Centrum Glacies 2021 Session 10: Unsettling Truths
Week 10 in 2021 of this Dungeons and Dragons Campaign in Centrum Glacies changed everything story wise once more. Let’s take a look at what happened in this session. Unsettling truths and battle quickly followed.
Like my other campaign, I’m turning this one into a book series. However I’m still working on that project. Give it some time.
Anyway, just like my other campaign, there is a whole lot going on and I don’t want to elaborate on every moving piece in the story. You can see the whole thing once the book series starts hitting virtual and real shelves.
!!!Trigger Warning!!!
This story deals with a cruel world with some horrific twists. So far, this campaign has featured: Animals getting killed, Genocide, lots of body horror, evil cults, brainwashing, torture.
Most recently one of the party members had an eye gouged out and lost an arm. Not exactly the way it happens in Berserk, but that might have been the inspiration for it. The group at large is currently succumbing to magical wounds that appear to be turning them into Demons.
!!!Final Trigger Warning!!!
After defeating another image of Volun, the party continued following the path through the mental realm. The Peacemaker Leader and Mithril Adventurer continued his cryptic speeches. Faustus ignored them. He was hellbent and making this person pay. Pay for hounding and controlling his life. Pay even more for making him kill Dei-Hiy
Eventually the group reached his third image. But before Faustus could charge at this man who he hated more than any other, he made a statement that gave pause. Volun revealed unsettling truths to Faustus. Unsettling truths that put everything thus far into question.
If his words were to be believed, Volun was Faustus’ father. Even crazier, he had once been human. His current partially Demonic form was due to the same transformation that the rest of the party was currently undergoing.
Volun stated that when he was young, the Cult of Obsidian attacked the Peacemakers. During the attack, Faustus was almost burned to death. Apparently, this person who claimed to be his father had used the Law of Mental Magic to erase his memories of this traumatic event.
Denial:
Faustus denied this. However, the rest of the party actually believed Volun. This was too insane for it to be made up. And given what was happening to the rest of them, it made sense. Faustus being half Demon was due to an accelerated transformation. Though it seemed to be progressing different from the rest of them.
Faustus ran out of patience and rushed towards Volun eager to kill him. He decided that it was personal and would end it now. However, the party simply defeated another image. But with the immediate danger passed, the group reflected on what it meant to have this sort of person as a father.
Trent reflected on how being an orphan raised by Elves was a significantly better fate than being the son of this manipulative man. Jyona also thought about how her family problems were nothing compared to this.
Two paths appeared this time. Volun warned that taking the wrong path or the easier road would only lead to defeat. Naturally, Faustus picked the wrong one. This riddle was literal. One of the paths led directly to their enemy. But that light bridge didn’t actually work. Faustus almost was harmed horribly. If not for his friends who knows what would have happened to him then.
Final Battle:
The party went around to the final battle spot. Trent and Malcolm continued asking what sort of revelation would drive a man to commit the atrocities that the Peacemaker Leader had. He once again repeated that it was information that only Mythril Adventurers were privy too.
But he did tell them that Mortina, one of the other 3 had not taken this lightly. He claimed that it was the cause of her current string of violence. Directly linked to her working with the Cult of Obsidian in fact. He told them that they would only learn the truth if one of them became a Mythril Adventurer. Killing him was the only way that might happen.
They didn’t care for Volun’s reasons. They saw the results. Innocent people had died. Countless more had been exploited. An even larger number had become Volun’s puppets through his powerful artifact.
They reached the final image. Faustus ran in fists swinging. But his apparent father easily repulsed him. Unlike Faustus’ punches, his were potent. Not surprising since he had trained all the Monks after all.
After a single attack, Volun’s final image faded. But that wasn’t the end of their battle. In fact, Volun finally appeared in the very center of this realm. He congratulated the party on making it through everything. Now it was time for them to claim his title. And prove to him that their ideals were more potent than his.
He twisted the strange realm again and opened the clouds to movement. The final battle against Volun began. He used all his earlier abilities in tandem.
Wrap Up:
This will be their toughest battle yet. And Joyna was taken down almost immediately. She is currently bleeding to death while the other three try to end the Peacemaker’s life.