Agents of the Nine Hells

**Agents of the Nine Hells** was a twelve-part campaign that ran in late 2019, DMed by Chris Hislop. *Agents of the Nine Hells* was produced by Adventurers Wanted, but in-universe elements and many of the characters transferred across to Roll Together's campaigns.

## Player characters

### Main cast

* Judah Armanah, played by Matt Chapman
* Kelden, played by Emma Rose
* Andreas Doros, played by Toby Osmond
* Perygl, played by Shamini Bundell
* Flutter of Wings
* Monsoon

### Guest cast

* Muriel
* Bundor

## Plot

We join the party mid-mission, as they attack a hellwasp nest on Avernus to defeat an encroaching glabrezu demon. Wizard Perygl, the latest addition to the team, uses her magics to help Andreas Doros, a ranger/fighter known as the Giant of Chessenta, and Kelden, a minotaur life cleric, to make their way up to the floating nest, while bard Monsoon and rogue/warlock Flutter of Wings climb the chains and assassin archer Judah Armanah flies up. Together, they defeat the glabrezu, and return to the Wandering Emporium.

The Wandering Emporium is their strange home away from home - Andreas wants to defeat Mammon, who destroyed his family; Judah is an angel on a holy war against Asmodeus; Flutter of Wings is compelled to be here by their sentient rapier, which used to be a hollyphant called Fliptwinkle; Kelden is looking to free the minotaurs from Baphomet's control; and Monsoon is sending money back to her parents in Waterdeep. The party manage to get Perygl to reveal that she's been asked to be here by her master, the mysterious Mr M.

Mahadi, the proprietor of the Wandering Emporium, introduces the party to Dimuphis, Asmodeus' daughter - who tasks them with retrieving the Book of Derelict Magicks, which someone on Carceri is offering to sell. This book details the creation of the Nine Hells, and claims that all devils and demons were originally a third type of fiend called a yugoloth, who are from Hades - and this knowledge could end the Blood War between devils and demons, which would be extremely bad news for everywhere else - as with the demons and devils busy with each other, they don't annihilate the rest of the planes of existence. Carceri is extremely hard to leave, being the prison plane of the multiverse - so Dimuphis offers to send the party there, but they will need to make their own way back. She recommends travelling down the Styx, through Hades and Gehenna, to return to the Nine Hells. In return for this deed, she can offer them untold riches, and help with all of their goals.

The party accept, albeit unsure of whether it is the right thing to do, and travel to Carceri. Once there, they make their way to the Last Bastion, where they encounter Ekxius, a skereloth, and must escape demonic forces working against them - and in doing so Andreas invents "demonball" by kicking one of Monsoon's beads of force holding the enemies far, far away. They reach a dock, with a merrenloth captain called Carianth, and make to escape Carceri, fighting a fiendish hydra along the way.

Once in Hades, the party start to mistrust Carianth, and steal away onto another ship, the Queen of the Styx. This steamboat, captained by Muriel the Hollyphant, is the flagship of the The Independent Outreach Bureau for Intervention in Needless Wars, a force of giff who work with Muriel to try and stop the Blood War. Flutter of Wings realises that their sword, inhabited by a hollyphant, might be connected to Muriel, but the party are deposited at Khin-Oin, to meet the leaders of the yugoloths, the oinoloths. On their way up the ruined tower, the party are attacked by a mysterious dark assassin (who the party dub Dark Judah), but manage to escape.

Meeting the oinoloths inside, the party are told that the General of Gehenna, the military leader of the yugoloths, is planning on invading Avernus in his castle, the Crawling City, having discovered this truth about all fiend-kind and desiring to be treated with the same respect as Asmodeus. The oinoloths knew this, and want him stopped as well - and help the party on their way, opening a portal to Gehenna.

In Gehenna, the party are only one step ahead of the demons looking for them, and together they destroy a bar with a glass floor and nearly lose Kelden. They acquire the services of Bundor, who uses a magical tunnelling vehicle to take them to the Crawling City, but not before encountering (and defeating) a terrifying pyroclastic dragon. Once at the city, they find a hidden door with the help of Perygl's magic, and meet the General - who does not put up a fight, instead claiming that the Book prophesised all of this. After he is dispatched, the party encounter the demon lord Baphomet and the deposed devil Moloch, who are working with the General - unable to fight these two foes, they run and destroy the Crawling City, but not before Kelden cuts Baphomet's braid and frees the minotaurs from his control.

Back on Avernus, Mr M (who is revealed to be Mordenkainen) thanks Perygl for continuing the Blood War, and the party return to the Wandering Emporium. Dimuphis thanks them for their service - and Mahadi reveals to Andreas that he is Asmodeus in disguise, and that he will help him defeat Moloch. Flutter and Monsoon have started working towards a relationship, and Flutter asks to be released by Fliptwinkle - who is revealed to have been a hollyphant, and that Muriel was a hag impersonating her as penance. As Kelden, Monsoon and Flutter all head for home, Andreas and Judah stay in Hell to complete their goals.