2025.12.27 Session Notes

The FGC wake up and slowly realize they are in completely different bodies in a completely different place. They try to take stock of their relationships, possessions, and skills while they figure out their next steps.

Enter: The Brightbound

Yep, they had a party name.

• Zerus Kalukulak - Goliath Monk, Warrior of the Elements
• Kalika (Kali) Kalukulak - Goliath Barbarian, Path of the World Tree
• Elarion Starweave - Human Bard, College of… something
• Cypher - Elf Ranger/Rogue
• Xhalara - Teifling Cleric of the Everlight, Light Domain

Floating through the roiling impermanent chaos of Limbo using only their thoughts, the Brightbound make their way to a large geode-like asteroid with a cavern entrance. Once inside, gravity and the laws of matter and energy reassert themselves.

The Geode Caverns

• Cypher scouts ahead at all the major intersections.
• The party works their way down a giant hole in the ground and continues to search.
• Faced with a wall bisecting a diamond slab with ruby eyes embedded at either end, the party messes with stuff (okay, Kali messes with stuff) and ends up having to fight a shade of Phelan that emerges from the wall.
• Touching the eye teleports the person to the other side of the wall.
• They then face a set of diamond slab doors with eyes instead of handles; these also respond to touch, and the party teleports into a large, crystal-rimmed room where Vecna stands, looking upward, concentrating on a glowing orb of expanding energy in front of him.

At the end of all things

Impossible! You were defeated. Here. Mere moments ago… But there is a look in your eye that is… different. You are not who you once were. RAVEN QUEEN. You meddle in things beyond you, and you will pay for your insolence!

• Cypher immediately goes on the attack.
• Zerus and Kali team up and chase a teleporting Vecna around the room.
• Xhalara and Elarion cast in support, and are frequently Counterspelled By the arch-lich, but are still able to buff and aid the party.
• With a final mighty flurry of blows, Zerus brings Vecna to his (temporary) end.
• Xhalara offers a Greater Divine Intervention — and Wishes that Vecna never returns. The Everlight speaks through her, saying that while she cannot forbid his return, she can forestall it. Rather than rising in 1-100 years, It will be 200 years before Vecna returns to this plane.
• As the Brightbound look to one another in victory, reality disperses, and the FGC feel themselves lifted away, as the lifeless bodies of their borrowed heroes fall softly to the ground.

Back to Life

• In the quiet darkness, the Raven Queen looms in front of the FGC and graces them with her promised epic favor, acknowledging them for a job well done.
• The soft, enveloping nothingness ends in static and blinding pain, as Erash, Ferric, Khoraka, Phelan, and Snow awake in a cryptlike room where the Azers had hidden their bodies.
• Phelan hands out healing potions that take the edge off, at which point they realize Valgara is not with them…