Session 98 "Brother Puss Bag"

Session 98: Brother Puss Bag

Following Gram’s defeat at the hands of one of the Stone Guard, with only one more chance to put forth a worthy potential member to join their order, The Lucky Seven found yourselves relying on your unarmed combat wunderkind, Dorn, also known as Puss Bag in certain fighting circles. Immediately the fight was very different than the first one. Catching his opponent off guard with a shin kick, Dorn started strong and dominated through out the fight until he had secured victory. One challenge down, Dorn passed the second and third without much difficulty and is thus now a member of The Stone Guard, able to call upon the order to join the fight against The Nine Hells. He was also gifted The Titan Stone Leg Weights and branded with The Eldritch Claw Tattoo. Now a member of the group, Dorn may return to The Defiant Earth Temple to train with The Stone Guard and learn new techniques whenever he like.

Via Muffy’s magic, 88 members of The Stone Guard were teleported to The Citadel of Light, and though it was late, you assembled a meeting of various leaders to plan the next steps. After vetting them to make sure no traitor was amongst the assembled and a song from Rensig to set the mood, the collected individuals led by Gram formulated how to proceed. Realizing that there was a fortified position very close to Athkatmon in Golden Spires, it was decided that The Lucky Seven would head to the small Waukeen devoted city state on the morrow to secure the aid of Golden Spires. The major share of the forces were then divided into a smaller internal strike group that would, if it was possible, teleport to The Alabaster Lyceum once The Lucky Seven had cleared the teleportation circle (assuming it was still intact) and then move on the newly constructed tower. This group would consist of a handful of Force Grey members, some members of The Order of The Even Fist, and possibly the entire company of The Elven Mercenary group known as The Silent Rain. It would also include honorary Lucky Seven member Yun for good measure. Yun had fully removed the curse on Gram placed by Auntie Rhea granting Gram control over his transformations and thus she need not be with The Lucky Seven who were to take up the most dangerous mission. The remaining forces would strike externally with the goal of taking out The Devil’s Adamantine War Machines. Key to that is the ability of The Stone Guard to strike from below. Everyone else is there to kill Devils.

After another full day of travel, first west to the coast and St. Carwhale’s Vale, then south by rowboat, The Lucky Seven, with most of your familiars and companions safe at The Citadel of Light, made your way to The Golden Spires as the sun was setting. Talking your way in, you were brought before the most powerful cleric in all of Amn, the head of the church of Waukeen throughout the content, The Holy Coin, The Voice of the Lady himself, Tharundar Olehm. Some persuasive words and a few donations later, including Dorn’s powerful dragon tooth dagger, and he agreed to let the forces making the external assault on the city use the courtyard of Golden Spires as a staging ground. For 100 gold more he also allowed Bucky a peak at the teleportation circle in The Golden Spires, which being who she is, of course instantly committed the sequence to memory.

Finally, you teleported once again, this time to Balistar’s Flying Air Palace on The Elemental Plane of Air. After updating him, Gram asked for ways he might enhance The Charm to make it more capable of transporting across vast distances and possibly even to fly. Although Balistar had many possible ideas, none caught Gram’s attention like Balistar's suggestion to try to track down the crashed Illithid ship Balistar had seen go down near the parts of The Plane of Earth that lay closest to The Plane of Water and then, if it was still there, findable, and reasonably intact, scavenging said ship for parts. To this Rhys grabbed the sides of his head, a bit overwhelmed with all that was on your plate. But as Rhys and Gram noted everything else on your plate, including sorting out what happened to the abducted members of Xavin's School and what is happening with The Sons and Daughters of the Jotunn that is negatively effecting The Phoenix is for after you win the war. On your request, Balistar brought you all to his shop on the Prime Material Plane in Athkatmon. Gram has made himself, Rensig, Muffy, and Rhys invisible. Dorn has cast pass without a trace on you all. The five way intersection outside of Balistar’s appears empty. But just as a precaution ,as you were moving out into the dark early winter night, Balistar conjured a Sleet Storm. Devils beware, the Lucky Seven are back in Athkatmon.