Uninvited Party Guests

Winter 720

Nax and Fillmore slowly descended down a coal shoot on his flying broom. Roberto, Sir Ernst and the captive Thamior went to the graveyard. Where they were attacked by a banshee. Roberto was reduced to unconsciousness. Sir Ernst attacked the ghost with his sword. Thamior ran away. Roberto surviveed his ordeal. Sir Ernst killed the banshee with his shortsword.

Nax and Fillmore found an office and a nice robe worth a lot of money. Also books and scrolls written in infernal language. There was a teleportation magic aura in the fireplace. They then burst sneakily into another room, and tried to assassinate a guard. Eventually they did, then they discovered a statue of Azmodius. Fillmore killed another guard with his holy magic staff. Then clumsily they alerted the statue by stepping on a tile, Nax was singed by the jets of flame and jumped in a well to cool off. Another guard noticed Fillmore but the wizard instantly reacted and firebolted him critically.

Sir Ernst, Roberto, Cat and Thamior took a short rest in the graveyard.

The guard slashed Fillmore, Nax lunged out of the well, he missed both of his attacks, however the pair killed this guard quite easily. Then they find a kitchen, with two cookery ladies within, they were scared, but gave them helpful information. *Greyla is a very powerful warlock*. Nax let the women leave.

Meanwhile, Sir Ernst, Roberto and Thamior descended the stairs through the ceypt. They found many corpses used to raise zombies. Roberto stepped on the teleport pad and is sent back to the basement in Southfalls.

Fillmore and Nax found the basement dining room, (which they thought was a weird interior design feature), but that must be where the villains ate the children. Through the door they found Sir Ernst and Roberto, Fillmore helped them throw the dead bodies into the portal. Nax found the room that Greyla was in, it was full of cages and captives. A plan for murder was hatched, Nax would do some very good stealth attacks on Greyla’s knees, the rest of the party would then breach the room in order with great tactics and skill.

Sir Ernst retreated forward. Fillmore launched volleys of firebolts, Roberto going bigger used Fireballs, Nax missed his daggers attacks. Fillmore counterspelled her magic, Sir Ernst pursued. Fillmore sniped with a firebolt and Greyla was killed. Fillmore helped Nax, who was on the floor near to death, then the wizard investigated the demonic altar.

The King Tandoril Magren appeared to accuse the heroes of kidnapping his daughter, Princess Ciliren. Fillmore the Wizard, set the truth free, Renduil was the villain here.

*“Grease the king”*

Nax was mind controlled, he attacked Sir Ernst.

Roberto attacked Thamior with his dagger.

Renduil compelled the King to stand down his guards.

Sir Ernst cast eldritch blast at Thamior.

Fillmore stepped forward and created 4 Fillmores. The guards attacked Cat.

Renduil transformed into a tigerman.

Sir Ernst charged, and missed.

Fillmore summon a smoke rat, it missed.

Nax flew on his boom, and missed attacks.

Roberto launched a mighty fireball dealing heavy damage to many of the people.

Royal Guards were dying, Magic did not seem to work on this demon. It was up to the staff of Selune to do the work.

Nax had some success with his steel blades, the others are not so lucky.

Hellhounds attacked the royal guard.

Fillmore poke the Rakshasa with his holy magic staff while Cat dragged the King away.

He flew away, we get some attacks off as he goes. The Staff of Selune was powerful.

Sir Ernst sprinted in pursuit to give the King a potion of gaseous form, so that he would escape and summon help.

Fillmore tossed a smoke mastiff from his bag of tricks, it attacked.

The group attacked, some success, some failures.

Renduil grasped the gaseous king and vanished with a loud crack of thunder, The heroes were left with just the hell hounds to kill there. The heroes charged the beastsand killed them.

Fillmore offered the injured Royal guard a healing potion, he was restored and Sir Ernst instructed that he would help the party explain what happened in that basement.

Fillmore took the time to investigate Greyla’s workshop. He found some translations and a note detailing the way to Renduill's layer. An unopened door remained and Fillmore summoned Nax to aid in his exploration. Nax opened the door finding a room that contained a very large motionless snake. There was a glint of treasure under the water. The pair killed the snake and Nax retreived a cursed sword from the water.

After some more exploration of the basement the heroes freed the children from the prison and decided to head upstairs for a rest and medical aid.

Ivellios the archmarge told the heroes to find the king, and that they would be rewarded if they suceed.

The group entered hell through the portal in the fireplace. Ahead of them seemed to be the king fighting off some imps. The king claimed to have killed the Rakshasa, however Fillmore knew that this could not be true. The King was the fiend in disguise.

Roberto used grease. Nax used his broom attack with his snake scimitar.

The fake king told the royal guard to attack the heroes.

Fillmore managed to dispel the King’s disguise and yet he still convinced the guards to fight the adventurers.

The Rakshasa summoned Imps to fight the heroes. Then he dominated Roberto, Roberto attacked Fillmore with a fireball, Fillmore's magic Elven ring helped him evade the massive damage. The fireball also did damage to everyone else. Fillmore slapped Roberto out of it.

They fought further, the Imps caused Fillmore damage. Renduil attempted to levitate away but sliped on the grease.

Further fighting

Renduil rose into the air but the heroes took the opportunity to all strike at him, he fell to the ground unconscious after trying to convince the group to side with him to be princes of hell.

*"Stab at the heart Roberto"* Fillmore told him, and he did, the Rakshasa exploded into flames and yelled out in terrible horror.

After more investigation of the hell realm, Roberto found the captive Princess Ciliren Magren and freed her using magic to melt the lock. Her father lay slain on the floor and she was now to be hte Queen of Ath'urilan.

*The King is dead, long live the Queen.*