Session 130

The Finale.

## Summary

An entity that has lived in Wolis for the last thirty years walks the streets of Wolis as Progenitus rises. The cobblestones twist into horrid spires, the grass burns away, crystaline spheres appearing in an orbit around the Dread Creator. Metallic spire-like structures grow out of nothing around them. The sky is on fire as celestials descend. Xelbari scoops Belxari up in his arms, alive but barely. He abandons the planet to its fate, taking only that which he cares about.

Esteem extricates Belle from the tree trunk that she had become embedded in. Akaros had protected Teer and Kiono from the collapse of a nearby home they had been thrown into. As the party reconvenes, an angel flies by, indiscriminately blasting things as it goes past. The party is magically pulled from the city and onto the deck of the Raquesval. Seresh is piloting the ship. Ephemera is sitting in a chair, with Lysaro brooding in a corner nearby. Ephemera explains that Progenitus is the creator of everything, and that the gods are unable to do anything against him, as they are uniquely weak against him. Ephemera, Lysaro, and the Ascendant Dragons are the only divine beings who are capable of doing anything against him, thus they are reliant on mortal champions for dealing with him.

Ephemera further explains that the five spires possess what they call hearts, which amplify various aspects of him. Destroying them would remove elements of his strength. The red heart of puissance protects his overall physical strength and how often he can use his breath weapon. Green is the heart of resurgence and affects his dexterity and his ability to regenerate. White is the heart of insuperability, removing his immunities to damages not done by artifacts. Blue, heart of precipients, lowers his legendary actions from 5 to 2, removes his immunity to spells of fifth level or lower. Black is the heart of entropy, contains his ability to cause instant death. Once the spires have been dealt with, Lysaro will attempt to end the fight, with Ephemera acting as one distraction, and the party as another.

Dragons descend upon the celestials, the young Bahamut commanding the metallic dragons. Tiamat appears with her own host. Celestials who had forsaken Progenitus, including those who work with Lysaro, appear as well, carving a path through the enemies for the Raquesval to pass. The party is deposited at the spire holding the black heart. They defeat the four angels inside protecting the heart, and then destroy the heart. As the tower collapses, they are teleported on the Raquesval again, and Ephemera grants them the benefits of a short rest.

As they travel toward the spire with the white heart, they watch as Tiamat is badly hurt. Akaros tells Teer that he needs to go and join his siblings, to keep them alive as he can. He and Teer share a moment of awkwardly trying to share their feelings for potentially the last time. Teer successfully beams his feelings directly into Akaros' brain, to which Akaros replies, "I know," before teleporting away to join Tiamat and providing her healing. The party descends into the white heart spire. An angel there shares damage with the core, but Kiono Dimension Doors Esteem to the heart, and he successfully destroys it with some speed.

Akaros is in combat with the Herald who pulled the seed from Belxari's chest and prompted the summoning of Progenitus, while Tiamat has returned to attacking Progenitus himself. The party enters the blue spire, and after the hardest fight yet, destroy it as well. Upon escaping, Progenitus sticks one of his heads by the Raquesval, asking Ephemera if this is her choice of champions this time. He then bites the Raquesval in half, leaving the party to fall to the ground. They land safely, but now have to deal with Progenitus. They get him to about half health when he regains his breath weapon. Esteem survives, and Kiono teleports Belle to safety, but Kiono and Teer are knocked out. Ephemera attempts to protect the party using a shield made of her own essence, but Progenitus breaks it, and along with it, time and space.

Liv and Fortune find themselves very suddenly in the upper floors of a burning clock tower. As they attempt to escape through the roof, Cyric, a sort of inverted copy of Fortune, drags him out of Liv's arms. Another entity, Sol Invictus, arrives as well to help kick the two Trash Lords' butts. Mish is communicating with wolves at this point. They escape the tower as it collapses, using teleportation and flight to do so. Upon seeing the enormous ten-headed hydra currently destroying an unknown town, they decide that that is decidedly above their pay grade and flee.

Mira and Tex have bypassed the invasion by Keegan, Tex's son. He has been acting strangely, perhaps corrupted by a green flame that has been controlling the living lately. He appears in their path, accusing Tex of having abandoned him. Keegan attacks, and the three fight. The green flames are the Resurrgent Flames of the Undead King, who appeared from nowhere and has been marching armies of undead through the lands. During the fight, Xelbari appears on a nearby fallen pillar, watching. He observes that he isn't sure what Teer is doing there, which makes no sense as Teer isn't there. He insists that she is Teer. They attempt to leave with Keegan's unconscious body, but Xelbari asks them where they are going and why they were there in the first place. Unable to recall more than this scene, Xelbari offers to help. He launches a Fireball at the pair, knocking Tex unconscious and Mira out of the building.

Klials has been informed that there is someone caught in one of their snares, so she goes out to check it out. She finds a weird hobbit, who introduces herself as Rixy Firefur. Klials explains that she is the Goblin King and that Rixy is in her domain. Then she realizes that she is no longer in her domain, so the two set off to find it. Lysaro arrives to retrieve Rixy, killing Klials in the process.

Belle is walking along space alongside a man in a white suit with golden cufflinks and tie. Their dark blonde hair and molten gold eyes with reptilian slits. Progenitus explains that this song and dance have been done before. He asks what Belle wants, as she has no real stake in the outcome, as she won't be around when the steps are again repeated. After some thought, she decides that she wants to see everything, and if Progenitus wins, she doesn't get to see anything else. Progenitus offers to let her see everything, if she will only do nothing.

Kiono wakes up beneath a tree, woken by Concludion. He offers you the chance to eat some food, as sleeping in the open is a dangerous thing to be doing. He doesn't recognize her, doubling down on getting her some food and making her feel better. He leads her to his house, the one in Eddelton. Two small children run out to greet him, as does Road Work and Concludion's parents. Kiono watches as he leads her into the house, and Progenitus gives his offer: do nothing and he can ensure that Concludion is safe *and* happy, even a specific version that she wants. She can't protect everyone, after all, nor should it be her duty to do so.

Anghadym lives on an island in the ocean, secluded and alone. Progenitus offers to let him have more of a life, something worth meaning. The cost is merely that he only keep his friends safe, and to not get in the way. Esteem remarks that the cost of purpose would be the world. Despite Progenitus' claim that the world will remain mostly the same, and that the only change would be management, Esteem has dealt with too many people fighting for power. The important thing is that at one point, the people of the world lived. Progenitus leaves him to his solitude.

Akaros is in a featureless void, an infinite plane of Ondo ar 'Thond Tira units. He knows that Teer is somewhere, and begins frantically searching for him. He calls out for him, drawing the attention of the Ondo units, who begin to claw at him. Akaros takes on his dragon form, reaching out for the lone Ondo unit who is reaching out toward him. He knocks away the robots holding *his* robot and dives for him. Teer falls and lands on Akaros, having been Teer the whole time. The two crumple to the ground together at the Edge of Everything. Akaros yanked Teer out of a waiting room of sorts while Progenitus spoke with the others. Teer asks if Akaros really wants to stick around, which Akaros genuinely responds, "Yes, I do." He then instructs Teer to hold on tight, as "the Big Bad is about to do something."

Lysaro cuts through the illusions, destroying the pretense, depositing everyone at the Edge of Everything. Progenitus, a massive, golden wound across his chest, falls off the edge. Miroku dissolves into smoke, and Lysaro tells them to prepare themselves. Ephemera prompts him to elaborate, which he explains that he will imbue their weapons with the power of Death, meaning they only have to hit him before he kills them. He rises above them, his breath weapon aimed at them. But the breath weapon is stopped by a shield of incredible power, the tide of power halted by Xelbari and a very weak Belxari. Esteem rushes forward, black sand surrounding him and seemingly striking him down.

A voice speaks in Belle's mind and asks her what she wants. She wants to see everything and to see it with her friends. A thin golden thread floats out of her toward the edge and vanishes. He similarly asks Kiono, and after much hesitation, she finally denies his offer. Progenitus rises again, angry and ready to destroy them. Ephemera steps forward and, taking Lysaro's hand, they trap Progenitus in the newly created Timeless Space.

## NPCs

### Introduced

* Liv
* Fortune
* Cyric
* Sol Invictus
* Mira
* Tex
* Klials
* Rixy Firefur

### Returning

* Progenitus
* Belxari
* Xelbari
* Seresh
* Ephemera
* Lysaro
* The Herald
* Concludion

## Items

* Supreme healing potion (used by Belle)
* Greater healing potion (used by Teer)

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