Denethor was hard at work with stabilising the planet's engine and the planet's goddess. Elani and Gunda went exploring on the surface of this new, if a bit collapse-y planet, which seemed to be full of snow - incidentally, it also didn't have Christmas, but we're pretty sure we weren't in Narnia.
There was a big monolith, but we didn't monkey around to Also sprach Zarathustra. Instead, some people were found, words were exchanged, and then we had to run because some undead, human-sized locusts came buzzing and we didn't fancy getting turned into one of those.
Our new-found friends led us to a system of caves, which were sealed from the surface. They had a spaceship, ginormous forges, a river of dust and took us to their leader, Zolya. She had a robot doctor friend, who informed us of what had come to pass since there was a riot on said spaceship and it ended up crashing on the planet a millennia or two ago.
We discovered we could absorb energy from dust, which they said was unheard of, and things got a bit tense. On the other hand, we found out that not only had the Undead Court been around, the Frozen Court had too, and they were still present. But at least Denethor could use some dust to repair the engine. In theory.
Courtesy of Monday 25 February 2019's Godbound session.
“You have such faith in us!”
“If by faith you mean having no faith in you whatsoever, yes.”
“Not that I claim I would kill her outright, but … I would.”
Elani: “Do you have some kind of scanning system?”
NPCs: “What’s a scanning system?”
Elani: “Something that detects things approaching?”
NPC: “We have scouts, will that do?”
Elani: “What’s a heavyyear?”
Denethor: “Heavyyear?”
Elani: “Yeah. Heavy year. Ohh, no, lightyear!”
Denethor: “You know when Varion opens a portal, the distance …”
Elani: “Is that a heavy year?”
Denethor: “How fast can the ship go?”
Elani: “It’s a teleport spell.”
Denethor: ”No, that was an analogy.”
Gunda: “Ana-what?”
Gunda: “We’re sticklers for details, and we like the truth.”
Elani: “We do?”
DV8 robot: “I killed 2500 people, to ensure my survival and that of Zolyn’s bloodline.”
Player: “That’s a bit mass-murder-y.”
“I have a small question.”
“You have many small questions.”
“Yeah, but they’re very interesting.”
DV8: “There are people out there who don’t like dust and want all of it destroyed.”
Player: “Ah, you mean Christians.”
DV8: “It has never been done before.”
Gunda: “FIRST!”
Player: “You always want to be first past the goal posts, don’t you, Gunda Swan?”
To be continued!
