Monday 16 November 2020

Wine River I: Inside the Vome Nest

Characters:

Naida: A Yellowlander Climate Refugee and Scope (member of the Legion of the Far Sight). The Legion is a semi-secret society that tries to fight crime on the roads of the Grasslands and around the Circular Sea. She is accompanied by Ajax, a grumpy exiled Cat Lord with a serpent tail and Otis, the animatronic bear. Sometimes visited by Laila, a ghost.

Azure Dee: A Blue God Cultist on her journey to the Black City where she is supposed to bring the apocalypse by sacrificing Vile organs. The Vile are a species of (demonic?) rulers from the Long Long Ago. She is accompanied by Cataract, a Wire-and-bone biomechanical salamander. She has undergone mutation after being exposed to a vome infection that made her muscles grow uncontrollably. The mutation has slowed down after a week of therapy sessions in the solarium of the Pylon Kraal. Addicted to Golden Amber.

Hamish Mac Rainbow: A Redland District Folk Hero with a black motorbike and rainbow-colored beard. Wielder of the Fractal Blade. Slayer of  a maddened Ka-Elemental. His heroic reputation vastly exceeds his actual deeds but he's working on living up to the legend.

Kozue: An Elven Moon Mountain Witch, a soothsayer from the Sister of the Near Moon. Her singing spirit (appearing as a wingless, serpentine creature to those who can see it) in a pink bottle aids her in her auguries.

Inside the Vome nest Naida, Hamish and Azure kill the acid spitting vomes while Kozue sends her fetch to establish a connection with the vomeish autofac. She realizes that the machine is experiencing fear but not of the heroes but some other faction within the vome community. Kozue senses an opportunity to establish the heroes as allies and deepens the connection. 

It appears that the autofac comes from the void or the Outer Dark as the Sisters of the Near Moon refer to it. Its purpose is to grow and harvest biofuel and it has captured the Greenlanders to add them to its resources. Deep in her trance Kozue doesn't hear the explosion coming from the East. While Naida and Hamish investigate the origin of the sound Azure stays behind to keep an eye on Kozue. Naida and Hamish find a cavern with rail tracks leading into a tunnel, concrete barriers that feel like cold meat to the touch and the dead bodies of three giant white crab vomes. Naida pokes at a smoking pile of scrap metal and concludes that it is a spidery kamikaze vome. She also finds some dead mushrooms and harvests them while Hamish cuts the shell of one of the crab vomes. Kozue learns that the Greenlanders are held prisoner in the mines and when the party reunites they head back North. 

Azure immediately recognizes the place from her vision: A dark room with pools and Spitters sitting inside. Kozue greets them and to her surprise the vomes bow and let them pass. In the mines they find the traumatized Greenlanders who had made part of the caves their home, surviving on pink goo. The leader of the group, a haggard looking woman, approaches them and whispers her thanks when she hears that they had come to rescue them. They lead them out of the nest leaving three of the travellers who had become obsessed with the goo behind. 

Actual Play: https://youtu.be/rnU7sVuSA0I


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