The Price of Sorcery.

The Price of Sorcery.
A Tale Told in Sunday Morning Swords

Link to opening simulacrum: http://www.artstation.com/artwork/white-castle-1632dfa5-bce0-45ac-9fc4-d752b68591f6

Gammon blathering excitedly. “This was the gateway to the heavens. They brought back magic—and its price!” Umsa holding the lens of an ancient lighthouse aloft. A green light from the tower’s peak—a glowing beam from tower to lens, to a circle of green against the clouds.

The lone sentry joined by numberless fellows. Dario brandishing the symbol of ancient sky-travellers: http://www.soviet-power.com/pictures/KOL-5-11.jpg Gammon leaping “No! They fought in the Frigid War!” Gammon levitating towards the tower—riding the light. Umsa’s mighty steed Petril deflecting sentries’ crossbow bolts. Umsa falling to the ground.

Umsa & Dario bound to telephone poles with electrical wire. The sentries’ yurts and bonfire. Above, Lizard creatures chasing green light in the sky (like flying cats). Dario’s haunting whistle distracting enemies.

Dario & Umsa climbing the vines to the cockpit. Inside, strange chairs facing the heavens. Gammon, stripped of robe, carving ancient equations into his own skin. “The first price of magic is blood.”

A trapdoor in the floor of the small room opening. Below it, the distant promise of twinkling lights across a gulf of darkness. A thick white glove emerges—a bulky suit—a glass helmet, skull within: A Necronaut! Necronauts floating free of gravity’s shackles. 

Umsa & Gammon falling into the gulf of darkness. Dario clinging to the trapdoor’s edge. Dario and the box, adorned with yellow circle and three black trumpets. What did the ancients find which needed to be contained? A massive rumble from below.

Umsa seizing metallic arm and hurling up toward Necronaut, shattering cockpit. Green lizard winged things settling and chanting around a broken cockpit. Gammon at the bottom, dancing on a panel of lights. “My god, it’s full of stars!”

Petril lowering a vine for Umsa & Dario to escape. The bloom of green fire from beneath the tower. Gammon riding the gateway to the heavens.

Our players: Emily Care Boss  as Umsa, Miguel Zapico  as Dario, Epidiah Ravachol  as Opverplayer, me as Gammon. #SundayAMSwords  

Our virtual tabletop: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ekxaJRoG-XFfr2N9cTxEGFoTX-CXJfyD0-O1jnbNOe0/edit?usp=sharing
http://www.artstation.com/artwork/white-castle-1632dfa5-bce0-45ac-9fc4-d752b68591f6