2022/04/13: Demons in Shinkitsu Forest Report
General Summary
Knight, Ruby, Sith, Eldrin
Voren got abducted by a wall and Sunderfury went scouting and didn’t come back, but Eldrin got dropped off in exchange. We discovered that there’s an army of demons running from the giant suit of armor. There are several generals in the army. One that looks like some sort of tentacled puppet woman, one that looks like Edna Mode riding a mechanical throne contraption with ballistas, one very attractive Asian man with spikes, one that looks like a deformed balor…
Ruby carried Knight directly into the fray and they cheerfully ripped Edna into several pieces. Sith and Eldrin collaborated to act as artillery, blasting swathes of the horde with a variety of exotic and hideously lethal effects and vaporizing most of the balor thing. Knight and Ruby slew the self-repairing doll thing. The spiky Asian man teleported into the fort behind Sith and Eldrin and promptly got shot and stepped on a caltrop Reela dropped. Then Ruby threw Knight in shade form into his face. Knight tore his soul out and what bits were left of him exploded, almost blowing Knight and Sith apart.
Then the armor arrived. It’s a giant paladin ghost. He stated that chaos must be destroyed. He stabbed his sword in the ground and offered for us to touch it. Doing so cleansed the curses and lingering presences of the demons. When Knight touched it, he started screaming; he’d consumed the last demon lord’s soul, and it was getting pulled out forcefully, clawing for a grip all the way. Knight managed to hold himself together and shape himself to remove any grips the demon managed to get, and the demon lord was dragged up the blade, burning, until he finally faded. When Eldrin touched it, little happened, but the thousands of evil chaos voices in his head were suppressed for the first time in a long time. Sith erupted in purple-black flame, as he’d managed to absorb the demon lord’s power via technicality, and the black (and the associated taint) was gradually burned away by the sword’s power.
Once the taint was finally burned away, the armor and sword began to shrink. It ended at about 5 feet tall, and the ghost within stepped out, his mission complete. He bowed to each of us individually, then walked off into the metaphorical sunset.
The sword remained powerful in purification. Knight took it as he and Ruby went to check the demon lord bodies for loot or signs of life. When they returned, he asked what Eldrin had seen when touching the sword. Eldrin told him. Knight nodded and solemnly offered him the sword. Eldrin took the blade, and the voices went silent once more.
Then the group went back to the fort, checked on Kenju (who had basically died during the fight and was taking some time to wake up after Ruby healed him), chatted, and went to sleep.
Rewards Granted
Axiomatic Blade of Purification, adaptive suit of armor
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Report Date
13 Apr 2022
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