#fysa

OH, WELL, RUBS MY HANDS TOGETHER EXCITEDLY

SO! For context I'm gonna have to explain the setting a little bit, so this is gonna get a bit long;

In the session where the aforementioned Void Kidnapping happened, our party was still in the middle of the first story arc, which was about us all randomly (or not so randomly) chancing upon this one really huge and famous city of invention known for a specific kind of metal that could convert different kinds of energy into arcane energy, and vice versa, during a festival of invention held within. The entire city (called Nethermoore) was covered by a huge dome at all times because sunlight has a corrosive effect on the metal, meaning the whole place was basically always held inside a controlled environment with artificial lighting and its own oxygen supply system and such.

Except! Oops! Someone went and sabotaged the thing responsible for distributing power across the city, and now all exits are closed and the city is plagued by frequent blackouts (during which weird magical distortions keep happening), and we all have two days to figure out who the saboteur is and stop them before the emergency generators run outta juice and everyone suffocates! Also, there's a murderer going around killing people during blackouts! It's fine tho we caught them AND the saboteur eventually and saved the city yaaay

Okay NOW we get to the void dimension incident. Smile

So! Weird shit keeps happening all over the place and, while investigating the city for clues, we also keep running into cryptic and ominous hints about us all being in some way tied to each other through strings of fate (which btw. Fate is an actual fr goddess in this setting apparently, and this isn't our first time dealing with stuff related to her. Teehee).

One such instance happens when Button, our kobolt artificer, is separated from the rest of the party while escorting another npc friend of ours to her home in Nethermoore, and there's a blackout again. I don't remember EXACTLY how it happens bc it's been a hot minute, but they start getting barraged by old memories of their life and their missing mother (while miserably failing like every single wisdom saving throw they have to make, which was terrifying to watch), and then Something happens, described as them being pulled along a churning river, and then suddenly Button is Somewhere Else.

None of us still know where this Somewhere Else is, exactly, but it seems like. Some sort of weird ethereal voidspace thats like a pocket dimension of sorts, or at least some form of gateway to speak with an entity called the Assistant (or Auzzie, as Button eventually ends up taking to calling it). It seems connected to Fate in some way, and pulled Button into this space to speak with them; after a bit of a back-and-forth of questions and answers (most of which Auzzie is regretfully unable to answer, likely because revealing certain information could somehow mess up Something Important about our assigned task and our future), the entity tells Button that we (the party) Must stick together, as we are the Conduits of Fate, and also reveals that it has helped other Conduits in the past before, being a neutral party and a being made for assisting people like us. Basically, there's some destiny bullshit going on and we've been set on an Important Task Of Saving The World. Y'know. Normal d&d stuff.

Anyway, Auzzie cannot tell Button very much yet (even though it seems to have A Lot of knowledge about whatever's going on, as well as Knowing things about the rest of the party too), but seems amiable enough otherwise and allows them to leave the voidspace once their talk is concluded. Yay! Freedom!

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