AWR Session 24

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Session 24 - No Thomas, No Caleigh, All the Panic

-Right off the bat, tech issues. No stream only recording but at least we're here so that's something.

-Mei is stealthing up the stairs trying to find traps, or at least would be stealthing if Callus wasn't RIGHT there.

-Platform at the top of the ziggurat, it's rimmed in metal and jade concoction that is meant to be a magic amplifier/conductor. Looks like the metal goes all the way down.

-Sand everywhere, six pillars made of skulls with bowls on top. Matteo is in the middle. We want to know where BL is. Matteo is toying with/stalling us. His father (who is not Vecna) tricked their mother into mating. He also had a younger sister and a brother older than himself and Theban. BL is not his sister "She's much more than that to me" THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN. Tells us BL isn't coming out to play because she's got more important things to do.

-Lucian is feeding Mei runic symbols via mindlink, different one on each of the pillars. We find out later they look vey much like a certain book that may or may not have carved runes into Lucian. Matteo has a necklace of the rune Radio around his neck, which is for wagon, travel, and destiny

-Matteo tells us to leave so they can continue with "Phase 1". Callus shoots him with sacred flame. Guess we're doing this.

-LUCIAN CRITS

-Harry makes Callus 'uge, Matteo poofs out of the way. Callus mega crits. Matteo morphs into dragon. Here we go.

-Harry fireballs

-"Don't be silly, wrap your Callus" - Mei apparently can't hit anything now

-Wisdom saves, Harry is scared of Matteo

-CALLUS IS IMMUNE TO CRITS AHHHH NEGATED CRIT

-Cryo has a rolly chair and is extremely distracting

-Action surge. Compel duel almost works, eats a legendary resistance. One down!

-Buffeting wing attacks making everyone prone

-Mei crits

-Then gets ice breathed. Callus tries to save her but cripples himself for something like a 25 save, which Mei can't make anyway. Mei is unconscious, mind link is severed

-Callus casts spare the dying on Mei

-Lucian starts taking CALLED SHOTS FOR THE THROAT

-Harry no longer frightened and can't be frightened again for 24 hours, nice

-LUCIAN IS IMMUNE TO BEING FRIGHTENED but he's prone again and now he's unconscious

-Callus casts spare the dying on Lucian

-Callus calls out to Possible Patron Party Line. Lady O answers again, will heal everyone because she doesn't have the power to teleport the party out (sans Callus obviously because he wants to stay and die there). She agrees for a favor to be extracted in the morning

-Callus and Lady O trade palm flesh. He's got a circle of non-diseased skin on his hand now

-Lucian gtfos with Callus using Thunder Step, is heading down the stairs and wants us to run but Callus immediately turns back to the fight

-Harry sends steel defender to be the distraction while we run

-Doesn't work, he's blocking the stairs. Now Harry's prone

-Mei slides under and takes a hit on the dragon. Dragon chomps her and she's unconscious again. Picks her up in his mouth and asks if the party wants to make a bargain.

-Callus offers to take her place instead. Matteo said that wouldn't work since they need something to be able to create human life as a host. Callus smartly points out he technically can make human life. No trade, so Callus shoots him again.

-LUCIAN TRIES DOMINATE MONSTER

-HE FAILS

-HE HAS TWO LEGENDARY RESISTANCES LEFT FUCK

-Mommy Lucian speaks through the book to Lucian "think of your sister" HE HAS A SISTER

-Lucian points out that he's got plenty of women at his disposal that he's happy to give Matteo but he wants that one back. He spits out Mei. One failed death save

-He's willing to bargain if they will also renounce their titles and give him New Azure. Lucian says not until Mei isn't dying

-Harry casts longstrider on Callus

-Steel defender protects Mei's body while Matteo stands over her keeping the others from getting close

-NAT 20 DEATH SAVE MEI IS UP WITH 1 HP

-Mei stabs and gets away. Matteo flies up in the air, Lucian takes two called eldritch blasts and GETS THE HOW DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS, only casualty is the steel defender who gets crushed under the dragon body. Goes back to Matteo. We decapitate him and throw the whole bitch in the bag of holding

-Callus hugs us

-"The Scum of Rotund send their regards"

-Searing voice with 30 wis save we all fail, says how dare we kill their son. Starts off as BL and then transforms into pitch black shadow monster covered in runes that Lucian knows is The Void, trickster and shapeshifter. So... BL was Daddy. Neat.

-"Phase 1 goes on as planned, you've destroyed one but you won't destroy the rest"

-Symbol carved into their chest, two triangles meeting in the middle. Looks akin to the runes on the bowls

-Poofs into the fog above us

-Pattern in the sand between the pillars looks like a 4 toed bear claw or a 4 pronged trident

-Lucian whips out the book of vile darkness. oh shit.

-Callus helps Harry try to salvage the pieces of his dog

-Purple portal opens up, we can see a red tiefling and Eclipsa on the other side, Alenora is there, says she found Eclipsa but had a hard time finding us. Not enough time with the portal to get the book back, we'll come back another time.