Take Two!
Life is change, and change is life. A truth inescapable when a frozen, cold, dead place, still and unmoving for ages... suddenly draws breath... and exhales.
A torrent, a heat, a blaze, consuming and destructive and impossibly alive. Those caught in the wake of this breath are tempered and tested, some empowered, others blasted aside.
Inevitable is this storm of life, spurred and driven by ambition and the desperate -need- for change. But what will be left once it has passed? Will life blaze brightly as never before, or be snuffed out for all time..?
Act V: Falling Star, Rising Sun
Scene I: Dawn of Reckoning
Rumors and Story Aspects
a) Moustache-Twirling Villainy: The Train, the Cat and the Captain (Wednesday, January 17th, 2018, 7:30 pm CST)
A challenge has been issued, the gauntlet thrown down; X'cinna Ares, founder and part-time Warlord of the Golden Prints Sept, has been kidnapped! The perpetrator? None other than the vile Captain Cortez of the Brass Blades of the Aster! Reports have him heading toward the train tracks in Central Thanalan.. what nefariousness could he be planning??
"'e came outta nowhere! Burst through th' wall.. ridin' some big metal thing, like one o' those Magitek walkers but full o' pipes and steam an' gears! Grabs the boss, smashes everythin' an' runs out through th' other wall! Carryin' a load o' chains and wearin' a top hat 'e were, the nutter!"
1. S'imba Tia
2. Seito Moonclaw
3. Zaphir Zurlac
4.
b) Trials of the Bright (Friday, January 12th, 2018, 9 pm CST)
The Bright Ones. Former Clip-Tails - former warriors of the Falling Stars who were mutilated for failure and made into slaves of the sept, liberated from bondage and led toward a brighter future by benevolent Adventurers. Forced by the Nunh's unnatural wrath to flee Ul'dah, they evaded Goldentail's press-gang force of Blades near the Burning Wall with the help of yet more goodly Adventurers. On to the Black Shroud they pressed, and then further north, through Coerthas unto the borderlands of Dravania itself, seeking a place far enough from their oppressors to be free once and for all. Now, though, they've finished running.
"X'vann and X'orri... from what they were before, to this. Leaders of the Bright Ones; Vann of the Leaf, pugilist and scholar, and Orri the Redeemed, protector and steward. They've led the others, near two-score of them reunited once more, equipped with the skills they learned from every discipline of the hand, land and war.. to the realm of dragons. With a plan to go higher yet, though not in flight... or, hah, perhaps exactly that. For they mean to help face their former Nunh in Azys Lla when the time comes, and to get there, you need wings..."
1. Nihka Mioni
2. Naoh'a Aznable
3. Virara Wakuwa
4. Reis Okeya
c) Attack On Crucible, Part 1 (Saturday, January 13th, 2018, 7 pm CST FLEXIBLE)
**If people want to start earlier or later this day, I can do it, it's basically a clear and open day for me**
The Crucible. For most Falling Stars, a legend shrouded in mystery; for Outsiders, little more than a whispered myth. Until now. The ancient site where it is said that in ages past a tribe of miqo'te was experimented upon, cruelly, by desperate scholars seeking immortality has now been rediscovered. It is the source of the ritual of the Fallen, the process which creates each Nunh and has more recently been used to empower X'zarann's chosen lieutenants. Now, Anstarra seeks to wrest it from his control. The first step? Establishing a siege upon an aetheryte-equipped underground bunker, hidden beneath the mountains of Coerthas...
"Taking the Crucible from X'zarann was never going to be a quick and simple attack. Finding it has taken moons.. hopefully besieging it won't be as bad. It's tight quarters, hidden underground and reinforced both by ancient magic and my own murderous kin. This is the first assault; probing defenses and finding means to obstruct aetherial ingress and egress. We need to lock them in; then the real fun can begin."
1. Orrin Halgren
2. V'aleera Lhuil
3. Jana Ridah
4. Artoria Aldsan
Reserve List
1. R'shesha Otharn or Marian Greyashe - c)
2.
3. (second event) Lan Darklyn - c)
HOUSE RULE: For Starsfall, players are allowed to, if they wish, purchase a Stunt (like any other stunt, this is not a bonus stunt, simply a bonus rule for Starsfall) that works in the following manner: +1 to a single skill, with a single, simple condition, otherwise always active. The cap to which a skill may be brought with this sort of Stunt is 5.
NOTE: This Stunt is not available to characters who already have a natural +5 in a skill.
EXAMPLE: Gain +1 to Fight as long as you are fighting with fist weapons. This may not bring your Fight higher than 5.
Life is change, and change is life. A truth inescapable when a frozen, cold, dead place, still and unmoving for ages... suddenly draws breath... and exhales.
A torrent, a heat, a blaze, consuming and destructive and impossibly alive. Those caught in the wake of this breath are tempered and tested, some empowered, others blasted aside.
Inevitable is this storm of life, spurred and driven by ambition and the desperate -need- for change. But what will be left once it has passed? Will life blaze brightly as never before, or be snuffed out for all time..?
Act V: Falling Star, Rising Sun
Scene I: Dawn of Reckoning
Rumors and Story Aspects
- /End of the Golden(tail) Age/ - Infamous recluse Monetarist Moiraine Astervane (AKA Goldentail) has returned to Ul'dah to face lawful prosecution for the strange happenings, said to be void-related, surrounding her manor and affairs. The vultures close in, but you know what they say about a wounded and cornered beast...
- /A City Lit By Flames/ - With a major faction of the Brass Blades taking a major hit, and the leadership of the Golden Horde seeming unfocused without an enemy to fight, the power vacuum in Ul'dah has been filled by the Immortal Flames. Naturally, where power goes, corruption follows...
- /Falling Stars, Rising in the West/ - A tribe of miqo'te from the arctic seems to have not only found their way to La Noscea, but engaged in some form of protracted tribal warfare with the kobolds in and around the U'ghamoro Mines. Working in concert with a growing faction of arcanists, numerous crippling blows have been dealt to the beastman tribe, to general acclaim by all the good (non-beastmen) folks of La Noscea.
- /A Curious Exodus/ - Warriors from the savage Falling Stars sept have been piqued with a curiosity for the outside world. By land, sea and air, more of them are leaving their home - and traditional, xenophobic mindset - behind in favor of seeing this Outside World that both the Nunh and some of their spear-sisters have been making such a big deal about.
- /The Legend of the Nunh/ - A new story has begun to be told, in a hundred different flavors; that of a powerful, savage leader, Nunh of his arctic tribe, fearless and strong, brilliant and irresistible. Has he fought Flames? Blades? Garleans? Beastmen? Dragons? All these and more, while fathering a thousand children and wielding relics of Allag to boot, if you believe everything you hear. For now the stories are too diverse to be believable, but they certainly are entertaining.
a) Moustache-Twirling Villainy: The Train, the Cat and the Captain (Wednesday, January 17th, 2018, 7:30 pm CST)
A challenge has been issued, the gauntlet thrown down; X'cinna Ares, founder and part-time Warlord of the Golden Prints Sept, has been kidnapped! The perpetrator? None other than the vile Captain Cortez of the Brass Blades of the Aster! Reports have him heading toward the train tracks in Central Thanalan.. what nefariousness could he be planning??
"'e came outta nowhere! Burst through th' wall.. ridin' some big metal thing, like one o' those Magitek walkers but full o' pipes and steam an' gears! Grabs the boss, smashes everythin' an' runs out through th' other wall! Carryin' a load o' chains and wearin' a top hat 'e were, the nutter!"
1. S'imba Tia
2. Seito Moonclaw
3. Zaphir Zurlac
4.
b) Trials of the Bright (Friday, January 12th, 2018, 9 pm CST)
The Bright Ones. Former Clip-Tails - former warriors of the Falling Stars who were mutilated for failure and made into slaves of the sept, liberated from bondage and led toward a brighter future by benevolent Adventurers. Forced by the Nunh's unnatural wrath to flee Ul'dah, they evaded Goldentail's press-gang force of Blades near the Burning Wall with the help of yet more goodly Adventurers. On to the Black Shroud they pressed, and then further north, through Coerthas unto the borderlands of Dravania itself, seeking a place far enough from their oppressors to be free once and for all. Now, though, they've finished running.
"X'vann and X'orri... from what they were before, to this. Leaders of the Bright Ones; Vann of the Leaf, pugilist and scholar, and Orri the Redeemed, protector and steward. They've led the others, near two-score of them reunited once more, equipped with the skills they learned from every discipline of the hand, land and war.. to the realm of dragons. With a plan to go higher yet, though not in flight... or, hah, perhaps exactly that. For they mean to help face their former Nunh in Azys Lla when the time comes, and to get there, you need wings..."
1. Nihka Mioni
2. Naoh'a Aznable
3. Virara Wakuwa
4. Reis Okeya
c) Attack On Crucible, Part 1 (Saturday, January 13th, 2018, 7 pm CST FLEXIBLE)
**If people want to start earlier or later this day, I can do it, it's basically a clear and open day for me**
The Crucible. For most Falling Stars, a legend shrouded in mystery; for Outsiders, little more than a whispered myth. Until now. The ancient site where it is said that in ages past a tribe of miqo'te was experimented upon, cruelly, by desperate scholars seeking immortality has now been rediscovered. It is the source of the ritual of the Fallen, the process which creates each Nunh and has more recently been used to empower X'zarann's chosen lieutenants. Now, Anstarra seeks to wrest it from his control. The first step? Establishing a siege upon an aetheryte-equipped underground bunker, hidden beneath the mountains of Coerthas...
"Taking the Crucible from X'zarann was never going to be a quick and simple attack. Finding it has taken moons.. hopefully besieging it won't be as bad. It's tight quarters, hidden underground and reinforced both by ancient magic and my own murderous kin. This is the first assault; probing defenses and finding means to obstruct aetherial ingress and egress. We need to lock them in; then the real fun can begin."
1. Orrin Halgren
2. V'aleera Lhuil
3. Jana Ridah
4. Artoria Aldsan
Reserve List
1. R'shesha Otharn or Marian Greyashe - c)
2.
3. (second event) Lan Darklyn - c)
HOUSE RULE: For Starsfall, players are allowed to, if they wish, purchase a Stunt (like any other stunt, this is not a bonus stunt, simply a bonus rule for Starsfall) that works in the following manner: +1 to a single skill, with a single, simple condition, otherwise always active. The cap to which a skill may be brought with this sort of Stunt is 5.
NOTE: This Stunt is not available to characters who already have a natural +5 in a skill.
EXAMPLE: Gain +1 to Fight as long as you are fighting with fist weapons. This may not bring your Fight higher than 5.
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