The Devil in Me

Population Migration / Travel

The Bonner Boys escape to the Plane of Earth with Imdril, only to encounter new danger with Jett in Marlos's forge.

The party catches Jett up on what they’ve been up to. She greets Indigo and returns the favor. The devils have completely overrun the Plane of Earth. Marlos used a weapon he’s long avoided and it’s altered his personality. Jett trapped him in the back of Black Geode but he’s shut down their heat source. She asks the party to help save him. They agree, but they’ll need to rest up a bit first.   While the party sleeps, Jett sneaks over to Daryl and lifts the amulet off of him.   Jett offers to watch Imdril while the party takes on Marlos in the back. They head through Black Geode and find Marlos by a black, well, geode. He attacks them with the warpick the party encountered way back in chapter nine.   Jett cuts Imdril free and asks for his help. She needs him to use the amulet to take them to the material plane. Imdril doesn’t even hesitate to do so.   Danger, Daryl, Mirian, and Indigo force Marlos to drop the weapon and he returns to normal. They reactivate the geode and get lava pumping throughout the lair. But when they get back to the forge, Imdril and Jett are gone.   Jett asks Imdril for the amulet and he hands it over. Jett’s face contorts into a devilish grin. Her skin breaks apart and falls away, revealing the evil visage of Ia’Affratt. He’s positively gleeful as he uses the amulet to shift the devil legion into the material plane.   The party has Marlos forge cold iron weapons for them for two days. They have a good kickback in the meantime, but notice the devils leaving. The remaining ones are gathering at the City of Jewels, so they take the weapons that are completed and rush their way toward the city to hitch a ride through a portal to the material plane.   Imdril runs for his life as the skies fill with devils. They go in all directions and seem to largely ignore him. He eventually finds himself at the Forrester estate and runs into a mysterious wizard. The wizard says he’s looking for the resistance and is using a crystal ball to try and contact them. They hide out together.   The party sneaks through the City of Jewels while all the devils crawl around on the ceiling. Mirian accidentally makes a whole load of noise, but the portal appears at the same time. They all rush to leap through the portal.   The party looks for a place to hide from the devils and, of course, this leads them to the Forrester Estate. They catch up with Imdril, wasting no time to tell him this apocalypse is all his fault, and recognize the wizard as Hogarth, the Intern! He has a special scroll he calls, “in case of emergency break glass” but refuses to use it. Instead he shows them the crystal ball. They can use it for sending and scrying.   Indigo decides to scry Ia’Affratt, but the devil notices their scry and turns it back around on them. They look up through the broken roof to see a maelstrom of devils coming their way.