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Dec. 29th, 2002 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothToday was Loxley's World Tree game (finally). We built a couple of rockets, and fiddled around with magic, and engaged in subterfuge that didn't really accomplish much.
So, the party met with a bunch of 'alien fanboys' -- Tenstol the test pilot, Gofr the engineer, Pta the farm supervisor, and Eddo the janitor. Together, they worked up a plan to build a rocket to reach the top of the tree, and to embezzle enough parts and liftweed to build a second rocket which they'd use to escape. Silverspray invented a spell to let liftweed burn much more efficiently, and Kijji invented one that worked like 'grow the cloth' only on magical wood instead of cloth, which made the idea of a rocket economical: by hammer casting, he could expand a stock of liftweed by a factor of 100 or so.
The test flight of the X1 (the official prototype) was a success, but only barely -- the main chute failed to open, and Tenstol was almost killed. But it worked, and so plans were drawn up for a HUGE-ASS ship to actually travel to Ketheria. It would take six months to build, but Tenstol and Gofr were excited about building it and didn't want to escape in the X2. The party agreed that going along with the Powers That Be was the best plan, since the X2 was hardly safe (as it'd need a dozen launches to reach the top -- and the X1's one test had had problems, so reliability was a concern).
The plan was to smuggle Eddo and Pta on board once the Leviathan (as the huge-ass ship was called, unofficially) was complete. But no one told Eddo that, and as she saw the plans commence and grew apart from the other conspirators, she finally decided she was going to be left behind and stole the X2. Maybe she made it to Ketheria. Maybe she died. Maybe she was lost somewhere random. There was no way to find out, though.
To pass the time, Silverspray and Kijji did some enchantment. Silverspray made powerful and useful wands that expanded liftweed and furnaces that made it burn longer. Kijji made student-level tricks, like a cloak of quiet veil, that impressed the danetti only because they lacked the relevant arts.
Next session: The triumphant return to Treverre! Or somewhere else near Ketheria, hopefully! Or Hresh-Hu knows where... can she resist playing with the largest, fastest airship ever built?
last session next session
So, the party met with a bunch of 'alien fanboys' -- Tenstol the test pilot, Gofr the engineer, Pta the farm supervisor, and Eddo the janitor. Together, they worked up a plan to build a rocket to reach the top of the tree, and to embezzle enough parts and liftweed to build a second rocket which they'd use to escape. Silverspray invented a spell to let liftweed burn much more efficiently, and Kijji invented one that worked like 'grow the cloth' only on magical wood instead of cloth, which made the idea of a rocket economical: by hammer casting, he could expand a stock of liftweed by a factor of 100 or so.
The test flight of the X1 (the official prototype) was a success, but only barely -- the main chute failed to open, and Tenstol was almost killed. But it worked, and so plans were drawn up for a HUGE-ASS ship to actually travel to Ketheria. It would take six months to build, but Tenstol and Gofr were excited about building it and didn't want to escape in the X2. The party agreed that going along with the Powers That Be was the best plan, since the X2 was hardly safe (as it'd need a dozen launches to reach the top -- and the X1's one test had had problems, so reliability was a concern).
The plan was to smuggle Eddo and Pta on board once the Leviathan (as the huge-ass ship was called, unofficially) was complete. But no one told Eddo that, and as she saw the plans commence and grew apart from the other conspirators, she finally decided she was going to be left behind and stole the X2. Maybe she made it to Ketheria. Maybe she died. Maybe she was lost somewhere random. There was no way to find out, though.
To pass the time, Silverspray and Kijji did some enchantment. Silverspray made powerful and useful wands that expanded liftweed and furnaces that made it burn longer. Kijji made student-level tricks, like a cloak of quiet veil, that impressed the danetti only because they lacked the relevant arts.
Next session: The triumphant return to Treverre! Or somewhere else near Ketheria, hopefully! Or Hresh-Hu knows where... can she resist playing with the largest, fastest airship ever built?
last session next session
