Just what you wanted- another episode of mostly combat!
In this episode, the party has slain the High Inquisitor of Bane, just in time for Fzoul Chembryl to show up. But he isn't here to fight- not necessarily- because he knows the Inquisitor's pet beholder, Orox, is on its way, and it has been given instructions to kill everyone. So the party can either work with Fzoul to come up with a plan to escape the many eyes of this ommathur, or they can finish getting their revenge and likely die in the process. Decisions, decisions!
This was a tricky session to plan for, because as I've said several times in the past few episodes, I legitimately didn't know what the party was going to do! So I had to have at least some semblance of a plan for if the party worked with Fzoul, if they killed Fzoul on sight, if they tried to bargain with Orox, if they ran away... on and on it goes. (I alluded to it last blog post but I had been banking on the idea the party would lose the fight against Ginali and they would wake up in a jail cell, stripped of their belongings, and they would have to break their way out of prison. But alas, it did not happen.) I'm pretty happy with what we got, but like every good campaign, there's a million alternate universes where things went differently!
Also, fun fact: this episode marks the third time Ildana has gotten the blessing of a deity in this campaign! Will it be the last? Keep listening and find out!
Chapter 4, Episode 6: Fzoul Chembryl of the Zhentarim
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