Dmitri, Mercurian of Creation in Service to Wind: PC.
Gerar, Malakite of the Sword: PC.
Heliotrope, Lilim of Technology: Negotiator on Vapula's payroll.
Jamin, Seraph of the Wind: Newly Redeemed Balseraph of Death
Tiglath-Pilesen, Lilim of Nightmares: the cute one.
Tirshatha, Balseraph of Nightmares: the snake with the metal arm.
Tryphosa, Cherub of the Sword: Seneschal.
Unnamed Others.
Dmitri: a dashing, stylish Mercurian with Eli's Malakite Attunement and an
invulnerable umbrella.
Gerar: a fairly straightforward Malakite sworn to give challenge before
making an attack and never to lie for his own sake only.
Jamie: the goofy sidekick, a rollerblading Seraph whose preferred weapon is
the quarterstaff. It's a good thing he Redeemed, because he would never
have made it in Hell.
For the duration of this event, the hotel is surrounded by a ward which prevents those inside from assuming celestial form. This information was distributed to the PCs in Laurence's briefing.
Tryphosa explains to the PCs that they must still accomplish their mission. Laurence has determined the best way to go about this: the PCs must be disguised, so that the guards do not throw them out again immediately or have them arrested.
Fortunately, two Nightmares Servitors known to do "odd jobs" for Beleth have recently been sighted in town, and Beleth has reasons to object to at least one part of Heliotrope's affair: the Controlled Dreaming Chamber, which helps mundanes dream in a lucid manner. Since the Servitor of Nightmares who was guarding the affair is now in the hospital, and will be quietly terminated by angels, it is reasonable to think that these Servitors - Tiglath-Pilesen and Tirshatha - might attempt to interfere with the Pageant. The PCs, therefore, will be disguised as these two demons, and any trouble they cause will stir up strife between Beleth and Vapula.
Dmitri is reshaped into the Lilim by a Kyriotate with the Celestial Song of Form; Gerar is reshaped likewise into Tirshatha, and outfitted with a close approximation to the grenade launcher Tirshatha has for an arm. He is cautioned not to clench his fist unless he means it!
The PCs perform minor acts of sabotage, ruining another Blind Spot cloak and taking apart the "Silence Box" - a relic that, when switched on, emits a cloaking field of silence. (Unfortunately, the Silence Box, being a real relic, has nothing inside it to damage. It's just a black box with a switch bolted to the top.)
It does not take the PCs long to discover that Tiglath-Pilesen and Tirshatha really are at the event, and really do have plans to sabotage it - bombs have been placed inside the hotel, and the security force appears to be Soldiers of Nightmares. The PCs each encounter a demon who mistakes them for the demon's partner, and the PCs locate the demonic base in the ground floor ladies' room. Dmitri lets out his inner Lilim and terrifies one of the Soldiers into babbling about the general plan.
Dmitri comes up with a clever plan - notifying the police about the bombs, and giving them all the information the PCs have. Unfortunately, when the police storm the ladies' room, the Balseraph makes his resonance roll, and the police go away thoroughly convinced that the whole thing was a sham - an attempt to defame the upstanding citizen Tirshatha. When the resonance wears off, this has already been reported, and the police officers don't correct their story. Therefore, the police stop taking Dmitri's calls, even when he demands hundreds of thousands of Twinkies or he will blow up the building.
The PCs then decide that the proper way to get the Nightmares demons into trouble is to prove that there are bombs around, so they fire a grenade into a fourth-floor window, run a few blocks, and then steal a car to get back to the Laurentine Tether.
Tiglath-Pilesen and Tirshatha are forced by the PCs' actions to move precipitously, taking the hotel hostage by force of arms - a grenade launcher is scary - and by virtue of the remote-controlled bombs scattered through the hotel. They then use one of the devices Heliotrope was demonstrating, a pedal-powered flight machine, to lower the Controlled Dreaming Chamber to the first floor, manhandle it outside, and take it down to Hell with them. Only about five or six humans, total, die.