesn’t know how he got here, then asks where he is. Sal comments that Faylen’s in a prison plane and that the person that Faylen spoke to is likely the one that created it. The two of them talk theory for a moment before the attention turns into pulling Faylen out. He’s going to need to pull Faylen through a shadow into a transitional plane then back out.
A shadowy hand shows up and Faylen takes it. It pulls him into a shadowy corridor and he walks through. He’s moving through essentially a corridor and Faylen’s mind more or less can’t really take it since he exists in one time and place. He hears Kaymanth threaten to kill him and starts to run, with Sal pleading him not to lose concentration. Faylen suddenly seems to fall as Sal’s voice disappears.
The Dark Demesne
He falls for an unknown period of time and then stands up to find an ocean of glass. There are fumes - dark red - moving around. Before him is what is maybe a structure built with some kind of dark metal. Faylen understands that he’s suddenly in the original place of the Dark Demesne. He begins to walk through here and doesn’t see anyone despite knowing they exist.
He recalls that the air was toxic when given a taste of what the denizens of the Dark Demesne want to turn the material plane into, but he can function here. This place is abandoned, but he cannot tell how long its been abandoned.
He explores. Two months pass in this place: he doesn’t need to eat, but he does come to understand certain things. He doesn’t have enough context to understand the writing or culture (there absolutely is culture here) and it changes him. While he fends for himself, there is nothing that is a particular threat. It’s just lonely: whatever happened here happened a long time ago.
He eventually hears two voices: Sal, and Kaine. Sal suddenly bounds towards me explaining that he thought I was with the six armed people that think of me as an infidel. Faylen’s now a devil to them. Don’t worry about it.
Kaine explains that he doesn’t know much of what happened to the denizens of the Dark Demesne: it’s called The Great Sadness. They cannot live here any longer, therefore they need another place for themselves.
Sal gets Faylen a card to a therapist he knows for this exact situation and then there’s a little more back and forth before Faylen is sent back.
The Full Party
Faylen appears in the tower with the party. There’s a quick abbreviated explanation as to what’s going on: the stairs down are barricaded and we can go up if we would like, or there’s a window. Bosch throws half of the clunkerjunker out of a window and creates a large noise to at least scare a few of the Warhawks off. We discuss what to do.
Faylen’s eyes glow for a moment and all of our items appear and Sal admits that he used Faylen as a conduit and it’s a habit he’s trying to break - Faylen says he should be more upset, but he’s here, so he’s happy.
We go upstairs and find it to be a dilapidated observatory. We look around and Mary manipulates the wood into a bridge to the next tower over. Tabby crosses and takes a rope to help with the crossing and we all get across. Bosch throws the eternal eruption at the knuckleheads that get through the barricade, doesn’t quite make it, and the bridge catches on fire. He runs across and we all make it into the tower.
We begin going down the tower stairs and we notice that it sees more use, but there are no people currently here. There are a few of the party guests staying in this tower, but the Warhawks themselves don’t live here. There is one person here that is reading the newspaper on their bed and we run past with a hello and asking where the nearest exit is, and he points down.
We sneak through the castle with Talitha showing us the way to the stables so that we can figure out what we are going to do. There’s so much chaos going on around in the castle that we manage to sneak through the entire place: people are dueling, there’s a shattered pane of glass being picked up, and so many other things. We see Lady Ikbur as we are sneaking through and she is greatly upset.
The group makes it to the stables and we see pegasi and Mary begins to speak to them. The pegasus she speaks to explains that they are working with the Warhawks and a contract has been signed. Bosch chimes in to explain that it would be a great help to their employers because we have caused nothing but trouble, he’s so clumsy. The pegasus comments that he understands: he loves tea parties but there’s no fingers. Faylen comments that he understands the need for tea and it must be terrible to have such poor luck. Bosch offers some dreamtime tea for after they help us and he leaves it in the stable for them.
The pegasi take us to Cragmouth (the new city that’s been built on our way to here). As we are leaving the hold we hear a small explosion, we hear Lady Ikbur is angry, we see the giant that Bosch angered getting closer to the keep and attacking the door.
Cragmouth
We make it back to the city and the pegasi set us down. Breakwater Company has arrived at the door of the city: siege engines and the dwarves are here, ready to take this city.