The Absolutely No Killing Encounter

5th December 2021

## Adventurers Attending

* Sharian Naetris
* Rain
* Karn

## Mission Notes

After seeing flyers stating that a Carnival from the Feywild was coming to Gnome Town Sharian, Karn and Rain teleported to Gnome Town for a chance to catch up with an old friend and relax. Walking down from Gnome Town to the nearby Carnival, meeting Jorby, who had gone on ahead at the entrance and chatting to the carnivals head of security, Tawny the owl man, and Quinn Whiffletwigs, the head of the carnival and seeing Bigby a storm giant providing rides for the children in his hands.

Heading in the group partake in the joys of the carnival. Rain had a go at the Goblin wrestling, where a greased up little goblin runs around a ring while the participant chases it to pin it down. Sharian who refused to take part due to the grease, had to Prestidigitate Rain clean after she pinned down the nimble little goblin. Almiraj Ring Toss was the next game up on the block, a wooden Almiraj with a golden horn sits on the other side of the stall as the participant throws golden rings to try and hook it over the horn. As rings were thrown at the Almiraj it would teleport around the tabletop. Seeing this Sharian nipped around the back of the tents and summoned an Unseen Servant to secretly have it help in the ring toss. Sharian managed to make one toss without the need of his Unseen Servant but the second ring was stopped mid air and guided on by the Unseen Servant. Quickly taking his golden tickets and moving on before anything untoward was noticed. Karn took part in Catch the Dragon by the Tail a game where he got blindfolded while put in a booth trying to catch a tiny giggling red faerie dragon flying around him. After some tribulations Karn managed to hone in on the dragon and catch it. Hearing the cheers of a crowd the group head into a tent where a Gnome Bard is entertaining the crowd in a Gnome Poetry Contest, where audience members were invited onto the stage to try their luck at the game of rhyme. Watching for a while for a bit a next round started up with "“Sound the chime, it’s time to rhyme! You bring the poem! We’ll bring the gno-em!”. Sharian heads onto the stage, starting up a rhyme suggesting a change of pace from a poem contest to a rap battle. Instantly magically changing outfits to a Tracksuit version of his outfit at the time while music kicks in background. After a few back and forths Sharian put the Gnome in his place and had crowd eating out of his hand. Dropping the mic and leaving the tent to continue enjoyment of the Carnival the Gnome is left rethinking his life. Hearing "“Birds of a feather? How about feathers of a bird? Step right up and guess how many feathers festoon this fiendish fowl!” the fowl obsessed Karn rushed over to a tent with a sign hanging above the entrance 'Guess the Number of Feathers'. Entering there is a person getting people to guess the number of feathers on one of a group of caged cockatrices. Karn being well versed in where to find feathers on a chicken quickly works out how many feathers are on the cockatrice.

After attending several games, they met Ash Longfellow and some of the Gnome Town guards in attendance, they spoke to Quinn about whats currently happening in the Feywilds and Karn swapped books with him then continued the days fun. Later they returned tickets for fabulous prizes before a portal opened up near to them. Out stepped an older future version of Leonidas Goldmane, calling himself the Whitemane. He handed Sharian two letters, one for him and one for Leo and warned the guild members of a future where the robots had come, angry at the guilds past treatments of inorganics the warforged Tank13 has somehow gained the power to travel through time and dimensions to hunt down the guild. Immediately after explaining this another portal opened up and out stepped a large warforged wearing the arm of Captain Flint, the eye of Denzil, all 7 Celestial Orbs aka Time Orbs embedded in a gauntlet and welding a fully assembled Mage Masher sword.

He declared war on the guild and 3 more warforged portaled in to begin the fight. Engaging the Forgedlord seemed fruitless as every time the party attacked him they were moved back in time to before they attacked. Wanting a quick end to the encounter the Forgelord cast Power Word Kill on Sharian but the Whitemane intervened and sacrificed himself. Seeing this as a victory and growing bored, the Forgedlord used a portal to leave and let his men finish the job. After the party finished fighting the 3 enemies they quickly moved onto the sound of further fighting in the carnival but found that with the help of Jorby, Ash and the Gnome Town guards the fey carnival members had managed to dispatch the assembled warforged. Quinn rewarded the party by lending them the aid of his children and sending Tawny to join the Adventurer's Guild. Karn took the Whitemane's axe which for some reason seemed to talk with Tharg's voice but was silent now, to return to their Leo.

Upon returning to the guild the party found Fang waiting, he told them Leo hadn't returned to him and wasn't answering sending messages, Sharian tried a scrying spell but Leo could not be located on this plain of existence. Fang said he would wait at Leo's tent until they could find him.

Sharian looks at the letter sent to himself and finds it to be written in his own handwriting with his own sigil in the wax.

(***Link to downtime chat, where letter was open and read***)

## Loot

* XP 1800
* Gold 100 (for scrap metal) *Unidentifiable metal from the future (no mechanical benefits, just interesting looking*
* Rain - jar of glowworms that change colour to match the owners mood
* Karn - artificial but realistic unicorn horn filled with candy
* Sharian - Bottle of fairy dust that when sprinkled on the user or a creature within 5 feet grant's a fly speed of 30feet for a minute. It falls safely when the effect ends, taking no damage and landing on its feet
* Sharian - A ton of attraction themed merchandise bought from the carnival including a Bigby's Hand themed jacket

## Rumours

* Where is our Lionman?
* How do we stop the Forgedlord