Floodwall Sessions 34-35: Jury Duty

Oh my god you guys a lot has happened.

Okay, so, upon returning to the city the party was swept up into an illusion by Czerna, in which they fought against Rosso to stop him from reaching the Regicider Base and wrecking the place.
In the real world, a large group of Church Guards assaulted the base, following the dead-man’s-switch beacon the Inquisitor had left behind.
The party – breaking out of the illusion without realising it – made their way to the bottom tier, to throw this beacon into the sewers. There, they came across Zelena.
And since Uzi wasn’t wearing her disguise, Zelena recognised her. Turns out she’s her Mum, sort of.
Zelena was really more a craftsperson than a proper spellcaster like the others. She’d made a Ring of Three Wishes – the First wish, centuries ago, made her immortal and practically impervious to all threats in the plane. The Second, much later, was a wish for a child. She just didn’t specify that the child had to turn up safely within sight.
When Uzi flashed into existence in the sewers, Zelena just assumed the wish had failed. This all came out in a mother-daughter conversation, where Zelena apologised for not being there and insisted that Uzi take her Ring of Wishes.
Travelling back to the Regicider base, the party found it trashed, with Bailiff and Carnival hiding in the panic room.
After healing Carnival’s missing arm and reinforcing the wards – along with creating some alternate doors to the base (courtesy of the Archive), the party were all like:
‘Hey, we should make an entrance in the Dry Land bar on the Fourth Tier. Where is Redford, anyway? Also we really should find Diafani.’
Redford had been in prison since the business with the Mind Spider. Whoops. The party learned this through a conversation with Nico, who also sold them a Cubic Gate to get to Diafani – she’d ended up in the City of Doors, Sigil, after planeswalking to escape the collapsing hospital. Nico had heard rumours that she’d got a bit of notoriety there.
Anyway, after a brief aside to get Redford out of jail – with disguises and Zelena’s help – the party travelled through their Cubic Gate to Diafani’s location… which was in a courtyard, overseen by the Lady of Pain herself.
Diafani was drawing up diagrams of arcane power to summon and bind divinities. And the group found themselves pressganged into roles in the court – Uzi as Prosecution, Cranzalar as Defense, and Vi as the Judge.
And the Lady of Pain was all like ‘Begin.’
COURT WAS IN SESSION