Session 31: The Good the Bad and the Oblivious

So here we are in the sewers talking to Dawles and surrounded by slaads. Dawles escorts us to the meeting. We ask to get to the outskirts of the school for a quick rest. He escorts us a bit through the sewers. WE get back to the hole where we first entered. We crawled back under to get out of the school. WE head back to our house to take the quick rest.
 
We find a large metal door, and as we try to test it and open it we find it's really just a prototype for us to look at. We move it to the side. We learn that Elias's mom and King Dinmure are quite hungry and there is no food. Elias and Ashe go to get food, and Joe and Franz go to try and persuade King Dinmure to let them have a sapphire.
 
We find a street vendor cooking noodles for everyone for free. JOe talks to him and finds out he has a farm. Joe wants to work with Farmers one we have time to help them grow their crops and harvest as a thank you.
 
We eat. The king is in a much better mood. HE gives Joe 3 sapphires worth 50GP. After our shenanigan's tonight, Elias and Franz will work on that.
 
As we discuss our plans, Blackwood walks up. We fill her in on all that is happening and that we are planning to infiltrate a meeting tonight. Apparently some New Galvanians are here and intel is that the killed some Eldorian spies and they are Franz and Jezabel Magnus who are vampires.
 
Franz casts Plane Shift and we go to the shadowfell.
We dig a hole to go under the dome. Dawels meets us here. I guess a green slaad got him here. Joe and Ashe turn into a giant snake/jumping spider respectively.
 
We get to the meeting. There are cheese and little meats and juice. Passin eventually arrives. Jezabel and Franz Magnus are behind him. The bad Franz stops and sniffs around the room for a moment and then gets a smile on his face. They just continue up the stairs and we all follow behind into the room of Shar.
 
Passin finds the room of shar open already and notes that someone has been there.
 
"Finally, We will be able to rule all over ALL of Eldoria, as it should be, because the ARcane Academy has power." says Passin. He introduces help that he has enlisted. A heavy set fellow apparates out of the wall with a slimy grin on his face. It's Loadagraph. The next full moon (2 days from now) is when they plan to attack.
 
However, there are a few people that don't have the faith of the Lady of Loss. Passin then pulls out a small medallion. He starts walking around and asking random people to kiss this medallion.
 
He walks towards Elias and recognizes him as a new recruit. Elias says Eldrin recruited him. Passin tries to find out more about how he met Eldrin and then confesses that Eldrin is not a real person. He asks Elias to kiss the medallion and it convinces him that he does belong here.
 
He approaches Franz and notices the snake with the symbol of Shar around his neck. He's quite impressed with it. Passin then asks to see the snake.
 
Franz allows Passin to unwind Joesnake from himself.
 
Passin then begins to move his hands around casting some kind of arcane magic. THEN the shaaran symbols on the snake start to glow. Passin decides he really likes the snake and takes it and commands Franz to test everyone else with his medallion.
 
One guy kisses it, and is surrounded by black fog that absolutely kills him.
 
Everyone else is tested and they pass.
 
Passin tells everyone that we are to split up and go to our designated areas and lead our respective groups to lead the men. Elias makes notes of all the points of attack.
 
Jezabel walks up to Franz and compliments his style and his snake. Franz tells jezabel his name is Masterson. She goes on about how much she loves the etymology of names. I guess her last name used to be Silverman. Franz introduced his last name as Silverston.
 
Jezabel talks about a common name called Iceman and how they trade ice to monks and shit. She then puts her hand on Franz's shoulder causing him to have a flashback of when he was on a boat.
 
His mother is kneeling down before him insisting he must remain in the cabin and remain silent and hide. Something terrible has happened. Franz is just 5.
 
Then he has a memory of himself being incredibly hungry and his parents are sharing the last piece of bread with him. He then sees Jezabel walk in saying she was just thinking of a snack. Franz's mother gets protective and confronts Jezebel. Franz's mother pulls out a medallion that holds Jezebel at bay.
 
He has another memory on the same boat and Jezebel is embracing a sailor and then just throws him over the side of the boat. She makes eye contact with little Franz and smiles with her huge fangs.
 
He then passes a constitution save and has memories of his parents being murdered by the Magnus's. Not before his father stabbed The bad Franz in the chest with a wooden stake. He then proceeds to pull the stake out of his chest and decapitate him and thrown him over board.
 
Franz hides for a couple of days and when the boat hit Pontemoonday he was able to properly escape.
 
Jezabel tells present day Franz that he seems so interesting and she invites him to entertain them at their place tonight. She tells them where they will be. He says he'll think about it.
 
Franz oes to retrieve joesnake who is getting very agitated with Passin. Joe raises to strike and Passin actually breaks the snakes neck. This causes the snake to transform back into Joe.
 
Franz and Joe then make up this hockenbull story about how Franz had turned them into a snake on purpose and now Passin has gone and ruined it.
 
Joe begs Franz to "Please not turn me into a snake again". and he starts to cast the "spell" back onto Joe. JOe turns back into a snake.Passin detects that this is all a performance. Joe is able to escape in snake form.
 
This whole thing is going very poorly. Elias grabs Franz and planeshifts him out. This leaves Ashe in spider form behind. She decides to hide on his boot to spy on Passin a while longer
 
Passin decides they have to move up the attack. He talks about the sword in this room being an old family heirloom that he gave up in dedication to Shar.
 
He thanks the Magnuss ' for their long time allyship and promises they will have the kingdom they once had again in Eldoria. Jezabel mentions that Masterson Silverton is someone she recognizes as Franz Iceman. She knows exactly who he is.
 
The go on drinking and talking. Kill a fellow, and talk about old times.
 
This continues for almost 3 hours. Ashe determines that Passin was lying about moving the attack up.
 
Everyone eventually meets back up at our house.
 
Joe is able to learn that there is a super at the very top middle of the dome where someone could cast dispel magic and the whole thing would just come down. It was some kind of nerdy wizard revealing this.
 
We decide that we will report everything to Blackwood. Maybe we should attack tomorrow after bringing the dome down when they aren't expecting it.
 
We want to ask Aria Silvermist for help as well. We fill her in on everything. She knows a ritual we can help. WE can take them all and send them all to the 9 hells. She would need us to get rid of the dome in order for her to do this. It would send everyone to Menos (Mammon's domain) She would also need a tremendous amount of gold to cast this spell.
 
Elias has a moral discussion about the innocent lies that could be lost if she does this. Franz asks if she is asking for Mammon for help since she needs so much money. She doesn't deny that she's worked with or know Mammon.
 
We learn that the amulet Elias's father has is the amulet of the Living Flame. He must be trying to embody that.
 
We call on Dermish for help. We tell him a brief summary and ask if he'd be able to help us save innocents if some got sent to hell. He then tells us that Aria is lying to us and that she wants to summon The Living Flame.
 
Franz does not reveal this and pretends to go along with Aria's plan. Aria knows he's full of shit but goes along with what Franz says, but he knows she's full of shit.
 
We leave and Franz lets us know everything. We can't fathom why Aria would want to bring the Living Flame here. But we do know that Elias's dad definitely has the amulet.
 
We split up. Elias and Ashe go talk to Elias's mom about where his father might be.
 
Franz and Joe go seek out Blackwood to tell her what is going on. QM answers that door. They tell Blackwood what Aria's plan actually is.
 
Blackwood thinks an evacuation may be in order. She will try to organize this with the council. She worries she will lose her position if we are wrong.
 
Joe then tells Blackwood about Dawles and how he is a death slaad commanding other slaads.
 
Elias wakes his mom and asks if she might know where his dad would be. She suggests he might be at Elias's sister's grave. This is about the time she died and that's where he would be right now.
 
Elias convinces her to get ready to leave and she asks that we try to find. We convince Lodar and the king Dimure to also leave the city.
 
We go seek out Elias's father at the graveyard.
 
Elias starts to explain everything and his dad apparently already knows what it going on.
 
He also believes that Mammon will protect him if the Living Flame comes out of this amulet.
 
He is going to finish off Passin and seems unbothered by this whole living flame situation. He thinks that he and passin will be dead soon and he doesn't care who else will be taken out by that.
 
Elias is able to steal the amulet from his father and he wishes his father well. we go back home and Elias casts Identify on the amulet.
 
We learn that it is linked directly to Mammon. It's almost as if it's a gate the mammon has set up and he gets to decide who comes through it.
 
WE end up talking ot Remish and Redstone. Remish has a bowl that we can use to put the amulet ANYWHERE on this plane. Remish pulls up an ancient underground city with a bunch of sandstone there. We can hear a crying coming from the bowl. He positions it to where we can see, and it's a tiny elvaan girl there crying. There is a blonde woman walking up to her comforting her. We recognize it to be Hazel.
 
Remish is able to dip himself into the bowl, he comes back up with the little girl, he then puts in a hand and pulls Hazel through. Apparently she was with the other group in the wasteland of Woe. She got separated from them, and she was having trouble finding her way out. Shes been separated for a couple of days. She suspects the abolith where she was at may have got her friends.
 
We decide to hide the amulet in that area where Hazel and Lydia were. Remish won't be able to open this back up for 30 days.
 
Joe decided to jump in and go find a proper hiding place. They threw it in a pool of water and went to cover it with earth and had to make a wisdom save.
 
Joe crit failed. Franz jumped in to check on Joe. We have 5 minutes to figure this out, and this is where we end.