27th Olarune, 1000 YK
- They stick to the original plan, and seal the church off and Sickening Radiance the inside.
- Dax runs up, casts the spell, and then Warden casts Wall of Stone, trapping the cultists in the temple.
- There are screams from within the temple, as people suffer radiation poisoning and die.
- Leonus gets restrained by Dol Arrah's celestial chains, but breaks free on the next turn.
- Dol Arrah, repeatedly, demands that the party stop this.
- Dol Arrah teleports, and then unleashes radiant destruction in a cone in front of her, almost taking out Dax, Kal and Warden.
- Kalshana uses Beacon of Hope, and everyone but Leonus is in the zone.
- Dax teleports away from Dol Arrah and gets back to her feet. She then unloads on her.
- Warden hits Dol Arrah with blight (twice).
- The screaming within the temple stops. Warden loses concentration on the wall, but there is a single (1) survivor inside.
- Dol Arrah begs for the party to stop, claiming that if they destroy her, all of her followers will die. Leonus says "that's cap" and they continue.
- Dax yells back that Dol Arrah is a menace, restricting flight and ruining peoples lives. She needs to be stopped.
- Lozaal claims that if she is a god, she should be able to weather the party, and keeps swinging. He brings her to her knees.
- Dol Arrah drops her mace, hands up, and begs the party to relent for a moment, so that she can sever the connection to her followers.
- This triggers a crisis of indecision for Leonus, who isn't sure whether to believe her. Lozaal reminds him that they just nuked the temple, why is he developing a conscience now?
- Dax wants to give her a chance to do what she says.
- Kal suggests flirting with the giant woman?
- This all takes place in the 6 seconds, debate via thought is really something. Leonus opts not to finish her off, at least long enough to see if she does as she says. He uses Divine Sense, and confirms that Dol Arrah is a celestial.
- Warden does an insight check, and believes that Dol Arrah is telling the truth.
- Lozaal asks why Dol Arrah chose that form.
- Dol Arrah gets back to her feet, and seems to transform into a masculine angelic figure with bloody stumps for wings. Anguished cries erupt from the camps surrounding the temple. The angel re-introduces themselves as Vorlintar, Keeper of Hope. He states he did not choose the form he took.
- Kal asks, a bit petulantly, "how did you fall?". Apparently it's not the same when the angel is a man.
- Vorlintar explains that they came to help, when the tower fell. The party try to explain that the angel isn't helping, just corrupting people. They're here to kill him so he can reform in Syrania.
- Vorlintar doesn't want to die, and angrily states that "your people" abandoned the people of Fallen. Vorlintar came to help.
- The party, beginning with Leonus, then all attack Vorlintar again. Vorlintar tries to pick up his mace, and Lozaal's hammer puts an end to him. He explodes in a blast of light, and disappears.
- The surviving "paladin" begins to openly weep, curled up on the ground.
- They discuss what to do with the survivor. Lozaal wants to kill him, he just witnessed them kill his god.
- Leonus would prefer not killing him, but wants a way to silence him and stop him starting a new cult.
- Dax requests both of them leave. Lozaal, still Big, picks Leonus up and forcibly moves him away from the "paladin".
- Leonus attempts to use Word of Radiance to get Lozaal to let him go, but Dax counterspells him.
- Lozaal tells Leonus to let Dax do her thing, and Leonus is like "I wasn't gonna do anything!"
- Leonus promises he won't do anything, but Lozaal is holding him for the moment until he calms down. Leonus yells that he is calm!
- Nim moves Leonus and Lozaal's players to a different channel in Discord whilst they resolve this.
- Warden squats down next to the paladin, who is sobbing in the foetal position. He says "hey...buddy. We're real sorry about that."
- Warden tries to explain that the angel wasn't helping, look at you! Look how upset you are!
- The paladin, weakly, looks up and calls them monsters.
- Kal and Warden use the Cauldron of Plenty to create some food. Dax requests that someone clean up the bodies, this is a bad look.
- Dax asks the survivors name, it's Helgan. Dax says they're in charge now, the others need him. Kal offers a hug, and is told in no uncertain terms not to touch him.
- Helgan has 4 levels of exhaustion btw!
- Warden goes to check on the person that Dax knocked out, as they're alive. They're malnourished and very thin, and the skin around their eyes is blackened and their eyes are bloodshot. Warden moves them into a tent, and uses druidcraft to sprout some moss to make a bed.
- Leonus and Lozaal gather up the dead and pull their hoods down over their eyes. They place them in rows, trying to be respectful.
- Dax heads out to go check on the other camps. It's a similar situation, they are emotionally devastated, but they didn't see the party kill their god, so they don't hate Dax (yet).
- Dax manages to get most of them to come with her, though some of them are too devastated to move. They all have an emptiness inside them, where once there was light.
- They feed as many as they can, whilst Dax tries to get Helgan to take responsibility for protecting these people. Helgan is pretty close to death, but doesn't want them to touch him.
- Lozaal spends some time trying to patch up the holes in the temple, since people are being brought back.
- They don't know how long these people were under Vorlintar's influence. Lozaal thinks the best bet for these people is to get Faela to come back down and help them, he's not sure any of them could handle the world outside of Fallen.
- Dax is certain that the party aren't the right ones to help these people, not after the damage they caused.
- Dax writes a message for Faela, and then gets Zedd to take it to Faela. Lozaal hitches a ride on Zedd to get the skycoach.
- Lozaal returns with the skycoach and the others get out of there before the crowd turns on them. Dax is sure some of them have tried to eye laser them, but they've lost their powers.
- Next time, we'll see what happens when Faela arrives, if she comes.
Dax's Letter to Faela
Faela, we have destroyed the threat in Fallen. Most of the people have survived and are free of the influence. Can you come and help? We are not welcome here.