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... is this where I come and whine about the story hour never finishing and demanding to know what happened?

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Hi Capellan, and Happy Thanksgiving!

To answer the question, yes. As for what happened, a lot. Greppa went batshit psycho vampire-y, for example . Well, not to hear him tell it.

The player was chanting Uber (ther)Alis for a while, though. I count that as psycho.

In terms of the overall campaign, however, the Big Events were:
- Theralis recreated the Empire of old (whose ruins they had been exploring prior)
- The war between the Lucces and her daughter embroiled the entire continent
- Lucces won* and the world (this portion) was plunged into a new Crimson Age
- Merideth's soul was taken by Athan for a while; revenge was extracted, and the soul was sent on its way
- Ceres abandoned her people for human ways, and spearheaded the war effort with six story golems
- Ceres also took a human lover, and became a part of the militant aspect of the new Imperial nobility
- Greppa became a vampiric high priest of Lucces.. and then ascended as Her new Sun

* I don't remember if this was ever posted in the original story hour, but at one point Greppa's player, noticing how things were shaping up (at the point when they sided with Lucces), commented that I'd named the campaign "Light Against the Dark," but that I hadn't said the players were the Light. The dawning comprehension at that moment was probably the best part of the whole campaign.
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-thomas

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Thanks, seasong!

Now all I need is a refresher on who Ceres was, and what happened to that other PC ... the one Athan's player had after Athan died.

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Athan == Ceres

Ceres was an eye tyrant from the community of peaceful "research and scholar" eye tyrants who were tucked away in some of the ruins of the ancient empire. Ceres herself was, ah, a bit of a warmonger, even among the normal eye tyrants, and had been born on this plane (rather than the eye tyrant's home plane). Between these two facts, she identified a lot more strongly with the current human culture than with her own people.

Her presence brought up a lot of revelations about the eye tyrants and their world in general - in truth, the eye tyrants were no more warlike than humans are, it's just that, like humans, they ARE warlike a lot of the time. Sometimes an eye tyrant nation tries to invade the human world; sometimes a human nation tries to invade the eye tyrant world.

The implication at the end of the campaign was that she (along with the entire new Empire) was going to be moving on the eye tyrant's home world next, once they'd finished their conquest of their own continent. Ceres intended to spearhead that movement, too.

The oozelords never made it into the campaign, aside from a few spell references, the vague implication that Lucces was a former ooze, and one or two encounters with the nasty, vile things later on.
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-thomas

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