Season 3: Session 5: The Fun House Report

General Summary

Date: The Month of Intuition 6th, 997 AC (Tuesday).   Potion Resolved: 74 hours after drinking a potion from Ellion, Cecil gets the feeling that he can ask any diety a yes or no question. He does, and recieves a truthful response.   In the Month of Intuition, Mary Woo has been offering additional classes for anyone to attend. Currently she has offered:  

Cooking with Sam Cook.

First Aid with Doctor Wendell. Attended by Grandad.

Basic Magic with Darcy Williams. Attended by Thia.

Public Speaking with Mayor Willow. Attended by Cecil and Kobble.

  At sundown the party, along with other adventurers and townsfolk, goes to the Town Square to await Ellisar.   Those Present:   -The red cloaked halfings, Luna and Ricky Guntsman   -Naomi Troy  

The blue tiefling, Liberty

A human fighter

Mary Woo

The crow Kenku, Mimzy

Missy Clark

The Satyr, Rissy

An orc

And all of you (of course) + Doby

Ellisar approaches the group and informs them the next puzzle is a series of challenges. The first is to get to the venue, the Abandoned Mansion. Cecil and Thia start running as he quickly explains that the first person to touch the front door will get an advantage.   Thia teleports Cecil closer to the door while Kobble tries to trip some other competitors.   Cecil arrives second, Mimzy stands at the door tapping against a magical barrier.   Ellion is standing nearby watching the door. Kobble talks to them and finds out that they put up the barrier.   The party travels around the building to the kitchen doors. Kobble uses wild magic to try to open the door, causing his diety to take over his body and blast open the door. Thia with the others, has Mimzy picklock the door and run after Kobble.   Thia teleports Cecil again and he successfully touches the door first. His reward is the abilty to ask Ellisar one question during the events inside the home.   Everyone is tasked to find an item that is meant for them, hidden on the 3rd floor of the house.   Inside the mansion, the first task is to match symbols to 10 spiral staircases in order ot reveal the true ones to the 2nd floor. Kobble finds a spell in the study. Cecil gives the last symbol to Mimzy and the true stairs reveal themselves, and everyone rushes up.   On the second floor everyone sees the open doors at the other end of the hallway leading to the third floor. Thia walks down the hallway first and the doors turn into a wall. She takes a step back and the wall starts to move back with her.   Every step back causes the wall to get closer. Luna and Ricky panic and run away; fail. Thia causes the wall to move far enough away that Cecil and Grandad, who went into rooms, were able to exit on the other side of the wall. Thia sees Mimzy walking backwards and she passes through the wall. The others follow suit.   In the staircase room leading to the third floor, the doors shut behind everyone. The walls are covered in mirrors. All of their reflections awaken and walk away.   When Missy tries to go up her reflection comes down and blocks her. When the human fighter goes up, he gets in a boxing match and knocks himself out; fail. Liberty teleports around it, and Thia teleports Cecil up the stairs. When Mary goes up to the reflection, she says after you, and the reflection walks past her allowing her access. The others follow suit.   The doors to the third floor are blocked by a stone golem with a carved key in his chest. A plaque is stuck to the wall with an adamantine spear, and the plaque says "Sometimes Violence is the Answer".   Cecil commands Liberty to leave and she does; fail.   When Thia and Grandad work together to get the spear, Grandad bumps the golem and awakens it. Thia gets hit and drops grandad. Missy tries to help, but fails. Mary uses magic to open the doors behind the golem to try and open an escape route.   Grandad tosses the spear to Cecil and he uses it to pierce the key carving in the center of the golem. It breaks open revealing a ring of 14 keys, and the golem powers down.   The hallway on the 3rd floor has 14 doors. Ellion stands at the end of the hallway.   Kobble distributes the keys around and everyone tries to find the doors that their items are hidden in.   The Rooms:  

Cecil asks Ellisar which room is his; fifth door on the right. Cecil and Thia enter his room. It's a ballroom, full of tieflings and dragonborns in formal attire. They stare at them as outsiders due to their dress and appearance. Cecil makeshifts an outfit from a coat, a servants shoes, and another servants pants. Thia is given a cloak and the two of them return to the ballroom and dance. No one looks at them and the illusion disappears. All that is left is his item; a gold signet ring with a sigil that is not from Vibrum.

Kobble sees and Mimzy plunges into a pitch black room.

Kobble sees as the orc pushes a stone into his room.

Kobble opens his door and a thick mist comes out of it. When Grandad moves away and find his door, the mist turns into a sandstorm. Waves of heat come out of the room. He steps in, closing the door behind him. The room is a desert. A rock falls from the sky and when he touches it he hears "don’t, don’t do this, give me a second honey". He uses mage hand to pick up the rock. The image of his father stands before him, it doesn't speak for a long time then it says "I know you'll be okay". Kobble hugs the image and discovers that it is over a pedastel with a glass casing on top. He removes the casing and touches the item inside and the illusion drops. He has his item, a golden rock.

Grandad hears a bell chime and is led to his room. He opens it and sees a single copper bell on a pedestal. He hits the bell and it falls off the pedestal, thousands of bells burst out and start to fill the room. He uses the help of a snake familar to locate his bell and when he touches it, the room empties. The bell turns to gold in his hand; it is his item.

Thia's room is found by Rissy. She gives her the key and walks off to her own room. When Thia opens the door she see's Ellisar sitting inside; he is not an illusion. He touches the scar on his neck and tells Thia of how his parent's tried to rip out his vocal cords when they found out what he was. He asks her if her parents cut out her tongue. He offers her a potion, from Ellion, that will regrow her tongue. She takes it, but doesn't drink it. He isn't sure if he should fail her or not, so she smashes the bottle. He then produces a golden vial; it is her item.

After finishing their rooms, each person is teleported outside. Luna and Ricky are sitting with the dazed human fighter. Liberty stands a bit away, pouting. When Rissy appears, she's crying, not golding an item; fail.   Ellisar groups everyone together and thanks Ellion for their assistance. Then he goes on to discuss the details of his quest.   He is needing to reclaim an item that was wrongfully hidden away in the capitol of Kilstrom. He is offering 10 platimun in advance for any expenses, and is offering 5,000 platimun to who brings him back the item. He holds out a pouch of coins and a wax sealed paper with instructions.   Mimzy takes a bag and paper quickly.   Missy goes up and whispers something to Ellisar; he replies and she walks away without taking an item.   Naomi holds her hands and her eyes roll back. When she refocuses, she walks away without taking an item.   The orc comes up and takes the coin bag and paper.   Mary Woo thanks Ellisar for the experience, but does not take a paper or coin bag.   Grandad takes a paper and bag, followed by a reluctant Kobble. Thia and Cecil consider their options, and take a paper and bag as well.   To end the evening with a bang, Grandad drinks two potions. One burns off his eyebrows, the other has him blurt out his deepest darkest secret~   TO BE CONTINUED...