THE RECAP OF KEY EVENTS:

* Battle the demonic scorpions and dretches
* Talk to Gideon
* Sermon on the justice of Zariel / He’s a devout follower
* Tells of humans going into the chapel ossuary
* Let’s the party go down / tells them if they come back with/as demons he’ll kill them
* Leaves a Mezzoloth to guard the stairs
* Louie runs back up and checks the funeral side of the chapel - says a quick prayer to torm and is given magical version of his sword
* Party descends

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* Find room with Helm of Torm’s sight missing
* Finds ossuary and symbol of the gods — all corrupted by demons
* Louie holy water set them off
* Party Takes a break and ponders in the meditation room
* Bad thoughts and reflection on gideon’s words about Zariel
* Find Duke R
* Try and remove crown
* Duke R muttering celestial and abyssal
* Demon portal and water

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* Minotaurs of Baphomet break through and charge
* 1/2 party feels the madness of Baphomet
* Anamarites blast lightning
* Parcival and Virkuriel go down
* Mera on back of Anamarite
* Mael rages against Minotaurs
* Louie cuts one in half (he’s really mad)
* Kairon blows up another
* Demons exploding ichor
* Mera’s ears grow wings
* Parvicals face and skin gets scaly
* Virkuriel leg get gangly and longer
* Duke R covered also
* Spells start looking different
* Portal unable to be closed
* Pull Duke away - unresponsive still
* Questioned on stairs by Gideon

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* Brought back to High hall
* Ritual of Returning
* Louie is able to grab the sword
* Mael holds sword during ritual
* Parvival read ritual
* Minor demonic spirits attack
* Duke R returns / exercised

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* Somehow conduit to Torm was corrupted and the demons used it to open the portal - no one is quite sure how
* Duke R relays the story of the spirit journey he undertook while wearing the Helm of Torm’s Sight
	* In his spirit journey, Ravengard saw a bloodied woman in armor — a soldier wearing the colors and crest of Elturel — grasping a longsword fit for an angel. Fresh blood streamed from a nasty cut on the woman’s cheek.
	* Flying next to the woman was a small, golden elephant with rapidly fluttering wings.
	* As an enormous, loping demon threatened to devour the woman, she plunged the sword into the ground while the winged elephant made a trumpet sound with its trunk. The demon was hurled back as an alabaster palace rose up around the sword. The winged elephant fled and took to the red sky of Avernus, where it watched as a bloody scab grew up from the ground to engulf the palace and the enormous demon.
	* The winged elephant fled and wandered in a delirium before coming upon two odd, birdlike humanoids dressed in patchwork armor and standing next to a strange infernal vehicle. The bird creatures were equipped with odd weapons and tools.
	* As Ravengard recounts the vision, Lulu remembers helping one of the Hellriders plant Zariel’s sword in the ground and raise an impenetrable fortress around it.
	* Lulu remembers
	* “Zariel’s most loyal Hellrider, Yael, took the sword and plunged it into a rock. I called on every ounce of goodness in my heart to raise a shield around it — a fortress against evil.”
* Both Ravengard and Lulu are convinced that the Sword of Zariel is the key to saving Elturel
* Lulu flaps her wings in excitement at the final part of his story as she remembers meeting a pair of “bird folk” named Chukka and Clonk.
* Lulu remembers that the birds took her to a junkyard called Fort Knucklebone, where they built and repaired infernal vehicles designed to move quickly across the blasted wastelands of Avernus. Lulu doesn’t remember who ran the fort or what other creatures she met there.

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* Lulu flies up and spots fort 10 miles from Elturel
* Duke R and Reya will stay and try and keep Elturel safe as long as possible with
* How to get off the floating city safely
* Louie scours city for materials
* You with everyone’s help build rough hot air balloon out of old ship sails — takes the day / build goes well but hard to say how long it will late
* Kairon uses remove curse to remove the demon ichor effects
* Mael using his fire ability to heat the air and make it float
* Lulu pushes from behind
* Float out over the side of the city and start to descend
* See the blood war below
* One of the main generals — a Pit fiend —  looks up and see you floating away and meteors streak across the sky