OttL Session 29: Memento Memento Vitae

General Summary

Natsu grows a fifth tail while taking a bath
Faren is confrontational with most of the crew, trying to defend his past actions. Under pressure from Natsu and Dreamonskii, it becomes increasingly clear that Faren is responsible for creating a cult, even though he refuses to use that word to describe it.
Dreamonskii lets slip his status as Ectraph Acdri's bastard child. Faren is very interested.
Faren leaves the house with Dreamonskii to have a private conversation on a hillside. A couple hours later, Natsu finds them on the hill, wounded, and near a pile of bodies. They appear to have fought off an attack together, and struck some sort of deal.
Thaiva Phenol strikes two deals with Dreamonskii, one to protect her family from Lolth and another to have Faren assassinated. For these two combined she signs away 32% of her soul, 30% of which is for the protection contract. Both come with a soul-back-guarantee if the deals are violated.
Faren hands over a large folder of documents to Dreamonskii.
Hobbs disappears and is nowhere to be found.
Natsu and Faren have a very dramatic conversation in which she tells Faren she doesn't love him anymore. He eventually teleports away, leaving behind a tarot card called the "Wheel of Fortune"

Hobbs is still missing. Natsu casts locate object using Hide and Seek and eventually finds a small signal emanating from a vase
The vase is magic, and the interior looks like a ship. Thaiva Phenol identifies it as a "hideaway vase", and is roughly three feet tall. Thaiva Phenol keeps it.

The party travels into Shippo. Memento Vitae is in disguise, but neither Natsu or Hobbs are.
They are accosted by a large crowd of onlookers in town as they stop to ask for directions.
Hobbs offers booze to one of the locals

Once at Natsu's house, the party splits up and begins searching. Natsu retrieves her father's bow (magical +1), but the wedding dress has recently been removed from the closet.
Arrius emerges from the other room. He has the wedding dress, and is using it as a prop to force the party to talk to him.
Arrius demands Natsu come back to "serve" the village with her visions. When the party resists, he invokes the Conduit of Authority, completely preventing the party from acting against him.
The entire party fails their saves, but Hobbs has a monk ability which lets him end the effect on himself.
As the rest of the party slowly shakes out of it, Hobbs starts to deescalate the situation.
Arrius asks Natsu a lot of questions about her plans. The party is very nonspecific in their responses.

Following a grave miscalculation, Ignacio Icarsus attempts to threaten Arrius. Combat ensues.
Combat lasts only two rounds. Ignacio Icarsus is banished, and later returned. The entire party takes heavy damage.
Arrius casts a spell against Memento Vitae. Memento Vitae fails the save, and is dealt 86 damage. He only has 84 health at the time, and is promptly disintegrated.
Natsu tries to surrender herself to save the rest of the party. Himitsugami tries to prevent this, but Natsu passes her save. Her surrender is only halted by a successful grapple by Thaiva Phenol.
The rest of the party flees combat, using the Badge of the Wayfarer to teleport to The Wandering Tavern.

The party arrives in The Wandering Tavern. Memento Vitae, now deceased, has also passed on to the Astral Plane. By sheer luck, he also winds up at the tavern.
Memento Vitae says his farewells and tells the party not to blame themselves.
Conversation quickly spirals out of hand and disintegrates into OOC chatter. The session ends.

Report Date

21 Nov 2020

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