Squaring the circle ecl5 nessa spellscale warlock 5 entry?

 Well, Noname abandoned us for freedom. He asked the maeldur to teleport us all to somewhere safe but it only sent him. Lulu asked the same and got sent to freedom but they took the orb with them. Thankfully with powerful wishing the maeldur is telepathic and was able to send me to the dungeon as well. Melano ended up staying behind and told us that the maeldur fell into the river styx and disappeared but at least hes free now. Turns out, there Was a way back to sigil through the dungeon and the candle stick store heffer just didnt tell us. Probably thought we’d die in the dungeon but ohwell. We’re back in sigil now figuring out our next move. 

Squaring the circle: ECL 7 Noname Human Brute Holy warrior 7 Entry 17

 This group will be the death of me. They are so chaotic, but somehow get the mission done. Perhaps it’s the balance! That’s it! The balance is telling me to not try and control it for it knows best. That’s why our last battle was so difficult. In the end, it all worked out! I can’t wait for our next adventure.

DM Entry: Ramander explains the Revival of William

Ramander: We (Shemeshka and I) had left Sigil secretly with the body of William. 

Our original destination was Lunia, the 1st mountain of Celestia. Once there, we met with some archons and aasimon, specifically those of a band of the Lunar Choir of Militant Righteousness. The celestials agreed to help raise William. But after several attempts, we all determined that the gods of Celestia just weren't about to grant a revive spell for a demon, even for one such as William.

So from there we all headed out to the Outlands near Plaque-Mort, gate town to the Abyss. We secured a building there and again tried to revive William. 

During the ritual, Tapheon teleported into the room with some demon underlings along with a faux William animated zombie. Combat immediately broke out.

Shemeshka and some of the choir boys continued the ritual.

During combat, Thralhavoc and his shadow demon thralls teleported into the room and demanded the body of Apocaloxon Loggonon (aka William). And of course they entered the battle also.

At this time one of the gods of the Abyss, specifically Eshebala (goddess of foxwomen and wolfweres), finally granted the revival spell whereupon William inhaled deeply and stood upon his own feet.

Tapheon took the opportunity and picked up the newly revived William and attempted to teleport away.

But his teleportation didn't work.

Teleporting had been somehow blocked for everyone.

In the brief confusion, Shemeshka joined the grapple with Tapheon. Faux William then also entered the grapple to assist Tapheon. Finally the celestial choir boys managed to knock everyone in the grapple unconscious with some celestial hymn, whereupon all the grapplers spilled unmoving onto the floor.

All combatants ceased their fighting for a moment.

Those that had been knocked out quickly regained consciousness and now no one knew which one was the real William, so well had the faux William been disguised.

Shemeshka asked them both a question only the real William should know. One of the Williams responded immediately, whereupon the celestials made quick work of the other William tearing him into pieces.

Thralhavoc in turn destroyed Tapheon (his body being drained of both life and color), after which Thralhavoc turned toward William, saying, "Long have I sought a way to enter the City of Doors, but was blocked by an entity much stronger than myself every time. You belong to the Abyss. It was long ago prophesied that you'd be a key element in the final battle. You are supposed to be how we win the Blood War and the Apocalypse. Your destructive power will one day rival the gods themselves. Come with me now or I'll destroy you where you stand."

William stubbornly and bravely refused, facing off with that demon lord known as the Shadowmaster. 

The Lunar choir boys began a low key hymn for some damn reason.

[Shemeshka: "It was one of their hymns of calming, Ramander."]

[Ramander responds with a long glare at Shemeshka and then rolls his eyes.]

Anyway, in response, Thralhavoc reared back to strike William.

But William unflinchingly offered no resistance, his arms presented with open palms, saying, "I'd rather be dead than to be forced against my will."

The entire room pulsed with the anger of Thralhavoc, who did not follow through with his attack. "Don't ever let me find you alone outside the Cage, Apocaloxon Loggonon." Thralhavoc then left the building along with his shadow demon minions, immensely frustrated and full of hate, destroying everyone and everything in the street as they made their way out of town (sans teleport).

Shemeshka then rushed into the arms of William.

I suggested that we could celebrate later once we were safely back in the Cage. So the celeatials accompanied us back to Sigil, after which they returned to Mt Celestia.

Im back btchs

 GUESS WHOSE BACK SUCKAS

Squaring the Circle: Melino lvl 6 Half Elf Druid Entry 15

 I was shaken awake by Noname. Did he have a nightmare or something? It’s too early for this... As my head began to focus on what he was saying, I realized he had a dream about William. Puppets? The maldur. There was a lot to unpack here, honestly. I’m just along for the ride. Whatever we do is what we do. I blinked a few times to wake up while Noname discussed everything with LuLu.

I overheard them talking about resting up some more. I let them know I was going on a nature walk with Lakshmi to find some berries and mice. Surprisingly, they were interested! I tried not to let them know how excited I was that they wanted to join me in looking at nature. I turned into a cat. It worked! 

We went on the walk. Found so many mice! Noname even ate one for me, how sweet of him!

After a fun day of looking through the woods, we walked back to the inn. My current companions were arguing again about what to do next I think. I stayed as a cat, I didn’t really care what was next. I did get annoyed after awhile so I eventually turned back into my natural form. “Why dont we go see Rimander? He usually knows where to go.”

They agreed.

We were on our way to his little ‘office setting’. He wasn’t in there? We looked around and found a handful of hooded figures surrounding the body of William. It looked like they were casting a spell to bring him back to life. We waited for them to finish before speaking.

They had failed.

Shameshka was among the robed figures and was angry by their failure. I could understand. William was a close friend to me too. She explained that they were trying to resurrect him but were having trouble due to the amount diamonds they currently had. It was difficult to get anything with how Sigil was at the moment. We couldn’t sell anything and we didn’t have enough to help but we still got what we came for. Before we left we told Shameshka about Teflon trying to resurrect William on his end. What a sicko.

Onto a candle maker?

All around us people were getting stopped, weapons being confiscated. They were afraid that a war would break out due to Williams tomb stone name. Apparently the tanari wanting his original name on it, but he had renounced that name. He was William now! Dumb. None of my business I guess. He was a friend but i don’t think Shameshka would let them put the wrong name down, so I’ll leave it to her.

Fast forward to his funeral - a fight almost broke out when the body didn’t show up. Probably should check that out...and no one is here. Rimanders place was empty besides his pedophile zombie brother. Lulu found a ledger that showed where they had gone. Good. One less thing to worry about. Onto the original problem.

We went to the candle makers and used his little portal thing. Idiot tricked us. This isn’t where we said we wanted to go, this is a fucking cave. I can’t believe we let him fondle Lulu for this!

I cast Light on my ring. This all felt...weird....stretchy...my mind and body being pulled. What’s that sound? Bats???

Squaring the circle: ECL 6 Noname Human Brute Holy warrior 6 Entry 16

 I had the most realistic dream. Not sure if it was a look into the future or a glimpse of a distant past, but it had meaning nonetheless. I told my dream to Melino and Lulu, and I think we are of the same thought. The maldur needs a name to teleport that entity! I don’t know if it works on all being, but we may want to tell him our names for a quick escape. I should bring it up with my companions. I don’t think his teleportation works in Sigil, given that there is so much power held by those who know portal locations. Maybe another plane? The celestial plane? I can bring it up when we are done with this funeral, if it ever starts.

Also, we could use the river Stix to have the maldur forget all the names he has been told. He looked to be tremendous pain in my vision and he has been that way for a very long time. It might be better to forget, and find peace in ignorance. Who knows, we were told he fell because of what was told to him. If he forgot, could he rise up to his former self? Maybe.

People are starting to get agitated by the Funeral delay. Did Shimeshka succeed? Is that why it doesn’t appear we will be having a funeral? The peace keepers are starting to send people away. Melino looks sad. I wish I could comfort her, reassure her William will come back...but I can’t. We need to deal with the maldur, then we can help William.

Praise the Balance

Squaring the Circle: [ECL 5] Lulu, human bard 5: Bio

 

Squaring the circle: ECL 6 Noname Human Brute Holy warrior 6 Entry 15

I nearly succumbed to the shift of the scales. I have never fought water before and I don't wish to again. The forms shifted and morphed away from my attacks but theirs hit with the full force of a wave and just as unavoidable. In my frustration and anger, my aim when wide and struck Melino. It felt like I had struck my self when she fell to the ground. Battered and bloodied, we were able to defeat the slippery enemy and had a new companion, Lulu. A big girl who handled herself well during the fight. The creatures seemed to have some of the properties of the River Styx. Both Melino and Lulu had their heads engulfed by the water creatures and seem to not remember much of the last few days (Melino) or why she was here (Lulu). Since I was not affected by the waters, I brought Lulu up to speed of our mission. About Tepheon and the Maeldur. And the orb to communicate with it.

We set up camp with our final destination barely insight. We planned to sleep in shifts to recover our strength and I volunteered first watch. Melino and Lulu had been sleeping for maybe an hour or so when I saw two figures appear. They were some distance away and started to approach me. As they got closer, I recognized them as William and Shemeshka but not as they were. They appeared undead, naked, with a wand made of tongues. I called out to them and they stopped in their tracks. Melino stirred behind me in the tent and shouted "IT'S US!" Melino and I approached William and Shemeshka. They did not react as Melino retrieved the orb form William's hand. Even as I touched the tongue wand to Shemeshka, which caused four spider like legs to sprout form her, she did not move. I wrapped the wand in a bed wrap to be safe and placed it along with the orb into the bag of holding.

We quickly packed up camp and made our way back to the portal we came from. Again we encountered the Guardian and she requested payment. I pulled the tongue wand from my bag and unwrapped it from the bed wrap. She without hesitation snatched it from me and disappeared into the dark cave. We turned to the portal and used our keys to activate it. Suddenly, Tepheon and his demons appeared at the mouth of the cave. "She has my wand! Bring it to me!" shouted Tepheon. With Tepheon focused on the Guardian, we passed through the portal just as it collapsed. 

Back at the hotel, resting and healing, I was finally able to sleep. I hope it is a restful one.

Praise the Balance.

Squaring the Circle: Melino lvl 6 Half Elf Druid Entry 14

 We kept walking towards the pool and saw a large lady being....sucked by the water? Like it was crawling into her insides. Noname thought she was in need of help (like the heroic man he is) so we got closer to help her. Then a couple extra droplet people came to attack us. I got knocked out multiple times, and I can’t remember much of this past month...

When I awoke, we had an extra adventurer with us. An opera singer no less! She’s beautiful and knows how to beat up fiends. I think we are going to be besties for sure! She also can’t seem to remember what happened. She doesn’t know why she’s here. Noname explained as much as he could about what we were doing. I understood...not much. But whatever. I’ll do what he tells me. We were all doing pretty badly so LuLu (my new BFF) and I slept in the tent while Noname watched for any fiends. I was thrown into a dream where I looked like William! I didn’t know where I was but I saw Shameshka laying down across from me. I tried calling her name but she responded that she was LuLu! We explored and exchanged information (and clothes at one point) before coming upon a hoard of zombies. We figured it would be best to join them to get some more knowledge about what was going on. That idiot that killed William took me out of the crowd and tried to place me on a slab. I refused, acting like a mindless zombie the entire time, while LuLu laid on one of the slabs. The idiot ran off and ignored us, so onto searching we went. We found a lot of body parts....and a triangle orb thing? And a staff of tongues? It all sounds so familiar. I think Noname talked to me about it...it’s the stupid orb we needed? I started getting nervous and high on energy. “We gotta go NOW” I said, as we heard rumbles come from underneath us. Teflon was coming. LuLu found a weird circle hidden under a bunch of limbs. She gave me the staff and orb and sent me through it. She followed soon after. We were outside? Is that...Noname? Are we awake? What’s going on?? 

He called out to us. I woke up. I heard him yelling about zombies. I ran out and told him to calm down. It was difficult to explain but I think I got him to calm down. I went near the zombies that LuLu and I possessed. I guess it wasn’t a dream. We grabbed the objects and ran back to the gate.

Felt it best to give the tongue staff to that guardian lady. Man did she love it. We saw Teflon teleport to our area but I left so fast I didn’t bother to think about it. We ended up at our usual inn. I just wanted to rest. As I rested, I tried to remember what LuLu had repeated while holding the orb.

The 7th layer of hell. He lies in the mobile fortress labeled “The Relentless”. 

DM Entry: The Planar Cant

PLANAR CANT

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Top story today. The Lady has finally had enough of the Bixiinae and their rapid overpopulation. As a result, she's mazed the entire lot of them. Several businesses that had been run almost entirely by Bixiinae are temporarily closed while their owners' scramble to find new workers. Prices are up right now all across the Great Bazaar due to shortages. Expect prices to be about double or sometimes triple right now.

In other news, the Harmonium are setting up guard stations everywhere within eyeshot of what is sure to be an unprecedented turnout for the viewing of who some are calling the Son of Sigil. Services are being held in two days for the local soothsayer William who, as you should already know, was killed in an ambush recently. There has been a hot debate about what name to put on his headstone. Tanar'ri representatives from the Abyss are insisting his full demon name be inscribed on the stone, Apocaloxon Loggonon. Meanwhile others such as the Portal Master and Shemeahka are insisting that he had given up that name for his new chosen name William when he turned stag on the Blood War and became a permanent resident of Sigil. A spokesman from the Harmonium had this to say, "We don't really care what name gets put on that demon's headstone, we're just here to keep a funeral from breaking out into a war."