The team find themselves running from the White Beast and Sly finds himself almost dying several times, by the hands of the White Beast and Mel the party make it out of the eternal flower fields and back into the real world. The group get out with Gaara now having a sidekick of sorts in the form of an orphaned child and they make their way through the mountains into farmlands close to their destination on the other side of the mountains and closer to their goals of killing Gods… Maybe.

Having struck up a deal to explore the ‘Haunted’ path to the city on the other side of the mountains they fight a man or several men that seem to be in the same place at once. The fight ends with Gaara hitting multiple heads in the same spot until it’s bloodied and presumed dead from the flatness of the heads. With the party moving on they find themselves in an odd situation, trapped in a field of flowers they can’t for the foggiest figure out where they are… plus the large creature chasing them didn’t make things worse.

Short version:

The party make their way to the Encampment settlement outside the jungle and broker a deal to get themselves to Uxphon (and get paided) with some supplies and a line themselves with House Bossa through a contract. Sly has a falling out with Zennifer before he has an open mike night at the bar to a large gathering of mutants. They enjoy the music and after an oncore Whispering Green shows up, the party leaves Sly on stage to a crowd of cheering mutants. They don’t know what happen until he shows up outside of town to meat up with them covered in blood and a little richer.

With Sly’s sister and family in the temple the group realize they’re running low on food. Mel explains, ‘hunting and gathering’ is beneath him and explaining he is busy with a slew of priority experiments before slamming the door (The first thing he crafted in the temple mostly likely for this effect). He did crack the door and request some food be brought up to him if we get new provisions, his work rarely gave him spare time to make food and his minions were horrific (last time they brought him a rock and two sticks on a plate). Sly opts to self induce the idea he is a master fishermen and crafts a net pulling up several pounds of bounty from the swamp. Unfortunately do to human faces on fish or humans with fish heads stuck in his net he opted to bring them on land push them into a pile and set them on fire since he deemed them mutants before Gara or Sin had a chance to get in a word. With thoughts of foraging farther from the temple Gara, Sin, and Sly opt to venture back up northeast to the river they came down on.

Along the way they ran into a beast, with a fight ensuing Gara and Sin use practiced moves slowly working the beast over to put it down when Sly snapped and stopped being as pathetic in combat, granted this gave him ample room to become even more idiotic by charging the beast when it lounged at him to eat him before sliding under the beast slashing at if from it’s underbelly repeatedly which was surprisingly effective. Filled with a panic educed rage while screaming he would not be eaten and turned into feces… again Sly dealt the final blow that killed the beast from underneath hitting it’s softer skinned belly several times with his sword. Oddly enough this collapsed the body on top of him sending him into even more blood lusting feat of carnage trying to hack his way out of the creature’s ‘belly’.

Gara and Sin knew Sly was back to normal since covered in the odd creatures innards, blood, and gore he opted to cut off the creature’s head, claws, tentacle tongues, and genital bit while giggling like a madman.

-TBC later

The party sans Sly find themselves very close to the only building in the middle of the swamp. Being surprised by the new Frog Regal King from before with a circlet upon his head the group find themselves in a fight for survival. Mel having been surprised fell over in the knee deep water. SIN gets attacked before being caught in an illusion thinking it to be the Frog King reborn in his new regal form had fallen after attacking him and attempts to take him out before he can attack the group came to mind. He didn’t know that it was actually Mel he was seeing. Meanwhile Gaara squared off against the real Frog King who surprisingly had quiet deadly claws for a frog. Gaara distracted him by knocking off the circlet into the swamp water causing the Frog King to dive in after it and franticly search. Sin was waiting for the Frog to surface while Mel had been creating minions out of the mire and twigs of the swamp to hunt out the hiding Frog King that searched for his precious. Meanwhile Gaara summoned a hand of sand to search through the ground kicking up silt in the process. Finally finding the circlet the Frog King attacked him.

Meanwhile after getting a breather in Sly finally made it through the portal and realized the thing he had come to take his time to procure was not in his hand on next to him when he jumped through. Meanwihile Sly found himself standing next to a very dangerous looking man with several noticeable Numenera. Mentioning to the man it was about time he got here and that the party was up ahead had the man shaking his head and Sly sighing in relief since the man didn’t attack him outright.

He eventually put Sly to sleep though since he talked to much. SIN came over to rescue him. He asked for his goods he had paid for and put a foot on the Frog King embedding his staff in the creatures back. He wanted the circlet that would control the beasts it seemed and Gaara figured the group should get something for their trouble. Mel wanted to say something witty and keep up some banter but being brained by Sin and a tiring battle had him not making the most intelligent and clever of requests. Finally feed up with what seemed like a bad deal Gaara tried putting on the circlet and the swamp turned into something more akin to his homeworld and a bazaar in his hometown without people. SIN who was shaking the water out of Sly ended up shaking small piles of sand out of him. Coming to Sly told everyone once he was conscious this was probably the High Magnus that was buying the creature and a means to control it from the Frog King. The deal was kind of a balls buster and the guy didn’t seem too friendly but Sly reminded them the other option they were pushing him towards was taking the item and killing the group.

With the trade of the Frog King and a cypher the group were kicked out of the realm they were in and SIN grabbed the hover disc with a deathlike grip calling Robot dibs which supposedly is better than regular dibs. The group with the Frog King make their way back to the temple. Gaara and Mell aren’t surprised when Sly restrained the Frog King… using make shift bondage equipment from Jungle vines, mud, and rocks.

With the group back in the workshop they find several items but not really what they had specifically left behind. Sly recommended they talk to the Temple again since she’s a person. Although the group thought it odd they opted to after watching Sly find a Wish Disc which he kept from Mel for safe keeping by putting down his pants. Oddly enough it was the item of power he opted to offer at the high temple area since it was technically the only Cypher he’d had to his knowledge. Plus to the group’s chagrin something from in his pants was something not every female god would be able to see.

What followed surprised the group. Sly was pleasantly surprised to see the goddess wasn’t actually as ‘charming’ as the Frog King, granted she did kill him in front of the group before saying thanks to the group and looking for a new high priest in all people that seemed dependable, unfortunately she was looking at Sly and the party including Sly felt the world was doomed a little. Plea bargaining, negotiation, or just trying to double talk resolved itself in a metal rod one meter thick descending through the temple roof, through all the floors to the lowest ground levels. Although the Goddess explained it wasn’t open to negotiation a surprised Sly still had the counter of a use of force was an exaggerated strong-arming negotiation tactic.

Gaara, SIN, and Mel were offered a position as the protector of Sly, the new High Priest of the Whispering Green. They were each given a boon as such. Sly was given a choice to known who he was in this life or the other. His partial existence he didn’t recall (As Oliver) was removed and his former self as Sly flooded his mind.

Most of the group being tracked by bug warriors set an ambush, Combat ensues as well as some interparty conflict. Mel and SIN come to an agreement about Hawkeye and Sir Reginald with Mell scrapping the parts for now with thoughts of repurposing them for other things via the request.

Sly meanwhile moved to the forest with his sister trying to find out more about his past. He found out he was quite different than he is now, finding out a bit of his past from his sister finds it odd he of all people would do heroic things and actually fight things head on. Finding out he rode Zydrake was news to him and he tried to summon it, lifting his arms into the air and telling one to come to him didn’t seem to work though so he opted to walk the rest of the way and talk more about his past. With a bit of knowledge of the woman known as Agent Manners from the realm of Earth Sly finds out she’s actually one of his old enemies from before he died her in this world. It made him wonder if she was reborn here for a reason, had she died? Also what did she go to another realm to do?

The group meet up after Sly shows up with his sister and her kids. They opt to make their way back into the encampment with the monster within sight. Sly send away his sister with the refugees and non combatants. With the party striking up a deal they each take to combat in their own way. Mell pulling an old lady off a beast of burden commandeering it to get a tactical view of the situation where best to utilize his skills (He rode around behind the beast attempting to get on it’s back via it’s tail). SIN and Gara make it to the largest building to get a layout of the situation and wonder about how to immobilize the monster to use the gun.

Sly went off to find the members of the Convergence and the Aeon Priests faction members who Mel set on one another. Stepping between the two of them before a fight starts and reminding them of a greater threat at hand and that he of all people as a Knight is disappointed in both of them stating they’re better than this. After being scolded by someone they treat like a plebian they seem to think he does have a valid point so they opt to get into the fight although Sly sees the Convergence members disappear. Getting back to SIN and Gara he asks what the game plan in. SIN lets Gara and Sly know besides immobilizing the creature to use the Status Gun the creature has a weakness on the inside. With the Aeon Priest trying to lock the beast down with what looks like a black hole he sees his men dying or being sucked in and tries to run. SIN snarls about the Aeon Priest shirking on his deal for the flying disk. Sly realizing they need to get on the large beast and there’s a flying disk they could use he has an idea… it’s a bit dumb so it’ll probably work.

Sly seeing this disk he thinks about it and tells the other two they probably need the disk since they can get on the monster with it. Stretching Sly asks SIN to throw him at the man on the disk. SIN doesn’t blink much as he shrugs and says sure before grabbing him by the ankles and launching him like a javelin at his target. Like living ordinance does Sly didn’t land on target and flailed grabbing onto the Priests ankle on a now unsteady platform. Several shots over his head hands the man laying on the disk with Sly crawling on top of him. Reminding him a deals a deal and ‘they’ needed the disk now more than him Sly rolled the injured priest off the flying disk while telling him to clench his butt cheeks since this was going to be a rough landing.

Sly realizing the second bad part about this plan was he hand no real idea how to control the disk which was moving at an alarming speed. Seeing the minions of the arm swarming up the sides of the three story building Sly banked the disk and got the others to jump on as they moved toward the beast. Seeing it eat people by the handful there was the option of going in through the mouth, but considering how he was just eating people they probably wasn’t the way they wanted in. Seeing Mel on a lizard desperately trying to ride it onto the tail of the beast Sly looked at the robot and said to grab Mel as they both leaned over the sides snatching him up from his mount by the armpits, Gara shook his head and balanced out the disk so they didn’t die.

Sly suggested looking for a rear entrance into the creature to which SIN and Gara jumped on it’s back since they were not going up the monster’s butt. Sly on the disk with Mel still who took over flying the disk opt to say they should go in through the mouth then getting Sly to jump off. Finding an area that looked like odd crystals on the back the group except for Sly jumped through the portal. Sly tried to get into position to grab the left behind disk before following but the sudden lurching of the beast had it’s neck slamming him into it’s back. With one hand on the disk Sly flopped a bit trying to get up having the wind knocked out of him while he waited for the stars to clear and his vision focus.

Meanwhile the rest of the party saw themselves inside the beast they thought, with two planets in the sky above them and SIN suddenly saying they weren’t on the planet any more or at least connected to the datasphere they all cursed softly as they scouted out the area. It looked like the swamp but ‘cleaner’ or at least nicer. Seeing a light they moved towards it before getting ambushed. Seeing the Frog Lord looking much better and a circlet that seemed to be made of wish disks Mel called him a bastard and muttered he wished he would have thought of making all the wish disks into a hat.

2 XP awarded.

Sly finds out he has a sister and possibly at least two other siblings as well as information on the Convergence. Gara finds out sometimes aggressive behavior on a merchant backfires as he’s teleported back into a lake in the middle of a grotto inside the forest they have the job of protecting some 100 kilometers from the encampment he was at and spends the following day coming back with thoughts of killing the merchant fueling his white hot rage. The robot with him at the merchant buys two of the items he wanted and opts to go back to the tent where Mell is working on his weapon which he would like sooner rather than later. Sly come back with paranoia of a possible hit out on him by the convergence and hides under his cot for several hours and cries a bit since he died last time he tried to enact revenge on the convergence in the arenas of Osflux.

Gara comes back and declares he’s a bit tired the next morning from trekking out of the forest and states he plans on killing the merchant that sent him there out of vengeance. Mel is filled in and Sly with his new found knowledge of himself opts to try and not go the vengeance route since he knows first hand it doesn’t end well.

Mel goes with ‘Oliver’ which he is slowly suspecting to not be Oliver to talk to the Merchant about their friend and his loss due to her uppity behavior.

Meanwhile Gara and the robot they had recently meet get into a murdering position and realize there are quite a few people in the tent. The Merchant seems to have an artifact that will be able to stop the thing which will not be named that Mel helped create. With Mel demanding reparations and Sly trying to calm both parties, get reparations, and stop Mel’s blunt approach a pillar of sand with a skull forms behind the tent. Mel gives up and stalks off leaving Sly in the fetal position since he expects violence to erupt. The people in the tent come out to hurry the Merchant along and they opt to tell Sly to get away or be beaten. Seeing a hole in the back of the tent Sly realizes what is happening, instead of trying to kill everyone they group in the back are opting to just steal stuff peacefully.

Sly whines and complains as a distraction until sounds of violence erupt to which he bolts. When the crowd forms he tries to spin the situation that the Merchant tried to double cross the leader of the encampment and stalled people from rushing in to help because of the ‘Horrors’ as he takes off running. Meanwhile with a large ammount of Numenera and artifacts the group try to escape with the Robot tossing in a devise liquefying everything and morphing it into a black tarry substance with Mel tossing Gara a devise that started to eat away at her warm the tar climbing up her leg as she cuts away the skin so it doesn’t spread. Mel realizes that if Sly was there he would have made a warped distasteful joke about a numenera high five killing and wonders more about if Oliver is really Oliver. With their loot and artifacts packed up they run north with Mel telling everyone the leader had been double crossed and to help him since the Merchant is an evil woman after hearing the shouts from Oliver as they moved away.

As the group moved away from the encampment north into the outskirts of the forest they came under artillery fire from one of the encampment leaders bodyguards. After a bit of running and a plan they snipe the creature in the head with Mel wanting to run back to steal his weapons, he and the robot hear odd chattering language and see lights spinning and reducing in number before running away realizing he was self-destructing and the weapons were fused to his body. Safely in the outskirts of the forest and wondering what to do they see several more of the creatures moving rapidly on the outskirts of the camp.

Meanwhile Sly went to grab his sister and her kids and have her escape since things are going to be bad considering what happened. She explained she didn’t know where her husband was and Sly had to verify if she meant for today or a few years. With thugs knocking down tents Sly prostrates and gives his sister and her children time to escape. He offers sexual favors to the two thugs which distracts them but opts to just spend a few minutes doing nothing before making them forget anything happening after they agreed and stood up and commented on that the situation was weird and he hadn’t had anyone call him that during such a session. The thugs looked at each other not knowing if that was good or bad and went back to work shaking people down for information. East of the encampment Sly meets up with his sister and her kids and tries to figure out where to stash them so he can find her husband plus he needs to find out where her husband is, there’s the fact the monster will be in town the following day possibly which was ahead of other rumors the party had heard. He needed to get with the rest of the party and figure out a game plan for the monster since stopping it would probably do wonders for their current reputation with the Encampment plus maybe put them on a better footing with the Convergence. The last part was something Sly was hoping for.

The team head to the outskirts of the garden (By choice, they were not kicked out for unleashing massive destruction and horror on the area) to the encampment Agent Manners had been spotted by Mel. Having gotten the heavily beaten and robbed encampment talking and conscious they mostly found out she was headed south and was dangerous. The party made their way to a local town and meet with an Aeon Priest that they made a deal with. They also heard a rumor that there is a Magnus of the Convergence in town, and that’s why the Aeon Priests are here. Lastly they saw a poor honest merchant that they want to rob. The party heavily debates killing everyone in line in front of them to see a city official. The general plan gives a new definition to ‘Red Tape’.

With the addition of a new family member to one of our players we’ve been on a short hiatus.

The trek to the Temple was slowed by an ambush of two immortals an a large amount of walking trees. Camping on the outskirts of a fetid lake in the swamp the party meet the Frog Lord and his wife… the temple. A deal was made to ‘make’ a wish numenera for him since Mell was not going to willing give away his wonderous item. What followed was seeing a behemoth minion being created and no wish disk to bring his consciousness into reality. But with some wishful thinking on Mel’s part the part with robots and the Master of the Garden found themselves back in the city of Archeon as Mell wished for safe and sound, granted none of their gear or numenera were wished back and the realization the Frog Lord had the ability to make four more of his Harbringers plus now had knowledge he possibly had several useful numenera came to light. After the Gardener thanked the group he mentally smacked them in the back of the head for how they ‘freed’ him and lost the ‘seed’ to their previous world in the process.

With the rumblings in the distance of a Frog Lord becoming more powerful by the minute possibly the party opted to wonder on what to do next time.

4 XP Awarded (6 for Sly)

With the creature out of the way and letting the robots know not to grow any more of the vegetables the creature seemed to be attracted by the party with their newly acquired gear started the trek towards the City of Akron.

With a path in the jungle the party thought it would be easier, unfortunately it was made by people about a foot or two tall and only about six inches wide. Hearing odd noises in the jungle was something the party expected until the ground shook and the group found themselves looking at something that looked like a cross between a rhino and a dinosaur clearing the jungle with a large blade type thing. With Mel in front of it asking if we should attack it Garra took to the treeline to evade or get a tactical advantage when it charged out from being provoked. Tootsie and Oliver tried to calm the beast but Oliver managed to get it to sneeze on him and Tootsie before moving on. Oliver dove on top of Tootsie the snot actually feeling and might have actually been lava since it melted the flesh on his back and the vegetation in the area.

With the crisis over and Oliver trying to walk off the pain the party continued with Mel finding what he thought was possibly a hub interface for the electrical cables that seemed to run through the jungle. Oddly enough he stated he had found Agent Manners in a camp on the out skirting lands around the Jungle.

Eventually the party continued making their way to Akron. Two new types of robots were seen one moving rapidly towards Mel’s two robots. As one bolted behind Mel the other away from Mel farther away from the advancing robot. Seeing it was focused on the robot specifically and not that tall Oliver simply picked up the robot finding them to be surprisingly heavy at around 50 pounds.

With the rest of the city coming alive in defense it seemed the other type of robot looking more like reapers were poised to attack. Oliver stating they should stand down since the party were the Guardians of the Garden and in search of The Gardener they did pause. When someone accused Mel of necromancy everyone looked at him and raised an eyebrow. When proof was requested they pointed at his two robots since he had made two ‘soulless’ robots. What followed was an case of Mel explaining himself and trying to not get his robots taken away and himself killed for his grievous crimes.

The matter was settled with Mel being able to keep his robots at least until he rescued the Gardener, his accuser though would come along as proxy and chaperone for the well being and to ensure the civil liberties of the two robots were not violated any further.

Their trek to the river that they could use to get to the temple the quickest had the group encounter a group of children, Oliver seemed to know that they were the “Immortals” although looking more like children he explained fighting them would probably end badly. While not being able to communicate then them the party got close with thoughts of stealing their boat. What happened next basically started off with good intentions and eventually boiled down to a brawl.

After killing the locals they group opted to take their gear and boat and move down stream a ways since they were less seeable. Oliver worked on crafting stabilizers for the boat due to the amount of people and weight. The next day the group found the work Oliver did to be decent, with Mel having made life jackets just in case.

The trip down the river went sideways quite quickly when the party noticed large birds eyeing them before letting out a screech and chasing them down the shoreline as more came to join in, more seemed to form into a mob on the other shore as well with Oliver staying in the middle and pushing the boat as fast as he could. Seeing a village in the middle of the river made things worse. Oliver tried to move through as quickly as possible. What followed was a lot of arrows being shot at them before the flock of predator birds fell on the village since they weren’t moving down the river rapidly.

Oliver stopped the boat along the shore in site of one of the gates out of the jungle. With the journey over all they had to do was go to the Temple and get the Gardener…how hard could that be?