- Session GM: LordYako
- Session Date: 15/01/2025
Session Summary
- During the trip to Duskbright, Knight Muss ran the students through drills using the Force to see while blind. Atyuna and Brokkal tried to fake using the Force to see and got caught, ultimately running through the exercise correctly. Erii faked it and got away with it.
- The ship arrived at Duskbright, a planet maintaining a stable orbit around a blackhole and a (lightside) Force Nexus.
- Thanks to the lack of a nearby star, Duskbright is completely without light; not merely low light, but complete absence; and has a complex biosystem on its surface. Jedi were there to study this unique ecosystem that developed with no light.
- While the party was exploring the grassfield surrounding the ship, Erii wandered off without telling anyone. Brokkal and Bonit went to find Erii, while Atyuna went off to find potential alchemy ingredients.
- Erii, after finding a shelled root vegetable strong in the force and a small rock that “vibrated”, found herself stuck in waist high quicksand. Bonit and Brokkal stumbled upon Erii and helped get her out.
- While Brokkal took Erii aside and taught her to see with the Force, Bonit found a natural thermal vent and located a corpse of a native life she dubbed an Ang’plum. She gathered samples for later study (also alchemy). Brokkal further searched the area and found saplings with poisonous moss near a tree with edible bark.
- Atyuna, as part of her search, found a tree drawing geothermal heat that was sweet like cinnamon.
- Getting back together, the party mixed up some treats; a weird bone drink that makes you faster, a paste that hardens and then explodes, a healing potion that also restores gut balance, and seaweed cakes
- Heading back to the ship, it was found the ship was surrounded by Ang’plums. Knight Muss went and distracted some of the beasts while the students fought (non-leathally) past two of the reptiles.
Magic of the Night Star
January 15, 2025
Player Characters
Factions
- None
NPCs
Locations
- Duskbright
Narrative Section (Bonit)
From: [email protected]
Date: [Data Corrupted]
Subject: About that Ph.D project
To: [email protected]
Hey Rhy, it’s Bonit.
First, Mawshock says hello! And second, I say hello. The Jedi order is weird as kriff group, but I’m getting to understand it better. Not sure I’m fully committed to the whole cult part, but I dig the cause so I’m slowly getting the vibe down. But that’s not what this email is for. Guess what! I think I finally have an idea for a thesis! Here me out; the impact on natural evolutionary processes when within proximity of a “Force Nexus”! Yeah, yeah “What’s a Force Nexus?” I don’t know either but there’s this place called Duskbright that is in a stable orbit with a BLACK HOLE. Now I know what you’re thinking: doesn’t have enough light for significant organic development, too much radiation, no one cares about orphan worlds cause they’re not “planets”, etc.etc. Well two things: the Galactic Astronavigators Council’s definition for planets is still bantha shit. And Duskbright has a fully developed biosphere. There is no radiation, the world’s core is keeping it at a temperate temperature, and I can personally confirm there are thriving plant and animal kingdoms on the planet… sorry exo-planet. Anyways here are some examples of Duskbright’s biodiversity:
- Ang’plum: a reptilian type of animal covered in feathers that seems to use it’s feathers to notice shifts in air flow. Also lacks any noticeable optic organ which wouldn’t normally be notable given the environment's lack of any light, but the species did in fact detect a light source left on the ship we traveled on, so they can somehow detect the electromagnetic spectrum visible to us. My current working theory is they can somehow sense electromagnetic waves and the visible light on the ship was foreign to them so they were investigating.
- Unnamed: We found an isopod of about fist size that was able to roll up into a ball that looked (we were using the Force to see, don’t ask. Or at least ask later, I’m still figuring this stuff out myself) like a rock. I wasn’t able to study it as the person who found it encouraged it to go away when someone proposed using it as an Alchemy ingredient (again, don’t ask).
- A comrade found a fascinating interconnected system with a poisonous moss growing on some saplings that were all growing around a trunk covered with a notably edible hard bark.
- There were bioluminescent on the surface, simulare to the bioluminescent growths you can find in underground ecosystems, like Selonia.
So as you can see, there is some very interesting biology happen in a place that our current laws of physics say should be impossible. I’ll be doing some research on some samples I was able to pull from an Ang'plum corpse, so I will be sharing what I find there when that’s done. I think this might be the thing for my original research. Please share your opinions on this line of thought when you can.
Your eternal student,
Bonit