The Seal and the Power

"The Seal and the Power" is episode 77 of SuperQuest Saga and the final campaign episode. Above Doom, below our last hope...

## Synopsis

### Introduction

* William Stark shall be your final dungeon master for this evening.
* Josh Freeland is playing Sebastian Crenshaw, half-orc paladin.
* Your Special Guest Jake is playing Persephone Goldpetal the firbolg druid.
* Brian is the final Echo, Arcadion Galanthur, space wizard and rogue extraordinaire, friend and companion to Sebastian and Percy, finale boy. Friend to Watt and Primina.

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### Recap

Last time a lot of shit happened. The sky cracked open, the party entered the city skyway, and saw some statues, including ones of old gods, made out of proto-Aetherium. In the central area of the city they found a vast, bottomless void full of colorful mist and floating geodes. As they ventured over the void towards an island in the center, there was a violent shaking of existence and the sky cracked further and further, and a meteor shower of geodes broke the bridge behind them. They encountered the long lost, but not forgotten, face of Carter Huttenburg just before he was split in twain as Nyarlathotep attacked. The party fought and defeated The Crawling Chaos but before they could savor the victory, the sky above them completely shattered and revealed a hole into the great gaping void beyond.

### It Was Doors the Whole Time

A gaping hole of nothingness threatening to swallow existence itself hangs in the heavens above the nine statues on the hill. At its center the party can see a shining and fiercely burning star. There are stairs carved into the Aetherium stone that spiral up the hill on the west side of the glass platform.

Sebastian is covered in all kinds of gross stuff from the fight. Echo tells him that he smells like evil and casts Prestidigitation to clean him off. Percy flies down in her Galactic Spirit form with Echo still riding her, and looks expectantly at the final door, unleashing a majestic cry. Primina offers to fly Sebastian up and the four of them get to the top of the stairs where they find a thousand foot wide plateau of smooth and flat shining iridescent stone. Encircling the center of this plateau are the nine skyscraper-sized statues all facing each other.

One is a beautiful woman in gowns of vines and leaves, hair like ocean waves accented with shells and coral. Another is a male elf of lithe build adorned in an ornate cloak with a sword on his hip. Another is an armored woman carrying a furled scroll under one arm and a hammer with a half-gear head in the other. Next is a stern and heavily armored dwarven male with a jewel bedecked beard. Then there is a hulking orc with one eye, clad in plate mail and wielding a long spear. The next is a humanoid devil with four horns and regal robes. Then there is an angelic winged humanoid, androgynous and bald. Next is a male goblin with eyes of fire and hands like talons. The final statue is a humanoid woman with scaled skin, tail, and dragon wings, dressed in a flowing gown. At the feet of these statues is a gruesome sight: bodies of the dead lie strewn about, blood soaking the pristine stone.

### One Final Promotion

Echo urges Persephone to fly closer. “Fly you beautiful, majestic beast. Onward!” The party swoops down and lands in the carnage. Most of the bodies are elven foot soldiers but fifteen bodies stand out amongst the rest. Six of them are elves in regal plate armor, some silver some gold, each with a richly colored cape in red, green, blue, yellow, purple, or white, and each with a mask like a four-pointed star. The six Justice Saints lie dead, bloodied and broken.

The other nine are more terrible to behold: children, mangled and dead. Tiefling, aasimar, dwarven, elf, human, goblin, genasi, dragonborn, and one child, a young half-orc boy the spitting image of an eight year old Sebastian Crenshaw.

Above, the sounds of thunder and explosions can be heard as light and darkness begin to clash. Waves of light explode one after another. Then, one of the Justice Saint’s body spasms and begins to cough. The mask slips from his face revealing a male elf; his eyes are burnt blind, green blood oozes from his mouth, and he seems unable to move, but Dennethar, Son of Anaduir breathes shallowly on the floor.

Echo power slides over on his knees to cradle Dennethar’s head, shushing him before speaking in Elvish. Dennethar does not react, as if he cannot feel anything, and begins mumbling.

“He betray- he betrayed us. Father, please, why? Has it all been a lie? He betrayed us, used us, and when our use was no longer needed he dispensed of us. He did not have to. He… He chose to. Said he couldn’t trust us not to lust for the power ourselves. Us! His faithful. We were… we were supposed to be heroes. We meant to lay down our lives to save the greater whole of the galaxy. The children… he murdered the children first. Darthoradin tried to stop him. He had assured us the children would be safe. He snapped Darthoradin in half for raising a word against him. Father, I am an unworthy son. I froze like a craven as children were slaughtered, while others fought for their lives. He left me for last and I saw it in his eyes, madness. We thought he was a god, infallible and wise, but he was nought but a madman. We worshipped a madman! Father… I’m- I’m so-” Dennether falls limp and dead in Echo’s arms.

Echo holds Dennethar up by his shirt above his head and says in Elvish. “Every ounce of pain that you felt, every trial and every sorrow that befell you was deserved. You are foul and do not deserve to be called an elf.” Echo decapitates Dennethar and throws his body to the ground. He hates all the Justice Saints. Sebastian walks over to the headless body and pulls out the locket they found on Anaduir’s ship. He crushes the locket and drops it on the body.

Persephone stands mournfully over the children. Echo pulls the children away from the Justice Saints and arranges their bodies respectfully. The amorphous black void and the beam of light continue their clash above. Echo says “We’ll come back and we’ll give them a proper send off, if we are able. Unfortunately there are more pressing things to take care of.” Persephone cries mournfully in her galactic elemental form, the galaxy on her body roils and darkens as she looks angrily towards the storm. Sebastian walks up to the little Sebastian and arranges him in a peaceful position with his hands over his heart. Sebastian takes the Orcish dagger that he received from his mother and puts it in the child’s hands, saying an Orcish prayer over the child and closing the boy’s eyes. Primina turns into her humanoid form and silently puts a hand on Sebastian’s shoulder as he does this.

### Photo Op

Flashing and thundering, the darkness strikes and roils away from the blazing star which flits in flurries, trailing brilliance in its wake. The ground beneath everyone’s feet tremors in terror and awe at the battle above. Then the star begins to burn brighter and brighter until the prominence of its brilliance is too painful to bear witness to, and the Nameless thing beyond reality begins to shriek, producing a sound that causes the mind to reel as it clings on to sanity. With an incandescent flare, the star fires glimmering beams of blue-white light at the shrieking impossibility. Dozens, hundreds, thousands of radiant beams pour from the star into the darkness, and then a final burst fills the whole of the hungering dark until all is burned away.

The rumbling stops as well as the shrieks. A single point of light shines against an empty black chasm, but not a hungering darkness, just darkness. All is quiet and still for a moment. Then, movement beyond the star as a single, impossibly large, grotesque eye slides into view. It gazes down at the shining star for a moment before a million slithering tendrils of darkness strike at once. The star blinks out and begins to fall.

Down from the chasm in the sky between the visages of long-forgotten gods, a hulking man-shaped object crashes into the Aetherium ground before the party. At least 20-ft tall, the broken remains of what may have once been an elf lie shattered on the ground. Robes of white, cascading hair of gold, and a body more Aetherium than flesh, Solastaren, God Emperor of Eternal Elven Empire lies dead. His ruins smote upon sacred stone. Echo takes a picture to show the Arcadians.

Up above, countless black tendrils begin to pierce the heavens, pushing between the cracks in the sky and forcing them open wider. There isn’t much time. The Nameless One begins to tear open reality itself.

A glow starts to emanate from the Emperor’s body; a blue-white orb roughly the size of a human fist emerges and floats above the Emperor’s chest. It shines brightly, the light it emanates flaring in nine directions forming an enneagram, a nine-pointed star. It pulses with boundless energy. Primina speaks. “It’s the power of the Old Gods. It’s what they left to renew the seal.”

### Rise!

Echo looks to Sebastian for guidance since he was basically a god earlier but Sebastian doesn’t know what to do. Prim thinks the enneagram needs to be willed to renew the seal but she doesn’t know what she is supposed to do. Echo examines the enneagram; it is a singularity of divine energy infinite in scope, to touch it is to claim it because it will immediately try to merge with whatever vessel it can. It would be a lot of responsibility to be the bearer of this power. Percy gets closer to examine it and steps up to volunteer. Primina stops her. “Wait, we don’t know… I was designed for this. Perhaps I’m the only one it won’t kill to bear?”

Sebastian agrees that it might be meant for Prim since she does carry most of the Nine Bloodlines and is the most powerful of the four of them, but he’s worried about what it may do to her. She says “Well, there’s only one way to find out.” Prim reaches out her hand and, as if the singularity of energy has a sense of willingness to bear it, it begins to drift towards her and merges with her body. She begins to glow extremely brightly.

First she grimaces, then she falls to her knees, and then she begins to scream in agony. “It’s too much, I can’t hold it!” Echo, Percy, and Sebastian rush in and grab her to help. The moment they touch her, the energy begins to fill their body as well and they are all overwhelmed with energy: burning, joyous, and terrible but also exhilarating and lifegiving. It overtakes the mind and burns the body. Light exudes from their mouths.

Then, it reaches an equilibrium within the four of them. Primina begins to transform into her celestial dragon form, but much, much larger with blue-white fire flaring and eyes shining pure white. Sebastian’s armor and sword become pure radiant energy, his eyes shine bright with no pupils. Persephone’s Galactic Elemental form becomes even larger until she is giant, the constellations swirling inside her. Echo’s armor super charges above its regular capacity, all lights shine ten times brighter and his flight capabilities triple, and his voice deepens like his father’s. They tap into an unlimited pool of resources and can cast spells, Smite, Wild Shape and use Bladesong features and Breath attacks at will. They regain full health.

“We have to renew the seal.” Primina states. Echo, Persephone, and Sebastian all respond, “Yes, the seal.” Primina, Percy, and Echo all start to fly away. Sebastian raises his arms to join them but still does not have flight capability. Echo scoops him up and places him on Primina’s back.

The party heads skyward towards the gaping maw of infinite Nothing. “The seal must not be completely broken, we would already be unmade, I’m sure of it. The seal is just weakened; we need to transfer our power into it… I hope.” Primina says. As the party approaches, the great, impossible eye gazes down at them. A million tendrils of darkness appear to be beating on an invisible barrier in a mad, repulsive flurry. Azathoth begins to shriek again, but now the sound of it, though still terrible, does not send their minds reeling as it did before. The power they hold seems to protect them.

As the party closes in, the eye disappears, and slowly things begin to emerge from the darkness and cross the barrier: hundreds of dark, amalgamous forms made of Umbral ichor, winged and faceless in the perverse mocking form of humanoids, and alongside them, something much larger pushes through. The horrid, insectile visage of a starworm with its centipedal body slithers through the barrier, followed by a second starworm. Together, they let out a hideous roar. Echo tells them to go away, but they do not.

### That's a Lot of Phanes!

Twenty phanes at the forefront of the horde swoop in, dealing five attacks to each party member. Sebastian is hit, though his Adamantine armor blocks what would have been a critical hit. Echo pops a Shield to avoid a critical strike as well. One starworm rushes Sebastian and Primina, landing a bite attack on Prim and a claw attack on Seb. The second starworm rushes Persephone with both its bite and claw attack, hitting her with force damage. Sebastian attacks one of the phanes with his sword, both swings miss. Persephone flies back and does an aerial maneuver to hit starworm and the phanes with her radiant beam attack. Three of the phanes fall to her attack, but the two remaining as well as the starworm withstand her beam. Persephone uses her bonus action to heal using her unlimited spell slots. Primina follows suit and unleashes a fire attack on the phanes around her, incinerating two of them. She looks to Sebastian to see if he needs her to move, but they are good where they are. Echo casts Steel Wind Strike and a bunch of ports open up on the back of his armor as he starts to spark before vanishing and appearing in front of each of the five phanes around him. His strikes take out all but one of the phanes, and he lands his turn by teleporting right in front of the last one.

The remaining phanes all move in to attack. Five attack Sebastian and he uses Shield to avoid their strikes; two attack Percy and successfully hit her, though she is immune to their necrotic damage; three attack Primina, but they miss; and one attacks Echo, but misses. The starworm next to Primina screams. Echo, Primina, and Sebastian are able to avoid the worst of the damage but Persephone gets hit with the full brunt of the roar. Echo uses his reaction to activate Song of Defense to absorb some of the damage he would have taken. His dragon wings come out of his armor to cover and protect him by pushing the psychic energy away. The second starworm unleashes the same scream; everyone but Primina takes the full damage of the attack. Sebastian uses the Needler attachment on his cybernetic arm to hit the five phanes around her and one of the phanes surrounding Prim with a Magic Missile. He casts Shield of Faith on himself to increase his AC. Persephone cuts horizontally away from the starworm, drops the Galactic Elemental Wild Shape and, as she’s free-falling, reaches her hands towards Sebastian to cast Heal. She shouts, “I told you, you got this!” Then she Wild Shapes into the Air Elemental and flies away from the starworms and towards the store. Primina uses her fire breath attack on the remaining two phanes and the starworm. The phanes go down but the starworm uses a legendary resistance to avoid the worst of her celestial fire. Echo casts Victory’s Hand (Bigby’s Hand) and attacks the phane, crushing it. He flies to an advantageous location around 40-ft from Persephone.

The two remaining phanes were near Persephone, but since she flew out of range they instead move in on Sebastian and miss him with their attacks. The starworms both move in on Sebastian and Primina. Both starworms successfully strike Sebastian with their claws but only one is able to bite Primina. Sebastian uses another Magic Missile to take out the remaining two phanes and hit one of the starworms. Persephone flies up towards the starworms and drops the Wild Shape to cast Polymorph on one of them. The starworm uses another legendary resistance to avoid the spell. Percy Wild Shapes back into the Air Elemental, which looks like a big wolf made out of clouds, and flies around. Primina uses another breath attack on the starworm that she and Sebastian have been fighting; it uses a legendary resistance to avoid some damage. Echo flies towards her, bringing Victory’s Hand, and casts Vitriolic Sphere. The starworm again avoids this spell and takes half damage. Echo directs Victory’s Hand to strike the starworm and punches it with force damage.

One of the starworms lets out a horrible scream and Echo, Persephone, and Sebastian are hit full force with psychic damage. Primina takes half damage and is almost bloodied. The other starworm continues to bite and claw at Primina and Sebastian. Sebastian uses his full pool of Lay on Hands to heal himself; the divine energy inside of him keeps his reserve full even though it would normally be expended. He re-ups his Shield of Faith. Persephone flies 40-ft towards Echo and drops her form to cast Heal on Echo. “It’s your turn now!” she says before changing into the Galactic Elemental form and uses a bonus action to heal herself. Primina uses her Celestial breath on the starworm. It avoids the worst of the damage but it writhes around and parts of its carapace are cracked open so they can see that it is made of only bones inside. Echo casts Vitriolic Sphere on the starworm and it uses its last Legendary Resistance to halve the damage. He directs Victory’s Hand to punch the starworm again, but the hand misses.

One starworm tries to eat Echo but misses with both its bite and claw as he slaps the attacks away with his dragon wings. The other starworm focuses its attacks on Primina, biting and clawing her. Primina is now bloodied. Sebastian strikes the starworm with his sword, using a 4th level Smite to deal extra damage. On his second hit, he splits the starworm in twain as its body begins to dissolve into a black ichor which evaporates before it hits the ground. Persephone flies back over to Primina and Sebastian and drops her form. She heals Primina saying, “You’ve got the power!” before Wild Shaping back into the Galactic Elemental and healing herself. Primina thanks Persephone and decides to get physical with the starworm. She uses a bite, claw, and tail attack and lands all three hits.

The remaining starworm screams. Prim and Sebastian withstand the attack, Persephone takes the full damage, and Echo uses his Song of Defense to absorb most of the damage he would take. Sebastian strikes the starworm and deals a critical hit. His second hit also makes contact and splits this starworm in twain as well.

### Second Phase Skill Challenge

The party floats victoriously but their victory is very short-lived as the barrier above is penetrated by hundreds more dark winged phanes and three more starworms. Primina asks the party to cover her. “I have to get closer. If I can get to the barrier, I think I can do it.” With Sebastian on her back, Primina rushes upward into the fray of the aberrant horde. The phanes swarm down around Sebastian and Primina by the score until it is difficult to see them. Two starworms then rush past her and charge for Echo and Percy while one starworm hangs above.

Persephone flies up in her Galactic Elemental then drops the Wild Shape, waving her staff in a circle as she falls to cast Fire Storm around the incoming starworms. The starworms wriggle between the fire and, while they are hindered and slowed, they do not take much damage. Sebastian grabs two force grenades, pulls the pins with his mouth, and throws them up to hit as many of the surrounding phanes as he can. He aims well and takes out dozens of the phanes so Prim is able to claw forward through the swarm. Echo drops Victory’s Hand and casts Mislead at 5th level, turning invisible as he creates an illusory double to act as starworm bait. The starworm rushes down and away, chasing after the double, leaving Echo free to move in line with Primina and Sebastian.

More phanes continue to cross the barrier and the starworm that wriggled through the Fire Storm is now on top of Percy. Back in her Galactic Elemental form, Persephone swoops around the starworm to land on its back. She drops her Wild Shape and attacks with Flame Blade as she runs along the back of the creature. Three of the starworm’s arms reach around to grapple her. Sebastian uses the Horn of Valhalla to call on his ancestors, summoning them onto Primina’s back to help him fight the phanes. Six Orc Warriors from various ages of time appear as phantoms on Primina’s back. They look to Sebastian and he says, “For your ancestors, protect us as we go into battle!” All six of them leap off Prim’s back to attack phanes. Echo flies over to Persephone and uses Thunder Step to get her out of the starworm’s grasp. The thundering explosion he leaves behind destroys the starworm’s hand.

The phanes above begin to encircle each other and begin to merge together into a black, amorphous blob. Emerging from the blob is first one clawed hand, then another, followed by the colossal, winged torso of Nyarlathotep. “All will be as naught. No matter how hard you hold on, it will escape you.” Persephone thanks Echo and apologizes for how badly she’s doing in the fight. He tells her that it’s okay because it all feels random, like it’s not her fault. Persephone Wild Shapes into the Galactic Elemental and flies up towards Primina and Sebastian. She fires a radiant beam while performing a barrel roll, burning enough of the phanes away so that Primina can break through, but drawing the swarm her way. Sebastian shoots a Fireball at Nyarlathotep but a giant clawed hand made of the black ichor swats it down. Echo grabs onto Primina’s belly and casts Haste to double her movement speed.

Primina zips right past Nyarlathotep but then he turns, reaches out his claw, and a thousand tendrils reach out from his hand to strangle and stop Primina. She and Sebastian are completely encased in the ichor while Echo manages to escape its grasp. Persephone casts Conjure Woodland Beings at a high level to summon twelve bizarre, cosmic squid creatures that begin to swarm around Nyarlathotep and pester him. Sebastian starts chopping away at the tendrils encasing them and Nyarlathotep makes a really gross sound that defies reality. Primina starts breathing fire in an attempt to break free. Echo casts Disintegrate at 7th level but it is not very effective.

Nyarlathotep begins to pull Primina, Sebastian, and Echo towards him. As they get closer, a large eye opens on his chest, very similar to the eye beyond the barrier. Persephone casts Wall of Thorns aimed at the eye. Thorns wrap around Nyarlathotep’s body and tear into the ichor, including this eye. Sebastian follows Percy’s lead and begins raining down bullets from his BFG into the eye. Nyarlathotep begins to writhe but does not loosen his grip on Primina. Echo flies up and then dive bombs Nyarlathotep, Polymorphing himself into a Tyrannosaurus Rex as he descends. Echo lands on Nyarlathotep with and tears at the creature with his claws. Everyone hears Nyarlathotep’s voice psionically say, “I… am…” before he begins to dissipate as he is torn to shreds.

### That Scene from Return of The King

The tendrils loosen and Primina skyrockets forwards. The starworm up ahead screams and swoops straight down to Primina. She dives out of the way, but Sebastian is caught by a claw and knocked off her back. He falls and before Echo or Percy can do anything, they are swarmed by the remaining phanes. Sebastian’s sword falls out of his hand. Prim hasn’t noticed that he’s fallen off. Echo and Persephone are heavily engaged by the abhorrent abominations; Sebastian is alone and falling. In the chaos that is the end of the world, all goes silent to him except for the metallic clatter of an object on his belt. The Iron Horn of the ancient orcs. Something deep inside of him calls to blow the horn: Sebastian blows the horn.

A single note echoes across the heavens. Clear and true, the horn resonates and the divine power inside of him seems to enter the horn as well. Its sound fills the hearts of all who hear it with courage. Suddenly, Sebastian stops falling. Something catches his arm and gently begins to lift him. His eyes meet the eyes of a phantom warrior on horseback; a male orc with mighty tusks, strong arms, and a greataxe on his back. He looks at Sebastian with discerning eyes, then gives him a silent nod and lifts Seb onto a riderless phantom horse of his own that appears just as suddenly.

More phantoms appear, thousands of them. All of them orc, all of them warriors, the mightiest across the ages, all treading upon the air as if they stood on land, and all looking to Sebastian to lead them. Sebastian reaches up and catches his falling sword in his hand. He looks at the warriors, points his sword and says, “Charge forward!” to follow Primina. The horde of orcs charges vertically upward into the sky and swarms the starworm.

They clear the path for Primina, she rockets upward with nothing left to stop her and reaches the barrier. The power inside them all, the energy making them like demi-gods, begins to pulse and flow into the seal. “I… I think it’s working.” Primina says. Then, suddenly, a whiplash of negative energy slams against the barrier, disrupting the power and sending everyone reeling. “I can’t… I can’t push it back! It’s too strong!” The battering against the barrier is felt in all of their minds.

### WWPD? (What Would Percy Do?)

In the back of her mind, Persephone hears the cry of the Galactic Spirit. It does not speak but she understands the meaning of the cry. “Sing, and I will Sing with you.” Persephone begins singing the Song of Remembrance. The Song escapes from the beak of Percy’s Galactic Elemental form, sonorous, beautiful, and otherworldly. The negative pressure on the other side of the barrier begins to thrash even more desperately. A second voice answers Percy’s, even more melodic and entrancing, from no source and all sources at once. Percy feels a power within her begin to awaken as the two songs resound and fluctuate against, and alongside, each other. She begins to grow even larger. The Song grows stronger, and Percy begins to resemble the exact form of the Galactic Spirit.

Percy realizes that she is beginning to merge with the Galactic Spirit. Within her, Persephone can feel not just their voices, but the voices of countless trillions that are one with her. Percy knows she has reached the point of no return: she does not know what merging with the Galactic Spirit means, but once it is done it cannot be undone. Persephone gives herself to the galaxy to help her friends and everyone in it.

As Percy opens herself up to the Galactic Spirit, she is interrupted as ten thousand black tendrils from beyond the barrier punch through and spear towards her. In milliseconds she is enveloped and being torn and strangled. Echo drops his Polymorph and uses all possible movement to get up to Percy. Sebastian orders his spiritual ancestors to change course to defend his friends.

### Part of the Ship, Part of the Crew

Echo, Sebastian, and the horde try to cut through and destroy the tendrils but they do not manage to free Percy. Sub-tendrils pop up out of the larger tendrils enveloping Percy and, with almost preternatural intelligence, pierce and shred the flight capability on Echo’s armor. Before his nanotech can begin the necessary repairs for flight, Echo begins to fall. A black mass zips in and scoops Echo up in a closed hand and everyone hears the voice of Watt. “It seems you are in need of assistance.”

*Victory’s Ascent* is, somehow, here and Watt is speaking through the intercom. “I don’t know what happened, she just started moving on her own. She won’t listen to any of my commands!” Echo remembers Vermillion’s words about the dragonforged ships having a mind of their own. He reaches out to mentally connect with the ship without Prim’s help. “Hey, baby.”

Maybe it’s because of the power of the gods that he holds. Maybe it’s the bond between pilot and ship. Maybe it’s because the *Victory’s Ascent* recognizes the end of the world when she sees it and decides to be a little less particular than she normally would. Regardless of the reason, Echo links with *Victory’s Ascent*, and due to the fact that he is alone in the link with her, it is a wholly different experience. *Victory’s Ascent’s* draconic spirit floods Echo’s mind until it is not clear to him where he ends and it begins. The power within him becomes a part of the ship’s power as well. She was already the most advanced ship in the galaxy, now she has the firepower of a god.

Echo rains down laser damage on the tendrils holding Percy. Between *Victory’s Ascent’s* assault and the orc horde, the black ichor falls away and Percy is free. Through gritted teeth Primina says, “The barrier, it’s breaking!”

Celestial energy explodes from Percy as she allows the Galactic Spirit to merge with her. The dark tendrils left behind are evaporated, and emerging is not Percy in her Galactic Elemental form, but the Galactic Spirit herself. They are one. Together, they begin to sing. Not the Song of Renewal, nor the Song of Remembrance. Not of Stone or Water or Wood. The Song that erupts forth is not simply of Life but of Creation itself. The voice of a universe that, in beautiful defiance, sings because it is and it desires to keep being. The power held by the party is joined by that of all living things, by their desire to live, to love, to be.

This energy begins to flow from everyone and into Primina. She begins to shine brightly as the Song of Creation flows forward and the power grows in her. She shines like a golden star, like an angel with wings of light, like a goddess, pure, divine. The light within her begins to pour onto the barrier above, pushing back the darkness, filling the cracks in the sky. But then it slows as the darkness pushes back. Light and Darkness cease at a standstill; neither able to banish the other.

Primina says, “It is almost enough. I know what I must do. I don’t know if this is goodbye, but I know I must take this step into the endless night alone. I love you all.”

Primina crosses the barrier into the Nothing. All is still. Then there is a blinding light followed by a massive backlash of power that destroys all the foul aberrations left on this side of the barrier and hurls the party groundward. Above a city of shining light, hangs an unbroken sky. The seal has been renewed.

## Characters

### The Party

* Sebastian Crenshaw: a half-orc paladin. Charging with his spirit army.
* Persephone Goldpetal: an albino firbolg druid. She is become god.
* Codename: Echo: an elf rogue/wizard. He is become one with his ship.

### NPCs

* Primina: a genetically engineered young woman. The MacGuffin. She actually did it.
* Dennethar, Son of Anaduir: an Imperial elf. One of the Justice Saints. Realized he was wrong, still did bad stuff, received his final promotion.
* The God Emperor Solastaren: an Imperial elf. Emperor of the Holy Eternal Empire. Literally mad with power.
* The Nameless One: Azathoth. The Big Bad.
* Nyarlathotep: The Man in Black, The Crawling Chaos. Somehow he's back again.
* Watt Wainwright: an elderly gnome and engineer. Swooping in with those one liners at the last minute.

## Trivia

### Mechanics

* Primina is an ancient gold dragon in her new form. She is gargantuan size.
* The phanes are minions, a mechanic lifted from 4e.
* The dragonforged ship received double beams and double damage.
* William allowed Echo to do Shield to avoid the critical hit.
* The starworm is a CR23 monster.

### Dice Breakdown

#### Nat 20's (4 total)

* William (Attack as Phane)
* William (Attack as Phane)
* Freeland (Attack)
* Brian (Dexterity Save)

#### Nat 1's (2 total)

* William (Dexterity Save as Phane)
* Special Guest Jake (Nature)