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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1793133" data-attributes="member: 99">Much of the credit should go to the gang here at ENWorld.  I drew a lot of inspiration for the Hell material from one of the threads you kindly linked to earlier.A couple GM notes are in order regarding the end of the last update:First up, Lazarius was not hugely shocked to see his sister's name on the post next to Uncle Manilux.  Solvaria, his older sister, has long been known to have a dark side.  In his words she is "spiteful, dangerous and scheming...she wants power no matter how she achieves it".  She is very beautiful and is not bashful about using this beauty to get what she wants.  And he has long suspected that she has dabbled in dark magic of some sort.  But her current whereabouts was unknown to him.  Until now.Marius is good at keeping his ear close to the ground in Emor and had heard rumors that the high ranking Senator Pontius had recently taken a new, young, gorgeous wife, almost immediately after his previous wife died under mysterious circumstances.  He knew only the first name of this new wife:  Solvaria.  After seeing her name upon the post on the Bridge of Regret, he and Lazarius put two and two together and came up with a full house.  This bodes ill for things back in the Empire because Pontius is a close friend and advisor to the son (Flavius) of Emperor Dartalus II.  The Emperor is in very poor health and word on the street is that Flavius is almost certain to succeed him in the near future, which will elevate Pontius' status even further.  But at the moment, the party knows nothing specific and even if they did, they're still in Hell.The other name they saw, Titus Pontius Macer (don't confuse him with the senator), was significant mostly to Speaks.  In case you don't recall (and I'd be impressed if you did), Macer was the undead guy who the party (then Speaks, Scar and Raven) battled in the heart of the abandoned Temple of Bane, deep in the Darkwood.  His journal revealed how the Cult had been aligned with the Druids against the Elven Dark Druids and how the remnants of the Cult had fled west, probably toward the City of Endless Summer, after pretty much everybody began to attack them.The eyebrow raising part of the whole business is not the fact that Macer would earn himself a spot on the Bridge of Regret next to other known Bane worshipers, but the fact that he wasn't already there.  This led to a quick exchange between Speaks' player and Lazarius' player (who also played Raven) that went something like this:Speaks:  "Wait...Macer?  But we killed him!  Didn't we?"Lazarius:  "Yeah, we even cut off his head and carried it away in a bag."Speaks:  "What did we do with that bag?"Lazarius:  "I don't recall giving it to anybody.  Did we lose it?"Speaks:  "Wait a second...we lost it when the Dark Druids attacked us outside the Temple as we were leaving.  That was when the Dire Owls carried us to safety, wasn't it?"Lazarius:  "Oh yeah...we left behind the bag with the head in it.  Damn.  That Macer guy is one tough bastard!"Speaks:  "I think we'd better find out what happened to him.  After we get out of Hell I mean."So it looks like the party has a bit of information gathering to do if they can make it out of Hell.  Look for an update later today that describes the attempt.  But I'll go ahead and warn you that a member of the party suffers...A Fate Worse Than Death!!!*cue dramatic music*</blockquote>

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