Session 6: The Blood War

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The party exited the Citadel of Cinders, making their way to the Gymnasium of Steam. On the way, the nobleman on the balcony begged them for help, since he had sold his soul for riches and his health was failing. They ignored him.

Upon reaching the Gymnasium of Steam, they were greeted the cambion Vekesh, who showed them to their rooms. They called for service and dined on 17 different cured meats, enjoying a steaming mineral bath while fending off invisible imps.

The next morning, Smokescale arrived to inform them that the gate to Sigil was under a barstool in The Bleeding Horn tavern, and that the key was to spill a secret. He revealed he had helped Slygrip and Gutterjaw slay Scampers. After a shitty mess and its clean-up, he bathed sullenly as the party left.

Reaching The Beetle Bazaar, Kraxx'Tor installed retractable silver spikes on to Unit 137, extolling the virtues of Baator and order.

Questioned about the murderer, Kraxx'Tor indicated that "Fingers" McFinney was friends with him. Fingers accidentally revealed the hiding location to be the other eye socket of the Bazaar.

The party entered and interrogated the accused, Hilt, who proved via mind reading that he was being targeted since he witnessed Zelza Zurkbane's true form, a Succubus, and that she was plotting to sink Ribcage into The Nine Hells.

During deliberating their options, "Fingers" McFinney stumbled into the group with a Potion of Invisibility. The party agreed to have Xarannos represent Hilt, and had him imbibe the potion to remain unseen.

The party arrived at The Law Offices of Xarannos, who agreed to represent Hilt. He had noted that order had increased in Ribcage since fiends were allowed back in and was not surprised to hear of the plan.

He believes he will depose Zelza and even install Hilt as a new senator. In exchange, Hilt provided the party with information as to the location of a chest of gems and a portal to a mineral-rich pocket of the Elemental Plane of Earth, where he sources them.

On the way to The Bleeding Horn, the party encountered Luciel, an obsidian-skinned cambion who was trying to talk a group of ill bariaur into accepting his cure in exchange for a fragment of their souls.

The party used the Mimir to discover the arrangement -- The Moss Hag would make groups of people ill, and Luciel would then sell the cure.

This led to an encounter against Luciel's spined devils. He surrended upon their defeat, granting the party gold and freely giving the cure to the bariaur.

After it was administered, as the party was set to leave, The Blood War came to Ribcage in the form of an incursion led by a Shadow Demon.

The party joined Luciel in battling these Abyssal forces and earned his gratitude.

The party then proceeded to The Bleeding Horn tavern, explored Unit 137's hopes and dreams, persuaded a white abishai into giving a scale to Cedani, and entered the portal to Sigil.

There, the party beheld the city's mud-caked Hive Ward and the session came to an end.

XP Award

• 500 XP for finding a way to pike Zelza Zurkbane
• 675 XP for defeating Luciel's forces and forcing his surrender
• 413 XP for defeating the Shadow Demon and his abyssal allies
• 600 XP for reaching Sigil, the City of Doors
• Total: 2188 XP
• Current XP: 1455 XP -> 3643 XP (Level 3 -> 4!)
• (Required for next level: 6500 XP)

Things That Happened

To The Steam Gate

• Date: 5th of Tarsakh (The Claw of the Storms, April), 1372 DR, late evening
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The Gymnasium of Steam

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Smokescale's Report

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Return to the Bazaar

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Hilt's Innocence

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Better Call Xarannos

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Luciel's Cure

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Encounter 1: Luciel's Claim of False Accusation

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Luciel's Surrender

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Encounter 2: The Blood War

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