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"The two Decks"

The Freedom Fighters have had to cope with the Deck of Many Things twice in their adventuring careers now. The first was sold to them for 1 gold early on in their adventure from a small man named Tim. The party got lucky and pulled 2 cards, "The Gem" and "The Comet". Despite this, the party was rather suspicious of the Deck after Tim found a way to steal most of the gold gained with "The Gem" and Steele, the one who pulled "The Comet" did not manage to fight off the next hostile encounter by himself, wasting the effect. After these events the Dwarf Thorak hid the Deck from the party, that is untill he came across a man wishing to purchase the Deck, after selling it to him the man promptly pulled a card and got dragged into Hell.   The second Deck was purchased by the Warforged Buk at a rogue shop in Grover. Wishing to become a creature of flesh and blood, the Warforged started pulling cards, hoping to get a wish, this event set off a chain of events that had devastating results on the party.   As multiple party members were lost to the dark magics of the pulled cards the pixie Aloë, seeing both her dear friend Buk and her daughter Ella dissapear before her eyes broke. In a frenzy she ran to the Deck and risking both soul and body, declared to draw every single one until she could save her family. As the arcane magic activated one by one she desperately plead the power of "The Vizier" card to show her how to save everyone. What was left of the Freedom Fighters could barely see through the storm of cards and magic as she finally pulled "The Fates" card, altering reality.  
  How exactly reality was altered isn't known, but Aloë appeared to have a vision that changed her deeply and managed to produce the container that kept Buk's soul and through a loophole in the Deck's magics, fully revived her daughter Ella through the magic of "The Knight" card, passing out herself from the physical and mental stress shortly afterwards as the former Familiar Ella descended, no longer a frail and insecure girl but now a grown warrior.  

This was not the end of the Party's troubles however, as moments after "The Skull" activated. Spawning an Avatar of Death, hellbent on taking down Ella. The Freedom fighters briefly struggled with this adversary as many party members were down and the enemy seemed to replicate itself every time someone aided in their fight. In the end no less than 5 Avatars had to be fought before the party could catch its breath, bringing Aloë and Buk to consciousness shortly after.   The confirmed cards that have been pulled are "The Ruin", "The Flames", "The Vizier", "The Rogue", "The Skull" and "The Knight". While cards like "The Star" and "The Key" were initially also shown to be pulled, their effects have not been observed and in the end no one knows for sure how many cards got activated and what repercussions, positive or negative it will have on the Freedom Fighters down the line.

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