Session Date: 03/16/2026
Last Time
Faylen spent most of his time in the lab working on things. He needs to recreate the weird sand from the desert as the component to get us back.
We are now in a situation where we have to recreate or get as close as possible to the sand that was in the wasteland, which is impossible within the Jewel station. We were given a ship and talked to Sal’s friend Ava to be our pilot.
We also met Luanne Kincaid, a program that Kincaid built years after we disappeared while he was going by Creator Kincaid. Luanne cannot copy herself and go with us as it’s a big deal with regards to maintaining sentience and individuality. She will only join us if something bad happens to the station.
There’s also something secret with Bosch right now.
Session Start
We get on the small ship to get us to the asteroid belt where the remaining materials are that we need. We get into some space suits and then head on out. The ship jumps and while there are no windows, there are screens that tell us what’s outside. There is nothing outside - no planets, no stars, no nebula - there’s just nothing. It’s actively negative - what the outside of the Dark Demesne looks like, which is the absence of things.
Ava admits that she’s never been here, she runs. They all agree this place is uncomfortable and that running from this is
Bosch and Faylen see what must be the last comet in the universe - it’s a pinprick on the screen and we have to focus on it to see it, but it is exactly what we are looking for. Faylen casts slow on the comet and then we catch up to it. The final (insane) plan is for Faylen to translocate over to the rock, then Bosch will throw Tabby with the end of the rope over. This is successful and Faylen and Bosch both tie the rope around the rock.
Bosch notices that he didn’t secure the rope to the ship and he grabs the comet. He can feel himself start to raise off of the ship and then he feels Talitha gripping his ankle, refusing to let him float into the nothingness.
We work to get the rock inside of the ship and Bosch goes to the front of the ship and throws the non-Euclidean grateaxe that he has to try and damage the nothingness. It goes into the darkness and disappears. Bosch says, “Take that,” as he turns around and climbs back down. In the distance Bosch can see a blink and the axe seems to have entered the Dark Demesne.
We get into the ship and Edeis is excited as she mines the comet. She comments that we need raw materials - any kind of silicate like sand or dirt. She starts to panic a bit as she realizes we have minimal food and air for 3 days and no clue where to look for sand. Mary looks at the screen and sees a fragment of what was once a planet and she asks if that’s what we are looking for. Edeis confirms and we turn to head that way.
On the way, one of the screens starts to flicker. Mary asks if it’s supposed to do that as Faylen taps on the screen to see if it stops flickering. On the screen is Luanne - she’s glitchy, as if not all of her made it. Luanne asks how we’re doing and we explain where we’re at and she says that’s good - the Dark Demesne forces seem to have attacked in large force, and the station wasn’t ready. She thinks that we are the last humanoids still alive and not in the Dark Demesne, but she isn’t sure. She managed to get some of her here and she asks us to convey our message to Kincaid so that she can exist in some form in a good world, not here, as there’s nothing here, not anymore. The screen flickers out and she’s gone.
The rest of the ride to the fragment of a planet is in oppressive silence.
We finally make it and Mary uses the mining equipment (with guidance) to get the correct type of soil we need. Once we have it, Edeis has Faylen help with the ritual. Shaken by what happened with Luanne, it takes him a little longer to get into the groove of the magic.
Black goo starts to ooze through the ship and an appendage that emits the voice of Kain comes in and asks why we are struggling, it’s almost over, it’s just us. He says that they have worked for thousands of years and we do not understand, this is justice - they’ve finally won. We will soon be part of the peaceful existence. There’s some back and forth and Mary ultimately throws some bottled sunlight at the wall and regains some of the wall back.
Faylen realizes the spell is done. Tabby grabs Ava and we all hurry through the portal. Faylen goes last and comments that black wasn’t his color anyway, then he casts a kinetic ram towards where we came from with the portal and it blows the ship apart. Somewhere in there Kain tries to form a piece of himself to come in and he can’t. When the ship is gone there’s nothing, just darkness.
Back Home
When we stop falling, we are in the darkness of a building that seems to be made of stone. Tabby comments that he lost Ava and we speculate where she was and we aren’t sure - perhaps translocated, or maybe a slightly different time.
Faylen looks around and can tell that we’re in a temple of some kind, to some immortal that we don’t recognize. Edeis admits she has no clue where we are. We decide to just move out and Bosch notices that there are a lot of weird squiggly symbols on the walls and he’d expect more statues, but alas.
We do find what seems to be the exit. Tabby opens the door and peeks outside to make sure the coast is clear. The men waiting on the other side immediately raise their spears and demand that we come here. We head out and they ask us how we got here. Mary says something along the lines of we got dropped here by magic and Faylen chimes in to say that the teleport was bad, the math was all screwed up, etc. The leader of the group calls us mad and says that the entire group didn’t need to be here.
Faylen looks around and he notices that they seem to be on an island and there’s a silvery sea nearby and these buildings… He recognizes the place as what had been the Dark Demesne when he was trapped there. He goes pale and looks sick.
The people here explain they have questions for us and, if we continue to believe in magic, they will possibly have aid. They welcome us to the Radiant Demesne.
Silently, Bosch realizes that the thing he got from Luanne has attached itself to him after hitting a time eddy. It’s not active quite yet.