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Wed 11th Oct 2023 10:51

Session Fourteen: A party, A fight and a funeral.

by Asharene Shadowthorn

We are standing in Asmodeus's office with Fairtress, who looks like Dermish's mom, but she doesn't have any recognition of him.
 
At that moment, we all start to flicker accept for Joe, and the frozen fight starts to suck us back in.
 
Mammon puts his hand on Elias's shoulder and says that he can't go, and he's well within his rights to keep him here.
 
Joe doesn't flicker so as they and Elias are stuck here, Franz, Dermish and Ashe disappear.
 
Mammon look at Joe and says "YOu'r ein charge now boss" and he intruduces himself as a helpful ally and says Joe will need to meet some important folks.
 
JOe then offers to give Mammon the rod so they and Elias can leave, and Mammon just laughs because he'd surely be killed because so many folks are after the rod.
 
Elias offers 10 more years of service if he can go into the painting for 2 hours. He signs and it is agreed, BUT he didn't specify when, so Mammon doesn't let him go now.
 
JOe tries to cast a spell from the Rod into the fight to trap the Purple Worm, BUT it doesn't work.
 
Elias draws an Anvil over the purple worm just to see what happens.
 
Mammon then opens a portal and says, "We need to go to Dis. Let's go" They see Titivilis on the other side of the portal.
 
Elias asks Titivilis to help explain his contract to him. They figure out that the contract actually starts now for Elias. not when he dies. But the duration is for 100 years after death. Elias convinces Mammon to let him go back, but he's going to miss the party if he does, but I guess it's ok?
 
Some veiled lady dancers start to gather around Joe. They call JOe Dermish, because this party was planned originally for Dermish. There is some confusion
 
Anyway, Joe offers the rod to Titivilis, but he declines, because he serves Dispater and would not disrespect him like that. Joe also asks Mammon if they can have Elias for the time they rule here, and he offers for them to buy it for $12 million gold.
 
JOe recognizes this to be a bullshit offer and makes everyone bow.
 
Elias tries to explain the importance of them getting back to the fight to save us. They then discover that maybe Franz summoned Asmodeus, that maybe he wasn't actually summoned and this whole thing may be some kind of lie or trick.
 
At this moment Dispater walks in to meet the new Asmodeus. I think Joe accidentally insults Disater by making him and everyone else bow.
 
Dispater starts to get super paranoid about his layer getting taken over and he thinks that Joe commanded this. I guess Fairtress is in Dis, and Dispaters says Joe needs to put Fairtress in her place if Joe truly didn't command this.
 
Joe walks out towards Fairtress. Titivilis walks with Joe and explains that Dispater is super paranoid and doesn't usually meet with anyone. Titivilis thinks that Fairtress may be using this whole situation to try and move up her station. Titivilis advises that Joe could demand that Devils in the blood war to stand down, and this might take Fairtress's attention.
 
JOe then mentions offering the rod to Fairtress, and Titivilis says she would definitely take it, but likely kill Joe immediately and turn them into a larvre.
 
Titivilis opens a portal so Joe can go command the devils to stand down. Joe then yells out "Rutebaga" and it makes all the demons and devils fighting bow. As everyone starts to bow, demons make it in and start slaughtering everyone.
 
Tiamat then shows up and commands an Abishai to take the rod from Joe.
 
Meanwhile the fight back home is continuing and the Buelette eats Lynmar. The worm is eating the commoners.
 
Joe gets surrounded in magical darkness and makes everyone kneel again to try an get away.
 
Elias starts speaking strange infernal words as he channels his newfound powers to fight the worm.
 
Dermish disappears through a strange portal.
 
Joe is attacked by one of the abishais and it demands the sword. However she escapes the darkness and gets back through the portal before they can get the sword from them.
 
Meanwhile, Ash casts moonbeam on the worm, and it reverts it to a duergar. He was shapeshifted. Franz charms him and asks him to help attack the bullette and it works. He turns back into a worm, but this time attacks the bullete. Anyway, the duregare is killed by Knick Knack, the bullette runs away. We tell Joe's parent's that Joe is now the ruler of hell. The handle it about as well as possible.
 
Andromeda and Eraticus have a conversation about who in the world each of them are as Andromeda keeps tying to praise Elias for his actions and now they are fighting over Elias's affections.
 
We try to figure out how to get back to Joe. Franz says he can cast Planar Ally to see if we can get back to Joe or get some kind of message to or from Joe.
 
Joe sees a thought bubble pop up and Mammon says he can take care of it and take Joe back to their friends. Mammon helps JOe and his payment was to take all of our coins. Now we are broke.
 
We see a floating snowglobe. Inside is Dermish talking to his mom?
 
WE take the snowglobe and try to keep it safe.
 
Elias's dad disappear and we find their foot prints, so we decide to follow them. We get to Marion's house and see a small pile of dust outside of the house. INside is Eraticus holding Marion's hand. Elias and the rest of us quickly figure out what happened, and Eraticus finally owns up to it. He killed Andromeda.
 
Elias calls him out on his bullshit. We give him shit about how awful he is. He starts to get all teary eyed and and storms out. Elias tells him that it's no surprise he's leaving, and Eraticus responds that everything he has ever done has been for him.
 
Elias comforts his mom and explains that Andromeda is not coming back. Meanwhile Ashe scoops his ashes into a bottle. Marion takes the bottle and shatters it on the desk and cuts herself to "feed Andromeda blood" to bring him back.
 
It's really sad. Mrs Marion asks for Elias's forgiveness and lies down.
 
Elias now feels determined to find his father to try and make this right. He follows his father's tracks to the mountain pass where the giants are.
 
Joe's parents are going to take care of Elias's mom, we fill the king in on everything we learned with the duergar. The king wants to remove all Hill Dwarves from his city, and Joe convinces him to keep those that have been here a long time and convinces him to work with her family to help keep everyone safe.
 
Blackwood wants us to escort her through the pass where we could go track down Elias's father as well. We tell her we willdo this, BUT we need ot check out Root Wallow first and get a system in place here before we leave.
 
Blackwood thinks all the money taken from here went to Eldoria.
 
We head to JOe's parent's house so we can let them know everything and go through Lynmar's bag to see if there is anything useful.
 
We also need to ask them if Marion can stay with them for a while.
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

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  1. Session Zero Summer Camp years
  2. Session One: Shadows of Deception- There's demons in town
  3. Session Two: "Bread, Faeries, and Maleficarum: A Confectionary Conundrum"
  4. Session Three: Shadows of Enchantment: Confronting Demons, Trapped in the Fey Wild
  5. Session Four: Ensnared in the Fey's Embrace: A Scarlet Salvation Saga
  6. Session Five:
  7. Session Six: Missed this session
  8. Session Seven: A black dragon in disguise
  9. Session Eight: Tuning Fork of Unknown planes
  10. Session Nine: Welcome to the Abyss
  11. Session 10: Escape the Abyss
  12. Session Eleven: Games, rides, and fortunes at the faire
  13. Session Twelve: Fake Dwarves and Stolen Treasure
  14. Session Thirteen: A purple worm fight and a reunion with a dad
  15. Session Fourteen: A party, A fight and a funeral.
  16. Session Fifteen: Raising Zariel, Saving Andromeda, and making Dermish the ruler of the 9 hells
  17. Session 16: Crossover Aftermath. A fight against Demons
  18. Session 17: Bael's Gate- the 15th of Azuthair
  19. SEssion 18: The Big Cheese and the Way of the Cheese
  20. Session 19: We're making this shit up as we go.
  21. Session 20: And She was Seven
  22. Session 21: I think we have to kill my Aunt.
  23. Session 22: All roads lead to Eldoria
  24. Session 23: A heist given away, and lots of fire.
  25. Session 24: The fall of the house of Harcleave.
  26. Session 25: So many quests. So little time
  27. Session 26: The Living Flame
  28. Session 27: The Living Flame
  29. Session 28: So many things to do and a new place to live I guess
  30. Session 29: The magic school hidden in the Shadowplane
  31. Session 30: Curse of Slaad
  32. Session 31: The Good the Bad and the Oblivious
  33. Session 32: A Harcleve Family Reunion
  34. Session 33: Will the Real Aria Silvermist Please standup
  35. Session 34: Sisterhood of the Traveling Sword
  36. Session 35: Storming the castle of Loadagraph
  37. Session 36: We defeat Loadagraph and have a reunion with Morpheus
  38. Session 37: One Flou Flou over the Dragon's Nest
  39. Session 38: New friends and Floof Hoof reunites with Lukai
  40. Session 39: Murdering Orcs and getting ready for the adventures ahead
  41. Session 40: The Ambushers become the Ambushees
  42. Session 41:
  43. Session 42: Wizards, Lizards and kids in cages! Oh My!
  44. Session 43: Thunderstrike at Crow's Crossing
  45. Session 44: Travel to Pontimunde
  46. Session 45: Adventures in Pontimunde
  47. Session 46: A Reefining: A Who Dun it on the Voyage to New Galvania.
  48. Session 47: See Hunter for notes
  49. Session 48: On our way to Lupine
  50. Session 49: Wolves, Owlbears and Rocs OH MY!
  51. Session 50: Mansions, Rifts of Insanity, and Treasure Chests Oh MY!
  52. Session 51: Adventures in Anastas Village
  53. Session 52: The Magnuses attack the village because of us
  54. Session 53: An ooze named Denise- Meeting the werewolves
  55. Session 54: In which we perfectly impersonate the Magnuses
  56. Session 55:Motes of Shadow
  57. Session 56: Hydyr kills his brother and we meet Mordenkainen
  58. Session 57: A trip to the hells and seeing our old friend Dermish
  59. Session 58: Randi missed
  60. Session 59: Court Dates and Demon Princes
  61. Session 60: Gold returned, saving the Miners and Elois mom, Arud. .
  62. Session 61: Three Brides, an Elephant and a Death.
  63. Session 62: The Red Party Heist
  64. Session 63: The White Party- Oh hi Lyra!
  65. Session 64: Off to the Pyramid- Oh hi Ash!
  66. Session 65: Pyramids, Puzzles and snakes
  67. Session 66: An out of this world fight with Neo the Lid.
  68. Session 67: We defeat the Magnuses
  69. Session 68: Saving the werewolves from the mindflayers
  70. Session 69: Just a tiny group in a regular sized world
  71. Session 70: Randi Missed
  72. Session 71:
  73. Session 72: Fighting fucking moon dragons
  74. Session 73: A fight with Zozth
  75. Session 74: Zozth Fight part 2
  76. Session 75: Is that a sex thing?
  77. Session 77: Terry! Noooooooo!
  78. Session 78: Adventures in a new world???
  79. Session 79: There never was a Hilda and a Helga
  80. Session 80: Actually there WAS a Hilda and a Helga
  81. Session 81: Into the Underdark

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