Wednesday Session 14: A party, A fight and a funeral.
Tempusember 5th, 1083
We are standing in Asmodeus's office with Fairtress, who looks like Dermish's mom, but she doesn't have any recognition of him. At that moment, we all start to flicker accept for Joe, and the frozen fight starts to suck us back in. Mammon puts his hand on Elias's shoulder and says that he can't go, and he's well within his rights to keep him here. Joe doesn't flicker so as they and Elias are stuck here, Franz, Dermish and Ash disappear. Mammon look at Joe and says "YOu'r ein charge now boss" and he intruduces himself as a helpful ally and says Joe will need to meet some important folks. Joe then offers to give Mammon the rod so they and Elias can leave, and Mammon just laughs because he'd surely be killed because so many folks are after the rod. Elias offers 10 more years of service if he can go into the painting for 2 hours. He signs and it is agreed, BUT he didn't specify when, so Mammon doesn't let him go now. Joe tries to cast a spell from the Rod into the fight to trap the purple worm, BUT it doesn't work. Elias draws an Anvil over the purple worm just to see what happens. Mammon then opens a portal and says, "We need to go to Dis. Let's go" They see Titivilus on the other side of the portal. Elias asks Titivilus to help explain his contract to him. They figure out that the contract actually starts now for Elias. not when he dies. But the duration is for 100 years after death. Elias convinces Mammon to let him go back, but he's going to miss the party if he does, but I guess it's ok? Some veiled lady dancers start to gather around Joe. They call Joe Dermish, because this party was planned originally for Dermish. There is some confusion Anyway, Joe offers the rod to Titivilus, but he declines, because he serves Dispater and would not disrespect him like that. Joe also asks Mammon if they can have Elias for the time they rule here, and he offers for them to buy it for $12 million gold. Joe recognizes this to be a bullshit offer and makes everyone bow. Elias tries to explain the importance of them getting back to the fight to save us. They then discover that maybe Franz summoned Asmodeus, that maybe he wasn't actually summoned and this whole thing may be some kind of lie or trick. At this moment Dispater walks in to meet the new Asmodeus. I think Joe accidentally insults Dispater by making him and everyone else bow. Dispater starts to get super paranoid about his layer getting taken over and he thinks that Joe commanded this. I guess Fairtress is in Dis, and Dispaters says Joe needs to put Fairtress in her place if Joe truly didn't command this. Joe walks out towards Fairtress. Titivilus walks with Joe and explains that Dispater is super paranoid and doesn't usually meet with anyone. Titivilus thinks that Fairtress may be using this whole situation to try and move up her station. Titivilus advises that Joe could demand that Devils in the Blood War to stand down, and this might take Fairtress's attention. Joe then mentions offering the rod to Fairtress, and Titivilus says she would definitely take it, but likely kill Joe immediately and turn them into a larvre. Titivilus opens a portal so Joe can go command the Devils to stand down. Joe then yells out "Rutebaga" and it makes all the Demons and Devils fighting bow. As everyone starts to bow, Demons make it in and start slaughtering everyone. Tiamat then shows up and commands an Abishai to take the rod from Joe. Meanwhile the fight back home is continuing and the Bulette eats Lynmar. The worm is eating the commoners. Joe gets surrounded in magical darkness and makes everyone kneel again to try an get away. Elias starts speaking strange infernal words as he channels his newfound powers to fight the worm. Dermish disappears through a strange portal. Joe is attacked by one of the Abishais and it demands the sword. However she escapes the darkness and gets back through the portal before they can get the sword from them. Meanwhile, Ash casts moonbeam on the worm, and it reverts it to a Duergar. He was shapeshifted. Franz charms him and asks him to help attack the bulette and it works. He turns back into a worm, but this time attacks the bulette. Anyway, the Duergar is killed by Knick Knack, the bullette runs away. We tell Joe's parent's that Joe is now the ruler of hell. They handle it about as well as possible. Andromeda and Erraticas have a conversation about who in the world each of them are as Andromeda keeps tying to praise Elias for his actions and now they are fighting over Elias's affections. We try to figure out how to get back to Joe. Franz says he can cast Planar Ally to see if we can get back to Joe or get some kind of message to or from Joe. Joe sees a thought bubble pop up and Mammon says he can take care of it and take Joe back to their friends. Mammon helps Joe and his payment was to take all of our coins. Now we are broke. We see a floating snowglobe. Inside is Dermish talking to his mom? WE take the snowglobe and try to keep it safe. Elias's dad disappear and we find their foot prints, so we decide to follow them. We get to Marian Hoccleve's house and see a small pile of dust outside of the house. INside is Erraticas holding Marian Hoccleve's hand. Elias and the rest of us quickly figure out what happened, and Erraticas finally owns up to it. He killed Andromeda. Elias calls him out on his bullshit. We give him shit about how awful he is. He starts to get all teary eyed and and storms out. Elias tells him that it's no surprise he's leaving, and Erraticas responds that everything he has ever done has been for him. Elias comforts his mom and explains that Andromeda is not coming back. Meanwhile Ash scoops his ashes into a bottle. Marian Hoccleve takes the bottle and shatters it on the desk and cuts herself to "feed Andromeda blood" to bring him back. It's really sad. Mrs Marian Hoccleve asks for Elias's forgiveness and lies down. Elias now feels determined to find his father to try and make this right. He follows his father's tracks to the mountain pass where the giants are. Joe's parents are going to take care of Elias's mom, we fill the king in on everything we learned with the Duergar. The king wants to remove all Hill Dwarves from his city, and Joe convinces him to keep those that have been here a long time and convinces him to work with her family to help keep everyone safe. Blackwood wants us to escort her through the pass where we could go track down Elias's father as well. We tell her we will do this, BUT we need ot check out Rootwallow first and get a system in place here before we leave. Blackwood thinks all the money taken from here went to Eldoria. We head to Joe's parent's house so we can let them know everything and go through Lynmar's bag to see if there is anything useful. We also need to ask them if Marian Hoccleve can stay with them for a while.
We are standing in Asmodeus's office with Fairtress, who looks like Dermish's mom, but she doesn't have any recognition of him. At that moment, we all start to flicker accept for Joe, and the frozen fight starts to suck us back in. Mammon puts his hand on Elias's shoulder and says that he can't go, and he's well within his rights to keep him here. Joe doesn't flicker so as they and Elias are stuck here, Franz, Dermish and Ash disappear. Mammon look at Joe and says "YOu'r ein charge now boss" and he intruduces himself as a helpful ally and says Joe will need to meet some important folks. Joe then offers to give Mammon the rod so they and Elias can leave, and Mammon just laughs because he'd surely be killed because so many folks are after the rod. Elias offers 10 more years of service if he can go into the painting for 2 hours. He signs and it is agreed, BUT he didn't specify when, so Mammon doesn't let him go now. Joe tries to cast a spell from the Rod into the fight to trap the purple worm, BUT it doesn't work. Elias draws an Anvil over the purple worm just to see what happens. Mammon then opens a portal and says, "We need to go to Dis. Let's go" They see Titivilus on the other side of the portal. Elias asks Titivilus to help explain his contract to him. They figure out that the contract actually starts now for Elias. not when he dies. But the duration is for 100 years after death. Elias convinces Mammon to let him go back, but he's going to miss the party if he does, but I guess it's ok? Some veiled lady dancers start to gather around Joe. They call Joe Dermish, because this party was planned originally for Dermish. There is some confusion Anyway, Joe offers the rod to Titivilus, but he declines, because he serves Dispater and would not disrespect him like that. Joe also asks Mammon if they can have Elias for the time they rule here, and he offers for them to buy it for $12 million gold. Joe recognizes this to be a bullshit offer and makes everyone bow. Elias tries to explain the importance of them getting back to the fight to save us. They then discover that maybe Franz summoned Asmodeus, that maybe he wasn't actually summoned and this whole thing may be some kind of lie or trick. At this moment Dispater walks in to meet the new Asmodeus. I think Joe accidentally insults Dispater by making him and everyone else bow. Dispater starts to get super paranoid about his layer getting taken over and he thinks that Joe commanded this. I guess Fairtress is in Dis, and Dispaters says Joe needs to put Fairtress in her place if Joe truly didn't command this. Joe walks out towards Fairtress. Titivilus walks with Joe and explains that Dispater is super paranoid and doesn't usually meet with anyone. Titivilus thinks that Fairtress may be using this whole situation to try and move up her station. Titivilus advises that Joe could demand that Devils in the Blood War to stand down, and this might take Fairtress's attention. Joe then mentions offering the rod to Fairtress, and Titivilus says she would definitely take it, but likely kill Joe immediately and turn them into a larvre. Titivilus opens a portal so Joe can go command the Devils to stand down. Joe then yells out "Rutebaga" and it makes all the Demons and Devils fighting bow. As everyone starts to bow, Demons make it in and start slaughtering everyone. Tiamat then shows up and commands an Abishai to take the rod from Joe. Meanwhile the fight back home is continuing and the Bulette eats Lynmar. The worm is eating the commoners. Joe gets surrounded in magical darkness and makes everyone kneel again to try an get away. Elias starts speaking strange infernal words as he channels his newfound powers to fight the worm. Dermish disappears through a strange portal. Joe is attacked by one of the Abishais and it demands the sword. However she escapes the darkness and gets back through the portal before they can get the sword from them. Meanwhile, Ash casts moonbeam on the worm, and it reverts it to a Duergar. He was shapeshifted. Franz charms him and asks him to help attack the bulette and it works. He turns back into a worm, but this time attacks the bulette. Anyway, the Duergar is killed by Knick Knack, the bullette runs away. We tell Joe's parent's that Joe is now the ruler of hell. They handle it about as well as possible. Andromeda and Erraticas have a conversation about who in the world each of them are as Andromeda keeps tying to praise Elias for his actions and now they are fighting over Elias's affections. We try to figure out how to get back to Joe. Franz says he can cast Planar Ally to see if we can get back to Joe or get some kind of message to or from Joe. Joe sees a thought bubble pop up and Mammon says he can take care of it and take Joe back to their friends. Mammon helps Joe and his payment was to take all of our coins. Now we are broke. We see a floating snowglobe. Inside is Dermish talking to his mom? WE take the snowglobe and try to keep it safe. Elias's dad disappear and we find their foot prints, so we decide to follow them. We get to Marian Hoccleve's house and see a small pile of dust outside of the house. INside is Erraticas holding Marian Hoccleve's hand. Elias and the rest of us quickly figure out what happened, and Erraticas finally owns up to it. He killed Andromeda. Elias calls him out on his bullshit. We give him shit about how awful he is. He starts to get all teary eyed and and storms out. Elias tells him that it's no surprise he's leaving, and Erraticas responds that everything he has ever done has been for him. Elias comforts his mom and explains that Andromeda is not coming back. Meanwhile Ash scoops his ashes into a bottle. Marian Hoccleve takes the bottle and shatters it on the desk and cuts herself to "feed Andromeda blood" to bring him back. It's really sad. Mrs Marian Hoccleve asks for Elias's forgiveness and lies down. Elias now feels determined to find his father to try and make this right. He follows his father's tracks to the mountain pass where the giants are. Joe's parents are going to take care of Elias's mom, we fill the king in on everything we learned with the Duergar. The king wants to remove all Hill Dwarves from his city, and Joe convinces him to keep those that have been here a long time and convinces him to work with her family to help keep everyone safe. Blackwood wants us to escort her through the pass where we could go track down Elias's father as well. We tell her we will do this, BUT we need ot check out Rootwallow first and get a system in place here before we leave. Blackwood thinks all the money taken from here went to Eldoria. We head to Joe's parent's house so we can let them know everything and go through Lynmar's bag to see if there is anything useful. We also need to ask them if Marian Hoccleve can stay with them for a while.
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