PS: I was late because it was my birthday today. Sorry.
PS2: Three updates tomorrow. The first will go up just after midnight.
Aaron had originally thought Abaddon would join forces with Be'lakor. He had never considered that Abaddon would actually fight Be'lakor to the death. Lolth's refusal to play with men had been ruthlessly effective. Be'lakor did not mind becoming a woman, but Abaddon snapped. The Chaos Warmaster would die before submitting.
That was precisely what made Aaron adjust his plans.
As everyone knew, advancing to a greater deity required Lolth to split herself into eight, then reunite those eight as one.
Something had gone wrong with the avatar devouring Be'lakor, and Aaron and the others were closing in. Lolth had no choice but to activate her final hidden reserve-Selvetarm, the god of Drow warriors. She personally killed her own grandson to fill the vacancy left by the loss of one widow spider.
Then, with Aaron rapidly approaching, the ascension ritual had to begin immediately.
Which raised a question: Lolth had arranged for a whole collection of Chosen, but whose power had she reclaimed at that moment?
With Be'lakor out of the picture, there was only Minthara.
This was another step in Aaron's saturation rescue operation-Minthara was a transformed Greater Daemon of Tzeentch. The real Drow Paladin had already been swapped out on the way into the Weave Pits.
At last, amid Aaron's countless interlocking traps, Lolth's ritual to ascend to a greater deity failed completely.
Not only had she lost this chance to become a greater deity, she might have lost the possibility forever. As the bird head of the Greater Daemon of Tzeentch swung back and forth in her split face, a cataclysmic upheaval engulfed Lolth's entire sanctuary.
Throughout the sanctuary in the Phlogiston Sea, every spider