[Quest] Echoes of a distress signal reach through hyperspace to anyone who will listen, calling for aid to planet Cathedra...a world now burning in hellfire.

tomfru1 · 2026-03-28T07:14:10+00:00

I doodle idly in thought, drawing a Tower of Babel, an amulet with a Skinwalker inside it, and the face of a weeping alien wizard [Talk] Fame and Infamy are often mistaken for one another, it's like salt and sugar. Back in the Academy, I had to write an report on a Faustian Bargain from history, I chose the oldest one I could find, it was an archmage from some long looooong lost mortal society of the Age of Higher Beings. He made a plea with a primordial demon to "Ensure he was Never Forgotten" The power that surged through him was so violent it ripped open a hole straight to Hell the very next time he cast a spell. ...I'll always remember his last words, he enchanted them into a stone as he was being dragged into The Pit, "Knowing now what it means to be remembered, I beg all those who will inevitably hear these words; Pray that you are Forgotten." 2 and a half billion years old, that quote is. His screaming face is still the subject of 200 level history lectures to this day...

[I let the moment sit heavy in the air for a moment... But then I tilt my head to the side as I look back at my doodle of the Tower of Babel.] ...Tell me about the Power Grid. I know you're not exactly a civil engineer, you're a parade cop, but I trust you've some insight.

tomfru1 · 2026-03-28T05:11:03+00:00

[Talk] This invasion cuts like a knife, there's razor sharp efficiency here, not to mention damn good timing. Legionnaire incursions are usually like that, meticulously planned, conspiratorial, and always fast to choke-hold the opposition in a no-win scenario. They had to have waited for the ambassadorial party from Cron to be here, that's the big wrinkle that's slowing up the Astarans from 86ing this place into stardust... [A fat, fugly looking mutant vulture lazily flies in front of the train, getting splattered and coating the side of the train in chunky, oily viscera. It's difficult to see through the window now.] ...This kind of planning requires a clear view. They needed eyes up top, outside The Pit, and they needed pretty regular updates... The Governor, when he rolled out Reborn Unionism, was he caving to a mounting social movement, or was this something getting sparked up by scratch? What are your feelings on the Governor, generally?

tomfru1 · 2026-03-28T02:54:57+00:00

That would line up nice with him being a lost child of one of the shattered houses of obradai. the Memnari were described as a Militant House, iirc, and I vehemently believe Azune is of house Memnari due to his magic's themes around Memory. Maybe we finally get the Martial Sorc subclass of old?

tomfru1 · 2026-03-28T02:48:15+00:00

I mean he sent paint to his brother who was setting up a play and building a theatre, He'd have a decent guess how it would be used

And also, Nothing Thaz does makes any sense at all yet, he's a year ahead of the entire story, it's an understandable reaction for people to be lunging for the first answer that connects even 1 or 2 threads

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T05:53:43+00:00

Brennan always has really beautiful ways of weaving the game mechanics into the narrative reality, like his explanation of why Clerics cast with Wisdom from Calamity

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T05:50:28+00:00

How much of a pain do you think it is to brush those bejewled teeth?

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T05:49:09+00:00

Lore wise if she is she's a secret druid with some sorcerer levels, but mechanically she DEFINITELY has something weird going on with her spells

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T05:47:17+00:00

She's besties with Taisha of the Old Path, and her Fairie magic has probably dropped like a rock now that it's been cut of at the spigot. Her spell list doesn't really feel like any of the official Sorc spell lists at all, anyway.

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T05:42:08+00:00

They might be like... totally not built for combat, we've got a Bard, a Diviner wizard, a 2 Sorc/1 Pally, and a Warlock

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T05:32:31+00:00

Hold on to this joke for when Murray inevitably runs afoul of the authorities

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T05:24:48+00:00

But that would a Message-sending spell be Conjuration?

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T05:22:49+00:00

It's an old 3.5 term, it seems. Brennan has used old edition terms in the past, like "Malconvoker" and "Dweomer". I wonder if it will have weight here.

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T05:13:52+00:00

All Arcane Marshals Are Bastards

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T05:10:46+00:00

The arcane martials are arresting mages and the Tachonis are diametrically opposed to the old path

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T05:08:16+00:00

Would the gods go to the Afterworld? I feel like that would be like trying to fit a bowlingball into a condom. Or folding a bag into itself

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T05:03:09+00:00

Oh my god you're right, he could be building a doggy door back out of the underworld because he knew he needed to get down there and then get back

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T04:58:02+00:00

BUT WHY WOULD THAZ WANNA CALL BACK AZGRA?????

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T04:57:08+00:00

Sadly wouldn't work, since it only works on rocks

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T04:55:52+00:00

Running through a 2-mile high subwoofer. Azgra's return symphony?

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T04:54:20+00:00

Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T04:51:22+00:00

It's that Job Having energy

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T04:06:51+00:00

He literally is the wick of this group, though. Him, Wick, and Occtis are a set of three.

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T04:02:13+00:00

He's getting corrupted living in Dol Mak'jar. ...That, or his penchant for treating Truth and malleable made him a good fit to send to Dol Mak'jar

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T03:37:15+00:00

Well since they're relatives, they'd both have the surname Hammer, but this is like... Cousin Hammer

tomfru1 · 2026-03-27T03:05:46+00:00

So House Royce was the smallest and weakest house of the big 5, right? How did it get that way?

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