Session 89

The party picks up a new companion after a jail break on the plane of Carceri.
==Summary==
Tiamat wants compensation for arriving uninvited, and offers the party a task: to rescue a knight from the Infinite Plane of Carceri. The knight is a powerful warrior and a potential ally. She continues to offer to send them to their actual destination - we super didn't establish The False Lair rather than Nox's True Lair whups - after retrieving said knight. She opens a portal to the plane of Carceri, and the party heads through. 
They end up at a T-intersection. After some discussion, they head in the direction of the most blood at Sors' request. The find a room with a torture rack in it, from which Sors removes the blood-stained leather straps. they continue on until they find a door. They knock on the door, but nobody responds. Ephemera then kicks down the door, revealing an oddly shaped room. There is a wooden table with a wooden door now sitting on it, some cabinets, and two doors to the right, leading up and down. As Ephemera checks under the table for the missing occupant Belle had heard on the other side, a green winged creature swings at Ephemera with an axe. The party quickly dispatches him and investigate the rooms. They find a ledger of the inmates recently admitted to this portion of the prison. They also find a copy of volume 14 of Star Walk in a dialect of Infernal Sors can't read, which Kiono hastily snags. Sors reads the ledger, finding only four inmates had been admitted in the last few years. Ephemera goes downstairs and checks the cabinets, finding only torture implements. Sors, Teer, and Belle attempt to open the chest in the office, and primarily succeed in blowing themselves up. They eventually manage to get the chest open, finding money and a scroll. Sors retrieves some of the torture implements from downstairs while Kiono identifies the scroll, finding it to be a scroll of Power Word Kill. The party is squinty eyes at her, but move on downstairs. 
Downstairs is a work room with weapons; barrels of shrapnel, nails, and teeth; and a workbench. Sors eagerly scoops teeth into her pockets, and the teeth proceed to try to eat her. It's a tooth ooze why does this exist. The party kills the ooze, and Sors scoops the teeth into the portable hole. They move on to the next room and pulverize the guard in there. They continue exploring, discussing the potential of trying to diplomacy at the next person they meet, potentially trying to unionize the guards of the plane. They enter a longish room with pillars, and some guards step out from behind them. The party indeed attempts to Diplomacy. They offer to let the party pay the desired prisoner's bounty, but the party does not have the money for that, so combat ensues. One of the guards is killed, and the other takes substantial damage before surrendering. He agrees to lead the party through to the prisoners that could be considered a knight. He offers an old man and a dragonborn. A coin is flipped that picks the dragonborn. Along the way, they pass a man frozen in a slab of stone who has been there for centuries. 
They pass through a door and enter a room with a spell circle on the ground, a low table with papers on it, two large sconces, and a crystal ball of some sort on a table nearby. Kiono checks the teleportation circle, determining that it is a part of a localized system of teleports, and the group is teleported by the guard. They are teleported to a room, equipment missing except for the halberd, Death Gate, and Dragvandil. A large dragonborn is named Esteem is in the cell. Introductions are made, the group decides to break out, and they short rest before doing so. Kiono Dimension Doors Esteem out, Teer DDs Sors, and Belle uses a beast shape to be very small and go under the door. The group goes absolutely ham on the various guards in the room. Sors is Mad. They intimidate Ungloph into opening the chest with their items. The party discusses whether to rescue people on their way out of the prison; they ultimately offer to trade an escape route and the old man. They retrieve him and his belongings, and are led back past the portal they entered through. They depart, returning to Tiamat's lair. Esteem asked why Tiamat chose him, but was only met with a flippant response: "Watching you struggle will be interesting." She then provides them a passage to the Platinum Disc, which they take.
==NPCs==
===Introduced===
* Esteem (new player)
* Ungloph the Flayer
===Returning===
* Tiamat
===Mentioned===
* Lady Dyana Brightblade
* Mingal
* Prisma
* Pronza
* Bahamut
==Items==
* Bloody leather straps (4, picked up by Sors)
* Star Walk vol. 14 (some dialect of infernal; picked up by Kiono)
* 1003 gp
* 179 pp
* Scroll of Power Word Kill (picked up by Kiono)
* A barrel of teeth (picked up by Sors, in the portable hole)
* Smith's tools (picked up by Kiono) 
* A new friend
* An old man
** Suit of golden platemail 
** Chipped greatsword