In The River

As the waters of the river Styx keep pouring in, Shami-Amourae plane shifts away.  Off in the distance, a dark shrouded creature paddles his skiff closer to the party.  The bony hands and the glowing eyes give away Charon identity.  Charon asks the party, "What have you done to my river?"  The party denies any intent to cause the event, apologizes, and tells the long tale of their adventures.  Upon hearing this, Charon the sound advise to seek out Iggwilv.  He offers to show the party the way.

Charon's skiff travels a wide variety of landscapes before emerging from the fog, next to the party's ship.  Already docked at a pier, the ship is fit and ready.  Charon informs the party that while they are on their current quest, they are under his protection while traveling on the river Styx.  With that, he leaves.

After a few moments, a wolf-headed creature emerges and yells out that the adventurers should leave immediately.  They are unexpected and unwelcome.  With that, two powerful linnorms emerge from the water and attack the party.  The combat is particularly lethal with Ortho and Nesta being destroyed.  Hjalmgerder beaten into unconsciousness, dropping into the river Styx and starting to drown.

The party struggles be defeats the linnorms.  Vin dives in to save Hjalmgerdr, as he does, the Styx wipes his memory clean.  The party will have to do a bit of planar traveling to recover from this fight.

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Session Characters:  Nesta, Daria, Rudolpho, Hjalmgerdr, Gwendelyn, Vin, Ortho, Maybold, Mittens
Session Loot:  27676gp, two star rubies (1000gp each), two huge moonbars (4000gp each), two pcs of jade (100gp each), two flawed yellow diamonds (800gp each), carved masterwork chestnut & ivory inlay & black sapphire harp (5500gp), amulet of natural armor +4 depicting twisted trident impaling a dolphin, darkwood helm of telepathy carved to resemble a nest of snakes with softly glowing emerald eyes.

You're The Best Part Of Me, Molypente

After freeing Shami-Amourae, her parasitic captor, a chokesnake named Molypente, takes control and initiates combat with the party.  After directing more attacks against the fiendish snake, the party eventually overcomes the creature and Shami-Amourae recovers.

A great rift opens in the sky, and the river Styx pours into the Well, and begins flooding the surrounding landscape.  The party scrambles to escape the well and the effects of the Stygian waters.

Shami-Amourae tells the party that the Demogorgon is his own worst enemy, that his divided nature works against itself.    Each head seeks to achieve dominance.  Aameul (cold and calculating) seeks to murder Hethradiah and use the life energy of the Bastion of Unborn Souls to cauterize the wound.  She doesn't think it will work.  Hethradiah's plan is to seed dozens of Material Plane cities with madness (called the Savage Tide) and siphon it to the Gaping Maw so that he can aborb Aameul.

In order to stop the Demogorgon's plans the party will need to distract the Demogorgon, and recruit help.  She suggests talking to Iggwilv.

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Session Characters:  Orho, Nesta, Daria, Mittens, Hjalmgerdr, Rudolpho.
Session Loot:  The complete works of Caruthers Willoughby on vinyl.