Stories of my brain

On their way to the temple of Yemaya Amara and Sam suddenly get sick. Amara throws up their meal while Sam just gets very pale. “The leviathans influence….” He brings out, and Adaly immediately goes into her bag grabbing the potions.

“We are too far away from it… it shouldn’t affect us here already” Adaly says and quickly swallows the potion and hands the others also one. They all drink it and Sam gains a bit of his color back. Amara lifts her shoulders “Something about this place feels off, maybe we are closer to it than we thought.” It feels wrong to Adaly, it should not affect them that bad yet.

They enter the temple of Yemaya and the priest immediately approaches them. Adaly kindly smiles “We have come to take a look at the vessel of Yemaya on the beach, but first would like some more information. We understood that there are some people that have seen it in person.”

The priest rolls her eyes “You talked to the innkeeper didn’t you. That thing was not send here by Yemaya.” Adaly chuckles “We know, it is a demon, but wanted to get more information anyway” The priest seems to relax a bit at that moment “You are working with the paladins? The persons from the Cleansing Dawn have been acting a bit weird, but they are still investigating”

Adaly knows the priest is talking about the shiny boys, the once Jeremy informed them about which were also in their contacts acting weird. Adaly nods with a concerned look “We shall go to them shortly, but meanwhile could we talk to the survivors?” the priest leads them to a back chamber when saying “Sure but I don’t think they will be of much help. The once here are catatonic”

They enter a chamber with 3 beds, one of the persons has their eyes open but they seem to stare into nothing. They don’t even response when Adaly waves in front of them. “So what happened to them?” Livia asks while Adaly looks the people over and makes notes. The priest sighs “They think the demon is something holy and went to get blessed. Almost none made it back, and the few that did are either violent, speak nonsense or are catatonic. Not sure what this thing is, I haven’t been myself.”

Adaly writes on a note the recipe for the potion that they have and hands it to the priest “This is a recipe of a concoction that should make the effects of the Leviathan less bad. It will not help the people here but get the rest of the town to drink this. It… we felt its influence in town… It shouldn’t spread this far, but seeing this and the sensation we felt ourselves, this should make it hopefully more manageable.”

The priest nods in thanks “Thank you, I will get our local alchemist to look at it… now what is your plan?” Adaly wickedly smiles back “We will kill it of course… However that will take some time, I expect few weeks, maybe even months. I am sorry we cannot do more for you” Adaly says and takes a step back. The priest just nods in thanks and they start walking out.

They walk towards the Leviathan when Adaly suddenly realizes “The innkeeper must have poisoned us, that is why it got that far…” Amara angrily looks up “That motherfucker” and Livia goes “But why wasn’t I affected?”

Adaly thinks about that for a second “maybe your nature makes you immune for the effects. It makes sense that you should be able to fight this without the nasty side-effects we have.” Livia nods in agreement it makes sense that an angel cannot be corrupted by a demon.

The beach spreads out in front of them, and they can see the top of the massive Leviathan. It’s mouth open as an entrance to a cave. They can see several eyes and walk closer before suddenly Adaly feels a ping on one of her blood vials. But even before she can alert the others they are ambushed by the Ebony guard.

Peranon looks like he is loosing it, he grew 2 additional arms, and on his chest is a massive hellmark. He starts rushing towards Amara and throws a fireball on them. Adaly immediately casts her highest level spells on him, causing Peranon poofs away in blue smoke while the others continue attacking.

The black tiefling they have not met before, Imrior, is standing next to Amara, taunting her saying “Tell the snake that Ilhoketh outsmarted him and he should get over it already”. Adaly raises her hands and starts saying “You guys are really in over your head, you know you will lose this. Leave now and you will live, but if you keep going after my friends I will be forced to kill you.” Meanwhile she sends a message to Sedavieth ‘Tell Es-Grenalieth the thing with the warlocks is nothing personal, but if you go after my friends, you die.’ Sedavieth doesn’t reply to her.

Tafrica continues fighting Gevaudan who turned into wolf while she says “Adaly you can also just join us… they will remain unharmed” to which Imrior replies “Except the half orc, she dies here.” Amara chuckles while swinging her halberd into the tiefling. Sam and Livia also focusing on the bulky heavily armored stranger.

Adaly suddenly hears Valziar’s voice in her head ‘Get rid of Imrior, then we can talk.’ Adaly taking this opportunity to ask Valziar ‘Will he also teleport like you?’ but sadly she gets no reply. When she cast shocking grasp on Imrior it seems to get absorbed so she just focuses on attacking the others, while Valziar and Yigadel intentionally seeming to miss their attacks.

Amara and Imrior still taunting each other, both of them seeming to enjoy the fight until the ground beneath Imrior disappears and seems to swallow him whole. Amara slams the ground “No you fucker!” and she starts attacking the first other tiefling near which is Sedavieth who quickly disappears in blue smoke. “Amara, Valziar offered to talk, so lets give them a second to talk.”

Valziar swallows comes a bit closer, still keeping a safe distance but starts “Yes we would like a truce for a second to talk.” Amara still raging comes closer to Valziar “You better give us something in return… like that nice Ioun stone” Amara steps closer and Valziar takes a step back, nervous looking at the half orc. “No we need our protection, we just…” Amara raises her halberd and Valziar grabs his Ioun stone and teleports out. At the same time Yigadel starts running away.

Tafrica the only ebony guard member remaining she rubs her head “We are sorry about the force that Imrior brings, we would still like you, Adaly, to join us, that way we can leave your friends alone. Our boss is not accepting the failure and he will just keep sending more to capture you” Amara also approaches Tafrica threateningly but Adaly raises her hand and Amara calms down a bit.

“Now that is not an option at this moment. Maybe after our mission in about 2 months, but at this moment I have other things to do. Now what happened to Imrior, is he still alive?” Adaly says calmly sitting down on one of the rocks on the beach. Tafrica chuckles “I honestly don’t know. He doesn’t have an Ioun stone as the rest of us, but he has some other magics, I don’t know how they work.” Tafrica answers, and Adaly looks at Amara “So he is still around, that is a problem, same as Peranon”

Tafrica looks sadly at her “Peranon lost it, but if it is just Peranon we can control him. We cannot control Imrior…” Adaly chuckled “It didn’t look like you were handling Peranon very well. He looked like crap” Tafrica sadly nods but doesn’t react. “Now what is the plan Tafrica?” Adaly asks. Tafrica visibly swallows “If you are sure you don’t just want to join us…. Go back to the boss and admit defeat I guess. But Adaly joining us really isn’t as bad as you think.”

Adaly politely smiles at her sister “I don’t think our father will be very merciful towards me. So no, I will not be joining you.” Tafrica nods in understanding and starts leaving.

Amara grabs one of her javelins “Hey we were not done talking to you” and throws it towards Tafrica, which Tafrica without turning back just blocks with a magical shield “I have a feeling I will see you all soon again. Bye Amara, bye Adaly” and she just casually continues walking. Adaly rubs her head but lets her sister go.