heretics resistance 14: A defeated fey, A defeated evil
General Summary
The session starts where the previous left off, with the party having taken a short rest, and now ready to truly start the rebellion they were planning, having a race against the clock to stop the ritual or at the very least before its too late, stop what comes out.
The party first moves towards the bridge to try and break into the island where the ritual is set to be happening.
Then a little late Baron Wilmar joins in the battle. The baron seeks revenge against Naran who embarrased him by forcing him to flee. But Naran uses that to his advantage as he goads Pride into attack him, then using a magical item of iron bands to capture the hulk of a man.
They pass the bridge, slowly at first then rushing once the pridefull baron gets captured.
The party tries to chase after him, pushing past the ranks of witchhunters leaving their small army of allies behind to fight through the witchhunters.
Instead they end up in a fight with Naran while also trying to stop the ritual at the same time.
While Fighting Naran and trying to stop the ritual the party is too late, and the ritual completes. however unlike the expectations of the priests and Naran instead what comes out is Demos, the Fey of fear. Naran falls defeated to the ground feeling betrayed by his faith.
The party talks with Fear who believes he's already won, saying they can run or die. He starts to consume Patience(who was laying on the ground at the ritual bound by chains), meanwhile Orion asked Naran how to unlock the chains which he answers and Orion frees Pride and convinces him to run instead of fight(because Demos wants the soul of Patience and pride for himself, so running would be better). Patience locked inbetween a beam sucking his soul out has Grimes jump into the beam instead, locking him in instead of Patience. Before Grimes his soul is taken Benj with a strong hit manages to stop the consuming of the soul which both Grimes and Fear are locked in manages to stop it.
After this a fight starts with Fear, he manages to sink each of the party members into a fear nightmare that Fear thinks is permanent.
First benj is back in his village, being trapped in his old life again, he manages to escape by taking a leap of faith into a void where the ocean was before choosing to take that chance opposed to staying in that village.
Grimes sits playing on the streets but people ignore him, everyody he met in his life whether briefly or important people to him all completely do not see him, eventually grimes leaves the dream by simply accepting it and moving on to the next town, to try again and not let it both him.
Killian finds that everybody leaves and rejects him Mothman, Edwen, the party and even Flapjack. He manages to leave it behind by eventually taking matters into his own hands demanding to not be left alone by crafting people from clay in hope.
Lastly Orion has Edith decide she wants to explore and leaves Orion, Orion seeing it as a dream tries to find rational ways to leave it but nothing works. Because of that Orion ends up stuck for years in the dream world, going insane trying to find a way back.
As part of the party wakes up (except Orion) they fight against fear again who in the time the party was asleep, consumed the soul of patience.
Then the fey transformed into a more human shape because they felt it more appropriate for an archfey. The party manages to sneak up on Fear as they thought all were in a coma. They fight him but again they nearly lose as with an overload of fear on the brain of the party, 2 of them fall unconcious and Grimes stands alone against fear, but fear being on his last legs too Grimes manages to attack and deal a final blow in an elegant sweep with his rapier. Soon after Grimes beats Fear the party stabilizes and Sir Trevor and the rebels defeat the withhunters on the bridge fully. After which they all take a rest for the night and recuperate. Edith also visits Orion to try and get him out of his Coma which they manage to do by yelling things that might get a reaction from him normally. After Orion wakes up he hears from Edith she doesn't want to spend all her time trying to become human again instead she wants to explore the world. Soon after the witchhunters are defeated and either hide, are captured or flee the city. The 5 families take control back and in the coming months other cities take themselves back too, then another archpriest of the religion gets appointed and deems the witchhunters over and heretical. Each individual character continues their own life. Grimes continues as he had before the events of the campaign. He went on being the traveling bard he's always been. With new and more grand stories than ever before. Occasionaly he still comes through Bersail and then visits the other party members who are in the city. Benjamin spends his time rebuilding the city and Dhriti's inn after the destruction of the city in the revolution. Additionaly he spent time renovating the home they were giften permanently. After that is done he takes Dagnia's offer which she made to have the party come work for her family, not from the shadows but in public this time as one of her elite guard and a combat tutor for the children of the family. Benj still had the wish Mathrell granted him but he offer that one up to Orion instead. Next to this Benj also of course got together with Trevor Killian went on that date with Edwen. Additionaly Killian did end up serving Mothman, still following him as his patron and doing his bidding in trying to help the beastlord out. Next to this as the wish Killian made to Mathrell came true, eventually Killian meets his father Ezaeur. They meet on accident but the 2 do reconnect and through it Killian also meets more of as he discovers his very large family. Orion first together with Edith went to travel west not to his home kingdom which he learned he lost. Instead Orion went to his sister, she had been married off and thus lived in another place. There Orion had a tiny bit of trouble getting in as he was presumed dead, but the moment his sister saw him she recognized him and he and Edith were let in. There Orion stayed for a couple months. From his sister he learned that his father most likely died in defense of his kingdom and that his brother is now undercover trying to win support from peasants and nobles alike in the kingdom to drum up an army to win it back from witchhunters who decided they'd rather keep ruling even after the witchhunters orginization dissolved. Eventually Orion went to travel back to Bersail and took up the same order Benj took, to work for the Ethain family. Over the years Orion became more of an advisor than a guard, eventually even going beyond just the Ethain family. Becoming a kind of advisory political figure and holding a lot of power through that. When it came to Edith, her and Orion simply drifted apart. They never officialy seperated but simply they kinda started doing different things as Edith started to travel the world and explore. Orion eventually got into a relationship with Wenyld, who he also eventually married.
Then the fey transformed into a more human shape because they felt it more appropriate for an archfey. The party manages to sneak up on Fear as they thought all were in a coma. They fight him but again they nearly lose as with an overload of fear on the brain of the party, 2 of them fall unconcious and Grimes stands alone against fear, but fear being on his last legs too Grimes manages to attack and deal a final blow in an elegant sweep with his rapier. Soon after Grimes beats Fear the party stabilizes and Sir Trevor and the rebels defeat the withhunters on the bridge fully. After which they all take a rest for the night and recuperate. Edith also visits Orion to try and get him out of his Coma which they manage to do by yelling things that might get a reaction from him normally. After Orion wakes up he hears from Edith she doesn't want to spend all her time trying to become human again instead she wants to explore the world. Soon after the witchhunters are defeated and either hide, are captured or flee the city. The 5 families take control back and in the coming months other cities take themselves back too, then another archpriest of the religion gets appointed and deems the witchhunters over and heretical. Each individual character continues their own life. Grimes continues as he had before the events of the campaign. He went on being the traveling bard he's always been. With new and more grand stories than ever before. Occasionaly he still comes through Bersail and then visits the other party members who are in the city. Benjamin spends his time rebuilding the city and Dhriti's inn after the destruction of the city in the revolution. Additionaly he spent time renovating the home they were giften permanently. After that is done he takes Dagnia's offer which she made to have the party come work for her family, not from the shadows but in public this time as one of her elite guard and a combat tutor for the children of the family. Benj still had the wish Mathrell granted him but he offer that one up to Orion instead. Next to this Benj also of course got together with Trevor Killian went on that date with Edwen. Additionaly Killian did end up serving Mothman, still following him as his patron and doing his bidding in trying to help the beastlord out. Next to this as the wish Killian made to Mathrell came true, eventually Killian meets his father Ezaeur. They meet on accident but the 2 do reconnect and through it Killian also meets more of as he discovers his very large family. Orion first together with Edith went to travel west not to his home kingdom which he learned he lost. Instead Orion went to his sister, she had been married off and thus lived in another place. There Orion had a tiny bit of trouble getting in as he was presumed dead, but the moment his sister saw him she recognized him and he and Edith were let in. There Orion stayed for a couple months. From his sister he learned that his father most likely died in defense of his kingdom and that his brother is now undercover trying to win support from peasants and nobles alike in the kingdom to drum up an army to win it back from witchhunters who decided they'd rather keep ruling even after the witchhunters orginization dissolved. Eventually Orion went to travel back to Bersail and took up the same order Benj took, to work for the Ethain family. Over the years Orion became more of an advisor than a guard, eventually even going beyond just the Ethain family. Becoming a kind of advisory political figure and holding a lot of power through that. When it came to Edith, her and Orion simply drifted apart. They never officialy seperated but simply they kinda started doing different things as Edith started to travel the world and explore. Orion eventually got into a relationship with Wenyld, who he also eventually married.
Report Date
03 Sep 2023
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