It was decided the best approach would be to nip Aurifar’s spark-gathering in the bud, and travel to the Elemental Plane of Earth to deal with Rosso before the God could get to him. After some faff in Sigil with an illusory Shallows that almost led the group through a portal to the Far Realm, they contacted Nico and agreed to get her stolen Planar Lantern back from Aurifar in return for her taking them to the Plane of Earth – because yeah, Aurifar stole it a while back.
Upon arriving in the Plane of Earth, and seeing the half-destroyed city of Drywall, the party was quickly accosted by a small army of Dwarves, unwillingly under the command of Rosso. They were building a big gate to march on other planes, to eventually retake Floodwall.
The party negotiated a meeting with Rosso, and in his flaming throneroom thing they tried to convince him of the coming threat, and that the only way to escape is to give away his spark. He was initially unphased, instead just angry about being locked in the Plane of Earth.If he’d been on the other side of the portal then he could have just used Knock or something.
Uzi’s like ‘Hold up what?’
Cranzalar’s like ‘Yeah Knock suppresses Arcane Lock for ten minutes.’
The conversation was cut short by the whole city of Drywall being dismantled and lifted into the air, collapsing upwards around them. Using Teleport to escape, and bringing Rosso with them, the party-plus-Royal escaped to the Plane of Fire.
‘So, Aurifar came in after us?’ says Vi.
‘I don’t know,’ says Diafani. ‘He shouldn’t have access to that level of power, even with Shallows’ spark. He should only be able to use a bit of it? He needs a container spark to attach it to!’
‘Could he have gotten a new one from the Leviathan?’ asks Cranzalar. It’s because of him the Leviathan died, har har.
‘Oh shit,’ says Diafani.
‘Right, I’m willing to give up this spark now,’ says Rosso.
After some debate, some things are figured out.
1: Don’t die while in possession of a spark, or your soul is included with it when Aurifar reclaims it. Those that die with a spark cannot be revived.
2: Besides death, sparks can transferred with just physical contact and informed consent on both sides, with no other limits on number of times etc. Though there must be other ways to take them besides death or willing transfer, as evidenced by Zelena’s survival (however miraculous that was).
3: Diafani can’t give her spark away – it’s less a ‘spark’ for her and more a changing to the shape of her actual soul. Were she to give it away, she’d die. Also, she’d been calling it a ‘bowl’ all this time, but a more accurate term would be ‘vessel’, which is creepy.
4: Cranzalar is probably the most resilient, and… in his words, has the least to lose (‘You two have family to go back to after this,’ he says. ‘You’re family too!’ say the other two, in a really nice group moment). He’s the one that takes the spark from Rosso.
They go back to Sigil and Rosso vanishes into the city, exiting the narrative. In their house, they receive another message from an irritated Aurifar.
‘I’m just going to kill your friend, then,’ he says.
‘Fuck you,’ says Uzi.
They agreed to meet on neutral ground in 24 hours – the City of Brass. Aurifar would bring Bailiff, safe and sound, and in return Cranzalar would give him the password for the Iron Flask with Mavi in. Neither would ever, ever double-cross the other.
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