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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 6183534" data-attributes="member: 386">The PCs head back into the Temple of All-Consumption and meet Tessimon face-to-face for the first time.  She's pissed off at them for their lack of support during the battle.  Well, that's just her excuse - she's Evil and Chaotic and doesn't really need a reason.  She plans on using the PCs to help her kill Naquent, so she can become Hedrack's assistant, and possible Mistress of the Outer Fane.  If the battle against Naquent goes well, she'll turn on the PCs as well.Naquent is spotted leaving the Middle Fane (we called the Outer Fane the Middle Fane, and the Black Spike the Inner Fane) via the bridge that leads into the Air Temple, so they plan to intercept her that way.  However, Naquent is so alarmed by what's happened that she heads back to the Middle Fane; the PCs, along with Tessimon and her guards, rush to meet her before she reaches the cover of the lightning towers.Tessimon summons a giant shark and they ride it to the bridge.  It leaps out of the water and slams Naquent while the rest of them jump off; Tessimon nearly falls into the lake.  Naquent drops a Flame Strike but is blinded by a Glitterdust and then swiftly killed.The PCs turn on Tessimon, who tries to escape on the shark.  The PCs kill the shark and she sinks like a plate-mail covered cultist to the bottom of the lake.  Aurrah casts Water Breathing and goes to watch her die, then steals her stuff.Hedrack was alerted to the fight so he comes out.  He demands to know what happened; the PCs use their story on him, and he buys it (lucky Bluff check).  Zod is named as the leader of their group, so Hedrack takes Merz (the wizard) and Frick (fighter-rogue) with him to make up for the loss of his apprentice.Hedrack leaves Merz and Frick with Satau the Mind Flayer for interrogation.  Satau asks a series of questions about Zod and their motivation, but never divines that the PCs are here to destroy them.  (I think the answer to his question "What does Zod want?" was "Love", which was true and we rolled a d6 to see if that was the PC's first thought.  After that, the questions Satau asked didn't come close to uncovering their ruse.)Satau, satisfied, lets the PCs go.  They wander around the Middle Fane, checking out the different rooms without much incident.  Finally Hedrack comes looking for them and is annoyed that Satau just let them wander around.  He has Frick - who is acting a Merz's goblin slave servant - bring them food, but Frick acts like a buffoon and really irritates Hedrack.Hedrack decides to show who's boss here and by just how much, so he takes Frick to the demonic machine.  Frick won't go in and a fight breaks out.</blockquote>

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