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Message: <blockquote data-quote="THEMNGMNT" data-source="post: 8203570" data-attributes="member: 6809274">119th session. Five players with seven PCs (and an ancient silver dragon...it's complicated) at 20th level. Plus six epic boons each. We're probably three sessions away from the campaign's end. Previously: Tiamat has been released from hell and is rampaging across Celestia. Using the mythical Sword of Io that created both Tiamat and Bahamut, Tiamat has slain Bahamut and Ilmater. The group's aasimar vengeance paladin worships Ilmater, the god of (relieving) suffering. The group has been aided and abetted for nearly 50 sessions by Glasya, archdevil of the sixth layer of Hell and mother to the group's tiefling shadow sorcerer. This session started with the PCs standing amidst Tiamat's treasure hoard on Avernus, the first layer of Hell. I let the players choose any all magic items they wanted. Several artifacts were selected, a few legendary items, and lots of Keoghtem's Ointment! This was one of my favorite moments in the campaign...letting high level PCs gear up for the final showdown with an impossible foe. Unforgettable.The PCs planeshifted back to Waterdeep. There they rested and said their farewell to important NPCs under the assumption they might not make it back alive from the final battle with Tiamat. It was unexpectedly touching. Good stuff.Finally, the PCs planeshifted to Celestia. There they found Ilmater's headless body impaled on the Sword of Io. Guarding this were three erinyes sisters of the tiefling sorcerer. The sisters revealed that Glasya was actually in secret alliance with Tiamat, eager to kill gods of good, and take their divine portfolios to ascend to godhood herself. At that moment, the players realized that they'd been duped, played like violins by Glasya. (The evil DM in me gave a big high five.) The inevitable battle was short. But the erinyes laughed with their last breaths, knowing they would just reform in Hell.Next session: The Palace of Bahamut and the Head of Ilmater!</blockquote>

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