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The Deep End
Session Date: 12/20/2025
Game Master: Declan/Riley
Player Characters
- Klarna, Goliath Paladin (Hazel)
- Gutboy, Dwarven Barbarian (Tim S)
- Gwiazdka, Halfling Rogue (Bekah)
- Keeka, Orc Bard (Sheila)
- Valorion, Dragonborn Fighter (Tim R)
- Vicurean, Eladrin Bladesinger (Danny)
Named People and Places
- The Province of Nemedobur - Declan's adventuring province; a group of dangerously unstable and widely unexplored shards
- Rianglas - the ocean Shard filled with underwater ruins, treasures, and massive leviathan creatures
Major Plot Points
- Everyone is given some time to make their final preparations, with borrowed gear from The Voyagers being handed out to ensure everyone can stay under the water for an extended period of time
- They enter the water, meeting Guinevere a little ways under the surface, who gives a few more details about the mission at hand; a huge ritual is happening in a temple the Founders went to many years ago- the very same one that Steve died in -to try and make Demogorgon into a Demiurge like Ao used to be before he was killed
- The goal: stop the ritual, at any cost. Survival is secondary
- As they swim downwards, the party is attacked by a massive angry leviathan, making short work of it
- Finally arriving at the temple, they navigate the winding hallways until they reach the ritual room, where they see all kinds of demons and Demogorgon himself, along with two individuals who are definitively not demons that are bound to the ritual circle
- Fighting begins, the party trying to push forward through the groups of large demons to reach the mage demons, doing everything they can think of to disrupt the ritual
- Efforts are focused on the demonic mages that are casting the ritual, with various party members taking them out and otherwise finding ways to disrupt them
- As time goes on, Demogorgon grows more and more angry that things are being ruined, lashing out at the party as they desperately continue ruining this ritual
- The two bound beings are freed, revealing themselves to be the Gods Valdis and Letharr, and they get the party out of the temple in the nick of time; it seems disrupting the ritual has caused a massive magical explosion, destroying the building and presumably anything inside at the time of destruction
- As everyone swims in the open ocean, preparing to ascend to the surface, Dagon himself appears, grabbing Klarna in his clutches
- He taunts them, particularly about the crystals, asking goading questions to Klarna, who responds confidently and assured of themself
- When presented with the question of why Dagon should do anything about these crystals, Klarna defiantly declares that they will spend the rest of their life making sure to ruin anything Dagon tries to do, and even attempt to kill him should the opportunity arise. Everyone else stands in solidarity with Klarna, affirming they will do the same
- Dagon considers this answer, then says he would find that quite annoying; he makes the crystals go inert, saying he will simply bide his time until this generation is dead to go back to his scheming. After all, he has eternity to perfect his machinations
- With the ritual stopped, Demogorgon and Dagon defeated, and the crystals no longer a threat, the Homeshard Heroes rise to the surface, triumphant in every possible way
Additional Post-Session RP Recap
- The Gods return with the Homeshard Heroes back to Voyager HQ, where everyone is bombarded with questions about what happened, particularly about why the crystals are seemingly no longer hostile
- Klarna and the rest of the party explain everything, from stopping the ritual to getting Dagon to agree to “turn off” the crystals
- The Gods are then asked all sorts of questions, particularly by Klast, about what is going on in the Outer Planes with all the rest of the Gods
- Letharr tells the story as she knows it, saying that all of the higher beings- good and evil, lawful and chaotic -in the planarverse got together and agreed to do one thing; kill Ao, and remove his annoying restrictions on what they can and cannot all do
- Ao is killed, the inner planes shattered, and with no oversight, all of the various factions then started fighting for control and using their slivers of Ao's power to do whatever they wanted
- Valdis was created post-Sundering by [Letharr]] to try and make up for her sins, with Bronach having been made for the same purpose
- Both Gods assert that they do want to help how they can, but understand if they aren't wanted
- The remaining Founders and Chartreuse all share a sweet moment together in the aftermath of Isaiah being cured, and assert that they're going to save Caiel, Mac, and Caelus soon too
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