January 14th The party is banished back to the prime. People are separated but Theringil returns to Ipsus almost immediately. The others trickle in over the next hour. Berrik appears with help from Kellerik after having appeared in the dwarven homeland. Herunaro appears looking smug with blood splatters on his robe. Qualintal arrives via portals having conveniently found himself on a gate plane. Only Swiftwind is not in evidence. Swiftwind is contacted via sending and he replies that he is hitching a ride with some Valkeries and should return to the prime and reach the plains school in a couple of hours. The group rests. Qualintal and Berrik go looking for trouble. Qualintal looks for gateways and finds a bar filled with unsavory looking sorts, gargoyles, hulking figures, and so on. Notes the location of the otherwise unspectacular door and decides to ignore it for now. Party goes out drinking and win several contests due to Heroes feast. (They have immunity to alcohol for the next several hours.) Theringil does not appreciate the others misusing his god's blessings. After a leisurly morning the group teleports to plains school The plains school is getting some minor renovations, but they still find a place for the party. After a few hours Swiftwind shows with lipstick on his cheek. The others tease him about visiting his night hag girlfriend. Swiftwind spends a while talking with his horse. He has to introduce Qualintal when the horse catches a whiff of another mount on him. The horse is restless and feels he should be able to go along if the centaur gets to go along. Swiftwind promises he will spend some time with his horse and it finally settles for that and an apple, seeing that it will get nothing more out of him. Group sleeps for the night. Herunaro sweeps together a couple piles of dust and leave them outside the bedroom door to terrify servants. January 15th Group teleports to Lothia to get a Heroes Feast from church of Jaas. Group casts some new prep spells. Planeshift to Acheron and decide to attack the fallen angel. Theringil divines the location of the archon and smiles at the news. Prepare for battle friends, I think we have a good opportunity here. With help from the temple of Jaas the group opens a portal into the archon's bedroom. The angel is unarmed and sleeping on a old cot, the only real furnishing the room has. The groups invisibility spells are supressed upon arriving but regardless the group is able to quickly dispatch the angel. Upon a death blow from swiftwind the angel bursts into remains and a metal circlet drop from the body. The group quickly scan the room and pack up the body as well as the angel's material possesions. Swiftwind disguises himself like the archon and goes outside the room. He is asked a question in Fell by an invisible figure. Unable to reply convincingly he charges the enemy and battle ensues. The enemy turn out to be the Pit Fiend, the Rakshasha, and the no-longer-petrified champion of the adversary. The battle attracks the attention of a few steel predators whom quickly join the fray. The fighters initially concentrate on the cats since they are visible. The pit fiend separates spellcasters from the rest via a wall of force. Herunaro attempts to destroy the wall but fails. In the battle with the cats Berrik trips and goes sprawling beneath a cat losing his axe in the process. Qualintal is doing not much better. Swiftwind and Theringill focus on disabling the Rakshasha after Theringill realizes that the wall of force is just an illusion and not actually preventing them from attacking the enemy. Swiftwind and Theringil concentrate on Rakshasha and inflict massive damage causing it to flee after hasting the others. The pitfiend summons a dozen mirror images and the adversary casta a spell as well before Theringil silences them and yells for Berrik and Qualintal to help versus the spellcasters. Qualintal drops a cat and then destroys one of the pitfiend's images. Theringil and Herunaro destroy several more images. The adversary is disarmed. Berrik and Swiftwind demolish the evil champion now that his weapon of destruction has been neutralized. The pit fiend banishes everyone except Swiftwind and Herunaro. Swiftwind closes using flying boots and tears the pit fiend a new one. The scimitar cuts right through the pit fiend's magical defenses. Herunaro pulls rapier and duels the last cat in silence before deciding he is acting stupid and letting Swiftwind take over. The two bag the bodies and get the hell out of there. Decide to teleport to the cave the group made on the first day. The rest of the party regroups in Lothia. The night passes uneventfully. January 16th Preperations for the day were complicated by the fact people were on different plains. Party regroups and goes after Rashasha. He is in the forge room. Room is a pit of bubling metal. The heat from 2 elder and one greater fire elemental is causing the walls to melt and run down to puddle on the floor. The floor has one area of stability a huge Basalt anvil that just crests the pool of molten metal. Besides the fire elementals there is a flaming priest and the rakshasha in the room. The Rakshasha is smoldering slightly but he hovers several feet off the floor. The group teleports but several people are bounced due to a spell or presence blocking their appearence. Only the cloak of chaos shielding Swiftwind, Herunaro, and Theringill let them through. Upon appearing, Herunaro sprays room with cone of cold to cool it down. It is like spitting into an inferno. However the flaming priest shatters after catching it full in the face. Herunaro gets targeted and beaten down by three fire elementals who resent the introduction of cold into their nice hot room. Theringil keeps Herunaro alive and fights off several grapples. Herunaro gets grappled but Theringil kills the elemental before it can do much to maim Herunaro. Swiftwind cuts down the Rakshasha before it gets a chance to react. The remaining elementals are soon taken care of. People pack in the bodies and realize that the room contains the SCIMITAR under a metal retardant blanket. Swiftwind removes the blanket and almost bites it as a symbol of death is activated. Herunaro ices the weapon and Swiftwind shatters the sword when it looks about to break its bindings. The blast of energy flatten everyone in the room and leave no traces of Swiftwind. Herunaro is badly scarred and Theringil is shaken despite being across the room at the time of the blast. Swiftwind's weapon and the SCIMITAR are both shattered. No other traces of Swiftwind remain. Party collects pieces of weapon wrapping them individually in cloth so they do not reassemble or reactivate and get the hell out of dodge returning to Lothia after picking up the others. Swiftwind turns out to be alive and a sending reveals he was shunted to an alternative plane and not liquidated as it appeared. SESSION END January 16th 217B NEXT TIME : Maybe we can sell it... EXPERIENCE TOTALS (Session 52) ----------------- Herun. Swift.Berrik Quelin.Therin. 129220 128536 120256 128536 128536