Iris, Makoa, and Quintella escape the time loop, hoping (to varying extents) that Jaal will find his own way out. The destruction of magical books is debated, but interrupted by harpies swooping down from the cliffs to ensnare them in fateful song – which goes about as well as you’d expect, in Episode 071: So I’ll harvest souls in a little bit.
Those poor harpies.
Nathan remains away for this session, so Jaal's fate remains murky. The other characters' ambivalence about that is a running theme of the campaign, which honestly I feel is how most people should feel about most spellcasters most of the time... but Jaal, the emotionally immature teenager (he's the youngest of them all) striving for recognition in all the wrong ways, really hits that button.
The Sacred Necromancer that Makoa plays has the ability to "harness the souls" of the dying, using the Animist field of study. We flavoured this as a purely benevolent process, drawing on spiritualist ideas: Makoa frees the souls of lingering excess emotion and pain, which he can use to aid, heal, or harm others, while helping the spirit to pass on to its fate unburdened. This was important because treating the dead well is a theme of the whole campaign, and those who exploit the dead and undead are to be stopped. Having Makoa as a morally-grey character would have really interfered with party dynamics. Besides, Jaal already has the morally-questionable ally spot covered as far as the others are concerned...
Direct Links
- RSS feed for all episodes
- Episode 001: Character Generation
- Master list of episodes
- Episode 007: Screaming blue murder from his waist (start of Castaways)
- Episode 023: Everyone knows that mummy octopi are not scared of cooking (start of Nautical Shenanigans)
- Episode 027: The crumpling noise you can hear was Book 2 (start of Nameless Ancients)
- Episode 049: Mint Ice Cream (start of Trouble in Cheliax)
- Episode 067: Or we'll come and eat you and your children (start of Road to Rachikan)
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