Starboy

Archon Daenyra asks the party to go to Meletis to research the undead beings wreaking havoc in Theros.

## Major Plot Points

* The party attended a meeting with King Demetrius, Archon Daenyra, and Oracle Morrigan. Daenyra asked our heroes to confirm King Demetrius' story of seeing Queen Nekros and her ability to raise the dead. After hearing it was no exaggeration, she asked the party to go to Meletis. The city is home to Theros' largest libraries, museums, universities, theaters, and mage laboratories. If anyone knows about these beings, they'd be in Meletis.
* Oracle Morrigan said she had nightmares of a woman's shadow overtaking Setessa and then all of Theros.
* King Demetrius, still upset from seeing his family turned into the undead, told the party to tell the leaders of Meletis to prepare their arcane knights for war.
* Before leaving Setessa, the party stopped by the Sharp Shop. Sprocket "Ballsy" Gnoman III and the owner got into arguments as his business being destroyed helped her sales. Rory Sharptooth bought poisoned press on nails that are good for one use for 1 hour and add 1d6 poison damage to his claw attacks.
* At Magic the Collective, Sybil Ringwell purchased an Animal Friendship spell scroll. Rory got a magic bellybutton tattoo of a yellow bird's head that squawks like a seagull when squeezed.
* The party stopped at a town called Stellanus along the way. An older woman asked our heroes to hunt a bear so she could use it to make a vigor potion. The group declined to kill an animal for such a thing. Disguised as her husband, Sybil brought the old woman to an alley and performed for her so well the woman died. Juxxtina gave her last rites but they left her in the alley. Juxxtina got 1 Athreos piety point.
* The party then stumbled upon a barricaded house where Pharika priests were trying to enter. They said the family inside wouldn't let them in. The family exhibited symptoms of a dangerous and contagious disease. The priests were there to kill them and cleanse their property so the disease wouldn't spread.
* Sybil asked her spider familiar to investigate the house and it confirmed the family was in there and sick. Aryan Grande summoned an unseen servant and it tore open the door. Rory then threw an oil lamp from the city street inside, lighting the house ablaze. The three earned 1 Pharika piety point each.
* At a tavern, the patrons were celebrating Tummy Tuesday - BOGO body shots. Juxxtina wanted to say outside, but Aryan pulled her in saying Karametra made them both fertile tonight.
* Rory immediately became a hit at the bar with her bellybutton tattoo.
* At a VIP section, a satyr man was surrounded by beautiful revelers who were drinking expensive wine and snorting some of kind magical dust. Sprocket went over to him to discover how his hair constantly moved like there was a breeze. The satyr introduced himself as Spyral, the bastard son of the god Phaenax. Being half god made him nyxborn, which made his skin sparkle like stars and his hair constantly move like there is wind.
* Guards restrained Rory after he tried to touch Spyral's hair. The satyr then shared his stardust and Rory got very high.
* A group of Klothys cultists then ambushed the tavern. They saw Spyral and his father as abominations, ruining the natural order of the universe. Juxxtina and Aryan had a hard time deciding if they wanted to defend the nyxborn satyr. The rest of the party rallied around him. Eventually Juxxtina and Aryan did the same.
* Dikarus Bottombane used this opportunity to show off his favorite sword - Power Bottom. The cultists couldn't survive against Power Bottom, Aryan's dissonant whispers, and Juxxtina's primal savagery. Sybil got one high on stardust so they questioned that one.
* The cultist said his order were in the Kruphix Temple. They knew that Spyral was going there to steal the Kruphix Cloak. With it, he'd be able to become invisible and avoid all manner of detection and tracking.
* Spyral promised the party gold if they'd get the cloak for him. They agreed and made their way to the temple.
* Muchomucho M Amor showed up after the bar fight and tried some stardust before heading out with the rest of the party.
* The party found a cube-shaped Kruphix temple with no discernible entrance. Rory found a stone out of place and activated the hidden door.
* Inside the first room, Muchomucho shared a secret with a Kruphix statue and it opened the next door.
* The second chamber's Kruphix statue held out its palms. Aryan put a gold coin in each hand and the secret door opened.
* In the third chamber, Rory solved the riddle, "I cannot be held, but I am easily broken. What am I?" by answering, "A promise."
* This teleported the part into a runaway cart on a split track. They had to choose to hit four maidens or a little boy. Sprocket tried to make the cart go off the rails to no avail. The party hit the little boy.
* The only thing in the next chamber was a statue holding a mirror. Muchomucho saw that there was a snow globe in the mirror's reflection but not in the actual room. He went inside the mirror to fetch the snow globe. He shook it once he got into the real world.
* The party then dropped into a snow-filled room, suffering cold damage. Rory was able to dig through the snow and find the trap door to the next room.
* Sprocket found a book in the next room with a single passage, "The key is found within. Paint me red. Think before you give. It will live and try to make you dead." Aryan cut herself and bled on the book. This created a bloody duplicate of Aryan. Rory's halberd, Sybil's fire bolt, and Muchomucho's shocking grasp were too much for it.
* In a room with three large orbs, Muchomucho determined they had runes representing acid, poison, and necrotic energy. Muchomucho cast chromatic orb to activate the poison and acid orbs. Sybil used the blood from the Aryan duplicate to activate the necrotic orb.
* In a court room, the party found a squire guilty of killing his knight when they learned he and the knight's father planned to kill him together. The squire watched the door while the father did the deed.
* A priest in a library was nervous that he couldn't properly copy a book after he spilled wine on the original. The party helped him complete the unreadable passages.
* A sphinx posed a riddle to the party in the next room. The sphinx slashed Sprocket and Rory for answering incorrectly. They were able to pass when Aryan answered, "Carefully."
* In the final chamber, they found the Klothys cultists with the Kruphix cloak. Dikarus unleashed arrows against the cultists, Rory swung his halberd, Aryan shot cross bolts at them, Muchomucho cast shocking grasp, Sprocket used catapult, and Sybil shot out firebolts. This proved too much for the cultists
* Spyral met the group outside and they gave him the cloak in exchange for 150 gold.
* Everyone got 1 Phaenax piety point for helping his son. Everyone got 1 Kruphix piety point for making it through his temple.