Had some rough spots, caused by me messing up my own fights, got excited and made them too complicated and then forgot the rules, classic. It ended fun though because it went in an interesting and random direction.
The party found the rest of the cultists praying to Martius in their chapel, being led by Esther and several other brides of Martius, they were in a schism against David, the young man Kaden spared at the Red Reunion. Somehow David returned to the cult and was seemingly cured of his devotion as he now preaches a new way of worshipping Martius that is in opposition to the cult. The party killed the choiristers that were urging the normal cultists on, unfortunatly killing half of the cultists as well. During the fight Ariange climbed onto the preaching platform, where Martius called him out as a "Child of Vonaya" and forced his choirisiters to give up some of their life in order to try and take his. The 6th lvl of the tower was warded heavily by the magics of the lich, it depicted the previous heroes entering the door and then leaving it in defeat. it was impossible to open.
David worked out a deal where the cultists were allowed to go free, to tell others of the schism, of what he preached and what they saw, in exchange he would surrender himself. The party agreed and used Ecu to drop him off at a prison in Solmenesk in Rusonia. Before that however, David spoke to Ecu in Martius voice, apologizing for slaying so many titans in their final battle, as well as complementing Ecu on defeating him. Ecu asked if Martius/David could rejoin the forces of light, to which David/Martius declined, saying that his fight was an internal one, that he had to finish it before he could fight for the light once more.
Xaphan thanked the party and left to go berate the council of angels into getting their shit together. Ynbris reached through the bars of her cell, all the way from the stars as her constellation touched down she brought Dio back to life, he revealed himself to be Diomedes, a demigod of legend, and has set out to complete a task set by his goddess out in the northern wastes. Same wastes where the dragons are being exterminated, also the same wastes where Selena has asked the party go in order to enter the "Roost of the Raven Queen" in order to perform some task for her there. The Raven Queen promised aid with the dragons should they obey her wishes
Mannerheim and the white guard took over and began foritfying the Dread Harbor to ensure the cultists cant come back, they are shattered and scattered now, it will be hard to recover but not impossible as most of the cult leadership escaped. Bjorn told Kaden that he managed to convince most of the Jarls to come back to Angrose, now the Jarls are either hunting down cultists or sailing up to hunt down dragons with Garrik.
Abshaloth appeared, now in the form of a bearded devil, he told the party about an ancient dwarven hold he was hired to rescue relics from, he offered to give the party dwarven weapons next to these relics that he claimed could be used to stop Garrik and save the dragons. He said that if the party did not agree to come help him get inside then he would just offer the weapons to the cultists to aid him. Buffy arrived, taking back Fafnir into her crew and offering an alternative, to have the party come with her to find a guide and get into the hold that way. The party decided between Selena and the Raven Queen, Buffy and her longer route, Abshaloth and his shorter route and chose Abshaloth reluctantly as its the fastest option, denies the cultists the weapons and allows them to hopefully help the Raven Queen faster.
Abshaloth murdered Puck, using his blood to fuel a teleportation spell to Trondheim, the party spent the week there, buying magic items and preparing to enter the hold. Finally Abshaloth set up a meeting with his contact and guide. The party was hanging out at the Drunken Dragon when they noticed 3 dark elfs and a light elf watching them. The elves warned the party to leave when Abshaloth entered. The party chose to stay and fight for Abshaloth but Abshaloth chose not to stay and fight for the party, during the fight Abshaloth simply tried to leave and so Adamah shot him, Kaden threw the light elf at him, then the light elf stood up and killed Abshaloth, banishing him back to Sheol with a lightning bolt.
The elves were sent by something called the institute, which armed them with advanced pistols, strange circlets around their necks that killed them if they ran and it seems like they succeeded as the circlets havent killed the light elf and a dark elf that was captured. Fafnir ripped apart another dark elf and the last one died running away.
Fafnir Dragonstone and Lars Levi from House Dragonstone were the contacts that Abshaloth was here to meet, Adamah convinced them that they were unable to save Abshaloth and Lars seemed determine to still go after the hold as he thinks it holds the secret to where the dwarves went.
