Path to Godhood Session 12: A Flame Extinguished

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

Reunion

Neilos woke up in a fancy bed in the Metaxas estate, and this time he got a slave put the shards of the mirror in a sack instead.  He checked in with Pan, then teleported back up to the sun and down to the outskirts of Syrinth; when he was in the sun, he felt a presence similar to his own.  Neilos then walked back into town and found the other gods at the place they'd been staying.  Happy they wouldn't have to wait a week, Ajax suggested they go find a smith to turn the mirror shards into weapons.

They found one easily, a woman named Lyssa who took care to stay clean despite the dirty work, and Neilos started the conversation oddly by reciting the Circle's End code phrase.  From her perspective, this man just seemed unhinged.  When she saw how careful they were with the shards, she asked what was going on, and Neilos informed her of their divinity (thought not which specific gods they were).  Lyssa agreed to make a backspike for Steidis' hammer, and told them it would be done in two days.  Neilos tried to volunteer Steidis to assist with her work, but he refused ("My honor!"), and she wasn't interested at any rate.

To prepare for dealing with the beguiling lights, Ajax and Neilos wanted Steidis to make a mirrored shield, in the hope that the lights' hypnotic power wouldn't work through a reflection.  He bought the required bronze, but failed to use his powers to create it instantly, and stopped when they realized it would take several days.

Path To Godhood Session 11: The Rekindled Sun

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

The Missing Assistant

Ajax tried to pick up Rini's tracks, but it had been 3 days since she'd gone missing, there had been a heavy storm, and it was a swamp, so he found nothing.  The gods asked around Syrinth as to what might cause someone to go missing in the swamp.  Boring explanations like "if your light source goes out it's really easy to get turned around" weren't much help, but then they found a "swamp fisher" who claimed that there were beguiling lights out in the swamp that only showed up in pure darkness.  You're going to want to walk towards them, but you have to resist, because those who followed the lights were never seen again!

As the god of "the sun" (which is, allegedly, a bright light), Neilos wanted more information about the lights, and the swamp fisher told him what he knew, which wasn't much.  He'd once seen them while out harvesting swamp fish way into the darkness, with all his light sources turned off.  Ajax asked whether groups could be affected, and the fisher figured they probably had been, otherwise how would people know that the ones who'd followed the lights had never been seen again?

They discussed what to do with this information, and Ajax noted that Syrinth's unnatural darkness seemed to be more absolute than the starlit desert.  Neilos decided to ask around if there were any other gods in town, but didn't turn anything up.  While they were walking around the city, Steidis momentarily saw a vision of a cresting wave gently rolling into the shore in twilight.  He told the others of this, and put forth a theory: the swamp eats people and then moves the remains to the sea.

Path To Godhood Session 10: The Land of Night

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

Hunting The Lioness

Ajax wasn't a fan of Pirus 1's attempt to get him to kill the other two candidates (and doubted he could pull it off anyway), so they went into a team huddle to discuss their options.  After a while (35 minutes real-time), they broke off and Steidis attempted to intimidate Pirus by threatening to tell Pirus 3, whose forces were still at full-strength, that she was wide open to an attack.  She was unmoved, and said that she knew the gods weren't on good terms with Pirus 3, so their actions would be irrelevant.  Neilos Revealed Pirus' Secrets, and asked what she wouldn't want the other gods to know.  In a semi-dazed state, she replied that she had spies in their camps.

Out of further ideas, the gods charged Pirus 1, intending to wound her badly enough that she would request them to stop.  Ajax shot out death rays, Steidis fired fire from his eyes, and Neilos fired off blinding flashes of light, while Pirus failed to activate any of her own powers, but grabbed a spear and was able to hold them off and retreat outside.  While most of her men were disabled by the sickness Ajax had spread in their camp, Pirus herself was far more capable in a fight than they had anticipated, and the gods were forced to flee.

Homecoming

Thinking he was locked out of that prophecy for now, Ajax told the other gods that they might as well go somewhere else.  Eventually, they settled on going back to Metros, and after Ajax drained the life from a lost child to stave off his steadily approaching death, they booked passage on a ship.  They ended up docking after dark, and found a group of militia dragging a dishevelled looking man out of town.  Exile was a fairly common punishment, but the gods decided to follow along in case something interesting happened.