When last we left off, the party – we could really do with a better group name for them – were exploring the labyrinth beneath the city with the Royal Zelena.
They made their way through a series of tunnels, fighting off a Drider on the way, before coming to a locked door with an open hole in the wall beside it. There was a skeleton with a missing arm on the floor by it.
Uzi stuck her tail in and almost had the dang thing ripped off; fortunately, she was able to splash out of there. Zelena then decided she was the one that would deal with it, promptly getting her arm stuck in the wall. Her indestructible nature meant nothing got ripped off, so she eventually just kind of ripped it out of there.
And then she realised she’d lost her ring of three wishes. Seemed it had been pulled off her hand by the mechanism. Zelena went apeshit, smashing the wall and door apart, frantically searching for the ring.
Vi spotted it first, lying in the rubble.
And she immediately gave it back to Zelena. Zelena will remember this.
Zelena explained that she only had one wish left in the ring, and that she’d never been very good at magic. She can Conjure things, but she’s only been able to create a ring like that once. Her first wish with it was a good one which made her immortal, but apparently her second one didn’t work. She’s been saving the third.
The four made their way to the centre spire beneath the city to find a Mind Flayer and its pet Intellect Devourer that lurked there. The Devourer managed to reduce Cranzalar to a complete dumbass, and almost ate his brain, but despite this he still blew the fucking thing to bits. The Mind Flayer was polymorphed into a worm and placed into a jar of mayonnaise.
The central spire didn’t seem to have any shadow-y leviathan things around it. Zelena approached, and upon touching the spire’s surface, her eyes began to burn with sunlight and she seemed to have a fit – when Uzi tried to pull her away, the force seemed to pass through her like a current, and Uzi had a vision.
Aurifar sat in a featureless void. He spoke to Uzi, telling her that the Leviathan, now unchecked by Cranzalar’s belief in Eadro, had sought him out and attempted to take his place. In his weakened state, all Aurifar could do was try to maintain his will as the Leviathan infested him. It wants to unite the planes, to be whole again, but in doing so it’d reduce all of reality to an endless soupy pandemonium.
Uzi wanted answers. Aurifar promised he’d answer one question.
‘How do we stop the Leviathan?’
‘The method with the highest chance of succeeding is to return my power to me. Each of your Royals has a sliver of it. Well, except for Lilla over there, who’s dead.’
Lilla gives a wave, but it’s an angry one.
But Uzi’s suspicious. She wants him to confirm he’s not going to go all apocalypse if he gets his powers back.
‘I promised one answer,’ says Aurifar.
‘What if I pledge to return your powers to you?’
‘Yeah ok. No, I’m not going to turn evil if my power is returned to me.’
And with that, it’s a deal. Uzi has pledged herself to this weird fused god. She didn’t even ask about her parentage!
When the vision was over, Zelena was looking shaken as all hell. Seems she’d had a less productive meeting. She more or less immediately conjured a ladder out of the depths, and was gone by the time the party got up it.
Things are definitely fine though!
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