Mission Report
Mon, Feb 12, 2018 – Tue, Feb 13, 2018 ((Nov 29, 2020))
Team: Lyndi (Aslene), Jane (Cael), Proud (Aunne), Shiro (DragoN), Kromrak (Sielic), Isabelica (Basil), Farida (DM)
The heroes talk with Aedin about his nature, their respective goals, and a path forward. Aedin is skeptical that Raptor Blue isn’t trying to destroy Adinzar and–in the process–him. He decides to travel with Raptor Blue. The team travels to Ravnica space. Before going to Ravnica Prime, they visit Ravnica F, the location of Lab 86G. There they meet Nantuk Gribben, Izzet League artificer.
== Details ==
- I am Aedin. I am 15 years old. I was born Dec 19, 2004.
- Aedin explains that Adinzar contains three beings: Aedin, a kind of proto-god; the Relentless Understanding, which is powerful and irrational; and Nicol Bolas, who is imprisoned but maybe not powerless. Aedin and the Understanding both have insatiable curiosity, but Aedin has doubt and hesitation. He may have the beginnings of a conscience. Aedin absorbs beings in a different way than the Understanding, so he may be able to release Cyrus and Draco.
- Romulus is Jane’s contact inside the Black Pyramid. As the architect of the project, Romulus is apparently able to exist and act inside in ways that Aedin and the Understanding can’t always see or affect. Romulus seems to be keeping the Understanding and Bolas from connecting. Aedin is skeptical that the Understanding can fully absorb Bolas, and he worries that Bolas could persuade the Understanding to work with him.
- Aedin has gotten most of his learning through discrete absorbing of beings in the Astral Plane.
- Aedin says that he absorbed Cyrus and Draco to save them from the Relentless Understanding.
- Aedin: “Draco taught me a quote. They said it’s why the Unbroken Tide is called the Unbroken Tide. The quote is by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
- “My friends are the githyanki, and their friends are red dragons. The red dragons serve Tiamat, and Tiamat wants power in Sigil. Draco wants to stop Tiamat.”
- Much discussion of ethics, certainty vs. uncertainty, emancipation, and the rights of sentient beings. Also, discussion of dancing by Proud
- Isabelica commands the Flutterflesh to dismantle its Grid form and go back to its home plane
- The team gathers the bodies, including the hobgoblin officers that Aedin was using as bodyguards
- Bron performs last rites on the bodies, since he speaks Goblin
- Isabelica jettisons the bodies and burns them
- Aedin tells Lyndi that her family was sold to the cult of Rakdos
- Lyndi and Kromrak take the Horochanz to connect with allies at Ravnica in advance of the team
- Proud takes Aedin dancing in the VR room
- Lyndi tells team to keep Aedin a secret from the rest of the crew and the fleet
- Sylvena talks with Aedin about the experience of being a proto-god
- Jane gives Aedin reading materials (LotR, Dresden, Honor Harrington)
- The team meets Nantuk Gribben, Izzet League artificer, in his cloaked salvage pod
- Nantuk Gribben is a green-skinned goblin tynker (he/him). He wears a custom combat spacesuit and carries a variety of weapons and gadgets. He has a clever manner and a ready laugh.
- Nantuk and Mikell are friends
- Nantuk explains how the Izzet League sees the Sigil factions. They particularly like the Society of Sensation and the Transcendent Order
- Nantuk is looking for an experimental organic power source in the derelict Lab 86G
- Proud warns Nantuk that the power source is devastating to a civilization
- Nantuk explains some of the lab’s history
- Towed an asteroid into orbit, built into it
- Made a deal with outsiders, called Primex
- After the assault by some werebears, it fell out of orbit and sunk to the bottom of an ocean
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