Epilogues - August 23, 2024

 - Danny Duffy shirt? (SPOTSBALL?!?!?!)

Notes on Theophania Groundswallow

• Step 1) Clear out the undead and other nasties in Agonir’s cavern to prevent other things from attacking the beleaguered Mistverge, and so that that the archaeologists can have access to the Dwarven ruins without risking their lives if they want it.
• Step 2) Spends a year or two getting Mistverge back on its feet agriculturally. Maybe negotiating some spaces in and around the city as nature sanctuaries in exchange for some plant growth spells on some of the bigger farms with the druid Elidar so that those farms will have double produce and reduce the shortages in the city in the short term.
• Step 3) She might revisit the plan to identify The Voice once everyone is properly fed again, but after several months of experiments, the results are inconclusive.
• Step 4) Go on a quest to find the Dwoids and tell them about the dwarves who survived. Rusty definitely comes along for this one. How does it go?
  
• Step 5) Spend some time sharing knowledge with Dwarven artificers to improve her mechanical skills and maybe teach some of her alchemy knowledge.
• Lastly) She starts her own shop of magic items called Groundswallow Alchemical Gear. To get the needed supplies for her items, she develops a network of traveling merchants (Groundswallow Tinkers and Traders among others), wizards (Sharai and Tina and the wizard school in Arrandale), the investments and contacts of Lord McNabb (if he’s interested), and maybe even a certain “businessman” named Jimmy or his friends for certain alchemical reagents depending on how the thing with The Voice goes. Tina is around for everything, and eventually one day Tiff suddenly realizes they are basically married, so they do. (Tina, "Oh, you want to make it official?")
  

Notes on Raiàn

• Raiàn goes home because her cousin Sunny dies and becomes the ruler of her people.
• Something fell out of the sky and landed on Sunny's head, and it looks a little mechanically and familiar when Raiàn gets home. Raiàn makes sure the item is destroyed in "revenge".
  
• They rule benevolently.
  

Notes on Lyrielle

• Lyrielle goes back home and reports on everything she's learned in Mistverge.
  
• She becomes an Advisor to the elven military, with emphasis on defense.
• She loves to travel, so she still find lots of excuses to go on adventures, and does help look for the dwoids.
  

Notes on Osiris

• Osiris does some research in Agonir's lair about the soul stuff he was doing. She finds some of the crystals that didn't have souls in them, and eventually she figures out how to make a one of the soul gems, so she does, but she just keeps it in a box on her person at all times.
  
• She also stays in touch with Rusty and anytime he learns something new about himself, and she adds it to her book about him.
• Osiris is Head priestess of the Rites and spends the next hundred years or however long it takes Hallowing the whole city so that it will forever (or at least a really long time) be a bastion against the undead. She also Hallows the dwarven ruins directly below Mistverge such that people cannot teleport directly to it.
  
• Osiris works out a deal where Magnus gets to go to the Wizard school in Arrandale with Prof Tina as his sponsor.
• She also occasionally takes a sabbatical to visit the dwarves.
• She also eventually takes care of the Blackwood servants by killing the undead bodies and then Resurrecting them back into their bodies, which only works because Agonir's hoard is eliminated.
  
• At least one time she casts Astral Projections so that she and Tiff can visit Thessalie.
  

Notes on Rusty

• He helps Tiff with all her projects, dragon lair clean-up, Dwoid hunting, Dwarf learning, etc.
  
• He does let Tiff do some "vivisection" on him to learn about his construction and creation, and she is very carefully, and he takes no damage in the process. 
• Not very many memories come back from before he shut down for 1,000 years.
• Rusty also asks Tiff "Is there a way to get this to stop bleeding" of the Butcher's Bib, and the answer is no. It bleeds or it's useless.     

Notes on Jinora

• She collects the empty soulgem Agonir had embedded in his chest and some of his humanoid form's hair. Then she interviews a bunch of people and takes a bunch of notes and is very intense about the whole process.
• They finally get to see her dragon form, and she is mostly blue, but she also had a couple of black stripes on her chest.

Notes on Magnus

• He takes Osiris up on the offer to study in Arrandale, and spends some time there, and is not very good at all. With his new training, his experiments are less impressive as Agonir's hoard isn't providing a source
  
• He and Callie eventually get married. 
• Sometimes Tiff and Tina are called in to clean up a bit of a mess, and everyone does their best to
  

Notes on Tina

• She moves to Mistverge and helps rebuild.
  
• She and Tiff adventure together, and Tina helps with Tiff's magical inventions.
  

Notes on the Dwarves

• They are tight-lipped on their plans, but an impression is gathered that they are expanding somehow. Maybe underground?
  
• They enter into a secret treaty with Raiàn where they agree not to interfere with each other, but recognize each other's authority.
  

 Notes on Russell Santiago

• He helps clean up Agonir's lair.
  
• He only sticks around long enough for fighty-things. Once it gets down to negotiating with druids and handing out food, he heads back to Caledonia. He declines Tina's offer to teleport him home as it will give him a chance to see more of the countryside and find people to help along the way.
  

Notes on Mistverge and the Black Bloods

• The Black Bloods basically take over the city subdividing it into districts except for Winfair Hillock, and the area around the Temple and the Hall of Justice.
  
• They collect "taxes" and actually provide services like helping people rebuild and providing food and water, and then once all that settles down they just shake down businesses for money in a Gotham city kind of way, but they never mess with Groundswallow General Store, Groundswallow Alchemical Gear, or Callie's boarding house. 
• The violence never gets too out of hand because the district bosses keep everything in check because The Voice keeps them in check. If they don't keep things in hand, they won't get to stay the district boss for very long. 
• Lord McNabb eventually becomes the defacto leader of the council.

 THE END

The Final Battle for Mistverge #BossBattle - August 9, 2024

 - Hexagonal Fellowship

- Osiris casts Aid on some of her friends to further buff them to fight a FUCKING DRAGON

- Tiff sets up and infuses the necromantic tendrils with the Elixir of Divine Release, they wait the hour or so for it suffuse the entire system and then Tiff repeats her binding chant to activate the potion.

- Tiff does her chant, and then in a wave from where she is touching the tendrils the glowing crystals go dark and the wave continues out of sight into the distance.

- After a moment there is a blinding flash of light that then separates into individual glowing wisps that start disappear into cracks and crevices to head to the surface 

- There is a deep, angry roar from far away, a rush of air, and then the sounds of something coming towards them.

- They all enter the cavern and brace with Osiris readying Aura of Vitality and Tiff readying Haste on Russell

 

THE BATTLE WITH AGONIR THE GREAT AND POWERFUL

-  Rusty throws a javelin to get Agnoir's attention hitting him for 10 piercing dmg and then runs behind a column to spread out. The gems embedded in his chest, "shoulders", and upper "arms"

- Raiàn casts Greater Invisibility on themself and on Lyrielle and then darts off slightly away and behind Rusty

- (Lair) From the largest gem in Agonir's chest burst forth spectral skulls that swarm around Russell, Lyrielle, Tiff, and Osiris. Osiris takes 13 psychic dmg and everyone else takes 6 psychic dmg.

- Lyrielle runs forward shooting a dart at Agonir and missing but she can tell that his eyes tracked her movement, so the invisibility is not as useful as hoped.

- Agonir breaths acid on Lyrielle and Osiris for 67 acid and 33 on Russell who manages and Aura of Vitality is gone.

- Russell casts Crusader's Mantle on himself he starts running towards the dragon, so Tiff's prepared Haste is now on him, and then he slices into Agonir for 12 slashing and 12 radiant dmg. 

- With the damage Agonir has taken the gems glow brighter and a creature of some kind pops out of the gem in his chest. It looks like a blackened skull with too many bestial teeth and black withered wisps trailing off of it. It darts towards Osiris and then spits a ghostly dart at her for 14 psychic dmg.

- Osiris downs a potion of Acid Resistance then darts back out of the cavern into the dwarven bakery and casts Heal on herself for 70 HP.

- (Legendary) Agonir misses attacking Russell with his tail.

- Tiff uses the Healing Bonk to give 11 HP to Russell.

 

- Rusty runs of up the Blackened Skull (BS1) and misses with his axe twice.

- Raiàn casts Chain Lightning on Agonir for 18 lightning dmg and BS1 take 36 lightning dmg and BS1 explodes 

- (Lair) Some of the black vine-y tendrils erupt from the ground right in front of Agonir and Lyrielle is knocked prone.

- Lyrielle stands back up and steps forward adjacent to Agonir and uses Wholeness of Body and she regains 42 HP. Then she takes a defensive stance in preparation for Agonir next onslaught. 

- (Legendary) Agonir smacks Russell with his tail for 22 bludgeoning dmg.

- Agonir misses biting Lyrielle and then claws her for 14 slashing dmg and then again for 16 slashing dmg.

- Russell slices into Agonir for 14 slashing and 14 radiant dmg and another BS pops out of the soul gem on Agonir's chest, then 13 slashing and 7 radiant dmg and then he misses his third attack.

- (Legendary) Agonir rears back and beats his wings in front of him on Russell and Lyrielle, but they both dodge 

- Agonir darts away from Russell and Lyrielle, and they both miss their opportunity attacks

- Osiris casts Dawn in Agonir's back for 6 radiant dmg. The new BS takes 13 radiant dmg as well.

- BS1(new) wisp claws Rusty for 4 (2) necrotic dmg and Rusty and Rusty HP max is reduced by 2.

- Tiff shoots Agonir with her Repeating Shot Light Crossbow for 9 piercing dmg

- (Legendary) Agonir smacks Rusty with his tail for 14 (7) bludgeoning dmg

- There's another gem flair and BS2 pops out of Agonir's chest gem and ends up flanking Rusty and dealing 16 (8) necrotic dmg

 

- Rusty destroys BS1 with 11 slashing dmg and then turns and misses BS2

- Raiàn casts Fireball so that it will hit both Agonir and BS2 and they each take 16 fire dmg.

- (Lair) A sphere of darkness appears near the area where the entry from the dwarven bakery is engulfing Raiàn and blocking Osiris from seeing the battlefield.

- Lyrielle darts up and punches Agonir for 9 bludgeoning and 2 radiant dmg then she Disengages and darts back closer to Russell.

- Agonir moves out of the Dawn spell into the space between Rusty, Russell, and Lyrielle, then he bites Rusty for 25 (12) piercing and 15 (7) acid dmg, then he claws Rusty for 17 (8) slashing and then again for 18 (9) slashing dmg.

- Russell moves up to Agonir's butt and misses then slices into him for 14 slashing and 9 radiant dmg then he misses again.

- Osiris runs around the area of darkness and drops Dawn and she casts Summon Celestial and a Celestial Archer appears on the other side of the cavern

- Celestial Archer (CA) misses Agonir with an arrow then shoots him for 14 radiant dmg then shoots him again for 11 radiant dmg.

- Another BS pops out of the gem on Agonir's chest. Agonir beats his wings and flies up to the ceiling taking 14 slashing and 11 radiant dmg from Russell and 15 slashing and 3 radiant from Rusty. He uses his claws to start digging and he disappears into the ceiling of the cavern. The cavern is directly beneath Mistverge...

IS HE RUNNING AWAY?

 

- The CA disappears up the hole after the dragon as his command was to kill the dragon.

- Tiff receives a Sending from Tina, "Uh, so, is like an Earthquake going on? What is happening?"

- "Agonir is burrowing up through the earth to Mistverge! Start the evacuation!"

- Once within distance Osiris casts Word of Recall and the party re-appears in the Sanctuary of the Temple of Mishakal. The ground is rumbling.

- The ground stops rumbling, ominously. 

- Osiris casts Locate Creature and gets a directional ping from the Marketplace.

- Everyone starts running towards the marketplace (except Tiff who mounts a broom) 

- When they arrive there is a large humanoid man with wings standing next to a hole in the ground. He's wearing dark armor with a gemstone embedded in the chest and also on the shoulder plates and arm plates. He looks slightly damaged.

- As the group runs up he says, "You! I will destroy you for all that you have taken!" 

 

THE BATTLE RESUMES

- Tiff casts Haste on Russell again, and then darts behind a destroyed market stall out of sight.

- (Lair) Agonir looks at Russell and a gray rope of magically badness shoots out of Agonir's gem and attaches itself to Russell.

- Agonir unfurls his wings and flies up 20' into the air and lines up on most of the party and breaths acid on everyone except Tiff, Raiàn takes 81 acid dmg, and everyone else takes 40

- Osiris casts Cure Wounds (4th level) on Rusty for 26 HP. She looks around and sees a few people running towards the temple. She also sees on top of one of the few stalls that is only slightly damaged, Jinora is partially concealed on top watching the happenings. She whispers to Raiàn about it.

- Raiàn casts Fireball such that only Agonir take 14 fire dmg. 

- Rusty goes into another Rage and runs as close to Agonir as he can get and throws a javelin at him for 8 piercing dmg and then launches a second one that also hits for 11 piercing dmg. The tether between Agonir and Russell pulses, but Russell resists the affects.

- (Legendary) Agonir shoots some sort of ray at Rusty for 25 (12) cold dmg.

- Lyrielle hears Tiff shout "Take the hammer with you!" so she grabs it and runs over to Agonir and then she throws a dart for 9 piercing dmg and then throws a second one for 7 piercing dmg.

- (Legendary) Rusty takes another bolt of dark energy for 22 (11) cold dmg.

- Russell moves up to within 10' of Lyrielle and Rusty and then activates his cloak and sends Agonir blocks all seven bolts. Then he uses Cleansing Touch on himself to end the tether between himself and Agonir.

- Agonir shoots another bolt at Rusty for 19 (9) cold dmg.

 

- Tiff moves the infused hammer 5' next to Rusty, bonks him for 18 HP restored and then moves 10' along the back of the stall she's ducked behind.

- (Lair) Agonir says, "You cannot escape me!" His green gem pulses and modulates a bit and a beam of yuckiness hits him for 28 necrotic dmg.

- Agonir casts a spell on Rusty, but Rusty resists!

- Osiris darts from behind the stall she's hiding behind to join the one Tiff is hiding behind then she casts Aura of Vitality and then she sends 15 HP to Russell.

- Raiàn casts Fireball on Agonir again for 16 fire dmg. 

- (Legendary) Agonir grabs the gem at his chest then sweeps his arms out and a circle of energy flies out of it hitting Lyrielle, Russell, and Rusty for 10 necrotic dmg  

- Rusty leaps up to Agonir slicing into him for 14 slashing dmg then misses and crashes into the ground taking 6 (3) bludgeoning dmg. 

- (Legendary) Agonir misses Rusty with a cold ray.

- Lyrielle throws a dart at Agonir but misses then throws another one this time hitting for 7 piercing dmg then she moves around Agonir's side to get out of line with her friends.

- Russell uses Lay on Hands on himself for 70 HP then moves up to stay within 10' of both Rusty and Lyrielle and then Russell activates his cloak again but Agonir shields again

- Tiff move the infused hammer, heals Rusty with it for 14 HP and then darts behind the next ruined market stall keeping behind cover.

- (Lair) Agonir sends another tether this time attaching to Rusty giving Rusty a toothy, evil grin.

- Agonir casts a spell at Lyrielle and she takes 28 necrotic dmg. 

- Osiris runs past Tiff then Misty Steps behind the weapons stall at the edge of the marketplace. She casts a haphazard Sacred Flame as she runs, but Agonir dodges.

- Raiàn casts another Fireball dealing 16 fire dmg and Agonir throws his arms down and black tendrils fly out of them into the ground and Osiris is now grappled.

- Rusty growls, "You can't escape either!" Rusty flies up and misses and then slices in to Agonir for 38 slashing dmg and then does it again for 39 slashing dmg. His axe gets stuck in the gem and he rides Agonir to ground cleave the glowing gem in two as they slam into the dirt and there's a huge whoosh of energy that blows up and out into the clouds clearing the sky and there's what looks like an aurora into the sky.

- The aurora energy condenses and hits both Raiàn and Jinora. Raiàn sort of falls over exhausted. Jinora briefly loses control of her form, crushing the building she was hidden on top of, and then when she emerges in her humanoid form again there's a black streak in her blue hair. 

- Rusty confirms with Jinora that Agonir is dead, but he smacks him in the chest with the axes one last time to make sure.

NO MORE AGONIR!!!

The Elixir of Divine Release Ritual #It'sNotAboutSex - August 2, 2024

 - Complimentary dino

- Tiff says she's going to bed. And she does.

- Osiris goes to let Rowan and the rest of the temple know that the ghosty spirit guy is dead. 

- Osiris then also goes to bed.

- Russell Santiago also headed off to bed along with everyone else.

- When Raiàn, Rusty, and Lyrielle get back to the boarding house, Jinora asks what was happening since she is still awake.

- Jinora tells Lyrielle and co that Agonir must have sent the spirit to take out the people he thinks might be a threat he sends undead to take them out. He likes to make sure that when he swoops in at the end there's no resistance.

- The next morning, Tiff is braiding laurel leaves with Tina when Osiris shows up with the staff in the apothecary to help with the preparations for the elixir. 

- Tiff gets the apothecary staff and Russell started on perfume creation and then helps Tina finish making all the laurel crowns. 

- Once the laurel is finished being braided, Tiff has Rusty set the cast iron halfling-sized bathtub in the center of the sanctuary near the alter and set that up. She gets Tina to draw a warding circle in chalk around it while Tiff then goes and helps with the perfume.

- Osiris goes to trade the expensive opal she has for a gem encrusted bowl. 

- Lyrielle gets on the earring network and tells everyone what Jinora said last night.

- Once Osiris has her bowl, she and Rusty go to the Hall of Justice to check in with the city guard via Captain Swinson.

- The front desk is empty when they arrive, so they head straight to Captain Swinson's office. The little barracks for guards to have their rest has dead bodies. It seems like the current guard shift and their CO are DEAD. Like dismembered dead. 

- It looks like the ghosty spirit creature wasn't only attacking the Temple of Mishakal.

- Osiris Sends to Amelia, an acolyte in the Rites Wing, to come get the dead guards.

- Osiris then Sends to Captain Swinson asking her to meet at the Hall of Justice like now.

- A few minutes later the captain shows up, but Amelia shows up first and she doesn't like the messy ones.

- Captain Swinson knows about the attack, and they have abandonned the headquarters building and decentralized control. The council made the decision to abandon the building, and told no one to go back inside.

- Osiris and Amelia gather the dead, while Rusty finishes talking to Captain Swinson.

- They get back in the late afternoon and explain the plan again to Russell.

- Osiris casts Temple of the Gods around the area where Theophania will lead the group in the ritual to create the Elixir of Divine Release.

- They do the ritual successfully! (Because of course they do. Tiff is nothing but prepared.)

- They divide the ten gallons into ten water skeins and tuck those into the bag of holding, and Tiff goes to make more needles to introduce it to the necrotic tendrils.

- Okay, so the plan is that they will teleport to the Dwarven city adjacent to Agonir's lair (which they do), then have a Hero's Feast with the bowl Osiris acquired (which they do in an inn with some intact tables), then they will sleep in a Hut (which they do).

- While everyone except Osiris is hunting around in the tavern (since it takes ten minutes to cast the Hero's Feast spell) they find two whole bottles of ancient dwarven whiskey in the bar!!!!

- After they've rested they will inject the tendrils with the Elixir, and then they expect the dragon will come find them from there.

 - They do a check over of the tavern and then Osiris casts the Hut in the public room.