The Chronicles of Risan: Part the Nineteenth

So we had finally reached the city at the edge of fore... edge of the main rift, and joined up with Le Resistance! We found out that there was to be an attack on the volcano that would draw off the Demon Prince and allow us to infiltrate and use a grenade-type orb-thingy to destroy the rift. Yep, simple enough.

Together with ten others, we approached and waited for the diversion... which included a compatriot we had lost a while ago, Reed the Halfling Paladin! He had aged a lot, but still managed to pull out a few nasty moves that got the big bad out of the way and merely left our way hampered by a large creature with mouth tentacles and wings. Whenever we got close it would simply move away, and at best I got a few ranged shots in, but finally managed to put it down, leaving up with a maze of corridors inside the volcano.

Although it wasn't much of a maze as there was one main route we managed to follow, although we became beset with on-coming demons spawned by the rift we were heading towards. This lead to a moving battle along the passageways that combined to be taxing and wearying and just plain annoying. By the time we neared the rift, we decided we couldn't even pause for a breath and just got a move on.

And then we found the big worm... well, it looked like a big worm as that was the only part of it we could see. It was keeping this rift window open, but didn't stop the guy throwing in the grenade (and then he got eaten... whomever he was...). Unfortunately that didn't stop the rift... which kind of knackered our plans. Stolar (the sword with the artificer in it that I was using) realised that the rift was being powered by something inside and that the only way to defeat it was to destroy it from inside... which would close all the rifts... and leaving whomever was inside trapped...

Unless they were near by a warlord with pretentions of magicalness who could mage hand the sword inside (but not before it tried to me make go inside!). After the purple thing died, we thrust the sword in, and saved the city! Huzzah!

And us now left only decades from where we were before...

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