Session Nine
Hydra
Ask the players the following questions:
- How do you track down the Hydra’s current locations?
- How do you acquire weapons of your namesake?
- How do you intend to trap and vanquish the Hydra?
The Hydra is the mountain ruins of Lugran, a castle once used for mining.
Metal clinks off the crumbling stones. The white and green lights of the sky fizzles as windbound sands scrape against the ruins. You find the mine tower. It was at the deepest point of the once grand castle yet you are at its top.
Descending down the circular stair you’re careful not to fall into the centre. You could brave the rope that was once used to lift up treasures but you fear it’ll next be used for your coffin. So steadily you descend into the abyss.
Break her to go to Desert Hag section
Finally you reach the bottom and exit the tower. The scene is lit by glittering green and yellow light bouncing off the ores and gems of the uneven walls. Tracks zigzag over the floors leading to various tunnels, carts standing and fallen full of precious minerals. The smell of wet copper, iron and sulpher clings to the air. There is so much to see, dead smelter, wooden cranes, wooden cabins with pots of dessicated food, and the bones of miners. But their is one feature all your eyes attempt to focus on. One of the cart tracks leads into a perfectly circular and perfectly vertical tunnel. No light penetrates it and light leaves it. The Hydra’s hollow.
Desert Hag
Here the players will play as The Emerald Knights:
The warm embrace of Emerald. You open your eyes to see your allies enveloped in the emerald too. You hear a voice in your head. Once you did not recognise it but through eternal repetitions you know it be your own. And so you recite the oath again.
Seek the Purple
Honour the Emerald
Protect the Harvest
Once more for luck
Seek the Purple
Honour the Emerald
Protect the Harvest
A jostle followed by a gentle thud. A blur of images but once you fully gain your senses you feel the ground below your feet and see the green lights above. The tower has dropped you by the lake. You all now remember the mission The Green Eyed Seer has gifted you. Find the Desert hag and eliminate her, she has taken the rain. It will reduce the harvest. Shocked by the lack of rain but even without the sight of a dried out lake you would know it to be true. The Green Eyed Seer is all seeing.
Challenges
- Traversing the desert
- A giant buzzard hunts the company
- Sand storms and mirages trick their senses into losing direction (CLA)
- The cold nights sap their energy (VIG)
- The heat and sun thirsts for their spirit (SPI)
- Floating eyeballs of sand roam the desert trying to spot any interlopers
- The hag’s den
- A deep massive crater
- A surface of hard purple dust where all feels weightless
- At the bottom are structures
- Perimeter of raised black glass all facing the sun (solar panels)
- Within are white cylindrical buildings topped with domes
- Cylinders made of distinct panels whilst domes constructed from triangles
- Middle is a Large tower, thick at the bottom and pointed at the top
- At the top the Dust hag watches
- 5 defense drones
- In essence like the moon
Dust hag - Large white puffy suit with a golden glass visor - The end of her white gauntlets end in thick tubes where purple dust slowly drifts from - She moves in what looks like slow motion but is incredibly controlled - Wants Entertainment of a very specific type (wishes to see knights fight and kill each other) - She hates the seers so enjoys their pawns (knights) killing one another
Defense drones
White drones
VIG: 10, CLA: 14, SPI 4
GD: 3
- Dust rifle: 2D8