51 - The Boys are back in town

The giant stands in front of us, looking pissed.

[Grapple contest - Lost ❌] She lifts Dieterich and whispers to him:

[Acrobatics] Dieterich takes 1 point of damage after being dropped
She lets out a roar and scream, she leans over Dieterich.

Dieterich takes out the portable hole.

Dieterich shows the journal.

Fjenda puts the book down gently, gets up and turns to Samir, and looks up, and let out a primal scream of rage as energy goes through her. She rushes to Samir and jumps to grab him, but he waves and she is slapped back away.
She yells and fall back into the pit.

He waves his hand, and all the Rakshasa boys turn invisible, leaving only Ludwig, Samir and the black cloaked figure. Dieterich puts back the journal in the hole quickly to avoid to damage.

[Athletics - Success ✔] Loyal shoves Samir into the pit.

Fjendra looks down walks down and stomps on Samir. While looking at the railing, we see Loyal where Samir used to stand.

The spirit of Father Thatch gets down, and then Loyal joining us by sliding down.

Loyal looks really old now, and more muscular, his hair is grayer, his gear changed, with a polearm crafted, with a heavier plate armor with some trinkets from different places he went through.

We notice Fjendra stomping Samir again and again until he gets barely recognizable.

By looking where Ludwig is, he's standing up next to the black figure, which holds him by his chains.

The figure removes their hood, which reveals under Or it.

They pick Ludwig and toss him over the railing, but lands safely on the ground.

Or looks at Dottie Lombardo.

Dottie Lombardo shrugs, and Or holds the eye contact.

Dottie Lombardo drops dead and explodes, while the last word echoes. From the corpse, Senri raises and reconstitues from the remains.

Or looks over at Loyal.

Or looks to Taurus, then the rest of the party.

Nesvalyn goes to unshackles Ludwig, who let a growl.

Dieterich checks Fjendra.

Taurus wants to cure Ludwig with magic about his boldness, and suddenly, Ludwig is fully back with fur everywhere.

Dieterich pulls the book back and presents it back to Fjendra. She picks it up.

Senri screams for that drug being gone.
After we caught up and all regrouped, we're walking through the Jungle to reach Eklima again.

More banter happens, mostly to catch up with Loyal, and especially resuming what happened to Reylynn and Persy since.

Loyal is centering the conversation back on dealing with Or as soon as possible so we can get back on Wundera to help with the missing moon, to with Axel mentions that knowing the full name may summon them, but we're not sure what the source is from, which we realize it's an assumption.

We finally approach the edge of the town, and Fjendra puts her hand so we shut up and stop moving.

[Perception - Pass ✔] Several of us notices that the town is really empty

Axel casts [Pass without trace].
[Stealth] We all start sneaking and moving quietly, then we hear some footsteps from Fjendra behind us and passes us, and we hear at the intersection, and hear some guns being cocked.

We hear gun shots, and we're going to help her, meaning we'll have to fight our way through the whole town.

We see a Tiefling woman on top of Fjendra who sprints towards us.

Taurus calls the ferry, and we leave just in time before the whole town explodes.
We have Ludwig, Fjendra and this mysterious Tiefling, and we get back to our ship, where another ship is decked next to it.

A man dressed in butler is waiting near that Astracom ship, then starts to speak to us.

Before dismissing or taking any further action with the butler, we're doing a rundown on how everybody is going, starting with Fjendra.

Loyal points Dieterich, which Melody walks towards him and put her hand on his face.

[Insight - Pass ✔] Dieterich is still in control, but suddenly remembers a childhood memory, one that Persy had with Melody.

Melody hugs him.

After this information, Melody decides to stay with the party until Persy is back.
Senri casts [Sending] to Persy to get more information.

Senri repeats the message from Persy.

Fjendra is getting on the ship, Dieterich stops her and points towards the graveyard ship.

Fjendra gets on the ship, and Ludwig starts to head towards it.

Ludwig embarks on the ship.

Fjendra, Ludwig and Taurus leave to get their own adventures, as their ship sails away.
The rest of us hear a wet thud from behind, and we turn and look, there's just a bag of fabric of nice gold threads.

Nesvalyn was about to open it, but Axel convinces him to stop, thinking it could be a trap and he has still to lose.
They open the bag, and dig through to search what's inside.
They pull out some hair, and then realizes they hold the head of Anria, with a parchment in her mouth.
Dieterich literally rages at the sight of the head, and his ghost version grows bigger and engulfs Persy's corpse, revealing how Dieterich looks like originally, and keeps screaming for a while.

Axel picks up the parchment and reads it:

Dear comrades (and Nesvalyn):
You are all invited to the union of Or (importance: highest) and Paildreo (importance: unknown) to a specific date and time, but to facilitate the time differences, a way will be open for your convenience, so I would expect you all (even Nesvalyn) to be there on time.
You are all allowed to bring a +1 to the party (except Nesvalyn).
Gifts are necessary (especially expensive ones).

- Or

Next session: 52 - Dungeons and Drag-ons