WoDaD Session 43

== Title ==
Tower of Doom
== Recap ==
Shortly after falling into a coma and co-habitating Ileao's body, Thelo uses their combined Chaos powers to terrible effect. This summons a huge sphere of water around them - ruining the restaurant and terrifying both Ileao and Thelo, both of whom are hydrophobic. Bran quickly dispels the magic, but the damage is done. As soon as the body-sharing effect ends, Ileao kicks the party out of eir restaurant. Alex tells them to give em some space, also offering to help them out once they get Debbie on their side. 
On their way south south-west to Debbie's recently built Tower of Doom, the party chats a little. Maria comforts Thelo after what happened in the restaurant with Ileao, while Bran and Yorsog finally catch up now that the dwarf is back with the party. They reach the tower, finding that every part of it is magically animated and a potential threat. Bran also notices someone watching them from the top of the tower. The doors wing open as they knock, and they enter the tower. 
The first floor of the structure is a large living room. The party is promptly attacked by smothering rugs, books wanting to be read, and fireplace logs wanting to warm them up. They manage to get through the room with only a few injuries, reaching the second floor: a kitchen and dining room. The knives in the room start to float towards them, so Thelo captures one, naming it Knifey the Knife. Maria then creates a wind wall expertly, making it potent enough to block all the objects in this room from reaching them at all. The third floor is a bedroom and study lacking in dangerous animated objects, so the party takes a moment to strategize. Their plan mostly amounts to "Let Bran do the talking." They reach the fourth and final (indoors) floor, which is unfortunately the armory, full of a lot of very dangerous, very alive, very angry weapons. Amros melts most of the weapons with intense flames and Maria blasts more of them with thunder, but that just leaves the few most dangerous weapons animated and now molten. Bran and Thelo keep the party alive in spite of the heavy hits they take, then Yorsog leads a charge up the stairs to the roof.
They find Debbie, Azural Master of Animating, on the roof. She's holding a strange metal wand or crossbow and appears to be in her mid-20's. She's angry and distrusting of the party as Bran tries to convince her to help their cause. When Maria uses magic to grant everyone a boost, Debbie yells to stop using magic or she'll shoot. Amros brings up his newfound relation to Kevin McMillian, which almost helps until Debbie points out that Kevin went and died. She says she couldn't die and hurt her parents. We see a flashback of her animating the philter holding the Elixir of Life through a super dangerous dungeon, then drinking the Elixir without a second thought. Bran realizes in the present that Debbie's source of immortality is damaging her psyche, whispering to her to stay alive at all costs. 
== Continuity ==
The previous session is WoDaD Session 42. The next session is WoDaD Session 44.
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