Faced with the option of playing Dagon’s game and entering the darkened tunnels before them, Kaicho, Mav, and Remi decided they were done being his pawns. “Alright, I’ll have to make the decisions for you,” they heard a disembodied voice say. This was followed by the clang of metal on stone and screaming emanating from the tunnels. The silence afterward was tense, but it was finally broken by the shuffling feet of two limping survivors exiting separate tunnels: William and Lianna.
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The Pisspots awoke the next morning at the College of Nature. Feeling bold, Rune drew a card from the Deck of Wondrous Things — The Void — and his form suddenly went lifeless as his soul was transported to a plane of clockwork devices to power a machine!
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Ragon had returned! But he was greatly changed. His attire was strange: He wore a red suit cloaked in roiling flames. Just as striking to those who knew him was the conspicuous absence of the corruption that had scarred his face for years. Furthermore, Ragon reported that the soul anchors stamped onto his back by Devin were now gone. What had happened to him?
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The Pisspots entered the treasure room and shut the door behind them to keep out the rising tide. There was more wealth here, including several diamonds, than they could possibly carry home with them. They really should have thought to bring a Bag of Holding or something.
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The Pisspots had arrived at the final destination of their hastily accepted and poorly planned sailing excursion: A small island alleged to contain vast wealth guarded by deadly beasts and nefarious traps. An unmoving storm cloud shrouded the island and was their last obstacle to making landfall.
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Convinced they would eventually need to confront Devin and concerned about the soul anchors he placed on their backs, the Pisspots teleported to the Cathedral of the Divines to seek advice for removing them. They met God-Touched Emil who did little to ease their worries. They learned that the three brands remaining on each of Kaicho, Mav, Ragon, and Remi bound them to the Mad Tyrant, also known as the Dream Walker, and to two locations outside the Material Plane. One of these was a limbo-like plane of madness where their souls would likely be taken to after death, where mind-devouring tormentors would assail them until they reached a far worse final destination. To make matters worse, Emil explained that removing these anchors was incredibly difficult for anyone untrained in Astral Projection. The mind must leave the body, enter an adjacent plane of existence, locate the body, and sever tethers that bind the individual to the extraplanar realms.
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The Pisspots realized they needed to get their hands on some diamond dust to restore Mav and Remi from their petrified states. Kaicho and Braxis used a teleportation circle to travel to Academy Island and headed to the College of Healing. The war casualties were staggering and the demand for life-saving spell components was exceptionally high. Most-Divine Emilia told them that a single large diamond was en route to the college and was planned to be used to resurrect a dead soldier. She offered Kaicho a choice: he could allow her to save the soldier’s life, or he could take the diamond for himself once it arrived to restore his friends.
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Braxis returned to the group unscathed. “I met a friend who said we should enter the cove after sundown. He graciously offered to give us all a glorious and swift end. I think that’s our best option.” The others were not convinced.
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Following their deadly battle with Evan in his ascended atropal form, the Pisspots regrouped with Till and Lianna and accompanied them when they teleported to their humble home in Clifton. After resting, Kaicho and Remi discovered the McGregors had skipped town, leaving their mansion in a state of indefinite closure. Their teleportation circle had been destroyed. Evidently, Karl so distrusted the Pisspots with their soul brands that he would cut off even his own access to the home.
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The night was dark but did nothing to hide the thrashing in the distance that foretold of unearthly horrors heading their way. A group of adventurers prepared sword and shield to meet this unstoppable foe, all but The Bard. He gingerly traced the outline of his Lute and thought back to his actions that led to this moment. Again his choices had put them all in terrible danger. Fear of failure caused him to detonate an explosive before everything was in position and it may have lost them the battle before it even began! It certainly lost them the element of surprise.
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