01. DWARVES. Following their exit from the Kokolfiat (“Big Hammer”) at the right hand of the captain, a stout dwarf with a heavy jacket with large buttons, a large cutlass, and a braided beard tucked into his belt, behind his jacket, A’kala, in their humanoid, walking-form hands the Amber Books over with enthusiasm to the officers of the Eagle. The Books, now translated from Onmentri’s academic Anubian dialect. (I-1: I-1 /// The dwarf is a Kaznorhulian general named Uthik Amur. He can be lured into an alliance with the Eagle for the mercenary price of 1,000 gold—an offer ultimately refused by the Crew of the Eagle.)
02. MECHRONOMICON. The books are The Amber Tome, the Book of the Forgotten Histories, and Elder Translations. Inside are cyphered the complete lexicon of three languages that Boorengi and Khaldun, will now fluently speak. Anubian, of course. Caiphon, the purely evil, elder language of the Neogi empire and the older empire, the Abolethia; and lastly, Azakiduan, the language of the dead. Together, the books form what is to a Giff wearing the gloves of Gauntlets of Gophimonyri (The Gauntlets of the Giff Elderkin) and the Scarab of the Ptah Anar, the Mechronomicon—a handbook of sorts to the elder ways of Argead Space and to secret powers of the Eagle.
03. ELDER AUGMENTATION. Elder augmentation is the use of solarized Platinium in any creative way to solve any engineering problem aboard the Eagle. Any first or Second level spell may now be cast from the Eagle, through Breajzna’s spell slots (see the Combat log)—although the Eagle may not be moving, even at impulse power. Any third of fourth level spell may be cast, through Braejzna’s spell slots at the cost of One Reg per spell. One reg may be spent to shield the Eagle from 6d20 damage. Solarized platinium may be used in a destructive manner. 1 reg destroyed by a thirty-two heavy (to-hit DC 9) will do 3d100 points of damage over a twenty-foot radius. One Reg may be spent to increase the speed of the Eagle over long distances by one-quarter; this is the maximum spend for increased speed. For example, a trip that will take four weeks with the spend of One Reg (impulse power, the normal spend of fuel in one month) can be increased with an additional One Reg to enable the Eagle to make the trip in three weeks.
04: AKALA AND AMBER TOMES: Akala the Mercane ““There are five of the seven Tombs of Aetharadion described in these tomes… Kithren, the Tomb of the Nameless Queen and Grimwo, the Kingdom of Tarawet: BELEM—the Palace of the Golden Star; UTHOLIOT—the Gardens of Set and Best; CALFARETTE—the Castle at the End of Time; MILSAMO—the Tombs of Exalted Lords; SHAKAT—the Labyrinth of Sanity Springs. Each of the five has at least four, star coordinates that form a trail that will then reveal a path to Grimwo, which is described as the land of immortality. Congratulations, this is a wonderful treasure.” (I-2: I-2 /// Akala is not only lying about the completeness of the Amber Tomes translations and transcriptions, they don’t know how to unlock the coordinates. It is Giff technology and only with the help of the Gophimonyri can the truth be ascertained.)
05: XORIAT. The portal of Xoriat is focused on Startoosk. Akala: “I wish to purchase your property. The consortium of Yrinion is in the process of buying up all the old land holdings in this sector… for better defense of Yrinion. Comparable land holdings in this area sell for $1000 Mejzadoni, how about I offer you $1500?” (I-3: I-3 /// It is a fair price. But something isn’t right. It may not be defense. Akala may be in business with the illithid. Either way, the Kilrathi are doomed. If Akala is securing all the free land in this sector, the Kilrathi will have no home and maybe even worse, be subject to exploitation, if not genocide. I-4 /// The realm of Xoriat is permanently open and there is a triangulated bead on the Startoosk farm. Radiographic lithic reads indicate that there is no way to close it.)
06. SPOREDRIVE. The fact that the Sporedrive worked at all was a fluke. Boorengi and Khaldun somehow managed to make a successful interface between the spore grains of the Ameni flower and the helm of the Eagle (the Korum Anae) while the Spelljammer herself, Braejzna, was in an arcane coma. The chaotic luck of the first, instantaneous jump of the Eagle through the Mycelial Realm from Umlama to Yrinion was accented by how it ripped a now permanent portal to Xoriat. The fact that the Sporedrive worked with a massive fuel investment was a fluke and opened the portal to Xoriat because of it. There may be an infinite amount of madness realms if the spore drive is activated as such, ever again.
07. SECURITY OFFICER. Elder needs a security officer on the register manifest in order to take flight. Khaldun accepts the offer to become the Security officer. Khaldun will oversee the mummification rites of Ekitok, the Thri-Kreen Security officer who was killed on Ynirion.
08: KILRATHI. There are only 178 of the original 312 Kilthrathi left alive after the attack of the Nautiloid and the battle of Startoosk Farms. There is incredible grief. Of the three brothers, the father of Thiatna, the dragon-marked girl, was the only one who died. His name of Niam. Atum and Katen, his brothers, are still alive. Tiatna’s mother, Shiebne is still alive as well. She is fifty and has long gray braids and is quite beautiful. Shiebne knows of Tiana’s one great power, to unite a family in telepathy (magic unknown at this point).
note: There are two large extra-dimensional spaces inside the Eagle. 1) the Arboretum: two hundred yards by one hundred yards. 2) Boorengi’s quarters: 50 x 100 yards with a freshwater feature called the Mouth of the Mother. Both have ceilings that are nearly fifty feet tall.
Two things have happened aboard the Eagle in the last week: 1) The Astral elf, dragonmarked child, Camal has grown suddenly in a traditional molting to become a walking and talking young boy. Carel is a bit weepy over it. For almost three months since being found aboard the wreck of the North Star, Camal has carried the sleeping infant. Now she is truly estranged. 2) The Ameni flower has transformed. The petals have fallen from the floor and turned to tarnished gold. The center of the flower now bears the symbol of the dragonmark… the same one that Camal has. A reddish slime mold stretches from the flower’s center to the top of the room where it fans out into an unusual mandala. The spore drive is inactive and is not connected to Elder. The vaguely humanoid husk in the access panel that traced back to the flower is now empty.
The mandala, drawn with slime mold on the ceiling of the Arboretum from the Ameni Flower, under the spelljammer helm aboard the Eagle.
Day 1 in flight from Yrinion: One reg is spent on “Speak with Plants”. Mordhek divines that the Ameni flower is Fungal, Fiendish, and Aberrant. The source of the evil is Zuggtmoy, the demon queen. The flower wishes to devour Elder, the sentient power of the Eagle. The following morning, it is discovered that The body of a young, Kilrathi woman who looks like she suffocated to death shows up in the arboretum, beside the first flower stalk… attached to a sinew of slime mold from the flower. A new flower stalk is growing from her broken and splayed ribs. She was a young woman, not yet married, and with no children
Day 2: Mordehk reports that something huge—An enormous shadow. The size of a small moon and with eight legs has been following the Eagle since Yrinion. It seems to have eight legs—A great and elder power from Xoriat. Radiographic lithography reveals that there is a similar world Yrinion, a moon of Athiriol, only 30 AU from Yrinion, behind a patch of gaseous adamantine, a place perfect to set up the forge. Perhaps you would set a course there anyway. Athiriol is also the site for an ancient port, called Blue Falcon Bay wherein the Orrey reveals the location of Bemlem—the Palace of the Golden Star.
With all the Kilrathi sequestered into Boorengi’s residence, another young woman is taken in plain sight exactly at Three Bells (6:30pm—dusk). It is reported that she too, is young and never bore children. Apparently, she became possessed (with yellow eyes!) just before disappearing. at Three Bells in the morning, her body shows up in the Arboretum, another Ameni flower growing from her gruesomely opened chest cavity. Knowing now that there is some kind of predatory creature, working with the fiendish power fueling the flowers, that appears, as both possessing a young woman for ten seconds at three bells in the evening and also at three bells in the morning in the Arboretum to place yet another of the demon flowers, the Officers of the Eagle must now somehow trap the plane shifting agent of Zuggtmoy. Finally, it is ascertained that there are seven young women among the Kilrathi refugees left alive who meet the demon’s criteria as flower hosts.
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