Pax Viginti Team 1 IC [5E]

[Ninja Dragon]

Jeevok watches in horror as the darkness whispers one word and Eokos just dies in front of him, his body disappearing shortly after.

He was planning to take a break to use one of those medals, but he realizes there is no time for defense here.

The blue candle flickers again. Jeevok tries something different this time. He focuses on one of the clouds of acid attacking them and asks it to attack the enemy instead. Somehow, it works.

Next, he commands his steed to attack the enemy. "DIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" - he screams.

The dragonnel rends, then Jeevok attacks the enemy twice. He then yells to the dragonborn, and soon as he sees an opening in the enemy's defense. "TEMAIAS, NOW!

But the enemy ghost dragon just disintrgrates, destroyed by the goblin's own attacks.

[TriciaOso]

“****!” Eokos shoots up with a snarl. He is unharmed, but ejected from the illusion, lying on the floor of Ramona's workshop. He turns to Ramona. “Do you have a seeing glass or something so I can watch the fight?”

He sees Ramona is in the midst of casting magic, her teeth gritted and a spell fighting her control between her hands. You can see what's going on in that. But you don't see the void. You see the original chamber, and Sushumna, who is fighting back for control of the spell. Three of the candles are before her and burning, and as you watch, the black one appears by her coils.

He steps closer and contributes your magic to the spell, bolstered by his new grip on illusion and the malleability of reality. While Sushumna and Ramona are locked head to head, Eokos reaches in and simply... deletes the marilith.

Ramona sags suddenly, surprised by the sudden lack of resistance and letting her exhaustion show. The satyr finds himself holding the spell, and the focus spins wildly. "If they can finish the job before she comes back..." she murmurs.

The focus on the spells resolves on the Void, the only active part of the spell...

---

As the ghost dragon dissipates into darkness, so too do the clouds of acid, as Orcus takes back the life energy he extended to them. He emerges from the shadows, a bloated hideous titanic black dragon, vast beyond reckoning but also badly wounded, with only the meager life he could claw back. This is his last stand and he knows it.

With a last swipe of his huge skull-headed mace, he strikes down Jeevok's mount, but the nimble goblin just scrambles to the other.

And then the Lord of Undeath and Tiamat's favored son faces Temaias.

[TriciaOso]

After all of the bombast and challenges, in the face of the father of Death itself, the Exarch of Bahamut wastes no words.

Instead he simply plunges the Pneuma Platina, the sword that is the breath of God, into his foe. He unleashes a barrage of holy light that scrubs the monstrous fiendish dragon from the simulation, like light driving out darkness when you strike a match.

---

And just like that, Jeevok and Temaias are in the original plain laboratory setting Ramona created for this simulation, a recreation of her workshop. The black candle sits on the workbench, flickering fitfully; the blue one is still in Jeevok's grip. Erathis is gone, but curiously, the last dragonnel stands beside Jeevok.

The heroes hear Erathis in your minds whisper, "I hereby surrender."

Over their telepathy, Eokos shouts, “This is the endgame, guys! Snuff out and banish that candle and we’re home free!”

Jeevok grabs the black candle on the table. He then walks over to Temaias and offers it to him, while holding the blue candle in his other hand.

"Let's finish this, together"

Jeevok also pets the last dragonnel while walking towards Temaias. It did a very great job.

Temaias breathing havily after the last attack a bit discombobulated from the sudden change in scenery. He sees the candle as jeevok moves up and hands it over to him. He wastes no time confident his wards will shield him from whatever the candle will attempt. He nods at jeevok with an approving gaze then grasps the candle. "Death holds no power here." He says.

As Sushumna tries to claw her way back in and Eokos holds her off, Jeevok and Temaias extinguish the last two candles and will them out of existence. With the marilith's foothold destroyed, the spell becomes much more cooperative; Eokos realizes he can simply stop concentrating and dismiss it.

---

Jeevok and Temaias appear from thin air, unsummoned from the simulation. They are now unharmed, exactly as they were when they went in; in fact, the only damaged one is Ramona, who looks thoroughly exhausted from her spiritual combat with the marilith. Even the dragonnel is restored to full vitality.

Somehow, the Lightning Rider steed has followed the heroes out of the illusion. Jeevok feels a last touch of the mind of the goddess of civilization, a weary nod from one general to another.

As Temaias reapears the first thing he does is to look upon himself to see if he has returned to his previous apperance. But he still seem to have his tail, he is larger and the horns still have the platinum shard and the ioun stones hovering between them. He will then slowly turn towards the exhausted illusionist and take a few determined steps up to stare her down. And with a deep, reverberating voice with an accompaning growl speaks. "I hope you understand the gravity of the events you have set in motion...I will not allow this to happen again." He then turns to leave and as he walks through the labratory speaks again. "The church will hear of this."

Ramona looks at Temaias wearily. "It's obvious that these artifacts are more dangerous than we ever knew," she says. "I will speak to Santino. We must destroy them as soon as possible, if we can, and we must not keep any of them in the same place any longer."

---

But for now, the adventure is over. It's strange to go out into the streets of The Mills and realize very little time has passed in this ordinary day in this extraordinary place. You go home and go about your various businesses.

Jeevok and his new pet head to the courtyard of teleportation circles to visit Sheerfast and the goblin magic item shop there, returning with a Helm of Teleportation.

Temaias goes to speak with Nicosia and the Hoard of Fountains.

That night, you all dream of Tiamat rising from the volcano of Sunhome, and you wake to an invitation to the wedding of Queen Maebe and King Temaias.