Category:Hell

The Wizards & Waifus' Hell Campaign is set in the D&D 5e system and marks the group's return to the system after dabbling with other TTRPGs for some time. Set in a fairly homebrew version of a Planescape setting, the players were told that their characters had lived a complete life (whether long and fulfilled or cut short) and met their end. Their souls were then shepherded to the afterlife and, whether deserved or not, found themselves in the first layer of Hell, Avernus.

Avernus
The campaign kicked off on the day a Dragonborn woman named Ríonach appeared in Avernus outside the conventional way - ferried by Charon. While Ríonach was being acclimatized to her situation and the bedfellows fate had bestowed upon her, bleeding walls signified Charon's arrival. Aberrations were fought off before the lost soul Wat was rescued from the ferry's chains.

A group led by an Illithid assaulted Avernus' trading outpost while Wat was taken to Thuldor to acclimatize as Ríonach had, and after some discussion a number of Thuldor's residents made their way to the outpost in search for a portal to lead to their escape. The group picked small fights in the midst of the minor war raging around them, inching themselves closer to the Regent's Office, home to the most recent portal into Avernus. Meanwhile, Lock found his way to an Infernal War Machine garage in hopes of utilizing a monstrous vehicle to his group's advantage.

As the siege carried on, Aethaclu entered the the office of the outpost's regent and stumbled upon the Illithid as they corrupted a Bearded Devil into a Gibbering Mouther. Noping out of the office, he rejoined most of the party as they faced down the margrave, who was felled by Poppy's hammer. Specter attempted to rescue her, feeling a camaraderie with her after being stabbed by the margrave's spear. As the party continued clearing out the town, Lock managed to start up a War Machine and burst out of the garage, running over a number of Devils and Aberrations on his way to the regent's office. The machine became lodged in the back of the office as the party focused the injured Illithid with their abilities. Wat was unsuccessful in stabilizing the margrave, which resulted in a small spat between Specter and Poppy before corpses were dissected and the outpost was looted. The party agreed to return to Thuldor for rest before any reinforcements from either side arrived in the outpost. (Level to 4)

Returning to Thuldor to recover from the siege on Avernus' outpost, Poppy began introducing the four recovered souls to their new afterlife. Mid-way through her speech, voices began calling to her, and Poppy's soul was retrieved from the depths of hell. Taking a new spin on (after)life, Grazgull the Half-Orc took the 'angel's words to heart and began using his history in leadership to lead the other three who were saved with him. Meanwhile, Tim's patron Lunatari came to him with a request - kill a grotesquely obese fiend who was said to be "down". Diverting the party's attention from his newly-acquired magical tuning forks, the party dug from Avernus down to Dis. There, Alec's familiar found the creature they were searching for in its gluttonous habitat. The party then spent a week farming bats and imps to create 500 pounds of explosives, which Specter decorated to appear as pies to be fed to the creature. Tim invisibly walked with Alec's familiar into the Iron City of Dis, had the many servants of this creature feed it the 500 "pies" the party created, and then dealt over 5000 point of damage by blowing them up.

With Lock and Tim returning to the party in their Avernus caverns, everyone was prepared to use one of the Tuning Forks taken from the Illithid's body to leave Hell. Restrictions on the Fork's ritual meant that only so many of the citizens of Thuldor could leave, so the party took Wat and Athydin with them and out of the survivalist life in Avernus' wastes. The party then arrived in a wide open field atop a floating island where they fought a strange half-draconic humanoid. Ascending a spiral staircase the party saw into another plane through Alec's revived familiar (Lock physically stepped through the portal to view it first-hand). Deciding where they arrived more, the part descended to a platform and made their way to another island where they were greeted by a Goliath who introduced the plane as Ysgard.

The Road to Los Aviones
Ghave welcomed the party, explaining that he wished to greet them with a proper battle but could not due to strange circumstances around Ysgard. While warriors who fell in battle would normally rise again at dawn, for the past month or so citizens of the plane had not been rising. Cerulean appeared to offer an invitation to Aethaclu. The party questioned Thor and Tyr about the circumstances, and learned that Odin was one of the warriors who had not awoken from the Slumber of Battle. Alec entreated his patron for information on the planes and was "gifted" a vision of a number of unfathomable creatures being birthed by an unseen entity. During Alec's trance, Tim looked at the larger picture of what they knew, and summized that between the Faerie Light planar rifts, good people arriving in Hell, and malfunctioning of Ysgard, the balance between Order and Chaos had shifted towards the unpredictable. The party left Ysgard, stepping through the portal in the sky and entered the Outlands, where they found a dais beneath a large floating toroid that teleported them somewhere. (Ooooh, spoopy cliffhanger)

Arriving in the crowded city of Sigil, the party investigated for this mysterious council Cerulean had invited Aethaclu to. Making their way towards the amphitheater as one of the most unique buildings in the city, they met with the Council of Stradford's - a group of men in charge of fine arts and culture in Sigil and, by extension, all the planes. After speaking with the Council, Specter inspired the writing of a new and unique play, and the Stradford's commissioned the party to gather material from around the planes to create set-pieces and atmosphere for The Life of Specter (name in development). Aethaclu met with the Council of Scholars, a group of Planeshapers who keep an eye on the planes and those who can manipulate them, receiving an invitation to replace a former member specializing in the Outer Planes to try and learn how to fix the multiverse. Shops were visited, Athydin was left in Sigil with a job, and the party continued forward to Mechanus to begin their two coinciding quests.

The party met with a modron who remembers things named X-029 who led them to the Endless Archives of Mechanus. They then proceeded to probe the Archives for information and obtained a Lore Dump session. Lock ripped pages out of a book and entered combat which rendered him unconscious, but was later healed by Ríonach. Aethaclu learned information about the Creator and Sustainer of All, Dimiourgós and Syntirití, respectively. Dimiourgós grew tired with creation complete and created new creatures, but Syntirití decided that they wouldn't fit with the world that exists and refused to sustain these Aberrations. So Dimiourgós sustained them instead, and the imbalance it created began to shift the Scales. (Level to 5)

After leaving the Endless Archives, the party encountered a Bone Devil sent to capture them and bring them back to Hell. After killing the Bone Devil, the party returned to the Endless Archives because they decided they weren't actually done there. Grazgull finished a Manual of Quickness of Action while various party members looked up information about their lives. Tim "read" the book containing the life of the Godmaker, a Sorcerer Kenku named Scrawl. Scrawl met with Dimiourgós after a Wild Magic surge, and was gifted the power to create gods. He created an entire new pantheon, which contained the Goliath Ghave, which the party had already met. After reading the book, the party made the decision to return to Ysgard when the Tuning Fork eventually recharges.

Dragging Tim from the Endless Archives of Mechanus, the party went to a post-Aberration invasion Ysgard (which had been stopped) to ask Ghave about the other gods of the New Pantheon and received no information of worth. While seeking out Thor, they learned that he had also succumbed to the Slumber of Battle, but Frigga told the party that the Realm of the Gods had been sealed off after the pantheons left Proizkhod. The party returned to Sigil, spoke with the Council of Stradfords and delivered X-029 (Bob the Modron) to oversee the boring less-creative details of arranging Specter's play. When the party attended "Gnarly" Barls Gnarkely's concert, a number of them were placed under the influence of a Suggestion that they travel with Barls to kill his old partner, Lichy Lich. The spell was broken when Specter killed the man on their travel to Hades. The party was then approached by the angel Gamiel about a job delivering a message to the devil Nybras, Asmodeus' grandson, in Carceri. Despite telling the party they could "name their price", the party still chose to take a week to decide.

Of Angels and Devils
During the week to decide, most of the party sought out information on how to escape Carceri so that they could have options if the job was taken. Aethaclu spoke with Bason Jateman, his predecessor in the Council of Scholars, and learned how Bason used his advanced skills as a Planeshaper to defy Carceri's inherit limitations to teleportation magic. Alec attempted to learn more about the Information Broker who directed Gamiel towards the party, but came up with nothing. Tim spoke with his patron during some downtime and learned of a Phase Tunnler that was tearing through planes and leaving behind dimensional holes, but spent most of his time crafting with Alec and Ríonach. When the party returned to Glaistig Buide's abode, they accepted Gamiel's offer on the condition of one Nautiloid, or a Wish if obtaining such a vehicle was an impossibility. Gamiel bound himself to Specter as promised and transported the party to the gates of Carceri. After traversing the rusted halls of Othrys, the party found a way down to Cathrys, the layer Nybras was said to be on. They lured a hulking cycloptian creature down to the jungle-like Cathrys and towards a trap before being assaulted by the vegetation of the layer.

The party fought and defeated the strange cyclops and its Aberrant spider-eye "George" by trapping the creature in a Specter's snare. Once killed, the cyclops' head was placed in a Bag of Holding and Tim watched the beginnings of Soul Vessel decomposition on the cyclops while the party rested. Alec and Lock began to feel the effects of Cathrys' poison as their bodies took respite after battle during the rest. Afterward, the party navigated their way to Nybras' lair, a tall and ancient gathering of trees with an angelic being Usiel chained to the exterior. After delivering the letter to Nybras, "Luciel is free. -Gamiel", Nybras insisted that he would leave Carceri with the party. Aethaclu found a dimensional "fairy light" and expanded it into a portal that lead into an expansive, empty plane that quickly generated a cloud of fog around the party as they attempted a Plane Shift ritual. Voices began speaking into everyone's minds as the fog blocked out all vision, and the session ended with a hand grabbed Ríonach's arm.

Finding themselves surrounded by figures in the mists, the party's minds were collectively invaded before psionic forces tempted them apart. Each member of the party met with another member to explore inexplicable manifestations of areas that all had a single theme in common - a series of chains wrapping around a fleshy, glowing, pulsing seed. The areas would then dissipate into mist and leave each member separated. When every party member eventually reconvened together, there were twice as many individuals as there should have been. The party fought off the Personality Devourers and chopped down a tree with fruits that would pulse like a heart, taking in and sending out beads of light through the branches. Some party members tasted the fruit before Tim identified the fruits as representations of each of the 16 Outer Planes. The party teleported to Ysgard, where they found gifts left to them by an unseen force (Santa Claus). (Level to 6)

The party returned to Sigil from their space in Ysgard and met with Gamiel, where tensions were displayed between him and Nybras. Grazgull and Alec went to purchase a few magic items while the party waited for Glaistig Buide to return with their reward. Alec then received an invitation to meet with the Information Broker, a Half-Elven man named Jameson Fawkes. They had a discussion over various points of interest for Alec and the party. Alec learned that Gamiel was aware Nybras would leave Carceri with the party, that Luciel is in Arborea, that Dimiourgós created a method for the Aberrations to siphon energy from the planes to sustain themselves, that the tree in the Far Realms represented the World Tree and showed where the Aberrations siphons were taking power from, that the Far Realms and the Home of the Gods are one-and-the-same (thus making it where Dimiourgós resides), and finally that Jameson himself is one of the gods created by the Sorcerer Scrawl. After two days in Sigil, Glaistig Buide returned with a damaged Nautiloid, as per the agreement for delivering Gamiel's message.

The Party debated about how to proceed with the Nautiloid Xetzirbor. Through Tim's Identify spell and Alec's mental connection they discovered that the ship required "lifeforce" to live, and a kind of energized crystal to teleport. The ship requested 20 living individuals to "milk" of their souls for sustenance, which gave the party pause. They docked Xetzirbor in Sigil's Interdimensional Yachter's Club pocket dock dimension before pursuing Gamiel and Nybras, who had gone ahead to Arborea. The group made their way from the wildlands of Arvandor to the waters of Aquallor, where they found a submarine coral city and met with a Pit Fiend Barnabas IV (aka Barry). Dispatching of their would-be assassin quickly, and learning he was sent on Asmodeas' orders, the group continued to the lowest layer Mithardir. After scouring the white sands, the group managed to find Luciel - a pale skinned, blonde-to-white haired, black-to-red winged angelic girl with a horn that grows from the back of her head, circles above like a halo and finishes with the point directed to the sky. As Nybras embraced his daughter, Gamiel attempted to spear them both with radiant light, but was caught by Specter who distracted the angel enough for the strike to miss.

Tensions were high as Specter took the blame for the beam of radiant energy that nearly skewered Nybras and Luciel. Confused, most of the party were content to watch and wait as Specter talked themselves from dangerous situation to new dangerous situation. Attempting to capitalize on the confusion, Aethaclu attempted to further disorient Gamiel and Nybras with Alec's semi-willing participation. Gamiel continued to try and kill Nybras, using Specter as a pawn before Specter turned her allegiance towards Luciel and what she wanted. The rest of the party began converging on Gamiel after this multi-cross, and as his vitality drained Gamiel wished his way to success. Nybras was greatly injured, and Luciel was killed. As Gamiel died to Specter's bolt, Tim attempted to preserve what piece of Luciel's soul remained in Arborea with one of Charon's Shackles, as well as Aethaclu's assistance. Ríonach used the Tuning Fork to Avernus to take the group back to the Hells, where Nybras took his daughter's corpse on Charon's Ferry deeper into the pits of Hell, leaving the Party in Avernus' Trading Outpost. (Level to 7)

Around the Worlds in 80 (or fewer) Days
The Party met with a Succubus acting as the Trading Outpost's new Margrave. After some discussion, they rejected her offer of purchasing slaves before sneaking away back to Thuldor. They spent the night and the next day went hunting for imps to capture and corral within the bowels of Xetzirbor to feed their ship. They found a small group, which took the opportunity to flee when sent on ahead of the group. Alec, through his disguised familiar, convinced the imp group to gather friends to strike back at the party, which resulted in 40 imps descending upon Thuldor. The residents hid while the Party did their best to non-lethally dispatch the imps. At the end of everything, 23 imps remained alive and incapacitated.

The imps were kept bound and incapacitated within Thuldor while the party waited for the fork to Ysgard to recharge. A group of Alec, Aethaclu, Grazgull, and Tim transported themselves to Sigil in order to retrieve Xetzirbor and make use of their imp stockpile. After navigating the Astral Sea and nearly crashing into Avernus' Citadel, the group brought their ship near the entrance of Thuldor and escorted their imp slaves on board, taking a majority of Thuldor's residents as deckhands. The party then navigated back to the Astral Sea and sailed for a short time before happening across a portal to Mechanus. Upon entering, they learned that inmates from Carceri had found a way to the Plane of Order and were both vying for control of the plane and searching for an exit. Aethaclu recruited the elf Michael to be a deckhand. Most of the party made their way to the Endless Archives of Mechanus to discover that a portion of it's marble walls had been destroyed by melting. A swath of destruction was left down one of Mechanus' halls, with footprints that were more like 10-20 foot drops in elevation for some distance (~120 feet), and inside the Archives was traces of destruction, a deceased Curator, and a void of space taking up the entirety of the entryway's far wall with a small rectangular window into the plane Carceri situated in the void's center.

After confirming that the Endless Archives were sundered, at least nearest the entrance, a small portion of the party took a quick peek into the portal to Carceri. After finding the halls of melted iron and the sounds of distant armored boots marching on metal, they retreated back to Xetzirbor to follow the path of destruction towards a pillar of black smoke. There they came across a Guardian facing off against a colossal Elemental known as a Behemoth. After the Behemoth tore through reality and left Mechanus, the party fought the Construct Guardian, attempting to remove purple fleshy tendrils that extended near its joints. When the tendrils were fully destroyed and the Guardian ceased attacking, Xetzirbor landed and the party spoke with Primus, now freed of Aberrant influence and seemingly a Seed which the party was seeking to destroy. They left with the implications of finding one of the Aberrations Seeds attached to the Guardian of Mechanus, as well as the remnants of the destroyed Seed, and returned to Sigil. Specter oversaw the Stradfords' work on her play, Tim met with AUBY and learned a little about the boy's father's expectations and mannerisms, and a native of the Elemental Plane of Air came to the party seeking aid with an Aberrant assault on their plane.

The party debated how to approach an Aberrant invasion of the Plane of Air, and during the discussion found a stow-away aboard their ship. After confronting her, and her insistence on staying with a strong group, Chifith joined the party at the same time Lock mysteriously disappeared. Eventually the party made their way to the Plane of Air, leave Xetzirbor behind. Upon arrival it seemed no one really wanted to go there, but their return portal had already closed behind them. Ulur'aht was sent to scout and found three Nautiloids approximately 200-300 feet from the mote of land their portal took them to, a group of three standard Illithid and one strange-looking one, and powerful air currents surrounding their floating island. With some semblance of a plan, the party left off intending to confront a Nautiloid directly.

Flying through gale-force winds, the party traveled to one of the Nautiloid's and deposited an invisible Alec and Chifith. After some exploration and avoiding Illithids, the pair managed to find the crystals supplying power to the ship, but also alerted a small group of Mind Flayers to their possible existence. After a thankfully-passed saving throw, a hole was breached in the Nautiloid's hull and the pair escaped with the party, who decided to go towards a second Nautiloid. One failed Polymorph later, the party returned to Aaqa and, with the assistance of Rocket Bear, entered the fortress. The door was repaired by Tim before the Illithid land troupe could follow after them, and the session ended with enemies waiting.

The Illithid troupe broke through the newly-repaired doorway and a fight ensued. At the end of it, as Tim began to put his his Tiny Hut he looked out to the battle of Nautiloids and noticed four more in the lineup. As the party took a rest, they watched as radiant fire and something smaller than a ballista bolt attacking the Nautiloids. Graz took a look around and found the fleshy purple tendrils clinging to the fortresses wall. Ríonach flew to a nearby island searching for more of these tendrils and possible an Illithid Seed, and noticed an approaching storm on her return. A Primordial - massive storm clouds in the form of a multi-winged bird - was approaching Aaqa and, should it fly past the island, the Nautiloids. Lightning cracked out to kill Tim's familiar upon attempted inspection, but even from their distance members of the party could make out the pulsing purple tendrils spreading out over the Primordial. (Level to 8)

The party engaged with the Primordial, Grazgul and Aethaclu flying into melee with the infected godling. Throughout the fight manifestations of flame appeared upon the Primordial, assisting the party's efforts. Eventually the infection was destroyed, and a final burst of flame forced the Primordial to flee from the physical space of the Plane of Air. The destroyed Aberrant Seed was recovered from the endless expanse of the Plane of Air and brought back as the party began to tend to their wounds. During their rest, the party was approached by a pixie and knight who revealed themselves to be members of the 'New Gods'. After brief interaction, the pair left and the party waited for the opportunity to return to Ysgard via Tim's tuning fork. As they were leaving, Alec noticed a Brass Dragon with purple veins, likely infected by the Aberrations, and the party was forced to flee as it was signaled to their location. During Tim's final enchanting time to camouflage Xetzirbor, he came across Mîÿkkéłlę slumped over in the captain's seat, dead.

Some time was spent tracking down the Air Genasi who had requested the party free his home plane in order to work out a payment while Tim crafted for their upcoming plan: slay a dragon. When the party had sorted everything out, they took Xetzirbor back into the Astral Sea in search of Ysgard. Along the way they passed a Gith ship and found a Soul Vessel created from the Void card of the Deck of Many Things. Freeing the inhabitant, the party continued sailing until they found Ysgard and engaged the Ancient Brass Dragon. At the end of combat, a commissioned potion of theirs put the dragon to sleep and Specter dove down the throat of the sleeping dragon to cut out the Aberrant Infection from inside.

Reunion
The party sought an audience with Frigga and Ghave to explain their achievement in the realm of Ysgard, to which there was no immediate effect. They then left back for Sigil for a short time off. Aethaclu crafted and began to patent his Aberratorium, a device originally conceived to locate Aberrant Life Seeds but was upgraded to be able to locate any object provided a copy of said object. Alec offered his services to the Information Broker should he be in need. Chifith did some low-level menial labor. Graz interned with a Blacksmith. Ríonach studied the creation of planes and pocket planes. Specter set a date to meet with her performance's benefactors, as well as getting a Sending Stone to the Stradfords. Tim crafted, as well as assisted Aethaclu, but in his free time went to visit AUBY, who was not in his store. After searching Sigil, Tim and Ríonach discovered that he was not in the city at all. Coming across a strange note, Tim learned the boy had been kidnapped and held for ransom to draw out his father. The party agreed to go save the boy and traveled to Acheron, the WWE plane. Parking an invisible Xetzirbor in the sky, they traveled into a cavern where Grazgul was attacked by the Shadow Assassin behind the ransom note, Jangus McDangus.

After a discussion with Jangus, the Party learned that after his contract to bring them back to Hell was terminated (thanks Nybras), Jangus was charged with neutralizing a powerful wizard: Awyvoqrax Uvilifarihm Brameharis Ykihone IV. Jangus' soul was taken in contract at some point in his life, and so far this is his third "final job" to fulfill the contract: the first was to kill "some kid", which resulted in his death and extreme training to hone his skills once more, and the second was to bring the Party back to Hell. Bargaining with Jangus, the Party agreed to help neutralize the wizard in exchange for a weakened AUBY's safety. When leaving Acheron, the group came across branded aberrations, signed with a symbol that appeared on a scroll AUBY's father brought back to the shop which was later given to Tim. With the aberrations defeated, the Party entered Xetzirbor and began to leave the plane, finding their Aberratorium would pick up aberrations when searching for Seeds of Aberrant Corruption. A very large tentacled mass was found to be gnawing on a corner of one of the demi-planes making up Acheron as the Party departed to the Astral Sea. Upon arrival, they found a wrecked ship and salvaged many treasures from it. (Level to 9)

The Party discussed how they wished to proceed as they drifted through the Astral Sea, and settled on finding an arcane lawyer in order to search for loopholes or other ways out of Jangus' contract. Heading to the sloped plane of Gehenna, the Party flew to The Fortress and found the legal services of Mgg'flethkr (pronunciation unavailable), where they learned that if one party were to "truly die" - to die and not have a Soul Vessel constitute from their lingering spirit - the contract would be void. Only a complete change of either the contractor's or contractee's soul can break the binding of souls to this agreement. Disappointed with the conclusion, those who went to The Fortress returned to Xetzirbor and the Party concluded that the best course of action would be to eliminate the Arcanaloth who held Jangus' contract.

Xetzirbor pulled the party towards a tear to the Far Realms in the astral sea, but Grazgul managed to overwhelm his ship's will and force them out before an Aboleth could attack. Alec Banished the creature to buy enough time for the party to sail away and back to Sigil. When there, some selling, buying, and preparing occurred as Specter scouted the life of Agesandar, the Arcanoloth holding Jangus' soul contract. At the end of the session, the party surrounded Agesandar's practice at 'night' to prepare an ambush with the Soul Gem Agesandar herself gave to Jangus for his mission.

The Party deliberated about how best to proceed, and then completely annihilated the Arcanoloth. Following the capture of her soul, the Party took Agesandar's Soul Gem back to Xetzirbor to inform Jangus. They then spent the week in Sigil while Tim attempted to craft a solution for Xetzirbor's need to return to the Far Realm. During this time Ríonach managed to Scry on Jangus' wife Jean, and the party learned she inhabited Elysium. During this time Tim and Aethaclu had a brief meeting with AUBY's father. The Party then dove into the Astral Sea and encountered the fallen body of a Behemoth of water drifting through the expanse before arriving at Elysium. When Jean was located, Jangus went to greet her at the same time the Party learned she was the plane's Aberrant Host. Jangus was stabbed through the abdomen by his corrupted wife just as the party prepared for combat.

Combat ensued, with a few members of the Party engaging Jean on the ground before she flew to Xetzirbor and teleported on-deck. The fight continued, and many of Grazgul's crew were lost in the battle before Jean was knocked unconscious. Specter began surgery to remove the Aberrant Seed from Jean's body while everyone set to recovering and counting the lost.

The party returned to Sigil where Specter began preparing for their gala with the Stradfords. With four days to the gala, Tim began work on some enchantments when AUBY asked for help with a task his father left him. The party interviewed Madame Sebille and came to the conclusion she was charming individuals to make deals with her. The end of their dealings in the matter was AUBY using Sending to ask his dad to confirm that he had full rights to end the Wondrous Wares' deal with the hag.

New Arc, Who Dis?
(Level to 10)

While waiting for Specter's gala, Alec noticed a well-dressed man walking the streets of Sigil with a purpose, crowds parting for him as he passed. Watching AUBY's father come to Madame Sebille's shop, he watched as the wizard crushed the building and isolated it into a demiplane to deal with what AUBY "could not". The party congregated on AUBY's shop where they met with the pair as the boy's father was leaving. Following the encounter, Graz took the party on a business venture two days from the gala - going into Avernus to collect weapons and scrap metal to sell. Upon arrival, the party found that it was sunset, a thing that had never happened in Avernus. The Cube next to the floating citadel was covered in aberrant tendrils, and after a short 1-v-1 between Graz and Zariel, the party began attempting to cleanse the prison of Tiamat.

After Aboleths began appearing around the Cube, the party departed - half using Xetzirbor, the other half entering Ríonach's pocket dimension and teleporting out. The Party regrouped in Sigil, where they went to Specter's gala. They sent a message to Bahamut, and began socializing with the socialites. During the night they met Quinric and the Templeton Estate, who offered to pay a 'small fortune' for them to bring a live Aberration to him in Celephais. Alec used Detect Magic to see auras of Abjuration and Conjuration about the Templeton Estate, very faint Divination and Illusion magics about the business card Quinric left them, but Quinric himself was entirely mundane.

The next morning, the party departed for Mt. Celestia to enlist the help of Bahamut, where they fought a corrupted Pelor alongside Bahamut himself and Kord. After several close calls, the party managed to be successful, earning Pelor's thanks and Bahamut's aid in their journey to fight Tiamat.

The part arrived in Avernus with Bahamut in tow to find a small-scale war happening. Planeshapers, tthe gods of war, and Zariel were all fighting against the Queen of Dragons and her Aboleth spawn. After a drawn-out battle which included Grazgul and Aethaclu entering the face of a god (once again), Ríonach pried free a piece of the aberrant seed within Tiamat's chest, and resulted in the apparent death of the dragon god.