Pelifree Pays the Price
January 20, 2024
THE Party
- Akram (Elf Rogue) – Mark C.
- Nihl (Dragonborn Monk) – Kasey
- Rosetta Stone (Human Cleric) – Sarah
- Villitch Von Velckha (Aasimar Paladin) – Ross
About a day into their travels after leaving the Modrons behind, the party was subject to more of their meddling when Argual vanished and was instantly replaced with Nihl. It would seem the Modrons found the solution to their missing master and were back in action.
More days of magic carpet flight, hopping from skyland to skyland, brought the party to within sight of Pelifree, marked by long trails of smoke from fires burning all over the skyland. Circling down from above to get a better look, they saw, at the heart of the blasted palace where the great hall once stood, a scene of hellish proportions. A host of demons, led by the Glabrezu, lorded over a court of ghouls slaughtering the remaining people of Pelifree with Meddevin held in chains and forced to maintain an open portal to the Lower Planes. Chained to a stake was his third child, Semoril, whose suffering forced Meddevin’s compliance.
Villitch would not be deterred from sending these monsters back to their home plane and the party soon engaged them. With concentrated effort, the heroes quickly destroyed the Glabrezu and the ghouls were summarily dispatched when the Maurezhi demon controlling them was killed. The rest were dealt with and Meddevin was able to seal the portal.
The adventurers soon learned that the whole place had been a bargaining chip in Meddevin’s dealings with the Glabrezu to help him capture and contain the Decadrone, leader of the Modrons. When Meddevin failed to fulfill his end of the bargain and it escaped, he was made to open a portal to the Lower Planes. The spawn of Chaotic Evil simply indulged themselves at the expense of the whole of Pelifree.
As the night wore on, the adventurers took stock of the situation. Some thirty survivors remained who had not yet been sadistically murdered by the demon court, but the whole of Pelifree, the town, the palace and the outlying farms and wineries, were totally destroyed in the two days that the demons had run free all over the skyland.