Party teleports into the Halcyon Palace, floating in space. Dwayne holds the golden ingot.
All notice the
Dissipator changing Gimblenock.
Doors open, revealing shadows. A claw beckons the party inside.
Once inside, two ancient Gold Dragons land and watch the party.
Ophion and Essen notice the floor resembles dragon scale. The
Dark Highways. A thin sliver of gold begins to open.
Zarathustra forms himself and enters. Party follows.
Emerge in a sunken circular chamber. Images of dragons adorn the walls. Zarathustra stands before the party. Dwayne places the ingot in front of Zarathustra. Can only touch it when golden.
"I'll never understand why my great grandmother did this." Slithers toward Gimblenock "Eldarin. Rise". Gimblenock transforms into an
Eldar Warrior. Gimblenock does not know of change.
Ophion knows there are multiple voices in The Dissipator.
Rumbles. Something large is approaching. Zarathustra splits into gold and shadow halves. The gold one takes the ingot and slithers away. It's tail lashes at Gimblenock.
The rest of the party notices slivers of amber forming. The dragon is manipulating time. "Machinist. You will see glories you have never seen before."
The buffeting of wings "NO, you will not unite them."
Zoroaster appears. Zarathustra reunites. Casts a massive dispel. The illusion drops. Party is in the Dragon Monarch's Tresure
Chamber. All active spells 9th or under are dispelled.
Zarathustra shows Gimblenock the Hall of Lamentations.
Zoroaster casts Nemed Shocker Bolts at 10th level (d20 + 17) 36, 26, 27 (two hit, no damage. One hits for 64 lightning & 32 magical bludgeoning)
Zarathustra responds with Jaraqi Warping Bolt. 60 psychic damage and warps Zoroaster out of existence for 4 turns. Casts Planeshift. Gimblenock counters and fails. Opens a rift to the Hall of Lamentations. Party runs toward it.
All current and future gods are represented within the Hall of Lamentations:
- Camon Aldar – Ice Giant
- Nunyunnini – Painted Mastadon Skull
- Ahtoen Dume (Altaneus timeline)
- Dremani – Steel Dragon (Altaneus timeline)
- Shivan - Dragon
- Vishani - Dragon
- Malistar – Frozen God (Altaneus timeline)
- Bronze God – Bronze skinned Megalodon
- Briar King
- Ceridonis – 8 armed Skeleton King from the Tomb Universe
- Man in the Moon
- Solar Serpent
- the Fool
- the Hermit
- the Hierophant
- Lady of Arms
- Wyrd King
- Lady Fortuna
- Semrea Seer
- Sech Noemenach – Black Hood
- Jorvi – Laughing Green Djinn Head
- Min
- Kage and Enthorid – Twins
- Nommo – Nemed High God (Altaneus timeline)
- Diamant Zori – Unclaimed for future Dawn
A
Moranth looks down at the party from a high point. Dawn and Dwayne teleport to the Moranth and ask the location of Gimblenock "Valorn saw him in the Temple of Vishanti."
Gimblenock is in an orrery for Vishanti and Shivan (two of the Elder dragons). 13 others are in the orrery. "Machinist. I give you The God Machine!". Flicks the ingot into the air, where it floats with the other five ingots. "I want you, Machinist, to repair them." When questioned, it's to recover a Ter'angreal from the Dead Universe.
Zarathustra tries Dominate Person, and fails.
"I'll let you see through my eyes." Draconic is written in four dimensions "These are the 31 True Names of the Eldar Gods. With these, we can recreate the universe." Gimblenock tries to negotiate with Zarathustra.
Dawn sees a crystal pedestal for Diamant Zori, which stands empty and stops.
5 pseudo-dragons fly overhead before landing in front of the party. Party mounts and are taken to the orrery of Vishanti and Shivan.
Party sees Gimblenock tinkering and the ingots melting down. Zarathustra is in six parts, each circling the ritual.
A stream of energy shots out from the centre of the God Machine.
The surface of the sphere is becoming covered in energy.
Gimblenock falls from the God Machine (two levels of exhaustion). "Machinist! We thank you and your work here is now done." says Zarathustra.
The ingots have now melded into a gold dragon statue.
The Ter'angreal is expanding in a ball of liquid amber.
Essen casts Lightning Bolt at the liquid amber. 48 damage. Zarathustra casts Overmastery on the Lightning Bolt, sending it back at Essen. Essen catches it in her staff.
Gundark attacks a Warlock. All warlocks are beginning to become covered in scales.
Dwayne lights up a cigar.
Dawn casts Fire Storm, catching 10 warlocks. 45 damage. Kills three. She feels a burst of power.
Ophion casts Dissonant Whispers on a warlock. 27 damage.
Warlocks are resistant to fire.
5th level Warlock casts Eldritch Blast on Dawn. One hit. Fire damage with 10' splash. Gundark intervenes and directs it back at caster. Next hit = 1 damage. Next = 10.
Next Warlock breathes out a 30' cone (only Gimblenock is not targeted). Dawn and Ophion have disadvantage on Strength based roles for 1 minute.
12th level Warlock casts Witch Bolt (3rd level) at Dawn. Hit for 25 lightning damage.
Warlock facing Gundark uses Dragon Breath. Ophion and Dawn caught in the blast. Ophion takes 8 fire damage.
One Warlock casts Eldritch Blast at Dawn. 9 damage. Also gets hits for 12 Force damage.
Dwayne has a prophetic vision. Nothing ever changes again. Zarathustra can ignore the stasis.
Gimblenock heads into the God Machine to reverse the amber wave.
Essen sends a message to Zoroaster advising where Zarathustra is. Receives a growl in response and a vision of a dragon in motion.
Gundark attacks a warlock for 13 damage. Attacks again. 21 damage.
Dwayne attacks the untouched warlock (16th level). 14 + 9 (phantom) damage. 9 damage. 15 + 13 (phantom) damage. 2 damage + Frightened. 15 + 12 (phantom) damage. 16 damage. 16 damage. Dead.
Attacks next warlock. 14 damage. 1 damage + Frightened.
Dawn calls on Lythander (Divine Intervention) to intervene with the amber wave. Dawn becomes an avatar of Lythander and grows to grapple the wave.
Ophion hits a warlock with Witch Bolt. 16 damage.
Essen casts Sunbeam, targetting 2 warlocks. 29 damage. Kills one.
Gimblenock uses Wish to cast Maze on Zarathustra, who disappears. Escapes next turn.
Gundark deals 17 damage to warlock he's fighting. Kills it. Attacks next warlock. 20 damage. Kills it.
Essen continues Sunbeam. Kills another warlock.
Zoroaster appears and casts Duplication. Another Zoroaster appears.
Dwayne attacks another warlock. 12 damage. 18 damage. Warlock casts Hellish Rebuke. 30 fire damage. Gundark reflects. 10 damage back to warlock. Dwayne attacks again. 10 damage.
17 more damage. Dead.
Dawn shrinks the wave by 100 feet. Now at 50 feet accross.
Ophion continues With Bolt. 28 damage. Warlock uses Hellish Rebuke. 10 fire damage.
Warlock throws two Eldritch Blasts at Dwayne. 10 force damage. Two at Gundark. 14 damage. Targets Ophion. 32 force damage. Another targets Ophion. 21 force damage.
Gimblenock casts Chain Lightning. 25 lightning damage. Kills three warlocks.
Zoroaster stops Zarathustra from casting a spell. Zarathustra expels a stream of necrotic energy. 48 damage.
Gundark tackles the remaining warlock down the temple steps. Kills it.
One Zoroaster and Zarathustra are fighting. The other uses Swing Time on the wave. Transforms back into the six ingots. Party takes one each.
Zoroaster commands party to "keep them safe" and opens a portal to the
Halcyon Palace.
INGOTS:
- Dawn - Surety
- Ophion - Impressment
- Essen - Rememberance
- Gimblenock - Confinement
- Gundark - Hexspeak
- Dwayne - Bondage
The Ingots were the parts of a "ter'angreal" from a previous iteration (according to
Atlantis timing, but defintely since the universe was given one final chance for life due to an arbitrary fluctuation 1 billion years ago) that held what remained of all of existence's gold dragons before they were reincarnated in the next iteration of existence. See Atlantis for the whole iteration thing and approaching existential annihilation.
More gold dragons appear, watching party.
Zoroaster appears and heals party (long rest). Gimblenock can now speak, read and understand Draconic.
Party gets 50,000 gp (or standard equipment equivalent) each. Party levels up.
Ophion gets a one use gold ring that can summon an ancient gold dragon for aid for number of rounds equal to proficiency.
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