Session 50: Mansions, Rifts of Insanity, and Treasure Chests Oh MY!

I got here late for this session.
 
I picked up on a conversation between Elias speaking in a weird voice, Franz, and another person about a box and what might be in the box. Franz tries to open the box even though the guy is like, you're don't want to know what's in there, and you can't open it anyway. You'll never figure it out.
 
However, Franz figures out there are runes that have to be hit in a certain order to open the box.
 
He gets scolded for touching the box.
 
Somebody wanted cough syrup, or sleep elixir...or something that tasted good? I guess Elrich wants this? I don't know what's going on.
 
Elias tricks this guy to try and knock him out. It's not enough so Franz helps with magic missile. But it doesn't work. The rest of us, hiding behind a corner, hear all of this commotion. this guy goes to open the box, and it cannot be stopped.
 
I guess this is the HOuse Wizard of Elrich who lives on the grounds. We think this is a good guy for Franz to disguise himself as.
 
As the box opens tentacles come out of it and start to engulf the room. A fight breaks out and the guy we are fighting gets knocked out. BUT the tentacles start to try and pull him into the box.
 
At some point, Franz casts Thunderwave, cutting off all the tentacles.....This alerts all of the guards here. They approach and are like, WTF?
 
3 of the guards are like, Go find Elrich and get him off prem. Franz is like " it's ok...the box went off" it's ok. He says this while looking like the mage that was here before?
 
I honestly don't know what is going on.
 
Franz is like, "Elrich asked me to make a sleep potion. and then tentacles popped out of the box" and Franz is liek, dude, it was an accident and my bad, but it's all fixable. chill out man."
 
Franz is like "I'll get this cleaned up. Stop worrying" Franz convinces the guards to leave site because it's very dangerous, and they all leave.
 
OHHHH!!! Elias was pretending to be a guard the whole time. that's what the weird voice from before was from.
 
Anyway, Franz convinces all the guards to leave...What in the world is even happening? I don't even know.
 
Elias has burn marks from being captured by the tentacles. We debate about whether to destroy the chest in a bag of devouring or not.
 
We take some tentacle samples. We debate to let Franz keep the tentacle box.
 
The mage is tied up, and then he wakes up and as we question him, he looks at the tentacle burn marks on his body and demands the ption that is in his pocket.
 
Elias gets the potion and asks what it does. The mage is like, I"m totally fucked if I don't get that potion.
 
We learn it suppresses the effects of the tentacle burns.
 
We find a hidden diary in his desk. We learn this mage has been having terrible nightmares/dreams about some kind of god that supposedly lives under the sea very close by. There are some fish people that worship this god called the KoaToa. He's been working with them, and they gave him this tentacle box along with the potion.
 
The wizard's name is Kniden Haribo.
 
After an argument, Franz puts the box in the bag of devouring. Ash told them it would be fine, because we could retreive the bag within 24 hours. She was soooo wrong about this.
 
turns out that a portal get open to the astral plane and the tentacle portal ??? Actually it never made it to the bag of dvouring....it was put in the stocking of holding first, and this is what Franz sees...the astral plane, tentacles, cookies and milk....What...the...Actual...Fuck.....Someone....anyone.....help us....
 
Franz is most devastated about his spyglass, which was lost to whatever the hell is going on in his stocking. Actually, it's starting to suck us all in. It's turning into this crazy portal rift or something. This rift is stuck here the whole time....what is going to happen? Is it going to slowly suck the world into it? We don't know. We pretend everything is fine and decide to loot the house....because that is what matters most...ya know?
 
Ash decides to stay back though and study the rift.
 
As the others investigate, they find treasures and traps and all sorts of things. there is a Ledger showing that money and people were being given to Elrich. The Magnus's are getting a cut of everything Elrich has been taken.
 
Elias's arm start to itch, and he realizes there are teeny tiny tentacles starting to come out of his pores.
 
Meanwhile- Ashe is examining the portal- She draws pictures and notes as best she can. She determines that someting is staring at her. HIs name is John, and he is ancient. This portal spand dimensions,but it also doesn't. It's both convex and concave? It's infinite and not infinite at the same time. She needs to close the portal to save her friends, but in order to do that she needs to close herself? She is most worried about her friends more than anything, so she starts to give into the madness and try to close herself.
 
Meanwhile....the gang continues to loot this mansion. While looting, they hear Ash make a terrible scream. They run out to find her. She is in a state that thinks she's got to turn into light and turn her friends into light. Elias pushes her away. her light transfers to him or something???
 
After some confusion, Panfyr is able to rope Ash around the legs and pulls her away from the rift. Meanwhile Elias is like "how are these tentacles gonna react to this portal?' and he gets ever so slightly close to it. Now all of a sudden he is in a mental battle between himself and the shadow tentacles in his arm. Elias is able to gain control of the tentacles. When he attacks he can now do a free thornwhip with his tentacles everytime he attacks.
 
Joe starts to dispel the magic to try and close the rift. They hear a voice in their head asking if they realize what they have done....Joe sees an orange being sliced into a bunch of pieces, and then the slices going back down into it? somehow? it has a magical aura (representing the dispel magic spell) Joe completes the spell. But Joe realizes that by doing this, because the portal was Joe all along, they have dispelled their own magic. and are now not magical? Joe closes themself? now they ARE the portal? Now JOe has to expand....I don't actually know....
 
Joe runs away and loses all memory of what just happen. Joe discovers that they actually still have their magic.
 
However Joe now feels they can open a 5th dimension being of themselves. Joe runs outside and tries to connect to the daylight spell they sent in through the portal. They actually start to turn to pure light.
 
Ash, now back to her senses, runs out and tries to hug her and sing to her to bring her back. Franz tries to thunderwave them to bring Joe back. This knocks Ash away, but Joe is already light, so they remain.
 
Joe ultimately decides to stay in their mortal form. They are able to pull themself back to this reality. Joe is very depressed, but we didn't lose them.
 
Everyone at this point is like, "fuck this rift" and we're like we'll just write on the door not to enter this room.
 
We go back to searching for diamonds in the house. Ash is able to cheer Joe up a bit and get them back to a state that isn't depression.
 
While studying a picture frame in one of the rooms with 3 chests, Elias notices the style of it. It is related to Glasya. It says "choose wisely" and there are 3 chests on the floor. Panfyr solves that there are 3 words. Efreeti, Succubus, and Doom. Does this represent each of the chests. Elias pulls this painting down and finds a second painting behind it showing a picture from the Goonies with a pirate ship and gold and skeletons.
 
 
I think we settle on Silver.....NO it's bronze....Either way we all clear the room. ok...it's bronze...it's decided.
 
Elias opens the bronze chest with mage hand. There is a bright red light that shows for a moment, but that's it. We see nothing from outside the room.
Elias sends a raven into the room and it disappears. Elias thinks it could have been sucked into the chest.
 
Panfyr sends in Mayhem to open the silver one, and we see a flash of pink.
 
We then decide to maybe not open any chests??? Even though we opened 2 chests? but don't know what they were.
 
Franz then has Fred check the Gold chest, so that's what we do. a black smoke billows out, floods the ground. Fred sinks into it. It starts going around the corners
 
Ash and Elias are consumed by the black smoke while everyone else is able to resist it.
 
This lowers their maximum HP by 8.
 
We run out. Hydr burns down the house....Franz realizes we missed a room, so he's like I gotta go get that missed chess. He goes back in. and now he has -7 HP maximum missed.
 
He gets to the hidden room and finds a pit of treasure in the bottom of it. 5 ft down.
 
To bad the building is on fire and filling with doom smoke....
 
We find 3 diamonds worth 300gp each and a shit pile of gold. they scoop up a bunch but at a cost of health. It's wild.
 
The whole area starts to plume out into a black smoke. This is where we end.
 
Need to sort out loot. (see notes below)
 
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