Session 121

Synopsis
==Summary==
The young female elf, barely alive, produces a crystal hourglass, explaining that there are minor artifacts strewn about the upper floors. Activating one will trick the vault into resetting, providing the party with some small benefits from it. After supremely failing to release Belle and Teer from the Stun, the elf casts her protective bubble around them and casts the spell to reset the dungeon. The elf vanishes, presumably returned to her spot in her room, and the party recovers most of their abilities and their health. Before the angel statues are able to activate again, they move through the portal after Elizrae. 
On the other side is a platform in an inky black demiplane. A hard light hallway extends forward, leading to a large room with a black obelisk in the center. Elizrae, in dragon form, is using golden sand to create a spellcasting circle around it. The party prepares for combat and move forward. 
Round 1
* Kiono - Cast Slow (save)
* Belle - Eldritch Blast - 3 hits (AC 23) - [17?] force
** Bonus Action - Archer Form
* Esteem - Bonus Action - Mortal Foe
** 31 - 13 slashing
** 25 - 17 slashing
** 25 - 19 slashing
* Elizrae - Breath Weapon DC 23 - draconic breath weapon feat to change the damage to half cold
** 39 cold, 40 poison
* Teer / Akaros - Akaros is driving the skybike
** 28 - autocrit + 5th level smite - 99 radiant + force + stun until the end of her next turn
*** Increased to 140 damage due to crit and angel statue
** 24 - 13 radiant 
** Quicken True Polymorph - Esteem to adult silver dragon
Round 2
* Kiono - Disintegrate - 89 necrotic
* Belle - Spiritual Weapon 7th level - 26
** Eldritch Blast - two hits - 16 force
* Esteem - Frightful Presence - she succeeds
** Bite 28 - 14 piercing
Elizrae's body turns to ice and slush and snow, and an echoing laughter can be heard. Elizrae comments that the obelisk wasn't the true prize, and the vault briefly rumbles deeper within before growing still. The hallway to the north appears to keep going, reaching a set of stairs. The party resolves to move forward, an in the distance Elizrae roars in pain. As the party moves through the hallways, Esteem brute forces a series of glyphs which attempt to stop them from progressing. He is flung around, taking a grand total of 54 damage, but clearing the path for the rest of the party. Eventually they reach a door which appears to have been blasted apart. Four handprints are visible, so they put their hands in the handprints. The door opens and allows the party through. The next room is an oblong chamber, one door emblazoned with a giant hand and a second with a giant eye. An open gate in the room is pouring out demons. 
Round 1
* Teer - Eldritch Blast
** Three hits - 41 force
** Crown of Stars mote - 17 radiant
* Balor - stunned
* Esteem - returns to dragon form and attempts to draw aggro 
* Kiono - Slow - one failure
* Belle - Earth Tremor - 5 bludgeoning + prone
** Archer arrow - 19 radiant
* Rabble - Begins to cast Fire Bolt
** Hit Esteem - 33 damage
** Hit Esteem - 12 damage
** Hit Esteem - 9 damage
** Firebolt Kiono - 20 - Shield
** Firebolt Teer - 23 fire
* A demon emerges from the portal
Round 2
* Teer - Eldritch Blast - 24 force 
** Crown of Stars - miss
* Balor - Hit Esteem - 19 slashing + 16 lightning
* Esteem - breath weapon - 72 cold
* Kiono - Wither and Bloom - 5 necrotic - 1d12+6 healing to Esteem
* Belle - Heal 9th level - 90 healing
** Spiritual Weapon - kills a mook
* New Guy - Spine attack - 28 piercing
* Mooks - Firebolt guy misses finally
** Two hits Esteem - 26 damage
* Portal - 4 mooks
Round 3
* Teer - four hits against portal - 50 force
** Crown of Stars - miss
* Akaros - breath weapon - 27 radiant/fire
* Portal - destabilized - 62 force damage to the room
** All the mooks are dead now
* Balor - 10 fire proximity damage
** Two hits Esteem - 22 slashing + 17 lightning + 13 slashing + 13 fire
* Esteem - Multi-attack
** [I missed what he did to the balor]
** Other Dude - 14 slashing
** Other Dude - damage again
* Kiono - Tasha's Mind Whip Balor (failure) - 16 psychic
* Belle - Mass Cure Wounds - 24 HP
Round 4
* Teer - Eldritch Blast Balor - three hits, one crit - 38 force
** Crown of Stars - 21 radiant
* Akaros - 10 slashing
* Balor - stunned
* Esteem - multi-attack - three hits, one crit - 21 + 18 + 14
** Balor fire damage totaling 30 damage
** Balor explode damage - 80 fire
1 minute, 12 seconds. There is another pained roar followed by a sound of satisfaction, coming from the hand door. The party takes their remaining Tears of Bahamut potions as they go through the door. The door slides open, and a dark mist crackling with green lightning pours from the room. The chamber beyond is a fractured pure white, a hard light vault marred with deep veins of darkness. It is attempting to heal itself, and the central altar has been ripped apart. Elizrae's forearm lies on the ground beside her humanoid form, hunched over the altar, laughing. She has obtained the hand and eye of Vecna. She has also become the next Iormora, ascended dragon of magic. 
==NPCs==
===Returning===
*Elizrae
**Iermora (now Elizrae)