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Sun 1st Dec 2024 03:07

Session 63: The White Party- Oh hi Lyra!

by Asharene Shadowthorn

It is CorellonEmber the 6th 11:30pm.
 
We walk out to the back patio near the fountain, and the veiled lady is there waiting for us.
 
There are a total of 20 people including us that are waiting by the fountain.
 
A bunch of carriages arrive. As a group of dancers/entertainment get into one of the carriages Ash notices that the girl Lyza is dressed as one of them As Ash studies this and considers what to do, she disappears in a puff of smoke.
 
A moment later Lyra, from the other group has taken her place. Lyra is confused, and tells everyone that Mordenkainen tricke her and Ash and swapped their places.
 
While here, Lyra's red skin starts to form red, and her horns start to disappear. She also can no longer feel her hearts connection to Faenore.
 
We all end up getting into a carriage, shoving people out of the way quite rudely. We catch eachother up on what has been going on, and everyone reveals to Lyra that they are trying to find a shard, and that's why we're going to this party. Lyra brings out a magic map she has that show they are moving towards the shards.
 
We get into a debate about whether we are in Galvania or New Galvania because we found blue sage here. We figure out we are actually in New Galvania, but it's all the bat guano that causes the blue sage to grow here.
 
We arrive to the party. Lyra looks at the map and we can see that the shard is somewhere inside a huge mansion up on a hill. We meet a regal arrogant fellow named Vladamir Balam. Franz pretends his name is Vladamir Vessamir. Vladamir Balam did think that Franz looked like an Iceman, but Franz denies it.
 
Elias pretends to be Andromeda Hoccleve. Vladmir Balam is very excited to have a Hoccleve in the region.
 
We get into the dining hall and are served biscuits and gravy. Franz asks a server for "red wine" and they bring him a goblet of blood.
 
They bring out very rare steaks. Panfyr asks for hers to be cooked a little more. It's totally embarrassing.
 
Vladamir Balam starts tormenting a little dog, and Franz sends Fred to help, and Vladimir throws the little dog against the wall.
 
Joe heals the pup. We get into a verbal altercation with Vladamir and he starts to storm off from us dancers start to come out to entertain us.
 
One of the dancers nearly trips. It's Lyza...
 
An ornate box lowers from the ceiling. A girl touches it and falls down dead instantly. Vladamir laughs and brags that he's the only one who knows the command word. He grabs one of the dancers and teases her by grabbing her arm and pulling it towards the box.
 
At this moment- Lyza starts dancing on the table and grabs Elias to dance with her. He does a fancy trick with the chair and dancing while it balances on a single leg. This distracts Vladamir enough for the other dance to get away.
 
We learn that the first dance is Lyza's sister, and Lyza is trying to save her. She seems to be under some kind of trance. Joe tries to dispel the magic on her and it doesn't work.
 
Hydr, in an attempt to save the sister, grabs her and throws her over his shoulder and plans to take her away under devious pretense, However, this ends up triggering the whole party to move into another room. There is a giant pool of blood and most of the group with the party members get right in.
 
We learn the miners that we saved were supposed to be used to fill the blood pool.
 
As Vladamir announces that we will all be turned to vampires, Lyra walks over to Hydr, puts her hand on the sister and casts Dimension door. She teleports herself and the sister out 500 ft. Everyone at the party just assume the Magnuses teleported them away and nothing happens.
 
Vladamir grabs Lyza instead and Franz says "NO, She's mine!" and Vladamir challenges Franz for her. 2 iron coffins with a spike are brought out. It turns out to be a russian roulette game where the spike flies out and kills someone.
 
Franz convinces Vladamir to actually play the game himself rather than using a proxy. They play the game. While they are playing. Lyra runs back in while everyone is distracted, tells Lyza that her sister is in the 4th cart and to run. She casts invisibility on her. She falls into the pool of blood, but everyone is so distracted she is still able to escape.
 
Franz ends up winning, because Joe wills a reroll and it works, and Vladimir is destroyed by the spike.
 
Everyone cheers and starts drinking blood, but then someone groans that they are disappointed because now they can't look at the shard. It turns out the shard is in the death box and only Vladamir knew the password.
 
Panfyr gets herself killed trying to get the box down with a stick. Luckily, Elias is able to get to Lyra who casts revivify on Panfyr and saves her.
 
We try to just guess the password. Lyra communes with a spirit in this building, and communes with one who died to this box. She learns the password "pinky toe" and we are able to get the shard. Lyra puts the shard in her portable hole. We message everyone to meet us. Before Franz leaves, the Magnuses start mind controlling him and tell him to leave with his friends.
 
The Magnuses will provide further instructions.
 
We have no idea Franz is being mind controlled. He tries to lure us into Jezabel's bedroom and seems to have an excuse for everything. Elias detects that something is off about him.
 
Elias and Hydar try to light the blue sage, but find they cannot cast fire here. Lyra tricks Franz into dimension dooring out into the carriage area, and the Magnuses command him to kill Lyra. They start fighting and the other rush to get to them. Luckily they can tell that Franz is out of his mind.
 
As they approach, we see gargoyles start to fly down towards us. Lyra has Franz grappled in silence. Joe casts Greater Restoration and is able to snap Franz out of it and at that moment Hydr lights the incense.
 
A pinkish mist starts to come up from behind the walls and some gargoyles are heading towards us. This is where we end.
 
It's CorellonEmber 7th at 3am.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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  1. Session Zero Summer Camp years
  2. Session One: Shadows of Deception- There's demons in town
  3. Session Two: "Bread, Faeries, and Maleficarum: A Confectionary Conundrum"
  4. Session Three: Shadows of Enchantment: Confronting Demons, Trapped in the Fey Wild
  5. Session Four: Ensnared in the Fey's Embrace: A Scarlet Salvation Saga
  6. Session Five:
  7. Session Six: Missed this session
  8. Session Seven: A black dragon in disguise
  9. Session Eight: Tuning Fork of Unknown planes
  10. Session Nine: Welcome to the Abyss
  11. Session 10: Escape the Abyss
  12. Session Eleven: Games, rides, and fortunes at the faire
  13. Session Twelve: Fake Dwarves and Stolen Treasure
  14. Session Thirteen: A purple worm fight and a reunion with a dad
  15. Session Fourteen: A party, A fight and a funeral.
  16. Session Fifteen: Raising Zariel, Saving Andromeda, and making Dermish the ruler of the 9 hells
  17. Session 16: Crossover Aftermath. A fight against Demons
  18. Session 17: Bael's Gate- the 15th of Azuthair
  19. SEssion 18: The Big Cheese and the Way of the Cheese
  20. Session 19: We're making this shit up as we go.
  21. Session 20: And She was Seven
  22. Session 21: I think we have to kill my Aunt.
  23. Session 22: All roads lead to Eldoria
  24. Session 23: A heist given away, and lots of fire.
  25. Session 24: The fall of the house of Harcleave.
  26. Session 25: So many quests. So little time
  27. Session 26: The Living Flame
  28. Session 27: The Living Flame
  29. Session 28: So many things to do and a new place to live I guess
  30. Session 29: The magic school hidden in the Shadowplane
  31. Session 30: Curse of Slaad
  32. Session 31: The Good the Bad and the Oblivious
  33. Session 32: A Harcleve Family Reunion
  34. Session 33: Will the Real Aria Silvermist Please standup
  35. Session 34: Sisterhood of the Traveling Sword
  36. Session 35: Storming the castle of Loadagraph
  37. Session 36: We defeat Loadagraph and have a reunion with Morpheus
  38. Session 37: One Flou Flou over the Dragon's Nest
  39. Session 38: New friends and Floof Hoof reunites with Lukai
  40. Session 39: Murdering Orcs and getting ready for the adventures ahead
  41. Session 40: The Ambushers become the Ambushees
  42. Session 41:
  43. Session 42: Wizards, Lizards and kids in cages! Oh My!
  44. Session 43: Thunderstrike at Crow's Crossing
  45. Session 44: Travel to Pontimunde
  46. Session 45: Adventures in Pontimunde
  47. Session 46: A Reefining: A Who Dun it on the Voyage to New Galvania.
  48. Session 47: See Hunter for notes
  49. Session 48: On our way to Lupine
  50. Session 49: Wolves, Owlbears and Rocs OH MY!
  51. Session 50: Mansions, Rifts of Insanity, and Treasure Chests Oh MY!
  52. Session 51: Adventures in Anastas Village
  53. Session 52: The Magnuses attack the village because of us
  54. Session 53: An ooze named Denise- Meeting the werewolves
  55. Session 54: In which we perfectly impersonate the Magnuses
  56. Session 55:Motes of Shadow
  57. Session 56: Hydyr kills his brother and we meet Mordenkainen
  58. Session 57: A trip to the hells and seeing our old friend Dermish
  59. Session 58: Randi missed
  60. Session 59: Court Dates and Demon Princes
  61. Session 60: Gold returned, saving the Miners and Elois mom, Arud. .
  62. Session 61: Three Brides, an Elephant and a Death.
  63. Session 62: The Red Party Heist
  64. Session 63: The White Party- Oh hi Lyra!
  65. Session 64: Off to the Pyramid- Oh hi Ash!
  66. Session 65: Pyramids, Puzzles and snakes
  67. Session 66: An out of this world fight with Neo the Lid.
  68. Session 67: We defeat the Magnuses
  69. Session 68: Saving the werewolves from the mindflayers
  70. Session 69: Just a tiny group in a regular sized world
  71. Session 70: Randi Missed
  72. Session 71:
  73. Session 72: Fighting fucking moon dragons
  74. Session 73: A fight with Zozth
  75. Session 74: Zozth Fight part 2
  76. Session 75: Is that a sex thing?
  77. Session 77: Terry! Noooooooo!
  78. Session 78: Adventures in a new world???
  79. Session 79: There never was a Hilda and a Helga
  80. Session 80: Actually there WAS a Hilda and a Helga
  81. Session 81: Into the Underdark

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