Coal:Session/2 Wyl vs Stairs, round 2
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Starring: Stoat-at-Neck, Wyl Haversham, Namèd Lastnamè
Guest Starring: Sam Sourgoat; Solstice; Mashka Larionovich; Abbess Ashriel; Samarina Antonova;
Challenge: Deescalating a fight between Sam Sourgoat and Solstice; Exploring the Coalspire; Coal ticks; Boilerwraiths
Location: Coalspire
Date Played: 12 June 2025
Funeral interrupted by protesters
Wyl Haversham: We attended the funeral for those who were killed in the avalanche. It was a moving ceremony until Solstice showed up. She is the local anti Coalspire naturalist. I believe in everyone getting their voice, and I also believe there is an appropriate time and place for protesting stuff like the Coalspire. I don't even necessarily disagree with Solstice on all of her points...but coming to a funeral to protest like that was so far out of line. Stoat, Namèd, and I managed to resolve the situation without anyone going to the stocks, but it was a near thing.
Had some rude interruptions at a funeral today. I could barely hear the bagpipes! Not sure why we are having a funeral for dreams...maybe this was real then? Either way I tried to change the dream and it had some effect. If this is a dream my doctor will have something to say. If it's real...nah can't be.
Exploring the Coalspire
Hired to explore by Samarina
Wyl Haversham: Apparently, Beauregard and his shit kickers have been bad mouthing us again and we've been short on work. Advocate Antonova of the Blackgate Consortium, who looked quite formidable when she came into our headquarters, finally threw us a bone and hired us for some retrieval work and some subtle reconnaissance of the spire.
Namèd Lastnamè I suppose my self esteem must be lowered by my time in the hospital. Why else would so many whispered rumors about me invade my dreams? But the plucky constructs of my damaged mind soldier on. Exploration of a great tower awaits us.
Master furnace operations area
Wyl Haversham: I took careful notes and rubbings of the instructions...Stoat took one of the instruction plates...Namèd took a taste of something in a broken pressure tube...
Somehow the next thing I knew I was fleeing for my life! And we somehow found the admin office..
Namèd Lastnamè Found some broken machinery that all the dream folk seem interested in. Why is nothing in my dreams ever new and shiny? Is it a reflection of my mental state? They recommended I sample some fluid, but it did not taste sweet like I hoped. If this is their idea of food I am better off dreaming of cake...
Namèd is ambushed by Boilerwraiths
Wyl Haversham: Stoat and I found Namèd being attacked by some steaming ghosts, and not the kind of steamy you hear the doctor's crush about! I thought I could be helpful with some ice...and it turned out I was partially right, but then I froze up myself. Literally...I froze myself. Stoat got me out, crashing thrugh the ice around me in a frenzy that severely damaged my arm. We'll see if we can save it...but for now I'm stable...ish.
Namèd Lastnamè Left the other parts of my mind exploring machinery and found a rather warm welcome. Maybe a bit too warm. My physical impulses who my mind has labeled Stoat reacted quite violently to the steam men. My feelings of affection who I will call Wil were greatly crumpled by the experience. A warning of the dangers of passionate relationships maybe? Not sure why I made up men of steam. I was able to overcome the challenge finally by remembering the isolation of the quiet room and the straight jacket. Now I rest and gather myself as the portions of my personality recover.
Notes
- Velmorra Hold is a prison in the southlands
- God: Korvelon, the Coinfather
- Domain: Trade, pacts, fate, vengeance
- Church: Vaults of the Eternal Accords
- Followers: The Scaled Hand
- Notes: Patron of merchants and mercenaries. Every deal is sanctified in blood or gold.
- Path of the Green World disrupted a funeral
- “Runeform” is a conlang used by magical engineers trained at “Orrvek Center for Thermomagical Integration”
More Notes
A dozen or so died Lead engineer Larionovich, lead Steam engineer, died. Velmorra Hold (prison) released him for this duty
Abbess Ashriel (she) - tough kind middle age Korvelan, the Coinfather
Mashka Larionovich, Widdower of Anton
Commotion: Sam Sourgoat yelling at Solstice, a thick/strong woman who advocates for Skarnheim to be left alone (Path of the Green World) protesting funeral
Stoat Calls out their hypocracy, sins. Wyl winds them apart Namèd projects some undue images Solstice channels out "lupine energy" to egg things on. Stoat intimitely described the pain of being trapped under an avalanche. People pass out. Wyl wind-knocks Solstice into a snowdrift, defusing the situtation.
STORY DETAIL: COMMUNAL FOOD, Only the absolute wealthiest cook at home
Someone "knocks" at our tent: Samarina Antonova (Blackgate Consortium) unnerving, piercing eyes. armed for bear. "Earn yourselves off the shitlist."
She isn't keen on Beauregard/First Claimers -- "But they don't do bad work"
Mission: Coal Spire/operations center 1 Find Anton's journal/gear. 2 Gather info about startup rituals "should be plainly marked and esay to find" 3 (Quietsly) Find and ransack administrator's office [Drovenak people, original locals]
We travel by night -- full moon [story point] Build details of coal spire: 1st - industrial area for deliveries/setting up shipments/warehouse space. odd: rail trucks that don't appear to have a driver cab; unknown 2nd - office spaces. files/tablets/papers/etc. odd: they have "speaking tubes" connecting through the offices. and paper money? all in trade script/tongue (Korveling language, after the god) we're going to need to find a different way home 3rd - small residential area where they were "ON DUTY" for long periods of time without going home for a while odd: there are a lot of animal remains for some reason. pets, snakes, working animals
We get to master furnace operations zone SWARM OF COCKROACH SIZED TICKS (coalticks) stoat stands tough wyl burns a body named asks the drovenak they were involved in dreams these are creations of a dream and trauma burn the rest away, catching Stoat with it
Named wandered off... Ambushed by Boilwraiths frenzy encased in ice. shattered collateral sawdust in air, lit wyl falls down stairs, unconsious
Journal: 3 lges guess lge switch was to switch mode of thinking there are more journals, cross-indexed lge: runeform conlang
Startup ritual etched into redundant plates i steal a plate set of directions to take back (bad idea) oblong spheres inside liquid (ask druid) TUBES are broken. named tastes fluid... VEXED ... redirected to Wyl -- FLIGHT (dirt + salt flavor) NAMED has tea cup of fluid WYL gets back to sanity with administrators office
