The party set out to find Diafani, with Cranzalar’s Locate Creature spell actually making it manageable. Diafani was skulking around Argat’s hospital, and after some threats and persuasions, she was convinced to travel with the party to Shallows’ soul rune in the plane of fire.
Once there, the three needed to nip back to the now-deserted City of Brass and find a diamond for use in Diafani’s True Resurrection spell. Along the way they found a shit-ton of treasure in the palace vault, including a cool scarab!
Once Shallows was up and alive again, things grew a bit complicated.
Uzi, worried about Shallows’ comments that Diafani couldn’t ever fight, went to challenge Aurifar over whether Diafani was also one of the agreed targets. Aurifar confirmed that she was.
While Uzi slept, communing with Aurifar in her dream, Cranzalar saw an opportunity to take out Shallows. It was technically what they’d come for, after all. He drew his glass sword and lunged.
Vi leapt into the path of his attack. They still needed answers from the Psionic Royal. Cranzalar’s sword flashed through her, and as she fell to one knee, blood splattered across the floor, the Mask of the Mind Spider woke up and took umbrage with Cranzalar’s actions.
It psychically reflected the damage right back at him.
Of course, Cranzalar was unaware that the Mask had acted without Vi’s consent, and if not for Uzi’s intervention, he and Vi may have come to further blows.
Shallows, seeing the mask, got pretty dang spooked, and began trying to get Diafani to team up with him to kill Vi – but his shouts were silenced as Uzi shoved the open Archive in his face and he poofed into a rune again.
It was agreed that the Mask was becoming too great a problem to ignore.
Uzi took charge, and came up with a plan! They’d revive Shallows (again), and he’d use his Psionic abilities to send Verischa into her own subconscious and try to evict the Weaver. Uzi insisted upon accompanying her – despite Vi’s claim that it was too risk, Uzi said that Vi and Cranzalar were the only things that she had to risk. And she wanted to help.
Cranzalar would keep watch on their physical forms, and take off Shallows’ head if he tried anything funny.
But first they needed another diamond.
Roll History 