Star & Scale #23

Zeb and Eden left Sophivitas after buying some supplies to make a banner for Harrowdance, a project Zeb wanted to take on during his free time

• They made their way back to the Tavern on High where they'd left Ezekiel and May in charge of guarding the Ionlaan and Wing Guard prisoners

Upon arriving at the tavern, they found it vacant and the Wing Guard had been beaten to death by May

• May was filled with regret, claiming she couldnt stop herself from beating the Wing Guard, Evergar, when he had intentionally attempted to get her angry

  • Zeb comforted May and reassured her that they could overcome her unbridled anger together, as a group

Eden and Ezekiel cleaned the tavern, and Zeb allowed the Ionlann to leave, but not before she gave Zeb her name, 003, by branding it into his arm with an invisible arcane sigil

• 003 claimed she would help Star and Scale in their quest to protect the world if they should need her, but she had Wing Guard corrupted to root out in Caim and was needed there.

Star and Scale returned Evergar's body to his pegasus companion in the small hamlet between Sophivitas and Lantern Light

• While there, Zeb laid out his plan to the group considering everything that was happening in the world

  • Zeb believed the Voice was a result of the planet reaching out and trying to equip its greatest warriors for a second Constellation War, so that mortals had a fighting chance to survive

  • He believed their best chance at saving the world from another god war was getting as many people under one banner as possible to defeat the gods before they became too powerful

    • To that end, Zeb wished to begin uniting many of the friends they'd made during their travels, and bring them all to a fortified location where they could gather relics to their cause -- Eden suggested the Castle Avernus which Bogul's Bruisers was attempting to place in the Kindred Isles as their home base

  • The Divinaxiom could be either a massive boon or headache for their cause, so in order to learn more about it, Zeb asked May to use her Artificer knowledge to dissect and understand it once it was found by Tough As Dirt.

    • When May said she'd need help, Zeb reached out with his Dream Tether to ask Tricks and Val of the Wild Bunch and Student of Life & Death to meet with May when the Divinaxiom was found so all three Artificers could figure out how to make use of it.

  • Additionally, Zeb reached out to Tough As Dirt using his Dream Tether to ask to bring the Divinaxiom to a central locale once they found it

With all that done, Star and Scale decided to start with finding their old friend Delphina to see if they could setup some teleportation pathways around Vault for them, to make traveling easier.

However, before the left the hamlet, they were confronted by an automaton who was looking for May to settle an old score. May resignedly introduced the group to the being, known as Goldcrest.