Reason's last stand
Reason is rumoured to be dead. But her legacy lives on. As guild teams struck out to various locations in the Battle of Eal City, Lady Wintergreen charged a team with safeguarding a temple full of refugees. A temple to the Shadow Mother, protected by enchantments created by Reason. Inside the temple, she told them, was one particularly critical refugee - a high priestess named Vella Bregan.
Whisper and Reason's daughter.
The party found an old wizard calling himself Al'Tamas trying to enter the temple, intent on finding his son amoung the refugees. They gained entrance, exploring a library, a statue of Rhillaine, and an upstairs chamber with various tests of knowledge. But Al'Tamas soon disappeared, leaving the party to themselves. Above several entrances were magical messages left behind by either Reason or Whisper.
But as they completed the tests of knowledge and activated a device on the bottom floor, another written message taunted them. This is what happens, Reason, when you bring your apprentices into this little game of ours...
The device brought them into phase in reality with the refugees who were hiding in the central temple chamber, along with Vella Bregan. Al'Tamas appeared, revealing himself to be Du'Malth, servant of Auxum, the Smiling Devil. As he attacked the party, a giant cockroach and a Death Slaad crashed into the room and began attacking Vella and the refugees.
As the party fought valiantly to save as many refugees as possible while bringing down the attacking aberrations, Du'Malth vanished and escaped. They then secured the temple and awaited news of the outcome of the battle aboveground, while Jinx Velvetpaw updated Vella on events since Guildfall - along with her companion, William Tanner
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