M.I.S.T. Campaign: Session 45

Andrew’s spell to track Imhotep led us to Duat’s first gate.  The Solar Barque stopped, briefly, there as well.  Which is fortunate since if we drift too far from it we risk being singled out as targets ourselves, instead of the focus being almost exclusively on the gods.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ve certainly never shied from a fight.  But I’m smart enough to know there are forces down that are beyond our capability to handle, not the least of which is Apep.  So sticking to the vicinity of Ra and his entourage definitely sounds like the smart move.

We met Kebauet there; whom I found to be a slightly distant but altogether low-key and pleasant goddess.  I also couldn’t help but, briefly, wonder if she was on my Mother’s list.  I could see it being the kind of match she’d go for; establish ties to another underworld, pairing me with someone who has experience administrating an Underworld could prove useful since I stand to inherit one, and she’s even somewhat of an elementally-aligned Death Goddess.

But that wasn’t something I spent too much time dwelling on in Duat.  Imhotep was nearby.  And, surprisingly, wasn’t too difficult to convince to come along with us.  He didn’t’ really care that the Psedjet were on the ropes, which wasn’t really too much of a surprise.  I’d kind of seen that coming from what Kebauet had said.  And I suppose I can certainly sympathize with a sense of antipathy towards one’s native pantheon.  But he was rather quickly swayed when Andrew and I(mainly Andrew) pointed out that the Egyptian people themselves were suffering quite a bit because of the war.

Of course, since that went well it naturally meant that something else had to go wrong; which, in this instance, seemed to take the form of Titanspawn snakes following us to Imhotep.  They’re courtesy of Nyx, apparently.  The urge to just stand and fight them is, of course, there.  But this is what you’d consider a retrieval/escort mission, I suppose, not a combat one.  We need to get Imhotep back to Midgard, which means the less dangers we expose him to the better.

So we’re hoping to avoid them entirely by going up, through Kebauet’s waters.  It’s a risky proposition, for more reasons than one.  Imhotep says the time and distance of the journey will vary based on the belief of the soul, which means we’ll have to hope we don’t run into time dilation that’ll cause us to arrive after the Solar Barque has left.  Not to mention that we’re hardly traveling through regular water.  Imhotep says that we’ll emerge from it changed.

So…here’s hoping for the best.