The party of Argyle, Anzu, Benny, and Johnny enter Egan's mindscape — a pirate outpost memory from Lurantris — to sever the Herald Song's hold on him. They battle the Coiled Horn entity and its shade servants within the mental landscape, ultimately freeing Egan from the Herald's control but inadvertently replacing it with the Voidsong of the Vocalist. The session ends with the party debating whether to trust their new 'recruit' and planning their next move: either infiltrating the tower to get the Strider moving again, or going after Galzu.
- The party enters Egan's mindscape, a pirate outpost in Lurantris, during the memory of when he first found the whalebone horn necklace that connected him to the Herald Song. Egan is enraptured by the necklace.
- Anzu recalls knowledge on the Coiled Horn entity: incorporeal, undead, unholy, resistant to most damage, bypassed by force/ghost touch/spirit/vitality.
- The party skirmishes with the Coiled Horn's shade servants (first mate, bosun, quartermaster) while the Horn commands Egan to attack the party.
- Argyle casts Clear Mind to dispel the controlled condition on Egan, freeing him; the party briefly gains Egan as an ally who fights alongside them with his gunsword.
- Anzu and the party kill the shades, but each shade's death triggers the Coiled Horn's Devour Echo, healing the necklace/specter and dealing mental damage to nearby characters.
- The Coiled Horn is eventually destroyed by Argyle's Divine Wrath, but the whalebone necklace falls to the ground and begins reforming around Egan as a dark shroud.
- The party destroys the necklace itself, but the experience replaces the Herald Song in Egan's mind with the Vocalist's Voidsong — trading one supernatural melody for another.
- The party emerges from the mindscape into the War Room with no time passed, and debates Egan's moral character and whether to trust him as a new party member.
- The group discusses their next objective: infiltrating the tower to get the Strider moving again, or going after Galzu (Anzu's sister) who is among the Herald's fervent followers below.
- The party settles in to rest, with Egan assigned to sleep in an outermost room while Benny guards near the heart.
CharactersArgyleAnzuBennyJohnnyEgan ArithmitesOthelloGalzu (mentioned)Grayson (mentioned)Lady Renge (mentioned)Mokup (mentioned)Anouk (mentioned)Anaïs (mentioned)
LocationsEgan's Mindscape - Pirate Outpost in LurantrisThe Strider - War Room
FactionsIconoclasm (the party)The Herald / Herald Song followersThe Vocalist / VoidsongThe Ashen Pact (mentioned)The Compact (mentioned)
ItemsWhalebone horned necklace (the Herald's artifact)Egan's astral gunsword (combination weapon with ghost touch)Benny's hook sword / immovable rod weaponBlast bootsVictor's Wreath (Johnny's aura)
Cliffhanger The party rests for the night with their new questionable ally Egan, planning to tackle either the tower infiltration or Galzu's rescue next — while Egan now hears the Voidsong instead of the Herald Song, his true loyalties and moral compass remain uncertain.
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