Summary of the sessions from last week and this one's up to Friday:
-Went on a cultist hunt for Saya, arriving at the college of artificers.
-Found one of the cultists, and convinced her of the importance of speaking with Vivi.
-Arrived at the hidden meetup below a Snickdonald's, only to meet none other than Vivi herself.
-Accusations ensued, as Vivi was revealed to be much less stable now, after losing her younger sister to the universe detonation. Among other things, Valerian snapped at her, then broke down crying, and Amy implied that she should have died with her sister, causing her to fly into a berserker rage.
-After much evasive fighting, Valerian caved in the ceiling on Vivi, trapping her, her accomplice Rika, and Amy beneath the buried Snickdonalds.
-While the authorities began to excavate the remains, Saya called the party to her to discuss what had happened. The matter of the Raelite cult Vivi had formed emerged, and the party collectively decided to send Miss Right and Reen to a mine, while investigating another.
-The mine proved to be mostly a bust. Only a series of inane riddles, the spirit of an ancient barbarian king, and a study awaited the party.
-But within that study, the group found a relayed illusion of Rhea, Vivi's third-in-command. After much arguing with her, the party secured a bid to earn their trust: capture Tevaline and Asabew, whom Rhea could track, and hand over their lsland to her.
-The party eagerly agreed, and set off to meet Rhea. Together, they conquered Asabew's home with ease, after Valerian broke through her veil of madness with a brutal speech.
-To everybody's horror, the party found out that Asabew had ripped Atharathes' tongue out, and broken Learrette once more, this time into a comatose state. Teracor was also missing, but managed to escape.
-In spite of their begging, the party handed Asabew and Tevaline, plus Learrette, to Rhea, and departed.
-Back at Sayaburg, the party accepted a task from Saya to help extract a friend of hers and his daughter from the nearby city of Oldport, while waiting for Miss Right and Reen. Saya also had some bad news for the party, as she told Valerian that Eren could not be raised without help from a Raelite.
-She also gifted the party with an apartment complex all their own, and told them that a pale woman with black hair (i. e. Teracor) had been sighted at the hospital, but had left, leaving a message in the process. That message indicated that she was done with the party, and did not wish to see them again. In exchange for going to Oldport, Valerian asked Saya to locate her.
-To guide them to Oldport, Saya recruited Lloyd Fear-Slayer, a monk obsessed with speed that the party had briefly glimpsed back at Saya's island. After a rocky start, the party set off.
-On the way, the party was lured into a bandit ambush. It...didn't work well, as even a Dire Wagon wasn't enough to save the bandits. The leader was knocked out and stuffed into a bag before she could ingest cyanide.
-At Oldport, the party met Saya's dwarven friend, Axehand. The city had descended into chaos with the death of one of the Top Ship Captains, and now only two remained, Valdaan the Warlock and Kulkulat the Psionic Necromancer. Axehand sought revenge due to Valdaan transforming his daughter, Beardette, into a demoness.
-The party successfully infiltrated Valdaan's compound. In the process, Kirie helped a lamed wereshark by giving him a robotic arm.
-Thanks to a bit of trickery from Valerian, Valdaan was caught in an ambush and killed before he could react. The party recovered Beardette without a struggle, and took a picture with the image of Valdaan and his sister when they were younger, as well as his coffers.
-The party then retreated to rest, awakening the leader of the bandits that had attacked them before, whose name was Kim. On a whim, Vanessa hired her as a retainer to the party.
(Cont.)
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