Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

Avarice

Alto

Zinli

Baqir

Phoenix

Allison

This session began with Avarice coming to talk to Phoenix. Avarice warned Phoenix that not everyone who helps you is your friend, and not everyone who give you trouble is your enemy. He implied that Phoenix should be wary of Chaplain and the other Chateneau Wardens since they held all the real power in on Zero Base. Phoenix was perturbed by the abrasive way Avarice spoke to him and saw no reason to distrust Chaplain.

After their conversation, Specter come out of where she had been hiding in Phoenix's room. She assured him that the wardens would not betray him and gave him her report on Mournfrost. She pointed out that the undead seemed to be moving more strategically than a mindless horde would so she was convinced something or someone was controlling them.

The league was gathered together to discuss the plan. Zinli and Phoenix seemed intent on going to Mournfrost to get the shards of the fey stone that might be there. Avarice suggested befriending whoever was controlling the undead. But Crow was very insistent that the mission be carried out sooner rather than later. The three jaunting devices they had retrieved from Magog's old lab would be able to jaunt 9 people, and after doing a headcount, they only needed 8.

Silvius insisted they wait 3 days and create some spell scrolls beforehand. After some debate the group agreed to a three day preparation. During those three days Avarice pulled Allison aside and gave her his gauntlets of Ogre power. He told her that he had already died and been forgotten once and that he wanted her to remember the name of his mentor, Immamu.

Silvius spoke with Canny and told her he wanted her to end someone if they ever stopped properly taking care of their powers. Gilmoira told Hamlin to clean her room.

The group got together, Alto, Scythe, Specter, Chaplain, Gilmoira, Phoenix, Silvius and Baqir entered the ethereal plane via the rift near where Faerbaron was. They navigated their way through the ethereal plane and avoided an ether cyclone on their way to Avalon. Once they reached the High builder's estate, Silvius Scythe, and Specter went to his lab while the rest of the group went to his room. Zinli contacted Avarice via contact other plane and told him to get in position.

Avarice attempted to ride Rodan out but Rodan would not listen to him. Rodan is programmed to obey Phoenix only and Phoenix had told Rodan to stay on Zero base. Allison came out to see what the trouble was and the two of them realized he would only follow Phoenix. She used her cloak of disguise self to look like Phoenix and together the two of them flew off to create the distraction.

The other groups materialized, but one of the jaunting devices had been damaged and caused the banishment to make a loud popping sound as they materialized. Alcionne woke up and resisted both attempts to hold him in place via magic. Alto beat him bloody and Baqir intimidated him into cooperating. Downstairs Specter and Scythe began going through his research and Silvius left them to go back upstairs.

Two of Alcionne's rune guardians entered the room and attacked the group. They were quickly dispatched, but not without noise. The servants in the house scattered and the plan was accelerated. Chaplain went down to the lab and burned all of Alcionne's research with a flame strike and a flaming sphere from Zinli. After they returned Chaplain threw up a wall of force around them as Gilmoira drew a teleportation circle. As Gilmoira was almost done, the room they were in was blown apart by a destructive wave. The group saw several members of Chronogaze, Law, Ry, Lyuma, and Liam. The wall of force protected them from the blast and Gilmoira finished her spell, teleporting the group back to Zero Base.

Meanwhile Avarice attacked the closest pillar and made an immediate retreat toward Zero Base. As he was fleeing, Zinli contacted him and he said he was on his way back. Moment later though, Rodan was hit by Horus' Quicksilver canon; The same one he had used to blast through a githyanki ship. Rodan was blasted to pieces as Avarice and Allison were sent spinning through the air. As Avarice was falling, he sent a message to Phoenix and told him Allison was dying and it was Phoenix's fault. Phoenix relayed this to the group who attempted to contact Avarice again. But during this time Avarice and Allison had crashed down onto the ground. Avarice braced for the impact and survived, but he passed out for a couple minutes and he couldn't find Allison.

Gilmoira, Alto, Silvius and Zinli rushed back off of Faerbaron via a fly spell from Chaplain and winged boots to find Avarice. They saw the Anubis flying overhead and Gilmoira decided to attack it. She managed to polymorph it, but one of the Chronogaze members riding it shot her out of the sky and she fell to the ground. An intense battle broke out between the League Zero members and the Anubis and his Chronogaze pilots.

It soon became apparent that they were outmatched and the group ran, using some bag of holding shenanigans and the haste spell and a dimension door they managed to outrun their pursuers. They took a short rest and went back up to Zero Base.

After returning, Alto questioned Alcionne, who said he didn't reprogram Daisy. He said he had destroyed the notes because he feared Igor would have killed him if he knew Alcionne had found out his secrets. Also bashed Alcionne into the wall and knocked him out in frustration.

Meanwhile, Avarice finally found a place that looked like it might have been where Allison fell. He found two sets of footprints moving away from the crash site and no body to be found. He followed the footprints all night and as the sun was rising he reached their destination of Manderu.