The Core of Evil
Structure
Exposition
The Deck prepares to head out and save Dorki from the Old Elikae Palace, where the Elder Brains used to be before the revolution. It takes 19 days of travel there
Conflict
When arriving at the palace, they find it seemingly completely abandoned. As they move through the palace, Stan sees brief images of Amsten. They go through a maze, and at the end of the maze, Stan will take off to the right as he sees Amsten and hears him clearly. The rest of the Deck fight Fear, and knock him out, with Cerys sending a message back to the Positive Personalities. Meanwhile, Stan and Amsten will fight and have a character moment afterwards.
Once they defeat Fear, they are able to head down into Elikae Core, where they Dorki should be found according to Rayalan's readings. Before they go down, Stan returns to the rest of the party. In order to get down into the Core though, Rolan holds up a heavy metal door.
Rising Action
When in the Core, they find themselves surrounded by various non-Elikae people who willingly chose to work for the Elikae, believing that that's the best way to reach the surface. They then need to move through the Core, which is also a maze. At the end of the maze, they find a button that creates a path back through the maze.
Climax
In the next room, they find Dorki strapped to a machine that is sapping out all of the Infernal Energy from her, slowly killing her. Guarding the generator is none other than Bicep De Luca, sent by his father to ensure Elikae success. They then fight him, a Champion. He will also have 2 Mindwitnesses and 2 Elikae Assassins with him. After defeating him and pulling Dorki out (DC 15 Int Roll), the Core will start to implode upon itself. They have to run across the 200 ft long path to escape the Core within 1 minute. However, Dorki can only move at limp speed if someone supports her, and she cannot be carried while flying. Once they reach the end of the path,
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Rolan lifts the door and holds it up long enough for everyone to get through, but realizes he doesn't have enough to get through himself, so gives one last goodbye before dropping the door and holding it shut.
Falling Action
The party heads back out of the palace as they hear the Core start imploding. Once they're out, then the palace collapses in on itself into the ground, ensuring Rolan's fate. The party then returns back to base where they set Dorki to rest before telling her the bad news.
Resolution
After the party finishes talking with each other, give three separate scenes to the players: the soldiers of the geeshok army hear that they are to continue attacking the geeshim in the collective, Rolan's niece named Mya is minding her own business in the dwarven homeland when she gets the news of her "father's" death, the geeshok king now a halfling is going about Chimora and comes upon Jasara's old house.
Plot type
RPG Session
Parent Plot
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