Session Date: 02/16/2026
Session Start (Combat)
- Blight Drake
- Not immune to poison/acid
- Wastewither
- Essentially water elementals
- Can fly and cause acid rain to rain down on things
- Not resist bludgeoning
- Recall Knowledge
- Immune to acid
- Cannot bleed
We manage to dispatch of the blight drake and both of the wastewithers. The Sarge comes over the speaker of the drone and says he will overlook the property damage that Bosch caused and he admits he’s concerned because the drake and the wastewithers normally don’t work together, so he’s concerned at what would possibly make them work together. He tells us to be on our merry way and to not do anything illegal so he doesn’t have to see us again. He lets us go.
Mary heals us all up and once Bosch is patched up, he goes inside of the diner that’s there and a young woman chewing gum asks if Bosch is going to pay for the sign he destroyed. He comments that there was a creature out there and she says it’s not really her issue, it didn’t go inside the diner, and Bosch comments it might have if we hadn’t bashed it for her. She agrees. Tabby asks what she’s doing here and she says that she has a stable job where she’s being paid. This baffles Tabby a little but she offers food and he asks what she has, and she says the hot dogs are good, but we should avoid the chili. It comes to light that the blight drake might be the meat in the chili and she won’t tell us what is in the hot dogs and Tabby comments he just wants chips, and she reassures him that he most definitely doesn’t want the chips. Bosch grabs the drake and drags it inside and into the back for her.
We notice the diner is called someone’s place, but we don’t have a direct name.
It’s clear that someone is paying for this place and keeping it afloat despite the desolate area around here. The diner itself is pretty clean despite everything around them. There’s a deposit cart that the drake was put in and it automatically sealed to hide the body, so there isn’t even a corpse smell. This perturbs Bosch a bit and he decides not to think about it.
The young woman asks if we do this often, and Tabby admits that we get into fights sometimes - goes with the territory. She asks what we do and Tabby explains we defend the world from evil and she says that we’re a few centuries late for that. She has a rather nihilistic view. She says that there’s no way for us to really do anything and the Dark Demesne will come for us all. Tabby explains we are here from before, when this was just starting, and she decides that we might be telling the truth.
Bosch continues looking around at everything and he notices that the diner is called Sal’s Place. He pockets the napkin.
The young woman’s eyes shine and it seems she’s casting some spell and she says that it’s clear that we believe what we’re saying. She understands that we don’t like what we see, so what is our plan? Tabby explains we want to get back to our time and she decides to give hot dogs to us on the house for the potential saviors of the universe.
It comes out that her boss is Salaavethor and that she hasn’t seen him in a few years. Her name is Ava. She admits that her situation is similar to Sal’s and she’s fine with leaving it as Ava. She comments that she’s read about us in Sal’s notes and she knows that whatever we’re about to do, it’ll be the first time Sal’s seen it. She advises that we can’t think of the people now: there are a few thousand people left, and what’s outside of the station is all Dark Demesne space, and those that touch it disappear. Nobody knows what’s inside of it.
Faylen asks Ava if she knows how time travel works, and she admits she didn’t know it was possible until we told her about that. She admits that Sal hasn’t told her a single thing about anything and she’s figuring it out as she goes. What she’s figured out is what’s left of his house, which is now gone.
Back to Edeis
Ava teleports us closer back to where Edeis is and we meet back up with her. She did find information on the blue sand desert and she’s working on getting through that. We work on getting arranged for the night and suddenly the lights go out and a thick dark liquid starts dripping onto the floor. It eventually reconstitutes itself into a form that resembles Valoran Kain that is no longer human, but is far sleeker.
He comments that he knew that there was something different - he asks if we remember him. We say yes, but Bosch asks if he’s lost weight, and he responds with yes. He comments that we come from the past and he asks what we think of his future - Mary calls it horrible, and Bosch says there’s not enough of it. He says that there is so much but we do not see it because we are not in Demesne space. He says the true universe is so much more beautiful - there are so many colors in the darkness. Bosch admits he does like colors. Kain offers to let us join him and comments we don’t need to go back. There’s a lot of people who died to get here, and we can skip all of that and stay and join the Demesne and leave this husk of a world behind.
Tabby asks if the phrase “go suck a lemon” means anything, and Bosch asks if they have lemons in the Demesne. He doesn’t respond and Bosch says that he makes it sound good while Mary comments that there’s not enough nature there. Kain comments we don’t see it, and Bosch says that there’s not much to see - there’s just darkness out there. Tabby asks how many people he killed, and Kain said he’s killed nobody but he’s saved billions by helping them, reconstituting them into home, into a new reality. They just need this last place and then they will be done and know peace.
Tabby tells him to keep his reality as we want to stay with ours. Mary agrees. Bosch comments that peace sounds boring and that nothing changes - is that what they’re building? Kain says no - everything is working toward one goal of creating a home. Mary points out that it is destroying ours. Kain says ours was so full of destruction, death, and war - Dark Demesne doesn’t know war. Mary comments they brought it to us. Bosch says he’s still not sold on all of this - have they at least gotten better (he pulls out the non-euclidean greataxe and tosses it over) at weapons? Kain sighs.
Kain comments that the weapons were when they were trying to understand, and then they realized they just needed power. Once they created their own Seal of Infinity (called the Seal of Totality) and our normal Seal of Infinity disappeared from the world, it went very fast.
Faylen is aware that the Seal of Infinity reacts with other kinds of magic, but is thought to be the font of arcane magic. There are probably fonts of other schools of magic elsewhere in the world that exist. Creating a fifth type of magic would fundamentally change reality, which would be the boost that the Dark Demesne would need, but all that they can currently do is copy reality and work with that. If they have their own magic they can make up their own thing. He pulls Edeis to the side to see what she’s found.
Bosch, who had been arguing at Kain, is stopped when Kain realizes he isn’t going to be able to convince us to stop, and he says he will figure something else out and he will see us all later, then disappears.
A klaxon blaring sound starts to go off with the warning of an imminent attack. Edeis says that she doesn’t have any time to do anything, are we going to die now? Mary asks how can we help, and an explosion goes off somewhere in the distance.