The Game

THE RING OF SIBERYS

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B-9 brings forth the protective aura, which shields the three warforged. As B-9 draws upon the divine, he feels the spell sending ripples through reality like a stone tossed into a calm lake. The reverberation has unexpected consequences.

The team continues to pilot the skiff closer to the ring and manages to get to the 100ft mark. At this point, everything is blinding golden light. It is nearly impossible to see anything. What more, you feel infused with magical energy. You are thankful of B-9's aura protecting you from some of the negative effects, but other things are happening. You become aware of a third eye that is seeing beyond time and space, and new axis of agency opening up to you that is not constrained by physical rules.B-9's senses are suddenly aware of vast, distant suffering. Disease, injury, harm. Continents of suffering. With the magic coursing through you, you can literally see the sickness as diseased, dark threads that create a tapestry of despair. It is so enormous, but at the same time you feel you understand it, maybe can even save them.

WARP X, your third eye extends backward in time. Within it, you see your first mission from beginning to end simultaneously. You see your fellow crew members alive and though under duress of the launch, so full of joy to be pursuing their life dream. You can sense that you can reach out and sift through this torrent of knowledge to understand the ship's failure, and perhaps unravel it.

Whispers, your third eye is already open, and the magic awakens every Chakra. In your vision, you see a perfect, balanced self, able to step across the stars - perhaps even beyond? The configurations are within your grasp to unlock, you are certain of it.

THE HEART OF DARKNESS

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Brush and Tamara work hard to prepare The Way to accept the Karrnathi heart. Tamara succeeds in reconfiguring the arcane algorithms to bind a manifest zone, proving herself every bit the genius daughter of House Cannith. Brush attacks the problem from the divine axis, and his prayers guide the process.

However, with all the Siberys radiation, the combined amount of divine and arcane magic triggers a magic surge at the worst time, and the bound fire elemental manages to escape the binding ring and into the ship! The cargo hold fills with light and heat as the elemental seeks to burn and consume all around it now that it is unbound!ROUND 1

Initiative order:
Tamara
Fire Elemental: AC: 13, Damage: 0
Brush

The Heart of Darkness

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Tamara's hypnotic pattern is especially powerful in the presence of Siberys radiation, and the Elemental is calmed and pacified by its fractal geometries. Tamara is able to get the binding to intertwine elemental again but she realizes it will take longer to complete than the hypnotic pattern will exist.

The Heart of Darkness

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Tamara reacts quickly and places the wall of force around the tamed elemental, a process she no doubt knew how to use from when she learned to unlock the secret elemental binding algorithms. As the hypnotic pattern expires, the incarnation of fire returns to its normal combustible. It burns and slams against the wall of force without malice but with great power. Brush calmly repositions the force field so that the rebinding can be completed.

With The Way configured to bind the Mabar manifest zone, the next step will be to physically move The Heart into the ship. The easiest way is to drive the way into the cavernous Aurora and load it through the cargo bay doors at the front of the ship. The Karrnathi command their undead workforce to pull back the Aurora's armored hull to create a hole large enough for The Way. Then, you carefully maneuver the craft inside the Aurora.

Once inside, you see that the Karranathi team has unhooked the heart from the blood network, and have created a smaller, portable loop of fluids to keep the giant organ rigid and pumping. It pulses and throbs with loud gulching noises at a more rapid pace as the volume of blood is now greatly reduced. It is not pretty, but it is ready to move.