March 8th 217B The party makes arrangements for the lady Jaenelle to meet them in Ipsus at noon to discuss the wishes that Jaas granted the party. Qualental trades items around town using connections he has made in local artificers. While Qualental is out and about the group are briefed by local police. It is believed that the attack upon the city was used to covertly assert some enemy forces into the city. The mages and the police had turned up nothing, but there had been a couple patrols that had gone missing during the search and recently bodies had begun to turn up. Also just today a patrol had stumbled upon a Babau and given chase, the Babau turned out to be a summon, but the archer support they had sent to get a better vantage point had disappeared to a man, when the patrol grabbed reinforcements and went to search the patrol was attacked and overwhelmed even with the help of a renown knight. Convinced that there might be powerful assassins lurking in the city waiting for a chance to strike the party does the only thing they can, they go out to be seen. Investigating the scene of the attacks the party find signs of clawed movement on the rafters and along the walls. There is little to no traces upon the ground where the police had been looking. Tracking the assassins the party find that the group of four demons had been moving around the city taking abandoned posts or inconspicuous nooks for shelters. Whenever about to be supervised they would summon a Babau to scare off or lead off attention while they moved on. Only it failed once when a mage was in the right place at the right time, and again when the archers had picked the Babau's vantage point as their post. Eventually Swiftwind notices an invisible form watching from a window nearby and the party attack immediately blasting the building wide open with fearsome magics. Assassins pour out but without the element of surprise the assassins are easy prey for fighters as skilled as the group. The building the assassins were in collapses but not before Swiftwind recovers a set of pictures of targets the assassins were after. The pictures included Berrik, Swiftwind, Korvath, Felicia, Qualental, Herunaro, and Theringil. Several of the pictures were crossed out but the arty could not figure out why. One Babau survived, the party questioned it then let it go. A mix up during the demons release convinces it that it is now bound to Theringil by some form of magic. The elf uses this to convince the demon that it has been rebound and its previous alliances mean nothing. The assassin tells the party that is was in the service of Lady Rahman the former consort of Ammet and now a demon lord in her own right. Theringil and Qualental figure out that she is probably staying in her former consorts base on the 442nd layer of hell. The group send the Babau away with a message for its old master. The party then watch magically as contacts others in its old network and the group accosts the individuals soon afterwards. Eventually the message gets to Lady Rahman and the party chortle as she reads the message scrawled by the dwarf in a alcohol induced haze. "Mrs. Ramen, we luv yer noodles. Stop sending BooBoo they make poor assassins. Luv and kisses" The lady turns on her servant and beats him with a silver candlestick for wasting her time. Not wishing to let this domestic violence to go unpunished the party jump to hell and teleport into the lady's chambers and beat the living daylight out of her and her body guards, the servant escapes and like a good servant he alerts the guards despite his treatment from moments earlier. The lady is a powerful succubus whom appears completely unprepared for the party's magical onslaught. As she wastes valuable time attempting to dominate the group. After taking her down the group tears the place up but guards return with a Balor and more glebrezu. Party dimension doored over the fortress and using powerful magic they tear the castle free and drop it into the chlorine pools of the 443rd layer of hell. They then return to Ipsus and only then realize that they missed their appointment with the Lady Jaenelle. March 9th 217B SESSION END Morning of March 9th 217B NEXT TIME : Maybe we will see the Bastion someday soon? ENEMIES DEFEATED ---------------- Salchres and three other Babau Assassins Lady Rahmen and her noodles Ammet's fortress EXPERIENCE TOTALS (Session 65) ----------------- Herunaro Swiftwind Berrik Qualental Theringil 184660 179119 182956 184645 184641