One-Shot: Fire and Brimstone

## Player Characters

* Tylerius, known to enemies and friends as Twinkle (it's a nickname he despises but it's stuck for so long he's given up), is a chromosmith. Like a blacksmith but with colors, the colors being all the magic he puts into the stuff he makes. He's a half-dwarven man, about 4'5", with a short-cropped beard and rippling muscles. When he's in combat mode, he wears a full set of shimmering plate mail that is enchanted to be tougher and to slow him down less - lots of runes around the joints and whatnot. He also carries a shimmering greataxe which is enchanted to be so light in his grip that he tends to wield it with one hand, holding his shield in the other. He also carries specialized javelins which are shaped like zig-zag lightning bolts and enchanted with, you guessed it, lightning magic. He regularly serves as the general smith. And with that, a bit of a handyman.
* Vidi (veni, vidi, vici, bitches! although that life is behind him) is a Mimic, a being made of goopy, slime-like material that can reshape and recolor to look like just about anything. Typically, he is just shaped like A Regular Dude, but he still appears green and his goop drips off of him (it doesn't hurt) when he's stressed or in hot temperatures. He wears light armor that can be absorbed and reshaped into his goopiness. He also has an extra arm/tail/anything, just an extra limb he can pop out and redefine at any moment.
* Haggis is a small Scottish Terrier with black fur and green eyes. He is an older doggo and has gray guard hairs on his muzzle resembling a beard. No one really know where he came from or who his owner was, he doesn't seem to be a stray but at the same time he lacks a collar. Folk around the town started calling him Haggis do to his habit of rolling around and eating discarded haggis from the local pub. He is very popular with children so long as they don't pull on his ears or tail.

## Recap

*"You have fought monsters, saved towns, and been content with leaving that behind you for the easy life of a remote village named Fillyef. There is no more than 30 people here, but they are all kind and life is nice, will it WAS nice. The hills have shaken, the sky has ripped open and rocks and fire rain down around you. As the Mount Feyron has opened and is unleashing its contents unto the land in outrage. Whispers of demons flying about also worry you. The small village has gathered and turned to you three for guidance."*

Shortly after the World Tremors, the three retired adventurers are called upon to save Fillyef in the Feyron Hills. As they agree to help, lava begins to pour out of the volcano the town is set next to. Ash and stone fall out of the sky, so the three hide in a cave, taking time to take in the situation. If they can reroute the lava's flow, it'll buy the town time - enough time for them to find the source of this in the volcano and stop it for good. There are abandoned mines with leftover explosives, but before they leave, lava goblins approach. Haggis and Vidi want to fight, but Twinkle convinces his group to just leave instead.

Once they reach the mine entrance (after the eruption ends), they light up the room with a flaming sword in time to see a horde of lava goblins lying in wait to ambush them. The magoblins get some shots in but the adventurers scare them off pretty quickly. With a bit of searching, they find several scrolls of Shatter - effectively explosives - and a magic device called a Scroll Relay that can detonate them all at once. They set the scrolls along the ceiling of the mineshaft and step out to detonate it. Not only does it alert several more enemies to their presence, it sends rock raining down on them for a massive blow.

When one of many lavrocks - vulture-like creatures with obsidian skin and flaming wings - lands next to Vidi, he turns into a rock. The lavrock picks the mimic up and drops him from hundreds of feet up, so Vidi turns into a lavrock and escapes, picking Twinkle and Haggis up and carrying them to the volcano. They see the active volcanic crater with a huge platform in the middle with, concerningly, the hand of a Colossal reaching through a rift to the Nine Hells or the Plane of Fire (or maybe both?), covering an anchor to this plane. They realize they need to destroy three bridges across the crater to stop reinforcements from reaching them before they can get to the anchor and stop the Colossal from entering the Material Plane and destroying it entirely.

With Vidi's acid spell, Twinkle's stone-cutting enchanted axe, and Haggis' leftover Shatter scroll, they manage to destroy the bridges. A Marilith - a six-armed half-snake demon that is incredibly powerful - was hiding beneath the giant hand and kills Vidi in a single hit. Luckily, Death is feeling lonely and makes a deal: Vidi just needs to sacrifice one person to the volcano every five years to return to life. While Twinkle holds off the remaining fire mephits and Vidi keeps the attention of the Marilith, Haggis runs behind the demon to grab the anchor: the Hellsword AKA The One Who Burns. The removal sucks the Colossal hand back into the Rift along with all the lava monsters and even the lava itself. The day is saved.

## Continuity

This one-shot came after The World Tremors in WoDaD Session 13.

## Trivia

* This is the first Meracyinthian story GMed by someone other than Loxley. Props to Drake (AKA CodfishJoe) for this one!