URDR - Multiverse Defense
The end of an era! The final chapter! Three and a half real-time years later, and Our Multiversal Heroes (tm) must face their final challenge, and the face of all known existence hangs in the balance…
[We prepare for our final session and our final task.]
Eric the GM: “Speaking of your great success record, how are you planning on tracking down Nidhogg?”
Stuart: “…”
[Fox has found the biggest collection of armored suits so far, and Yalia scries onto it.]
Eric the GM: “You see an immense floating corpse with a city built on top of it, floating in space.”
Start: “Aw, are we gonna miss the annual spleen-harvesting festival?”
[Julie has an idea about the gigantic floating corpse.]
Julie: “Does the body look silvery?”
Eric the GM: “Yes, actually. And metallic.”
[Yalia supposes that imponium is actually the remnants of the original ‘first’ universe.]
Anton: “I enjoy wild supposition as much as anyone…”
Eric the GM: “More than most!”
[We return to brief the Witches. Y’know, they’re less scary than they used to be.]
Eric the GM: “This is what happens when you’re level 20: the epic-level characters can’t wipe the floor with you.”
[We tell the Witches what we’ve found out.]
Anton: “We suspect imponium may be fragments of the original universe.”
Bubeh Yachneh: “Seems plausible.”
Anton: (genuinely surprised) “Really?!”
[We plan to go to the broken plane that houses the gigantic corpse, in order to investigate.]
Anton: “Any other advice?”
Bubeh Yachneh: “How many of you have necklaces of adaptation?”
Everyone: “…”
Yalia: “Seriously?! How do we not have this yet?!”
Bubeh Yachneh: “Here, have some. I have a box full of them.”
[Before we head in ourselves, we do some tests and pre-planning.]
Julie: “I send one of Anton’s demons in. Does he appear?”
Eric the GM: “Yes. Instantly frozen because of the near-absolute-zero temperatures.”
Julie: “That’s fine.
[We prepare to enter the broken plane.]
Stuart: “I can’t imagine anything going wrong with this plan.”
Eric the GM: “But the question is, what can I imagine going wrong with this plan?”
[We make our final preparations.]
Yalia: “Anything else we need to do?”
Anton: “Everyone’s wills up to date?”
Yalia: “Is the Dreamrealm in order?”
Axcevent: “Eh. Sort of. As much as it ever is.”
[The broken plane is kinda… spooky.]
Anton: “The evilness probably comes from the lighting.”
Fox: “Ambient evil.”
[We explore some of the buildings atop the corpse. Axcevent sees something moving from the corner of his eye.]
Anton: “If you can hear us, we’re not a threat. We’re not your enemy. We’re here to help.”
Julie: “That’s not even a little bit true.”
[We realize who it was that Axcevent saw.]
Eric the GM: “As you approach, you realize it’s the officer you met yesterday.”
Stuart: “Can’t we meet anyone nice?!”
Fox: “I take it back - we may want to hurt you.”
[Combat ensues with the officer.]
Sabina: “Do I use the bazooka?”
Julie: “The bazooka wants you to use the bazooka.”
[The officer fires a flare into the air.]
Julie: “I want to fly up, grab the flare, the send it somewhere else.”
Eric the GM: “You realize you’d be grabbing something glowing white-hot.”
Robert: “That seems like the least improbable part of this plan.”
[Next up: Fox.]
Eric the GM: “You transform into a very small Loch Nebula Monster. The officer looks down at his flare gun, then back up to you.”
Julie: “…Wait, he’s summoning the Loch Nebula Monster?”
[Yes, he is indeed summoning what we think he’s summoning.]
Eric the GM: “The Loch Nebula Monster appears.”
Yalia: “They’re not gonna blow this up - it’s their base of operations.”
Anton: “Maybe they tamed it as a pet.”
[We consider our options with the arrival of this new complication.]
Anton: “What’s our plan?”
Yalia: “…Leave?”
[The officer has a similar idea to Yalia.]
Eric the GM: “The officer is legging it.”
Robert: “Where is he running to?”
[The situation is rapidly getting away from us.]
Stuart: “We have two problems, one of which is not in my ability to solve.”
[Anton deals with the problem that is within his abilities.]
Stuart: “I open a black hole in the officer’s chest.”
Eric the GM: “For later bragging rights, that’s 522 points of damage.”
[Meanwhile, Fox is dealing with being a very small Loch Nebula Monster.]
Sabina: “Do I feel any desire to eat this plane?”
Eric the GM: “No.”
Sabina: “Does the imponium look delicious?”
Eric the GM: “No.”
Sabina: “I try eating a brick.”
Yalia: “Look, if we survive this, I’ll take you somewhere where you can eat bricks in the void of space to your heart’s content.”
[We go a safe distance away and reflect on the situation.]
Yalia: “Well, if Nidhogg didn’t know we were here before, he does now.”
Anton: “We always try to be sneaky.”
Axcevent: “But admittedly we don’t try very hard.”
[We examine the corpse a little closer.]
Eric the GM: “The eye sockets are completely sealed. No place for an optic nerve to get through.”
Robert: “So it’s probably not an actual god.”
Julie: “We can’t say that. You of all people should not talk about the anatomy of eyes.”
[We plan our next move.]
Yalia: “I could teleport us inside the head, but we may not want to do that.”
Axcevent: “Why not?”
Yalia: “Because it may kill us all.”
[The party has different levels of risk tolerance.]
Robert: “I think we would be safer just teleporting inside the head.”
Julie: “That’s only because you don’t know what’s in there.”
[We teleport inside the head, only to find Nidhogg sitting on an imponium throne, the Orb of the Stargazer in his lap.]
Eric the GM: “You appear. Nidhogg does not react in any way.”
Yalia: “What do we do now?”
Everyone: “…”
[Axcevent is in favor of killing Nidhogg when he is apparently helpless. Anton disagrees.]
Anton: “We need to give him a chance to surrender.”
Fox: “What?! No!”
[It turns out that every time we try to approach Nidhogg, the Loch Nebula Monster sends out its tentacles towards us. So we have to deal with that first.]
Stuart: “Is 120d12 enough to deal with the Loch Nebula Monster?”
Julie: “No.”
Stuart: “How much do I need?”
Julie: “ALL the dice!”
[Stuart calculates the energy needed for his spell.]
Stuart: “I can do this! This will be the single biggest casting I’ve ever done.”
Robert: “How appropriate.”
[Stuart prepares his spell.]
Anton: “Let’s do this - death by math. If the spell backfires and affects me instead, it’s been a pleasure working with you and you really should have stopped me.”
[The good news is that Anton’s spell works. The bad news is that it doesn’t work enough.]
Eric the GM: “You’ve never felt this before, but the very void of space writhes with anger.”
[The Loch Nebula Monster is angry. Very angry. Yalia plane-shifts us away, arriving mere seconds before it follows.]
Julie: “All right, where am I leading it?”
[Remembering Fox’s experience as the tiny Loch Nebula Monster a few sessions before, we realize we have potential options.]
Yalia: “I have an idea - black holes.”
Anton: “Awesome. How do we survive?”
Yalia: “I haven’t thought that far ahead.”
[We go with Plan B: call Bubeh Yachneh.]
Eric the GM: “Bubeh Yachneh appears, and with a maniacal laugh, starts punching it.”
Anton: “On the surface, it’s worse than my plan.”
[With the combined forces of both Witches and a significant portion of the URDR fleet, the Loch Nebula Monster is destroyed.]
Anton: “Thanks.”
Bubeh Yachneh: “Thank you!”
[We return to the broken plane and Nidhogg.]
Anton: “Nidhogg, can you hear us?”
Eric the GM: “There’s no reaction.”
Axcevent: “That’s rude - we should kill him.”
[We think about what we can do now.]
Fox: “Do we want to just lift the orb out of his hands?”
Axcevent and Yalia, immediately and in perfect unison: “No.”
[We realize that Nidhogg is, in a sense, dreaming, and Axcevent is able to access those dreams. Within, we find a multitude of ‘aspects’ of Nidhogg. We begin by approaching the Destroyer.]
Axcevent: “What do you want?”
Destroyer: “To destroy everything. Wouldn’t that be nice? I don’t see why any of this needs to be here.”
[The Destroyer gets bored with our conversation.]
Eric the GM: “Anton, a wave of entropy passes through you. It’s like negative energy but one darker.”
[More of the same.]
Eric the GM: “You’re not sure what happened but you’re pretty sure you ceased to exist for a second.”
[Moving on from the Destroyer…]
Julie: “We try to find a Nidhogg who’s angry, but not at us.”
[We visit the Mystic aspect of Nidhogg.]
Mystic: “Please, make yourselves welcome! Stay! Enjoy the apocalypse!”
[Anton is Anton. The Mystic is having none of it.]
Mystic: “Don’t try to patronize me, mortal.”
Anton: “I wouldn’t!”
Mystic: “You certainly would!”
[We learn a little bit about what’s going on inside the Orb and what consequences that might have for the multiverse. Notably, that whichever aspect is in ascendance when the universe ends in the near future will shape what happens thereafter.]
Mystic: “If the Destroyer were ascendant, I would have to step in and stop him.”
Yalia: “I don’t like that risk. I don’t like it at all.”
[As we continue to meet with aspects of Nidhogg…]
Anton: “I try to avoid violence!”
Fox: “Do you?”
Anton: “I’m always the one trying to negotiate.”
Eric the GM: “And creating black holes in people.”
[We visit the Detective aspect.]
Anton: “Are there any entities you’d like to see destroyed?”
Detective: “I solve crimes; I don’t commit them.”
[Further in conversation with the Detective…]
Axcevent: “Do you know how long we have?”
Detective: “Not exactly. It speeds up and slows down depending on what you do. But not long. Hours, minutes…”
Yalia: “Time has no meaning here?”
Detective: “Time has… fairly standard meaning here.”
[We visit the King, occasionally dubbed ‘the Gullible.’]
Axcevent: “If I may ask, why do you want to raze the multiverse to the ground.?”
King: *eyes dart about shiftily*
Axcevent: “Forgive me - I’ve overstepped.”
King: “I forgive you, for I am magnanimous!”
[He’s not dubbed ‘the Gullible’ for no reason.]
King: “Are you saying my will is not the strongest?!”
Fox: “No. Of course not. …But the Destroyer did.”
[After a few deliberately obtuse arguments…]
King: “You have convinced me! This universe must be preserved so it can remain under my benevolent guidance!”
[We go to the Businessman. Of course, first we have to get through the door.]
Businessman: “What can you offer me to let you in?”
Axcevent: “…I have a dust of dryness pebble.”
Businessman: “Done!”
[We make our pitch to the Businessman.]
Businessman: “What’s it worth to you for me to side with you?”
Anton: “Literally everything.”
Axcevent: “That’s not how you haggle!”
[We visit the Madman.]
Anton: “You know why we’re here?”
Madman: “Yes.”
Anton: “You know what we want?”
Madman: “Better than you do.”
Anton: “What are your thoughts?”
Madman: “Waffles.”
[We realizes that the aspects can leave their individual rooms. They have never done this before, and we have no idea what the consequences will be.]
Axcevent: “I think we should lead the Madman to the room with the Destroyer.”
Yalia: “No! Bad Axcevent! Bad Lord of Dreams!”
[We finally go see the Conqueror, i.e. the Nidhogg we’ve been dealing with for the last half-dozen sessions or so.]
Conqueror: “I suppose it’s too much to hope that you’ve reconsidered and decided to join the winning side?”
Anton: “I suppose it’s too much to hope that you’ve reconsidered and will maintain the multiverse?”
[We try to reason with the Conqueror. It doesn’t go well.]
Fox: “You seem not to just want to conquer everything. You want to be everything.”
Conqueror: “What purer form of conquest is there?”
[We discover that the original Ned the Hog Farmer is still in the Orb, and free him from his prison.]
Axcevent: “Ned, do you want the universe to be destroyed?”
Ned: (alarmed) “No!”
Fox: “Can you say so? Loudly?”
Ned: “I don’t want the universe to be destroyed!”
Eric the GM: “There’s a cracking sound as the orb fractures.”
[We’re now outside, back on the gigantic corpse, with Ned the Hog Farmer seemingly restored to himself.]
Ned: “Why am I wearing spectacles? Can I take them off?”
Stuart: “Sense motive.”
Eric the GM: “Yup. It’s hard to fake that kind of perplexity.”
[As things wrap up…]
Yalia: “I’m gonna drop you guys off at URDR headquarters and bring Ned home. He deserves it.”
[Yalia brings Ned home.]
Eric the GM: “His neighbors are shocked to see Ned alive, but they live in a medieval fantasy world and this sort of thing happens all the time.”
[The end of the campaign, such as it is.]
Eric the GM: “In the ensuing days, the universe does not end, as far as you know. And that’s pretty much all the epilogue I’ve got.”
[We prepare for our final session and our final task.]
Eric the GM: “Speaking of your great success record, how are you planning on tracking down Nidhogg?”
Stuart: “…”
[Fox has found the biggest collection of armored suits so far, and Yalia scries onto it.]
Eric the GM: “You see an immense floating corpse with a city built on top of it, floating in space.”
Start: “Aw, are we gonna miss the annual spleen-harvesting festival?”
[Julie has an idea about the gigantic floating corpse.]
Julie: “Does the body look silvery?”
Eric the GM: “Yes, actually. And metallic.”
[Yalia supposes that imponium is actually the remnants of the original ‘first’ universe.]
Anton: “I enjoy wild supposition as much as anyone…”
Eric the GM: “More than most!”
[We return to brief the Witches. Y’know, they’re less scary than they used to be.]
Eric the GM: “This is what happens when you’re level 20: the epic-level characters can’t wipe the floor with you.”
[We tell the Witches what we’ve found out.]
Anton: “We suspect imponium may be fragments of the original universe.”
Bubeh Yachneh: “Seems plausible.”
Anton: (genuinely surprised) “Really?!”
[We plan to go to the broken plane that houses the gigantic corpse, in order to investigate.]
Anton: “Any other advice?”
Bubeh Yachneh: “How many of you have necklaces of adaptation?”
Everyone: “…”
Yalia: “Seriously?! How do we not have this yet?!”
Bubeh Yachneh: “Here, have some. I have a box full of them.”
[Before we head in ourselves, we do some tests and pre-planning.]
Julie: “I send one of Anton’s demons in. Does he appear?”
Eric the GM: “Yes. Instantly frozen because of the near-absolute-zero temperatures.”
Julie: “That’s fine.
[We prepare to enter the broken plane.]
Stuart: “I can’t imagine anything going wrong with this plan.”
Eric the GM: “But the question is, what can I imagine going wrong with this plan?”
[We make our final preparations.]
Yalia: “Anything else we need to do?”
Anton: “Everyone’s wills up to date?”
Yalia: “Is the Dreamrealm in order?”
Axcevent: “Eh. Sort of. As much as it ever is.”
[The broken plane is kinda… spooky.]
Anton: “The evilness probably comes from the lighting.”
Fox: “Ambient evil.”
[We explore some of the buildings atop the corpse. Axcevent sees something moving from the corner of his eye.]
Anton: “If you can hear us, we’re not a threat. We’re not your enemy. We’re here to help.”
Julie: “That’s not even a little bit true.”
[We realize who it was that Axcevent saw.]
Eric the GM: “As you approach, you realize it’s the officer you met yesterday.”
Stuart: “Can’t we meet anyone nice?!”
Fox: “I take it back - we may want to hurt you.”
[Combat ensues with the officer.]
Sabina: “Do I use the bazooka?”
Julie: “The bazooka wants you to use the bazooka.”
[The officer fires a flare into the air.]
Julie: “I want to fly up, grab the flare, the send it somewhere else.”
Eric the GM: “You realize you’d be grabbing something glowing white-hot.”
Robert: “That seems like the least improbable part of this plan.”
[Next up: Fox.]
Eric the GM: “You transform into a very small Loch Nebula Monster. The officer looks down at his flare gun, then back up to you.”
Julie: “…Wait, he’s summoning the Loch Nebula Monster?”
[Yes, he is indeed summoning what we think he’s summoning.]
Eric the GM: “The Loch Nebula Monster appears.”
Yalia: “They’re not gonna blow this up - it’s their base of operations.”
Anton: “Maybe they tamed it as a pet.”
[We consider our options with the arrival of this new complication.]
Anton: “What’s our plan?”
Yalia: “…Leave?”
[The officer has a similar idea to Yalia.]
Eric the GM: “The officer is legging it.”
Robert: “Where is he running to?”
[The situation is rapidly getting away from us.]
Stuart: “We have two problems, one of which is not in my ability to solve.”
[Anton deals with the problem that is within his abilities.]
Stuart: “I open a black hole in the officer’s chest.”
Eric the GM: “For later bragging rights, that’s 522 points of damage.”
[Meanwhile, Fox is dealing with being a very small Loch Nebula Monster.]
Sabina: “Do I feel any desire to eat this plane?”
Eric the GM: “No.”
Sabina: “Does the imponium look delicious?”
Eric the GM: “No.”
Sabina: “I try eating a brick.”
Yalia: “Look, if we survive this, I’ll take you somewhere where you can eat bricks in the void of space to your heart’s content.”
[We go a safe distance away and reflect on the situation.]
Yalia: “Well, if Nidhogg didn’t know we were here before, he does now.”
Anton: “We always try to be sneaky.”
Axcevent: “But admittedly we don’t try very hard.”
[We examine the corpse a little closer.]
Eric the GM: “The eye sockets are completely sealed. No place for an optic nerve to get through.”
Robert: “So it’s probably not an actual god.”
Julie: “We can’t say that. You of all people should not talk about the anatomy of eyes.”
[We plan our next move.]
Yalia: “I could teleport us inside the head, but we may not want to do that.”
Axcevent: “Why not?”
Yalia: “Because it may kill us all.”
[The party has different levels of risk tolerance.]
Robert: “I think we would be safer just teleporting inside the head.”
Julie: “That’s only because you don’t know what’s in there.”
[We teleport inside the head, only to find Nidhogg sitting on an imponium throne, the Orb of the Stargazer in his lap.]
Eric the GM: “You appear. Nidhogg does not react in any way.”
Yalia: “What do we do now?”
Everyone: “…”
[Axcevent is in favor of killing Nidhogg when he is apparently helpless. Anton disagrees.]
Anton: “We need to give him a chance to surrender.”
Fox: “What?! No!”
[It turns out that every time we try to approach Nidhogg, the Loch Nebula Monster sends out its tentacles towards us. So we have to deal with that first.]
Stuart: “Is 120d12 enough to deal with the Loch Nebula Monster?”
Julie: “No.”
Stuart: “How much do I need?”
Julie: “ALL the dice!”
[Stuart calculates the energy needed for his spell.]
Stuart: “I can do this! This will be the single biggest casting I’ve ever done.”
Robert: “How appropriate.”
[Stuart prepares his spell.]
Anton: “Let’s do this - death by math. If the spell backfires and affects me instead, it’s been a pleasure working with you and you really should have stopped me.”
[The good news is that Anton’s spell works. The bad news is that it doesn’t work enough.]
Eric the GM: “You’ve never felt this before, but the very void of space writhes with anger.”
[The Loch Nebula Monster is angry. Very angry. Yalia plane-shifts us away, arriving mere seconds before it follows.]
Julie: “All right, where am I leading it?”
[Remembering Fox’s experience as the tiny Loch Nebula Monster a few sessions before, we realize we have potential options.]
Yalia: “I have an idea - black holes.”
Anton: “Awesome. How do we survive?”
Yalia: “I haven’t thought that far ahead.”
[We go with Plan B: call Bubeh Yachneh.]
Eric the GM: “Bubeh Yachneh appears, and with a maniacal laugh, starts punching it.”
Anton: “On the surface, it’s worse than my plan.”
[With the combined forces of both Witches and a significant portion of the URDR fleet, the Loch Nebula Monster is destroyed.]
Anton: “Thanks.”
Bubeh Yachneh: “Thank you!”
[We return to the broken plane and Nidhogg.]
Anton: “Nidhogg, can you hear us?”
Eric the GM: “There’s no reaction.”
Axcevent: “That’s rude - we should kill him.”
[We think about what we can do now.]
Fox: “Do we want to just lift the orb out of his hands?”
Axcevent and Yalia, immediately and in perfect unison: “No.”
[We realize that Nidhogg is, in a sense, dreaming, and Axcevent is able to access those dreams. Within, we find a multitude of ‘aspects’ of Nidhogg. We begin by approaching the Destroyer.]
Axcevent: “What do you want?”
Destroyer: “To destroy everything. Wouldn’t that be nice? I don’t see why any of this needs to be here.”
[The Destroyer gets bored with our conversation.]
Eric the GM: “Anton, a wave of entropy passes through you. It’s like negative energy but one darker.”
[More of the same.]
Eric the GM: “You’re not sure what happened but you’re pretty sure you ceased to exist for a second.”
[Moving on from the Destroyer…]
Julie: “We try to find a Nidhogg who’s angry, but not at us.”
[We visit the Mystic aspect of Nidhogg.]
Mystic: “Please, make yourselves welcome! Stay! Enjoy the apocalypse!”
[Anton is Anton. The Mystic is having none of it.]
Mystic: “Don’t try to patronize me, mortal.”
Anton: “I wouldn’t!”
Mystic: “You certainly would!”
[We learn a little bit about what’s going on inside the Orb and what consequences that might have for the multiverse. Notably, that whichever aspect is in ascendance when the universe ends in the near future will shape what happens thereafter.]
Mystic: “If the Destroyer were ascendant, I would have to step in and stop him.”
Yalia: “I don’t like that risk. I don’t like it at all.”
[As we continue to meet with aspects of Nidhogg…]
Anton: “I try to avoid violence!”
Fox: “Do you?”
Anton: “I’m always the one trying to negotiate.”
Eric the GM: “And creating black holes in people.”
[We visit the Detective aspect.]
Anton: “Are there any entities you’d like to see destroyed?”
Detective: “I solve crimes; I don’t commit them.”
[Further in conversation with the Detective…]
Axcevent: “Do you know how long we have?”
Detective: “Not exactly. It speeds up and slows down depending on what you do. But not long. Hours, minutes…”
Yalia: “Time has no meaning here?”
Detective: “Time has… fairly standard meaning here.”
[We visit the King, occasionally dubbed ‘the Gullible.’]
Axcevent: “If I may ask, why do you want to raze the multiverse to the ground.?”
King: *eyes dart about shiftily*
Axcevent: “Forgive me - I’ve overstepped.”
King: “I forgive you, for I am magnanimous!”
[He’s not dubbed ‘the Gullible’ for no reason.]
King: “Are you saying my will is not the strongest?!”
Fox: “No. Of course not. …But the Destroyer did.”
[After a few deliberately obtuse arguments…]
King: “You have convinced me! This universe must be preserved so it can remain under my benevolent guidance!”
[We go to the Businessman. Of course, first we have to get through the door.]
Businessman: “What can you offer me to let you in?”
Axcevent: “…I have a dust of dryness pebble.”
Businessman: “Done!”
[We make our pitch to the Businessman.]
Businessman: “What’s it worth to you for me to side with you?”
Anton: “Literally everything.”
Axcevent: “That’s not how you haggle!”
[We visit the Madman.]
Anton: “You know why we’re here?”
Madman: “Yes.”
Anton: “You know what we want?”
Madman: “Better than you do.”
Anton: “What are your thoughts?”
Madman: “Waffles.”
[We realizes that the aspects can leave their individual rooms. They have never done this before, and we have no idea what the consequences will be.]
Axcevent: “I think we should lead the Madman to the room with the Destroyer.”
Yalia: “No! Bad Axcevent! Bad Lord of Dreams!”
[We finally go see the Conqueror, i.e. the Nidhogg we’ve been dealing with for the last half-dozen sessions or so.]
Conqueror: “I suppose it’s too much to hope that you’ve reconsidered and decided to join the winning side?”
Anton: “I suppose it’s too much to hope that you’ve reconsidered and will maintain the multiverse?”
[We try to reason with the Conqueror. It doesn’t go well.]
Fox: “You seem not to just want to conquer everything. You want to be everything.”
Conqueror: “What purer form of conquest is there?”
[We discover that the original Ned the Hog Farmer is still in the Orb, and free him from his prison.]
Axcevent: “Ned, do you want the universe to be destroyed?”
Ned: (alarmed) “No!”
Fox: “Can you say so? Loudly?”
Ned: “I don’t want the universe to be destroyed!”
Eric the GM: “There’s a cracking sound as the orb fractures.”
[We’re now outside, back on the gigantic corpse, with Ned the Hog Farmer seemingly restored to himself.]
Ned: “Why am I wearing spectacles? Can I take them off?”
Stuart: “Sense motive.”
Eric the GM: “Yup. It’s hard to fake that kind of perplexity.”
[As things wrap up…]
Yalia: “I’m gonna drop you guys off at URDR headquarters and bring Ned home. He deserves it.”
[Yalia brings Ned home.]
Eric the GM: “His neighbors are shocked to see Ned alive, but they live in a medieval fantasy world and this sort of thing happens all the time.”
[The end of the campaign, such as it is.]
Eric the GM: “In the ensuing days, the universe does not end, as far as you know. And that’s pretty much all the epilogue I’ve got.”