Champions of Tibault Vol 7

     I always like when character's patrons get involved in their lives. Patrons are a great tool to generate quests and challenges for the party. Their patron can send them to go get something, help someone, or do anything and due to the transactional nature of a patron the party is obligated to do something about it. I often like to use it when the party is at a bit of a loss for what to do or need a longer term goal.

    In this episode we saw use of the extended mercurial chart from hobonomicon. I really like that table as the results of the core book's table where nothing special happens is not all that interesting to me. I like magic to be weird and unusual. At times, I sub out the mercurial magic table for the Nehwon table. I particularly like that one for Goblins in Hodas as a way of sort of setting them aside from true wizards, it makes their magic feel more formulaic and rote while still keeping it kind of unusual. 

 

Session 7:

The party rest and is given a vision from their patron, The Architect, of a piece of a broken mirror locked in the elven vaults. As the party gathered to discuss this vision they were summoned by the elves to stand trial. During their trial they learned that the elves treat justice strangely. They sentenced the party to create a work of art that had a form and function that improved the emerald dream. To get an idea of what this could mean the party sought out the royal artist. They found her in the palace, depicting a sleeping elf in various mediums and forms. Based on the amount of work here she seems to have been doing this for centuries. Unsure what to do next the party decides to rush for the vault, risking it all. They found the vault and engaged with the elven guard and their perfect mithril blades. After some struggle Egrat took a gamble and cast a spell from a scroll he had been saving. The resulting mercurial effect whisked them to another world, a strange one with men fighting with guns that were far more advanced and less artful than those of Hodas, massive constructs of steel in the streets. They landed in WW2 without knowing it. Meanwhile back in the vault, four WW2 german soldiers had replaced our heroes. When faced with myth these germans chose to simply start firing. Their modern weapons made quick work of the surprised elves and their magic. When the effect ended the party traded back with the germans and found that the shard was in their grasp. They snagged one of the weapons from a fallen german and their patron stepped in. Taking the shard in exchange for protecting them and getting them out of the emerald dream. They were given one week to recover in the Architect’s pocket dimension before he returned them safely to their tent in Tibault.