Beth, the maker goddess, made them a questionable, but nutritious breakfast, and it was roughly an hour until the arrival of the unwelcome visitors.
"If there's anything you or a friend would like to donate, I will make use of anything! I love doing experiments... Right now, I want to determine the iron level of someone's blood just by tasting!"
"I eat a lot of Liver," said Rina, "I could give you a vile."
"Oh, would you?!"
Rina held out her arm, but Beth turned around with a gigantic knife.
"I'll just... put some in a bottle myself," Rina said, pulling out a small empty potion bottle.
The party all set up their trap, not sure exactly what was coming.
Alice set up her Druid Grove, a 90ft cube of magic right in front of the door to the evergrub.
Since the last meeting with Enoch and his brothers, Rina could feel that she could manifest the darker parts of herself into physical form: the devilish side of her, her shadow. She cast the spell and her shadow tore from the ground and stood to face her. It was only her outline, with a pointed tail and devil horns. It was a void, and only her eyes - her elf eyes - could be seen as an identifier.
"You will help them on the ground while I fly," Rina commanded her shadow, "Unleash your fury."
The shadow, wielding Rina's melee weapons - a whip and a chainsword - disappeared within the fog of the Druid Grove.
Neely gave everyone inspiration before casting Fly on herself and Rina. Rina then used one of her Rites to gain back some magic. Volvagia clinging tightly to her shoulder.
Then they waited.
Phillipia and Bustamoves stood near Alice within the back 30ft of the Druid Grove.

From the highest point in the Grove, Rina could see someone approaching quickly - three figures: one who stood tall, and two who scuttled near the ground.
"Are they... dogs?" Rina thought to herself.
As they got closer, Phillipia and Alice could begin to see the three of them come into view. The two dog-looking creatures were not dogs, they were angels - just like the ones who appeared in the crack in the sky. They were being commanded by a cloaked figure who stood about as tall as Rina.
Rina could see the figure kneel down at the edge of the grove, and cast a small spell. They then stood up, and whistled for the two crawling angels to go toward the evergrub.
They both ran into the grove, and one immediately got stuck in the lichen brambles.
The tall figure then disappeared, unable to be seen.
Phillipia and BustAMoves went after the angel who did not get caught, trying to prevent it from getting close to the evergrub.
Neely decided to wait to act until necessary, and it quickly became necessary.
From out of the shadows a black, flaming knife came straight down toward Alice. She dodged it the first time, but not the second... or the third, fourth... but an end took the 5th - saving Alice from death. Alice had been stabbed by the hooded figure 4 times with their dark blade, and almost went down. Neely's quick thinking allowed her to heal Alice just in time. The other Ent that Alice had awakened took swipes at the figure and hit them.

"Fuck," the party could hear a feminine voice from the hooded figure, "why won't you just die?!"
Immediately, Rina recognized the voice, "Anna...? Anna Talley?"
She then disappeared after taking damage from the ents.
"You won't get away from me this time... does this feel familiar?" Rina cast a fireball in the general area that Anna had run to, and hit her hard enough to make her yell in pain.
"Fuck you, all!" Anna screamed back, her hood then fell, and they could see her face - now with two small devil horns curling up from her head. She disappeared again, and ran as far as she could from Alice.
Alice was now paranoid, and decided to be in defensive mode by waiting for Anna to approach her again - holding her attack.
Neely used a shield spell on herself, and stayed out of sight - just how she liked it.
Phillipia and BustAMoves continued to attack the angel that did not get stuck in the brambles, the other was still unable to escape.
Anna tripped as she got stuck on one of the brambles.
"Raz... your turn to help," Rina reached into her contract and tapped into Razakeen's withering, necrotic, salty powers. She concentrated it into an eldritch blast containing a fireball. Rina aimed and fired, hitting Anna with an eldritch blast shaped like a pillar of salt whose necrotic energy seemed to suck all of the humidity from the air. A fireball of necrosis exploded from Anna, and splattered onto the angel who was trapped in the lichen. Anna was bleeding and hurt, unable to heal her wounds.
"You meddling pigs!" she cursed as she disappeared again.

Phillipia, still fighting the loose Angel, was no so lucky to see the black knife before it struck her, Anna reappeared as she stuck the knife in Phillipia's side. "How does it feel to have been sent down here by your loving aunt, Phillipia?"
Phillipia stood silently in pain and shock, staring into Anna's eyes.
"You know, I think we're cousins. But who cares about that? I died, and you are still here. For now!" Anna pulled out the knife and raised it to strike Phillipia again, but BustAMoves ran over to take the damage for her. After a couple of strikes from the dark knife, BustAMoves had fallen. Phillipia used the last of the strength to pull her elephant back into it's Iron Flask to heal, before she was stabbed many more times by her cousin.
Just then, Rina's elf eyes showed themselves to Anna, and her Shadow Self forced its way between her knife and Phillipia, saving Phillipia from death. Anna pushed the shadow away, and laid on the ground to cover herself with the unconscious Phillipia in hopes of not being targeted.
"I can still see you..." Rina taunted as she zeroed in on Anna with her new Eyes, "You won't disappear this time."
Rina used her witch bolt to rain down lightning onto Anna, not even touching Phillipia. Anna tried to disappear, but the lightning zapped her before she could.
Rina's shadow lifted Phillipia up and away from Anna, and took a swipe and Anna with its ice cold chainsword, slicing through Anna with a cold shock.
Alice ran over to Anna, and called down her own lightning spell - hurting Anna even more.

Anna stood up, ready to retreat, "You all will pay for this!"
Suddenly, Neely divebombed into Anna from the air.
"No you don't!" she yelled as she stabbed her dagger directly into Anna's heart - causing her to explode into goo.
Alice ran up and healed Phillipia, Rina hovered down to the ground and collected some of the devil goo in an empty potion bottle.
"I bet Beth would love some of this stuff!" Alice said excitedly.
"I got to see the bitch die twice in 10 days," Rina smiled. "I feel so honored."
Neely just stood there, holding the dark weapon, awaiting what may come next.

End session
S57

The angels were taken out easily by the party, and they all felt a sense of peace - for now.
"Ohh!! My I... May I keep them??" Beth giggled with excitement upon seeing the two dead angels on her front lawn.
"Please do," said Alice as she handed Beth one of the bottles of devil goo, also.
"Ohhh goodie! With these parts and the ones from you four, I'll be able to actually finish the body! Soon, I'll be able to feel as you feel!"
Beth then hovered over to her mirror and picked it up with her mind, looking into it longingly. "I wish to be... just one of the girls. I want to get my makeup done and feel pretty!"
"Do you want us to do your makeup?" Rina asked her.
"Yeah, Beth! Let's do your makeup!" Alice said excitedly, pulling out her lipstick.
Rina got her eye liner and Phillipia grabbed powder.

They gave the maker a makeup makeover, and she loved it so much that she decided to give them something in return.
"You all have made me feel so lovely and loved!" Beth began to cry tears of joy, Rina collected more in potion bottles. "I want to be able to help you on your journey. Whenever my body is done, I'll be able to venture from this place and help you if you need!"
"How long until your body is done?" asked Phillipia.
"With the parts you have given me, as well as the angel bodies, I should be able to be done very soon!"
"We should be able to visit you with treestride through the remaining ent," said Alice, "It just turned back into a normal tree after the spell ended."
"Oh, goodie! I love getting visitors!"
"Is there any way we can reach you other than a sending?"
"Oh, dear, Alice... Yes!"
Beth then approached Alice and opened her mouth, closing it over Alice's head.
"Alice!" The girls were frightened for a moment, then Beth spit her out.
"There! Now you have a psychic connection if you wish to speak with me! Anyone else want it?"
Rina shrugged, "I guess if you're just giving it out..."
Beth put her mouth around Rina's head a moment, then did the same with Phillipia.
"I'm good! No, no thank you!" Neely said as Beth still proceeded to engulf her head.
"Now we're all covered in spit..." Neely said with a little disgust.
Rina collected some of the spit in potion bottles.

"What are your plans next?" Beth asked them all excitedly, "The world is supposed to end soon! I hear you're killing gods!"
"There's only two more that we know of, right?" Alice asked.
Rina answered, "There were two more in Mayoay's Prophesies: one in the south that The Queen didn't want us to go after just yet, and possibly the dragon quest in the north."
"How are we going to get to all these places within a week?" Phillipia asked, "These are all over the map!"
"I have a solution for you!" said Beth as she guided them outside.
"There are five exits aside from the one you entered.” Beth explained, “One that is 30 minutes away goes directly to the Desert Sandflake. The one that is 1 day's walk will take you to the swamp just east of Vorovni. One that is 2 days away will go to the coast of Pennislovica, and another one 2 days away that takes you to the Tonebay area - just west of Ilianga. The last one is 4 days away, about as far away as you can be and still be in Ta Amor - it goes to the Island of Eabeth.” 
“Eabeth… isn’t that a place Kin talked about a lot?” Alice asked Rina. 
“I think he told us it was a holy site for him… similar to how Mt. Luminus is to the people in Asmery.

“So, where do you guys think we should go?” Phillipia asked, “I’d love to see your home, but I also know we don’t have a lot of time. The world is supposed to end soon, right?
“Everything got more fragile when Alice and Gabrielle consumed the cylinder of liquid,” said Rina.
“And now the former pontifex is building this track for the Pilgrimage to Mt. Luminus,” Phillipia added, “I’ve always wondered if the pilgrimage was meant to be something bigger than just a gathering.”
“Based on the prophecies from Mayoay, it seems that one of the gods is in the salty desert. I think we should try to contact Sullivan Frey and see if he wants to join us in hunting a Dragon!” 
"I think we could take on a dragon," said Phillipia. "I've never encountered one, but I think we're pretty solid."

“We have a few sending’s on the infinite sending stone for the day,” Alice said, “I will contact Sullivan and ask him.”
Alice used the stone: “Wanna fight a dragon, bro? Meet us in sandflake and we’ll get it on… ho.” 
“You really called Sullivan Frey, our king, a 'ho' in a sending?” Rina asked, shocked. 
Alice laughed, “Sure, why not? He likes my chaos.”
Sullivan responded with a sigh, “Drake and Godfrey are there searching for Mt. XIX. Please come here to The Castle to discuss the dragon killing plan. Remember, Vengeance is mine.”
Alice relayed the information to them all.
"So, are we going to see your home, then?" Phillipia asked.
"I think we should also send to Drake or Godfrey to see how they feel," responded Rina, "Sullivan may want us there, but what if the guys need us more than he does?"
"Yeah, if he wants to hunt a dragon, he better get over here to do it," Alice agreed. "Here, Rina, you should send to Drake. I know you want to."
Rina took the infinite sending stone back from Alice, "Oh, geez. I have to play it cool. I have to know exactly what to say so I don't accidentally use all the words too soon."
Alice and Neely glanced at each other seeing Rina blush just looking at the stone.
"Okay, gotta play it cool..." she said to herself as she spoke into the stone.
"Drake, It's Rina," She barely hid the smile in her voice, "We intend to kill the Dragon, Sullivan said you're looking - Told us to go home, but we... wanted to come to you..."
A moment later, she got a response, "Rina, we are near the mountain. Please come here, don't wait. The wind and cold are dangerous, be safe. I... hope to see you soon." The smile was barely hidden in his voice, too. Rina told the others what Drake said.

“So, should we go to your home? Or… should we go meet them in the desert?" Asked Phillipia.
“If Sullivan wants us to meet with him first, we could swing by home and get anything we need. It would only take one extra day,” Neely mentioned. 
Alice walked up to Rina, who was still smiling down at the stone, “Think about it: do you want to do what daddy Sullivan says, or sneak out?” Alice smiled. 
Rina smiled back, remembering when she snuck out of her room 200 years ago to avoid an arranged marriage. That's when she started her adventures, “Oh, I’m sneaking out, for sure.”
“Sneaking out to see your boyfriend,” Alice teased. 
“Boyfriend?” Phillipia asked, surprised, “Who has a boyfriend?”
“Technically, no one has a boyfriend!” Rina sighed with a smirk, “Yet.”  
Do we really need anything from home?"
“Oh, yeah, that reminds me,” Rina thought, “I left the bag of Colding at home. It has the End Medallion... and the condoms.” She whispered that part to herself. 
“I think it’s best if we don’t go all the way back home for just that,” said Alice. 
Rina sighed, then nodded in agreement.

“Let’s all go over everything we have,” said Neely. “We really should take inventory before we go anywhere. Being this close to Beth is good for restocking if we’re missing anything.”
“Uhh… I got a compass!” said Phillipia, pulling out the only thing she had in her pocket except BustAMoves’ jar. 
“I have a ton of potions,” Rina said as she handed a few to each of them, “I also have 5 revivify scrolls… just in case.” 
“I have the endless supply stuff… evercleaning soap, decanter of endless water, everburning coal, and the endless spidersilk rope, infinite sending stone - all packed in my bag of holding!”
“We should definitely get something to protect us from the weather in Sandflake,” Phillipia mentioned. “I spent some time there when I was training - it’s the most awful place you can imagine. There is always a storm there, everywhere - there’s no hiding from it. It’s so cold that even salt water will freeze. And everything there, all of the sand, it’s all salty. Even the air you breathe is salty. It’s all just a blizzard of dry ice.” 
“Beth, do you have anything that could help us?” Alice asked her. 
“Something that can help you survive the cold? Why, yes! Yes I do! Shall I get it for you? No extra charge! You did do my makeup, after all!”
“Whatever you have for us, and… there’s something else I’d like you to do,” Rina showed the Maker a drawing she had made, and Beth floated away excitedly.
“I’ll get right to it! Oh, this will be so fun! You four are truly my best friends in the world!”
"Thanks, Beth. I'll bring you back a dragon scale for it," Rina smiled.

Beth went to the back room, and electricity began to flicker all over the inside of the evergrub. They could hear an animal of some kind screaming and wailing from the other room, and all of them cringed just a little. 
“I mean… some sacrifices need to be made for the greater good… right?” Phillipia said.
“Yeah, of course… We’re going to kill gods to stop the world from ending,” Rina grimaced upon hearing another scream. 
Neely threw up thinking about it, and her vomit had glitter in it, “Wha- What the hell is this?!” She threw up again. 
“Guts of the fey, that’ll do it!” Beth answered as she rounded the corner with her creation, “I made you all extra thick snow suits! Perfectly warm and mostly bloodless!”
“Mostly…?” Neely said as she threw up again.
The suits looked like the skin of a long-haired ape that had been turned inside out.
“So! Shall I escort you all to the lake? It isn’t far, so I can see you off! Be careful of what’s in the water, though… I may have created an unfortunate creature who ended up being simply uncontrollable! He was too cute to just kill, so I put him in here to live near me! He loves light, so that’s a good way to distract him if he thinks you’re food. The exit is at the bottom of the lake, so you will have a long swim!” 
They all agreed that they were ready to go, and Beth escorted them on their 30min walk. When they got close, she stopped them, "I have one more surprise for you!" she pulled out 21 arrows. "Two of these, the white ones, are good at killing devils. The rest, the black ones, should all be good for killing those pesky angels. Thanks for their body parts! I used that to make these especially for you all!"
"Rina, you're the only one with a bow," said Alice. "You should take them. I can't use a bow with my new arm."
"Thank you Beth, and thanks guys," Rina smiled.
"Goodbye for now, I need to go!" Beth waved with her snake-like hair as she turned to leave, "Come and visit any time! I need to get to work on my body now!"

They approached the lake, the air seemed to get dry - dry in the same way it did when Raz’s magic was conjured on the battlefield earlier that day. 
“It smells like withersalt around here,” said Rina.
Alice went up and dipped her finger into the water, her druid magic seeping into it to identify it, “It’s saltwater. Really salty water. Saltier than the water on Mt. Ivatim.” 
“Beth said we needed to go to the bottom of this lake to get to the surface on our side,” Phillipia recalled. “How are we supposed to get down there? It’s really deep.”
“If it’s supposed to spit us out topside, then it technically doesn’t have a bottom,” Alice pointed out. “The journey up will be as long as the journey down when we fell in here.”
“Beth also told us about the sea monster in here,” remembered Neely. “She said it likes bright lights.”
The girls all looked around at each other for someone to come up with an idea. 
“Well, you can all swim, right?” Rina asked, they all nodded. “Then the water is our only obstacle.” Rina then pulled out her book of spells and found one she had not yet used, “Yes! I finally get to use it!” She held it up in excitement, “Water breathing!” 
“Don’t you have some spells that emit light, too?” Phillipia asked her. 
“I do! I can use a sickening radiance spell 120ft away from us if we need to lure the creature away.” 
“Sounds like a plan to me!” Alice announced as she walked up closer to the water, “Better than having to use a wildshape and drag all of you through there as a fish!”

With the 24-hour long spell of Water Breathing active, the four girls dove into the water - in their skin suits - and began to swim down.
The water continued to get more and more salty as they moved downward, and the light from the surface almost no longer reached them. The salt of the water could be felt in their lungs and tasted in their mouths.
Alice lead the way with Phillipia and Neely keeping watch around them as they swam, Rina ready to cast a sickening radiance spell if either of them signaled to her.
Phillipia then felt something brush against her, and quickly move by her in the water. She waived at Rina, who threw her spell as far away as possible.
The light from the spell revealed two giant eyes with slit-like pupils, which widened to circles upon seeing the light. A creature with the head of a cat, the torso of a shark, and tentacles of an octopus swam away from the party after the light.
The party swam as fast as possible, getting deeper and deeper, until they reached a tunnel-sized opening where the water began to suck them in. The tunnel was too small for the Catsharktapus, but the quickness of the gravity flip was nearly unbearable for them. Neely hit the sides of the tunnel a few times taking up the tail, and Alice almost kicked Rina in the face.

Then, finally, the water slowed into a peaceful-looking lake. The salt of the water was so high that even water breathing wouldn't work.
Neely and Alice panicked, and Rina and Phillipia pulled them up. They got up close to the surface, then hit a wall of ice. Behind the ice, they could see a storm of snow and salt. Phillipia then began struggling, and Rina used Nicky's fire for her eldritch blast to melt through the ice.
She blasted through the ice, and they all pulled themselves onto the shore. They could breathe - barely - but now they were soaking wet and in the coldest weather known to man.
"Tiny hut, Rina!" Alice yelled to her, and she quickly began setting up the spell.
Phillipia looked around, and she could see a dark shape of something large about a mile away. She was unsure what it was.

Rina got done with the Tiny Hut and they all went inside.
"How ironic that this is an igloo right now," Phillipia said.
"Yeah, the inside is warmer ice than outside," Rina answered with a smile.
"I have to everburning coal," said Alice as she lit it right in front of Rina in the center of the hut.
"This should dry us off," said Alice, warming her hands over the coal.
"The hut will be here for 8 hours, so we have time to rest and dry if we need," said Rina.
"We should let Drake and Godfrey know we're here. See if they know where the lake is that we just came out of," said Alice.
"I don't see a lake on the map, though" said Rina.
"This area is mostly unmapped," said Phillipia, "But someone who has been here might know where it is."
Rina smiled and pulled out the sending stone, once again, "Okay, I'll ask him. It only has one left for today, I'd better make it count."
Once again, she barely hid the smile on her face, "Drake, we're at a Lake in Sandflake, in a tiny 10 hut. We chose come to you instead of going home 20 first. Can you find us?"
He responded immediately, "Rina, I am... relieved to know you're close. We are due north of the lake, I will come toward you. Meet me, be safe."
"We should go north as soon as possible," Rina said to the group.
"But we don't even know which way North is!" Alice wined.
"I have my compass!" Phillipia got the compass out and they found North.
"We don't know for sure they're due north... what if we can't find them in this storm?"
Then Alice had an idea, "Rina, you should take the desire compass... see if those loins can point us in the right direction."
Rina took the compass and laughed a little, "This points north, also."
Rina handed Alice the God compass, "If I'm taking the desire compass, then you should keep this. We should always have these compasses split between all of us, I think."
They all agreed, and looked a the God compass, as well - all three compasses were pointing due north.
"Let's go!" said Rina as she exited the Tiny Hut - making it disappear in the process.

The salty blizzard stung their faces as they trudged through the salty sand and snow. Each of them had a compass they could look at to guide them, except Neely who just held on to Phillipia's belt as they walked.
Not long after they lost sight of the lake, something else came into view - a large wooden structure with a mast.
"I think it's a sand boat," said Phillipia. "It's the fastest way to travel the desert."
Neely tripped over something and fell to the ground, "Oh, what is thi- It's a body! Guys, it's a body!"
They looked around the capsized sand boat and found 4 bodies - all completely dried out, like they were salt-cured alive.
"One of them has a letter in his hands!" Alice read it out loud: "We may never make it Mt. XIX, I know we are close. But the snow and the sale of the desert has played tricks on our minds, one of my comrades believes he saw his daughter. I am so weak... the others are already dead, I think. I don't know if I will last the night."
"That's not promising..." Neely whispered.
"At least we always have the option of a Tiny hut," said Rina.
"And we have infinite water," said Alice.
"We also have more food now," said Phillipia as she pulled dried rations from the bags of the dead men.
"We could probably fix this boat and use it if you know how, Phillipia," said Alice.
Phillipia nodded, and the girls all got together to get the sand boat working again.
As they moved the bodies of the men off of the boat, Alice noticed something - little bugs in the sand.
"Ahh! This isn't just salt in the sand, it's bugs! Sand and salt and bugs!"
Rina identified the sand mixture and realized this was just about as potent as the pure wither she had purchased in Vorovni all those weeks ago. She began to put some of it into jars, "You never know - if we are going to be killing devils, this salt may come in handy."
Phillipia looked over the boat, "The mast is snapped, but the rest of the boat is in pretty good shape. We need to find a way to put the mast back together."
Alice used a combination of the Water, Plant growth, and the infinite spider thread to repair the mast. They all then piled into the little sandboat, and took off directly north.

Phillipia steered the boat while the others held on and kept a good eye on their compasses and the way ahead. There was no visible sun, and no rest from the pummeling of the snow and salt.
Though the suits from the Maker were keeping them warm enough, very little could save them from the salt sucking the moisture from the air and their lungs.
Suddenly, Neely began to get dizzy, "Guys... I'm not feeling well... I-"
She began to see something on the boat with them, it looked like Mayor Highwater arguing with her mom.
"Mom? What are you... doing here?"
"Neely!" Phillipia yelled, "Get up, you can't fall asleep in this!"

Just then, Alice fell down backwards onto the boat, and began to cower in fear.
"Please, don't hurt my mom!" she yelled. She began to see herself as a child with her mother in the garden shed in their back yard. The town of halflings bringing pitchforks and scythes were all gathering to find Alice.
"She's a curse on our land!" one of them yelled.
"She must die before we do!" another one added.
Alice remembered this as the day her parents banished her from the town, but this memory was different - more detailed. Her mother was defending her. She grabbed a shovel and hit a man over the head who tried to take Alice from the shed. She was then killed by the mob in the process of protecting her daughter. Alice was able to escape because of her sacrifice.

"Alice! Not you, too!" Rina shouted. "Phillipia, I need you to just hang on a little longer!"
Phillipia then looked down briefly at her hands to see that they were no longer holding onto the handle of the boat. She had them clasped together perfectly as she stood perfectly still.
"You will stand there and be the noble girl you're supposed to be!" Phillipia could hear her mother yell.
A book - a large one - was sitting atop Phillipia's head, it had a string around it that was tied to a bell on the other end.
"I'll be asleep in the bed next to the bell," her mother said, now with her finger in young Phillipia's face, "You will stand here all night with perfect posture, in your perfect dress, and act like the perfect girl you should be. If that book falls, and that bell wakes me up... I'll be sure you regret it."
The young girl stood there and cried silently in her memories, thinking about her aunt who treated her kindly instead.

Phillipia fell backward from the tiller, and lost control of the boat - causing it to stop and roll to the side a bit.
"Phillipia!" Rina yelled, crawling over to her.
All of the girls were conscious, but clearly in a dream state. Rina tried to shake them all awake with no success, until, finally, she looked up to see a familiar outline in the dunes.
The outline of Drake was getting just close enough to be in sight through the storm. Rina was unsure if she was hallucinating, or if they had finally met in the middle. She glanced down at her desire compass, which still pointed directly at him - the needle matching his movements.
Without hesitation, she jumped up and ran to embrace him - falling perfectly into his arms.
"Drake..." she whispered with a smile.
"Rina," he smiled back. "This place... is absolutely miserable."
"This is by far the worst place I've ever been," she laughed in response as they held each other.

end session.