RECAP:
- at the end you realized this was all a setup – the halfling guide who came with us was working for them
- a lot of the enemies we made in the STone Thief had teamed up to take us down, like an “Injustice League“
- Just about to fight many of them, a massive wall of fire engulfed the minions and stopped them from engaging
- Baathrugon the Pit Fiend explained that as is their nature, they have to pay off debits
- he was in debt to you because the Clock to Hell we inadvertently screwed up by destroying the clockwork machines exploded
- He explained that devils existed a long, long time ago and were discovered by Dwarves deep in the underworld and the dwarves are the ones who created the lock of hell to keep them in stasis
- not all devils were around at the time, those are rogue elements
- when the lcock blew up, they are now out
- he emphasized that they are NOT related to demons
- they are curious about the Diabolist (and the Crusader)
- He considers his debt now paid – hopes they do not meet again, and if you do, he will destroy us
- The heroes then Returned to Eldolan, discussing what to do, where to go, what to investigate, etc
- All they remember is going to bed, but…
- … THE VERY NEXT THING ANY OF THEM REMEMBER IS BEING IN A HELLHOLE!
- How did they get here?
- Why did they come?
- Is this even real?
ENGAGE!
- The demons killed slowly sink into the fleshy floor of this horrible place
- the mouth is chomping – you wonder if it’s doing something as it’s absorbing something that died
- Legion, wondering how to ‘test’ the scene they’re in – sends his minion to climb the fleshy ridge to see how far it can go, but as it does, it is swallowed up the minion!
- For Puki, Idris, and Nidalru – it’s slowly coming back to you
- you remember going with Waurren to meet the dark elf serving the crusader, Othorion
- Waurren had been pressured to get us to participate in hellhole raids because of our role in activating The CLock of Hell
- they remember the meeting and being told they are a splinter group while some of the dark knights of the crusader launch a raid on a hellhole to find a demon somewhere in this hellhole named Paizzu who’s wearing something called “The Crown of Hell”
- Supposed to kill Paizzu and bring the crown back to Othorion who will in turn, give it to The Crusader
- you remember going with Waurren to meet the dark elf serving the crusader, Othorion
- Legion remembers NONE of that.
- The other guys are starting to share those memories, but Legion has absoloutely no idea what they’re talking about – no recollection whatsoever
- Legion suspects the surrounding mist may have something to do with people’s memories being foggy about what they remember and don’t
- Idris has heard the term ‘the crown of hell’ before, but maybe about more than one thing…
- Idris walks up to one of the walls – pulsating with a sickly rythym. With his light blade, Idris tests the wall and sees it part or even split at the very proximity of the holy blade
- The maze of tunnels leads the heroes to a huge door, set in a flesh wall.
- When you open the door, you find a prison cell, on a far wall with 6 prisoners, shackled against the wall – hope in their eyes as they call out for help
- We can hear noise in the far off corner, and it may be getting closer
- All the prisoners are in very bad shape, they perk up immediately, but their screams certainly echo down the corridor ahead – alerting it
- The table in front of the heroes displays a myriad collection of horrible torture and experimentation devices
- the huge door behind them seals shut with a flesh wall that no longer responds to Idris‘ blade
- the heroes set up to engage whatever is coming down this corridor
ENGAGE!
- Even after the combat – Legion is still plagued by the fact that he has no memory of what came before their arrival in this hellhole.
