Homeward Bound Episode 12

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==Recap==
===Shadow Heatstroke===
Kel William Marshal and Grimes are in the basement of Shadow Heatstroke Temple. Grimes is holding onto the portal with an antimagic glove to keep it closed. Kel William is unconscious.
After an hour, William slowly wakes up. Grimes updates William on the situation, then William gets a sleep in. William wakes up again some time later and is able to hold a full conversation and is updated on the situation.
William rests by the portal, keeping it closed. Grimes scouts outside the chamber and discovers Shadow Heatstroke. He sees that they are in The Pyramid. There are no humans around, just demons. Grimes returns to William to report in. Neither of them realize it is Heatstroke however.
The party wait by the portal to rest. Eventually a demon Patrol comes past. Grimes assassinates the Warrior demon.
After some time, a squad comes to investigate the missing demon. Grimes overhears the demon refer to Matrigal as giving the demons hope to conquer the world. Grimes assassinates one of the demons (93 points of damage!?!). He then stuns one other demon with the Velthara Dagger and slays the last one.
Grimes disarms the stunned demon and demands answers from it. The demon is unhelpful and lunges for a weapon on the ground. Grimes slays the demon.
Grimes heads out of the pyramid, not hiding under his scrag cloak. Demons down below spot him on the pyramid and an alarm is sounded by a shrieker. Grimes shoots a floating lensman demon. Five demons charge up the side of the pyramid. Grimes shoots at the charging demons, killing one and wounding another. Grimes backs up into the pyramid as the demons close in and attack him. Grimes gets wounded as he kills two. 
Grimes retreats to the base of the staircase. A demon comes into the chamber and attacks Kel William, who is keeping the portal closed, but misses. The other demon attacks Grimes. Grimes stuns one with the Dagger of Velthara and kills the other. He executes the stunned demon.
Grimes then knocks the portal over, with the weakened William only able to hold onto it.
Grimes still hears the noise from the shrieker outside. Grimes kills some lurkers on the way with his crossbow. Grimes heads towards the shrieker and encounters the lensman. Grimes fires and kills the lensman. The sheiker slowly moves towards Grimes. Grimes throws daggers, killing the sheiker.
Grimes goes to the top of the pyramid and looks all around. There is no sign of the gatebreaker that pulled the cart for the demons.
A pair of shadow demons moves towards Grimes. He kills one and the other hides. He looks for the other shadow demon but can't find it.
Grimes returns to William and reports in. William gets some sleep and Grimes takes over watch over the portal with the anti-magic glove. 
While on watch, the shadow demon ambushes Grimes and goes inside his mouth.
After some time, William wakes up and is able to get up. Grimes doesn't tell him about the shadow demon. The pair of them destroy the portal.
Grimes and William leave the pyramid and head to the river. They drink from it, feeling thirst now they are out of the demon world. Grimes bathes in the water, which is neutral temperature. William hears the sound of something large, stone on stone, moving. They look up and see a large black dragon on the top of the pyramid.
: "BRING IT TO ME" orders the dragon to the demons.
The demons bring the broken portal to the dragon. The party make a hasty retreat out of Heatstroke along the edge of the river. After a mile, the river enters a canyon. Grimes uses the portal tuning fork and it is pointing back at Heatstroke. The party start to walk back towards Heatstroke and the signal disappears. The party get back the original signal to the south, away from the river.
===The Hourglass Desert===
The party enter the Hourglass Desert. Kel William realizes where they are in Eridon. The party return to the river and put river water in their bag of holding.
The party then head through the desert. As they move, they rest. During the trip, the tongue picks up a second portal in a different direction. The party continue going south-ward.
The party leave the desert and enter the golden sea. William grow more and more hungry and Grimes isn't thanks to the secret shadow demon inside him.
===Copperhill===
The party eventually reach Copperhill. They can see Midori's crater in the centre of town. William, famished, goes to the temple. Grimes goes to the keep. Like everything in this world, it is a shadow of the real world, a generic copy. William prays before the Matrigal statue, which looks generic in this world.
Grimes finds nothing of interest, so he joins William in the temple. Grimes, fed up with everything, takes the Holy Symbol of Velthara he has around his neck and throws it to the ground.
Then they notice three shadow demons standing at the entrance to the temple. Grimes convinces William to allow one inside so he can survive.
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