Path To Godhood Session 5: The Oracle

Characters:

Ajax Karo   -   Gregarious Hunter and Aspiring Kostis, God of Death and Plagues
Neilos   -   Aspiring God of The Sun and Plants
Steidis   -   Aspiring God of Fire and Smiths
Ursula Bearclaw   -   Klutzy Woodswoman and Aspiring Chelak, God of Bears and Independence

Urbos

The morning the gods arrived in Urbos, the skies were cloudy, and as they disembarked, the scent of fresh rain filled the air.  The blue domed roofs atop white stone buildings, as well as the deep blue water of the many hot springs around the city in the shadow of the volcano, convinced them that they'd finally found the Azure City.  With Ursula carrying the mortally wounded Steidis, they headed off into the city, and soon came across a large gathering in a public square.  On a raised platform, a man was kneeling in front of a wooden block, while a shirtless man holding a large axe stood nearby, and a woman in a bright red cloak with some sort of markings under her right eye read out the "crimes" of the guilty man.

Ajax opined that they should try to get the executioners to let him drain the condemned, while Ursula asked the nearest member of the crowd what was going on.  In a fervor, the man responded that the Hunters had found another of Eniad's spies, who were looking to destroy the city with their "foreign ways".  Ajax pointed out that the man on the platform looked to be from Urbos (he, like most of the crowd, had white hair, yellow eyes, and golden skin), but Neilos rebutted that this only made him the perfect spy.

It started to rain, and the executioner beheaded the accused; the crowd cheered, and the head rolled to a man close to Ursula, who grabbed it and held it up as a trophy while decrying the guilty "Eniadnan scum".  Ursula got in his face and asked how he knew the man was guilty, and he stated that the Hunters had found him guilty, and they knew better than he did.  She asked who those were, and he pointed up to the woman in the red cloak, who was now slowly walking away from the crowd, which also began to disperse.  Neilos tried to find out if the people of Urbos disliked all foreigners or just Eniadnans; the first man he asked told him to "get away you foreigner" while grabbing the hilt of a knife, and that settled that.

Path To Godhood Session 4: The First Battle of the Gods

Characters:

Ajax Karo   -   Gregarious Hunter and Aspiring Kostis, God of Death and Plagues
Neilos   -   Aspiring God of The Sun and Plants
Steidis   -   Aspiring God of Fire and Smiths
Ursula Bearclaw   -   Klutzy Woodswoman and Aspiring Chelak, God of Bears and Independence

Time in Mantea

While Ajax was venturing through the Starlit Desert, 3 weeks passed outside.  Ursula spent that time resting and recovering from her time spent in hibernation.  Neilos did some work for Atlas and learned that the Azure City referred not to Mantea, but to Urbos.  Steidis was contacted by a man who represented a "mutal friend" who wanted to meet, but instead put "Operation Trouser Pants" into motion and constructed the two smaller bronze "belts" which would hold up the western and eastern mesas at incredible speed, then had to rest to recover from his expenditure of godly energy.

Once Ajax was back, he spent a day recovering under the care of the doctor the gods were retaining, then, with 13 days left to live, went to experiment with his new power of draining life.  First he tried to drain a squirrel, but failed to manifest his power.  He then asked the other gods for help, but Ursula wouldn't summon bears for him to kill, while Neilos suggested that he'd heard a rumour about the god of healing being in Urbos.  Later at night, he disguised himself in rags, then snuck onto a farm and tried to drain a sleeping pig, but likewise failed.  Still later, hefound a sleeping vagrant, and drained him fully; the young man dried out and skeletized, but Ajax was invigorated, having gained 7 more days of life (and 30HP).

The next morning, the party heard rumours that a man claiming to be Kostis was in Mantea and seeking The Pit.  While lounging about a public square, Ursula was approached by a woman in white that she didn't recognize, who struck up a conversation about the Still Harp.  Ursula interrupted her to ask if they'd ever met before, and the woman, confused, re-introduced herself as Evenia (to clarify, it was Evenia 2), and explained that they'd cooperated in the past, and that she'd like Ursula's help again.