Devils and Scholars and Drunks, Oh My!

Kesra finds herself(13:00) alone in their camp, her friends speedily taken away from her. She quickly attempts to try and figure out where people are. She quickly picks up the bag of holding and finds the horses gutted. She starts to run east in the direction that she feels Leona was taken leaving most of the groups supplies and belongings behind.

Leona is grappled(20:20) by a flying horned devil. She starts to struggle, and the then choked out by the devil. She wakes shackled in a stone room of some sort, gagged. She starts to struggle, screaming into the gag, as the horned devil appears and starts to torture her a little. The horned devil starts to speak in infernal, and then uses some form of telepathy to offer her a deal. Sign her soul over and save her friends, or die and then her friends will die. The horned devil begins to torture her again and knocks her out again. This process of torture, deal, and then unconciousness repeats a few times. Some amount of time passes that leona is unaware of.

Alexander lightbringer(31:30) is out on a evening stroll with his two contructs, Hearing screaming coming from the ruined temple he had planned to delve into he carefully makes his way into the temple where he hears the muffled screams of someone being tortured by a devil. Stepping into the room, he starts to converse with the Devil, casting charm monster. He convinces the Devil to stand still while he draws a circle of power around him trapping it. Leona runs out of the temple and Alexander sends his contructs to follow her. Alexander stays behind to talk to the devil. Asking it if it knows if Lorekeeper is in this temple, it finds that it is not. After that he leaves the temple and introduces himself to Leona. They head off into the night towards Alexander’s home in Beth’s Chapel after sending a Sending to Kesra.

Cut back to kesra(1:01:50) (only a little while after the group was seperated) Kesra starts to cuss out Pelor, yelling at her god as she holds her holy symbol. Walking in a direction as best she can.

Cut to Diedre(1:06:30) coming to conciousness in a similar situation as leona, she is given the same deal that Leona was, your soul or your life. She is in a broken down but somewhat repaired recently temple. She is also tortured by a devil.

Marshall is heading(1:15:50) back to the temple that he has been repairing noticing the desecration of a fiend in his temple. He brazenly walks in on it and proceeds to threaten it. When the Horned devil attacks he proceeds to defend himself and slays the Devil handily. He heals Diedre while in battle, and proceeds to smite the devil into oblivion.
- Combat finished(1:28:30) Marshall frees Diedre from her chains and gag they start to converse. Marshall seems to have quite the penchant for strong Moonshine. Marshall has been cleaning up this old temple for some time and is from Iolan. Diedre fills Marshall in on what has happened recently.

Cut back to kesra(1:34:20) (the previous morning) still traipsing through the woods. She attempts to go in the direction that she saw leona taken. She spends the day thoroughly cussing out pelor, and accidentally casts Find Steed. She continues on the horse in the direction that she thinks she should be going in. Taking her to nightfall.

Kesra makes camp(1:41:00) and falls into a fitfull sleep, dreaming of Leona which is then interupted by Leonas Sending, startling awake and responding to her.

Cut back to Alexander and Leona(1:44:00) heading to Beth’s Chapel. Alexander gently asks Leona about her background and Leona does the same to Alexander.

Cut back to Diedre and Marshall(1:47:50) they chat about where they need to go. Marshall summons his steed and they head off towards Wolfcrest. Making camp at some point and having some light conversation, while Marshall gets three sheets to the wind. They take a long rest. Diedre is awakened in the early morning by Leonas message informing her of where she is and what they are planning to do.

we return from the break(2:11:15) to Alexander and Leona returning back to Alexanders house. We get a little bit of background on Alexanders constructs and his activities and his home. There is a little bit of small chat about how the groups will be meeting at Alexanders house. Alexander describes his house and something about beths chapel. Leona goes to bed though she is sorely tempted by the lure of being told she should not go down into Alexanders labratory.

Back to Diedre and Marshall sleeping.(2:24:30) Marshall is haunted by visions of his past and wakes up screaming “Izzy.” He eventually realizes it is a dream when Diedre shakes him out of it. They eventually get back to sleep.

back to kesra(2:30:00) - The dawn after everyone has been saved and talked with Leona. Kesra figures out where she is with Reys map and plots a course to Beths Chapel.

Back to Leona and Alexander(2:35:30) - Alexander wakes up early and makes breakfast for the two of them. Alexander bluffs his way , a little bit, around Leonas inquiries about his work and offers to to give her a tour of the town. Leona goes to the garden to looks for any windows into the basement of which there are none. Leona casts sending to Diedre telling her that she will stay in beths chapel

rewind a little bit(2:42:30) to Marshal and Diedre waking up, they decide to go to Beth’s Chapel. After about an hour they recieve leonas Sending and respond that they are not in fact with the group , but on their own. Leona does a sending to Kesra, she responds that she will be there at the night ish. Leona casts a sending to maudit and receives no response, and casts it past her spell limit, and the confesses her guilt about being on watch when everyone was abducted. Alexander goes and cleans up his lab in prep for giving Leona a tour.

Diedre and Marshall talk(2:54:00) on their days ride towards Beth’s Chapel. Diedre questions Marshall about “Izzy.” Marshall talks about his life in Iolan and how he met “Izzy” the love of his life. He admits that he will not see her again, how there is some form of social gap between them. He has not given up his love, but he feels that it is not his place to ruin her social status, and so let her go.

Leona waits for Alexander(3:01:30) to clean his lab, and escorts her downstairs to his laboratory. Alexander speaks a bunch of techno babble about his work rambling on, he eventually tries to cajole her out of the lab. Leona asks about why Alexander is out here, and Alexander admits that he was not touched by pelor. And that he eventually left when things did not quite go well but he is doing his research now. He eventually admits to Leona that his is looking for the book Lorekeeper. Alexander eventually takes Leona into town.

Diedre and Marshall(3:20:00) arrive in Beth’s Chapel. Leona and Diedre embrace in a very dramatic manner. Leona is introduced to Marshall and Marshall is introduced to Alexander. And the group gets some drinks.

Return from the second break(3:31:50), drinks are bought, conversations are had about missing companions, and how they each met. Leona decides to give a performance at the inn. Kesra is eventually able to arive and is swarmed by her friends and then introduced to Alexander and Marshall. Kesra learns that she summoned the horse. Alexander seems to have a bit of a crush on kesra. Kesra attempts to understand what a summoned steed is as Marshall explains what a paladin is as well as what end of the sword goes in the enemy. Alexander gets a pretty drunk and passes out for a bit. The group is sad about Maudit missing. Alexander pops up still drunk, and offers his services to help the group. Alexander invites the group back to his estate where he has defenses against Devils.

the group(4:18:44) heads out towards Alexanders home, arriving safely. The group discusses how Diedre was found, and the new god Helm. Leona trys to tell Roman about her whereabouts. Marshall stays outside worried about the possible return of horned devils and talks to Leona who thanks him for his help. Leona blames herself for being on watch when the attack happened. Leona tries to dig into Marshalls background, and learns a little about his background. Where he is from , and how he met Izzy, the love of his life. He got her mostly home, and she was from Royalty and he was just a soldier. Leona gets all romantic and realizes that Marshalls Izzy is the empress of Zandaria Izabella. She insists that Marshall write her, but he refuses,because he feels he knows his place, and she knew hers. Leona tries to start to write a letter to Izzy, but Marshall refuses being enigmatic, eventually showing off a very large heart shaped Ruby that is some form of Artifact. The session ends with a cliffhanger of devilish wingbeats incoming.