Finale Part 2 - Team 8

Recap
Colm is elected as king and Ferryn, the sorcerer candidate, went berserk wearing different masks that heightened her powers and fought the three heroes. Turi took Colm to the church of Salem where Colm could change the gods and make Turi the new god of Aurum. Through the rain and thunder, Mir, the god of storm, descended on the cathedral. Dariun, Norman and Zippy chased Ferryn to the church where Turi and Colm open the gates to a special room. Mir spoke to Turi stating he had broken the divine oath and judgement was finally coming to him. Turi stalled and Colm entered a room where he pushed over a vase and was luckily saved from death by the team after being struck in the back by a bolt of lightning. After the vase was broken, Turi took the prayer power stored in the room.

Episode Summary
The librarian body of Turi's tether, grows and expands as Mir starts to move back from the room. Turi grabs Colm and carries him out of the room, throwing him off to the side to keep him safe. After this, Turi's body expands even more rapidly as their body starts to split and the skin seems to shed and a new body appears with a long face with a wide grin and two rows of pointed teeth. Their eyes split creating four eyes and the hair grows becoming a teal colour. They almost fill the cathedral room before it stops, everyone feels a wave of bliss energy as the body fills out and the muscle bulge. Mir continues to back up and lightning sparks on his spikes. Dariun and Norman are both frightened by the immense power in front of them.

Ferryn, seeing Colm now out of the room, flies towards him with her longsword. Dariun runs forwards and uses Fey step to teleport above Ferryn. He grabs her wings and pins her to the ground. Dariun draws his sword and activates the tinder soul gem creating roots and vines that shoot out to grapple her but she doesn't get tangled by the roots but is injured. Dariun removes the gem form his switch as Norman approaches Ferryn and hits her with his bliss stick. As he hits her, they can see her face grows a creepy green and she laughs. Ferryn gets out of her grapple against Dariun as she gets up and hovers above Dariun and Norman. Zippy examines the area he is in and casts heat metal on Ferryn's sword causing it to burn her hand and drop the sword.

Turi and Mir are in a standoff as Mir charges a lightning bolt and shoots it at Turi's chest. Turi slides back slightly before running at Mir, grabbing his remorhaz's neck and spins him around destroying the right side pillars. Turi throws him against a wall and Mir coughs up white blood. The building is starting to fall apart, Norman, Zippy and Ferryn are too slow to get away and get hit by some falling rocks. Dariun and Colm are able to dodge the rocks and Colm looks in pain from the lightning bolt and asks the team to protect him. Dariun runs to Colm and brings him into the room behind the stone door and as they enter, Dariun can tell that he has entered a different plane. Dariun instructs Colm to stay there and composes himself as Colm asks him to not kill Farren.

Norman pulls out his rapier and attempts to swing at her but she is able to get out of the way. Ferryn moves around Norman slightly so she is in line of him and Zippy. Her hand begin to glow and a light emanates from her hands, hitting them both. As she does, Ferryn screams in pain and they can see her face is starting to crack. Zippy looks to the gods and can deduce that Turi may have the upper hand on Mir, Zippy runs towards Turi and heals himself.

Mir comes out of the wall he was embedded in and they can start to see the immense length of Mir's body that goes out of the cathedral and up into the clouds above. Mir charges towards him and Turi grabs two of his legs as they slam into the wall out of the cathedral and into the streets. Turi puts Mir's head under his arm, jumps into the air and yells to the team that he is about to show them the first grand treasure. Turi slams Mir's head into the ground of the church of Salem. The ground shatters and Norman is knocked unconscious after getting launched back into a wall.

The floor starts to crumble inwards and a giant pit appears deeper than the eye can see. They see cross walks, tunnels and side rooms down the pit. Turi and Mir fall down into the pit and they see Mir's tail end come from the sky and descend into the pit. Dariun is still in the room with Colm and rushes to the doorway and sees the floor is continuing to crumble. He sees that Norman and Zippy are in danger of falling into the deep pit in the room. He looks to Ferryn and sees her mask is destroyed and her angels wings disappear. Dariun uses Zephyr's strike and runs to Norman and casts cure wounds on him to bring him back to consciousness.

Norman and Dariun are both able to get away from the crumbling floor but Zippy is unable to outrun the floor and falls into the pit, followed by Ferryn who also falls. Dariun and Norman are able to get into the room where Colm is and see the entire floor of the church fall into the pit. Colm comes up behind them and informs the boys that he has been to the first grand treasure and he is confident they will survive if they fall down there. Norman and Dariun take this and jump into the pit.

Meanwhile, Zippy is falling into the darkness next to Ferryn. He starts to see a blue light emanating from below him. As he gets closer, Zippy can see Mir and Turi in the distance fighting on the side of a wall. He can see in this abys, there is a giant cube illuminated in two spots that fills the area with the blue light. Zippy can see on the cube is the symbol of Salem and where the lines cross, it is illuminated as blue crosses. Zippy's fall starts to slow and he begins to get pulled sideways towards the cube. The gravitational pull brings him to the side of the cube and he notices the gravity feels lighter than normal, almost like moon gravity. Dariun and Norman follow not long after Zippy on the side of the completely iron cube. Dariun looks around and recalls his Arch Fey father, Caspin, mentioning these battle cubes to his mother from another plane called Atcheron. Atcheron is a very war torn plane and they had giant cubed ships and Dariun pieces together that they may be connected in a vague way.

Ferryn is beaten and bruised and she yells at the boys asking why they had to stand in her way. As she says that everything was going as 'he' planned, the blue rose on her forehead starts to move and she winces in pain. She composes herself and Zippy asks her to explain why she is doing this and for who so they can understand. Ferryn tells them it was for her daughter that died and that 'he' can bring her back. Ferryn explains she had seen this person bring the dead back before. When Norman asks who was able to, she is unable to tell them as the blue rose brings on more pain. Norman casts detect thoughts and can only hear static on her surface level thoughts but when he tries to go deeper, he only hears static. Ferryn explains she died before being born and Zippy tries to convince her that he can help her but it doesn't work. Norman speaks to Ferryn and uses charm person on her and asks if she wants to bring her daughter back into the world this way. Her expression becomes neutral and she tells them she will do anything to bring her daughter back. Once again, before she can say the name of the person she has made the deal with, her rose moves and the pain knocks her out of her charmed state. Dariun pleas with her but she doesn't believe anyone would forgive her as she admits to killing the king. Ferryn pulls out another mask that is a smooth pearlescent white with indents for the eyes and a small bulge for the nose. It melts into her face and it transforms her facial structure to indents for eyes, a bulge for a nose and no mouth. Her body contorts, her bones crack and she falls to the ground, unable to scream with no mouth. She quickly stands up straight before smooth getting onto all fours and charges at Dariun, Norman and Zippy.

Ferryn charges at Dariun and her hand contorts has her long nails swipe at his chest twice before she lurches her faceless face back and raises her hands and two hands claw down on him. Dariun is knocked back and is looking bloodied. Norman runs to Ferryn and as he runs to her he grabs his medallion he believes was given to him by the demon king, his father Royce. His teal tattoos begin to glow as he hits her with his rapier and uses psychic blades with the power of Royce. The rapier cuts the face creating a slit and letting out screams of psychic pain before the slit closes. Ferryn holds her head and begins to run away seemingly taking more damage than expected. The cuts they make create flaps that open and close without any blood. Zippy bends down, laces up some imaginary shoes, digs deep within himself as he jumps in the air and lands on Ferryn's face. With Zippy's long history of farming carrots, he knows what it is to dig deep. He digs his fingers into her face as he feels the skin try to close around his fingers. Zippy gets his grip and casts thunder wave and Zippy shoots off away from her, holding the faceless mask that has tethers of skin attached to Ferryn's face. They hear Ferryn's screams before both the mask and Zippy snap back to Ferryn's face. Dariun activates the steam gem and sprints to Ferryn, channelling his planar energy. He raises his switch blade and he cleaves down and separating her head from her body and blood begins to pool. The head reattaches to her body suddenly and with Dariun's second swing, the blade gets some of the way through but not enough to detach the head.

They see Turi and Mir still fighting and Turi has the upper hand. Mir, white blood oozing, curls up and human arms start busting out the side. He evolves to become a six armed, two faces, white angel winged person, similar to the picture they saw in the Church of Salem previously. Mir's voice changes and the remainder of the remorhaz's body disintegrates. Mir lifts his upper left arm and the ring on his index finger slides off and shines a bright white light. Zippy, unable to moves his hands to cover his eyes, is blinded but the white light. Norman and Dariun see chains come out from the white light and they dig into the cube with daggers and wrap around Turi. Turi is able to knock one of the chains and it comes flying to the group fighting on the cube. Dariun dodges the dagger however, Zippy, Ferryn and Norman, knocking Norman unconscious. Zippy goes flying with Ferryn when she gets hit and he can see the skin starts to peel off and the mask is becoming loose. As the second layer of skin covering Ferryn's body flakes off, the mask Zippy is holding comes off her face in pieces. Zippy can see Ferryn's body where her arms and legs are contorted and broken and her head is separated from her body.

Dariun hobbles over to Norman and uses cure wounds on him, once again bringing him back into consciousness. Zippy looks through Ferryn's robes and finds a hardened black leather mask with black clasps on the sides with thin slits on for the mouth and eyes. As the three of them discuss they look to see Turi struggling to get out of the chains, Mir touches different parts of Turi's body with two fingers. Mir tells him that these chains were made for this situation and he should have thought ahead. Zippy pre-emptively goes prone to be stealthy. Mir says goodbye to Carol and snaps Turi's neck and at first it seems he is dead but Turi's neck comes back. Mir snaps it again and again and starts pounding with all six of his arms. Carol takes control for a second and pleas for Turi to do something as Mir pulls the chains around Turi's neck, choking him. Mir pulls so tight that the neck goes loose and Turi's eyes go red with blood as Turi painfully tries to talk to Carol before the eyes go white. The giant god's body slumps and Mir removes the chains. The god's body shrinks and forms back into Carol's body.

Mir floats over to Norman, Dariun and Zippy, looks at them for a second then continues to the pit entrance and flies up, leaving a small pool of glowing white blood on the cube. Normal gets him vial, gets rid of the dart and gathers some of Mir's blood. Dariun follows Norman's lead and gets some of Mir's blood. Dariun moves over to Carol and covers her face before searching her body. He finds a margarita glass that never gets empty and a bottle filled Forget Me Juice. Norman pulls out the piano key and walks towards the circle that on the giant cube. They have to walk to the top side of the corner and the gravity shifts. Dariun tells them they aren't in another plane but the cube itself is from another plane. They find where the circle is and Dariun smoothly slides down the slope, Norman runs down behind him and Zippy rolls down awkwardly. When they get down, Zippy casts Balm of the Summer Court on himself and Norman as Dariun uses cure wounds twice on himself.

They see near the center is a pedestal and a door in the floor. The pedestal has a fluid shaped button on it which they instinctively press. The floor doors on the ground open and a warm light shines into the darkness. They have just opened the first grand treasure. The pedestal sinks into the cube as they look into the cube and head into the doorway. They find gravity shifts and they all fall on their faces in grass. When they look around, they see a new land that looks pre historic. It is like an encapsulated biosphere where all the sides have land on it and no sky yet the land is illuminated by some sort of light. The doors close but the pedestal appears where they came from.

When they all looks around closer, they can see a mountain with a waterfall running into a river, animals and bugs are around them and birds, with strange shimmering coming off them. Norman asks if Dariun if this resembles the Fey wild with Dariun denies. Dariun makes his way to the mountain to get a lay of the land and is followed by Norman and Zippy. They follow the river and see some gold coins in the stream. Norman and Zippy grab some and they decide they should follow the gold. Norman calls on Royce using his amulet to help guide him and he gets a feeling in his gut to go upstream.

They come up to a clearing where it appears the trees look broken giving evidence of a fight. In this clearing is a carcass of a large four legged creature off to the right of a large lake. They know they have not seen something like this before but can tell this was once a large and fearsome creature. Dariun takes a closer look and can tell this beast was slain. He finds a tooth and puts it in his pocket. Dariun can tell from the marks on the stone and trees around, there is evidence of fire and magic. He follows the tail that is dipped in the lake and sees an opening behind the waterfall. Dariun calls Norman and Zippy over and they go through getting completely soaked as they enter a dark cave.

Entering the cave, they find more gold coins as they walk towards a clearing where the cave opens up wider. They see a small hut made of twigs and leaves on the back wall of the cave. Dariun can tell that it does not seem to have been lived in for about 5 years. Zippy yells out for whoever is in here with no answer. When they get closer, they can see spoiled rations and when they look in the hut, to see a body lying on their side in a bedroll. Norman uses mage hand to tap the shoulder of the body but there is no response. Zippy approaches the body and kicks it. The body rolls over so he pull out his dagger, cuts the bedroll and sees it's a corpse of a human, not yet decomposed but dead for a while. They can tell this person is wearing foreign clothing resembling that of a monk with a reddish sash and is clutching a journal. Dariun picks up the black, leather bound notebook. Meanwhile, Zippy takes a femur from the body and runs it along the ribcage.

The pages of the notebook are yellow with age and they all see the notebook is comprised of a language they have never seen before and it seems to change as the book continues. They see pictures, one of a great giant lizard breathing fire resembling that of the beast outside. The early part of the books shows a symbol of Salem on a pedestal, the one they saw before, drawn like it was found in a box somewhere, like it was the first clue found to get to this grand treasure. They find a drawing of the pile of gold found but the drawing shows them a throne with flowers around it and an arrow pointing up above it. There are other items drawn like a hilt of a sword with a different symbol of Salem on it, another is a scythe with a different symbol. The book has multiple items drawn, each with a slight variation to the symbol, one of which resembles the piano key Norman is holding. They are all different but always have lines that intersect at different points and all have the circle. There are drawings of various animals and doorways leading potentially to other planes.

Dariun tells them they should keep this close to their chests but will try to find someone who can help them decipher it and tell Gilbert about it. Dariun is about to close the book but Zippy notices there is a latch near the spine of the book and he flicks it, revealing a page with a large circle with four inner circles and all the symbols of all the gods are placed on the rings. The inner most are two, and so on with the divisions. They recognise some of the symbols and see on the second ring is the circle part of the symbol of Salem. They are confused by this as what they know is Salem a lower tier but the image shows he is a second tier. Norman reflects on Mir taking on the form of Salem shown in the picture in the church. Dariun questions if there is something going on as Salem is hidden from not only the people of the planes, but also the gods.

As they leave the hut, there is a little fox with feathers off his tail and wings going off its front two legs, they recognise it as a hawkfox. Dariun coaxes it over and it jumps up onto his shoulders and purrs happily and graciously accepts Dariun's food. Dariun decides to keep him and names him Pepper after Zippy's suggestion. Zippy has no clue what Pepper is saying despite normally being able to understand animals. Before leaving, they look around to see claw marks and scratches and can tell a fight must have also happened in here.

As they leave through the waterfall, they get back to the pedestal and Zippy pushes the button. As it sinks, Norman gets the piano key and presses it in to ground. A deep noise errupts all around the cube causing animals all around to freak out including Pepper who runs off into the forest. The doors to the cube open but before leaving, Dariun brings Pepper back, calming him down. They find themselves back on the outside of the cube but it looks a bit different. They see a stairway and bridge built from the cube to the pit. They hear some people coming down the stairs calling out wondering what the sounds was. The Aurum workers recognise them and call them the heroes and tell them they have been gone for two months.

The workers explain that after Colm was made king, he instructed the workers to build a path to the cube in case the heroes ever came back. They make their way up the staircase and see the debris has been cleared but the Church has not been fully rebuilt. When they enter Aurum, most of the destroyed buildings are re built and the sky is clear blue. The people in the streets are cheering for the heroes of Aurum as they make their way to the castle to see Colm. In the square of Aurum is a golden statue of the three of them in cool poses surrounding Colm who is raising a sword to the sky. They make their way into castle and even the nobles seem excited to see the team. In the castle, they find Colm in golden gown with a fully grown beard as he runs down and pulls them all into a big hug.

Colm informs them he couldn't change to god from Salem to Turi but he believes he has been running Aurum well. He asks where they were but the team wish to wash up after their adventure. Colm tells them he will throw a great feast for their return tonight after they clean themselves up. They all head to the hall where a long dining table with many people including Gilbert, his granddaughters, Blackjack, Yogurt, Joey, James and Bradley along with many nobles and Colm. Gilbert, Blackjack and Yogurt all go up to them, elated to see them alive and well. They feast and celebrate their return with everyone.

Colm stands up and gives them their rewards promised. They each get a chest in front of them. Norman opens his up first and finds a the void cloak, a long, beautiful purple cloak with some shimmering design on it. Dariun opens his chest and finds the bubble cloak which is long and grey with sequence on it. Finally, Zippy opens his and find a green cloak of growth. They all thank Colm and he asks if they would like to join the Greeder's guild which they humbly decline as the team want to go off on their own adventures. Gilbert speaks up and asks if they should also be compensated with gold and Colm gifts them 20 000 gold.

Before they head back to Gilbert's mansion, they each run a couple errands. Dariun heads to Jezzy's bakery and sees her at the counter. Dariun thanks her for helping him when he was drunk and also thanks for the donut. She tells him that they put some Feywild ingredients and brings out her husband, a large well-built elf. He puts out a hand to shake Dariun's which he accepts. Her husband looks at Dariun's ring with the Branch family symbol and asks Dariun to leave. Her husband, Gallard, leaves and goes back into the bakery. Dariun, taken aback by what just happened and as he leaves, he overhears Jezzy talking to Gallard asking why he was rude to Dariun. Dariun learns in that conversation that Gallard had been to the Feywild many times. Meanwhile Norman is looking around for a tattoo parlour and is lead to a goblin with big goggles and a hat tattooing a large man who is struggling with the pain. The goblin kicks him out and welcomes Norman in. Norman asks the goblin to use Mir's blood to tattoo the sigil of the Calm Cloud Monastery and how it is written in the Tiefling tongue underneath onto his forearm. Norman can feel there is some power within the tattoo but is unsure what it is. Norman takes a final visit to the magic store to see Dawson and Lemon McCaw and apologizes to Dawson about it arm and gives him his Greeder's cloak and 150 gold. Zippy heads to the post office and writes a letter to Mongo, the giant ape from the coliseum and mails it off. The worker hands him an enveloped which he opens to find a postcard sent to him from Mongo at Bayside. Satisfied, they all get back to their horses and get ready to travel back home to Gilbert's mansion.

When they get back to the mansion, Gilbert takes the three of them down into his office and asks him to tell him everything that happened. They hand over the journal and tells them he knows someone who may be able to translate the text but they are in the jungle lands, south of here. However, Gilbert believes it may be beneficial to get an alternative way of travel to get there. Gilbert suggests an airship, which they all are excited by. He tells them it will be in Pokarok, a dwarven capital in the mountains of Caseron. They all put their hands in the middle and Blackjack, Yogurt, Joey, James, Marley and Paige all join in as they all chant team 8 and prepare for their next adventure.

Post Credits
On a boat, somewhere in between Aurum and the floating island of Sanguine, is a female Shadar-kai. She is meditating wearing a light blue sash over her monk garb, which is known as the Calm Cloud Monastery colours. There are bandages covering her left shoulder. Footsteps come towards her and a young apeling boy wearing the same monk garb, addresses her as sister and asks how she is feeling. She tells him that it is going well and asks if he would take off the bandages to take a look. As he does, the apeling addresses her as May and asks how the eye is going and asks if they are any closer to finding Norman so he can tear him apart for what he did to Master Matsumora. May addresses him as Cornelius and tells him they are only a couple days from Aurum where she is sure he is. In May's hand is a clear eyeball looking straight towards Aurum. When the bandages come off, a blue rose tattoo is shown on her right shoulder and it starts to bloom. May assures Cornelius that the price that they are paying is worth it as they cannot allow Norman to live.

Quotations

 * Zippy "Yeah this b*tch is gonna burn"
 * Adam "Bring it on baby, I can survive anything now. I've seen death and come back… kind of."
 * Norman "If you lose who you are to get what you want, it's like burning a painting to examine its ashes."
 * Norman "There's no voice more true, than the voice of death."
 * Jacob "Am I supposed to be the healer?!"
 * Seth "I'd like to point out we are at the season finale and just now we figured out who the healer was."
 * Jacob "If I find another broken bong bottle I'm gonna be furious."
 * Zippy "You'll regret not killing us hehehehe" (to Mir after he flies away)
 * Jacob "Why do we get the most useless items?"
 * Norman "Hey Dariun, do you know what time it is? Tooth-hurty!"
 * Seth "There's always something behind the waterfall, always."
 * Zippy "Quickie Zippy is what they call me"
 * Zippy "Bunny be, bunny do, you won't see me tying your shoes."

Main Cast

 * Norman D
 * Dariun Branch
 * Zippy Westborrough

Returning Characters

 * Mir (god of storms)
 * Turi/Carol
 * Ferryn Rise
 * Colm Alvero
 * Gilbert Bernstein
 * Marley Bernstein
 * Paige Bernstein
 * Blackjack
 * Yogurt
 * Joey
 * James
 * Bradley
 * Bradley's father
 * Jezzy
 * Gallard (Jezzy's husband)
 * Dawson
 * Lemon McCaw
 * Mongo (from postcard)
 * Longface Cloppyhooves
 * Tealeaf
 * Denmark

New Characters

 * Caspin (Dariun's father - mentioned)
 * Pepper (Hawkfox)
 * Goblin Tattoo Artist
 * May
 * Cornelius

Locations

 * Church of Salem
 * First Grand Treasure
 * Aurum
 * Aurum Castle
 * Light As Air Bakery
 * Song Bird (Music Store)
 * Aurum Post Office
 * Gilbert's Mansion

Episode Tidbits
Cloaks received from Colm


 * Norman D - Void Cloak
 * When you use your reaction, you can make a DC 16 dexterity saving throw and if successful, the cloak appears to be a piece of the distant night sky and any range attacks go into the cloak and disappears into the void. It can be activated separately as an action and can store things inside like a bag of holding but if the item is kept in their for more than an hour, the item will be lost to the void. It also can be activated so if a living creature that can fit in the cloak charges, they need to make a DC 15 dexterity saving or fall into the void. If they have fallen into the void, they will suffocate within a minute. Finally, the cloak can be spread wide and those who don't know better can be put into a frightened state if they can't beat Norman's spell save DC. The abilities charge after one day.
 * Dariun Branch - Bubble Cloak
 * This cloak will magically wrap around your body creating armour that gives you an AC of 18 plus your dexterity modifier for one minute. It can also do 'The Bubble' which makes an impenetrable bubble shield around himself and two others within 5 feet of him. When in The Bubble, they cannot get hit with any magical or physical attacks for one turn.
 * Zippy Westborough - Cloak of growth
 * It can do one of three things. Firstly it can make all nearby plants grow quickly. Secondly, it can heal people by making wounds heal faster. Thirdly it can make you grow, up to 25 feet tall lasting for one minute and it also works when he is in animal form. Only one of the three things can be used daily.