Finale Part 1 - The Perfect Storm

## Episode Synopsis

### Recap

Dariun, Norman and Zippy made a plan with Turi to make Colm the next king of Aurum. The team stole some golden guard armour and posed as Colm's personal guards. They stealthily took him back to Gilbert's mansion and met the dragon slayer mercenary, Alexandre Dumas. Zippy reunited with Blackjack and Yogurt and Berryl was killed by Norman at the mansion. When they slept, they found themselves in a white space where they met Viso, the god of dreams. Viso looked into Zippy's memories, playing them like a movie where he found out about the team's deal with Turi before leaving supposedly to report his findings to the other gods.

### Episode Summary

Dariun, Norman and Zippy wake up in the mansion in their own rooms to the sound of rain falling outside and overcast clouds above. Norman bangs on Dariun's room and enters, a little pre-emptively before Dariun can get dressed. He leaves awkwardly and knocks on Zippy's room who screams and tells Norman to get changed. After those two awkward encounters, they come together, fully dressed, in the hallway. Norman asks if they remember the dream which they all do and Dariun feels they can't do anything about it and they should keep everyone out of it and go the election.

The three of them head down the stairs to see Gilbert, Colm and James in the dining room and get some breakfast. Colm is motivated to win, not only in hopes to make change but also to prevent Ferryn from becoming queen as he believes she doesn't want to be elected. Colm thanks the group and promises a reward after he becomes king. After Zippy gargles his French toast crunch, Gilbert pulls the three of them aside and reminds them what they are aiming for and they have a quiet team eight wahoo.

As they leave, they wave goodbye to Alexandre, still on the roof. The team jump on their horses and ride into Aurum passing people who are excited to see Colm, cheering and telling him he has their votes. They head to the castle and see that the nobles are scowling and are not as excited to see him as the people in the streets. As they walk through the castle, Zippy hears some people talking about the awful weather and discussing that no one has been able to control it with magic.

Dariun, Norman and Zippy see families and groups from the other candidates and note Colm's colour is red, Ferryn is blue and Bradley is green. They enter Colm's allocated room and see a royal robes intended for him to wear for the election. Zippy, ensuring Colm's safety, casts detect poisons or disease in the room and he can see there is a head dress and sandals and on the sandals is a small prick with poison on it. Zippy can tell it's a weak poison but it would do some damage so Norman suggests to keep it for evidence. Dariun suspects that there is someone behind Limbo that still poses a threat to Colm.

Colm gets changed and looks like a four out of ten with his flowing red robes. He decides to go and try to talk to Ferryn one last time and is accompanied by the three. The guards do not allow them to enter, despite Colm and Norman trying to convince them. Zippy clears his throat and yells out to Ferryn to come and talk to Colm, Dariun just shakes his head. Ferryn comes to the door and opens with a large smile and wearing her blue gown. She pleasantly addresses him but asks to be left alone and leaves. Norman can tell Ferryn seemed different, there is a clear shift of her personality and her face seemed unnatural. As the go to walk away, Norman uses thaumaturgy to open the door to see Ferryn sitting pleasantly talking to some nobles in her room.

As they go to leave, they hear a lot of commotion from the cleric line. Bradley is complaining to his father wanting chicken nuggets but his father tries to get him to get his act together and Stubby also tries to convince Bradley to get more excited for the election. Norman and Dariun both give Colm a word of encouragement, inspiring him creating a feeling of readiness for each of the team members. Norman sings a song for Colm giving him a bardic inspiration. Zippy stands outside Colm's door and sees Turi come up the stairs and announces the beginning of the election and asks to have each candidates come out. Colm, Ferryn and Bradley all come out of their rooms and walk with their entourages and meet Turi in the Lobby. Turi gives a small speech, routing for Bradley to become a kid king, and instructs them to head out to the stage where the voting will begin. Before Colm heads out, Zippy gives him a tap on the back and casts protection from energy and chooses to protect him from lightning.

They all walk down the steps and they feel the rain pickup as they head outside. Queen Merigold Alvero carries out the ballot box and sets it in front of the candidates. Turi asks each of the candidates to give a speech, Ferryn is up first with her large smile. She speaks of creating a new world of happiness and bliss, confusing the team and Turi about her change in heart. As she finishes her speech, she looks into the crowd and they feel a wave of charm come over them and the people in the front start to change tunes as they start to cheer for Ferryn. Even Colm and Bradley begin to rally behind her. Turi walks behind her and raises his hands and the wave reverts, stopping the foul play. Turi whispers something in her ear but none of the team can hear him, Ferryn turns back to him and calmly tells him they will see how far he gets. After Turi reverses Ferryn's spell, everyone comes back to normal.

Bradley comes up and speaks telling everyone he doesn't want to be there or be elected and before he can express his love for Paige, he is cut off. They can see Bradley's father, face palming in disappointment. Finally, Colm comes up to give his speech. The crowd erupts in cheers as Colm tells them he will bring happiness and change to Aurum which many people in the crowd love to hear. Turi comes back up to the front and explain that everyone needs to fill out a card that has magically appeared in their hand and after being filled, it will be transported to the box. Norman writes Bradley's name, Dariun votes for Colm and Zippy abstains as he only follows one king.

When everyone is done, all the envelopes come flying into the box and the winner will get to token and their Salem blood will be awakened. The ballot box shakes, Colm waits anxiously as Ferryn continues to smile but they notice her hands trembling. Meanwhile Bradley is looking off in the sky. Turi reaches in and raises his hand and shows a red ring with the symbol of Salem on it and announces the new king to be Colm Alvero. Colm walks up the stage, followed by Dariun, Norman and Zippy, and slides the ring on. Some small knives dig into his fingers and his veins start to pump while Turi explains it's normal for the kings. Colm is officially the legitimate king of Aurum.

The crowd is cheering loudly, while Ferryn is still smiling while trembling. The team move to go in-between Ferryn and Colm and look around to see the nobles discussing quietly. Zippy looks suspiciously up at the sky as the rain continues to fall. Ferryn slowly gets up and Colm talks to her, telling her it's over and he hopes they can finally talk. She continues to smile as she casts thermometry on herself and commands everyone to be silent. She warns them that they don't know what's coming for them and everyone will regret their decision today. Ferryn says she can't fulfil her end of her bargain to bring *her* back, she says everyone is going to the Deep with her. Ferryn holds her forehead in pain and an outline appears around her face and smoke comes out of the lines and she pulls a plastic white mask off. Underneath is Ferryn's face without the smile but there is a blue flower tattoo on her forehead. The team can tell it is the same style as Paul back in the monkey cave. They can see it's moving and growing.

Ferryn says she will have to us the power she was given as she pulls out a blue owl mask and puts it on her face as it dissolves and reveals her normal face once again, now angry. She says goodbye to Colm and casts magic missiles but the mask seems to be giving her more power as she creates 12 bolts ringed around her, aiming at Colm. They fire and move past the team towards Colm but Turi steps forwards and blocks all 12 of the bolts. He goes to teleport her away but it does not work as the rain begins to pour even harder. Golden guards start to come forwards but they are fighting other sorcerer family members who did not want to see Colm elected.

Colm is confused and tries to plea with Ferryn. Turi uses his bliss powers on her and she tries to fight it off. He asks Dariun, Norman and Zippy to keep her distracted so he can get Colm to the church of Salem to complete the ritual of making Colm king. Colm and Turi go to leave not before Norman warns him to be precautious in case he has been found out. Turi tries to use his power and starts to catch on as to what could possibly be happening to his powers. As Zippy continues to watch the clouds, he sees a lightning bolt go cloud to cloud and he can see a large shape swimming in the sky. Turi sees this and all niceties go out the window as he picks up Colm and bolts for the church.

Despite the being in the clouds, Ferryn still remains in front of the team of three. Dariun casts Zephyr's strike on himself and draws his switch sword, he misses his first swing but hits with his second swing. Zippy casts hold person on Ferryn, constraining her as he moves closer to her. Norman runs to her and hits her with the stick of bliss but it does not have any effect on her. Dariun puts the steam gem into his switch sword and activates Planar warrior hitting her twice as Zippy tells Dariun to move away from her. Ferryn's mask on her face is beginning to crack as she remains constrained. A massive bolt of lightning comes down form the clouds as Zippy casts call lightning dealing a massive amount of damage. Her mask cracks and comes off her face and blood trickles from her nose. Ferryn stares them down as she breaks free from her hold person and casts thunder wave. Norman and Dariun are hit and pushed back 10 feet back but Norman casts Hellish Rebuke.

Dariun runs up to Ferryn once again channelling Planar Warrior again and cuts through her twice, she looks weakened and bloody but still standing. Zippy once again brings down a massive hit of lightning, causing her to been thrown off the stage, looking burnt and bloody. Ferryn pulls outs an androgynous face that’s eyes look up to the heavens and is carved out of alabaster. She slots it onto her face and it seems some of her wounds begin to heal and she floats slightly, a halo forms above her head and wings sprout out of her back. Ferryn yells that she does not have time for this and flies to find Colm.

Norman sees that the guards are still fighting the sorcerers so he casts calm emotion on a group of sorcerers, causing them to calm down and the guards get an upper hand. The team of three start booking it to the church of Salem to find Colm and Turi. As they run, the rain is falling even heavier and they come up to the illustrious church with stain glass windows, a bell tower with the symbol of Salem carved into it and large doors. They all look up and they see the clouds bulging down to the church with some strange spikes and lightning coming off it.

When they get in, they see a large open room with pillars and a large painting of a winged angel man with two faces and three arms on either sides which people depict as Salem. They see Ferryn in the middle of the room and Turi and Colm stand in front of a stone door on the opposite end of the room. Turi tells Ferryn to give up as this will all be over when Colm gets into this next room and neither he or Ferryn could follow Colm in that room. She tries to fire more magic missiles at Colm but Turi once again blocks them all. Dariun aims his bow but completely misses Ferryn and Norman casts darkness in-between Turi and Ferryn to create a visibility shield. Zippy heals up the wounds inflicted on him from their last fight before they once again beginning to battle Ferryn.

Zippy tries to hit Ferryn with produce flame but misses. Dariun moves towards Turi and Colm and fires two arrows, the first one miss fires and hits Turi's arm but the other strikes true into Ferryn's shoulder as she glares at Dariun and pulls it out of her arm. Ferryn pulls out a longsword that appears to have some holy energy as she flies towards Zippy swinging down but the blade bounces off his golden guard helmet and a wave of energy emits form the sword. He laughs as the energy causes some rocks to fall.

As they fight, they suddenly all stop as they hear the bell from the top land outside the church. They can see a massive being pass by the stain glass windows. Turi is obviously frightened and continues to try to open this stone door. Everyone feels a sense of death incoming and they all, including Ferryn, try to hide. Dariun is able to get behind a pillar and Norman and Zippy get behind a different one. Ferryn flies upwards to a chandelier to get away from whatever beast is approaching.

The giant door opens up and a remorhaz enters the room whose eyes are completely black symbolizing a tether. It has a spikes running down the back of its black shell, an underbelly red with heat and lightning bolting between the spikes. They can feel the heat emanating off it as it creeps its way into the church, seeing them all except Dariun who hid. The remorhaz does not seem to care about anyone as its eyes are transfixed on Turi as a large booming voice comes from it saying to Turi "*You have broken the divine paths, and judgement is here for you.*" Turi tries to hurry Colm to open the door and tip the vase and Salem will be done.

Turi comes forwards to talk to Mir, the god of storms and their tether the remorhaz, who is not amused with Turi. They can see the underbelly is getting even hotter as Mir becomes more frustrated. The team look around and can see Ferryn slowly make her way towards Colm, who has almost opened the stone door. Norman casts dissonant whispers on Ferryn but she does not seemed phased by the attack. Turi's small talk remains unsuccessful as Mir tells him he is here to kill him and remove his tether. Turi throws a Margareta glass at Mir's face as Colm finally gets the stone door open and runs inside. They can see it opens to a long hallway and at the very end is a pool of water and a stand with a vase with the symbol of Salem on it, on a stand in the middle of the pool.

Ferryn flies down from the roof to follow Colm but is stopped and cannot enter the room, almost like there is an invisible barrier stopping her. Turi watches Colm excitedly but Mir swims down and knocks Turi to the side with ones of his legs, throwing Turi into a pillar. The lightning on Mir's back begins to form into a bolt and it shoots through to Colm and strikes him in the back just before he can reach the vase. But, with Zippy's protection against lightning he casted on Colm earlier in the day, reduces the damage he takes and the lightning doesn't kill him.

Colm pushes the vase and it shatters in the pool next to it. Turi smiles as Mir shouts in anger. In the entrance, the magic keeping people out of the room disperses and Turi takes the opportunity and runs to the door and blasts a wave of bliss to Mir, who is trying to fight off the laughter. He also hits Ferryn with bliss to keep her occupied as Turi runs to Colm, who is on his knees, recovering from the lightning bolt which still did a fair amount of damage to him.

Turi throws Colm out of the pool and stands in the water alone. The water ripples and glows as Turi begins to change, grow larger and stronger and they can all feel his power begin to grow.

## Quotations

* Zippy "*We're up a paddle without a creek you know?*"
* Zippy "*How does anyone know anything without smartphones in this place?*"
* Zippy "*I'm all about eating carrots, and kicking ass. And I'm all out of carrots.*"
* Turi "*Oh my gods…*"
* Zippy "*My power comes from my friends and you just loss your only one.*"
* Seth "*You are not the same adventurers you were at the beginning of this campaign*"
* Norman "*Yes! A pest! That's what I am!*" (after obstructing Ferryn's vision)

## Featured Characters

### Main Cast

* Norman D
* Dariun Branch
* Zippy Westborrough

### Returning Characters

* Gilbert Bernstein
* Colm Alvero
* James
* Blackjack
* Yogurt
* Alexandre Dumas
* Longface Cloppyhooves
* Tealeaf
* Denmark
* Peace Bringer
* Ferryn Rise
* Bradley
* Bradley's father
* Stubby
* Turi/Carol
* Queen Merigold Alvero

## Locations

* Gilberts Mansion
* Aurum
* Aurum Castle
* Church of Salem