The Wedding and the Demon

Military action

A demonic incursion interrupts Orpheus' wedding and a potential political disaster is balanced on a knife edge.

Orpheus and Ancient Annie have a wonderful ceremony. There is music and flowers; everyone has a good time.

Just after the two are pronounced husband and wife, however, the alarm bells in the village start to ring. Refugees pour into the town square. They say their village has been razed to the ground but there are still survivors. The party quickly rallies and rushes to their aid. They arrive at the village to find it on fire and filled with all manner of fiendish forces.

The party carves their way through and into a crypt which appears to be the source of the incursion. There they meet with the pit fiend Dugin the General of Fear. Dugin quickly pushes the party back and while most of them escape with their lives, Lydia is struck down (though the group is able to revive her once they escape).

Shocked at this sudden assault the party returns to Fort Basin of Mirefield to regroup. They determine that it is likely Dugin is raising an army. The party splits up to do some research and instructs Alistair to round them up some military forces. Alistair does so, going to meet with the Bonehawk Mercenaries and procuring their entire military force (nearly five thousand bodies) as well as absconding with a potential new recruit named Jirimi.

Now with the largest standing army on the continent, the party is starting to understand the weight of their current political powers.