Session0056

Episode 0056 - Ego Sum
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**Setting:**

Daimao's Castle - June 10th, 211 AW
**Synopsis:**

* The party battles King Daimao and Kamm within the throne room of Daimao's Castle.
* During the fray, Kamm reverts back to Domino after being defeated, and XVIII kills Domino.
* In his last moments, King Daimao triggers a self-destructive device to obliterate his castle and the surrounding region.
* The party escapes from Kameshima with the magic painting connected to the Underdark, teleporting back to Mycorrhiza.

**NOTE: This session recording includes retroactive roleplay for a previous session, as summarized in the session log for Session0054.**

## June 10th

Within Daimao's Castle, having rescued the prisoners and sent them off to Mycorrhiza, the party briefly rests and recuperates in preparation for their confrontation with Daimao. Malkoth uses his Material Resonator, conjuring a companion creature and a magic item.

Their preparations complete, the party disables a*glyph of warding* protecting the door to Daimao's throne room, and proceeds inward, where they find a lift that can be activated to take them downward. Activating the lift, the party is lowered hundreds of feet downward into the depth beneath the Castle, where they discover Daimao's throne room - a massive chamber in the depths of the volcano. Within the chamber, they find Daimao and Kamm, standing outside the double doors of a pyramid-shaped structure in the back of the chamber. Nearby, the party spots the magic painting from Powderbowl, which has been overtaken by rot and mold that forms a velvety depiction of the Earthstar.

Daimao and Kamm seem somewhat surprised at the party's arrival, seemingly having been unaware of their presence. Nonetheless, after exchanging brief words, the two attack the party, and a battle begins.

During the fight, XVIII kills Kamm, who reverts back into Domino upon being defeated. XVIII then kills Domino as well, before temporarily reviving him as an undead thrall.

After Kamm's defeat, Daimao temporarily transforms Patches into Kamm, but Patches eventually resists the effect.

When Daimao seems to be near defeat, heavily wounded and seemingly near death, he instead transforms and takes on larger, lightning-wreathed form, and continues fighting. In his new form, Daimao attempts to destroy the magic painting by lighting it on fire, but Jack prevents it, altering Daimao's fire breath into harmless poison gas.

Once again nearing defeat in his new form, with his final actions, Daimao rips open the pyramid-shaped structure in the back of the chamber, within which the party sees a colossal salt-powered arcanomechanical weapon - the BFL 4000 described to them by Kajido. Daimao tells the party that they are already too late to stop his plot, as he activates the weapon, and it begins to fire a tremendously power beam of magical force downward, seemingly toward the elemental core of the volcano.

As the weapon continues firing into the heart of the volcano, the party continues battling Daimao, and XVIII and Frog team up to deliver the final blow, defeating him. Meanwhile, Odell rushes into the pyramid and attempts to turn off the weapon, but he is unable to find a way to do so.

With Daimao defeated, XVIII gives Odell a *bead of force*, which he uses to stop the BFL 4000, containing the remainder of its energy. While the weapon's effect is lessened by this maneuver, much of the damage seems to have already been done, as the ground beneath the party's feet begins to rumble, and it seems that a catastrophic eruption is imminent.

The party rapidly regroups, XVIII collects the corpse of Domino, and Malkoth teleports the party back to Mycorrhiza.