Unkani Underbelly

## Premise

The town of Kammio hires a group of adventurers to explore the Unkani Valley tunnels under their new event hall.

## Cast

* Zen (DM)
* Lucy Armstrong (Angel)
* Katsu Aohama (xtrat3rrestrial/Doc)
* Axis Diametra (maybeher0)
* Tessura (Cydragon)
* Poko (Terucat)

## Notable NPCs

* Reese (the volunteer event manager from Masked Mayhem)
* Unnamed Kammio city council member

## Plot Summary

The five player characters meet up outside of Kammio's event hall and introduce themselves. Katsu and Axis think Poko, a child, shouldn't be coming along on this mission, but Lucy thinks it's fine and Tessura isn't sure what's acceptable for children. A member of Kammio's town council and Reese from Masked Mayhem arrive, and the council member explains the situation: on Halloween, the wild magic of the Unkani Valley transformed partygoers into their costumes, and the building has been shut down since. A group of three council members were sent into the tunnels to assess the situation, but never returned, so now the city has decided to hire adventurers to assess the tunnels and find the missing council members.

Reese lets the group into the locked event hall and the party goes down the stairs to the Unkani tunnels. They find that the tunnels have shifted since Poko and Lucy were last down here, and Poko is the only one to roll a decent Perception to tell that the left path has ambient magic building in the air and the right path has flickering torches. The group goes down the path with torches based on a coin Lucy flips. Poko bestows the Tale of the Beloved Friend on Katsu by telling xem about how she used to go everywhere with her Realkind friend. Axis and Tessura fail a Charisma saving throw as they enter the hallway, resulting in their framerates becoming choppy, which gives them a disadvantage on Dex checks.

The group find that the tunnel is full of honeycomb and Minecraft-style bees, and with a nat 20 Perception, Axis notices black goo oozing down the walls. Poko is delighted by the bees, but Axis is terrified of them. Katsu uses Speak with Animals to ask a bee if they can walk down the hallway and the bee says they'll be allowed to pass as long as they don't disturb the honeycomb, and Poko uses Suggestion to ask the bees to get out of the way so the party can move down the hall without disturbing them. Some of the honeycomb is damaged as the party walks down the hallway, but Poko uses Mending to fix it before the bees can trigger combat.

At the end of the hall, the party find a section of honeycomb dripping with black ink and Katsu is alarmed to see it. Poko pulls some ink off the wall and tries to taste it, but fails a Constitution check and pulls it back out of her mouth with Katsu's help, drawing the attention of the bee within the inky hive. The bee that comes out of the hive is malformed and dripping black ink, and Katsu incinerates it with Burning Hands, traumatizing Poko, who has never seen anything die before.

Lucy comforts Poko, then hands her off to Axis, who talks softly to Poko and casts Calm Emotions to help her recover. Poko erases her own memory of the bee dying and rejoins the party. Lucy confronts Katsu about what xe knows about the bee, and Katsu tells the party that the black ink comes from a being called the Everywhere King that takes other toons. Katsu tells the others that the Everywhere King's ink is weak to fire, and Lucy and Poko prepare a Molotov cocktail.

At the end of the hall, the group find a wooden door and walk through it into a stone cave. Once the party enters the room, five doors appear in the walls, and Lucy explains that each of them will have to go through a separate door. Katsu panics as xe discovers xer door has the Everywhere King's lullaby playing from behind it, and Poko casts Calm Emotions to help xem recover. Poko, Katsu, and Axis notice ink dripping from the ceiling of the room. Lucy, Katsu, and Axis walk through their doors, then Poko stays behind to talk to Tessura and ask if she should remember the next time she has to watch something die. At the end of the conversation, Poko thanks Tessura for talking to her in a voice that is different than usual, then walks through her door.

The party continues walking down the tunnel with Poko on Tessura's shoulders. Katsu and Tessura notice the tunnel is strewn with broken bits of mannequins dripping with the Everywhere King's ink. The tunnel leads to the cavern where the final battle in Masked Mayhem happened, which is now strewn with broken mannequins and the Everywhere King's ink. Ink drips from the ceiling and forms into three Everywhere King followers, triggering a fight.

Axis casts Hypnotic Pattern and winds up incapacitating everyone except Poko, only to discover that the Everywhere King's followers are immune to being Charmed and are not affected. The party members recover and take down the followers, but two of the followers reform from the ink, with only the follower that Katsu killed with Burning Hands staying down. Lucy throws the Molotov cocktail at the remaining followers, setting them on fire. Poko burns one of the followers with a lit torch, killing them, and the remaining follower burns up from ongoing fire damage on its next turn.

Katsu says the followers they fought were the missing council members, who were taken by the Everywhere King while trying to survey the tunnels. Poko asks if there is a way to get the council members back, and Axis asks if there is a way to kill the King, and Katsu says that there isn't any way xe knows of to do either. The group reluctantly leave the tunnels and go to report back to the councilman.

Lucy punches the councilman and angrily yells at him for sending the other council members to their deaths. Katsu explains what the party found, and the councilman says the building will be closed permanently and pays them for their work. Lucy distributes her gold amongst the others and storms off, and Katsu and Tessura help seal the building to prevent anyone getting in again.

## Notes

Because Reese has never been described, there are some jokes about them looking like Garfield.

Axis keeps swearing in front of Poko throughout the adventure, and the rest of the party try to explain the swears to her in a child-friendly way.

## Art Gallery

Title card, drawn by docThe door puzzle room, drawn by WhirlThe corrupted bee, drawn by WhirlMannequins twisted by the Everywhere King's ink, drawn by WhirlOne of the Everywhere King's followers, drawn by Doc