Shenanigans: Episode 055

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==Recap==
It is a quiet day in Shenanigans. Desmond is stressed. Desmond is planning a surprise party for his anniversary tomorrow. Desmond wants the party to collect an enchanted string of pink pears from a old friend of his, Brook Crookly who lives in a village called Visage in the Deepwood Swamp.
===Orc Ambush===
The party decide to sail down the river to get to the swamp from Bergshire. The ship sales man says the people in Visage wear masks. Arty convinces the party to make their own masks. The party end up buying a keelboat, with Arty, The Wrok, Maximilian, and Naina Thermon paying for it. Arty & The Wrok name the boat "The Fast Ass".
The party make good time on the boat, but at the confluence of the Berg River and Chester Creek, the party find someone has built a makeshift dam across the river with logs. 7 armed orcs step out and draw bows. The party drop anchor and stop the boat. The Orc Leader demands fairy dust. Maximilian creates an illusion of faries above the party as Zen webs one group of orcs. Jill sleeps more Orcs. As the Orcs get out 2 boats out to get over to the party, Arty sunscorches the leader. Zen sleeps all the Orcs in one of the boats and Maximilian colorsprays the other boat. Naina takes out the leader with a arrow.
The party tie up the sleeping orcs. The colorsprayed orcs wake up first. The Orcs appear to be withdrawal from fairy dust. The Orcs got addicted after taking some fairy dust from people in masks, so have been robbing travelers ever since. The Orcs threaten to kill the party. Zen starts to execute the orcs, but is stopped by Jill.
Zen and Maximilian loot the dead and find some fairy dust. The party clear the dam and the party keep going down river.
The party get to the Deepwood Swamp. The party park their boat and continue along a gravel road. Along the road Zen finds a nice replacement rock for The Wrok.
===Visage===
20–30 minutes later the party see a village in the middle of the swamp, Visage. Visage has low 5 foot walls with only a single entrance. There is a stone building that acts as the entry, and the stone archway reads:
:All those who enter must play their parts.
The party can see over the village walls. Visage appears to be all single story stone buildings, with the architecture being unusual, like fronds in a pond. In the centre of village is a 20 foot tall standing stone that has been carved into the visage of a great featureless face.
Jill runs off to be come La Sombra, the rest of the party head into the archway into the building. They are greeted by an androgynous person wearing a moth mask. The Greeter explains people are to put on certain masks, not just their own masks, and references the shelves full of frog, locust and bats.
: Pestilences all of them,
: The Frog is a guest ignorant of our culture, blurts out their rudeness.
: The Locust is a guest that seeks some profit from their stay.
: The Bat is an ill-omen guest. For whom? Who am I to say.
Arty & The Wrok take Frog masks. Maximilian & Naina takes Bat masks. Zen takes a Locust mask.
Outside, La Sombra climbs the wall and sneaks into the town, following the party from rooftop to rooftop. The Greeter gives the party a tour of the town. They are lead to a large stone building. Greeter says it is the Library of Parts, insisting the party play their parts. There are scrolls in wall cubbyholes, all labeled with different roles. The Greeter says in here the party will learn about their parts.
Arty and The Wrok, as Frogs, decide to just be annoying. The others aren't given exact instructions.
The party are then lead to the next building on the east side of town, a Temple. Inside is an ancient statue wearing a featureless mask, holding a jog that water pours into a pool. In the pool are coins. On the walls are the star patterns are hieroglyphics linked with the height of the swamp at each phase.
Arty wants to leave the tour and just look for Brook Crookly. The Wrok goes up towards the statue and people with Venus-flytraps masks attack him. The party join in the fight. The Greeter with the Moth Mask runs out of the building and calls out to the village that the party aren't playing their parts and must be killed.
La Sombra, still on the rooftops, see a group of 6 people wearing lion masks coming towards the temple the party are inside. La Sombra casts sleep and knocks one of the Lions Masks out. One Lion Mask heads towards La Sombra, the others go towards the temple.
Zen casts Detect Magic and sees the jug the statue is holding is magical. The Lions Masks come inside and attacks with claw weapons and combat breaks out with the party. The blood from the Lion Masks is a strange color. The Lion Mark after La Sombra finds they can't climb the building. La Sombra fires from the rooftop with his bow.
Inside the temple, The Wrok gets knocked out, but gets pulled to safety by Arty. The Lion Mask after La Sombra finally climbs up, but La Sombra simply jumps to another rooftop, using his Slow-Fall Ring, then dimension doors with his Dimension Door ring to get to the top of the main statue in town. Maximilian throws a Fireball, injuring 3 Lion Masks people, killing one. The party take down the other ones. Naina steals a Lion Mask off a dead one.
The Lion Mask on the roof top jumps off and calls for the Serpent Marks to deal with the spell casters. Naina kills the Lion Mask guy.
The party decide to just leave town, abandoning their quest. But on the way out of town Naina spots the pink pearls in an offering bowl in wooden building. The person, wearing a bird mask, is mediating by the bowl, and says a greater or equal offering has to be made to take the pearls. Naina tries to take the pearls, but is stopped with the bird masks's strength. Naina offers a ceremonial dagger and a bar of soap. The bird mask asks the secret to Naina's soul in exchange for the pearls. Naina reveals that she drinks to hide the pain. This is seen as acceptable, so Naina is allowed to take the pearls.
The party retreat out of town, dragging the unconscious Wrok.
The party take the boat all the way back to Bergshire. It is evening when they get back to Shenanigans. The party for Desmond & Lizzy Anniversary is underway. The party deliver the pearls to Desmond, then go rest in their rooms.
== Experience ==
970 exp each
* Maximilian levels up to level 4
** Max HP from 8 to 12 (+4)
* The Wrok levels up
** Max HP + 7
* Jill levels up her Fighter
** Max HP +2
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