Session 9 Log
Magnificent Samurai Campaign Logs
Characters
- Augustus Scitiori - dual-weapon master of shortswords
- Catonio - a Catfolk Swashbuckler
- Eliot de la Frau - A Saber-master and pirate.
- Erland - a Jotun wrestler.
- Markus - A Hobgoblin Paladin of the God of Chivalry.
- Melek - a Nephilim greatswordsman
- Tonokai - a Kazanjiman horse-archer
Companions
- Mother Helen - A priestess of the Goddess of Healing
- Sister Marie - Her junior priestess
- Altan - A Meng guide
To Find the Cause
From the tower, the party traveled to the largest building nearby, a temple or civic structure of some sort. As with the tower, they entered by climbing up a dune to a second story window. Located inside was a goblin, working on something on a table made of various gears and of a metal similar to their Spirit of Order. One of his arms was missing, replaced with a mechanical contrivance. Half his face was replaced by metal in a similar fashion. They decided to speak with him before attacking, and found out a few things.
They discovered the golden skull, the Spirit of Order, and the other goblin each held a piece of his soul. He had to replace bits of his body because he's been cursed so that no Healing spells will work on him. Finally, the whole reason that he did all this was that he wanted to "balance" his spirit, and instead of giving himself up to a lifetime of meditation and contemplation, he decided to use magic to split the imbalanced pieces from his spirit. It worked, but ultimately too well, as he was now totally without strong emotions of any sort and didn't care what the party did with him one way or another. They also found out that while the angels were there out of choice, to keep the basement demons contained, the demons were working on how to permanently remain on the material world. The group decided killing the devil they had met was preferable to trying to kill a milquetoast sorcerer.
Back to the Tower
They left the spirit-shard people with the wizard, and went back to the tower. When they entered, they found it abandoned, and the upper and lower floors deserted and normal looking. The "basement" level, which was actually the first floor, now had a basement. Melek, Augustus, and Markus went down, as Markus had been told several times "He's waiting for you in the basement." They found a golden monkey statue there. The monkey represented was odd looking, having two faces on the same head. As Markus approached, they heard an intensifying sound of jungle drums, and so they smashed the monkey.
Weirdness and Price Paid
The three of them were instantly transported elsewhere, to a steaming but oddly silent jungle. The Dark Powers were so potent here Markus got a headache. Noting they were in the bottom of a bowl shaped depression, they moved to the top of the ridge. They saw a leathern hut with smoke coming out, and entered. Inside was a barefoot woman in blood-red robes, stirring a pot, and a monkey in a cage. Markus used Demon Lore and recognized her as an aspect of Demogorgon, often encountered in dreams. Some say she represents the self-defeating insanity of the Prince of Demons, as she was the intellect of one head and the monkey that of the other. She offered to send them home for the cost of one level of Will each, with the guarantee it would not be used against them. After a long discussion and much soul-searching, they paid and were returned to the tower.
The Death of Melek
The party got the spirit fragments and returned to the tower. Leaving them on the second floor, they went down and fought. There were many demons slain, but in the course of the battle, Melek got separated from the rest of the group, two frog-demons managed to glue his legs to the ground with sticky spittle, and he couldn't retreat or turn. The devil they sought stepped behind him and stabbed, stabbed, stabbed. Melek decided to hit him by thrusting the sword through his own body, which I ruled was such a surprising maneuver the devil got no defense. This was enough to effectively remove the devil from the fight, but Melek just kept getting hit. By the time the party was able to come to his aid, he was down to 1 HP from being dead, dead, dead (down to -5xHP +1.) He got healed by the healers, but was hit again, and died. This even after Augustus stood astride him and All-Out Defended with bonuses to his Parry and the Sacrificial Parry Perk.
The party took his body to the Kingdom of Prester John for a proper Western burial. Melek's sword became an enchanted object after his death, gaining Flaming Weapon (he used the fiery Imbuements, so I thought it appropriate.) Markus decided to take it up in his honor.
Artifacts Located by the Scarlet Wizard
They stopped in on the Scarlet Wizard on the way and he gave them the locations of some magic items they had traded some Favors for.
THE BOW OF SU
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 6 - 40 Artifacts, p. 11.
Location: This bow is in the hands of Blue-Belly the Eater of Children, an Ogre Mage who hold a fortress several days' travel west.
THE BLADES OF THE NORTHERN SCHOLAR
This is a pair of excellent quality, large butterfly swords. They appear to be of silver, but are as hard as steel and don't tarnish or rust. They were made by Gutye Zhu (Ancient Iron Master) for Beifang Xuezhe (Northern Scholar), the last of the Silken Robes school of martial artists. He defeated the Nine Demons Sect single-handedly and disappeared from the martial world.
Properties
- Blade Quality: The Blades are a pair of Balanced, Very Fine large butterfly swords, giving a +1 to hit, +2 to damage, and -2 to breakage.
- Shatterproof: The weapons are enchanted to get a further -4 to breakage.
- Magical: The Blades count as magical weapons.
- Silver: The Blades count as silver, but without the penalty to breakage.
- Quick-spin Strike: For 2 FP, the wielder may make a Feint followed by a Dual-Weapon Attack as a single Attack maneuver, with no other penalties.
Weight: 6 lbs total.
Blades of the Northern Scholar
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Damage
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Reach
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Parry
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Wt
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ST
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Notes
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sw+3 cut
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1
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0
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3
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10
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+1 to Shortsword skill.
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thr imp
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1
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0
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-
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10
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-
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Location: The Blades of the Northern Scholar are held in the martial academy of the Sons of the Nine Demons sect, an evil martial school.
THE BILESWORD
The Bilesword is a gladius, and drips yellow acid when drawn from its sheath. It was brought to the East by the gladiator "Undefeated" Gaius Maximus, who traveled far after his retirement. He died fighting the Shell-Ghost Crab at Silver Lake.
- Blade Quality: The Bilesword is a Very Fine shortsord, giving it +2 to damage and -2 to breakage.
- Accurate and Puissant: The Bilesword gets +1 to hit and +1 to damage from its enchantments.
- Acid Weapon: The Bilesword deals an additional 2 corrosive damage with each attack. As a free action the wielder may increase this to 1d until his next turn by paying 1 FP.
The Bilesword
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Damage
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Reach
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Parry
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Wt
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ST
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Notes
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sw+3 cut
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1
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0
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2
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8
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+1 to hit, +2 corrosive damage followup
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thr+4 imp
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1
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0
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-
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8
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-
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Location: The Tomb of the Western Warrior, in the countryside well north of Shengdu City.
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