Session0071

==June 24th==
As the rest of the party spends the evening with XVIII and their family in Mimrinoth, Falgron reports the news of Gragnok's death the imperial messengers, and also sends word of his death to Valania Aloro in Paxeter.
Malkoth creates a homunculus in the form of a dog, and leaves it with XVIII's family. 
Odell spends the evening inscribing his rune of divine transference onto the soul coins recovered from Sigil. 
After their tryst aboard the yacht, XVIII parts ways with XVI and their simulacrum, who return home to XVIII's family.
When the party reconvenes later in the evening, Jack tells them that he has mastered the wish spell, and asks if anyone in the party has need of it before the Prime Zenith. No one does, but Odell asks him to let College mages observe his casting of the spell for academic purposes, but Jack declines, citing apprehension about receiving too much scrutiny and attention from the College. Later, he privately uses the wish spell to cast regenerate on himself. 
==June 25th==
In the morning, Louche plays the psalm of rest for the party. He performs the psalm in a public space using the amplifier from the Imlaq Colossus to share its effects with some denizens of Mimrinoth as well.
Patches shapeshifts into a bugbear.
As the party is making preparations to leave, Lo gives Jack a necklace that she made as a gift for Gragnok, and asks him to give it to Gragnok if they meet again. Meanwhile, Buttonsworth tells Frog that he'll stay behind in Mimrinoth with Lo and XVIII's family while the party finishes their adventures.
After finalizing their preparations, the party uses a teleportation circle to travel to Karaad. From there, they board Patches' yacht, and travel to Ymana.
Drawing near to the island, from a few miles away, the party finds that the island has been partially burned and terraformed into a hellscape, and flying devils are patrolling the smoky skies above. Examining these devils from the distance, Louche recognizes that they are new kinds of devils like none he has seen before. XVIII speculates that the island's kuo-toa could have a hand in their creation, and Louche suggests that they might be using blood sacrifices to empower Asmodeus.
Discussing how to proceed, the party considers traveling to the abode of Qaz the Proclaimer, but an augury spell reveals that this will not yield good results. Instead, they decide to head to the island's largest village of kuo-toa and grung, which they visited during their previous stay on the island. They begin navigating along the island's western coast toward the village.
En route to the village, the party spots a group of devils in the ruins of Salrosza along the western coast of the island. The devils seem to be standing watch around a group of kuo-toa that are worshiping at altars to Asmodeus. After some discussion, Malkoth uses a meteor swarm spell to destroy the devils and kuo-toa from the distance. Shortly after, a narzugon astride a nightmare appears in the ruins from the ethereal plane, and after noting the destruction and the party's presence off shore, disappears again. 
The party goes ashore at the ruins to investigate the remains of the scene. There, they find another naruzgon in the ethereal plane, speaking with the souls of the deceased kuo-toa. Malkoth uses a blink spell to enter the ethereal plane, and destroys the narzugon. 
XVIII speaks with the souls of the dead kuo-toa, and intimidates them into speaking to him about the state of the island and Asmodeus. They explain that Lane Coronato is atop the island's northernmost mountain, at the altar the party previously visited. They warn that Asmodeus has surrounded himself with a large number of infernal forces for the party's eventual arrival, but that some of those forces will probably now be sent here to the ruins to investigate what's happened. Finally, they explain that the kuo-toa have been gathering and taking the island's grung prisoner, and making blood sacrifices of them. XVIII asks where they're being imprisoned, and the kuo-toa say that they are being held at the village. 
Keeping watch, Falgron spots a large group of flying devils approaching from the mountains in the distance. The party takes off aboard their yacht, and takes a wide berth around the northwest coast of the island to avoid being spotted. Eventually, they arrive at the coast near the village. 
After some discussion of whether to move subtly or quickly, the party decides to move quickly, and flies the yacht over the burning jungle toward the village. On the way, they are spotted and chased by a number of flying devil patrols. Arriving at the village, they find it inhabited by kuo-toa and devils, who have imprisoned a large number of grung within wooden cage, including Qaz the Proclaimer. The party attacks, defeating the kuo-toa and devils, and freeing the grung.
In the aftermath of the battle, the party talks with Qaz, who explains that the kuo-toa have been rounding up all of island's grung and making sacrifices of them on behalf of Lane Coronato. The party explains that they have come to stop Lane, and Qaz says that he can lead the rest of the grung to temporary safety in hiding. He offers the party omen readings in exchange for their aid and for other gifts that they offer, much like the last time they met him.
Frog receives the following omen:
You who have beheld the place beyond place, the time beyond time, who have stood in the thresholds of worlds beyond number. Where there is a road, there are those who would walk it. The path that you have walked, that you walk, that you will walk. It is given to you now to understand that these indeed are one and the same. Rest not for long, for time comes without warning, and with it comes change.
Malkoth receives the following omen:
The Weave is a needle, and Chaos is the thread. A tapestry of unconstrained potential, an expression of possibility that knows no limit. Chaos flows through your veins purer than blood, and by your hand shall the shape of the world be made.
Louche receives the following omen:
Goodness and love, betrayal and sorrow. Forces in opposition yet in balance, for without evil, good has no power. Without heartbreak, love has no meaning. You contain multitudes, who sing in harmony a ballad of a love that conquers hate. Of mercy and of hope over which fear has no power. This, your song, shall resonate in the chorus of the world’s awakening.
Jack receives the following omen:
Chaos must be freed from its restraints, and through you, Chaos speaks. You are the voice of the heart of the world. By your eyes the world sees, by your actions the world moves. Through you, conduit of Primordial Chaos, and by your hand, shall Chaos carve its freedom from that which would restrain it.
Patches receives the following omen:
Infinite possibility, evolution, mutation, a diamond lost among a thousand thousand grains of sand. You are a pilgrim wandering among stars, and yet without a home, a home you may ever seek. And in the seeking, you may ever find that meaning can only be found in the meaningless. All things are Chaos, and Chaos is all things.
Odell receives the following omen:
A time of rest is ending, and a new era begins. You who walk the path that mortalkind ought never tread. You desire control. You fear what the world may become if you do not shape it to your will. But Chaos is not meant to be subdued. Chaos needs no ruler, and neither do its children. You wish to hold the fate of mortalkind in your hands. Consider that it is not yours to hold.
XVIII receives the following omen:
Chaos is life, and from life, there is only death. You who bear the burden of the fate of all mortalkind; you whose face shall become the face of death. And what shall that expression be? A face of sorrow? Of joy? Of rage? Death must come for all. Every living thing must confront it in its time. It is given unto you to decide: what shall be the face that they see?
After receiving their readings, the party spends a short time healing and using a catnap spell. Meanwhile, Falgron spots more devils approaching their position from the mountains in the distance, as well as devils seemingly converging on their position from the ruins of Salrosza to the southwest. Moving quickly to avoid being detected, Qaz and the other grung depart into the jungle, while the party decides to use one of Gregarian Advantis' magical paintings to travel to Sigil, in hopes of avoiding the incoming danger, and potentially also using Sigil's Inner Gate to ambush Lane Coronato while his forces are diverted. To facilitate this, they place the magic painting on a burnt tree in the jungle. After everyone else has gone through the painting, Falgron uses narzul's marvelous pigments to create a hollow tree around the painting to keep it hidden, then travels through the painting into Sigil in time to avoid being spotted by the converging devil forces. 
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