Planar Allies

An alliance has been made, bound by survival and perhaps fate. The Grim require a paltry favour in return for Fort Necropolis' alliance with them, hunt down the mad scientist vampire Mordio, whom Surellia freed before she departed with her Dracolich. The catch? Rabid vampires known as "rage vampries" who knows what mechanics those creatures possess.

Surellia the Wolf Spider ditches her undead army? Fiendish artifacts collected? Wyltt has a portal leading to Arlucia? Gnomes can be necromancers too? All this and more discovered last session, now the First gather back at Wyltt's abode to consolidate their information gathering. But sooner or later, something else comes a knockin'

The First defeated the two remaining Hakai in Okane, leaving Koga behind via teleportation scroll. Knowing Surellia the Wolf Spider took the bones of a dragon with her, the group chose to travel to Fort Necropolis. Upon approaching the city, the Dwarven Prince Cleric Flint whom they met in Tal-Ramel, and one of the original heroes Wyltt approached them.

I could have named the episode something different, but I chose not too. The First makes their way through the Golden City of Okane, where they eventually begin to take their last steps towards the final conflict within the country of Koga. Who will win? Who will survive? Will the Hakai's hail mary pan out? Or will the First decimate their organisation by crushing the last two elements holding it together.

Council members' fates are decided, Shirou reclaim's the throne (Who is surprised there?) And there are still two Hakai leaders left. The First are already told it wasn't going to be easy, they travel to the merchant city of Okane to face off against their last two opponents in Koga.

Some members of the First find out some startling revelations about their body, an enemy becomes an ally, an ally grows stag antlers, and they have to go through another sewer system to fight the Hakai of Fire. One thing is certain, when they retire sanitation work is right up there with grimy old NPC.

Fire on the horizon, a prized magical sword, an entire order destroyed by the Hakai. Time for a lane change as the First discovers that not all Hakai are created equal, and just how damaging this assassination organisation really is. Also they spend twenty minutes in a shrine deciding on if they should bring a sword up to the samurai who are holding off Hakai forces to protect them. They don't address the guilt.

Reunited the First begins chasing a lead on whoever is leaking information about them to the Hakai, this strange Falaz character they have only heard about just now. The issue is why does he know so much about them? And why is he going out of his way to do all of this? Have they actually met this individual before? All that and more, may or may not be answered in this episode. Who knows. Maybe the investigation will get flown away.

As the First finds a way to escape the trap they'd fallen into, they decide the best course of action is to return to the dojo and lick their wounds. However, after being approached by a mysterious group that links two of the players closer together, a thoughtful conversation with Sato, and discovering that there is someone wandering the city spreading the good or ill name of the First. The companions don't really have time for rest.

The First makes a fucky wucky at the Raven's Gamble. Will they get out of this fucko boingo? Or will they have to dig themselves out of this oopsie poopsie? Between investigating a large building made for 24 hour gambling, and falling into an obvious trap that was pre-ordained by the party. What else is there to explain in this synopsis?