Game Night 20150124

Background
The Party encountered and slew Aritor Cain.

Players

 * Megan: As the Dungeon Master; Remy
 * Michael: As Jon
 * Kevin: As Klain
 * Barb: As Serendipity
 * Tasha: As Megura

XP Awards

 * 5,000 for defeating Cain and his minions

Victories

 * Jon: Slew Aritor Cain

Summary
After consulting with Silas, the party is taken to the Anauroch desert to a temple of Oghma. The Party goes through the temple into a tunnel that leads them into a deep crevasse. Inside this pit, there are 14 10' statues of various powers of the lower planes. From the players entrance and moving clockwise: Loviator, Umberlee, Bane, Talos, Shar, Malar, Velsharoon, Lloth, Vhaerun, Cyric, Gorgauth, Set, Asmodeus, and Talona.

A dais, ringed with braziers and topped with an alter, raises from the center. The Party arrives to see Bryce tied to the alter, sleeping. Jonoleth Palantas is stunned by the sheer magnitude of evil emanating from this place. From a hidden tunnel across from the party emerges Aritor Cain, dressed in full ceremonial robes. He utters a few words and Bryce begins to squirm as though trapped in a terrifying nightmare. He bursts into flames, lighting the trail of oil leading from him to the braziers. As the area is lit up, the party is able to see, hidden in the shadows, minions of each power ring the pit.

A might battle rages on while the party is trying to save Bryce, destroy Aritor, defeat the monsters, and survive themselves. Aritor Cain is able to get close enough Bryce and begins the final stage of the sacrifice. Aritor raises the Blade of Betrayal above his head. As he brings his hands down to plunge the dagger into Bryce's heart, Bryce opens his eye and, terrified by both the nightmare he woke from and the twisted visage of the man above him, shrieks in fear and flames explode from him with such force that his captor is thrown backwards into the wall and crumples into a heap. The statues nearby start to fall and one of them obliterates Aritor's body.