Session XVII

Who ya gonna call?

 * 1) Ulfgir discovers a secret pathway to a group of kids with Heeri among them, and they go grab his equipment before he reunites with the party. Ulfgir finds a red marble with a piece of string sticking out from the top of the top of it that is making a mechanical ticking sound with a piece of paper that states “The Cherry Bomb of Asmodeus. Handle with care. Instructions: Light the fuse ‘n run like Hell. Takes 10s to detonate.”  The party finds the kid they were paid to find and reunite with Heeri.
 * 2) Gerhman gives the father of Mainor a Scimitar as a parting gift in return for the Necklace of Fate. Ulfgir collects his bounty and Mantra goes to the Library of Vanguard. One of the books says in Infernal “The Grimoire of the Damned” just like the book back in Ellalora. Mantra hears faint whispers as she approaches the book, and picks it up. When she picks it up, the whispers get louder, and when she opens the book it shows a series of hundreds of thousands of names. Newest edition: “Joraxx” Mantra fails a will save and the area slowly begins to turn hellish, and no matter what Mantra cannot get her eyes off the book, and her veins begin to glow a brilliant blue. She goes unconscious and a voice echoes “Miss!? Miss!? Are you okay!?” Mantra wakes up all bloody from their ears and eyes from a halfling. The party reunites at the Vanguard and when Mantra sees the Necklace and she hears this: “Blood Mage, Giant, Jester”. Everyone but Iados (fuckin’ nerd) goes to drink. Gerhman tells the party about the necklace, and after a debate between Gerhman and Ulfgir— Gerhman leaves to go look for Iados.
 * 3) Grimoire of the Damned were pages split up and were how Hexon was able to communicate with the Shadow Stalkers. When the party goes to the library and along the way there, they both notice shadow figures at the corners of the eyes, seemingly under the facade of infernal nature— Devils. The two enter the library and the book changes once more to the Grimoire of the Damned. The two end up encountering a Spirit of Regret when they approach the book and it concludes successfully. The party reunites at their rooms later in the night. Necklace of Fate has an inscription in Draconic that says: “To defy the will of the Gods, to cheat Death itself, to defy Kronos and Gaia, and shout the name of whom you wish to return.” While the party rests, Gerhman attempts to attune himself with Calypso’s blade, and is sent to an unknown pocket of spacetime that appears… in a mortem and acidic. Gerhman approaches a ruined tower, and as he touches the tower, he sees a glimpse of the past. Gerhman becomes Ethereal as he wanders the Realm. Gerhman ends up seeing a magnificent castle among this realm of the dead. Gerhman meets an ancient, humanoid being as the drawbridge to this castle opens. The old man apparently collapses, and Gerhman is covered in a spiritual “To the new master of the Saber of Shadows.” Infernal Runes: “Master of Shadows ''
 * 4) The party enters a tube of transportation and arrives at the floating island where Karsten is at. The part encounters 3 flesh golems as soon as they arrive, and the party kills them all. Vil summons a golden rapier for Felix as his tattoo says “Gift for the Vessel”. The blade summoned for Felix is the “Sun Sword”, sister blade of the “Moonblade”.