Naida: A Deft 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. Bone grenade aficionada. She is accompanied by Ajax, a grumpy exiled Cat Lord with a serpent tail and Bounty, the animatronic bear.
Saffron, a Wise Black Gold Industrialist Machine Human whose personality was uploaded to a cybernetic prairie dog after being killed by Johnny-7's auto immune system. Outfitted with positronic double brain, extendable limbs and laser eyes. Accompanied by a furry animate kite. Seeking a prosthetic body for mother who might create new machine humans.
Kozue: An Wise 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. She has dreams of the world ending and seeks hidden messages about the looming apocalypse in order to power the Near Moon's departure from the world. She is a host for Sama Zivani, a powerful Ultra, who she vowed to bring to the Black City.
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 which will summon the Blue God. 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.
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.
N’Keth: A Strong Volkan Diesel Dwarf, bat eared, hyena snouted and with furry skin, who is tracking a Vile intruder from the Void. Armed with a fierce Warhammer and protected by his Holy Symbol, an unageing plastic spork.
They arrive at the Fool’s Wall, a berm of petrified wood and radiation blasted sand, poorly shielding the Last Camp from the bio hazards to the West. Beyond the wall, past dunes of ash they see the swirling black cubes of the Black City rotating in the distance.
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| The Last Camp |
Azure consults her tablet and memorizes the location of the obelisk where the ritual to conjure the Blue God will take place. Kozue notices half-thought glyphs unfurling in the corner of her eyes and sends her fetch to read them. A symbol takes shape in the dust telegraphing urgency and doom at the Black Obelisk.
Hamish checks in at the Spectrum Embassy, a plasteel replica of the Behemoth Shell where he is greeted by techno shaman Aaris Max who runs the Fading Light Diner - and days of wild celebrations follow. Hamish starts speaking in tongues when the Last and Most Devine Secretary of the Black City possesses him. The secretary tells tall tales of voyages a true hero might undertake with a void ship that had been stranded in the city for a long time.
Saffron talks to the Cogflower representative Executive Circolangolo who demands to see the books but is reminded that the journey is not over yet. They also inquire about the Dark Hospital and what lies ahead. A revolutionary tells them about those who enter the hospital but leave with a limb missing and about the plastic faced nuns who took it. Her spies whispered about the time fractured mind of mother that hides in the endless corridors of the hospital.
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| The Dark Hospital |
When Azure performs her augury a vision projects itself into the smoke of the incense: A shadow is cast over the black obelisk while she hears Ostins and Naida discussing her fate. She finds Kozue in discussion with a wildly gesticulating hermit in rags and persuades her to aid her in the final ritual. They bump into a drunken Hamish who happily lends them his bike. Azure and Kozue disappear into the night leaving a cloud of iridescent ash behind them on their way to the Black City.
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| Hamish's Black Metal Motorcycle |
Actual Play: https://youtu.be/cxYqIDRRdek
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