Above the dwarvish: a teardrop, and two circles on both sides of it
Next to the button, a part of the wall looks worse for wear next to the button
Bottom floor: opens up in hallway with Yul and Lyra
Wooden door at the end, Yul rolls up to the wooden door
Yul knocks three times, no response
Yul knocks so hard the door swings open, and can’t see anything in front of the door, it’s magical darkness
Yul tosses a banana into the room, nothing happens to the banana, you can hear it land
Nim takes a pickaxe to the bit next to the button, collapsing the wall and it crumbles
A splash of acid, a fire bolt, and a ray of cold sprays out from behind it, Nim dodges it
Standing in there is a automaton
See a zone of red from the automaton, bloo and nim step to the side
There’s something sparkly behind the automaton
Bloo picks Nim up, and jiggles her out from behind cover
Nim throws the orange and misses, see flashes of orange and mess, see shards of orange peel flying out, smells like hot orange juice
Bloo jiggles Nim around, Nim shoots a mage hand, and grabs the thing, it’s a doorknob
Nim opens the door, see two buttons
A faint cheer of buttons from Bloo and Nim
Sarah catches up with Yul and Lyra
Yul grabs the banana
Sarah can see the sign with markings on it, the bow and the net, left is bow right is net
Yul casts Dispel Magic on the darkness, fails
Yul ties a rope to Sarah
Sarah keeps walking
Walks a bit further, see another set of signs, teardrop on left, arrow on right
See another crevice in front
Each crevice could fit a person in it
Nim presses the left button, the left circle to the teardrop is glowing white
The teardrop downstairs is glowing (but no one knows)
The automaton is smoking, it has robotic arms and there’s fire prepped
Bloo peeks Nim out again
Nim: “PULL ME BACK PULL ME BACK”
Fire blows out from the hallway
Nim presses the right button
Sarah hears an explosion upstairs
The right circle to the teardrop glowing white now
Sarah sees rubble land in front of her between her and the sign in front
Nim hears a constant ringing in her ears, bloo is muffled
There’s a lot of smoke, the automaton blew up
The magical darkness from below fades away
There’s a hole in the ground under the automaton, the rubble fell down against the wall
Sarah: “hey look the teardrop is glowing”
Bloo and Nim jump down
Sarah heals Nim’s hearing problems
Sarah stands in crevice with the bow, the bow glows
Nim stands with arrow, it glows
Bloo stands in net, it glows
The teardrop is still glowing, hear a click in the distance, above and forward
Sarah flies up, behind what was the elf mural something opens up
Sarah opens it, see an empty room but a golden locket on the ground
Sarah picks it up, inside it is a picture of two people, two people
One sarah recognizes, one vaguely recognizes
One half-drow women and her mother
And other side says: “My lovely Allie, I will never forget you”
Sarah leaves it there
Also sense a strong magical presence from the locket
Sarah: “guess i’ll take it”
Sarah is hit with a long stream of memories, see a montage of happy moments, see sarah herself in it, also see the wolf, also see a women, presume it’s Violet, hear words “It’s not your fault”, feel guilt
And then sarah is holding the locket
Look up, see a desk with a bow on it, it’s an ordinary bow, see a few instruments, see loot, and a small triangle
Looks as if it’s a memorial, it’s much newer than everything else
Sarah keeps the locket, leaves everything there, closes the door, it mends itself back up
The light of the bow, arrow, net fade, both downstairs and upstairs
The only one glowing one is the teardrop one
Bloo stands in the crevice with the teardrop, the wall suddenly goes up separating bloo from everyone else, and then bloo falls
Hear another click upstairs
The blue light turns golden, letting people go up
Behind what was the dwarf panel, the wall it’s on sinks, tall and narrow hallway, only 1 person can fit
At the end of the hallway, see panels of glass, see inscribed square inside another tilted square, see a piece of glass, suspended and floated, it’s a mirror shard
There’s also a little chest in the corner, and a suit of armor in the corner, wearing a bracelet
Sarah investigates the bracelet, sense strong magic from it
As Nim touches the armor stand, it collapses, the bracer with the gauntlet is still standing, the armor seems extremely rubbery
It’s a suit of plate armor
It feels light
The bracelet is on the left hand
Nim takes the left hand off the bracelet, the armor becomes rigid again
Nim puts the bracelet on, and it’s very tight
Nim: “someone punch me”
Sarah immediately punches Nim, the body feels like rubber, now you can’t feel your bones
The punch threw her back, and then rubbers
The bracelet inverts nat 1 and nat 20, so nat 1 hits, and nat 20 fails, and things hit if below AC
The bracelet looks rusty, and is also very tight on Nim
Sarah grabs Nim’s arm to see how far it stretches, Sarah keeps pulling, it feels like you could pull more but it would hurt Nim
Nim: “Maybe we should stop”
Sarah lets go, the arm zips back in like a tape measure
Nim coils her legs up and springs up
Also see that the bracelet has a light around it and it’s starting to burn out
There’s also a chest and layers of what looks like glass
Yul opens the chest, it’s a tunnel straight down
Nim: “Yul, did you want to lick the shard?”
Yul: “YES”
Sarah: “Don’t lick the shard!!”
Yul walks towards the shard and isn’t stopped by the glass
Sarah dashes towards her and attempts to stop her, grabs Yul before she’s all the way through the glass
Sarah: “It’ll make you hurty wurty”
Yul’s core is glowing white, the shard is glowing white
Sarah: whatever
The shard is floating
Yul goes into the center part
Yul starts floating up towards the shard
On the way up Yul licks the shard
It tastes like death, it tastes terrible
Sarah: “Does that taste good?”
Yul: “No”
Sarah: “Do you regret it?”
Yul: “No”
The walls shatter, the shard lodges itself in Yul’s chest and lodges deeper
Yul is glowing exceptionally bright, see spurts of blood fly out from Yul
Yul is getting drawn into the shard
The walls are covered in blood
Y’all are in a room covered in crystallized blood
Sarah: “Yul that was gross”
Yul twerks and a spear of blood pierces down straight next to Yul
Lyra and Nim decides to straight up jump into the chest and take the slide/tunnel down
Nim turns into a parachute and grabs Lyra and glides down
Bloo sees some caves, dripping caves, glowing very blue, massive underground lake
Bloo wanders around, shimmery water
There are glowing blue capped mushrooms
Bloo picks up a mushroom, it glows very brilliantly blue
Bloo eats a mushroom, and bloo’s breath feels very cold
Bloo blows at the lake, the water freezes over
Bloo blows and walks across the lake
See some stone pillars with some water suspended in the shape of a teardrop
As Bloo is about to touch the teardrop, Lyra and Nim parachute down onto the ice
Sarah can’t smear blood, it’s red crystalline, it doesn’t look like blood, it looks crystal
Yul is just standing there
Sarah: “Yul you alive?”
Yul wakes up
Sarah: “Wtf u thinking”
Yul: *thumbs up*
Yul can up keep the sphere of crystallized blood, dispel it, or give in
Bloo touches the drop, it crystallizes, I’m holding Aqua’s Teardrop, feel a weird presence, the ice starts shattering, the lake starts swirling down and it looks like it’s swirling into a portal
Bloo picks 20 cold mushrooms
Yul gives in
Her right hand waves up, hear a demonic voice, sounds very familiar, “Alright, it’s time, Hades will return and there’s nothing you can do about it”
Her hand raises, a bunch of spikes of blood attack Sarah
Sarah hits with spell cleaver and smites Yul, knocking her out instantly
The crystalline blood reliquifies and fades away, rains a bit of blood
Yul stands there like puppet, the shard is exposed
Sarah hits the exposed shard with spell cleaver, it unwedges, and it snaps back to floating where it was, and the cage reforms
Sarah throws Yul down after healing Yul at 1hp, Yul falls down and into the portal
Sarah falls down and misty steps towards Bloo
We talk
We all step through the portal
And there’s Fae petting Sarah’s horse
Yul is just on the floor
Sarah: “I know you’re not capable of learning but I hope you learn a bit”
Nim asks about the rubber bracelet
Fae: “Ah Violet has been using this as a storage room”
Violet is alive, she’s old
Sarah: “Where is Violet?”
Fae: “idk, probably in Geimshall Woods”
Apparently Violet visited Bloo but Bloo doesn’t remember
Bloo asks about teardrop
Fae: “You’ll be pivotal, you have about an hour before we march”
“Where are we marching?”
Fae: “While you were gone, it’s been a couple of hours, Horace was trying to dissuade Astrid from leaving, but she said she could handle it, and she went alone”
Sarah: “Fucking idiot, you know it’s bad when you’re the only responsible one”
Fae: “She said she was going to stop the ritual with her chronostasis”
Fae: “Horace has gone off somewhere, he should be back in an hour and a half”
Sarah: “We gotta go immediately, we can’t teleport that many people”
Fae: “The teardrop is the best kept secret in this castle, focus your magic”
Fae: “Follow me, we’re going into the control room of the castle”
Fae: “Please slot the gem in right here”
Bloo feels a large quake
The castle begins to float
Fae: “the reason we were taking everything out is because the castle is going to be a warship”
Out the window, we’re floating
You have about 90 minutes, we have plenty of healers, we have about 90 minutes before we enter airspace, we’ve already informed horace
Fae: “You can have the gem back once we get to where we need to be”
Sarah used to be a bard, something happened related to an evil entity, now she’s a paladin
Sarah visits the apothecary, get a few potions
Sarah slices off Nim’s hand, and the hand that has her bracelet flops
The cleric takes the bracelet off and reattaches the hand
Sarah: “That was pretty fun”
Nim gets her hand back, it’s half paralyzed, the cleric heals her
Nim hands them the basilisk fang to make a cool dagger
Bloo contributes a broken melted dagger from session 6
Violet is Allie’s mother
Allie and Sarah got engaged but then she died
That’s why Sarah dropped out of college
She was killed by some creature sent by N, some sort of aberration, showed up, killed her
:(
We make it to our destination
Fae: “We’ve arrived, I’ve brought the teardrop”
Fae: “Astrid imbued some of her magic into it, you can use it to stop its frame of time, and the fun part is it retains momentum despite being frozen in time”
Use it as action, bonus action, or reaction
The object can be used once a day (once per long rest when attuned), freeze any obj less than 25 pounds within 20 feet, and then act on it in a way that would give it momentum
Horace shows up
The blacksmith gives Nim her Basilisk Dagger
Horace brought some additional firepower, idk why Astrid ran off
Horace: “We’re going to the top”
See a woman at the top, standing tall, her handband in the wind, it’s Tethys, the carriage lady
We cannot just drop a castle on them, they’re unreachable
Astrid has put them into a time loop, she’s stalling
On each tower, there’s a platform you can control, we are going to fly them over and surround it, we’re going to, Horace apparently has a plan
Horace: “We’re gonna blast the shit out of them”
Have to deal with the surrounding raiders, supposedly Astrid will have a signal to let everyone know when she’s going to drop the time loop
The lake is surrounded
Do not leave any operator from the League alive, kill them all
“It’s only fun if it’s a war crime” -Sarah
Bloo concentrates really hard and moves the discs lopsidedly to form a circle around the lake
Ordered to defend the castle and not descend on Astrid’s location until a signal is given
We are all on one of the platforms, it has a watch tower in the corner, a ballista
As we are creeping into a position
As Sarah and Nim peek down, hear a familiar woman’s voice, “I finally found you” it’s Petra von Alspar!!
Petra flies in on a black dragon, Petra flies up
Petra: “I don’t give a shit about Jeice”
Petra: “It’s time, I’m officially part of the Order”
See her eyes have two lines, one streaking below, one streaking up
She points her dagger and jumps onto the platform, holding the orb
Petra throws a rift orb down, summons four red slaads, the dragon flies up
Combat v. Petra
Bloo moves back and casts Invisibility on Nim
Nim climbs up the rampart, reach into her pockets, Nim scoops two gems out of her pocket
The dragon swoops down in front of Yul and uses its acid breath, hits Yul and Bloo
Yul hellish rebukes it
Lyra strategically fireballs and hits Petra and dragon, Petra is scorched
Lyra eats some chocolate and throws some for Bloo
Yul casts Hold Person on Petra and moves around the dragon
Slaad 1 moves towards Lyra
Slaad 2 moves towards Slaad 4 and hits it
Slaad 3 moves towards Slaad 4 and hits it
Petra is still held
Sarah rides in on her horse, attacks the dragon twice with smite and shit, knocks the dragon prone and hits it back 25 feet, hitting the wall
Bloo lightning bolts the dragon, the wall takes a considerable dent
Nim shoves Petra off the platform, she lands in the Geimshall Woods, Nim drops down from the wall
The dragon goes up to Nim, and it tries to bite her, Sarah silvery barbs, dragon slashes then misses, slashes again, Bloo silvery barbs but it still hits, Nim uncanny dodges it
Yul slashes with the two fans, clinks off the dragon’s scales
Lyra chaos bolts the dragon, poison damage
The dragon is tired
Sarah kicks the dragon in the knee, the dragon growls in pain and collapses, it dies
The slaads are just chilling
Nim pulls an eye out and gives it to Bloo, Nim gets scales and talons
See Horace is struggling
Feel a shockwave, the platform we are on is getting pulled down, two demonic shadowy hands grab it on both sides, pulling it down
Bloo tries to fight it, we are at a standstill
Over the edge, near the ritual, there’s a weird swirl of colors around a circle, it’s about where Horace said the ritual was going to be, see a very demonic eye looking at us
Nim: “That might be Hades”
The platform is getting pulled down, the two demonic hands pull down
Sarah silvery barbs on Nim kicking the ground to give Bloo advantage
Sarah holds a sword and jumps off over the eyeball, Bloo stops fighting the hands to freeze the sword and then instantly goes back to fighting the hands on the platform
“DO NOT RESIST ME”
The sword is 200 feet in the air
Sarah lets go, the sword plunges straight down towards the eyeball at about 600ft. per second
The sword falls, dealing 222 damage
The eye is very mortally wounded
Nim casts Feather Fall on Sarah
The shadow hands make a handsign, meet together, see massive shadows emerge, similar to Jeice, the shadows emerge straight up, Sarah lands
We are now about 60 feet above the eye
As the walls of shadow and demonic hands, there are hands covering the eye, protecting it, the walls are made of shadow
Sarah abjures the extraplanar, Sarah and Bloo silvery barbs it, bro still succeeds
Bloo peeks down and lightning bolts the eye, the front hand disintegrates a bit, and then Bloo moves closer to a wall
Behind the eye, ripples start to form, a big shockwave
Nim shoots the eye with the bow, it hits one of the five hands, and it fades away and dies
The wall of shadow behind the eye ripples again, the shadow wall violently shakes
The hand goes for a slash attack against Nim
The hand teleports to be over the wall behind Bloo
Lyra fireballs the eyeball and four hands, hitting one of the extra hands beside it
The hands are rippling even more violently
Yul guiding bolts the hand on the eyeball, it strikes the first hand, in a bright flash of light it disintegrates
A flash of brilliant white and yellow light pierces through, Seliph charges through, and slashes some of the hands, the shadow of the hand is fading through the light
Seliph: “Sorry I’m late, Sarah you good”
Sarah: “Yeah I was completely fine”
Seliph: “I see, just STRIKE HIM DOWN”
The hands of Hades start to reel back from the light, exposing his eye
Sarah smites the eye, the eye is starting to collapse
The eye looks in bad shape
Yul guiding bolts it and throws sand at it
Clea shoots it, and then jumps down and then stabs it with a dagger
Lyra chaos bolts it
Bloo lightning bolts it as they jump down
Lyra’s chaos bolt swirls around the bolt
The eye starts to fade away, the shadow walls fall and fade
Aftermath
Seliph: “Horace almost fucking died over there”
Where is Astrid?
See Astrid frozen in place, see Theodore (has 3) has his sword straight up against her neck
Try tapping them, but it’s repelled
Horace limps over, idk how to power word kill bro
Everything we try to do gets warped off
Horace antimagic fields Astrid and not Theodore
As he casts antimagic field, 10 feet around, see Astrid still stuck in place
It’ll wear off in one year, and I don’t know if there’s any way it can be dispelled
Horace Lyra and Bloo stands in a triangle around them and start channeling
See chaotic magic swirls, we each make our own field, see the barrier around Astrid dissipating, Theodore is slowly coming back, Yul casts hold person, Sarah cuts his hand off with the sword and then goes to decapacitate him, both ends of the neck on both side portals form, Nim stabs him and his body petrifies
Sarah stabs him and he shatters
His dead head falls off
Sarah holds up the head, hear an array of cheers, people are won, people are retreating out but are being cut off
Notice something weird about his flesh, it’s very very similar to Yul’s flesh,
Nim: “It’s a puppet”
Yul: “Huh??”
There’s a shard in theodore’s body
Sarah grapples Yul as Yul goes “Can I lick it can I lick it can I lick it”