Session Fifteen: Raising Zariel, Saving Andromeda, and making Dermish the ruler of the 9 hells

We wake up from a long rest in Joe's house. We see Dermish in the snowglobe and he is really old now and he's in a library. Joe is trying to study to rod more closely and Mammon appears. Mammon points our that Joe is starting to kind of fade away, because they aren't supposed to be here. Eventually Joe will fade away
 
In the snowglobe, we see old Dermish with what we assume is his wife. Joe tries to talk Mammon about releasing Elias, but he says that there really isn't any intention of ever letting him go. He'll get him on some kind trumped up charge at some point and he'll just trap him forever.
 
Mammon then poofs Elias into the room and pulls out the contract. He then adds on 100 years to Elias's sentence because Elias is under dressed right now. Even though he's just been poofed out of bed. It's total nonsense.
 
We look into the orb and see that Dermish is now on his death bed. He's slowly getting older and older and is about ot die. Elias figures out how to control the globe to to move time back and forth.
 
We decide that we will pull him out before he's met his wife. He's not leveled up, but he hadn't been there long and he's got a whole bunch of books in his hands. He was just about to run into the love of his life when we pulled him out, little does he know. He gets to know 3 extra spells because of all of his books.
 
Joe helps Dermish level up.
 
Meanwhile Quartermaster shows up looking for Angst. Elias tells him that ANgst has gone off on a mission for the Ravenqueen. QM is pretty disappointed, because he wanted to take Angst to Eldoria with him as Blackwood has offered him a position in Eldoria and he wants Angst to come work with him so he can take over when QM is gone.
 
Franz convinces QM to stay with us at least for a while.
 
We look into the globe again, and it seems like Dermish's memory is still in there living and he is able to see his life. Dermish becomes upset that we pulled him out of his life, and his wife is now looking for him.
 
However, he chooses to stay with us. The rod starts to hum because it is very close to Dermish, and that's who it is meant for.
 
Joe and Dermish talk about it, and Joe starts to fade away. JOe is hesitant to give the rod to Dermish due to all the damage she has potentially caused. Joe disappears before they come to an agreement. We ask Mammon to take us to the 9 hells and we are now on the battlefield where the demons now seem to be winning the blood war.
 
Avernus is now overrun by demons.
 
Joe gives the rod to Dermish. Dermish immediately commands Titivillus to do this. Titivillus accepts out of duty but recommends that Dermish put someone with commanding capabilities in charge. Titivilis suggests Zariel, but Zariel was defeated long ago and is now a larvae. Dermish tries to turn Zariel back into a real demon, BUT fails tremendously. Dermish decides to carry her around until she's old enough to lead again. LOL
 
We meet a fox dude who has a library of Danielle Copper books.
 
It dawns on JOe in that moment that maybe we can find Andromeda's soul somewhere. We realize he could be on the fuge plane. As Dermish thinks about this, a portal to the fuge plane opens up and we go through. WE end up in another plane where Dermish hears someone call out his name.
 
There are a bunch of faces in the wall and one of them is Andromeda's face. All the faces on the wall talk about how none of them believed anything and maybe that's how they all ended up here.
 
The wall was made by Myrkul. However, Myrkul was defeated by a fellow named Syruk a long time ago. Syruk killed Mystra causing the birth of the spellplague long ago.
 
Dermish starts to try and pull Andromeda from the wall. He is able to remove him from the wall, and it looks like a wall giving birth. It's kind of gross.
 
Andromeda starts to throw up which causes most of us to throw up as well. It's really gross.
 
We then remember we have Larve Zariel with us. Dermish throws her into the snowglobe where she is almost immediately killed . He rewinds time and takes her back out, we right a not and attach it to her that says "Please Raise with Love. Love, Dermish"
 
He then puts her back into the snowglobe. We then shift the globe forward. A priest eventually raises her and she grows up as a pillar of society and brings people to Lathander. The whole world in the globe worship Lathander now.
 
NOw that she is gown and nurtured into a nice lady, Dermish pulls her out and she's completely shocked. We talk about all that has happened. We learn she remembers her old life of falling down into the 9 hells and trying to make a difference. She became of a thrall of Asmodeus and she is never doing that again.
 
We show her the situation in the 9 hells. The demons have completely over run Avernus. She declares that she has made a mistake before. NOw she is going to destroy both the demons and the devils. Her plan is to go to Mount Celestial and convince her people to help.
 
Dermish charges her for leading the charge against the demons/devils. but she doesn't answer to anyone from the 9 hells. Elias tells her that he's technically from Leruamar.
 
Elias brings up a good point that she is squandering a chance to bring Lathander's light ot the hells, and he convinces her to go to Celestia to gather forces and come back to defeat the demons AND the devils. She leaves to do such.
 
Dermish changes the code word to the ruby rod to "Peasant" instead of "Rutabaga"
 
We then realize that if Andromeda doesn't have a body to go to, he may get trapped in the ethereal plane if he goes with us.
 
Dermish suggests putting his soul into Eraticus. Elias would want to confront his father first before we do anything like that. Franz mentions he can create a magic jar to put Andromeda's soul in.
 
Franz casts the spell and goes into a catatonic state. Elias is able to determine that the book literally says that Franz's body would fall into a catatonic state by casting this spell. It was in bold and everything.
 
Apparently he put his own soul in the jar. hahahahahaha He then tries to possess mammon to insult titivilis and start a fight, but it fails. It would've been really funny though.
 
As we converse, Mammon stops us and says Dermish needs to go now to start setting up his position in the hells as it's utter chaos there now.
 
WE decide to take a quick swim in Titivilis's favorite lake and have drinks with Dermish Dermish learns he can fly. He teleports to a nearby village and orders drinks for everybody. However, he notices that a patron in the corner drinks and starts to shrivel up into a demonoid creature.
 
Other patrons start turning. Dermish realizes that anyone drinking low end stuff is turning. So Dermish grabs the drinks from the top shelf. and teleports back. He pays NO mind to what's going on around him.
 
HE brings us drinks back and tells us that the craziest thing just happened where some folks turned into demons when they drank the low end stuff. That's why he brought us the good stuff.
 
We learn that we are in a place called Pontimundi.
 
Elias takes a drink from a fancy bottle and proves it to be safe, so we all drink. We swim, we drink, Elias makes a sand castle, JOe makes a friendship bracelet for Franz
 
Dermish then tells us that we can go try and save folks left in the tavern if we want. we call it Dermish's last Skirmish, and he teleports us to the tavern.
 
There are ripped a part people everywhere. A group of demons are in the center eating them. Franz runs in and casts Thuderwave on them as Dermish casts fireball.
 
The whole place gets wiped out. we feel like heroes even though we didn't save anybody.
 
We remember the fancey wine was called Elverquist. It's a fancy moonelf drink. Dermish starts to fade away and we lose him to the hells as he tries to hug us all and then he's gone. This is where we end.