Players: Fic (Catkin), Devine (Gowyn), Wan (Rory), Morles (Naomi), Theo (Zalac)
- naomi gets a giant saxophone before we go to padshiy
- we discuss the logic of how a saxophone would sound in the environment of magic hell Siberia (this is before the session officially starts but I think it's funny
- there are definitely going to be mind readers so that's cool
- there will be no mind reading in ba sing se
- ok so actually starting the session
- nevermind we're pasting gay communist propaganda images in the chat
- OKAY SO ACTUALLY STARTING THE SESSION
- we were given a big sled to help us traverse Padshiy. according to the centaur, we are looking for a river
- Marching order during sled travel: Calaz pulls the sled; most of us are on the sled; Naomi is on Calaz; Zalac is on the back of the bus
- we reach the fog wall, half the party gets off the sled to run straight through the fog wall for no reason
- because they run blindly in for no reason, rory falls halfway through the snow (giga brain)
- rory tries to get out and fails miserably
- rory tries to get out and rolls another 1, digging himself deeper
- he has the shovel zalac gave him and proceeds to dig himself even deeper (???????????????)
- snow caves in
- literally everyone tries to do something to help and fails
- rory tries to save himself and fails. he also sunlight/snow blinds himself
- we try to dig and fail
- cloud takes pity on us and helps us out
- zalac confiscates the shovel from rory immediately following this incident
- rory is given the ugly carnival sunglasses to help his blindness pain
- we get back on the sled
- group as a whole has "can't stop casting" disease despite cloud warning against it so i think this will be going well later
- we continue
- we see snow rabbits and calaz has to fight his demons against running after them (almost fail)
- naomi kills a rabbit!
- we hear an awoooooooooo
- the party wants to go to the howls but it is approaching nighttime and calaz and zalac call everyone stupid little idiot bozos and demand that we make camp
- haha losers you can't get anywhere without the wolf now can you
- get railroaded
- we get a fire going, naomi cooka da rabbit, nature is healing
- EVERYONE GATHER 'ROUND THE CAMPFIRE IT'S TRAUMA DUMPING TIME
- gowyn trauma dumps about his divorce... he requests that we don't let his ex-wife get a hold of his bones if he dies here (monkaW)
- catkin cries his ass off, rory is pissed, zalac learns the meaning of bloodlust for the first time... rory and zalac might kill angharad stay tuned
- naomi is flabbergasted by the whole thing and just goes to try to make her poison so she can get lost in the sauce instead of lost in the divorce
- catkin is sobbing crying
- zalac asks gowyn if he truly wants to go back to far or if he wants to discover himself elsewhere without all the crappy people back where he's from
- naomi is still making the potion loudly in the background
- zalac trauma dumps; it turns out calaz is dying because his soul is slowly bleeding out so zalac left home after he bonded with him (2 years ago) to try to find a cure. has not found one yet. wants to study the sword because it's the first lead he's had in a while
- naomi has finished her potion and is trying to eat poisoned cheese in the meantime
- rory just works here
- nAOMI EATS THE CHEESE??? immediately gets debuffed (surprised pikachu face), has anti-gravity, has to sleep on the ceiling
- gowyn gets no sleep b/c he kept watch and had Things to Consider
- asks sheep if they have considered sapience
- sheep is now considering thoughts
- we continue
- gowyn fucks around and finds out (tries to wake up naomi with his annoying spell (devine stop casting), naomi punches him for 6 damage)
- day begins
- let's see if we can find the awoooers
- immediate suspicious snowstorm forms around us
- we continue
- the trees are far too different from where we were now ??? moved further than expected ?? eh it's probably fine
- miro arrives to help notetaking
- gowyn allegedly hears*/////////////////////////////ises! we are going in that direction
- we get to the river
- we find a bag with a fire magic anti-frostbite cream and a lightning energy potion. and crochet gloves (catkin approved)
- we need to cross this giantass river. there's some big rocks across the river and variable depth
- gowyn makes a very good ice bridge to the first rock
- catkin, sled make it across easily
- rory almost fucking dies (-1 roll lol) but makes it across
- the ice bridge starts breaking while naomi moves across but naomi and gowyn use some magic to get her across. the bridge is now unstable
- ciaran and zalac make it across
- catkin THINKS they make two air stairs to get a full bridge (they make 1)
- their ass falls STRAIGHT down after the first half of the bridge
- rory tries to lunge to save catkin. fails like the dice loser they are
- catkin and rory are now both slipping
- zalac and naomi throw off their cloaks and manage to pull catkin (and thus rory) up to save them
- wahoo
- zalac and naomi need their cloaks back so that they don't freeze
- rory tries to go grab our cloaks and rolls ANOTHER FUCKING 1 holding them
- rory and the cloaks get dumped into freezing water, rory is now freezing and so are the cloaks (ruh ruoh)
- rory is like actively Freezing like the condition because he still cannot fucking roll to save his life (potentially literally). we'll be right back:tm:
- catkin is losing energy but manages to make a cold-ice air stair combo
- after many trials and tribulations, we get everyone across the air stair to the next rock
- gowyn makes another ice bridge. this is the last thing we need to get to the other side
- everyone makes it across!
- WE FINALLY DID IT
- except now it's revealed that zalac is NOT an encharmi but a secret, significantly more concerning thing
- zalac has a panic attack because of this reveal
- "hey do we want to talk about this" "no because we're dying we can do it later"
- ciaran DRUGS ZALAC WITH A CALMING POTION so at least he's breathing again
- meanwhile rory is hypothermic and dying
- we're doing great
- rory uses his firebreathing potion to stop being hypothermic, but is still heavily fatigued
- we put all of the cold people in sleeping bags on the sled so that they stop potentially dying
- after convincing calaz to stand down (because of zalac's state), we continue
- manage to find a good place to sleep
- we over-discuss tent assigned seating, dry the cloaks around the fire
- we are all very tired so we are going to ignore the elephant in the room yet again
- zalac is lookout because he's having a horrible time and won't be able to sleep
- zalac rolls 2 nat 1s on his lookout check (real) but like probably not a big deal
- we wake up and ciaran is missing and there's a trail of blood from their tent
- probably fine