Floodwall Recaps

Floodwall Session 55: The End (Story)

‘Bring Diafani to Floodwall and I’ll allow the city to keep on standing. And every other plane it’s connected to.’ And the image of Aurifar vanished. Firuzeh, Vi, and Cranzalar exchanged looks, then almost as one turned to Diafani. ‘We should get going then,’ said Diafani. ‘There’s no way you’re coming,’ said Uzi at nearly…

Floodwall Session 54: Versus Shallows

Get ready for the worst recap ever made! It’s been months and I remember nothing! So, the group (including Diafani) goes to meet Aurifar in the now-ruined City of Brass. And who should meet them there but Shallows. Turns out he’s not dead, he’s a bloody traitor! He has Bailiff, keeping them floating up in…

Floodwall Sessions 52-53: Drywall

It was decided the best approach would be to nip Aurifar’s spark-gathering in the bud, and travel to the Elemental Plane of Earth to deal with Rosso before the God could get to him. After some faff in Sigil with an illusory Shallows that almost led the group through a portal to the Far Realm,…

Floodwall Sessions 50-51: Endgame Approach

Back in Sigil, the gang does a bit of shopping, gets a bit of breakfast, and discuss with Shallows about returning the Lantern they’d got from his friend Ardent. Uzi and Diafani stay at the house for a while, and when they leave for breakfast, the two are holding hands. Shallows needs help…

Floodwall Session 49: Spider Down the Plughole (Story)

The four have journeyed to the very centre of the Elemental Plane of Water, to the place where all water is channeled to other planes. They’ve traversed the treacherous caverns and defeated a sea-hag that had been blocking their path. They bed down for the night, each agreeing to take watch in turn. The last…

Floodwall Sessions 43-48: The Feywild, the Tea, and the Ocean

Once more, I wish I’d recap more often. After spending some time away – Vi confronts her shitty Dad, and learns a recipe for a tea that can erase memories from Granny Hestia – the party returns to Floodwall with a plan to remove the Mind Spider from the collective unconscious, thus killing it forever.…

Floodwall Sessions 37-42: A hundred things happen

Damn ok uh You went to Eberron, did some jobs for Nico there You trapped Mavi in a bottle after faking going to a Royal Meeting, with disguises and stellar impressions of said Royals. You then chucked Rosso through a portal to the Elemental Plane of Earth and Cranzalar Arcane Locked it behind him. Czerna…

Floodwall Session 36: All Rise! Live from Darwen!

Okay I don’t think I can do a proper narrative-style recap for this one; too much went down. Why don’t we record these?! The whole point of the trial was to determine if the Leviathan had a rightful claim to the shards of Aurifar’s power, or if it would be made to cease and desist,…

Floodwall Sessions 34-35: Jury Duty

Oh my god you guys a lot has happened. Okay, so, upon returning to the city the party was swept up into an illusion by Czerna, in which they fought against Rosso to stop him from reaching the Regicider Base and wrecking the place.In the real world, a large group of Church Guards assaulted the…

Floodwall Sessions 32-33: Relax!

In light of their recent successes, the party received some tickets to a spa/resort/hotel thing from Bailiff. It was a nice gesture; Bailiff had signed up to Nico’s special membership scheme and pulled some strings to get them. They declined to go with the party, though. The hotel was pretty fancy. There was…

Floodwall Session 31: Versus Argat, Live from St. Albans! (Story)

The hospital is a reflection of its real-world counterpart; a familiar face peering back at you from a shallow pool of oil. The temperature skirts freezing, the gurneys and tools are rusted to the point of inoperability, the smell of mould in the still air is pervasive despite attempts to camouflage the olfactory landscape with…

Floodwall Sessions 29-30: Liches get Stitches

Okay, quick update here because I’ve left it like… six weeks?You know how life be. The party made their way back to Floodwall from the Feywild after a makeshift funeral for the Dragonborn hatchlings – there are now only two Dragonborn left in Floodwall – and some caretaking of Granny Hestia and Edsel in their…

Floodwall Session 28: Versus the Weaver (Story)

Cranzalar stepped lightly onto the plateau, the charred air in his lungs a now-familiar discomfort. His companions waited around the lambent sigil printed on the ground. A diagram of Shallows’ soul, Firuzeh had called it. That book of hers – the Archive – was dangerous; maybe as dangerous as the other sentient item his friends possessed. But…

Floodwall Session 27: Misunderstanding

The party set out to find Diafani, with Cranzalar’s Locate Creature spell actually making it manageable. Diafani was skulking around Argat’s hospital, and after some threats and persuasions, she was convinced to travel with the party to Shallows’ soul rune in the plane of fire. Once there, the three needed to nip back to the…

Floodwall Session 26: Dreams, Gifts, Plans, and Parley

Cranzalar dreamt of a deep sun fathoms below the ocean, boiling away the brine. A voice not entirely unlike Eadro’s came to him as he watched, and offered him a different kind of power. Cranzalar accepted, and awoke to find a greatsword rammed through his chest. He’d become a warlock. So now he was an…

Floodwall Session 25: Deal

When last we left off, the party – we could really do with a better group name for them – were exploring the labyrinth beneath the city with the Royal Zelena.They made their way through a series of tunnels, fighting off a Drider on the way, before coming to a locked door with an open…

Floodwall Sessions 22-23-24: Going Underground

I’ll try and keep it brief, ‘cause I’m condensing three sessions into one post. (Later, Alex will only write recaps when at least 3 sessions have passed) In the aftermath of the Masquerade, Cranzalar had come back from the dead. Doing so had a few side effects – he no longer needs to eat…

Floodwall Session 21: Masquerade

Weeks had passed while the group was in the Feywild, though thanks to some time-dilation bullshit they’d only been there for a few hours. Immediately upon their return, Bailiff provided formal attire and masks, and they were whisked away to the 6th Tier for Czerna’s Masquerade. Flashing the tickets they’d purloined from the Heliodynes’ mansion, the…

Floodwall Sessions 19-20: The Feywild, or, The Plane of Life, or, the Gang Fucks Up and Releases an Ancient Evil

BAD RECAP BECAUSE THE DM FORGOT TO DO IT RIGHT AWAY Went to feywild – find dragonborn hatchlings, find a way to cure Edsel (Vi bro) Upon arrivng and meeting with Granny Hestia, Vi’s druid teacher, they found that Edsel’s weird link to the Kraken was preventing the healing working on him. They’d need to…

Floodwall Session 18: The After-After-Party

Returning to the Regicider base after their somewhat harrowing day, Cranzalar, Vi, and Uzi were greeted by an incredibly cheerful Bailiff and a shower of confetti. ’You fuckin’ did it!’ they grin, ‘I’ve put together a bit of a party, to celebrate!’ The party, covered in cuts, bruises, and each having almost died at least…

Floodwall Session 17: Versus Lilla (Story)

‘What the fuck do you think you’re doing here?’ says Lilla. The morgue is cold and dry, same as always, but the crystal she used as a focus for her clone lies shattered on the floor. The shelves of slabs for Lilla’s stock of corpses seem taller without its soft light. The traitorous Dragonborn – the one who’d defected…

Floodwall Session 16: Ban-Lilla Ice

See, because of Ban being in it, then Lilla, and that snowball swarm and stuff. It’s a clever title, okay? The session opened up with a brief flashback to Ban’s warning Lilla – who was casually murdering out at the festival on the second tier – about the threat to her backup body. She set off up…

Floodwall Session 15: Castle Siege!

After heading out from the mansion – getting some better disguises along the way, including a heavy helmet for Cranzalar – the party made their way through the Privileged Tier, avoiding an altercation with some Church Guards that didn’t like the look of them with some fairly clever bluffing. The centre spire was a bit…

Floodwall Session 14: Mansions & Monsters

After crashing in the 6th tier, the party made their way into the mansion they’d landed on. The place had an overgrown rooftop garden, and living inside were some feral Displacer Beasts. However, Vi’s affinity for wildlife (and weird abundance of sausages) meant the party was able to avoid a fight and make their way…

Floodwall Session 13: Shining, Shimmering, Splendid

Having returned from the City of Brass, the Party got back to work on the whole… kill the Royals business. After securing their passes for the upper tiers, and some consultation with Bailiff – turns out the Dragonborn eggs have begun to wobble, so they need to get fishing right away – Cranzalar, Vi, and…

Floodwall Session 12: Assaulting the Sultan, Live from Watford!

(We got to do this one in-person, in a gaming café in Watford! It was great!) The party made a deal with Shallows: they’d head into the City of Brass, across the Sea of Flame, to steal a magical book known as ‘the Archive’ from the Absolute Ruler of the City of Brass, the Grand…

Floodwall Session 11: Kill Lill Part One

The plan to take down Lilla was underway! Having learned some of the details of the Clone spell Lilla uses for her immortality, the party took some downtime while a profile of Lilla’s movements was put together. They realised that Lilla’s backup bod was stashed away somewhere up in the Royal Palace – the seventh…

Floodwall Session 9/10: Morning of the Living Dead

Cranzalar took all of the eggs found in the Dry Land warehouse back to the Regicider base in the third tier, but didn’t let Redford know what he’d done. The party got their papers and made their way up to the fifth tier for the meeting. They were stopped at the border by an inquisitor…

Floodwall Session 8: M. Night Shyamalan’s Basement of Betrayal

Upon their descent into the Dry Land warehouse basement, Cranzalar, Vi, and Uzi encountered several shrines to a whole host of outlawed gods – along with several dedicated to demon lords and archdevils, as well as the Lords & Ladies of the Fey. Cranzalar got a holy symbol of Eadro; a metal shell with a…

Floodwall Session 7: P A P E R S

Upon returning to the city, the party took the Spore Druid Refugees down to meet Bailiff in the Regiciders’ base. Cranzalar stuffed them all into the tree, where presumably they did okay on the entry test. After a stealth failure at the gate to the 4th Tier, the party bluffed their way past a guard…