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LAST TIME ON OURANTUS! Lots and lots of big emotions!

So after filling Bela in on what happened with her last night, what with her wolfing out and all that. After Bela agrees, we head out to the nearest town to find a cleric to cure her (as well as the radiation damage stuff that was sapping us from that weird creature in the fight). Thankfully, we arrive that evening before the moon rises and we book an appointment with some old dude at a Hermes temple. He cures us of that radiation life drain shit, as well as Robyn's paranoia, but the old geezer makes the mistake of using a spell to better get a look at Bela. His eyeballs burn and he starts apologizing, saying that he didn't mean to look up on divinity like that. All of us are confused as shit because while, yes, we are champions of some gods, none of us are gods or demigods ourselves. Right? Well, the old man sends us off to come back in the morning when he will cure Bela of her lycanthropy because he's gotta prepare himself for this.

So we find some hunters on the outskirts of town with cages big enough to keep WereBela at bay. We also cast a sleeping spell on her for good measure. The main hunter guy is really creepy and watches us the whole night but otherwise, we get through the night safe and sound without any breeches. (Robyn ends up returning later to purchase a jackalope because I thought he was so cute)

Back to the old guy we go. This time, he has Bela sit in a chair with thicc bindings and once she's all strapped in, he starts casting. Now Bela, she does not look like she's having a good time, like it looks painful as hell. When the spell has ended, she goes limp before beginning to transform. Did the spell fail? No. Turns out, there was a second curse placed on Bela to repress her memories and certain parts of her as it is revealed that Bela is a full blooded vampire, a demigod of Zura the Vampire Queen herself. In order for her transformation to be complete, she needs to feed, so Max offers his arm for her to drink from.

And Bela's back! As a vampire now! So, obviously, she has to go get a coffin and whatnot and the party decides to travel at night and rest during the day to accommodate Bela. Unfortunately, the morning after we leave the town, some hunters come up to us, claiming they're here to kill the werewolf. That creepy bitch ratted us out! Robyn tries to negotiate with these guys, but they're hella powerful hunters. Their sniper can almost oneshot a person from an extreme distance away with a heavy crossbow. This battle is rough. Honestly, it was almost a TPK and Robyn was the only one uninjured (Krane's player wasn't there that session so technically he was uninjured as well but he wasn't in the fight either) and Max, unfortunately, died. I'm not even sure how we were able to convince them to stop fighting us.

We keep traveling until we get to a heavily fortified city called Ugar where we're summoned by one of Bela's older siblings. He tells us there's someone we need to meet in the big city we're heading to, and that he wants us to kill one of his and Bela's siblings. The party agrees, only after Robyn is given sufficient reason (neutral good go brrrrr). She asks for some information on the world tree in addition to what we're already getting paid, hinting that she already knows well more than the average person. He agrees, on the condition that we bring his sibling's head on a silver platter.

Vyle and Robyn head to some temples, Vyle to Ragathiel's and Robyn to Pulura's. Vyle almost dies provoking them, seeing as she rejected her past life's god in favor of her own, and Robyn gets some closure and learns how to devote herself to her new faith. Vyle talks to Bela about the encounter and when they go to hug, SHE FUCKING KISSES BELA ON THE NECK!!!

Anyway!

We head off to the city that we've been trying to get to for a while now (I forget the name lol) and it's huge! This is the main city where the Aurudains have the most influence, with a statue of the house's founder in the city center. We head off to what is essentially a castle, which is where the Aurudains live and will be holding the meeting. On the way, we meet Dave, a war priest of Urgathoa and just overall a hilarious NPC, and Anvor, a kangaroo-satyr custom race who has a kid named Minkor and a hired green pseudodragon named Snip. Anvor, like the rest of the party, is a champion and has a previous life, so we all have that connection that makes us do the spiderman meme.

We get to the Aurudain castle thing and are told where we are staying and we all get to enjoy a nice hot tub while Dave talks to Vyle about how she's not inadequate as a champion or cleric. Unfortunately, the fun times over at the hot tub are interrupted by Krane receiving news that he has been chosen to represent the Aurudain household in one of two cities, to which Krane ends up choosing the one to the farthest north because he didn't want to be in the same city as his brother. Out of game, Krane's player is temporarily leaving the game due to scheduling conflicts, so this is Krane's way of exiting the story. The party spends the next five days pouring over the Aurudain library, where we learn more about Mystra (see the murder board for a more in-depth look) as well as information about other gods so we know who we're up against when we encounter more champions. And at the end of the five days, the party says farewell to Krane.

The remaining members of the party spend the next week leveling up and when we reconvene, we prepare for the last leg of our journey to reach the Deadlands. However, while out shopping for some scrolls and vampire slaying kits, Robyn and Amorath notice something all too familiar: a black mist known as the taint hanging over a portion of the city. This is the same mist that was over the town with the alchemist, the one that sickens people and that only those of us with past lives can see. After gathering the rest of the party, we rush off to the area, only to be stopped by guards. After all, this is a city; it's rather odd and dangerous to see armed people running off. We're escorted back to the Aurudains where we explain the situation, using memory crystals to show Soverick the mist. Before long, two more clouds of black mist have formed and we are given the ok to go to the center where we can easily be dispatched to help. The guards find an underground cavern beneath the sewers, undead spilling out. We're sent in only to find Amorath's old professor performing a ritual that we've all seen in a dream before. If this ritual is complete, it will summon a being so powerful, the casualties would be unfathomable. And protecting the ritual is none other than Zyrthus himself.

And that's where we ended the session.

(Sorry, this was really brief, I did most of this by memory because I didn't want to sit through the recordings of 4 or 5 sessions lol)

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