Season 3 episode 08 - River of Blood With the underground river un-dammed, only about 6 hours til the water arrives under Blood Crescent where the vampire coven has been squatting. Wanting to stack the deck in their favor, Mahewa digs into the Book of Storms and Book of Servants pilfered from The Devourer's Bishop of Woe. Undertow, a Greater River Spirit, is their chosen candidate to serve in washing away the vampire dust to perma-kill the defanged fiends. Time is short; the team commit to a Planar Ally ritual to strike a bargain with Undertow to assist their fight in the river tunnel. Undertow agrees to fight with them for the price of killing the dormant river spirit that was now starting to stir again with the river undammed. Accepting the terms, the team ventures back into the river tunnel. Making their way through the jellyfish forest that remains in place, Undertow takes delight in snatching up alll the massive jellies encountered while following the team into the vampire lair. still smelling of burnt carpet, the team finds amongst the ash of stacked storage crates a metalic sarcophagus that unfolds like a transformer into a necrodrive-powered warmec piloted by Bloody Poodle. Think ripley in Aliens#2 but no flesh exposed except a window of red crystal. some wraiths, mecha-poodle, Grahl the unarmed, and Meri make their appearance and a rumble ensues. Hella fight. Here's some of the highlights... 1. Meri's Imp, Hedwig, is a possessing demon that jumped into Grahl's Butterfly Maul that Feng stole from the ogre-vamp, giving the barbarian disadvantage the entire fight. 2. In effort to escape Mecha-Poodle's damage, Gang jumped into Undertow, looking to recreate the Bishop of Woe's technique of using the elemental as a sort of super-suit of his own... but did not realize the jellyfish Undertow had been nabbing were still alive and stunned the rogue from all the toxins swirling in the elemental. The elemental spat out Gang and he eventually recovered. 3. Chuck used animate objects on his Dozen Wooden Stakes to harrass Grahl and Poodle rather effectively. 4. Chuck trapped Grahl in a resliient Sphere of force that undertow picked up and started battering Mecha-Poodle with, causing trauma to both Grahl and the Mech simltaneously while eliminating Grahl from the fight . 5. Once the mech had taken enough damage and Team Green broke the window, Poodle retreated into the condenced necrodrive and drank a blood potion, pushing her into the spirit world. Grahl and Meri did the same, and Team Green followed suit, leaving Mahewa and Undertow in the prime plane. 6. Chuck Counterspelled nearly all of Meri's damage spells. 7. When the team finally dusted both Meri and Poodle, Undertow slurped up their mist on perma-blend... grahl got some distance from the team but was eventually tracked down and stake + blend. Having won the battle, Undertow attempted to collect on his part of the bargain.. carrying 15 tormented jellyfish, and the full essence of 3 vampires within his waters, the team double crossed the Spirit; Mahewa banished the elemental back to the Endless Sea from which he had been summoned. Damn the consequences, that fucker was Bad News. Team high-tails it out of the tunnels back to the fleet for the next task at hand; cleaning up the 20+ vampires now no longer under Poodle's command-- or her directions to not slaughter the 1200+ Hopeful Patriots in the city above... 2/3 to level 13