22 - Dome & Devil

That devil blocks the way out of the hut.

Persy casts [Cure Wounds] on him, then tries to learn more by observing her, but fails to see more with that black cloak hiding her.

Willum thinks to propose Wingnut as a plan, but the party quickly mentions that it's a bad idea.
Loyal thinks to take a deal with the entity, but could be also a bad idea.

On that mention, the cloak is bellowing and the room gets warmer, as a warning that we shouldn't mess with her.

Persy is casting [Cure Wounds] on himself, but get "counterspell" and a chain restrains him, with Mistress Avrakishi as a starting point.

[Insight] Willum, as an optimist, really believes he can talk his way out of it from judging the situation.

[Persuasion - Pass ✔] Persy feels the chain going out.

She turns her back, letting us discuss.
Willum senses that either we have to make a deal, or we try to fight our way, but seems unsure about our victory chance.
After a long discussion within the group, we decide to take our chance and confront her.

Flames erupts and a contract appears in her hand, showing it to Nesvalyn. The document seems to be in infernal, but he can't read that language. However we clearly notice a blood pawprint of a capybara at the bottom.

Her voice raises up, letting a booming and echoing "ENOUGH", with a chain reaching our feet and removing her cloak, revealing her being mostly naked, hidden with the few chains surrounding her.

NO ONE MAKES FUN OF ME AND MAKES ME LOSE TIME.

After getting our sight back from the explosion, we notice many capybaras are dead, all the armors are gone, and the fire is spreading wildly.
Persy casts [Cure Wounds] on Willum for 6 HP, bringing him back to consciousness.
Once Willum gets up, we notice Sir Tonq pushing his way through to join us.

Sir Tonq leaves without reacting to Persy's comment.

Just when Loyal ends his sentence, Persy nods and rushes to one of the houses, Reylynn checks another house, and Willum too after grumbling a bit.

[Survival] They either find empty huts or bodies.

After convincing Persy, we're leaving the village and reunite with Sir Tonq outside. His collar glows when he's doing magic to wet the trees to reduce the fire spreading..

Persy checks how much the fire will spread.
[Nature - Pass ✔] With these conditions, we have 24 hours before the whole dome is consumed, and 8 hours before it becomes unbreathable.

On the way, Nesvalyn expresses his worries about his condition and staying vague on how to proceed and perhaps him going alone to see The Platypus at worst case, but Willum is pressing.
After a bit, Nesvalyn shares his fear and worry about the Minero Morphosis, and proposes to stay behind if needed, and the group convinces him he won't turn and he's still welcome to the party, ending on Nesvalyn hugging Willum, silently crying, and ends with a group hug, giving a brief respite within the chaos.
Loyal reminds we could just leave The Dome.
Upon reaching how to proceed with The Platypus, Persy jumps (once again) first, and Loyal follows right after, and the rest the group gets in.

We arrive in the bedroom like last time, and head directly inside the lab, seeing The Platypus wearing a brown duster, holding a cigarette and a glass of dark liquid, watching the fire spreading on his strange device.

We notice an egg shaped vessel on the side who wasn't there last time, with two brown suitcases inside.

During this micro monologue, The Platypus finishes his drink and pulls his last drag on his cigarette.

They click on a button and a tube appears.

They gets in a seat and it closes around themselves.

When the door starts to close, we hear a rambling and someone is coming in through the pipes: an entity is leaping in a armor similar to the components of the labs with a black visor, where they call out "Freeze! Freeze! Stop that platypus", and the door finally closes. They unload something into The Platypus, and they recoil and leaves a final wheezing.

The mysterious figure faces us, and reaches up and presses something on the side of the head, revealing the face of a (Wunderran) human, looking young (we would give 16-17).

He walks to The Platypus' body and get something from him, while doing idle chatting about taking them down.

Sprigg proves it's really a banana, as he opens it and eats it.

He laughs, drops a "That's funny", then let a portable hole, walks over and throws The Platypus' body along their belongings.

He plays with the screens, where we can see the fire being put out with a big storm, while commenting "Old technology, easy. How did it get here?".

As Sprigg leaves, we're all perplexed on what just happened under our eyes. We're not really sure ourselves, so we decide to at least get back to check the Otter King Village, as we technically put out the fire as asked, and saved The Dome from that threat.

Once outside, we see that the dam didn't held, and the river is unblocked and flowing in high streams.
The closer we get to the village, the more we hear the sounds of drums and flutes, and when they see us, they cheer even more, proclaimed as the saviors of The Dome. Lady Lutrina and Sir Tonq greets us.

After the greeting and thanking us, Persy asks how Sir Tonq got outside the dome.
Lady Lutrina is shocked and asks an answer.
Sir Tonq blushes and mentions he found us, so it was worth it.
The party scolds him, as it was reckless and the best result he got was to find us, as he got attacked by a Dragon. And we insist that no one else should get out of The Dome.

We're proposed to stay for the night and enjoy the festivities, and we're allowed to ask one question each as promised. The three scrying otters will accompany the character in their question.

Willum: Where is my son Ludwig?

The pool turns into white, realizing you're really high up on a field a snow. Suddenly there's a red splash on the snow, with a tiger going on. There's a flash on Ludwig's face, with fear and anger as an expression.
Willum has a general direction on where to look.

Nesvalyn: Where is my fiancé?

The pool turns into murky black, you see little white dots, when you realize you're looking at the stars. It pans down on a ship, and you hear Paildreo's voice, calling out "I'm a looking for a dragonborn named Nesvalyn", as you approach, you see silhouettes, but blocking the vision.
"Me too Love, me too. I'm still looking for you." (The otters mention that they can't hear you).

Persy: Are my loved ones ok?

The pool clearly into the kitchen, living their normal life. You're a bit sad as you see they're doing their daily life, and in the living room, you see a prized possession of yours along childhood toys, near a funeral shrine. His family thinks Persy is dead.
Persy leaves with a sad look, Nesvalyn and Willum tries to know more and confort him.

Reylynn: Will I succeed going back to the village?

The pool ripples and shows the mountains her people call "Home". When she's bunny hoping being excited, her family is happy to see her back, until the mountain turns gray, and she notices the mountain is made of skulls, crushing the village. When looking down, she has blood on her hands.
She quietly leaves the tent and stays quiet. (You ok?) Yeah. (Sure?) It's good and fine.

Loyal: Is there a way to reverse what happened to Persy?

The pool ripples shows clouds of black smoke, revealing some kind of forge. You see an unconscious Tiefling, and two dark cloaked figures, and this molten metal is poured directly over this Tiefling, and then you see Persy in his current form.
Flashing back, you hear the ticking of a clock ticking backwards, and reveals a device glowing with this weird white light. You can't see precisely what this device is, but you have an idea where it is and you would recognize it if you see it.
He bows and goes out.

Balnorin: What is my purpose?

The pool ripples and reflects gray clouds. Then the clouds start to shift around, where you're moving into some kind of structure. When looking inside, there's this big silver sarcophagus, lid open, figure sits up, and it comes towards you. A woman is visible.
[Insight - Pass ✔] Balnorin recognizes the current Wonder of Death, his goddess, equipped in silver armor, billowing cloak black.
She pulls out her silver blade, looks at you, mumbles something then does a leap of faith.

We attempt to enjoy the night, and in this restless night, we try to rest and reflect on what just happened.

Next session: 23 - Heavens' Outcasts