Live, Laugh, Blood

• The temple we are in appears to be black and white grayscale. We see the linear portal ahead of us with a large, red-hot barbed wire appearing from inside of it. As we gain our bearings, Glittr and Brylwynn notice that the whip is the physical manifestation of Lovitar’s whip.

• The battle begins with us versus the Harpie Lady and Lovitar’s whip. She uses a legendary action and her skin coats itself in fire. She then takes a lair action and says, “You have messed with the furnace itself. Prepare to feel the flames.” as heat ripples from the walls. The battle rages on. At a point, the chains burst out and grab Bahamut as he screams out in pain as the heat burns him. Upon seeing this, RC bulls out the flower from behind his ear, calling to the owner of the Dragon’s bow he possesses. He uses Summon Fey and a Fuming Fey, named Petunia, appears and she says, “save my son.” The Fey giggles, nods, and blinks and it reappears next to the Lovitar’s Chain. 

• Brylwynn hears in her head, “Don’t you feel its power? Isn’t it impressive what kind of power that can unleash?” The chain grabs her and she falls unconscious. While she is unconscious she is a liminal space. Two purple eyes stare at her from a distance. “Yes. Beautiful. I see it now. Why Erador desired your power. Why my champion, Hephaestus works through you. You are indeed a perfectly fine vessel.” She awakes as Glittr heals her. As she awakens she feels disgusting and a sense of dread. She knows what purple eyes and that purple color represents. There is a binding pain in her skull and she stands up and says, “something is very wrong.” She feels something trickling down her face in this moment. 

  • The voice says to her, “I do so love when they fight back, but I promise you must like the others, you won’t last very long.”

  • She falls again and Glittr notices a purple liquid dripping down her face.

• Caulkin hits her with an arrow with the assistance of Lliira. He hits her ankle with an arrow as she screams, “I was supposed to deliver you to Zareal? Sisters, you will have to finish them!” She falls into the grass and as she does, she seems to melt. The only thing left is her beating heart. Brylwynn makes her way over to the heart and stabs it and as she does, the temperature in the room lessens, and the portal closes slightly. The chain with Bahamut’s physical form recede and disappears into the portal. 

• Pearl summons a Fey with Fey Summon and she sends it into the portal after Bahamut. The creature enters the lair of Avernus and disappears. RC feels like he has been suckered punch as he sees Bahamut disappear. 

• Glittr hits the heart one more time and it begins to almost solidify and turn into a semi-precious rock. As he does this, the portal whisps away.

• RC tries to revive Bahamut. He has to revive him in a different form. 

• We see 7 yellow flowers blood near the calcified heart. Brylwynn’s Headband of Intellect no longer looks like the headband, and now looks like this. We recognize this headband as being the Antlers from Beshaba. Her eyes are also now a shade of purple. Glittr shows Brylwynn her reflection in his maul.

• We all feel a chill in the air. We feel the same polar chills we are familiar with as the PoF comes to visit. He appears where the portal was and there are teras streaming down his face.

• “I felt it. I felt the portal, it opened. It called to me, the crown! I remember now. I remember it all. It is … was … Beshaba’s. So many millennia ago she forced me to wear it and look what I have become. And when it was over, taken from me. But, you bear it now. I felt its energy back in the world, summoning me, calling me. As it once controlled me, your name is Brylwynn. YOu have to remember that. It is so important for you to remember who you are because Beshaba is going to try and take that from you. I felt hatred for so many years that I forgot I had a lover and a mother. But their names, lost. All I remember is my hatred for the Raven Queen and you can’t let that happen to you.” The blue visage on his melts away for a moment.

  • “Pearl I know a lot has transpired between us. You must continue on for you and your friends.” Through the tears, we see an elven man standing before us and he quickly turns back into the Prince of Frost. Pearl knows that she has been that face before. 

• “Brylwynn, Pearl, I know so much as transpired but you need to help. Pearl let me lend you my power to aid you. Brylwynn if you agree, let me aid you with my power, if you agree. Will you accept my aid?” She agrees to this. As she accepts his power, it looks like an icy gust of wind blowing her hair and clothes back. Blue sparks appear and shimmer around her. She feels a chill as she accepts what he has. Her sword glistens blue for just a moment as she accepts the aid of a Hexblade Patron.

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