Vesperscale |
heroic will save: 1d20 + 22 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 22 + 1 = 34
hero point dave: 1d20 + 22 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 22 + 1 = 43
Vesperscale avoids getting astral bodied and responds with a true target.
True strike for all of us vs the Weaver for 1 round.
Vesperscale follows up with a gouging spellstrike.
heroic spellstrike: 1d20 + 25 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 25 + 1 = 36
true strike: 1d20 + 25 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 25 + 1 = 37
slashing+fire: 3d8 + 6 + 8d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 3) + 6 + (4, 5, 2, 2, 3, 6, 1, 3) + (3) = 41
Aegis - The Erudite Archivist |
Frustrated, Aegis digs deep and amps a simple spell, designed to simply hammer the cocoon:
Amped TK Projectile: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (14) + 22 = 36 for DMG: 13d6 + 5 ⇒ (4, 6, 2, 6, 1, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4, 1, 1, 3) + 5 = 47
His frustration manifests as an extra burst of psychic energy: PsiBurst: 7d4 ⇒ (1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 1) = 18 Basic REF DC 32
Toadclobber Pust |
Toad tries to recall anything about the cocoons…
Esoteric Lore, Holding Coloring Book (M): 1d20 + 24 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 24 + 1 = 32
Failing to find anything, be improvises using a fiery crayon — something that burns silk.
Toadslicer, Holy, Ghosty: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (17) + 25 = 42
S, Empowerment: 3d6 + 4 + 9 ⇒ (4, 4, 5) + 4 + 9 = 26
Good: 1d6 ⇒ 3
Flat: 1d20 ⇒ 17
His big-brained astral form snaps back into his body.
GM Tyranius |
Mental Damage to Cocoon: 5d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 2, 2, 4) = 17
Tenpots mind is completely walled off as the cocoons connection cannot seem to penetrate. While the Weaver fades just out of the path of the bullet he is able to break a small bit of the connection between the Weaver and the Cocoon.
Toadclobber creates his own weakness with one of his brighter crayons as his astral form slices through one of the thick outer layers.
Mental Damage to Toadclobber from Astral Form: 1d6 ⇒ 4
His mind refocuses and snaps his astral form right back inot his body, leaving him feeling a little jolted. Moved your position back to where your body was at.
Vesperscale avoids getting astraled as he weapon flares with powerful magics designed to go for the kill. Unfortunately for her teh Weaver is much faster as he leans back causing the hobgoblins blade to sweep across the air inches above him.
Aegis will save DC 36: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (9) + 23 = 32
Aegis is also ejected from his body. Not letting it disturb him he sends several pieces of psychic debris inot the cocoon.
Reflex DC 32: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (11) + 20 = 31
Will DC 32 vs Ring Bell: 1d20 + 32 ⇒ (2) + 32 = 34
Astral Silk vs Vesperscale AC 32: 1d20 + 32 ⇒ (3) + 32 = 35
Damage (Slashing): 5d4 + 14 ⇒ (2, 3, 1, 1, 2) + 14 = 23
Damage (Mental): 3d6 ⇒ (5, 2, 3) = 10 Resist 3 for 30 damage
Separate Astral Body- DC 36 Will or your Astral Form is pulled out and placed in an adjacent square. Astral Form is immune to physical damage, unless mental force or spirit effects. -1 Will saves and 1d6 Persistent Mental damage as long as you are separated (3d6 if you move more than 30 feet fro your body). Single action to move your astral body equal to your speed. When you stop taking persistent mental damage your astral form snaps back inot its body. If carrying silver larger than a coin, the first time this ability affects you it instead tarnishes the silver protecting you from its effect.
Astral Silk vs Toadclobber AC 33: 1d20 + 32 - 5 ⇒ (20) + 32 - 5 = 47
Damage (Slashing): 5d4 + 14 ⇒ (4, 3, 2, 2, 3) + 14 = 28
Damage (Mental): 3d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 6) = 11 Crit for 78 damage
Separate Astral Body- DC 36 Will or your Astral Form is pulled out and placed in an adjacent square. Astral Form is immune to physical damage, unless mental force or spirit effects. -1 Will saves and 1d6 Persistent Mental damage as long as you are separated (3d6 if you move more than 30 feet fro your body). Single action to move your astral body equal to your speed. When you stop taking persistent mental damage your astral form snaps back inot its body. If carrying silver larger than a coin, the first time this ability affects you it instead tarnishes the silver protecting you from its effect.
The Weaver in Dreams sweeps through, almost in a sort of dance as his pulsing threads wrap around two more of you. Tenpots bell doesn't seem to cause him any concern.
The Cocoon seems to go inot more of a defensive posture as it shields itself. Just as quickly as this happens so too does it disappear from sight. Vesperscale sees right through this invisibility as an invisibility curtain drops around it.
Line placed on map for invisibility curtain and which side is invisible.
★★★
The Boundary! Round 4
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BEFORE YOUR TURN:
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Toadclobber: DC 36 Will vs Astral Form
Vesperscale: DC 36 Will vs Astral Form
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BOLD IS UP!:
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Weaver in Dreams (-0 HP) │ Weakness 8 (Tenpots)
Cocoon (-146 HP) │ Weakness 8 (Toadclobber)
➤ Tenpot (136/136 HP) │ Heroism +1
➤ Toadclobber (52/176 HP)
➤ Vesperscale (112/179 HP) │ Minor Sturdy Shield Hardness 13, HP 104/104 | Resist Slashing 3 |
➤ Aegis (52/120 HP) │ Astral Form (1d6 Persistent Mental) | Resist Mental 6 |
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Vesperscale |
heroic will: 1d20 + 22 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 22 + 1 = 40
Success becomes Critical Success.
Vesperscale continues to ignore the magics splayed against her as she changes targets, steps up to the Cocoon and attacks.
heroic shielding strike: 1d20 + 25 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 25 + 1 = 39
piercing+fure: 3d8 + 6 + 1d6 ⇒ (3, 3, 2) + 6 + (5) = 19
Vesperscale grasps at the escaping energy and enters her arcane cascade.
Shield up (AC 34) will block and trigger Dazzling Block DC 31
Toadclobber Pust |
Will (M): 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (6) + 24 = 30 can I make a f@*+ing will save!?
Gah! Where did you go?
Toad suspecting there's magic afoot pushes forward and then sees his target.
He shows it a picture in his coloring book of a goblin and a cocoon holding hands with smiley faces and a sun outside. (Why does the cocoon have hands? Mysteries of the Coloring Tome.)
Can't we be friends?
Diplomacy (U): 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (20) + 18 = 38
He cough up some blood, hoping to survive long enough to battle medicine himself in a round.
Stride, 2-action diplomacy
Mental: 1d6 ⇒ 4
Flat: 1d20 ⇒ 12
Tenpot Chans |
Tenpot reloads his pistol as he moves around to the far side of the wall, calling out to Killia once more.
◆Running Reload, ◆◆Diplomacy
Implement's Interruption
Pistol: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (6) + 25 = 31
Piercing (concussive), Implement’s Empowerment: 3d6 + 9 ⇒ (1, 1, 1) + 9 = 12
Electricity from Shock rune: 1d6 ⇒ 1
Plus highest weakness or 8 from Exploit Vulnerability (if applicable)
Fatal d10 on crit
Electricity crit damage (to target and up to 2 other creatures within 10 feet): 2d6 ⇒ (5, 2) = 7
Plus highest weakness or 8 from Exploit Vulnerability (if applicable)
Your implement sings out abruptly, disrupting your foe. The piece played depends on whether the trigger was a Strike or Spell, and it applies to the triggering Strike or Spell, except where noted otherwise.
Pistol Status:Loaded
Diplomacy vs. cocoon, heroism: 1d20 + 20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 20 + 1 = 26
GM Tyranius |
Aegis is up.
Also you all get maxed out at 3 Hero Points for being heroic and going all of these straight through. This is the final fight go all out.
Aegis - The Erudite Archivist |
Aegis digs deep, unleashing all he has left in the tank. The foe is too powerful for spells that only affect the weak, so he aims another blast, this time fully unleashing his psyche:
Amped and Unleashed TKP: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (5) + 22 = 27
Amped and Unleashed TKP: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (13) + 22 = 35 for DMG if hit: 13d6 + 5 + 14 ⇒ (2, 6, 4, 1, 3, 4, 2, 6, 3, 1, 1, 1, 4) + 5 + 14 = 57
He then pushes to reunite mind and spirit.
GM Tyranius |
Tenpots rushes around trying to reload as Toadclobber once again gets rejected by his body.
Cocoon Mental Damage: 5d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 5, 4, 6) = 20 Crit for 40
Though Tenpots isn't able to get through to the cocoon, Toadclobers voice breaks through the barrier as the pulsating cocoon quivers violently. Vesperscale keeps her shield up and sweeps her sharp blade through the next layer of the cocoon. You can fainly see the outline of Killian within.
Aegis' amped up telekenetic projectile gets close but misses the Weaver as it disappears behind the curtain of invisibility.
The Weaver shifts closer to Aegis and completely severs his tie to the astral plane. Aegis' astral body violently slams back into his mortal shell.
Aegis Mental Damage: 16d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 1, 4, 3, 4, 4, 2, 5, 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 6, 1) = 46 DC 37 Basic Will
★★★
The Boundary! Round 5
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BEFORE YOUR TURN:
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Aegis: DC 37 Basic Will vs 46 damage
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BOLD IS UP!:
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Weaver in Dreams (-0 HP) │ Weakness 8 (Tenpots)
Cocoon (-221 HP) │ Weakness 8 (Toadclobber)
➤ Tenpot (136/136 HP) │ Heroism +1
➤ Toadclobber (48/176 HP) │ Astral Form (1d6 Persistent Mental)
➤ Vesperscale (112/179 HP) │ Minor Sturdy Shield Hardness 13, HP 104/104 | Resist Slashing 3 |
➤ Aegis (52/120 HP) │ Resist Mental 6 |
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Tenpot Chans |
Tenpot fires off a shot at the weaver, as much to distract them as anything else, as he calls out again to Killia "WAKE UP!"
◆Strike vs. Weaver, ◆◆Diplo vs. cocoon
Pistol, heroism: 1d20 + 25 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 25 + 1 = 46 +2 status bonus vs. target of Exploit Vulnerability
Piercing (concussive), Implement’s Empowerment: 3d6 + 9 ⇒ (1, 4, 1) + 9 = 15
Electricity from Shock rune: 1d6 ⇒ 5
Plus highest weakness or 8 from Exploit Vulnerability (if applicable)
Electricity crit damage (to target and up to 2 other creatures within 10 feet): 2d6 ⇒ (2, 2) = 4
Plus highest weakness or 8 from Exploit Vulnerability (if applicable)
On hit, -2 vs. Ring Bell for 1 round (-3 on crit)
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Diplomacy, heroism: 1d20 + 20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 20 + 1 = 33
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Your implement sings out abruptly, disrupting your foe. The piece played depends on whether the trigger was a Strike or Spell, and it applies to the triggering Strike or Spell, except where noted otherwise.
Pistol Status: Unloaded
Vesperscale |
Vesperscale continues the assault against the cocoon, this time her weapon biting and clawing as well.
spellstrike vs Cocoon: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (16) + 25 = 41
piercing+piercing+fire+force: 3d8 + 6 + 8d6 + 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (8, 6, 6) + 6 + (2, 4, 3, 6, 6, 3, 4, 3) + (1) + 2 = 60
8 bleed
Vesperscale holds onto their power.
Recharge spellstrike
GM Tyranius |
Aegis and Toadclobber are up.
Aegis - The Erudite Archivist |
Basic Will: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (10) + 23 = 33 Net 40 DMG
Near death, Aegis quickly releases his psyche to soothe his own wounds: Soothe: 4d10 + 16 ⇒ (4, 1, 3, 4) + 16 = 28 Net HP: 40
With next to nothing left in the tank, he tries to simply lash out with some ambient energy:
PsiBurst: 7d4 ⇒ (4, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1) = 14 Basic REF DC 32
Toadclobber Pust |
believe I moved the ethereal token not the corporeal token last time, he went around the curtain before doing a diplomacy.
Toad drops his toadslicer.
Medicine (M) DC 30: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (15) + 23 = 38
Healing: 2d8 + 30 ⇒ (5, 6) + 30 = 41
He pleads with the cocoon. Look I dropped my toadslider mr. cloth box.
Diplomacy (U): 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (16) + 18 = 34
GM Tyranius |
Mental Damage: 5d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 1, 3, 2) = 9
Mental Damage: 5d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 1, 1, 3) = 15
Tenpots blasts the Weaver, causing it to hunch over in pain from the bullet. Electricity coarses out of the wound inot the cocoon. Toadclobber and Tenpots both plead with the Cocoon to break its hold and free himself from the Weaver's grasp.
Toadclobber Astral Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2
Flat Check DC 15: 1d20 ⇒ 1
Vesperscales blade breaks through the cocoon's final layer. It splits open with a wet crunch, the fibers breaking and letting loose like strings. Killia’s cut-away individuality rejoins the Weaver, flooding the Weaver with foreign emotions. Sickened 2 for the rest of Combat.
Reflex DC 32: 1d20 + 29 - 2d6d1d6 ⇒ (13) + 29 - (6, 2, 4, 3, 4, 4, 1) = 18
Flat Check DC 15: 1d20 ⇒ 5
The nameless dreamer screams, holding his head. Looking up in anger he rushes in and severs Toadclobbers astral tie, slamming it back into his body.
Toadclobber Mental Damage: 16d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 2, 6, 4, 6, 1, 2, 1, 5, 2, 3, 6, 2, 4, 4) = 57 DC 35 Basic Will
★★★
The Boundary! Round 6
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BEFORE YOUR TURN:
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Toadclobber: DC 35 Will vs 57 Damage
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BOLD IS UP!:
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Weaver in Dreams (-137 HP) │ Weakness 8 (Tenpots) | Sickened 2
➤ Tenpot (136/136 HP) │ Heroism +1
➤ Toadclobber (87/176 HP)
➤ Vesperscale (112/179 HP) │ Minor Sturdy Shield Hardness 13, HP 104/104 | Resist Slashing 3 |
➤ Aegis (28/120 HP) │ Resist Mental 6 |
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CONDITIONS & EFFECTS REFERENCE
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Tenpot Chans |
Tenpot moves forward as he reloads, firing again and just as quickly reloading once more.
◆Running Reload, ◆Strike, ◆Reload
Pistol, heroism: 1d20 + 25 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 25 + 1 = 46 +2 status bonus vs. target of Exploit Vulnerability
Piercing (concussive), Implement’s Empowerment: 3d6 + 9 ⇒ (5, 6, 5) + 9 = 25
Electricity from Shock rune: 1d6 ⇒ 3
Plus highest weakness or 8 from Exploit Vulnerability (if applicable)
Electricity crit damage (to target and up to 2 other creatures within 10 feet): 2d6 ⇒ (3, 6) = 9
Plus highest weakness or 8 from Exploit Vulnerability (if applicable)
On hit, -2 vs. Ring Bell for 1 round (-3 on crit)
Implement's Interruption
Pistol, heroism: 1d20 + 25 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 25 + 1 = 36
Piercing (concussive), Implement’s Empowerment: 3d6 + 9 ⇒ (5, 2, 4) + 9 = 20
Electricity from Shock rune: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Plus highest weakness or 8 from Exploit Vulnerability (if applicable)
Fatal d10 on crit
Electricity crit damage (to target and up to 2 other creatures within 10 feet): 2d6 ⇒ (3, 3) = 6
Plus highest weakness or 8 from Exploit Vulnerability (if applicable)
Your implement sings out abruptly, disrupting your foe. The piece played depends on whether the trigger was a Strike or Spell, and it applies to the triggering Strike or Spell, except where noted otherwise.
Pistol Status: Loaded
Vesperscale |
Vesperscale steps through time and space, reappearing in better shape as she takes a strike at the Weave.
Casting Momentary Recovery and usingCantorian Rejuvenation as I teleport adjacent.
healing: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 1, 3) = 9
+10 temp hp
strike: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (12) + 25 = 37
slashing+fire+force: 3d8 + 6 + 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4, 4, 1) + 6 + (5) + 2 = 22
Will Emergency Targe if attacked for AC 34
Slowed 1
GM Tyranius |
Toadclobber and Aegis are up.
GM Tyranius |
Tenpot reloads and blasts the Weaver through the back doing significant damage. Vesperscale teleports through space and time healing her own wounds. Reappearing beside the Weaver Vesperscale's blade slices through the Weaver's arm separating it from its body. The weaver appears to barely be hanging on by a thread of life to this strange realm.
★★★
The Boundary! Round 6
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BEFORE YOUR TURN:
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Toadclobber: DC 35 Will vs 57 Damage
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BOLD IS UP!:
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Weaver in Dreams (-331 HP) │ Weakness 8 (Tenpots) | Sickened 2
Tenpot (136/136 HP) │ Heroism +1
➤ Toadclobber (87/176 HP)
Vesperscale (121/179 HP) │ Minor Sturdy Shield Hardness 13, HP 104/104 | Resist Slashing 3 | Temp HP 10
➤ Aegis (28/120 HP) │ Resist Mental 6 |
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CONDITIONS & EFFECTS REFERENCE
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Aegis - The Erudite Archivist |
Stupified 1: 1d20 ⇒ 7
Seeing the barrage, Aegis focuses his mind on a spell he knows oh-so-well, though he has little psychic energy left:
Lvl 3 MM: 6d4 + 6 ⇒ (3, 3, 2, 3, 4, 4) + 6 = 25
He then tries to lash out with a bit more: PsiBurst: 7d4 ⇒ (1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 4, 3) = 18 Basic REF DC 32.
GM Tyranius |
The Weaver is a cruel foe and Aegis' magic missiles quickly bring it down.
After the final blow against the Weaver is struck, he doubles over and begins to retch. A single silkworm larva, as large as a snake, emerges from his mouth, and as it does, the Weaver’s features begin to fade from his host’s body. Once the larva fully exits his mouth, a very human Killia Huon-Wynn lies face down on the stone. The Weaver begins to inch away as the dreamscape shatters, revealing an ordinary subterranean cavern once more.
Aegis - The Erudite Archivist |
"Killia Huon-Wynn?" Aegis goes over to check for signs of life.
Tenpot Chans |
Tenpot calmly steps over and brings his boot down, hard, on the larva.
GM Tyranius |
As the Weaver inches away in larval form Tenpot stes over and crushes it with a sickening splat. Juices and bits of the larvae cling and stretch between his boot and the floor as he pulls away.
With this, his present incarnation on the Material Plane is defeated, his essence scattered back to the Dimension of Dreams to return anew, if not for many years.
Killia soon awakens. “My fellow archivists... thank you for freeing me from that nightmare’s grasp. But while my body was... infested,” a shiver runs through Killia as he fiddles nervously with his beard, “I saw. I saw that what you’ve defeated was merely his projection onto this plane, and in time, he’ll be back. If we’re to face him again, we’ll need allies.” The archivist sighs wearily before a look of determined resolve crosses his face. “But you’ve proven capable of handling all the mysteries that the darkness can throw at us. It’s time to build a new Dark Archive. Let’s get to work.”
That is the end of this scenario! Hope you all enjoyed. If you had gottena bit more research in there is an alternate ending. Let me know if you would like me to post it in spoilers.
Aegis - The Erudite Archivist |
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In the aftermath of the events, Aegis retreats to a hut he used to train at on the island of Jalmaray. There he writes down his version of events as objectively and as completely as possible. He sends each of other others a copy.
After completing his writing he finds himself unready to leave. Days become weeks, and weeks become months. He spends most of his time meditating, training, and cogitating.
It is quiet day when the first student arrives at his doorstep. Word of his psychic power and training eventually makes it out into the world. Perhaps it is from his account of the events, or perhaps it's someone noticing him on one of his supply trips into town. He takes the student in and in time has a cohort of six.
He finds himself fulfilled by the training. The schedule is physically and mentally demanding. In time students take their leave as new ones begin.
There are days where Aegis thinks of what is out there, and if he should return to the world to test his mettle again. Those days are few and far between, but they are there...
Tenpot Chans |
Allies
The word echoes in Tenpot's ears, long after parting from Killia's company.
Allies
Tenpot once again locks his dockside apartment, a satchel over one shoulder and a pistol on his hip. He takes a deep breath of salt air as he makes his way down to the docks. A few quiet inquiries later, he signs on to the crew of a freighter bound for Niswan. From there, who knows? Jalmaray? Deeper into Casmaron? Or southwest, to Holomog or Droon?
Allies
Vesperscale |
With the time and wounds of many battles catching up with her Vesperscale retires to a quiet village on the Varisian Coast spending the rest of her surprisingly long lived days fishing and writing little horror stories based on their experiences in the Dark Archive.
GM Tyranius |
20 Research Points “Another scrap. A bandit camp outside Nagisa was approached by a marble statue of Grandmother Spider. She offered to tie the bandits more closely to each other, that they might know what each other felt at all times, but when the bandits accepted, they found their very souls had been tied out of their bodies, causing them pain that grew greater the farther they wandered from their souls. Curiously, one was unaffected, finding instead that a silver mirror he had stolen had tarnished beyond recognition. The remaining bandits, unable to move more than thirty paces from their souls, died of hunger while the statue watched.” This research should clue the PCs in to the Weaver’s Separate Astral Body ability and the defense that a silver item can provide against it.
25 Research Points “I’m so close to the truth. A lone shaman in the Crown of the World attempted to draw the Weaver, then in the form of a bleached willow tree with braided roots, out of his son and contain him within himself instead, having discovered the entity’s true name using Erutaki dreamwalking. However, the shaman’s power alone was not enough to contain the entity, causing the Weaver to simply eat away at the shaman, taking him over instead. A promising start to defeating this creature, if not an end.” All PCs gain the action Seal the Weaver.
30 Research Points “Success! Possibly. Noted in Dtang Ma, a swarm of silver weaver birds erupted from a wandering merchant at a market, stole bits of ‘individuality’ from all present, and attempted to construct a new, wicker-shaped body from the stolen pieces. What ‘individuality’ here means, I am unsure. The wicker body began to display powerful psychic magic, but local sorcerers devised a rune of containment, drawn in a drop of the merchant’s blood—a sympathetic connection to the host, no doubt—that could block the birds’ passage and defend against the wicker’s spells when drawn over the heart.” This research should give the PCs a hint to the nature of the Weaver’s dual existence in both Killia and the spellcasting cocoon. It also grants them knowledge of the rune of containment, which any PC can draw in a process taking 5 minutes using Killia’s blood sample in area A9. Subsequent runes take only 1 minute to draw, meaning the party can likely apply runes to themselves in 10 minutes. Once applied, the rune becomes a complex, nine-part tattoo over the heart that grants a +1 circumstance bonus to Will saves against both the Weaver and the Cocoon.
35 Research Points “Shun-Merac. His true name is Shun-Merac. But he’s done something. Torn off his own name. Now no one can say it, write it, record it, other than his host himself. Myself. But as he lies close to his mortal form’s death, his name can be returned to him.” All PCs gain the action Return the Weaver’s Name. However, as long as the Weaver has at least 1 Hit Point, it is impossible to say or express his true name in any form, regardless of distance—attempting to do so will result in the sound not ringing out, ink blurring on a page, or similar stymieing, and the person who attempted to express the name will take 10 mental damage, automatically bypassing any resistances or immunities (even if the utterer is mindless).
Having discovered the Weaver’s true name and nature, you realize that in this moment of vulnerability, he can be sealed into a new host, one who can contain his power
As the Weaver’s name is spoken aloud, the syllables ring out clearly for the first time in centuries. The name resounds and echoes against the walls of the underground cavern before wrapping around the larva as truly as any net or chain, returning the entity’s name to him.
You have but a moment to decide, however brief— One of you will chose to become a living vessel as per the archetype. You also gain access to the Living Vessel archetype.
As you seal Shun-Merac, his telepathic scream is as broken glass against the mind. Silver cords erupt from you, wrapping around the entity until he’s nothing but a mass of astral thread. Slowly at first, then faster and faster, the ball unravels, its threads flowing into you. When the unraveling is complete, nothing is left of Shun-Merac but a moth-shaped scar within the tattoo over your heart, a hexagonal glint when the light hits your eye just right, and a futile, raging scream in your mind that grows softer and softer until it is no more.
A moment later, Killia gasps to life on the pavement. “Is it over? Is he gone?” Killia weakly gets to his feet. “But he can’t be defeated. I discovered it in my research, and I saw it while trapped within my own mind. If his body is destroyed, he simply reconstitutes, there’s no time to waste—”
He listens as you explain what you have discovered and contained the Weaver within yourselves, and for a long moment after, Killia is silent. When he finally speaks, pride chokes the once-lone archivist’s voice. “I couldn’t ask for better successors. The Weaver was the most dangerous mystery to put to rest, and you have done so. But this world is still full of possibility, full of the unknown—and we have an Archive to fill.”
“Now,” Killia says, as emotion and excitement chase the weariness away from his face, “let us begin, my dear and fellow Dark Archivists.”