M.I.S.T. Campaign: Session 33

Should we find ourselves victorious in war this will be remembered as its first battle, I don’t doubt.  Perhaps it will even be remembered as a victory.

In truth it was more a skirmish than a battle, and barely even that; certainly not a victory worth celebrating.  I prayed to my sister, the Lady Freyja, before battle was joined.  The prayer took almost as long as the fight itself did.  Satyrs, maenads, centaurs…cowards the lot of them it seems.  They couldn’t have lasted half a minute before fleeing.  I didn’t even land a blow, which Claire is partially to blame for.  I had to spend half the time dodging the goddamn artillery strike she called down on my position.

In truth the only real threat that seemed to have been presented was from a trio of metallic birds the size of jumbo jets.  Unfortunately for them they were the only aerial forces brought against us.  Not to mention that, being large and metallic, they made great targets for all the SAM turrets Donnie had brought in.  The results were…predictable.

All told it was a rout that’ll probably be labeled as a battle.

I did get an axe with a particularly nasty edge out of it, though.  Some centaur general took a hack at me with it.  Didn’t hit me hard enough to hurt me, but if he’d have been a bit stronger that would’ve left a nasty wound judging by how easily it sliced through my Earth Armor.  Obviously it’s a powerful weapon.  Though I have no clue what I’m going to do with it.  I’m trained in hand to hand; doubt I’d be able to hit much of anything with an axe.  Oh well, I’ll figure something out.

And Munin’s here now too.  Odin sent her so I could keep him updated, and so she could give counsel.  That took me by surprise a bit.  I knew he was going to get in touch with me so I could keep him updated.  But sending Munin means he must be very interested in what’s going on.  Okay, so that bit might not be surprising since it could affect the hierarchy of a pantheon.  But also having her give us counsel?  I don’t know if I’m reading too far into things but that sounds like it might be tacit support; for me, the band, the overthrow of Zeus?

It’s something for me to ponder, I guess.  For now, though, I’ll give Munin my report for Odin and send Freyja a prayer to fill her in on everything that’s happening here.  Who knows, it might catch her interest too.