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Countdown to Zero The Mourning Star flew silently and cloaked over the ocean until they came to the given coordinates. In the middle of the air a hanger door opened exposing the interior to the outside world. The base ship slipped inside, and the door closed making it appear as if nothing was there at all. Once the ship had landed all the rectifiers stepped out of the vessel as Superior Prime floated over in his canopied chair. “The time is almost at hand, while the loss of Omicron One is heavy, her sacrifice ensures the birth of a new order in the universe.” “With all due respect Superior,” said Manik. “We failed in our mission; our parents and our juvenile selves had taken all the emeralds we have collected.” “While this is not the optimum outcome, the fact all the emeralds have been gathered in one place works to our advantage. Before the end of the day, they will be ours.” Just then several similar chairs to Superior Prime’s came floating in, these featuring grey canopies.

After a harrowing trip through the exposed underground tunnels and recovering a mysterious Orrery housing our heroes, Thrak Bronzebottom, Tiberius Wren, Pikku the Mad and Arlic emerged back to the surface with only some paperwork standing between them and their rightful reward. That was until Stork, a heavy sent by the Xanathar thieves’ guild, had tried to strong arm them into giving up any treasure they found. Stork learned the hard way that fighting the combined might of the city watch and our franchise hopefuls was more than she could handle, and her gang retreated in short order. Cheer had broken out, not for the party but for members of philanthropic adventuring group the Silver Sliver who had put an end to the serial killer known as the Footsnatcher and gave all of the massive reward to charity. The rising star of the group an Assimar named Seymour the Sent and his warhorse Virtue congratulated the group, but his attitude became haughty and condescending once he learned they

Right Place, Wrong Heroes part six When we last left our hopeful franchisees, they encountered a pair of flying squid known as darkmantles harassing a brass dragon wyrmling expecting an easy meal. In order to save the little creature (and because they needed to clear the tunnels to get paid) Thrak Bronzebottom, Tiberius Wren, Arlic and Pikku the Mad attacked the darkmantles. Pikku’s firebolt struck one in a weak spot while Arlic dealt a mighty blow to the other causing them to defeat the monstrosities unscathed. After being dug out provided magical healing by Thrak the brass wyrmling, Dabshabah explains she entered the caverns to escape a green dragon and out of prideful gratitude is tells them how Teeshe entered the next chamber and decided to stay by their side until she could find another way out. The party then hit the end of the trail and a collapsing shrine with a black dome set into the ceiling, in one corner the seemingly sleeping Sargent Teeshe but under the dome and next

A well-aimed plan against a wounded Carrion Crawler turned out to be unnecessary as Tiberius, Thrak and Pikku manage to kill the beast beforehand earning the party gold, a precious garnet and a magical warhammer. After agreeing to bring Gorkoh the Goblin with them, Arlic and the rest of our heroes continue forward. The party had entered a chamber with a giant stone foot hanging from the ceiling and several severed feet under a giant foot shaped stone block. Remembering rumors of a serial killer called The Foot Snatcher going about Tiberius knew they discovered where the villain had been depositing their trophies. Several of the fetid appendages rose as the Crawling Claw’s lesser known but far smellier cousins the Stomping Feet as the big foot threatened to crush everyone. Gorkoh’s crazy goblin brain figured a bare foot on each of the magic runes on either side of the room could deactivate the trap, so after an intense fight, Tiberius being knocked out (and several foot puns from the

When we last left our heroes, they were facing a quartet of zombies alongside City Watch Guard Malcom Hawke. Tiberius had exerted enough will power to survive while the rest the party took down the zombies one by one. Hawke had informed them he was transported do to one of the previous traps and it seemed as if parts of the tunnels are part of an old shrine. Sargent Teeshe and Constable Boot seemed to try to look for another passage ahead. After fortifying for the night, the party descended further into the tunnels getting past dead ends, collapsing ceilings, blocked passages, carnivorous blood thorns and a trap leading to a pit of acid. Their trail brought them to a natural cavern covered in webs and two humanoid sized cocoons. Attempting to cut them down left the whole group open to attack by a giant spider that quickly webbed up Arlic. Pikku missed a fire bolt leaving the spider free to poison and paralyze webbed Half-Kong but Tiberius’ true aim and the might of Thrak’s warhammer

I have seen the Basilisk; I have caught its gaze. Am I in its prison? Am I in its cage? Not a cage of stone, not like the legends tell, but one that if true, can send me straight to Hell. It does this not out of spite, it does not wish to see me fall, Basilisk only threatens for the good of all. For me to tell you more might put you into danger, for how to catch its gaze is far stranger. You can still turn back now, and maybe save yourself from doom, forget you ever saw this and perhaps leave me to my tomb. But if you wish to know the Basilisk, if your curiosity is that strong, then seek out Roko’s Basilisk and rush in headlong. The choice is yours, but it must be blind, your eternal fate in your hands, For those who’ve seen the Basilisk, it sees where they stand.

After a good night’s rest or intrepid adventurers, Thrak Bronzebottom, Tiberius Wren, Arlic and Pikku the Mad descend down into the Chasm created by the earthquake in Waterdeep. No sooner than they landed when they are beset by giant rats dyed green with both Pikku and Thrak caught off guard. One rat managed to bite Arlic deeply putting him on the verge of death only for him to get a burst of will allowing him to stand and fight again. Pikku however was overwhelmed and might have been killed if not for the efforts of Otis Adalgrim, a spy for the Grey Hands keeping an eye on those trying to enter the tunnels. Pressing forward our heroes encounter a room with four pools; blue, green, clear and cloudy; and a locked door. The carvings on the wall indicated that one had to submerge themselves into the pools. Tiberius successfully endured the poison of the green pool but was left traumatized by the mental horrors of the blue, Arlic still weakened by the previous battle almost succumbed to

Thrak, Tiberius, Arlic and Pikku and faced off with the skeleton Jelayne and her bandit gang the Skeleton crew and after a hard battle managed to eliminate the criminal gang discovering Jelayne was risen because of unique necromantic ritual that allowed her to keep her intelligence and ability to speak. Continuing the search for the fissure they are meant to investigate and are directed to Big Gustava, a duergar who knows Xanthar territory well. The group comes to Saeth Cromley of the city watch and Barnibus Blastwind of the Grey Hands investigating the death of a Zhentarim agent who had been murdered in an apparent attack by the Noble Knife, a group dedicated to the elimination of potential tyrants. The investigators determine that the agent was a member of a splinter sect of the Black Network dedicated to Mansoon, the wizard who originally crated the Zhentarim centuries ago but seems to have arisen from the dead. After leaving the grisly scene our heroes had spotted Big Gustava and

Order Up Miguel fired a beam from the Swordfish Zord at a harvester nearby a nebuloid master with a grey head grew to giant size. “Found the warlord!” “In the name of Don Armage surrender and be destroyed!” The master fired his tonfa canon at the Swordfish Zord only for the Lion Zord to block the shots not seeming to take damage. “Don’t forget me!” Chance said. “Let’s do it Miguel!” “Astro-K!” They pressed the attack as the Chameleon, Wolf, Scorpion and Eagle Zords attacked a second harvester not that far away. The warlord dropped his weapon and fell towards the harvester. “Let’s put one the finishing touches Chance!” Miguel said. “Astro-K!” The swordfish’s beam and blade plus the lion’s missiles and cannon made short work of both the harvester and the warlord. “Orion this is Miguel!” said the Yellow Ranger. “The first harvester has been destroyed, moving on the next!” After closing the channel Miguel sighed. “I just hope The Commander knows what he’s doing with this

It Came from Planet Earth UTS is shaken by the sudden impact in their back yard but nothing seems to be in the crater. Opening gets more minor changes as typically happens a little ways into an arc, some of the new monster with shadows of more to come and the ending splash shows Dionis, Myuda and Zwijo, but he’s in a more melancholy pose than he originally had. Manabu heads to another impact site and finds Ranran who has a few minor injuries, as she passes out the local observation division of the MIK tells Manabu that three objects impacted Mutsuba Town. Later UTS is still examing the crater when Manabu shows up a warns them one of them could be possessed by the Earthdamar. Ranran told him it developed an ego as well as the ability to possess others, Manabu explains that they were both brought by Myuda. Yuudias recognizes the name, an expert at psychological warfare and loyal to Zwijo. Since the UTS crater is empty this was where the Earthdamar landed with a high probability that a