auroraexpress | Origin Star Finale: Session 3

Who: explorers
When: Day 54, early afternoon
Where: The Final Island

[After returning from the second mission with a little extra cargo, Thyme waits another 20 minutes before calling for the third and hopefully final round of totem hunting.

One more. If you have the energy to help, climb aboard.

Characters attending session 3 may now board the airship. As it flies, they'll get their briefing:]

If you haven't gone in yet, please pay attention.

Your objective is to find and deactivate a totem -- a source of Malice in the target area. You'll probably come up against enemies, but try to defeat them by showing them positive emotions, not through combat. Defend yourselves if you have to, but keep in mind killing things won't purify them.

This is the last totem as far as we can tell, so it's vital that you get to it one way or another.

[You land, this time, in a clearing in front of a ruined temple. The heavy bronze doors, cast with images of stars, have swung open, and one has fallen from its hinges to lay in the grass.]

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[Entering the Eastern door, you find yourself in a long, upward-sloping hallway. The wind is whistling from the end, past the next door.

On the floor about halfway up is a statue of a deer. Resting in its antlers is a very real sword.]

[ Crow is going to head towards the next door, but he'll pause at the sword. He understands combat isn't the way to go here and he isn't stupid enough to think brandishing a sword will be helpful in any real way, but he is checking to see if there's anything noteworthy about it. ]

[It's a nice, shiny sword. But there is an inscription on it:

"Let Faith be thy shield."]

Ohhhhh boy are you barking up the wrong tree.

[ "Let Faith be thy shield." He has a feeling that's going to be important later. Shit. They really should've had Rean checking this place out. He'd probably have a better time of this than Crow ever could. Crow is the guy you trust to kick ass and not much else. He's good at that. Faith, feelings, whatever?

Oh boy. ]

Time to get going.

[ He heads for the door, leaving the sword behind. ]

[As you touch the door, there's a loud click, followed by a rumble...

roll 1d10.]

[ 2 + 0 - 0 = 2

So let's have fun with that. ]

[The ceiling above you opens up -- your reflexes aren't quite fast enough to dodge the giant stone ball on a chain that falls through. Fortunately, you did partially dodge...

...so you'll only have one limb crushed as the ball hits the wall, cracking it slightly and knocking the door ajar.]

[ Oh, only. Thanks!

Try though he might have, Crow's leg gets crushed in his attempt to dodge. With a vicious swear, he collapses to the ground. It hurts and Arts won't be able to entirely heal a crushed leg. Still, he pulls out his ARCUS and casts a Tearal to offset some of the pain of the injury.

It takes him a moment afterwards before he pulls himself back up and limps towards the door, determined to press forward. ]

[ Don't mind Crow, he's just taking that sword as he passes through on his way while backtracking. ]

[Well, I guess I'll take a look at that ~~sword~~.]

[OR STATUE AS THE CASE MAY BE.]

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[The statue is in fact empty, but it clearly USED to hold something...

There's no sign of Crow's passing up ahead, except an odd crack in the wall near the door.]

[Hum.]

[Well, maybe Crow has it.]

[He'll ask when he catches up. Going to the door and will take a look at this crack.]

[Something heavy definitely hit the wall here. There's nothing to indicate what, but the ceiling directly above it appears a slightly different tone than the rest.]

[Well then]

[Gonna pull out a knife and use it as a hand hold and then try to brace himself in this corner here to try and reach that bit of ceiling.]

[It's got a gap around the edge! But it doesn't move.]

[Hmmm. That is curious.]

[Okay, he'll go inside the room and see if he can see what's up in there.]

[Thanks to 80H breaking the trap, you can do so safely!]

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[she is going to take the road less traveled out of new curiosity, though. she'll go back to find the piggie if she can]

[The sword is now missing from the statue, and near the door there's an ominous crack in the wall. There are no other signs of anyone who's come before.]

[lets have a look at that crack in the wall. she checks the floor around it, looking for traps or signs of one]

[sigh ok this is where the trap may be but

lets check it out anyway.

ice forms beneath her feat and begins to rise in a pillar toward BUT JUST TO THE SIDE of the part in the ceiling in case anything nasty happens.]

[

okay on the one hand, she is reasonably certain this could be bad

but she's not 100% certain! so she's going to try and break that panel!

for SCIENCE!]

[You can! There's a trap mechanism up there, with a giant stone ball on a chain. But it doesn't drop, because you didn't hit the trigger... and now the mechanism is broken.

So you're safe to proceed!]

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