[dungeoncrawl] Thursday Morning Review

Last night, we picked up where we left 
off with Magnus, Carpathia, Quasit, 
Nadan, Baish, Talosaard, and Mileena.  
They wanted to have Dennis raised in 
Sigil, and had just entered a portal 
created by a frustrated Elminster, who 
had just received a tongue-lashing from 
Nadan.

Elminster sent them to hell, where they 
found themselves confronted by none 
other than the Black Legion.  Amrikol 
was apparently talking with a few 
devils when they arrived about how 
powerful he would become in that realm 
if he died.

The party was surprised by Elminster's 
actions, but it's hard to know what 
brought it about - only time will tell.

Once there, the group had some success 
at talking to the Black Legion, but 
things took a turn for the worse when 
Ariakas found out that the party had 
confronted an alternate reality form of 
Talos and apparently destroyed him (at 
least to hear Nadan tell it).

The Legion also included Iludriss, a 
fighter who was apparently composed of 
fire and encased in magical full plate; 
Nibrodius, a cleric of Kossuth; and 
Talon, an assassin.

Amrikol seemed to take offense at 
Magnus's suggestion that he couldn't 
control the Legion, and combat ensued.

During the fighting, Quasit and 
Carpathia died quickly as a result of 
their injuries.  Things looked grim for 
a while until ANOTHER Amrikol appeared -
 this one completely different from the 
first, and much more like the one that 
Magnus remembered from times past.

The two Amrikols began to battle each 
other, and the party attempted to sneak 
away. Unfortunately, Iludriss had not 
forgotten them, and he began to attack.

Meanwhile, the members of the legion 
were forced to choose sides between the 
two Amrikols.  Ariakas, still enraged 
with Nadan, continued that battle for a 
while, and eventually left in a rage 
with a plane shift spell after 
a "destruction" spell failed.  Before 
he left, though, he shouted "I am 
loyal!" to the "original" Amrikol, who 
shot back, "You worship a god - you can 
never be loyal!".

Talon apparently remained loyal from 
the start to the original Amrikol, and 
stood by him.  When Nibrodius found 
himself unable to decide who to ally 
with, and threw himself on both 
Amrikol's mercy, Talon slew him.

Ultimately, Magnus succeeded in killing 
the "new" Amrikol, partly with 
the "original" Amrikol's help.  
However, he noticed that the "new" 
Amrikol was almost too eager to die.  
When the killing spell came, he said to 
the one devil: "You must now do your 
part in our bargain."  

With that, he died in a conflagration, 
and arose as a 50' tall pit fiend.  He 
almost seemed to lose interest in the 
battle, and proudly proclaimed himself 
to be "one of the nine".  It seems that 
his past experience at world destroying 
and universe altering (with the 
introduction of third edition) had 
given him some prestige in hell - 
enough to give him quite a career boost 
when he arrived.

With some difficulty, the group (the 
Riders and Amrikol, Iludriss, and 
Talon) left through a portal and 
arrived back in Sigil.  

After a parting of ways, the party 
resurrected Carpathia, Dennis, and 
Quasit.  The group had some internal 
scuffles, as Mileena had temporarily re-
animated Carpathia during the fight, 
and as Nadan and Magnus had serious 
differences of opinion about the 
group's methods.

In the end, Dennis explained 
that "General Klaw" really wanted to 
liberate his own world, and that is 
where he took the weakened gods that 
Celane seemed to control.  The riders 
would head there next, after some 
research into the matter.

I'll give out my comments later - my 
wrist is hurting from this, and I 
didn't even talk about the "Tooth of 
Dendar" artifact -
comments?

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