12. 09/22/2018 Session Writeup

Session Summary
After leaving the unnamed tavern, the group splits up for the night – Paolo heading to sleep at the inn, Tami and Zuza sleeping outside the city gates with Datvig (after Zuza takes a moment to cast alarm on Trina’s house),  and Lu, Farideh, and Taer staying in Trina’s backyard. Lu hears her sibling Gaz in her head, saying "Hey sis. Hope this is not a bad time. Path of Emanence hit me up for money constantly, too. Is the plague over? You’d think . . " before they are cut off. Trina also finds a postcard from Lu's mother - "Lu, nearest port is Riza to southwest. Outside word is plague closing Valkat, is that not true? Saw view with Parindae, he misses you". The party talks about this a while, figuring that a) the nearest port is Valkat, and b) if there was plague in Valkat, it probably would have spread to Kotumi by now. Lu is worried that her mother felt unsafe spreading information about the Path of Emanence over magical channels.

The rest of the night passed uneventfully, and the next morning, the group meets up by the south gate, along with the members of the Divine Right - Temitah, a short, chubby elf named Dithas, and a suspicious human named "Chester". The party learns that Temitah is passionate about attacking Kvari keep because he believes what they are doing is wrong - that they are acting like they are gods, and reaching for knowledge that they don't need. He believes that the gods and nature have given the sentient races all they need to survive, and it's foolish to ask for more. Also, they might be doing horrible experiments at Kvari Keep.

The party comes up with a plan - half of the group would follow Tami and Zuza inside, while half of the group "waits outside" - really, goes and looks for an entrance to the cave network so they can sneak into the fort without Tami knowing. Paolo, Farideh, "Chester", Tami, and Zuza make it into the fort just fine, but Datvig has to stay outside. Masina sneaks in invisibly behind the rest of the group. They meet Tahir, who takes them to the internal meeting room. Tami asks about her research, and Tahir says that they are working on the forgotten history of Eryines - powerful devils that were rumored to once be angels. If they found out what made them turn evil (if in fact they were once good), the Path of Emanence might be able to change them back - change more devils back, even. They trying to do this by studying demonic and angelic artifacts on the prime material plane, artifacts that they have to protect by contract. While this explanation is going on, the rest of the party is investigating the room - Paolo identifies the probable tapestry with the glyph behind it, but then Masina accidentally trips the alarm. Tahir thinks that Masina is working alone and has her ready to be taken away - banishing Masina's familiar and seeing Masina with ease. But before the guards could move her, Tami calls out Masina's name - revealing that the party all knows each other. Paolo tries to pull down the tapestry to reveal the glyph, but the tapestry is, in fact, a rug of smothering and grapples him. A fight breaks out, the party smashes to the anti-divine glyph, and Tahir disappears.

Meanwhile, the other half of the party trips over a cave entrance that ends up leading them to a well. Temitah and Dithas climb up first, with Lu and Taer following after. They end up in the basement of the keep, where a small operating room has been set up among the prison cells. There they find Britni, the extraplanar creature with vitiglio named Alisher, and another tiefling in the cells. Then the alarm bells ring and the tiefling and Alisher run into the caves, and Britni begins to follow Lu and Taer upstairs, though does not make it into the battle.

Near the end of the fight, the party hears the sound of wings and screams coming from outside. The screams quickly cease, and by the time they have a chance to look out, it's all over. The courtyard is littered with bodies, and a large Archdemon and an Archangel are awkwardly making small talk. (Datvig was okay)