Ashes to Ashes, Dirt to Dirt

Sabah

Lux

Gigs

Yao

Angel

ΩJhonn

ΩLazuli

Phoenix

Alto

Zinli

Jimmy

Gilmoira

Baqir

Aboard Zero Base, Phoenix spoke with the prisoner, Luet. Phoenix said he had no reason to kill Luet, and in return Luet admitted that the katana he used to damage the engine was made of dimeritium. Luet confessed that he was trying to kill everyone in League Zero by dropping the castle, because he saw Chaplain as another Igor in the making, and he wanted to protect the warforged from him.

At that moment they heard a body hit the roof of the castle, and when they went out to investigate, they saw the undead dragon was on a rampage. It attacked Phoenix, but the rest of the league arrived and killed it. They investigated the roof to see that the wight, Claymont, who had been piloting it was dead, his head cut clean off.

They looked for the perpetrator but were unable to find him. They went back inside to see that Luet was missing. Being unable to scry on him and unable to otherwise locate him, they set to work repairing the engine with the fey stone shards. It would be a temporary fix to get them into the ethereal plane, but it was their best shot.

Back in Alfenheim, Luet appeared and approached Nyanta and told him he had been dropped off by an orcish man in a red coat wielding a rapier. He had freed Luet, told him he was a friend of Daisy's and told him to get in a bag of holding. Next thing Luet knew he was in Alfenheim.

Luet told the Wahda Guild everything he knew about League Zero and where their castle was. Chronogaze was called in and Cyric suggested Chronogaze attack the castle and dispel the private sanctum the League were using to keep their teleporter out of commission. Angel went with them to help dispel the sanctum. She met the entire Chronogaze team and saw the The Anubis before heading out. Angel and Ry Arnos dispelled the private sanctum and the rest of the team attacked the undead soldiers.

The Wahda guild teleported in and began to make their way toward the throne room. On the inside, Phoenix set up the castle's defenses. But with the Wahda guild grouped up, it was only a matter of time before they would be able to smash their way in. Chaplain suggested using the randomized teleporter to split the Guild up, which Phoenix agreed to. They activated the teleporter and everyone all over the castle was teleported to a random location on the castle.

Luxur, Luet and Sabah were teleported into a small hallway across from Hamlin and Gilmoira. Luet lead the charge, attacking the healer first. Luxur, upon seeing the woman who killed Tenebrae, unleashed a torrent of lighting on her and Hamlin. Already weakened by Luet's attacks, Hamlin was obliterated and his body turned to ash. Gilmoira began to cast a spell, but Luet's spellbreaker training allowed him to attack her as she was casting, and his dimeritium katana cut through her shield spell like it wasn't there. Gilmoira fell and said that she had information before bleeding out. Sabah immediately doned her clothing and weapons and assumed her form.

Meanwhile, Zinli and Blazenka found themselves with two ghoul allies facing down Jhonn and Lazuli. Jhonn asked Zinli to surrender, but she refused. Jhonn and Lazuli charged forward, but were immediately blasted backwards by Zinli's psychic blast. Lazuli used Ungir to incinerate the two ghouls, and upon hearing the hellish instrument, it invoked memories inside Zinli. Memories of battling hordes of fiendish creatures on the battlefields of Avernus, long, long ago. She felt a new kind of connection and summoned a shadow of her former self to fight. Jhonn's Channel divinity ability and his enchanted armor and shield made him too difficult a target for her summoned shadow form, so it attack Lazuli, nearly taking her down. Jhonn charged in and with his holy smite and the power of Samael banished the shadow. Zinli fell back on the defensive, protecting herself with ice from stygia, but it didn't seem like it would be enough. The combined might of the adopted brother and sister pushed her back and it seemed like her death was inevitable. But the ice had bought her just enough time as the castle began to phase out of the prime material plane, leaving her attackers behind.

Yao found himself in a room face to face with Jimmy. Yao, recognizing him from Luet's stories charged in and began to pummel him. Jimmy invoked a spell and him patron spoke through him mouth telling Yao that Avarice died screaming. Yao, enraged that this man was the one who killed Avarice after he had begun his redemption continued his assault. But every time Yao struck Jimmy, the darkness that now cloaked him struck Yao back even harder. He continued through it though and managed to dispel the magic with a spinning axe kick to Jimmy's Jaw. Jimmy drew his bow and fired a shot that Yao dodged. The second shot was on target. Yao managed to catch the arrow mid air but wasn't through enough to stop it, just to reduce the damage. Yao delivered a decisive kick to Jimmy's chest that knocked him down. As Yao was about to finish Jimmy off, Yao was blasted back by a wave of darkness as hands made of shadow reached out of the ethereal plane and pulled Jimmy through. Jimmy managed to ask Yao for help before being pulled into the ethereal plane early.

Baqir and Chain found themselves facing off against Gigs and Angel. Chain, thinking Angel was an easy target, went for her first. He whipped at her with his chains and tripped her, but was immediately knocked out by the backlash from her armor of agathys. Baqir was strong and hardy, but with two opponents against him, he stayed on the defensive and was able to barely stay alive until the castle began to jaunt, leaving Chain to die on the castle floor.

Lastly, Daisy and Tarthurac found themselves in the southern lecture hall, facing off against Alto and Scythe. Scythe immediately moved in to take out Daisy. Daisy looked to Alto and declared that she was done running. Alto replied that she just didn't get it, and now he was going to kill her mentor to solidify the lesson. Alto enlarged and charged Tarthurac. Tarthurac responded by enlarging himself as well and hasting himself. Tarthurac was still weak from the resurrection process and he usually relied on being either stronger and larger, or just better trained than his opponent. Neither of which were true against the physically superior and more battle hardened Alto. Tarthurac found himself on the defensive against the warforged. Even his critical, third level smite against the warforged barely put a dent in him. Daisy wildshaped into an earth elemental and began battling scythe. Scythe was a whirlwind of blades and death, but he was specialized in crowd control and defeating humans, not large monsters. It was a battle of who would go down against their opponent first. Would Tarthurac fall to Alto or would Scythe fall to Daisy first? Scythe turned on Tarthurac to try to decide the battle quickly, but he wasn't able to take him down. Daisy used this opportunity and smashed Scythe into the ground, dying.

Daisy backed up to try to draw Alto away from Tarthurac, but Alto abandoned his fight with Tarthurac and went to stabilize scythe. Tarthurac was struggling to stand let alone fight. He knew Alto's next hit would take him out. Daisy couldn't heal him in her current state, and her real form was too damaged to be able to afford another hit. If Alto was able to bring Scythe back up, there was no way Daisy could take them both. Tarthurac charged forward and stabbed Scythe directly through his core, killing him instantly.

Alto roared in anger and prepared to smash Tarthurac, but Daisy reached out and cast polymorph on him, turning him into a snail. Daisy took him to a crack in the damaged castle. The trees were rushing by hundreds of feet below them. She told Alto to return to the dirt, and she dropped him from the castle. To make sure he would die, she summoned another earth elemental to land on top of him and finish him off. Daisy then ran over to heal the bloodied and beaten Tarthurac.

On the ground, Alto hit the dirt and survived the impact. He saw the earth elemental a split second before it hit him. He invoked his giants rune and reversed the hit, causing the earth elemental to deal the falling damage to itself. Alto got to his feet, still ready to fight and he smashed his way through the earth elemental in a fit of murderous rage. He sent a sending to Chaplain asking to be picked up and he began chasing the castle.

Inside the throne room, Chaplain received the sending and used passwall to get out. Silvius followed him and made sure he didn't run into any combat. Chaplain then used Dimension door to get down to the ground and again to get Alto back up to the castle. Just then the caste passed through the rift, entering the ethereal plane. Immediately upon their arrival to the ethereal plane, the castle's engine seized and sputtered, leaving them dead in the water as the ethereal storm approached. Silvius put everyone inside the Coil of The Last Labyrinth as the castle was suddenly shot and spun around the ethereal cyclone and the entire thing was tossed from the border ethereal into the deep ethereal.

Everyone made it out of the coil again and tried to decide what to do. After Jimmy awoke, He used the spell blink to try to get back to the border ethereal to see where they were. The first time he blinked, he found himself atop a mountain. The second time he was in a deep jungle. The third time he was in a shining city full of dragonborn with the chandelier portion of Faerbaron floating above it. The last time he found himself deep in the ocean as a massive Aboleth drifted past his view. It was clear they were traveling too quickly in the deep ethereal to be sure where they would come out. They could either plane shift themselves to a specific spot and abandon the castle to the deep ethereal forever, or try to steer the castle out and end up who knows where. They decided on the latter, and Phoenix steered the castle though the nearest rift that could fit them.

The castle spun again and the engine broke as they careened through the opening and landed in a massive desert. The teleportation circle had been ruined be exposure to the rifts in rapid succession. The temporary fixes on the engine were used up and they were now dead in the water, in an unknown land.

Sabah, still dressed and looking like Gilmoira told Phoenix who he actually was and Phoenix told him to keep his head down and not let anyone else know.

Back on Flouna, falling comrades were caught or polymorphed after the castle disappeared beneath the heroes. A head count was done and it seemed Sabah was missing, and they had killed 4 members of League Zero. Daisy was reunited with Blazenka, who while in Blazej's body, was clearly not Blazej anymore. Tarthurac and Daisy spoke with Blazenka who revealed that Blazej's soul was split in pieces and they would need to re-unite the pieces to get him back.