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...the fire that burns brightest...

Episode 1:
in which the heroes begin their education of the Everburning Mountian...

Summary:

The heroes discover that Gehenna is not as pleasant as they thought...
Their first journey into Gehenna is a lesson in struggle as they get caught in between a dying celestial and a baatezu...

Their map of Gehenna simply marks off different "points of interest." The only sure thing is that the Temple of Flame is at the so-called bottom of the volcano.

Of particular interest, was an encounter with a dying silver hound archon, Fillias, who asked the heroes to aid him in freeing his "charges." He confessed that he was a poor teacher, and when he tried to lead his students on the Path of Self-Sacrifice, they fell victim to masochism.

Convinced that inflicting pain and suffering on oneself was the greatest of holiness, Fillias' students fell sway to the philosophies of a kocrachon baatezu, named Malleous.

The hound archon, with his last dying will, formed himself into a weapon to aid the heroes in the confrontation.

They dispatched the baatezu easily, despite the ever growing numbers of lemures that it summoned.

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However, this left Fillias' 12 students, all fallen archons. Their glowing forms became that of fleshy orbs with a faint inner luminescence. They were spiked through the middle, and anchored to the ground.

The heroes had slaughtered the fiend, but what lay was a more difficult task of saving the souls of the fallen archons...












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