Date: Month: Coldeven (Common | Snowflowers: Elvish) Starday15th
There is a temporal disruption while Graxusas tries to be lucky enough to try and counter the energy missile the Controller hurls to destroy the demonic scroll. For a moment it seems that the lizard folk sorcerer is able to stop but then.. no. Time continues once again and the massive 60' wide gate appears and a horde of demonic beings start to fly, crawl, hop, and jump through.
Overlord Romack, Lord Royce take action. Lord Royce, leaps into the air and flies towards the gate, his eyes turn to pure black with no whites and his long spear burns with a black energy. Overlord Romack grows to a massive size - over 30' in height and starts to lay into the hordes with a massive two-handed blade. A blue beam of energy darts out from Rory Dragonbane to impact the Abyssal gate - it seems to be the fighter/mage is trying to close the portal.
For a moment, Royce looks to the Fellowship and yells out to catch and kill the Controller and close the main doors!
The party at first ignores the Lord's command all engage the demonic hordes. It seems though, that many spell effects are nullified in this hall - assumedly a protection against this exact action which affects the spells of the party but all the demonic hordes abilities as well!
Graxusas starts to fire bolts of lightning into the horde of demons, taking out rows as they fall to the powerful bolts. Cedric also stays to fight on, using his holy powers of Istus to great effect. Gothi walks up a pillar (Boots of spiderclimb) and then starts firing arrows into the demons, taking out many. Kantif uses his monk and rogue abilities destroying demon after demon. Doc Holliday blasts demons back to their plane with his pistols and lays into more with his blade and holy power of the Raven Queen.
Graxusas then polymorpths himself and Doc into cloud giants. Their great size allowing them to engage and be engaged by more demons. There is a wild magic happening with Graxusas' spells - courtesy of a green flaming red pickle (DM: see blog entry: The Demon Scroll and Betrayal).
The party splits, Graxusas, Kantif and Cedric stay to fight the demons pouring out of the portal and close the doors to the great hall, while Gothi, Doc and Thograa race after the Controller. Kantif goes to close the doors and it seems the two iron golem guards were told by the controller to 'kill anything and everyone" so they attack Kantif AND the demons.
Graxusas starts to wade through the demons his giant form being attacked from all sides. It seems the wild magic is still affecting him as he is as easy to hit by the demons, but his is resolute to get to portal. The sorcerer can see a massive plan filled with a surging group of creatures.. thousands. But he sees that there is a set of standing stones with link the gate to the prime material plane. Realizing this, the lizardman jumps through following Lord Royce to take the battle to the Abyss. Laying into the columns with his massive hammer, giant-sized Graxusas works with Rory's widening cone of energy to close the gate. Overlord Romack continues to slaughter many his even larger giant form seemingly near impervious to the demons.
Cedric and Kantif continue to destroy the demons, but they still pour through the gate.. but it looks a little smaller now.. after Graxusas destroys one of the 5 pillars.
Meanwhile, the Controller races through the main war room where chaos has ensued, as many demons had made it into here and are being engaged by Romack's forces. Giant-sized Doc heads down a passage and comes into a foyer stairwell where he sees two young female troopers. Both exactly the same and saying the other is the impostor!
Graxusas is able to destroy the pillars while Royce destroys demons on the Abyssal plane, the demonic creatures never to exist again after being destroyed here. Kantif gets the golems engaging the demons while Cedric saves his henchman Skrit and continues to destroy the demons. As the gate starts to close due the powers of Rory Dragonbane and the destruction of the pillars, Graxusas BARELY makes it though to safety in the hall. Lord Royce.. is not as lucky and as the gate closes can be seen being surrounded by the demonic hordes.
Gothi catches up, then Thograa. and after some discussion, the former controller looks at the three adventurers as well as the trooper and a blast of psionic energy catches all and they are stunned. The creature transforms and moves to the trooper its long tentacles wrapping around the girl's head, a tear falls down her cheek and then crunching and gurgling sounds as her brain is consumed by the illithid.
The body slumps to the floor as the tentacles release the trooper's head. It turns to the party, but noises are coming down the hall, running feet and shouts. the mindflayer - or is there more than one.. THREE? - touches each of the adventurers briefly.. and Gothi, Doc and Thograa each feel as if parts of their mind open up.. never before thought or felt.. like doors opening into vast rooms or planes of existence.. and the Illithid is gone.
Aftermath
Overlord Romack is heart broken as Lord Royce - is gone now in the Abyss. The city of Wayberry it seems is being overrun by demons. the Gate that opened in the hall was not the only one it seems 3 others were opened by mercenary crews of the Black Runes. The demons overrunning the forces of Romack as well as turning back and engaging the forces of the BlackRunes and citizens of Wayberry. After 3 hours, the gates close down by the city but it is infested with demons and only to the Northeast did Wayberrians, BlackRunes and others escape with the GreySkull Mercenaries as well.
Overlord Romack declares the battle lost for Wayberry as well as the Duchy of Ulek.
The Fellowship are taken by Lord Rory Dragonbane to a set of suites to rest and heal as they need to. The set of rooms which included multiple bedrooms, a central sitting room with fireplace, large table and comfortable chairs, a kitchen area - fully stocked. There is a single entrance door to the suite. The Fellowship assume this whole suite may be for guests or ambassadors. Very Comfortable beds - they have not rested in anything like this before. Lord Rory leaves, looking very troubled and sad. "I have never seen the Overlord Romack like this.. Royce is.. like a son to him." Rory shows each of the Fellowship a small bronze disk. "This activates an invisible servant that will do your bidding.. similar to a butler, server or cook. Is tied to this suite.. unfortunately." The elf winks. "I will check in with you in an hour.. or will you be resting longer?"
Sigmund with tears in his eyes stares on at the nothingness that was his home. "This group seems rough around the edges. But, were clever. And were lucky. We can make this work. Everything we just did was for nothing... If we don't try to help people down there. Not saying we charge into the flames but we should help stragglers. Take a while to recuperate. But in an hour or so I'm headed down there. I've died twice. Raven Mother forgiving maybe I can die 4 times. Won't be today. I don't know how much more I have left." He says and injects the empty casings into his hands and shoves them in his pocket.
Kantif puts his thumb and forefinger to his chin and contemplates. “We’re all pretty wounded from that fight, plus Graxusas has no spells left. If we go down there too soon we may end up dying but we also need to help people.”
"Agreed. But its going to have to be a balance. We can rest for the minimum we need to get into condition. I dont think it would be wise to get into a fight, we should try to avoid one as much as possible, but we still need to get the Grayskulls to safety" Cedric notes.
Doc nods with a determined look. "I agree Cedric, i ain't looking for a fight. If the Gray Skulls die then all this was for nothing."
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