Session 109

Synopsis
==Summary==
The party destroys G'zerdin and Ghrime without too much issue, though Kiono's "angel" was exchange for a T-rex Polymorph. They continue down the hallway, finding two passages to the left and right and a stone door ahead of them with an inscription on it. A large demon is in the right room, oh but it's actually a statue. The statue is lounged in the air, facing a painting on the far wall. A web of chains with a large padlock, an inscription on the bottom. Comp Languages, the painting says "lock." In the western chamber is a gallery of seven paintings. 
# A watercolor painting of a sad girl in glasses "Pensive" - take one action or move- Thinker post 
# An oil painting of a castle on a cliff at night "Towers" - fear - laugh 
# A pointillist acrylic close-up painting of an ear "Heard" - deafened - grimace 
# A realistic oil painting of a pair of cracked leather boots "Wayward" - half speed - yawn 
# A watercolor painting of a glass rose "Pretense" - overconfidence, disadvantage on Int checks - disgust 
# A top-down oil painting of a town, bisected by a road running length of it "Inhabit" - disadv perception, passive 0 - chatting 
# A black and white pastel painting of a single eye "Vision" - blind - pick its nose 
Door says, "To find the way forward, the admiring beast must ponder the way."
Esteem, touching the lock painting to replace it, is paralyzed. He is made to stop touching the painting and is freed. Wayward makes Teer feel sluggish while moving it; the statue changes poses to yawn. The Inhabit painting causes Esteem to feel his senses dulled, a chattering murmur distracting and deafening; the statue is looking away from the painting, as though speaking to someone behind it. After trying a couple of paintings, they put up Pensive, put Lock on the statue, then swap Pensive with Wayward. The doors opened. After a brief moment to heal up before heading in to the last room with the chanting. 
As Chosen One of her clan, Kiono has always been under immense pressure, and that pressure becomes an almost tangible force. She becomes light headed and then vertigo gets her. She is five, Concludion and Kitano her only company, heading down to the lake at the bottom of their mountain, early summer. Concludion gets himself tied to a tree, then Kiono and Kitano row out into the lake. The two do some fishing for a period, one of the last days before their calm relationship. The memory? vision? fast forwards and uhhh
Kiono is back in the hallway with the group. She is five. The party ponders if perhaps Ephy is somehow causing weird time things, but she can't figure out if she is or not. Ephy is able to take over Akaros' body, while Akaros returns to Teer. They ultimately decide to leave Kiono with Fartkaros in order to deal with Mordrain et all. 
They enter the room and Mordrain turns off the phonograph playing the chanting. Mordrain is operating under Anguish's orders, worming their way into Purifier ranks for the last few years with the intention of furthering Anguish's goals of controlling the dang world. Two Purifiers with Mordrain are being mind controlled, one of which breaks free during the fight. Mordrain reveals himself to be a balor. He is defeated, exploding in fire with a warning to Esteem that he would be back. The amnizu with him, the same one who brain controlled Teer back in Auguste, tries to tell them to leave, but the party just shifts their attacks to him. He teleports away, and there is a thunderous boom down the hall. The altar in the room begins to glow and spark. The fascility begins shaking, so the party retrieves Kiono and flees. The thunderous boom was the rift closing. 
Outside, the ramparts where the archers had been are covered in fresh foliage and some trees. Everybody formerly in the castle, the staff, family, and Garret, is fleeing the building. A pillar of hellish fire erupts, destroying the bulk of the estate around where the altar had been. 
Esteem shouts at Desmond Garret, and the man flees. Esteem captures him, and the group heads off with their prisoner to find Azaria. 
==NPCs==
===Returning===
* G'zerdin
* Ghrime
* Kitano (vision?)
* Concludion (vision?)
* Mordrain
===Mentioned===
* Anguish
* Azaria Burnett
==Items==
* Supreme Healing Potion (used by Teer)