Next week we'll pass through a seemingly endless loop of exploration, doors (with or without traps), signs of past battles, strange noises, random bodies, and strange moments of excitement as Desin cuts things down. What Digin can't cut, the group can kill with a fireball, but they have encounters with magical resistant ones that annoy the wizard.
Along the way, the group discovers three of the four stairs sent to retrieve, and encounters strangely-formed demons, or Goblinwolves or Demongoblins. They found evidence that the trap was caused and caused some on their own. They sent out many shadows and looted strange workshops, labs, or bedroom wreckage. The picking is slim. The experience they are gaining is welcome, but the lack of looting weighs heavily on their hearts.
They deliver the trio they find, set out in one last long loop, free them from the GEAS, and try to recover a fourth final staff member who can escape from other locations and search for routes from this location. The conversation with Celestial Guards showed that “All-Door” is likely already in a place that's approaching, so finding a way back isn't that much of a problem.
They hack and cut back on the aforementioned series of encounters with the Devil, finding their way to the final staff. They are offered a bargain with one of the competing demon packs and Bayga is interested, but the rest of the group wants to distance themselves and this corner of the complex. On the way backing the staff, they stop by all the doors from the place, plunder and return it as well.
True to their words, Leonid releases a group from their Geas and rewards them for finding a door in a collection of magical items and spell components. With an interesting twist, the heavenly guards give the party a four-hour head start, after which they are hunted and killed. Wow. rude.
The group is Skedador looking for a corridor to the east. Obviously, the exit awaits is in the east. Certainly, the exit is protected by the Titan…but it is an exit and now it seems to be better than anywhere else. Therefore, they follow their previous steps and enter the area where they encountered bugbears in the trap building before. This is a much less threat than the holy lion in prison. With this encouragement, they resume the process of finding a way out of this huge underground complex.
