House of Planes & Onward

We continued to the next room. It radiated cold & was called the "Abyss". When Callum asked what the gimmick of this room was the bartender told him that the "challenge" of this room was to drink from the "plague" chalice. He asked what was in the chalice. At this point another patron poured his drink into the chalice and said "whatever is poured into it"! Callum accepted the challenge, stepping up to take a drink. He immediately turned and vomited in the corner. Elisan tried next. Though he was able to hold it down, he could not keep the disgust off his face. Jensen tried next with a similar result. Elisan then tried again, this time passing the test easily! The patron in this room turned out to be a drunken Elven thief. He told us of his experience being taken from his bed by Derro, taken to the Under City and experimented on and then returned to his bed. He also told us that he had tried to rob the Dreaming Palace. However, he was driven off by 2 statues that animated when he entered.
We then moved to the next room, the Abyss. Callum spoke with a Gnomish lady there, finding that she was the patron. We recognized her as the proprietor of several sex-worker shops, Molly Crimson. She asked him to retrieve a bottle of liquor for her from one of the cases around the room. He reached in and seemingly without effort he avoided the worms that attempted to burrow into his arm. He handed her the bottle with a flourish. Callum then asked her about the missing people, giving details of a few. She told us that several of her employees are missing as well. She felt that these disappearances might be because of an illness that has been covered up by the Grand Council to avoid bad press during the festival. She told us to drop her name with the other patrons if we thought it might help.
We then headed to "Hell" to speak with Jeremin Hoff. This room was drenched in bloody light from red lanterns. Elaborate torture devices stood at the ready around the room. Jensen approached the bartender. When asked what the specialty of the room was he explained that it was something called "Butterfly Boots". Apparently, one's bare feet were locked into a device and a board was released to slap hard against your feet. Jensen went ahead and shrugged it off. Elisan followed and was similarly non-plussed. Callum declined and Kasper did not come in the room. We then went to speak to Jeremin Hoff. He did not have much more info to give us. However, he did say that he had sent the Tien who wanted better accommodations to the Dreaming Palace.
We found a quiet spot and spoke about our next plan of action. We decided to ask around about the missing "Grave Raker". We returned to Elysium to ask the "procured goods" merchant about the missing piece of equipment. The dwarf there had no knowledge of where this item might be nor who had taken it. He was mighty impressed with the theft though! We then decided to take our leave out through the front door, or up the stairs more specifically. It turned out into another bar named Mulligan's. We decided to head for headquarters. It was late when we got back, so we slept a little late before gathering again. We then headed to give our report to Sgt. Ollo. After Kasper and Elisan got done complaining about the House of Planes we gave our report. We told him that we had more than a few leads that all led to the Dreaming Palace. He gave us a few of the items we had confiscated along with some gold, as noone had come forward to claim them.
We then headed for the Dreaming Palace. Entering, we told the front desk clerk that we were there to investigate the place in search of missing people. We recognized the Half-Orc woman at the desk from our 1st day on the job. She begrudgingly agreed to "give us a tour". Soon we met an elderly Halfling woman. She seemed nice. She continued on her way while we continued to search with Rolsa. After searching a few rooms we came to some guest rooms. She insisted we move elsewhere to search. We insisted we were gonna search these rooms. She left us to do so. In the 1st room we found a pit trap with an Ochre Jelly in it. We left that there and went to find Rolsa to speak with her about this development. However, she was nowhere to be found. We decided to continue searching the wing we had started with. After a few more rooms we found a chest that sprang to life and attacked us! Jensen was quickly on the ropes. Kasper did some excellent healing before it turned and quickly then had Elisan on the ropes! Soon though we turned the tide. The creature called for parley. We stopped and found out it had been captured by a Dwarf and woke up here. It had been eating people that entered the room since. When asked its name it said it was called Table. We decided to arrest it. For the moment we locked it up in the room we found it in. We then had an academic discussion about ways in which to get rid of bodies using Mimics, Grey Oozes & Ochre Jellies. We then turned toward the last room in the hallway. In this room Jensen detected a magical blade trap. He stopped everyone from entering the room. We closed and locked the door, leaving a note on it warning of the danger inside. Then we decided to have Kasper and Callum go back to report and arrange transport for the Mimic back to jail, while Jensen and Elisan stayed at the Dreaming Palace. Kasper and Callum gave their report and headed back. Sgt. Ollo said that we should have guests at the Inn shelter in their rooms where it was safe to do so until the watch could do a full investigation. They returned to the Dreaming Palace. Once there the group started the process of going room to room, telling those they found to shelter in their rooms until the city watch came to take them out. We found several more magically trapped rooms. Some we could get in to disable the traps, others we had to close and leave warning signs on. In one room we found a magical recording rod. Kasper identified it & we chose to play back the most recent recording. In it a Barbazu, a bearded Devil, proceeded to slash a Halfling man and a Human woman to pieces with it's Glaive.
After clearing the 1st floor we headed upstairs. We soon missed a trap, setting it off from inside the room. We were surprised when the door flew shut and gas started pouring into the room. After very much healing and working together we managed to block the vents and stop the gas from killing us. Once we got the door open we all went outside for some much needed fresh air!