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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7852637" data-attributes="member: 79141">Session 243, Part TwoAnother One Bites the DustUriel and Leon examined the chains first, establishing that the bonds connecting them to the legion were strong, even here on a demiplane. They created a link from the wearer, in a hierarchical pyramid that did not stop with Paelyrion XVIII, but with Egal the Shimmering himself, out there in the multiverse somewhere. (So it wouldn’t do any good to kill Paelyrion if doing so caused them to be surrounded by legionnaires. The legion would soldier on regardless.)  Uriel tested the chains. They could be broken by anyone with sufficient strength – Rumdoom, for example. Doing so would weaken the devil, eventually killing it if they were not repaired. They could be more carefully removed with the right ameliorative spell or ritual.They invited Linia to be present at their interrogation of the horned devil (once it was released from the absurdist web into a carefully prepared magic circle).   She accepted without much enthusiasm, more out of boredom than anything else, and though her presence drew filthy insults from the creature, it did not do much to dent its singular devotion to the legion.  The devil answered all of their questions with the same barked response: “Loyalty is prosperity! Prosperity is freedom!”Tiring of this, Leon invoked his terrifying presence which cowed the thing into breaking its eternal vow.  Almost at once, its skin began to blacken around its chains, and before long these burns caused it such agony that answering their questions was impossible.  In the end, it was reduced to a charred heap, but not before they had gained the following intelligence:Does the legion have a base on Elofasp? Yes.Where is it? At the centre of the plane, in the largest hive.Do these chains protect you from the creatures of Elofasp?   They do, since we enslaved their queen after a great and terrible battle.Will we find this queen in the central hive?  Yes.What strength of numbers have you guarding her? Enough to easily defeat you! Long live the legion!These were its last intelligible words.Thus equipped, they hatched a simple plan to dispatch the queen of Elofasp and thereby free her spawn.</blockquote>

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