Session 33

Recap:

- Dream 4: We wander a barren landscape and get caught in black sludge
- after a lot of failing and desolation we pull ourselves out and cough up sludge
- Dream 5: We see visions of Zariel as an angel, losing her hand, and kneeling before Asmodeus, before turning into a devil herself
- Awake from dreams, convos with Lulu, namely she knows the 2 paladins from the dream who might be able to help us find Zariels sword
- Got options: Mordenkainen or Red Ruth (Mad Maggie's cousin)
- Maggie gives us a car that runs on soul coins
- Tzon tells Balsam to knock him out before he tries to kill maggie, Gaes takes him out instead
- Something about Cassandra sending us back to Baldurs Gate? Aurelia and Cass fight again while we eat stew

NOTES: Long resting isn't easily available in avernus. There are safe zones, but in general we cant just camp wherever

  We awaken to Mad Maggie waking us up shrilly. She tells us to leave and tells us to tell Ruth we said hi. We try to figure out what we know about Mordenkainen. We know sparse info. he's a famed archmage, a former leader of the circle of 8 an adventuring party, authored several planar tomes, and crafted many reknowned spells.

  Cass casts remove curse to get rid of Gaes. It seems the group wants to go to Mordenkainen. Maggie tells us if we come across smiler the defiler, he is an old buddy of hers and to name drop her and we will be more amenable to us. He is a faewilds elf. He at least was a warlord, though he has mostly been seen alone as of late. The other warlords won't be as nice.

  We discuss the plans for who is sitting where in the Tormentor. Lily says she will allow Skraps to sit in her lap if he has something shiny for her. Ben gives him a silver claddagh ring if he pushes for Tzon to drive. Aurelia says that he can sit in her lap and he can steer and she will use the pedals. there is so much room in the backseat now. Noone needs to be sitting in anyones laps. Aurelia asks if Tzon's driven a car before. The answer became unclear.

  Cassandra gives Skraps, Balsam, and Tzon get +5 to our max HP for 8 hours. Cass casts something on Lily, who fuckin knows what, Kat and their secret secrets.

  We start heading out. Aurelia fashions the scarf that Tzon gave her into a like headwrap. Balsam rides Bean alongside. The gates open for us and the flesh golem waves us goodbye. The redcaps glare at us. I cut my arm and fling some blood on them, they all scramble to get to my blood. The tormentor takes off through the gates. The soul trapped within screams in agony. Skraps puts the call on it'll last 6 hours. Himself, Balsam, Tzon, and Lily (lily was upon duress.)

  We take off into the Avernian wastes. Meteor streaks across the red sky. Off in the distance is a plume of red dust billowing, created by a large infernal war machine barreling straight for us. We try to move out of its line. We see that its crewed by boar and rat headed humanoids all in goggles. It's called the Demon Grinder

  Hanging off the top is a boar head with a big ass hammer. There are others but I wasn't able to keep up. They are a bunch of wereboars and wererats though. The hammer guy yells "RAGGADRAGGA ATTACKS!!!!!!"

INITIATIVE!!!

• Lily makes eye contact with the driver, and she magically makes him feel an explosive pain going through his head with mind spike
• Yeegha, a wererat, uses a harpoon flinger at Skraps but it misses wide
• Jibs, a wereboar, holds his action, he's operating the chomper
• Aurelia switches with Tzon, and starts driving with her foot, standing out the sunroof to shoot an arrow at Raggadragga which bounces off the front of the helm. She fires again with a psionic striked crit.
• Finnick, a wererat, fires his harpoon flinger at Balsam, which lands solid.
• Balsam jumps off of Bean and hops towards the front of the Demon Grinder. Jibbs action goes off, he tries to chomp me them midair. He succeeds and slashes them but they still land on top. Miss one mace on Raggadragga, second one hits. Bean manages to avoid the crushing wheels.
• Tzon looks around for some boulders or a cliff or something near us. Its just wide wastes unfortunately. He drifts the tormentor to the side so they baddies catch up and he can use the raking scythes on them. It hits solid.
• Skraps yells at the baddies and shoots a harpoon at Raggadragga but it just bounces off the side of their machine. He then tosses a flask of black ichor to Tzon
• Raggadragga steers the Demon Grinder towards our Tormentor slamming theirs into ours doing enough damage to cause a mishap. The vehicle grinds and shakes uncontrollably and we have a damaged axle. lots of disadvantage for us. The demon grinder also mishaps, and fully flips over coming to a dead stop. Balsam is thrown off the the vehicle and flung 60ft forward. Everyone inside the vehicles needa do strength saves. Aurelia, Cassandra Lily fail. Tson, Skraps succeed. Raggadragga, Oozywog , Yeega fail. Finnick, Jibs succeed.
• Oozywog, a wereboar, hurls a javelin at Balsam but it misses. The second one hits though.
• Cassandra sends Der'ik to Balsam healing them.
• Lily pops up from the sunroof and shakes herself off, smirks, and then summons a stinking cloud atop the baddies machine catching all of them.
• Yeega con save for stink cloud. Failed! He crawls out of the demon grinder, and out of the cloud. stays prone
• Jibbs con save, success. he crawls out as well. but stands up from prone. but can't quite get out without dashing, he moves towards Balsam.
• Aurelia holds her action to attack with her bow.
• Finnick saving throw, crit success. crawls out. stands from prone, dash out. moves towards balsam
• Balsam moves up to Finnick and thwacks him twice with their mace. Bean dashes as close as she can get. Balsam then throws a Sanctuary on themselves.
• Tzon moves the Tormentor up towards Balsam stopping before hitting them, crushing Yeegha and Jibbs in the process. Jibbs fails Yeeha succeeds. Jibbs gets crushed taking damage and is knocked prone. Tzon yells "get that weak shit off my track" and "Balsam get on the car!" Aurelia's held action goes off at Yeegha but misses
• Skraps pulls out a thing of oil and tosses it at their car. He then takes out an alchemists fire and throws that at the oil. It bursts and lights the entire thing on fire. Oozywog and Raggadragga make dex saves. Both fail. and take a remarkably small amount of fire damage but are also lit on fire.
• Raggadragga con save, fail. hit on all fronts with fire and stank. He yells for them all to retreat! Abandon the car! He crawls out still prone but gets outta the stink
• Oozywog, con save, fails. crawls into Bean who rears up and crit stomps him in surprise.
• Cassandra has De'rik fly back and then leans out and takes a true stiked swing at Jibbs
• Lily drops Stinking Cloud and eldritch blasts Jibbs in an attempt to make him move faster. it misses. second one hits.
• Yeegha stands from prone and looks panicked at the burning wreckage and dash flees.
• Jibbs runs off fleeing taking an opp attack from Cassandra.
• Aurelia sits in her seat ready to leave and tells Tzon to get outta here and activates the windshield wipers smearing viscera
• Finnick screams and runs taking an opp from Balsam
• Balsam comforts bean a little and asks her to ride along and to stay strong and then hops onto the Tormentor
• Tzon peels off crushing a burning Oozywog in the process. as we pull alongside we see raggadragga engulfed in flames hobbling away. he looks rough.
• Skraps flips him off as we pass by and taunt him a little and thensends out a harpoon at Raggadragga. which slams through his chest and sticks him to the ground killing him.

end initiative

  Aurelia says she thinks it went well. A couple of us drink some potions. We discuss repairing the axle. We will have to stop to be able to check the damage. We head towards Mordenkainen's location. Balsam complains a little we aren't going to meet Red Ruth but doesn't push it. They just think hags are more interesting than a wizard

  We pull off further into the wastes.