Session 19: We're making this shit up as we go.

We begin inside a vault ready to release Isolde with a whole army of the strongest fighters of hammerfell. Franz goes to release her and she tries to possesses him, but him, but he is able to resist it.
 
We immediately just start fighting her. She starts killing dwarves easy and possessing them. Franz doesn't give a fuck and fireballs her also damaging some dwarves in the process.
 
Some of the dwarves take offense to the fireball and don't know who they should attack.
 
The possessed dwarf falls, and as Isolde fades away she says, "I guess you don't want to hear about Elysia then" and disappears. Elysia is Ashe's mentore and this causes her to worry.
 
Everyone is confused and don't know whos on whos side, but Elias is able to calm everyone down. Franz promises not to accidentally hurt anymore dwarves and they stand down against us.
 
Ashe realizes that the dwarf is still possessed, and Joe uses vines to trap him.
 
Ashe, due to some shenanigans from her childhood and playing with ghosts, with the help of Andromeda's ghost is able to enter the mind of the possessed dwarf.
 
She has a conversation with Isolde. She learns that Isolde loves chaos and wants to get on her father's good side by finding demonomicons, and she didn't really know what that was until she was trapped in one, and now she wants to find them for her dad. She also wants to be on the side of the ones who are trying to destroy the world.
 
She tells Ashe that if she helps her she will give her the name of someone who may be able to help cure her mentor Elysia. Ashe declines the offer, but thanks her for the information, because now she knows that there IS a cure and she believes she'll be able to find it on her own now.
 
Ashe is able to pull Isolde outside of the dwarf's mind, and this causes isolde, as well as Ashe's spirit and Andromeda to get sucked into the magic circle.
 
Isolde immediately grabs one of her 6 swords, and it's one of those souls killing swords from the ethereal plane and threatens to use it on Ashe if anyone makes a move.
 
Franz tries to negotiate with Isolde, and Isolde says that she's kind of tired of working with the demons, and is thinking about taking some time in the fey wild. If they let her go, she will help lead Ashe to Elysia's cure, and give Andromeda back.
 
Franz says he may accept this if we have some kind of kill switch for Isolde so that if she breaks her word, we can eliminate her for breaking her word.
 
She says she can't give us anything that will allow us to defeat her, but she could give her true name to one of us as collateral. Franz agrees that she give HIM her name he will never use it against her as long as she keeps her part of the deal.
 
She whispers her name into Franz's ear, and this causes him to turn sheet white. He knows her true name, as if it's a dna of her essence is now inside of him. He now has control over her.
 
Now that the deal is final, Androma's spirit comes out of Isolde. Ashe's spirit goes into her body and the magic circle is released by Franz.
 
Isolde tells Ashe she needs to go talk to DOUG SILVERSTORM- One of the Druids in Hammerfall where we are at....Andromeda says it was amazing and terrifying to be in the mind of Isolde and it reminded him of his first love, Baron Reginald. A terrible mistake. He didn't hear her name when she gave it to Franz, but it felt like a binding of souls and the feeling of meeting a soulmate.
 
Isolde leaves and Joe says she knows Doug. We go talk to King DinMure and let him know of our success in defeating Isolde. He asks us to fetch his treasure that was stolen by the Duergar. We have a conversation about banking creation and the corruption of money writs and certificates. Perhaps Mammon is behind it all.
 
Anyway, we know that there is a tunnel that goes beneath the mountain pass where the money was taken, we think to Eldoria.
 
Franz says we can help, but he needs to pay us 30% of everything and provide some good transportation for us. The king just wants us to locate the money. Not necessarily bring it back. Find out what happened, and where it is so they can retrieve it themselves.
 
Joe wants her family to have status here. The king says if we bring back what he wants, Joe's father can have a spot on his committee.
 
If we go through the mountain pass, we will have to deal with winter elements and giants. We learn the tunnel goes down through the underdark. Also along the way, there is some kind of sealed elvaan gate. It's sealed with a magic they cannot identify. It's some kind of Mithal. We decide to go check it out after we finish up here.
 
We go back to Joe's parent's house. They tell us that Doug Silverstorm is very sick and in a lot of pain. Similar to Elysia. Meanwhile, Andromeda asks Elias if he can back to his mother, and Elias knows his mom is kind of doing better without Andromeda, becoming her own person and losing her codependency, so he doesn't really want Andromeda going back to her.
 
Andromeda tells Elias that he feels drawn to his mother and that they may be soul mates. Elias says if that is the case, then time apart will do them both good.
 
Andromeda and Elias agree to be friends for now. Maybe one day Andromeda will be Elias's new daddy.
 
We go see Doug, and he tells us he knows someone with a cure in the underdark, but needs someone to take him there. He says that there is an opalescent butterfly called a Liseen Butterfly. They are incredibly rare and mythical with very magical properties. Before it becomes a butterfly, it is a purple, green and orange caterpillar with tiny spikes. If you come in contact with this, you become infected with this disease.
 
There is a mushroom in the underdark that if prepared the correct way it can burn out the spikes that are embedded in the bloodstream and cure you.
 
He knows the Duergar down there, and if we let him travel with us he can help us communicate with them to get what we need.
 
We learn he is a duregar in disguise. We convince him to show us his real face. Joe asks him why the Duergar were infiltrating here and why they were taking the gold.
 
All he knows is that everything is being funneled into Eldoria. Also, he knows how to get through the mithal and get to Eldoria through the tunnels and underdark.
 
Elias convinces him to give us the information we need and he stay here in Hammerfell. He tells us that we will need a silver ring from Ithilhithnal. There is an old story about an elf who was a prisoner and she bathed in moonlight. Ashe will know what to do.
 
Once inside though, there will be loads of dangerous things down there.
 
He tells us that we are looking for Zanzs, who was the last one in charged when he was there. If we tell him we are in league with Doug Silverstorn, whose real name is Glycel, and we tell him that he cut us in on part of the money that's being taken in. He'll know that he's "tricked" us to help and "use" us in an attempt to take advantage of us.
 
There is a miconoid named Maliecean who knows what is needed and how to brew it. Ashe shows him a trick to relieve the pain for 2 or 3 minutes using pressure points on his feet.
 
We decide to go talk to Blackwood and QM to see if they would like us to come with us. Blackwood is a bitch as usual. She tells us QM is gone looking for Angst. She's drinking herself into a stupor. Her and Elias argue a bit. She mentions that his family political involvement is alot bigger than he can imagine. I wonder what that means. She argues with Franz, and we learn that she blames herself for everything, because she failed them as a commander. She couldn't lead them and didn't open up to them enough.
 
Franz calls bullshit and tries to make her feel better. she ends up apologizing. Franz tells her that she's heard that Morpheus. is still alive. Blackwood has decided to seek him out. we convince her to travel to Eldoria through the Underdark with us.
 
Peace is made. We sit and have drinks with her. She whispers into Franz's ear, and leaves to her bed. Franz follows after. The rest of us chit chat about Andromeda, We talk about maybe trying to find out how he became a vampire and be a support group for him. We definitely aren't going to abandon him and do plan to raise him eventually, but we need him to learn how to not use Elias's mom as his only coping mechanism.
 
Andromeda tells us that he loved the theatre when he was alive as a human. His favorite play was the Rise of the Golden Dawn. We talk to him about how to help ground himself, he can use our story to write our story and adventures into a play, and then one day we can help him move on to the other side or restore him. In the meantime, he will use us to write a great story.
 
We cheers to the Rosey Thorns and then get some rest.
 
We long rest, the king gives us supplies for the journey, and we get ready to head out.