- A miasma of elemental charnage swirls around us as a number of platforms seperate us from the alter where Maelis has placed Nissa - Mindflayers and Elementals stand on the platforms - Graxen moves to another platform - triggering a chaotic wave that ripples through everyone, stunning almost all of the combatants - Orlan teleports himself and Ellette via Stormdoor - landing in front of an elemental, who takes on the characteristics of lightning as they arrive - As the battle continues, each of the party inherits the abilities of one of the others - Graxen gains Kyo's - Orlan gains Graxen's - Qwimby gains Orlan's - Steve gains Qwimby's - Ellete gains Steve's - Kyo gains Ellette's - Using Steve's strength, Ellette sends an elemental and a mindflayer hurtling into the chaotic vortex below - Kyo uses one of Ellette's spells to do the same to another two mindflayers - As the battle continues, a platform holding Orlan and a mindflayer disappears - This platform reappears, with one holding Graxen and an elemental disappearing in its stead - Graxen reappears, but the chaos of the realm turns a number of the group against each other - warping their senses to see allies as enemies - In another surge of magic, the characters' abilities all shift once more - Graxen gains Ellette's - Orlan gains Kyo's - Qwimby gains Graxen's - Steve gains Orlan - Ellette gains Qwimby's - Kyo gain's Steves - Another explosion of chaos finishes the last of the elementals - enraging Maelis. He jumps into the battle - transforming into a many tentacled monstrosity. A tethered link seems to connect him to Nissa - Kyo senses primordial energy from the transformed Maelis - thinking he shares similarities with an aberration - Kyo uses Magic Circle around Nissa, denying entry to abberations - Maelis - now an avatar of Pandorum - flies towards the group, bellowing a psychic attack that disorientes and teleports Graxen, Ellette and Orlan to random parts of the arena - Steve clings to a rock floating haphazardly around the arena - Kyo summons a Dire Owl - using it to snatch Steve and fly her towards him - The book appears from Pandorum's mouth, lashing a psychic spell at the group - The arena inverts, tilting vertically and causing everyone to fall towards the platform with Nissa's alter - As Pandorum lands, Qwimby uses his magical eye to fire a devastating shot with his elemental pistol - The avatar's form dissipates, the book falling from his body. Maelis throws blood towards Nissa - causing it to siphon magic towards the book. - A portal opens from the book, Pandorum's true form appearing to claw its way out from within - Maelis taunts us, claiming someone needs to close the book - Ellette volunteers, cleaving Nissa's arm from her body to do so. Graxen, proclaiming that Domfoch means family, refuses to allow her to make the sacrifice - holding her in place with his Blood Curse of Binding. - Grasping Nissa's arm, he closes the portal - being vaporised by the effort. Only his metal arm remains - The party are returned home, with Nissa finding Graxen's final words in a notebook inside the pocket of his brother's jacket - Where I’m from, everything is dark and grey and gloomy. That’s all I knew until the day we met You showed me every colour. I love you. -