The Fated Episode 5: The Beach Episode

"'The highly anticipated fanservice episode is here. The tension in the party, both sexual and otherwise, is palpable.'"

Summary
Continuing the search for the 'Shiny' in the Underdark, the party locate a large purple crystal, leaning more information about the worlds past and Hilltree, followed by a much needed and heavily discussed trip to the local bathhouse.

Episode Events
Adventuring through the Underdark the party come across a room with a large purple gem. As soon as they find this a large crash can be heard throughout the cave, prompting Sylnan to touch the gem. His hands run cold, and upon trying to remove them he find his hand is stuck.

In his head he hears an unintelligible voice he doesn't understand, and is probably released from the gems grasp, only top be left with a hand of deep purple. Br'aad is then visited by Ob'nockshai, who discusses and reveals to Br'aad that a group of fish people are working together for their master, who is referred to as their 'powers source' and their 'weapon', it's implied that their leader is a large dragon turtle. Obnockshai, in a type of taunt, pulls a dead body off of a wall, revealing a doorway in the dreamscape he is talking to Br'aad in. Before B'raad walks through the door Obnockshai gives him one last bit of information, that the gem will lead them to the Master of the fish people.

After returning to the real world Br'aad encourages everyone to touch the gem, once again triggering the mysterious voice, except this type Br'aad understands it as its Abyssal. The voice asks if he understands, Br'aad agrees. The voice talks, claims 'they have what they were harvesting'. it explains that many years ago there was a cursed race, And the master of them divided his organs, spiriting them into many subraces, these organs were given powers, and each given to different families in order to cripple this cursed race. The voices goal is to collect these organs, as years ago, in the before times there was a war between the Gith, a multidimensional race, which crippled their enemy forces. Who then spent years trying to find a vessel with adequate strength to aid the revival of their species. To harvest races until they find these magic organs, one of which is revealed to be Hilltree's head tumour.

The voice threatens them, claiming he will turn the city upside down until they give him what he wants. However the discussion is cut short as footfalls are heard down the cave. With the threat of the Barber approaching Olguart tells the party to run, before doubling in size, preparing to take on the oncoming threat. They briefly try to stay and fight as Mountain refuses to leave Olguart, before running into a fish man, who they try to attack before the humanoid assists them in getting out of the Underdark.

having escaped the Underdark the party make their way to the local bath house, having an adequate wash, Sylnan canonically is stinky. (Condi's characters have a theme i guess?) The group discusses Olguart being trapped in the Underdark, as well as the possibility of breaking the Gem, before Hilltree gets up and leaves the Bathhouse, prompting the party to follow. They end up back at the factory, where Sylnan tuns into a rat, due to the Rat King (called the rat kings embrace), to which Br'aad freaks out. Before the episode ends it is revealed that if the Master rises, the entire world will be flooded.

Trivia

 * Sylnan's new power, The Rat Kings Embrace, was a fan requested power, suggested by Redd.
 * The Fish people mentioned in the Underdark are most likely a race of Tritons.