Life and Death of the Party

Lore

• On the 3rd Army

• The Journal of an Arconis

• On Questions Asked In the Bore Memory Chamber

• On the Coming Invasion

• On the Dark Folk

• The Disappearance of the Twin Cities

• On Arconis, Barri and the Traitor’s Noose

• On Sojourners

Locations

Our Most Recent Adventure: Interlude: The Rescue of a God From Hell, Maybe

Current Objectives

• Revive Cayden Cailean, and survive!

Events

• Locked in combat, in Hell! Round 2 begins…
  • Iozreal attempts to dimensional anchor Boobons, but Boobons counters it, then moves away to safety! Harvey and Gartug fight some ice devils. Randy and Sheila G do some buffs. Another ice devil shows up, and begins fighting with Naynay.
  • Iozreal attempts to dimensional anchor Boobons again, but gets countered again, and successfully dispels the anchor on Cayden Cailean! Harvey and Gartug keep fighting ice devils. Randy starts blasting with lightning! Naynay disengages and get with the group, just in time for Sheila G to attempt to plane shift the group away, but she gets countered by Iozreal! A future version of Cayden Cailean shows up to help us fight, and tells Sheila G “Free Hyperion! It’s the next step!”
  • Iozreal moves to threaten the group, and releases his dancing scythe, which obliterates Boobons with a crit! Boobons makes a mess of blood on the ground. Harvey, Gartug, and Naynay keep fighting ice devils. Randy heals Boobon back to consciousness. Sheila G attempts another plane shift and gets countered again!
• The group feels a sickening lurch, as the ceiling of our adamantine room is torn away by Baazebul, hovering menacingly above the scene. Jeff turns to Harvey and tells him, “BLUE BAG”. Combat continues!
  • Iozreal blasts the group with a wave of fatigue as his scythe continues to hack apart Boobon (who falls again), and Randy (who hasn’t heard no bell!). Harvey uses “the blue bag”:
    • Holding the bag as a glove, Harvey throws a blue pebble-shaped object at Baazebul. As it reaches it, the pebble seems to manifest as a smaller ghostly image of Harvey, and after whispering something to Baazebul, strikes it with a sword. An angelic figure with broken, burnt wing nubs falls beyond sight in one direction, and thousands of flies fall beyond sight in an opposite. The remaining ice devil looks incredibly confused.
• Iozreal makes an offer: Help him to the Betzebbul, and he will send all of us home. While this is happening, both Randy and Gartug take note of the falling pieces of Baazebul, and grab some. This turns out to be a Bad Thing :tm:. After some deliberation, the party agrees. Boobons summons phantom steeds. Iozreal and the party fly to the Betzebbul, citadel of Baazebul, throne of Cocytus, the seventh layer of hell. Sheila G knows of a chained-up ancient and forgotten god, named Azhia. CC insists on freeing it.
  • Upon arrival, Iozreal screams a stained-glass window open, and we follow him up a circular stairway. At the landing, we pass an opportunity to visit Baazebul’s armory.
  • Upon arriving at the throne room, we find the enchained “body” of Azhia, and the throne. On the throne is a large circlet with a giant diamond in it. Between the party and the throne is a pitfiend, named Garblefuk, yelling at Iozreal he’s a traitor. COMBAT!!
    • Harvey and Iozreal engage Garblefuk. Cayden Cailean makes for one of the pillars holding the chains attached to Azhia. Boobons, Randy, and Sheila G do some buffing. Gartug drinks some potions.
    • Harvey and Iozreal keep fighting Garblefuk. Cayden Cailean climbs the pillar, and to the chain. Gartug remounts his horse, and flies up to one of the chains. Boobons does some buffs. Randy starts blasting with lighting. Sheila G flies up to another chain. Jeff blasts Garblefuk with a disintigrate.
    • Harvey keeps punching. Iozreal harms Garblefuk, successfully, then eviscerates it with his scythe. Boobons takes out his Stick of Disintigration, and destroys a chainlink. Randy does some healing. Gartug punches a chainlink apart, breaking the chain. Cayden Caliean moves towards the flesh-mass, and begins trying to break his chain. Sheila G tries breaking her chain. Jeff does some weird chaos stuff, and turns the big 5th chain into a piece of cooked spaghetti.
    • Harvey hangs out a bit. Iozreal flies up to the flesh mass, and plunges his hand into it. Gartug lands and dismounts near Iozreal on the flesh mass, preparing to engage if necessary. Boobons disintigrates another chainlink, breaking the fourth of five chains. Cayden Cailean and Sheila G try breaking the last chain. Randy plays hop-scotch.
    • Iozreal finishes his tassk, flying off the mass and back to the ground. Gartug rushes over, and breaks the CC/SG chain, freeing the flesh mass, which plummets to the ground and is impailed upon the throne. COMBAT OVER!!

• Iozreal informs us he absorbed some of the god’s power. The flesh mass appears to still be alive. SG and Gartug manage to un-impale it. After a bit more dialog, Iozreal offers to plane shift us home, but Sheila G does it instead. We arrive near the Far Territories, surprisingly close to the army’s column heading to the Far Territories. The flesh mass begins screaming, and SG and Randy start trying to heal it. Gartug and SG manage to remove all the chains. Gartug also rejects the mythic power of Baazebul from the part of it which embedded itself in his palm. The piece falls out and dissipates to nothingness.

  The group deliberates on the next steps:

  • Where to bring Cayden Cailean? “Anywhere with beer!”
    • CC wants to find some beer, find his Red Band crew, find a ship (as in a space ship), and go adventuring. Gartug offers to go with and help him out.
  • Where to bring this flesh mass?
    • SG offers to take it to Elysium
  • What’s next?
    • SG is considering heading to the First World to find Hyperion
    • Harvey has to go…
    • ~Boobons~ Stackor has to return to his other thing.

Player Characters

• Gartug Ironfist, a dwarven brawler; Taliah, a tiefling alchemist (Bill)
• Sheila G, a half-elf cleric of Cayden Cailean (Thans)
• Stackor, a dwarven wizard; Chuck, a dwarven hammer-thrower (James)
• Harvey, a tengu-ish monk; Mummrah, a dwarven cleric (Mike)
• Randy Van Peeples, a human cleric of Gozreh (Dan)

Locations

• Rime
• Fort Ang
• Cocytus, the Seventh Level of Hell
  • Betzebbul, citadel of Baazebul

NPCs and Notable Characters

• Maugrim, dwarven god of the dead
• Naynay, a pervert-monk
• Cayden Cailean, revived mortal god of revelry, freedom, and travel
• Iozrael, servant of Baazebul
• Garblefuk, a pitfiend in the Betzebbul throne room
• Azhia, a mass of flesh, a forgotten god

Other Notes

• Future Cayden Cailean said to “Free Hyperion”