We wake up at the Time Inn. We go talk to Morris. We hear The Riverbottom Nightmare Band!

Morris is like friends did you have a good night sleep. Took us a while to wake Jartha up.  Morris is also well rested. He suspends time when he sleeps. Kex asks about time, Morris explains it using claps. Then we talk about math. Counting apples.

Morris tells us what he’s learned – he received a message from the Pentadrone from the Admin Building. Pentadrone/Morris came up with an idea to help defeat Prime. Found a way to maybe turn off the teleportation. Also, found out the staircase (via seeing eye) below the Time Inn may have some rift in between planes. The plane below us is Archeros. Possibility that many bad things could come through that plane. Talks about being able to seal the rift between the planes with a powerful scroll, which Morris can provide. Would love to have this rift sealed as it’s in the basement of this establishment. Scroll of planar healing.

It is theorized that there are up to 100 planes. The rift downstairs is a relatively new development – happened when morris first appeared in this plane. Kex takes the scroll. We go talk to Neves. Kex low key shows him the scroll. Neves is like powerful words are written on that scroll. Kex checks out scroll – says we need to be close. Kex says this “in a manner that evokes trust and knowledge”

We go down the stairs. Corridor 20ft wide with double doors. Profound feeling of evil and dread. Lux checks for traps, disarmed a bomb trap. Lux unlocks the door. Opens a little bit, sees staircase. We open the whole door and three insectoids, about a foot and half high, start gibbering and take off. Jartha tells us there were bugs. Jartha chases after them. Combat time!

We kill two of the Quasit. Then Kex turns insect into a turtle! We circle around the turtle. It tries to escape. Jartha stops it, hits it, and turns it back into a Quasit. Kex ropes it up.

Asks can you speak common “FUCK YOU” it says. Kex intimidates it, “FUCK YOU, you better shut your mouth or I’ll turn you into a damn turtle again”. Now tell us what are you running to? Friends downstairs, bigger, wings. Hands the questioning over to Jartha

Jartha – are your friends with wings tougher than you? Quasit – much tougher. Jartha is like we should just kill it. Kex is like ask more. Kex asks about why are they here. We come from below, we try to get through the locked door. You have opened door, now we will go through it. We send Neves to lock the door. Bug says came from fire, fire and heat. Says many friends. “Fire bad” delivered by Ken in Hulk voice (it was Phil Hartman’s Frankenstein from SNL – DM).  Kex tells Jartha to kill it, which he does.

We go down three revolutions of stairs. We hear a grunt and wings flapping of a super huge bird. We talk about fire. We hear flapping – maybe something is in the air. We hear more demonic talk from below. Lux messes with lantern, no impact, but an increase in the noises below. Jartha takes the lead, bird sounds like it’s closer. Two giant black birds and huge wings, four legged bodies. One looks to the other and says “The Quasit have failed us – these must be eliminated”. COMBAT TIME

One (v)Rock gets frozen and falls like 40 feet to the ground. Then we hear like apes or some shit.  We kill the other one than we hear more ape demonic talk. We hear “CLIMB THE STAIRS”.

A large ape like creature appears. Barlgura. We fight. Another one appears. During the fight the Barluga telepathically threatens Jartha “puny man”. Then whiffs on everything. Ken keeps rolling 4 on attack roles. After several attempts, Jartha pushes one of them off the steps. We end up killing everything. Jartha pushes all the bodies off the edge. We go down to the bottom – we see the tear.

Neves tell us this tear is a shortcut to the nine hells. Neves tells Kex to chant the words, read them three times. Kex reads it and closes the portal. Kex checks out a barrel – filled with blue gel. Neves says this goo is insanely magical. Tells Jartha to dip his sword in there. He does, it becomes really cold and the weapon is now  A BLADE OF COLD. Lux tries dipping his bow in one of the barrels – it gets absorbed.

We go upstairs and see Skylar Reach – Kex tells him he jumped over barrels and destroyed them with a hammer. Skylar is like hey your friend Bug is gone. We discuss Jartha having paid Bug for teleportation with a dragons tooth. We get some beers. Morris appears – gentleman, I’m going to join you.  A few folks indulge in ice beer. IRL the players discuss the puzzling and enduring existence of ice beers. Morris is like I felt a lot of commotion down there, but I can tell the energy of the plane has been healed. You have my eternal gratitude. The tear threatened the time inn. Doesn’t know what caused the tear. Possible a great demon summoned enough power to crack through the plane. We go through a few rounds. Morris is hanging out since.

We talk to Morris about the idea to kill Prime – pentadrone has something. We discuss making our way to the administration building. Morris says another building got faded. Might be between us and the Administration Building. It’s an apothecary. Morris has felt a disturbance. Something large and bad has come through to this plane. A large building – a bad building. A large fading must have happened in Fellen. We hit the apothecary – the Quaff and Go. Stone, with black powder stains on the outside of the building. Quinten the elf runs the place. Hi Lords. Kex is like where you from – used to be in the City of Milport. Almost a blessing being here – daily shellings in Milport. Jartha asks about quaffs. We use a bunch of words with Q – quaff, quench, quell, quality etc. Restores you to almost full health. 200 gold per potion. Some lesser quality ones. 50 gold a piece. Jartha gets fancy health, Kex/Lux get lesser quality. Lux gets scorpion poison.

We go to admin – quadrone brings us powdered beer. Lux says “cheers to lornath”. The quadrone was like “you’re not lornath” and Lux says “can one not cheers oneself”. The quadrone is confused and walks away asking CAN one toast oneself.

We talk to the pentadrone. He tells us both good and bad things have happened on the plane. The bad is that a mountain from your plane is now here. But in this mountain we see a tower – we believe this is where Binary Prime is residing. We have a way to stop BP from teleporting. Our quadrones worked really hard on this restraining bolt – should prevent from teleporting, allowing to deal with him. It appears to be a long trek up the mountain to get to the tower. Frequent flashes of light on the tower. BP gives the restraining bolt to Jartha. The mountain brings a strong feel of foreboding. Sounds like a two-day journey.

We head out, before we leave Pentadrone tells Jartha that the mug is good for one beer a day. We head out to the mountain. Wait, no we don’t. We crash at the administration building.