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WAR COUNCIL
09/09/2015
Transcript below
Attendance
Anstarra Silverain
Nihka Mioni
Enju Abbagliato
Edda Eglantine
Franz Renatus
Leanne Delphium
Leggerless Hanzou (Elise)
Kiht Jakkya
Sarnai Kha
R’shesha Otharn
Zanzan Yanzan
Ashmira Honzen
Riordyn Ashentyr
Orrin Halgren
Spahro Llorn
Liadan Summerfield
Beginning: Episode 1: A Tree Burns in Gridania
Leanne speaking. Her, Elise, Nihka, Edda, Franz.
Wailers fighting treants. Sacred tree with unquenchable (by conjurers) purple flame. Conjurers consumed.
Leanne suggested draining Aether, Franz did so.
Residue collected, examined by Nihka (alchemically). Stable void pitch, organic traces.
Alchemy Guild kept sample, never seen stable Void aether.
Episode 2:
-Dawn of the Deadbellies
Sarnai speaking. Her, R’shesha, Leanne, Leggerless (Elise), Mholi Mujuuk
Void energy radiating from a man. Undead.
Sarnai states she could track and sense void energy, got into a fight with void-possessed man and minions, wailer struck her, injured.
Undead slaughtered.
Leanne appends: man encountered on the road, subdued her, had a pet.. humanoid with single eye, KO gaze.
-Open Strange
Ashmira speaking. Her, Klynzahr, Jana, Edda, Ginshaw.
Most chocobo taken. Flocks spotted in north. Pitch creatures seen devouring chocobos. Trail of void magic leading north.
Ambushed, by miqo’te with void abilities for evasion.
-In The Thicket Of It
Kiht speaking. Her, Orrin, Anstarra, R’elend.
Backstory, Jeph Wood and Sixteenth Spear, all killed but Weylan.
Corrupt. Blood-like substances everywhere, enraged seedkin.
Corpses, plants growing from mouths, masks broken.
Elezen woman, dress made of blood, pursued, disabled, afflicted Anstarra with the blood, escaped through the earth.
Arrest record later shown, Jeph Wood and Ardent Wood, with a significant arrest.
Jainelette Brenaile, convicted of killing 26 children, forbidden alchemical research, and attempted escape.
-A Stone’s Thrown Away
Anstarra speaking. Liadan, Tengri, Anstarra, Nihka.
Sacred stone stolen, angered earth spirits.
Padjal O-Rehn Fahn and Liadan shielded and cleansed.
Void energy was sensed, involved in the theft.
Episode 3:
A Stone's Thrown Away 2: Skipping Pebbles
Liadan speaking. Her, Leanne, Tengri, Franz.
Leanne jumped into portal, heard a voice say You shouldn’t be here. You are not the one. You may pass. Void portals confirmed.
The Dilemma of the Diverted Dead
An speaking. Her, Orrin, Ashmira, V’aleera.
Plant zombies tracked and destroyed. Evidence of alchemical growth formula, mixed with void residue.
Stout in a Strait
Sarnai speaking. Her, Edda,
Void-corrupted monk. Sarnai tried to extract, rendered him mad. Killed some people, escaped.
Edda seems to think Sarnai ruined any chance of getting answers.
A Plague On Both Your Spouses
Enju speaking. Him, Khena, Anstarra, Nihka.
Two beekeepers come down with void corruption. Sedated and brought back to Dubious Distributions. Found to have been drinking energy tonic with traces of void serum. Still sedated.
Fire Does Not Work That Way
Orrin speaking. Him, Leanne, Kuina, Jana much later.
Battlefield near Amdapor, everything is on fire, water sprites adding to it. Dispelling of sprites makes them explode.
Voices heard, saying to ‘Burn the whole shroud down if you need to’.
Hyur fleeing pyromancer, Orrin struck by fire, hyur leapt into portal, Orrin leapt after, caught.
War Council: Interrogation
Mermin Carter. Seems to believe he’s in some sort of trick, or trap, captive of someone who’s stripped his sense of reality.
Disoriented, confused. Sentenced to prison in 1534, now 1578. For theft. Has not aged, possibly spent 40+ turns in the Void.
Syros North. Hearer. Arson, same ward, life sentence. Toto Rak.
Friend of Cater’s, Nicolae, says the stones can ‘fix them’? Needs to steal two more.
According to Liadan, Carter’s sanity is broken. She was maintaining him at a conversational level during the meeting. He snapped near the end, needed to be subdued.
Gonna bring 3 to meet, Liadan and Zanzan and one more.
Neruhm.
Void lord? Carter spoke (shouted) the name, only in throes of madness. Refused to, otherwise.
Full audiovisual transcript.
(Credit for transcript goes to Franz Renatus!)
~~
Anstarra set down her notes, fingertip tapping on the recording stone. She rubbed her temple. Beside her, Nihka slept soundly in bed, and An reached over to caress the Keeper woman's hair; she made a contented sound, curling up a little, and remained asleep. Anstarra smiled, though it only lasted as long as it took for her to look back to her notes.
Neruhm. That was the ultimate name they'd gotten from poor Mermin Carter. The others, Syros North - the pyromaniac who provoked the Greenwrath - and Nicolae, who apparently masterminded the theft of the stone (and possibly others), were interesting, but it all came back to Neruhm. A void lord? An actual void prince, or simply a powerful summoner, hiding in that black place?
Leanne and Orrin had both.. brushed its - his - attention, leaping into Carter's portals at different times, if the theory held up. They'd been allowed to leave, and had both been impressed-upon by his power. Neither was a coward, nor a weakling.
This complicated things.
Anstarra sighed, thinking of the final minutes once more. There were other trails to follow, sure, including the questioning of the retired Arden Wood, and the hunting of Syros North into Amdapor. Perhaps more threads of information would be found.
Syros.
Carter.
Nicolae.
The miqo'te assassins.
Jainelette Brenaile, if it was her.
Were these perpetrators working together? Competing? The net results were devastating, and they had to be stopped either way, collectively and individually. At least now, the Adventurers who had so far responded to the call were further armed with knowledge and, hopefully, a greater sense of the whole.
Toto Rak.
It seemed to begin there; at least three of them had been imprisoned there, decades hence, and Carter at least was untouched by time. What had happened in that dire prison? It was easy to conjure images whereby a deranged gaoler performed void rituals upon prisoners, consigning them to some dark lord. Or perhaps the gaoler was Neruhm himself, in the first place. It all remained conjecture, each notion more fantastical and terrible than the last.
Perhaps Nicolae would prove less damaged than Carter. Perhaps Syros would be apprehended, and questioned, and brought to justice. Perhaps poor, mad, murderous Jainelette would be laid to rest.
Perhaps.
She laid aside her notes, and curled back up with her fiancée. Sehki, Nihka's infant daughter, had been tumbling and playing around on the huge bed while An was reading, and now laid curled up in the hollow of blankets formed by their legs. In times like these, happiness was to be taken and enjoyed wherever and whenever it could be found... for surely darkness lurked around the next corner. And the next.
Neruhm...
09/09/2015
Transcript below
Attendance
Anstarra Silverain
Nihka Mioni
Enju Abbagliato
Edda Eglantine
Franz Renatus
Leanne Delphium
Leggerless Hanzou (Elise)
Kiht Jakkya
Sarnai Kha
R’shesha Otharn
Zanzan Yanzan
Ashmira Honzen
Riordyn Ashentyr
Orrin Halgren
Spahro Llorn
Liadan Summerfield
Beginning: Episode 1: A Tree Burns in Gridania
Leanne speaking. Her, Elise, Nihka, Edda, Franz.
Wailers fighting treants. Sacred tree with unquenchable (by conjurers) purple flame. Conjurers consumed.
Leanne suggested draining Aether, Franz did so.
Residue collected, examined by Nihka (alchemically). Stable void pitch, organic traces.
Alchemy Guild kept sample, never seen stable Void aether.
Episode 2:
-Dawn of the Deadbellies
Sarnai speaking. Her, R’shesha, Leanne, Leggerless (Elise), Mholi Mujuuk
Void energy radiating from a man. Undead.
Sarnai states she could track and sense void energy, got into a fight with void-possessed man and minions, wailer struck her, injured.
Undead slaughtered.
Leanne appends: man encountered on the road, subdued her, had a pet.. humanoid with single eye, KO gaze.
-Open Strange
Ashmira speaking. Her, Klynzahr, Jana, Edda, Ginshaw.
Most chocobo taken. Flocks spotted in north. Pitch creatures seen devouring chocobos. Trail of void magic leading north.
Ambushed, by miqo’te with void abilities for evasion.
-In The Thicket Of It
Kiht speaking. Her, Orrin, Anstarra, R’elend.
Backstory, Jeph Wood and Sixteenth Spear, all killed but Weylan.
Corrupt. Blood-like substances everywhere, enraged seedkin.
Corpses, plants growing from mouths, masks broken.
Elezen woman, dress made of blood, pursued, disabled, afflicted Anstarra with the blood, escaped through the earth.
Arrest record later shown, Jeph Wood and Ardent Wood, with a significant arrest.
Jainelette Brenaile, convicted of killing 26 children, forbidden alchemical research, and attempted escape.
-A Stone’s Thrown Away
Anstarra speaking. Liadan, Tengri, Anstarra, Nihka.
Sacred stone stolen, angered earth spirits.
Padjal O-Rehn Fahn and Liadan shielded and cleansed.
Void energy was sensed, involved in the theft.
Episode 3:
A Stone's Thrown Away 2: Skipping Pebbles
Liadan speaking. Her, Leanne, Tengri, Franz.
Leanne jumped into portal, heard a voice say You shouldn’t be here. You are not the one. You may pass. Void portals confirmed.
The Dilemma of the Diverted Dead
An speaking. Her, Orrin, Ashmira, V’aleera.
Plant zombies tracked and destroyed. Evidence of alchemical growth formula, mixed with void residue.
Stout in a Strait
Sarnai speaking. Her, Edda,
Void-corrupted monk. Sarnai tried to extract, rendered him mad. Killed some people, escaped.
Edda seems to think Sarnai ruined any chance of getting answers.
A Plague On Both Your Spouses
Enju speaking. Him, Khena, Anstarra, Nihka.
Two beekeepers come down with void corruption. Sedated and brought back to Dubious Distributions. Found to have been drinking energy tonic with traces of void serum. Still sedated.
Fire Does Not Work That Way
Orrin speaking. Him, Leanne, Kuina, Jana much later.
Battlefield near Amdapor, everything is on fire, water sprites adding to it. Dispelling of sprites makes them explode.
Voices heard, saying to ‘Burn the whole shroud down if you need to’.
Hyur fleeing pyromancer, Orrin struck by fire, hyur leapt into portal, Orrin leapt after, caught.
War Council: Interrogation
Mermin Carter. Seems to believe he’s in some sort of trick, or trap, captive of someone who’s stripped his sense of reality.
Disoriented, confused. Sentenced to prison in 1534, now 1578. For theft. Has not aged, possibly spent 40+ turns in the Void.
Syros North. Hearer. Arson, same ward, life sentence. Toto Rak.
Friend of Cater’s, Nicolae, says the stones can ‘fix them’? Needs to steal two more.
According to Liadan, Carter’s sanity is broken. She was maintaining him at a conversational level during the meeting. He snapped near the end, needed to be subdued.
Gonna bring 3 to meet, Liadan and Zanzan and one more.
Neruhm.
Void lord? Carter spoke (shouted) the name, only in throes of madness. Refused to, otherwise.
Full audiovisual transcript.
(Credit for transcript goes to Franz Renatus!)
~~
Anstarra set down her notes, fingertip tapping on the recording stone. She rubbed her temple. Beside her, Nihka slept soundly in bed, and An reached over to caress the Keeper woman's hair; she made a contented sound, curling up a little, and remained asleep. Anstarra smiled, though it only lasted as long as it took for her to look back to her notes.
Neruhm. That was the ultimate name they'd gotten from poor Mermin Carter. The others, Syros North - the pyromaniac who provoked the Greenwrath - and Nicolae, who apparently masterminded the theft of the stone (and possibly others), were interesting, but it all came back to Neruhm. A void lord? An actual void prince, or simply a powerful summoner, hiding in that black place?
Leanne and Orrin had both.. brushed its - his - attention, leaping into Carter's portals at different times, if the theory held up. They'd been allowed to leave, and had both been impressed-upon by his power. Neither was a coward, nor a weakling.
This complicated things.
Anstarra sighed, thinking of the final minutes once more. There were other trails to follow, sure, including the questioning of the retired Arden Wood, and the hunting of Syros North into Amdapor. Perhaps more threads of information would be found.
Syros.
Carter.
Nicolae.
The miqo'te assassins.
Jainelette Brenaile, if it was her.
Were these perpetrators working together? Competing? The net results were devastating, and they had to be stopped either way, collectively and individually. At least now, the Adventurers who had so far responded to the call were further armed with knowledge and, hopefully, a greater sense of the whole.
Toto Rak.
It seemed to begin there; at least three of them had been imprisoned there, decades hence, and Carter at least was untouched by time. What had happened in that dire prison? It was easy to conjure images whereby a deranged gaoler performed void rituals upon prisoners, consigning them to some dark lord. Or perhaps the gaoler was Neruhm himself, in the first place. It all remained conjecture, each notion more fantastical and terrible than the last.
Perhaps Nicolae would prove less damaged than Carter. Perhaps Syros would be apprehended, and questioned, and brought to justice. Perhaps poor, mad, murderous Jainelette would be laid to rest.
Perhaps.
She laid aside her notes, and curled back up with her fiancée. Sehki, Nihka's infant daughter, had been tumbling and playing around on the huge bed while An was reading, and now laid curled up in the hollow of blankets formed by their legs. In times like these, happiness was to be taken and enjoyed wherever and whenever it could be found... for surely darkness lurked around the next corner. And the next.
Neruhm...
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