The Bloody Blade Shrine
The Bloody Blade Shrine
Episode 8 witnessed the Party's descent into a Mabaran manifest zone, and the beginning of Andrew's descent into insanity at the inception of the term "M'baran." And don't get me started about the introduction of "Vampire Mommy." Descend into madness with "The Bloody Blade Shrine"!
Key Scenes
- Stabby Statues
- Jacopo drinks the blood of Aureon and sees the past and future decay of Sharn
- Lark drinks the blood of Olladra and sees the destruction of Thalia's Court
- "Vlad" befriends Mikhail
- The introduction of Lan Hazal and Lady Tarra'az
- Nazari opposing Lady Tarra'az and summoning the King's Swords
Stabby Statues
- The party is separated as they enter the Bloody Blade Shrine. In addition to a lit candle and a dagger, each party member was given a phrase associated with a god of the Sovereign Host. They discover that the undead wandering the Shrine avoid their candlelight, which seems magical and can't be augmented despite Cinder's best attempt.
- Zelandris and Talos join up, assisting another cultist in destroying undead with their light. Talos finds his statue Arawai and stabs it. As darkness sweeps through the dungeon, Zelandris loses his shadow. The shadow briefly reappears to stab an undead hand. Zelandris stabs Boldrei.
- Cinder wanders the dungeon, passing a few statues before meeting up with his friends. He stabs Onatar before joining with Talos and Zelandris.
- Nazari and Jacopo meet up. Jacopo stabs a statue of Aureon and drinks the blood. He has a vision of Ja'Sharaat, the Dhakaani foundation of Sharn, being weathered and turned to dust. He sees the aberrant marked tyrant Halas Tarkanan, with Sharn teeming with vermin from the Lady of the Plague. Finally, he sees a future of Sharn derelict and empty. He collects some of Aureon's blood in a vial. Nazari stabs Dol Dorn.
- Lark aids a cultist in killing some undead. After passing a few statues she finds Olladra and stabs it. She gets a vision of a wasteland with obsidian spires, reminiscent of a feyspire like the elvish birthplace Shae Tirias Tolai. Lark realizes the Bloody Blade Shrine might be in a Mabaran manifest zone. She drinks more blood and sees a vision of the Court of Thalia with its flowers wilting and creatures turning to dust. Nazari arrives and stops her from stabbing the statue over and over again.
Vampire Mommy
- The party all present their bloodied daggers to gain access to a central cloister. The doors shut and undead can be heard gathering outside. Lan Hazal leads a chant and everybody drinks their dagger's blood, clearing their mental fog and the darkness of the Mabaran manifest zone.
- Lan Hazal introduces Lady Jessel Tarra'az, a vampire (mommy), and requests three volunteers for blood to sustain her while she visits. Lark and Mikhael Fedorov volunteer alongside a third. Lan then asks the assembly to grieve Wultram Kazkov and asks the community to not cooperate with the Sharn City Watch.
- Lan Hazal and Vampire Mommy ask the Bloody Blade Shrine assembly to all donate blood to perform a clarifying ritual over events that have recently transpired. Jacopo slips Cinder the vial of blood from the Aureon statue. Nazari pretends to faint, knocking over the basin of collected blood. When they insist on getting her blood, she hurls the basin at Vampire Mommy and snaps her King's Swords coin.
- Corwith ir'Cullen and the King's Swords pop into the Bloody Blade Shrine. They arrest cultists including Lan Hazal. Alastair Buchanan attempts to apprehend Vampire Mommy but he is thwarted as she shrouds the room in darkness, allowing the undead outside the door to gain strength and break into the room.
Trackers
- #CurtainCallConspiracy In the central cloister of the Bloody Blade Shrine, cultists gather and Lan Hazal introduces Jessel Tarra'az. He asks the assembly to grieve Wultram Kazkov and to not cooperate with the Sharn City Watch. He attempts a blood ritual to provide clarity over the recent events that have transpired, but is interrupted when Nazari defiantly throws the blood basin at Jessel Tarra'az. She snaps her disc and the King's Swords are summoned where arrests begin. Lady Tarra'az escapes and shrouds the room in darkness, causing undead to break into the room.
- #BloodyBladeBreakIn Disguised as cultists, the party is separated from one another. They wander the Bloody Blade Shrine, using the light from their candles to keep the undead at bay. There are statues of the Sovereign Host deities throughout the Shrine. The party members each find the statue associated with their cryptic message and stab the statue, causing it to bleed. Talos stabs Arawei; Zelandris stabs Boldrei; Cinder stabs Onatar; Jacopo stabs Aureon; Nazari stabs Dol Dorn; Lark stabs Olladra. Jacopo drinks the blood and gets visions of Ja'Sharaat and the aberrant marked tyrants that placed death curses upon Old Sharn. Lark also drinks the blood and gets visions of the Court of Thalia. She recognizes the shrine is in a Mabaran manifest zone. They present their bloodied knives to gain access to the central cloister of the Shrine. The meeting with Lan Hazal and Jessel Tarra'az unfolds until Nazari disrupts an attempted blood ritual and summons the King's Swords with her snapped "disc."
- #FeywardSoul #TheAutumnCourt After drinking the blood of her statue, Lark has a vision of a wasteland with obsidian spires, reminiscent of a feyspire like the elvish birthplace Shae Tirias Tolai. She also has a vision of the Court of Thalia with its flowers wilting and creatures turning to dust.
- #ShadyShadow As darkness sweeps through the Bloody Blade Shrine, Zelandris loses his shadow. The shadow briefly reappears to stab an undead hand before disappearing again.
- #ManifestMayhem After drinking the blood of her Sovereign Host statue, Lark recognizes that the Bloody Blade Shrine is actually a Mabaran manifest zone.
- #VanquishingVampireMommy Disguised as cultists, the party encounters Jessel Tarra'az during Lan Hazal's meeting in the Bloody Blade Shrine. She summons darkness and escapes after the King's Swords arrive and begin arresting cultists.
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