[Horde] Chapter Four: Session Ten

Appearing Characters: Arthak Saurfang, Azgadaan, Azuka Stormbreaker, Halno, Lantresor, Levia Blackflight, Melagin, Nyxxa, Rakeesh, Sadras, Spinyl, Veena

Outland Day 9

Nyxxa had ran off following the battle, with Arthak in pursuit, but the duo returned a bit later.

She gestures to the carnage of transport and bodies. Azuka is tending to some of her own wounds, and Azgadaan goes over and uses a cure wounds on her. It seemed to be affected by an amplify magic spell due to the crystals in the area.

He then moves on to Levia.

Levia shrugs.

Azgadaan digs around and produces some liquor he offers her.

Levia shrugs.

Azgadaan heads over to check out the transport, and it’s rather messed up. He takes some time messing with the steering, and he is finally able to get it moving.

Halno seems fairly confused about where he is, but largely minds his own business while keeping a healthy distance from the group.

They settle down to take a brief rest, and it doesn’t appear that any predators are attracted to the group. However, they likely don’t have forever, as they would return before long.

Azgadaan and Sadras move to harvest the killed creatures for anything useful. In the process, on the last rylak, Sadras accidentally poisons herself, but she remedies that in a few moments. It takes about an hour to get to all of them, and Azgadaan opts to just leave the roc, as it would likely take several hours to harvest from it.

Meanwhile, Arthak made his way over to Halno.

Halno eyes Arthak up and down. Arthak sighs.

Arthak sighs again.

Arthak shrugs and heads back to the group. They start to see figures flying high overhead. It seems that more rylaks had been attracted, and they are presently scoping out the carnage. They pile into the transport and start to put some distance between themselves and the body of the massive roc. They park the transport again so that Azgadaan can take a closer look at some of the crystals.

Azgadaan is able to determine they can be harvested, though they are hard and not easy to break. As Nyxxa keeps watch, she notices something strange: when she looks at one of the crystal formations, it looks different than what it was before.

Azgadaan looks down at the crystal he was looking at, and he notices fault lines or limbs, perhaps. Or part of a face. Some of the crystals may be attached to creatures of some kind.

Presently, they appear to be dormant.

His attention is then drawn to the largest crystal, and the passing thought reaches his mind of the possibility that that crystal might be attached to something as well.

Her hand is resting on the side of a crystal.

Arthak and Azgadaan move to bolt the armor pieces back to the transport with a bit of work, and they start to head off.

Levia gives Nyxxa a look.

Arthak sighs.

The group exits the strange rage where it appears parts of the sky had fallen into the crystals, and they continue to head south. They reach the cusp of thorny brambles that was twirling out of the mountains, though they look far more desecrated than they once were.

In the distance, they can hear weird chittering, coughing sounds. They can’t see far enough to see anything, but as they look around, they can hear different things from down below.

Nyxxa climbs to the top of the transport to get a better look.

Nyxxa scans the area around them, and she can some in the distance, but they seem to be avoiding the transport. Nyxxa fires off an arrow at them as a warning shot, and the creatures immediately scatter.

As they continue, they can see remnants of orcish architecture that had been abandoned in addition to a rampart gate that serves as a barricade to monitor anyone heading towards Hellfire Citadel. There are orcs about, as well as a fair contingent of felguards and a fel lord. The gate is currently closed, and the demons and orcs alike seem to be drilling. There are about a dozen felhunters and their houndmasters milling about, and they bark at the vehicle.

It seems to be a Legion checkpoint of some sort.

Standing, currently dormant, its arms wrapped around furnace-like legs is a fel reaver.

The fel lord in question marches forward and raises a gauntleted fist in the direction of the vehicle to get their attention. Azgadaan uses alter self to change himself into a felblood elf that looks like he could be a male version of Levia.

Azgadaan grins and winks at her as he stops the transport. Arthak and Nyxxa climb out, and the fel lord looks down at the chieftain and satyr.

Arthak describes it and the fel lord nods.

Arthak explains that there are Legion operatives and some members of his own clan. The fel lord nods.

He pulls out a green disc, and a hologram of Azgadaan manifests.

Nyxxa whistles from nearby.

The fel lord nods.

He then turns around and shouts in eredun.

The pulleys begin to pull up the gate, and the fel lord informs them to be aware of any Ashtongue activity, especially around bodies of water.

The fel lord gives him a salute, and Arthak and Nyxxa return to the transport. They start to ride off again. They come to the edge of a cliff, and as they look down, they see miles of a canyon-like swamp. Mushrooms of various sizes jut up like a forest down below.

They take turns looking through Azgadaan’s binoculars, and as Arthak peers around, he looks beyond the mushroom-like canopy. He can see bodies of water in gaps in the canopy, but in the northern section, the mushrooms look desiccated. It looks like the area Rakeesh had described.

They start to creep the vehicle down into the marsh to get a better read on the terrain. As soon as they disappear beneath the canopy, it immediately becomes darker--the light blocked by the massive caps, though the underside of the mushrooms are dimly illuminated by a bioluminescent glow.

As they continue on, a heavy, wet kelp strand wicks across the front of the vehicle. It looks like the remnants of a sea floor, but above ground. The ground itself is wet and mushy, but there seems to be kelp-like grass growing at the edges of the abundant streams, ponds, and pools.

Halno ignores him.

Azgadaan looks at Halno and whispers to Arthak and Nyxxa.

Halno edges away as soon as they start hush-talking.

Nyxxa pinches the bridge of her nose.

Halno frowns.

Halno shrugs.

The group is fairly sure that whoever Halno is has no reason to trust the group, and that he has no intention of following through on his part of the deal.

Arthak gives Levia a nod. Levia tries to use turn undead on Halno, but he is able to resist it. Nyxxa goes in with her fist and manages to stun him. Arthak then grapples him while Azgadaan uses mind sliver. Levia once more tries to use turn undead, but Halno once again succeeds against it.

Azgadaan raises his maul and uses a branding smite to try and knock Halno out. Nyxxa follows up, once more stunning him. Azuka also drives the butt of her weapon into his gut. He falls unconscious.

Arthak grabs Halno’s staff, and Azgadaan starts to put manacles on him, but all of a sudden, Sadras’s club starts to glow.

There were not as alone as they thought they were. Nyxxa uses see invisibility, but she sees nothing invisible. She draws her war glaives and drops into a readied stance.

Lantresor draws his sword and ignites it, but he sees nothing.

As the group looks around, all of a sudden, there is a sound from behind them. Azuka gasps, and there is a humanoid, lobster-like creature dragging her into the water. They start to hear splashing all around, and Sadras and Lantresor runs to intercept. Lantresor makes a passing strike on the bogstrok that has Azuka as he goes, successfully stunning it.

Arthak follows up and starts to rip into the bogstrok with Champion’s Forge. He activates his fire rune, and the bogstrok is cooked in its own shell, releasing Azuka. However, Arthak had taken the scepter with him, and he realized what he did, and hurries back as the scepter crackles and darkens.

Another bogstrok starts to swim towards Azuka, and she starts to curse. However, another bogstrok leaps from the water and attacks her. However, as water splashes all around, she is able to evade the strikes.

Levia looks down at Halno.

She uses a death coil on him, and his eyes flare white for a second before he returns to consciousness.

More bogstroks start to close. Veena flies up on top of a mushroom and lights start to float around Nyxxa, Arthak, and Azuka as she uses bless.

Azuka sputters and coughs as she agrees, and Azgadaan uses polymorph on her. As a crocolisk, she snaps at the nearest bogstrok and grapples it in her jaws as she thwacks the one behind her with her tail. The bogstrok that was grappled pinches her on the side of the nose, and they start to flop around in the water as the bogstrok overpowers her and smacks her to the ground. Steam starts to blast out of the water, and there is the sound of loud bubbles popping as the water bubbles and churns.

Another bogstrok razorclaw scurries from across the shore.

Nyxxa also closes on the bogstrok that Azuka has grappled and swipes through the creature, the flames activating on her glaives. As she slices through it again, she severs its limbs and eyestalks, leaving the creature dead.

She then maneuvers to go after the others.

The bogstroks continue to swarm Azuka and drag her further underwater. In the process of the rapid-fire pinching, they see bubbles manifesting and bursting, singing her scaled skin.

Levia conjures a spiritual weapon and sticks in the back of one of the bogstroks, and then she follows up with a toll the dead.

Azgadaan drops concentration on the polymorph, and Azuka splashes into the water.

He then uses polymorph to turn her into a crocolisk again.

Halno pushes himself off the ground, and growls at Azgadaan to give him his scepter back.

Halno puts a hand on his spellbook and a giant hand crushes one of the bogstroks. He holds out his hand.

He hands the scepter over. The bogstrok that just got crushed tries to attack the hand, but it then dives into the water and swims out of range.

Veena throws some thorns at the bogstrok on Azuka.

Arthak charges at the bogstrok on the opposite shore and leaps over most of the stream as he comes down on the creature. Champion’s Forge digs into the creature’s carapace, and parts of is shell chunk off. He action surges, continuing to slash into it. Chunks of its flesh are cut off, and as it tries to catch Arthak’s blade, he cuts right through the middle of the creature, leaving it dead.

As a bogstrok is slammed into a mushroom stock, the mushrooms glow and spores start to drift down on the group, causing several of them to feel dizzy.

Levia swings her arm through the air, and the spiritual weapon once again strikes into the bogstrok. Meanwhile, Halno’s arcane hand smashes into the fleeing bogstrok.

Nyxxa draws her bow and shoots at the remaining bogstok. Azuka strikes a the bogstrok as it tries to flee, and she grabs it and drags it underwater. Parts of the creature start to drift toward the surface, and the remaining bogstrok scatter.

Nyxxa sighs.

Azuka, still a crocolisk, is continuing to eat one of the lobstrok. Azgadaan releases the spell, and Azuka lands in the water with a broken claw in her hand.

She looks at the group.

Azgadaan gestures to a lobstrok he had dragged to shore.

Azgadaan sits down to cook the lobstrok as the group settles into camp.

Nyxxa sucks her teeth.

Arthak grunts and points at Lantresor in agreement. Nyxxa runs a hand through her hair.

Lantresor chuffs.

Nyxxa offers a smile.

Nyxxa nods along.

She offers a genuine smile.

She points to her tattoos.

Azuka seems to be looking to Arthak to gauge his reaction. Lantresor seems to be more concerned about Nyxxa and her mental state, but Sadras looks like she may be a bit disturbed by the concept of eating souls. Nyxxa looks at Sadras.

Sadras nods, and Nyxxa offers a sad smile.

He points to Levia, Sadras, Lantresor, and Nyxxa.

The group organizes watches, and Azgadaan pulls Levia, Sadras, Lantresor, and Nyxxa into the vehicle to talk.

He casts crusader's mantle on himself, and light emits around his pauldrons.

Nyxxa looks to Levia, who shrugs.

He points at Levia.

Nyxxa pats him the shoulder.

Lantresor nods.

Lantresor shrugs.

Lantresor sighs.

Nyxxa looks at Levia.

Levia taps her foot.

Levia’s mouth twitches.

However, Azgadaan got the sense that he may have hit a nerve.

Levia elbows Azgadaan and heads out of the vehicle. Nyxxa follows to help her out, but Levia doesn’t bring anything up.

That night, Nyxxa and Sadras take watch together, and Nyxxa requested Halno give them some space seeing he was always awake.

Sadras’s arms are crossed.

She gestures to her tattoos.

Nyxxa sighs.

Nyxxa pales.

Nyxxa is losing her ability to retain eye contact.

Nyxxa looks up, and Sadras puts hands on her shoulders.

Sadras looks at her.

Nyxxa nods.

Nyxxa holds a hand up.

Sadras nods.

Nyxxa smiles.

Nyxxa and Sadras hug.

On Azgadaan and Levia’s watch, Levia gives Azgadaan some pointers on being a more discrete felblood elf. She also offers some name suggestions, such as a name that is more similar to his own name. She seems to be coming from a place of personal experience.

As they end their shift and go to sleep, Levia opens her eyes to see herself in Azgadaan’s dreamscape. The events of the execution of Azgadaan’s mother starts to play out before them.

Levia watches as the eredar woman is brought out by wrathguards. Levia looks back at Azgadaan, and starts to piece together what’s going on as a massive, armored eredar levitates down

As the scene plays out as Jaraxxus brings his blade up to bring it down on Azgadaan’s mother, everything freezes, and then starts to fall away, until it’s just Levia and Azgadaan in a black plane. Azgadaan is crying.

Levia stands there, staring for an amount of time. But then there is a hand on the small of Azgadaan’s back.

Levia rubs Azgadaan’s back.

Levia flicks the tip of her ear.

Azgadaan puts his hand on Levia’s forearm.

Levia stretches.

Azgadaan makes his childhood home, with attention paid to the fancy belongings Jaraxxus owned, and they just go to town tearing the place apart.

The next morning Azgadaan sends Samaara to inform her he can cast holy spells.

Outland Day 10

The group awakens the following morning after a (fortunately) largely uneventful night. Nyxxa had started meditating with Lantresor. Azgadaan also joins them and tries to mimic them best he can, however he’s quite fidgety.

Arthak, meanwhile, is meditating via smoking.

He points finger guns at Lantresor. Lantresor stops.

Lantresor keeps walking.

They opt to try and fix up the transport a bit more before leaving. It takes them four hours.

Nyxxa winces.

Azgadaan offers a name, and the start to head off. They pass through streams, and they see some wild creatures--manta ray-like bat creatures flitting about. The vibrant, but strange, fungal forest starts to change colors, and the blues and teals and brightly colored water turns foul and desiccated.

They notice some strange, mushroom growths on something that looks like a flap of skin. As they get closer, they see the corpse of some sort of massive, fungal whale--the same type of creature that had eaten Daan so long ago.

Then they see something light up the sky.

He uses alter self to transform into Rakeesh and then goes on a tirade using the eredar’s voice.

Levia snickers.

Azgadaan sighs.

Nyxxa just sighs.

As soon as she goes into the portable hole, Summerpaw starts licking her.

Halno sighs and then sends Rakeesh.

Halno relays, peeved at the fact his name was known.

They start to head toward the area of the flare, and they see a figure standing on a mound in the area. She appears to be clothed from head to toe in dark, ruddy cloth, and next to her is a very nice demonic vehicle. It doesn’t have wheels, but it looks to be a hover car of some sort.

The individual has a long rifle on her back that appears to Legion in make. Her face is obscured, but she has two long horns that start on her forehead and roll back and form into a single horn. She looks to be a krokul. She says nothing, but she throws her leg wide over the vehicle next to her and makes a signal with her hands toward a direction.

The vehicle alights with fel energy, and she zips off to lead Azgadaan’s vehicle through the mire.

The path isn’t too hard to follow, but they come to a crater or perhaps a fissure, and they head into it. Between the walls of the fissure, they see desiccated mushrooms sagging into the opening of the fissure almost like a rib cage. There is a sizeable Legion ship hidden within, with two flanged wings.

The krokul approaches the ship, and a lift lowers, revealing Rakeesh and a recognizable figure: Spinyl.

Azgadaan stops their vehicle, and they pile out.

Spinyl’s arms are folded.

Sadras nods, and her smile fades.

Spinyl smiles.

Rakeesh holds his hands out.

His eyes stop on the unfamiliar felblood elf (Azgadaan) in their midst.

Spinyl sighs and pouts, and Rakeesh gives her a look.

The new felblood elf had pulled out a notepad and was writing in it.

Arthak goes through the intel he had gotten at Hellfire, and he knew they were in force in Zangarmarsh, but they were also winning on that front. The Legion does not want that information getting out, and they are up to something rather big.

Rakeesh snaps his fingers.

Rakeesh shrugs.

His eyes turn to Nyxxa and he smiles.

Nyxxa cocks an eyebrow.

Halno has no reaction.

Azgadaan continues to write.

He snaps his fingers.

Nyxxa’s eyebrow raises in interest, and Rakeesh steps aside.

He steps back inside his vessel.

Arthak looks tired, and is smoking, but has a faint smile on his face.

Arthak walks towards the vessel, and the group follows after. Levia looks at Spinyl.

She gives a wry smile.

Spinyl returns the wry smile.

Spinyl raises an eyebrow at him.

Spinyl’s eyebrow raises more.

Spinyl saunters away.

This page was last edited on June 26, 2023, at 02:21 PM

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