Heart of Tyre: Episode 06

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***Heart of Tyre* Episode 6** was streamed on Arcadum's Twitch channel on August 17, 2020, and premiered on Arcadum's YouTube channel on October 29, 2020.

## Summary

The sun rises and the party wakes up ready for another adventure in the Labyrinth. However, Antonius grunts in pain as his chest seems to be bruised. Antonius relays the events that happens. Out of nowhere, Ives hears a strange whistling sound as a hammer slams to the ground. Antonius picks up the hammer and it immediately attunes to him like it belonged to him since the beginning.

The party then goes to Erin where he apologizes for his dumb refraction. Erin gives Antonius a side quest where they need to go back to hell and find an alleged instance of Tyre. After finding out that Tyre can change into any being he so desires, Erin suspects that Tyre was pulling the strings to siphon power out of the Shadowfell using mirrors. Erin clarifies that "He was chancellor to the Shadowfell while also working with the demons of hell telling them it was okay to take energy from the Shadowfell", also instructing the group to look for Daz'fazuul.

Afterwards Antonius goes to Braktor and ask him about the hammer he got. Braktor explains that it was there when he was the Seven and killed him because he killed his brother. After the immense awkwardness, they forgive each other for their past action. Erin also asks Seren to talk to the Brass King if he knows if anything about Tyre in Azengolt. Seren goes to the Tree of Revelation and tries to call to the Brass King but something suddenly blocks her connection. The violet slam into Seren minds as it shines from the West. Mad Morc sees a humanoid flying through the sky as it lands in the sickened sea. Lastly, Antonius contacts the magic shop to discuss a coin he has. Dilane flips the coin and Derek's old items appear. Antonius with new attire and ten thousand gold, recharges his wand of Counterspell and the party enters the Labyrinth.

The party comes back to the hospital and looks at the door that was sealed by flesh that is now open. Inside they find multiple petrified bodies hanging from the ceiling with two drawers. The party notices that the hanged corpses have multiple punctures on their backs in an orderly fashion. Neve looks into the drawers and find jars of teeth ordered in certain sizes labelled in a undecipherable language. Antonius looks in the next room and find more calcified morsels. Ives tries to scarp the rocks out of the body and green herbs come out of it.

The party leaves the room and Ives throw knives at the rest of the corpses which drop more green herbs. The party wants to destroy the bodies in the other room as well but Antonius is insistent about it worrying that there is an unknown cost that is growing. Neve and Ives goes into the next room and, one by one, destroy the bodies. The corpses in this room drop herbs a variety of colors; some important ones include a gold herb which we don't know what it does and a black herb which increases infection. Ives looks at the ceiling and see a creepy formation of a face smiling at them.

Back at the rest of the party, they hear Fleshcrime Omega coming and they run to Neve and Ives. Fleshcrime Omega doesn't come into the room but put a flesh seal on the entrance. Antonius notices a flesh web in the corner of the room and sees that it is similar to the roots holding the herbs inside the bodies except much bigger. The roots go through the ceiling and leads to the door to the right. Morc opens that door and find a hallway with people on the walls.

Back at the other room, Antonius looks outside a window that glows a red light. He sees a wall of shining flesh and Antonius notices that they are on top of a tower and at the bottom, a shadowy figure stands as if it is waiting for them. Morc opens the door to the side and notice that there was an amber seal on the other side of the door and it is now broken.

Howling is heard from the distance and hundreds of Depthar-like dogs start running. The party runs into the hallway to the right and run into a room with a suspicious looking chair in the center. Seren is pulled to the chair and her resistances is of no effect. The party tries to stop her and as they do, they see an unnatural strength come from her. They hear glass break in the other room and Ives reaches into her bag to grab anything to help Seren. The party give a blue herb into her mouth and Seren tries to bite her but they dodge and Seren falls asleep from the herb.

Antonius looks out into the hallway and sees the canines are coming. Seren unconscious body rises up and Morc tries to apprehend her. Antonius tries to break the chair but a unknown force pushes him away. Ives looks into the hallway with the dogs and shoot his Crowstorm arrow. The group of dogs die from the swarm but more come to reinforce. One dog tries to attack Ives but dissipates as they are not real Depthar. The party gives Seren a white herb and it stabilize Seren.

Ives looks into the main room with the windows and see the rest of the dogs. He see Fleshcrime Omega come into the room and disintegrate all the dogs. Fleshcrime comes into the room they were hiding at and the party hides in the darkness. The boss doesn't notice their presence and leaves the room.

The party notice that behind the chair says "Experiment 777". The party converse on what Tyre was doing with this chair and Fleshcrime Omega comes back muttering "Tyre" an "traitor". The party assume that saying Tyre will attract Fleshcrime Omega. Antonius theorizes that Tyre brought the Depthar to extract the strength and possibly betrayed the seven to do it. He continues on about how the Seven might need to be destroyed to destroy the Enemy.

Seren circles around the chair and see marks on the seat in the same patterns of the back of the calcified bodies. Seren then hears a voice come from the chair saying "traitor". The party notices that the Stompy is suspiciously quiet. Stompy tells the party that something has been looking at them on the chair for the whole time. Seren tries to look in Stompy eyes and sees a previous Seven who was a druid on that chair. The seven yells "Tyre" and "traitor" before mutating into Fleshcrime Omega. Seren realize that the reason Fleshcrime Omega was speaking Druidic was because it used to be a druid and relays all she saw to the party.

Seren looks at Stompy who tells her that she can't move. Neve gives Stompy to Seren and he mutters that he doesn't feel good. He continues by saying how he witnessed a bright room with glass everywhere. Suddenly, Stompy disappears and Seren can't bring him back. Distraught, Seren stands up and continues searching the area. At the end of the hallway, they find a wiggling flesh plant that seem to be looking for food. Morc throws some rations at it and the plant uses it tendril to eat it. As Seren goes closer, the plant reaches out to her like a child reaching for their mother. Seren tries to reach for the plant and it transform to Stompy. Seren hugs him crying and Stompy explains that the flesh is the back of her mind. After the situation calms down, Stompy continues explaining the room he saw and leads the party to another part of the labyrinth.

## Featured Characters

### Main Characters

* Lord Antonius Volnaris
* Ives
* Neve
* Madd Morc
* Seren

## References

1. ↑ Twitch Tracker
2. ↑ As depicted in *Shattered Crowns* Season 2 Episode 10