Tempusember 3rd, 1083
As we are falling in this unknown place, Franz is reading his
Demonomicon book....or trying too. However
Franz Iceman accidentally drops the book. Elias calls his broom to him and races towards the book and is able to catch it.
Dermish Rizzy casts Feather fall on everyone, and our falls slow down, but we start to kind of disperse uncontrollably. Joe is able to catch a piece of diamond worth 500GP
Elias uses his broom to start gathering all of us. Ash holds onto the book for Elias while he ties a rope to his broom so that everyone can tie it around their waste.
However, Feather Fall wears off and everyone on the rope starts to fall again. As they are falling to their deaths, there is a floating island that Elias is able to help lead them too with the assistance of another feather fall from Dermish.
Elias starts nailing in pitons to the land mass for different anchor points. We see some kind of flying creatures very far of fin the distance. They are likely very large so we try not to get their attention.
Ash gives the Demonomicon back to Franz. He says if he has time to attune, he thinks he knows how to use it to get us to the
Abyss. He just needs the tuning fork, which Joe has. At this time, we realize that Magdalena is not with us.
Joe realizes that her feet work here on this land mass as well. She still has the tremor sense. She's able to figure out that this piece of land we are on seems to actually be a piece of earth FROM the earth plane, as if it's overlapped with this plane here. There is also water flowing from this land mass. We think it may be elemental plane water.
We figure out that we are in the
Elemental Plane of Air.
We find a patch of rock that is made of obsidian and it is very warm to touch. It's surrounded by sand. This doesn't seem natural. While we are investigating, we hear Maggie screaming, from below, and Elias flies down on his broom to retrieve her.
We find that the gloves that both Joe and Maggie are wearing are turning black and spreading to the glove. They remove the gloves, and where the gloves fall on the ground, grass and flowers start to decay. WE also note that the tuning fork is now completely black.
Joe discovers magma beneath the sand of this island, and we think this may be from the
Elemental Plane of Fire.
She mold earths a hole in the ground and is able to shift the obsidian out of the sand. Magdalena thinks that jumping into the magma would be a really good idea? We are like, "WTF Magdalena!" and she starts to try and convince Dermish to put his hand in. She thinks it may be some kind of portal.
Ash starts thinking, and she runs up to where the "source" of water is to see if there maybe some kind of merit to Maggie's theory. Dermish tries to draw a correlation with the water and magma. What if the water is actually lava and the lava is actually water. It's wild.
Joe is able to tell that the water doesn't go as deep underground. Ash throws a copper piece into the water to see if Joe can tell where it lands, and it never lands.
Elias believes that there is some kind of convergence of all the elements here, and wonders if it could help us attune to a completely new plane? He knows that there is a ritual that could help us attune the fork to any one of these elemental planes. That is just for plane shift.
Magdalena says that the person who they got the tuning fork from,
Oculum was a wizard who had a fascination with demons, so she thinks it could help us get to the
Abyss. But why is it teleporting us to other planes if that is the case? We ask ourselves.
Franz says that he may be able to use his mage hand to hold the tuning fork so that he can use it to use the Demonomicon to get us to the
Abyss.
HOWEVER, we start to actually study the tuning fork and realize it's just black and not actually cursed, so we can touch it. We decide that before we do ANYTHING else, we are going to take a long rest.
Dermish sees a dragon kill an
Aarakocra and then eats it. Elias casts minor illusion outside the window so we can watch without bringing attention to ourselves. Behind our sand house, we see another
Aarakocra land and he seems afraid. Franz uses Mage hand to lure him to the sand house. It scares the shit out of him and he get the attention of the dragon. He gets into the sand house and we hear the dragon flapping its wings over.
Ash creates a skunk smell which makes the dragon sneeze and blow down our sand house. The dragon is picking it's teeth and everyone tries to help with mage hand. The
Aarakocra immediately charges forward to avenge his parents and gets eaten. The dragon blows us all back knocking out Ash.
Joe helps Ash get back up. Franz convinces the dragon that we are on it's side. Magdalena wants to go touch the dragon with her hand to try and give us time to escape. Ash convinces her that making a
Demon dragon may be a bad idea.
The dragon's name is
Ahmachromablong Theranora. But we can call him Starwing.
We tell the dragon that we are going to the
Abyss. There he may be able to take over and hoard the treasure there. However, he wants to go to the
Material Plane instead. We try to instigate him to go to the
Abyss and take over Pazuzu. He takes the bait and wants to go to the
Abyss with us to show Pazuzu who is boss.
Dermish asks to ride the dragon's back and this upsets him very much. He decides to keep Dermish later for a snack. Franz casts the spell to portal us to the
Abyss. We fly about 200ft from the ground into a pool of black sludge. We come out the other side of it and see a ton of bridges and rock formations everywhere.
Dermish casts feather fall on all of us again and we get to the ground safely. Starwing is no where to be found.
There is a swarm of quasits flying around. We are standing on one of the bridges going through this place. We think we fell through a portal when we hit the black pool, and we have no idea where we are at. We could be on any later.
It does look like we can climb back up and out through the same portal. A comes down and screeches at us luring over a whole swarm of them towards us.
WE all hold hands again and Franz teleports us back to the first level of the
Abyss. We learn he can't cast this again before a long rest or he will blow up.
A snake lady with 6 arms with swords in each hand approaches. She seems excited to see us. Ash is really fascinated with her, but possibly offended her with her questions. The
Maralith says to come with her. Monkey Dogs start charging at us. She easily slices them up and scares them away and we agree to go with her.
She thinks our handler is dead and she's been sent to find us. She is taking us to
Errtu. We also learn that they are looking for a group of moon elves with a drow. She thought that was us. She says our handler was
Thedecadon. We try to convince her that we totally know who that is, but she figures out that we are full of shit.
Dermish tells this lady that his dad is
Asmodeus. he crits on the roll, so he totally pulls it off.
Asmodeus supposedly was an angel that once guarded the elemental
Tharizdun. He left his station to go find
The Shard of Pure Evil. He took a piece of it, made his ruby rod, and took over the 9 hells. However, the
Maralith starts to mock Dermish and tells him to make her bow.
Dermish uses Thaumaturgy and Joe stealthily uses entangle to try and pull her down to assist in making her bow. It doesn't work. Franz casts Charm Person but it doesn't work. NOw she's just laugh and calling them hedge wizards. Franz then decides to just use the Wand of Wonder on her. He cause himself to vanish in front of her. HOwever, she has true site, so she picks him and puts him down.
We give up and just go with her. We've embarrassed ourselves enough. She escorts us to the fortress with
Errtu is. We walk by a guy chained to the wall who has spikes in his cheeks. He reaches out to grab Elias, and Elias doesn't have it. He breaks his knuckles to get him to let go. The guy on the wall cries. Ash heals his hand, but we continue to walk.
WE get to
Errtu and the
Maralith introduces Dermish as the son of
Asmodeus. There is a poor naked drow with a chain around her neck attached to
Errtu's arm.
Errtu approaches Dermish and says "If
Asmodeus is your father, let him come save you" and holds a lighting sword to his chest. Ash intervenes and says that
Asmodeus probably isn't coming.
Errtu tries to chain up Ash, and she runs away. She crashed into an ape guy and seh says "
Thedecadon!! We thought you died" He then immediately says that I was one of the moon elves he was escorting and that I know where
Drizzt Do'Urden is.
Ash convinces him that she just failed in trying to apprehend
Drizzt Do'Urden and
Errtu goes to raise his whip to take us all out. At that time avalora walks up and she has Angst on a chain behind her. We learn that
Drizzt Do'Urden is the one who sent
Errtu to the
Abyss, and he can't leave without
Drizzt Do'Urden, so he wants
Drizzt Do'Urden alive. He will give us a boon if we succeed.
We learn that Angst is avalora's pet. avalora tries to manipulate the situation, and Ash tells
Errtu the truth of everything she knows. This actually upsets
Errtu greatly. avalora convinces
Errtu to give us one soul in exchange for
Drizzt Do'Urden.
We learn that the man that grabbed at Elias is Elias's father. Elias says this is impossible because he believes his father to be alive. Elias's father gives him a locket with a picture of Elias's mother holding him as a baby.
Elias just looks at the locket and says "What I am to say to the man who abandoned my mother." His dad promises to tell him everything if he ever gets out of the
Abyss. Elias doesn't know what to think, because he's been lookin for his father for a while now under the assumption that he is alive.
Elias makes eye contact with his father and says aloud, I choose Angst. I choose the friend I've always known over the Father I've never known. The gag is put back on and
Thedecadon takes away Elias's father.
Ash makes a secret deal with
Errtu. (Harley knows the deal) and
Errtu says "Done!"
Errtu lets us take Angst with us, but we MUST bring
Drizzt Do'Urden back.
Thedecadon starts to escort us out. He takes us through a short cut out of the city. After that we are to find
Drizzt Do'Urden and bring him back here.
Thedecadon walks us passed the pits where Elias's father is begging for mercy and forgiveness from Elias. He says if Elias forgives him, they will let him go, but Elias can't find it in his heart to do that and just keeps walking.
WE are escorted to outside of the city. We get to the
River Styx. If you touch this water it erases your memory. Joe knows how to call the ferryman. You usually have to just wait for him to come by.
We find a cave with view of the river and try to take a long rest. As we wake up there is a large
Pit Fiend name
Ipt waiting over us and he tells us to come here. He's here to rescue the son of
Asmodeus. He can escort us to the front lines of the
Blood War which is on the first layer of Avernus. We tell him we'd rather go to the
Material Plane.
Ipt knows somebody in
Gehenna who may be able to help. A book writer.
Ipt starts creating a ritual rune in the ground and it calls the ferryman.
Ash makes note of this ritual and with Elias's help draws a very good drawing in her book.
We pay the ferryman 2GP each for the ride.
Ipt tells the ferryman that Dermish is the "Son of Asmodeus" he simply looks and turns around immediately unimpressed by what he sees.
Ipt seems to really want to go on a palace tour in
Gehenna and Dermish agrees to take him on a tour. We stop by
Charon's castle so that the ferryman can dump his gold there.
The writer's name that we are looking for is
Volo. We end here by
Charon's castle
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