Hellfire and Tadpoles
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The threat of the cult of the Absolute has caused the heavens and the Hells to become concerned about the potential loss of hundreds of thousands of souls that give the gods and the Archdevils their powers. While the gods are forbidden from interfering by Ao, the Hells are under no such limitations, and several prominent agents of the Hells have been sent to “help” Tav and her companions fight the Absolute. The Hells seem to be intent on wreaking havoc on the Material Plane, leaving Tav to clean up their messes and stop all Nine Hells from breaking loose.
Meanwhile, Tav meets a mysterious nobleman on the nautiloid named Raphael who is incredibly irritated that he ended up tadpoled and traveling with morons. When he appears to know more about the happenings in Faerun than he should, Tav quickly suspects that he’s far more than what he appears to be.
It’s going to take an incredible amount of patience and ingenuity for Tav to both defeat the Elderbrain and stop the Hells from fucking everything up.
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- Part 1 of Hellfire and Tadpoles
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Archdevil Mephistopheles, the esteemed Lord of the Eighth, the greatest spellcaster in all the realms, hated having his work in the Hells interrupted. He received a warning that the plot to bring forth the Grand Design championed by the Dead Three (using his stolen Crown of Karsus!) would be a complete and utter disaster that could damage the Material Plane, the heavens, and all Nine Hells.
Mephistopheles and the other Lords of the Nine had been tasked by the Lord of the Ninth with preventing such an apocalyptic outcome by intervening on the Material Plane and aiding a group of adventurers with curing their tadpole infections and stopping the coming catastrophe before it destroyed the world and made the vast majority of mortal souls unusable to devilkind. Unfortunately, that meant Mephistopheles’s existence was now being spent as a caretaker for mortals and mired in Hellish bureaucracy with no end in sight.
It’s going to take an incredible amount of patience and ingenuity for Mephistopheles to aid the adventurers in their quest to defeat the Elderbrain while stopping the mortals and his colleagues from fucking everything up.
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- Part 2 of Hellfire and Tadpoles