The City of the Dead Part 2

## Episode 15 - The FeyWild West

In a subterranean city, Seline re-examines her cards and realizes the message is not from the Undertaker but the Mother. Through the cards the Mother says...

> Finish what I told you to do now or else bad things are going to. Don't wait.
>
> The Mother

Having used a lot of spells in the previous scuffle with Anthonius, Seline asks her cards for guidance, 7 of rings (perseverance). They decided they are going to have to push through. Seline starts to cry while Talia holds her. Seline tries divine intervention… the room shakes, gears, grind, and the room begins to plummet until the room and they slam into the ground. They wake in darkness. After they climb out of the debris, Seline realizes her wing is broken. They fix it with a superior healing potion. They appear to be in the middle of a stone clockworks that is reconfiguring the palace in Anthonopolis. They see a pair of open tall metal doors with carvings of flame on them. Inside the room, it is ringed by a trough of oil that is lit on fire.

> The room has continual carvings of flame all throughout the walls and floor but not just flame buildings on fire people running and screaming. The sun high above shooting fire down on to the land. In the middle of the room is a large pedestal that stands empty and scattered on the ground are two very large Stone Guardians laying shattered on the ground in pieces.
>
> DM Molly

Seline seeing an interruption in the trough lining the wall investigates and notices a hidden door. The hallways revealed that goes on for 30 ft and then turns left. They continued down the hall making several more left turns until they enter a library. They enter into an aisle. Either side goes on for at least 50 ft before turning off. On the shelf, all the books are written in elvish and appear to be volume after volume of the teachings of the God Emperor Anthonius. Beyond that are encyclopedias arranged by subject including aberrations, of beasts and their varieties, Seline spots Creatures of the Astral Plane Volumes 1 and 2.

   After tearing through the book, Seline points out to Talia an Aboleth and proclaims it a star whale. Talia disagrees saying it's more like a star worm. Seline decides to keep the books for later. They descend from the second floor of the library to the first floor where amongst the shelves are reading areas with display cases. Some of them are just curiosities and others are labeled do not touch under any circumstance - cursed object. One case has a hand and an eye both preserved in a half rotted state.

   They're labeled as the Hand and Eye of Vecna. Some of the cases have exotic taxidermied creatures including a beholder. One of the cases catches Seline's eye a glass case holding a tome bound in brownish-red leather. The image engraved on the front is of very wisened old man with a very curly beard. Its placard reads Tome of Understanding. After Talia breaks the glass, Seline swaps books Indiana Jones Style. Turning another corner, Talia dodges a sword as they run into Rhenalle and Adrienne. Rhenalle and Adrienne also fell when Seline and Talia did and slid down to this level. Seline asks Adrienne if she sees anything different. Adrienne says that there are no doors. Although she means a different kind of door. She also hears sad singing. Adrienne leads them through another hallway that is covered in sprawling elvish script. There's a written account of how Anthonius conquered the known world along with other conquests and deeds. Anthonius resurrected someone and created Relberrion. It claims that he created a being out of nothing, made of energy, and bound to an armored form. As they continue on Seline begins to feel a comforting warmth. Adrienne remarks that angels are singing and leads them onward. They answer a room with the light streaming out of it. Inside is four large raised stone slabs 3 ft off the ground. They're about 15 ft long and 10 ft wide they're arranged in an x shape pattern. On each slab is a massive humanoid in a position of rest. Their eyes are closed and their hands are crossed on their chest. One has skin that looks like molten gold. Two of them have skin that is a deep blue-green. The last has skin that looks just like human flesh. Folded underneath each of them is a set of wings. In the center of this formation, 15 ft tall by 5 ft in diameter is a gold white crystal.

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent-Grey
* Talia Argent-Grey

### NPCs

* Rhenalle
* Adrienne Argent-Grey
* God Emperor Anthonius