Session 61

The Guide Through the Stix

• The Party goes to the dock next to the ruins and is met with a mysterious figure sitting in a wooden boat.
• The figure in a black robe covering his face introduces himself as Charon, the Ferryman of hell.
• Charon tells the party he will not take them where they need to go without payment. Muta gives him the soul jems she found in the tavern for payment on the river. Charon gladly accepts and tells the party to get onto the boat.
• The party gets onto the wooden boat, and Charon sets off down the river Styx.
• This leads to the next layer of hell named Dis, a rocky rapids, the party holds onto dear life, and the small wooden boat dodges spiky rocks and deadly spires. At one point, the jagged landscape of Dis appears above them, but Wild can shield the party from the spires.
• At the end of the rocky rapids, demons spot the party in the boat, but the party can defeat them pretty easily.

The Third Layer and an Old Friend.

• The party arrives at the third level of hell, called Minauros, a swamp and poison-filled hellscape.
• Charon stops at a small encampment in Minauros, telling the party he needs to make a small stop on this layer. He leaves the party at the small encampment and disappears into the swamp.
• Being Curious, Alkinn, Wild, and Lazarus immediately start to follow him into the swamp while the other stay at the encampment.
• The group at the encampment meets the Flying heads at the front of the encampment and the mimicking demons lying in the center of it. Muta and Myrion both make a deal with one of the Mimicking demons named Gerius the 3rd, with rations, Myrion making a deal to kill the head of a pristine elvish family named Salo Old Shore. Muta makes a deal to deal with a person in the thieves' guild.
• The demon says he will follow the group to get to the surface, thinking the party is still cambions. The group of the encampment suddenly hears a presence, and seeing all the demons scurrying away, they decide to hide in the encampment. A huge Balor, the size of 3 tavern, with a large gold chain trudges through the swamp, destroying all in its wake. The Roman numeral 3 is on his chest. The group can avoid the attention of the Balor and can hide till it passes the encampment.
• After the Balor leaves the group at the encampment waits till Charon returns, when Myrion notices a familiar-looking demon in the distance. Myrion realizes that this is the demon he has been summoning. The demon sprints toward Myrion and asks why he is there. Myrion explains they are there to kill Kush.
• The demon makes a deal with Myrion that he will help him one last time for free if he can kill the demon that caused him to serve Myrion in the first place. Myrion agrees, and a deal is set.

A Swamp Town and A Unique Alter

• Alkinn, Wild, and Lazarus try to follow Charon into the swamp, and the path they are following eventually leads to a demon swamp town. The three notice that Charon walks into a small building in the center of town. They decide to follow but are met with demons spotting them, Lazarus can scare them away them and the three walk to the building.
• Alkinn peeks into the window of the altar building and sees Charon destroying the soul gems that were given to him as payment. In outrage, Alkinn exclaims at Charon to stop, but before she can yell, he destroys the last gem. Alkinn asks him why he was destroying them, and he explains that he worships the god of death. Alkinn realizes that he is also a cleric of Kelvengore. She asks some questions to Charon, and he explains that the two are probably the last clerics of his kind.
• Alkinn is set on a new path to try to build up the presence of Kelvengore.
• The three follow Charon back to the swamp encampment.

Muta's Experience

• Before getting to the next layer of hell, muta finds herself looking into the Stix. Suddenly, she is dragged into the water by an unknown force.
• The Party fights to get her out before he is hurt by the water.
• In the water, she experiences her childhood, how she grew up, and how she got where she is. Eventually, she realizes that all the negative things she has been through in the recent month, her friends had been with her and backing her up the whole time.
• The party hoists her out of the water, and she returns with a new look and a new determination to help her friend and to get to her sister.

The Hellish City

• The party reunites, and all of the party, plus Gearius the Third, follow them. Now they gather into the boat to get to their last destination.
• Charon leads the party to the 4th level of hell, Phlegetho, a fiery landscape full of lava and volcanoes.
• Charon tells the party that their destination is Abriymoch, the city in the hollowed out base of an inactive volcano across the very narrow obsidian bridge, about 2 miles long.
• The party prepares for the journey across the narrow, crooked bridge.