The Pantheon War Campaign/Session 20

Last Session:
*The Bird and The Flame meet the Queen - and a mysterious hooded figure - to debrief the Queen about Amaranthia
*Mathys and Ziton enjoy Amarak's library until a few books get too handsy and the hooded figure reveals themself to be Seraphel, a Valdosian angel, that recruits Mathys
*Amarak runs into the Basement Den of Vices to tell Elesett and Maestro Sunrose about Mathys being recruited by a Valdosian
This Session:
*Elessett, Maestro Sunrose, and Pennsylvania Telluride decide what, if anything they want to do anything about the Valdosians or if they just want to leave
**The party asks to get the Mercenaries back from Amarak
***Amarak tells us that the Mercenaries are being held as a bargaining chip by the Valdosians and that if we want to get them back we'll need to confront the Valdosians and their angel. 
***Maestro Sunrose gets the impression that this is a desperate act of trying to get a divine power to fight another divine power - with the hope that our divine power is much less organized than the Valdosians and likely to intervene
***Amarak is worried that if the Valdosians get a foothold on this planet they will pressure the Queen to dominate both her people and then the planet
***Amarak believes that this angel is the only angel to arrive and arrived to gather information based on our former companion (Humboldt)
****This entire arc is all Logan Warberg's fault
****This angel is acting on its own and will not have an immediate supervisor that comes to investigate if it is driven away
***Pennsylvania Telluride asks and is concerned about what a Valdosian angel can do to him if he hasn't signed a contract. Amarak intends to lead Elesett and Maestro Sunrose to the angel's last known location and then hide behind the alley of his house. PA Telluride will do that and report back if something happens
*Ziton sneaks a book out of Amarak's library, but is unable to determine if he is subject to unwanted Valdosian influence. He decides to meet back with the main party at the Den of Vices.
*Mathys is trying to understand what his legal standing is with the Valdosian angel
**Seraphel wants Mathys to create a series of contracts allowing him to appear wherever Mathys goes. This contract will last for at least 1 year after Mathys returns to Lemuria
**Seraphel is angel interested in talent recruitment, and Mathys is a talented man
**Seraphel will remain on this planet until he has set up a system for the Queen to make productive use of untended resources here on the planet. After he is done, he will return Mathys back to Lemuria. This will take roughly 6 months
**They head back to Seraphel's place for a hard inking & a thorough review of Mathys's assets. Mathys requests a card now that he has joined the Bar and Seraphel will give it to him - if Mathys tells Seraphel how he wants to be addressed. By accepting the card, Mathys has accepted that Seraphel has the authority to give him that title.
**Mathys signs the contract (and Logan apologizes that he tried to have a character aligned with the Party — but we brought it upon ourselves by withholding information from him)
*Ziton points the party in the direction that Mathys and the angel went; there is a very prominent house where we can see Mathys and the angel meeting. We are being watched by guards that are clearly Valdosian and human-ish
*We knock on the angel's door and are greeted by one of the "unfinished peoples"
**Seraphel invites us and into the office. When he does, the door we came in closes and the door to the room where Mathys is also closes.
**Seraphel's desk reeks to Elesett, it is a projection of his sanctum
**Elesett asks if the mercenaries can be returned, that we have learned that they are being held hostage by Valdosians. She uses the cover story that they are in possession of artifacts and we want those artifacts back - and the option to retain the mercenaries again if they have served us well
**Serpahel is aware that we are outlanders and they are outlanders and that our interests are not aligned with his. They shall be returned to us, disarmed, and we must leave. Our Master must not send any agents for the next 100 years but we can take anyone who wants to leave with us.
***If we do not leave, Seraphel will take the our desire to hide info on Amaranthia as a statement of our intentions in that area.
**Elessett counters that he should also leave
**Sepharel counter-counters that he won't pursue us because we will not be his problem, and asks why the party has such great interest in the planet 
**Ziton, knowing that Othal and Valdos have collaborated before and will likely do so more in the future, tells Seraphel he works for Othal (in so many words) & tells Seraphel he knows something about the City. This (Elesett thinks) is the first he's heard of it.
*The Elesett hits the fan. A failure to self-regulate means that when she undoes her shackles to burn up Seraphel (who now has heard too much), there's some collateral damage… Ziton is killed in the blaze (and some Othalis reanimate him to watch through his eyes). As Seraphel tries to bargain for his escape, Elesett doggedly hacks him apart, following him to a Valdosian retreat and partially self-immolating there in order to destroy him, and with him, his retreat's links to a web of interconnected Valdosian pockets. When Seraphel flees the planet, one clause of Mathys's contract is completed, and he is returned, victorious, to his homeworld of Lemuria. Logan wins the campaign
*Now unveiled, and quickly blazing, Elesett extinguishes her senses and launches all of her soul's energy into a fireball at the City—an act carrying roughly the destructive power of firing a Black Pyramid. 
*In the City, a hunger waits… and Haruspex, who has been there for years, and come to understand the central nature there of death and hunger, tries to contest the hunger with his own. He cannot, and instead presents a model of satiation: of tilling the land, of raising livestock and crops, of fulfillment. The void mimics his model, no longer infinitely hungering, but able to self-fulfill. Without the empty vacuum of death to extinguish it, Elesett's fire blazes into Haruspex's oubliette. As Haruspex, showing the hunger how to stop hungering, is also consumed, a new god is sparked and incubates in the depths of the City. (Teamwork.)
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