Session 6: The Circus is in Town
- After running a few errands for Dominion, the party gets an urgent message from Mithrenniel over their comms.
- Mithrenniel quickly informs the party that there is danger in Belrynna, that all personel needs to return to castle Ashton, and that a battle strategy will be made with everyone present.
- During the war room meeting, the deranged jester, Knowbody was laying in disguise, waiting for the opportune moment to strike.
- Finally, he goes on the offensive, and a skirmish inside the war room explodes.
- The party is ultimately able to take Knowbody down, but alas, this one was a fake; just an illusion of the real jester.
- Knowbody's voice is heard all throughout the war room: "No, no , no, if you want to stop me, intrepid heroes, you'll have to finish my story."
- A red and black miasma fills the room, and the party members are split and teleported to their own place to try and investigate the bigger picture.
- Sunder, Brezik, Squeak, and Thumper are taken to a pocket reality where Knowbody's history is retold in a backdrop of childlike symbolism.
- Ash, Pon-Pon, Orox, and Kaya are taken deep into Lumberton, where the Revelia (Knowbody's dimension) has tainted the land and inhabitants.
Sunder, Brezik, Squeak, and Thumper
- This team awakens outside a colorful house on a bright sunny day. The whole atmosphere exudes childlike glee. The front door opens up, and a man in a red and purple sweater, exclaiming "Welcome to Mr. Know-It-All's Friendly Fun House!"
- The team plays along and follows the storyline being played out in front of them like a children's show, and quickly dichper the symbolism at play. This is not Knowbody, this is a retelling of Knowbody based on his own perception.
- As the story goes, Mr. Know-It-All (Knowbody) is visited by the Friends of the EverYear (Fey) who disrupts his house and takes everything from him (takes Knowbody from everything he knew and loved). He is then visited by the rooster Iggy (Tasha), who invites Know-It-All (Knowbody) to stay in her cul-de-sac (her domain of Prismeer). During this time, he is visited by a boy named Helpie (the heroes of Typhon's Heresy) who acts blindly, swinging his bat around wherever he deemed appropriate.
- After an event that is not retold in the story, Iggy (Tasha) tells Know-It-All (Knowbody) that he can no longer stay in the cul-de-sac (Prismeer), and will once again be banished (literal in this sense; he is to be exiled, roaming around the Feywild aimlessly).
- Some time passes, and Know-It-All is visited by a goatman named Korey (the Demonlord of Hedonism, Koros) who offers Know-It-All a deal: visit the Nexus of Spring, and drop a bit of Koros' essence into it, and Koros would give Know-It-All a home and power.
- Know-It-All instead sends Korey to the Naughty Corner (betrays and kills him), and instead the story ends with Know-It-All fully surrendering himself to the madness inside him.
- Though the fate of the Nexus of Spring is not explicitly retold in the story, we are left to assume with context clues that Knowbody found a way to taint its power on his own.
Ash, Pon-Pon, Orox, and Kaya
- On the flip-side, this team had boots on the ground at Lumberton. They awake trapped in a dungeon puzzle, aimed to teach them the importance of knowing each other's history. Why? This team has yet to discover.
- Upon escaping the dungeon, they emerge into a twisted version of Lumberton, filled with citizens that have gone through the schnozification which turned them into clowns, freeing them from any fey influence that Knowbody claimed the High Throne had on them.
- The team also meets fey creatures that seem to be made of food elements. Why would there be fey creatures on the same side as the Revelia when Knowbody claims to hate all fey? This team has yet to discover.
- The team kills the clowned citizens and the fey, and marches forward to the High Throne.
- On the way back to the High Throne, they find the rest of the party having been transported back into the Material Plane from their pocket dimension.
- The party is then reunited.
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