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| Following the scout, the party discover a heavily-fortified castle, protected by a deadly ichor-minefield. The party try to slowly pick their way through the motion-activated mines, but are forced to speed up by the reappearance of the Forest Hulk. The guard on the door refuses to let them in, so Magda and Heston try to lure the Hulk into the mines while Zosime springheels her way over the wall and Jasine phases right through. This ends poorly for them, though, as a multitude of guards disarm and restrain them, before opening the door to do the same to those outside. | Following the scout, the party discover a heavily-fortified castle, protected by a deadly ichor-minefield. The party try to slowly pick their way through the motion-activated mines, but are forced to speed up by the reappearance of the Forest Hulk. The guard on the door refuses to let them in, so Magda and Heston try to lure the Hulk into the mines while Zosime springheels her way over the wall and Jasine phases right through. This ends poorly for them, though, as a multitude of guards disarm and restrain them, before opening the door to do the same to those outside. | ||
| - | The party are escorted to ‘Grandmaster’ Helioq and ‘Mystikon’ Asher Kelvin, the leaders of what they call the Last Bastion. It becomes apparent that, when this castle was separated from Rastaban and thought lost, they believed that the inverse had occurred, and have been under the impression that Rastaban is lost for quite some time. They have been under Helioq’s control for quite some time, transplanting body parts and using mutations from the huge Wellspring of Black Ichor beneath the castle to fend off the Forest as best they can. The party have no luck convincing them that Rastaban exists, and are taken away to a block of cells so they can be made useful. Zosime, who has rendered herself problematic by cutting through all her restraints with bone daggers, is bundled onto a medical table by surgeons intending to use her lungs as a replacement for Kelvin’s own. | + | The party are escorted to ‘Grandmaster’ Helioq and ‘Mystikon’ Asher Kelvin, the leaders of what they call the Last Bastion. It becomes apparent that, when this castle was separated from Rastaban and thought lost, they believed that the inverse had occurred, and have been under the impression that Rastaban is lost for quite some time. They have been under Helioq’s control since then, transplanting body parts and using mutations from the huge Wellspring of Black Ichor beneath the castle to fend off the Forest as best they can. The party have no luck convincing them that Rastaban exists, and are taken away to a block of cells so they can be made useful. Zosime, who has rendered herself problematic by cutting through all her restraints with bone daggers, is bundled onto a medical table by surgeons intending to use her lungs as a replacement for Kelvin’s own. |
| Zosime turns incorporeal and reforms away from her captors, while the others escape after a colossal Forest incursion attacks the Bastion. Trying to escape, they are confronted by spores that conjure images that appear to force moral dilemmas on them. To leave the illusion, the party choose sides in each of the cases. There does not appear to be a way to choose ‘incorrectly’ as such, but the party are left with the feeling that the Forest has learned something about them. | Zosime turns incorporeal and reforms away from her captors, while the others escape after a colossal Forest incursion attacks the Bastion. Trying to escape, they are confronted by spores that conjure images that appear to force moral dilemmas on them. To leave the illusion, the party choose sides in each of the cases. There does not appear to be a way to choose ‘incorrectly’ as such, but the party are left with the feeling that the Forest has learned something about them. | ||
| - | Following the bodies through the streets, and looking for Zosime, who has gone on ahead, the party enter the Wellspring tower, now on fire and under attack by the Forest. Hearing screams from the upper floors, the party dash through a gauntlet of Forest enemies, dazed and stunned by the now ever-present spores. Zosime, meanwhile, clambers right up to the top floor, arriving to find Kelvin obsessively working over a group of screaming ‘volunteers’ and a pair of large metal cocoons. Jasine is killed as the party fight up to reach Zosime, and the grief-stricken commissioner attempts a guided mutation to make her heart beat again, while the rest of the party confront Kelvin over her experiments. It transpires that she has been working on the Elect, mutant super-soldiers who she hopes will | + | Following the bodies through the streets, and looking for Zosime, who has gone on ahead, the party enter the Wellspring tower, now on fire and under attack by the Forest. Hearing screams from the upper floors, the party dash through a gauntlet of Forest enemies, dazed and stunned by the now ever-present spores. Zosime, meanwhile, clambers right up to the top floor, arriving to find Kelvin obsessively working over a group of screaming ‘volunteers’ and a pair of large metal cocoons. Jasine is killed as the party fight up to reach Zosime, and the grief-stricken commissioner attempts a guided mutation to make her heart beat again, while the rest of the party confront Kelvin over her experiments. It transpires that she has been working on the Elect, mutant super-soldiers who she hopes will drive back the Forest. |
| Fleeing from Kelvin, the party find Elect across the Bastion, pushing back the Forest but also taking every human they find to be converted at the Wellspring. In their attempts to escape, the party are cornered by Elect, who get halfway through converting Magda and Heston before the party guide them through the hole in the wall that the Forest created. | Fleeing from Kelvin, the party find Elect across the Bastion, pushing back the Forest but also taking every human they find to be converted at the Wellspring. In their attempts to escape, the party are cornered by Elect, who get halfway through converting Magda and Heston before the party guide them through the hole in the wall that the Forest created. | ||
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| Magda and Jasine, now also undergoing a slow conversion, chant a mantra designed to keep them sane, while Zosime simply sits down and cries. The group watch as Forest creatures try to fight their way into the Wellspring, seeing Elect marching continually out of the building. | Magda and Jasine, now also undergoing a slow conversion, chant a mantra designed to keep them sane, while Zosime simply sits down and cries. The group watch as Forest creatures try to fight their way into the Wellspring, seeing Elect marching continually out of the building. | ||
| - | Finally, they encounter Kelvin, stood by the wooden supports of the Wellspring with a single Elect. The Elect promises that, now they have the Grandmaster’s memories, they will find their way to Rastaban and make the populace as strong as them. Asher seems onboard with this, until the Elect examines her and proclaims that she is too badly damaged for a full conversion, and will instead be reduced to spare parts. Horrified, Kelvin watches as the party destroy the Chosen, alternately exhorting them to destroy the Wellspring and insisting that they save the future that the Elect offer. As the survivors smash the supports, Asher flees into the Forest, insisting that this is not the end, but merely a beginning. | + | Finally, they encounter Kelvin, stood by the wooden supports of the Wellspring with a single Elect. The Elect promises that, now they have the Grandmaster’s memories, they will find their way to Rastaban and make the populace as strong as them. Asher seems onboard with this, until the Elect examines her and proclaims that she is too badly damaged for a full conversion, and will instead be reduced to spare parts. Horrified, Kelvin watches as the party destroy the Elect, alternately exhorting them to destroy the Wellspring and insisting that they save the future that the Elect offer. As the survivors smash the supports, Asher flees into the Forest, insisting that this is not the end, but merely a beginning. |
| The surviving party members limp back to Rastaban, having deprived the Elect of their only source of Black Ichor. | The surviving party members limp back to Rastaban, having deprived the Elect of their only source of Black Ichor. | ||
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