The Devil Is In The Detail (20/5) - Igrainne
May 21, 2020 7:51:13 GMT
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Post by Igrainne (RETIRED) on May 21, 2020 7:51:13 GMT
Summary:
- 6 adventurers from the Dawnlands are selected to represent the Dawnlander community in summit talks with the Shunned of the Crystal Spire. Baine, Pieni, and Alenea meet with Lady Saria Underwood (of the Daring Heights Council) in Daring Heights and Igrainne, BB, and Ankhet meet with Oriloki Manyvoices in Port Ffirst. Both groups are teleported to the Crystal Spire.
- They are given a tour through the city by a goblin named Grathal and have the rest of the afternoon to themselves, before the gala dinner in the evening. Baine and Ankhet visit the orc community within the city and help with building houses; Igrainne, Alenea, and BB go clothes shopping from a cool old lizardfolk so they'll have something appropriate to wear for the evening, then go look at some rare flowers; Pieni sees a majestic diatryma with crystal wings woven to its sides. Flowers and jam are handed out.
- During the gala, Pieni and Ankhet win all three prizes from a raffle, with proceeds from the ticket sales going to Thia's Refuge in DH. Conversations are had. Drider milk is drunk. Baine arm-wrestles with a swole grung named B'lorth. Igrainne and Ankhet learn that there are some in the city who are unhappy that the summit is happening -- particularly a few people on the serving staff -- because they think this would lead to forgiving K'ul Goran for their perceived crimes against the Shunned. That said, most of the Shunned are tired of constant conflict and are open to the idea of an alliance with the Dawnlands. The gala is closed with a duet performed by Leocanto and a troll musician.
- The next day, summit talks begin. Commander Cordelia Jadefist et al. begin with a talk on strategies to defeat the Vanguard. Not long after, a black spot appears on the Crystal Spire pillar and blossoms into a portal. A Hell Knight on a Nightmare, two hellhounds, and a massive creature are stepping out of the portal. Two Shunned mages, Bak'kar and Melafir, manage to keep the portal from opening wide enough for the large fiend to step through and Oriloki attempts to conjure a large, protective bubble of force, but the Hell Knight disrupts it, creating instead smaller force fields throughout the cave -- dividing the skirmish into two.
- Baine, BB, and Pieni engage with the Hell Knight whilst Ankhet, Alenea, and Igrainne deal with the hellhounds. The latter group kills the hounds after they roasted some civillians and the former takes down the knight after their horse got Polymorphed into a badger. In the midst of the battle, it soon became apparent that the large fiend struggling to step through the portal was a pit fiend, and with the fall of the Hell Knight, the portal closed, doing a bit of damage to the Crystal Spire.
- In the aftermath, the party discovers that it was a server who jammed a dark crystal into the Spire to open a portal from Avernus; their family had been taken hostage by the Vanguard and they were coerced to do this in order to disrupt the summit and create tension between the two sides. Adventurers help out with healing injured civillians and repairing the Spire, and are each given a personalised gift by the grateful Shunned.
