08. Festival of Lights (Part 8)

==Intro==
Thanks to Noel’s sister, the gang has new microphones. Sophia uses horrendously wrong adjectives to describe their new sound. Noel joins in but both Kaitlin and Kat hate it.
==Dungeon Crawl 2: Electric Boogaloo==
===Spider-Wolf===
The Guardians successfully reach the cave. The entrance leads to a very long tunnel with a set of large double doors at the end. Immediately, three sets of metal security doors slam down, drawn to the ground by magnetic force. Unfortunately, this means that Laika and her cool metal armour are also thrown to the ground.
However, from the floor Laika has a great vantage point to see the three hand prints on the ceiling of the cave. Corbin casts Spider-Climb on Laika as she struggles out of her armour and she climbs to the ceiling to check out them out. Using Divine Sense, Laika can tell that the Goddess has been here and touched them many times, but most recently something evil has been here.
Nothing results when Laika alone puts her hand on the print, but after several minutes of fumbling, she is able to carry both Corbin and Fran to the ceiling (with her totally shredded abs) and together they place their hands down. The security door opens and the Guardian’s successfully pass to the next room, with Laika grabbing her armour on the way.
===Death Star Trash Compactor===
The Guardians enter the next room just as the first security door slams shut. There is absolutely no light, but with her dark vision, Laika can see that the room is empty with only the second security door on the opposite side. Soon after entering the room, the Guardians hear a loud scraping noise, and the doors begin to move towards them.
Fran casts light on her shirt and Noel rolls a nat 20 on a perception check. Instantly she spots a shallow pit in the ground, large enough for three people and deep enough to avoid being crushed by the doors. After a few minutes of being sardined together, the two doors connect above the Guardians, revealing three hand prints marked on the underside of the doors.
The doors move away again, but Corbin positions Fran and Laika’s hands so they can easily touch them when the doors move back. When the prints are touched the second security door moves so that the guardians are able to move under it and into the next room.
===All Those Years Of Playing Sonic Were Useless To Me===
The next room is also fairly dark, but Fran’s disco shirt alleviates that issue. The second security door is still moving towards them, but is much slower this time. Easily seen in this room is the six-foot deep, 8-feet wide pit that spans from wall to wall filled with spikes. Behind the spikes is some floor and then the set of double doors that the Guardians first saw when they entered the cave. On the other side of the spike pit are three more hand prints.
Fran casts Tenser’s Floating Disk over the spikes to make the gap between the floors smaller and successfully jumps to the other side. She immediately falls into another spike pit because the floor was an illusion. She tells Laika and Corbin and then begins to cry. The second pit is only four feet across, so Fran enlarges a spike and uses it to leap to the other side, successfully reaching the double doors.
While Laika spider-climbs to the other side via the roof, Corbin hops on the Floating Disk and Fran brings it towards her. They all reach the set of double doors, but before going through Corbin casts Cure Wounds on Fran. The Guardians place their hands on the prints, and the doors open.
==The Root of Fran's Trust Issues==
The doors open to a stone staircase leading up and to the left. The staircase is very long and switches back twice before finally opening into a hallway lined with unlit torches. Although it looks seldom used, it seems that someone has recently come through. At the end of the hallway is a pile of white robes and a ladder leading to a trapdoor in the roof.
Fran investigates the robes and finds them originating from the deer clan. While looking at the veil, a necklace falls out of it. Fran recognises it as belonging to her mentor Alonia . Fran remembers that Alonia was buried in this necklace, and that in the weeks before she died she had become distant. Fran quietly sits on the ground.
Laika and Corbin sit next to her, and while Corbin gives her an unappreciated back-rub, Laika uses divine sense on the necklace. It has been touched by something evil. When she tells Fran this, Fran angrily snatches the necklace and makes her way up the ladder. She does not tell either Laika or Corbin how she knows the necklace.
==They Finally Find the Goddess==
When the Guardian’s emerge from the trapdoor, they find themselves in the temple’s basement pantry beneath the kitchens. The Guardian’s surmise that they have found a secret exit from the Temple. The fact that the greater animals didn’t know about this exit suggests that only the Goddess and her most personal attendants would be aware of it.
The Guardian’s are still anxious to find the Goddess, so Fran casts Locate Object on her wolf-claw necklace. Fran can tell that the Goddess is somewhere above them and pacing. On their way out the pantry they once again encounter Redroof , who tells them that the Goddess is in her room.
At this point it is night time, but the golem guards at the Goddess’ door still won’t let them through. The Guardian’s use the servants entrance to sneak in and find the Goddess’ asleep in bed with one of the Deer attendants sitting by her. Laika uses divine sense on the attendant and while she is neither celestial, fiend or undead, she has definitely somewhere on the evil spectrum.
Corbin sneaks into the room to pull the attendant’s veil off, but she tells them that she knows that they’re there. He pulls the veil off anyway, revealing Cecelia . Laika and Fran stop hiding and in the commotion the Goddess wakes up. She orders Cecelia to leave.
==A Message to Chantel==
Noel: Chantel, you did not get a new couch. And the consequence of that were very grave. The legs of you couch have fallen off and now you just have an 'L' shape in your house. Is it a couch? Is it a couch if it has no legs?Is it a couch?
Kaitlin: The legs fell off?
Noel: One of the legs fell off. They took off the other one. 
Kaitlin: I have not been there recently, Chantel. I am really disappointed. 
Kat: Chantel. The code word is: Sword to song. The sleeper agent is active. Go!
==Featured Characters==
===PCs===
*Fran
*Laika
*Corbin
===NPC's===
*Redroof Oakstreamer
*Cecelia
*The Goddess
*Alonia (Mentioned)
Category:Estra
Category:Arc 1: Festival of Lights
Category:Episodes