AWR Session 5

-4 is Blue today

-Meet in the castle, decide there's not much to prepare and go to Cloaked Rabbit. Drop off the crown and get our paperwork

-190ft long airship with no sails, just big blue rocks

-We're on an old person swinger cruise?

-Confirmed. "Rockin' Summer Cruise"

-Woman with braids and freckles steering ship

-Mei and Lucian are super excited for takeoff. No one else seems impressed

-4 is scared of heights, wants a MILF/GILF

-Lucian meets a lady with a walker who offers him a beverage in a pineapple

-Callus, Lucian, and 4 find the shuffleboard. They have no idea how to play or score, they're just happy to be here. Valie is there for a hot second, then leaves again

-Loud horn = meal bell. Everyone goes to eat.

-Waitress is Deborah, halfling woman, asks us if we want the teeth or toothless meal. Contrary to the title, no meals come with teeth. Group orders 5 course meal and a round of pink pineapple drinks with curly straws

-Ship is called SS Starship

-4 has teeth

-Deborah says halfling chef, Giuseppe, will be coming to say hi. He's a hologram. With a disco ball and light show.

-WELCOME TO THE BUTTERDOME

-Deborah asks where we are staying because she might be our activity coordinator. No one tells her. Does let slip that there's a Shuffleboard league championship at the end of the week

-Tonight's party theme is neon, colors made popular in the Jade Empire. Everyone leaves except Callus and Valie

-Long rest. Lucian writes a diary entry as David Baker

-4 is brown today. Brown is youngest sibling, Chedumov

-Tonight's theme is anything but clothes. We all pass.

-Mei goes to find member of crew who isn't fake happy. Finds Daveed, elven man, mopping floors. Commiserate about not wanting to be on the ship, Mei asks if there are crew quarters she can hide in to get away from people. He gives her the badge off his chest and tells her to go ahead. Valie goes with Mei because this whole thing is a little much

-Sulfur smell in the hall in crew quarters

-Mei and Valie investigate, find the crate is full of poison. Mei takes one of the bottles and they both leave to find people

-Go back to Mei's room. Speak in Undercommon about poisoning food concerns. Lucian says he can purify our food if we pile it all together, doesn't want to do it out in the open so we eat in the rooms now.

-Callus is sus and goes for a wander. Finds an open door, but doesn't do anything with it

-Valie and Mei go back to crew quarters. Mostly complaining about the passengers, but then are joined by Drow woman who says she is Giuseppe's apprentice. Name is Valcray. Wants to know who Valie and Mei are, Mei says they're mostly downstairs and on the cleaning crew. Green nails, green brooch, green shoes, dressed very nicely.

-Boys decide on team name Pucks of Doom

-Mei wants to follow Valcray. Hears her go upstairs and through a door, decides not to go through door and goes to find Daveed. Valie stays to listen and pretend she is sleeping.

-From Daveed: Valcray comes from political money, didn't get on well with her family so is apprenticing with Giuseppe. Family is from Bristeel (sp?). Mei tells him she found poison and is concerned, suggests we tell the captain, Reyanne. Says Deborah is new to the staff. There's a bucket full of staff badges in the crew quarters and she's welcome to it. Mei grabs one for each of them.

-Get everyone together again, Mei talks about apprentice and green garb, Callus mentions door. Valie peels off to check on door. Lucian and Mei get into disguise to go upstairs where Valcray went. Get interrupted when Valie contacts Mei through psychic link and says she found a dead body in the room

-In the room - claw marks on the headboard, pink tacky substance on desk, dead Drow woman who looks exactly like Valcray, has blue scars (old) and a circle cut out of one cheek (new)

-Valie takes some of the pink stuff

-Lucian does divine sense, door has Hallow cast on it, with everlasting rest feature, high level cleric spell

-Drow has been poisoned. Lucian knows this substance is Midnight Tears. Was in the shop with the frog (again, as was the stuff in the crate)

-Mei knows this stuff takes a day to kick in

-Oh shit are we going to die

-Lucian lay-on-hands himself just in case

-Go to tell Callus the good news. Faint purple light dissipates when we go in. Callus is surprisingly chill with learning of his possible demise.

-Hear the air horn for dinner. Fuck, can't let anyone eat. SPLIT THE PARTY WHAT CAN GO WRONG

-Lucian and Mei go upstairs in disguise to see if the cook is alive. Valie and Callus go to captain to ask for her help and let her know what is going on.

-Valie straight up tells the captain someone poisoned Valcray. Callus tries to help convince her, but captain seems more concerned with maintaining her reputation. Says "her employer" is going to make sure she's fine.

-They continue to press and demand she do something. Spectral pink hand comes from captain, locks the door and pulls all the shades. Valie sends a message to warn Mei.

-MEANWHILE all the crates of poison are gone, Lucian and Mei run upstairs to kitchen. Halfling chef is there, but isn't supposed to be there. Lucian detects undead, coming from Giuseppe. Mei can't find any of the poison bottles in the room.

-Mei casts mage hand, pushes all the plates off the staging area. Chef turns.

-"Oh that man is clearly undead" -Lucian/David Baker

-Staff in the kitchen turn to us and say there's nothing wrong with him and that we need to leave their "leader" alone. Mei messages Valie at the same time to warn her of mind controlled staff.

-We're all going to die