This last session revolved largely around one particular PC: Wigfert the ink mage mousefolk.

Background:

He was separated from his parents long ago when they were trapped inside of a manga book while trying to perform a powerful and highly experimental spell, Wigfert had no one to look up to except his favorite heroes he grew to love as he searched manga after manga for his parents. In past adventures with two other strange outcasts (Rhialla, a sage Impisi and Theodrick jr., a wishy washy gangster owlfolk), they encountered the trapped remains of the titan of power who promised to help them if they released his soul from a prison of ink. The titan offered them a fraction of his power in the form of a ring, which Wigfert (in his personal quest to gain as much power as he can) promptly grabbed and accepted. Little did he know that the ring also contained part of the titan's soul, allowing it to talk to Wigfert, and try to offer him as much power as he wished if he just accepted the titan's pact. For weeks now, Wigfert has been resisting the power and temptation of the titan Kah' Lakhaan, until last session:

The three outcasts were following clues into a crypt that would lead to a legendary item that contains cosmic power: A feather from the Raven of the Night. The crypt was dark and musty, damp and full of what looked to be black mold. Before them lay a long hall made of stone, with three rooms on both sides leading up to a larger room they could see into at the far end. However, they unwittingly triggered a mechanism that barred the far room, taunting them with the mysterious tome on the other side that contained the clues to the feather. Shadows flashed across rooms in the corners of their eyes, but they couldn't catch a glimpse, and shrugged it off to find the way forward. The three of them found mysterious instructions through the cold, grimy stone walls that read: "The circle of life will open the path."

Suddenly, a small stone pillar rose from the ground up to waist height, on top of which lay small figurines carved to the images of beasts and monsters that lurk in dungeons. After some debate and one failed attempt, they successfully found the correct sequence: placing each of the six figurines in one of the side rooms in the order of the food chain triggered the bars to rise and open the way to the tome.

Entering the far room, they started towards the tome that magically floated over an altar, when the shadows reappeared. This time they stopped, and Wigfert saw that they took the form of his parents. Being drawn in by sheer curiosity and hope, he came closer to them and as he approached they reached out and pulled something distant in Wigfert's mind. Something terrible and horrid that he worked so hard to hide: His worst fears.

The shadows melded into one shape, slowly becoming solid and three dimensional as it took the shape of a small and heavily armored figure. As fast as lightning the shadow immediately reached out and grabbed Wigfert's manga that held his parents prison. Holding it up to show Wigfert, it silently shook its head at him and began to tear away at the paperback book, ink bleeding out of the small tear while it put the book in a hip pouch on its back and pulled out a long sword. The shadow got two slashes across his chest with the sharp shadowy blade, cutting clean through his armor both times. At this, Wigfert retaliated with the purest of rage by casting a wind rune under the shadow which launched it into the ceiling, and then casting a sheet of ink across to keep it there, he caused the ink to harden like steel. The other two joined in, casting light spells and hammering it in the helmet to wear it down slowly but surely. Ready to finish its purpose, the shadow suddenly flattened onto the ceiling and teleported back to the floor in the middle of the three of them and attempted a few swings at Theodrick, who was too fast with lighter armor and dodged the attack. Turning back to Wigfert the shadow pulled the book back out and threw it straight up into the air to slice it clean in half with its sword.

This was it. If he didn't act now then everything he worked and lived for would end right now.

Wigfert activates the ring and with such speed that even surpassed that of the shadow. He reached out and picked it up by the throat before it could swing, grabbing his bleeding book out of the air at the same time with the other hand. Alas, even with the titan's ring the shadow's strength still was stronger than him and, pulling his hand off its throat, it reached deep inside Wigfert's chest and began to pull at his heart.

Then he snapped.

In his struggle to live, and with the titan's influence now stronger in him than ever, he accepted the titan's pact with no other choice. Ink began to swirl around him from the floor as the titan's power fueled him on top of the power from the ring. Wigfert grabs the arm of the shadow and rips it out of his chest painlessly as the titan guarded his heart from further wounding and, reaching into the shadow's chest, began to shred it from the inside by summoning spikes of ink to project from his hands. The shadow fell to its knees, chest open and ready to accept combative defeat. But, as Wigfert readied himself to smash the shadow's head in with spikes on both hands, the shadow pulled its helmet off to look him in the eyes with Wigfert's face before he could stop himself. The shadow was himself.

The shadow slowly faded out of existence and the lightly damaged book fell to the floor, and with all of Wigfert's energy drained from the amount of power he had summoned he passed out.

Rhialla and Theodrick grabbed the tome, and found the clues inside. However Rhialla found something she had been looking for, for eons...