Session Thirteen: A purple worm fight and a reunion with a dad

The purple worm is about to eat NickNack. Joe is asleep, and Ashe is hiding in Lynmar's bag as a rat.
 
Ashe starts throwing the contents of his bag into the water as Lynmar runs away.
 
Franz uses the wand of wonder and summons a rhino that isn't under his control at all.
 
This causes the worm to attack the rhino instead of NickNack. The Rhino gets swallowed. NickNack is able to wake up Joe, because he's worried about them.
 
Nash pops a pimple on the worm using a ray for scorching fire and pimple juice gets all over Angst. It's pretty disgusting.
 
As Lynmar is climbing the ladder to escape, Ashe blows the giant whistle in the bag which causes a loud rumbling sounds. Lynmar notices the rat at this point and tells us that we just made things worse.
 
Ashe turns back into her human form causing Lynmar to fall off the ladder. As Lynmar and she are prone on the ground, the Bulette looks at them. Ashe is able to convince it to attack Lynmar.
 
Franz then decides to summon a fiend, because why not make this even more chaotic!
 
A devil with long robes and long horns appears. This causes time to completely stop, and only Franz and this devil are moving in real time now. He has the same symbol on it that Ashe saw on the holy symbol of Lynmar.
 
It's Asmodeus, but Franz doesn't know that, and he asks for help with our problem. Asmodeus is able to recognize Franz's allies automatically and he teleports us all out of the fight and into a lavish dark red and black room.
 
He offers us drinks. Ashe recognizes who this is, but doesn't announce it and just kind of side eyes Dermish. She tells Elias who it is., and Dermish catches on that we are staring at him. Asmodeus then is like "Son?" and Dermish is like "Daddy?" and they do this weird embrace....
 
We learn that Asmodeus did create Dermish, but don't know what that means yet. Suddenly a huge ass door appears, and Asmodeus says he must attend to some small business.
 
At that moment a half snake man slithers in. It's mammon. Joe is like, BUT you don't look like yourself, and he transforms into his known form. He starts to ask Elias if he'd be interested in doing some stealing of gold work for him, but Daddy Asmodeus shuts him up and reminds him that we are his guests.
 
Mammon then slithers away.
 
Dermish then asks Daddy to borrow his ruby rod to win the fight. Franz just starts to question his actions of summoning this devil and maybe has some regrets?
 
Dermish talks about his parents being shoe buckle makers, and Asmodeus tells him that those aren't actually his parents. Daddy ASmodeus then pulls out a snow globe and hands it to Dermish. Inside he sees a blonde haired woman holding a swaddling of a baby tiefling.
 
Daddy Asmodeus tells him that this is where Dermish is from and that is his real mother. Dermish then demands to know where she is at right now. Asmodeus doesn't answer but says he would oblige a visit with her.
 
Daddy Asmodeus then reveals that he is the one who named Dermish, and he just says it to himself every once in a while to admire it. Dermish says he want to see his mother, and he immediately disappears and he goes into the globe. We look in the globe, and his mother is much older now and he is hugging her now.
 
Franz reads from the book that Asmodeus must be our allies and obey ANY command he gives. Franz also realizes that Asmodeus knows his name even though we haven't had any kind of introductions, so we go around the room and introduce ourselves, even though he clearly already knows us.
 
Franz notices that his book kind of vibrates towards Asmodeus's rod. *wink wink* He tells us that there is a shard of evil in his rod, and Franz is like "There is a shard of evil in this book"
 
We also learn that Dermish has a sister. Ashe asks if he could bring them all out of the globe, and Asmodeus says that would be a very very bad idea as she cannot exist outside of the globe.
 
Franz starts to command him to do this, but everyone stops him.
 
Meanwhile....Dermish has a reunion with his mom. He is angry with her for putting him with shoebuckle people. He asks why she left him. She explains that one morning she woke up and he was gone and he never knew what happened to him.
 
She explains it may have been for the best, because their village was ransacked and almost everyone was killed. She survived because of Dermish's father, who was never around much.
 
Dermish tells her about his whole life. Dermish then points out that nobody else is here, and that it's weird, but she doesn't seem to notice how odd it is.
 
He wants to introduce her to his friends. Dermish tries to explain to her that she is in a globe and he says he has met Asmodeus...his father, and she seems confused. She says his father's name is not Asmodeus. She tells him it's Molerawr. Her name is Sally. Dermish explains who Asmodeus is, but she doesn't seem to think anything of it just thinking it's something her husband got caught up in.
 
Dermish asks about Molerawr, and he learns he was a powerful wizard. Sally offers to give him all of his father's wizard books and collection of spell scrolls. Dermish asks where his dad is, and learns that he disappeared when Dermish disappeared.
 
Dermish just grabs a bunch of spells and puts them in his bag.
 
Angst tells Franz to command Asmodeus to get Dermish back and help us with the battle. Just as Dermish was grabbing the scrolls, he gets pulled out.
 
Franz then asks how Dermish's mom got into the snowglobe, and Asmodeus tells that the people in the globe have always been there, except for one. It was Dermish. He pulled him out as an experiment.
 
Dermish asks why he was taken from his mom, and Asmodeus says if he hadn't he would have died. The day her city was attacked, is the day Dermish disappeared. She went to retrieve him, but couldn't find him, so she ran away.
 
Asmodeus reveals that he did all this as entertainment. He was inspired one day and created this world inside a globe. He tells us the more we pry and poke the more it will affect Dermish, and maybe we should just let things be as they are. Dermis asks what happened to his "real" dad, and he shows him in the globe that he was killed in an attack by adventurers.
 
Dermish asks about the whole story. Angst, in that moment says he doesn't have time for our shenanigans, because he has a mission from the raven queen, so he asks the ravenqueen to take him away, and he disappears.
 
Meanwhile Asmodeus tells Dermish EVERYTHING. Ultimately, he was just kind of board from working all the time. He creates snowglobe worlds as a hobby. They are captured moments. Dermish was one of the things he captured, and he enjoyed Dermish so much that he pulled him out to experience the real world.
 
Dermish asks why he was placed with the shoebuckle family, and Asmodeus brings them in for questioning. They actually seem to be aware of everything. They had a contract with Asmodeus and are wondering if it has ended.
 
This angers Dermish. His material plan mom says they had a debt to repay, BUT that they love him as if he were their own.
 
At that moment, there is an adventurer that appears in his mom's world, and it's running around killing everyone. Asmodeus starts laughing and says "Oh It's happening again". Her world is on a loop that she has to live through over and over again.
 
We look in the globe, and there is a flying saucer flying over it shooting out artillery at the land below. This looks much like the saucer that is over Root Wallow. Is this the fate of Root Wallow?
 
Are we living in a snowglobe?
 
Asmodeus reveals that Dermish doesn't have a soul, but we have trouble believing this, because he has been brought back to life at least once. Asmodeus promises there will be only darkness. We then remember when he was brought back before, it's because we gave him pieces of our own life forces, so maybe that's why he came back.
 
Dermish demands to know where his sister is, as he didn't see her in the snowglobe. Asmodeus tells him that she died a long time ago. He then shows this happen in the snowglobe. Adventurers stabbed her in her cradle.
 
She was not a tiefling. Dermish starts to feel an emptiness in his chest that he recognizes as one he has always felt and tried to fill.
He's feeling very sad.
 
Dermish asks Asmodeus for the rod, and Asmodeus says Franz has to simply command it. He explains it would make anyone kneel.
 
Franz kind of wants the wand for himself. He, Dermish, and Joe play a round of 3 dragon Ante to see who gets the rod. Joe wins the card game with a 16.
 
They all start to argue about it, but Franz commands that Asmodeus give them the item. He says he's going on vacation now and leaves. He calls in Mammon and Asmodeus says that JOe is the ruler of hell now.
 
Joe doesn't want it anymore now that they would have to rule the 9 hells, and now all of a sudden it's Dermish's birth rite.
 
Elias strikes up a deal with Mammon to get his father back. Mammon offers him to get his father in exchange for his soul after he dies to serve the ranks of Mammon. He would have to server for 100 years.
 
Elias agrees and signs this new contract, and his father appears next to him.
 
HIs dad is disoriented and crying. Elias lifts him up and tells him we must be on our way. He must do right by his mother this time around or both of them will be damned to hell.
 
Maybe we can find some kind of way to extend Elias's life so he never has to come here to serve Mammon.
 
Elias's father gets pretty misogynistic with Ash. That's fun. Very quickly does he seem to recover and become a complete asshole
 
Eraticus Harcleave...that's his name and he is was once a very famous wizard. He learns that Dermish is a wizard and wants to spend time with him to discuss such matters. He's probably gonna try to be a better dad to Dermish than he ever was to Elias. It's kind of infuriating.
 
As we discuss how to get back to our original fight, Ashe touches the mirror and is zapped back into the fight, but time is still frozen.
 
Franz decides to open a door that is closed and disappears. Mr. Harcleave tells us to stop touching things as we are on a lower level and we could end up getting stuck here.
 
Elias finds a book thats about the ruler of Averness. It's about a girl named Sally and adventurers were killing her people. They were killing everyone because there was poisoned bread that if eaten would turn them into undead. Sally didn't eat bread though, so she wasn't infected. Sally's last name is Fairtress. Sally Fairtress. Elias recognizes this name. He once read about a place called Faerune about someone named Fairtress in a place called Adenaziel. She was incredibly powerful.
 
She was killed multiple times by these adventurers many times and eventually became the ruler of the 1st later of Bayoyotr, named Avernus. Dermish recognizes that this may be his mom and that the woman in the globe might just be a memory???
 
Joe studies the rod to attune to it. It seems they forgot Franz was missing, but once Joe is attuned, she hopes to summon him back.
 
Elias pulls Ashe back from the mirror and they are going to go find Franz. We learn the door he went into leads to Dis. Joe summons a devil to help us, and it is Titivilus.
 
We learn Franz was sent to the Pleasuredome. Titivilius supplies us with Rings of Fire Resistance. We get him back, but it's been 20 years. They give him something to drink and it wipes his memory of that so he doesn't have to live with the trauma.
 
Titivilus escorts us back. When we get there, Dermish sees his mom, but she has giant bat wings . "mommy?" says Dermish.
 
Fairtress looks down at him and says "Who the fuck are you?" She doesn't seem to remember Dermish or ever losing a child. She says "I've never had a son" and this is where we end.
 
 
We don't want to forget the Purple worm battle, because we need to save Joe's family.