The Venassi Raid Part 4

## Episode 6 - The FeyWild West

Inside the Venassi stronghold, Duskdown, Talia is bringing out dinner from her estate. She calls out to the DMP Strike Team and Jareth but Jareth doesn't come immediately. She finds him in the library in a circle with Slog, making indecipherable noises at each other. Slog and Bramble get up to eat. Jareth talks to Talia about using comprehend languages to speak to Slog before joining Slog and Bramble for food. Seline and Adrienne are still in bed asleep. Talia wakes up Seline and Adrienne to come out and eat. Soon people are swapping war stories and drinking. Rhenalle managed to fight her way out of a mineshaft through gnolls with nothing but a support beam she pulled down from the wall. Talia tells the group about Death House, impressing those who had heard about the it. As the evening moves on, Talia takes a drunk Seline to their bedroom. Seline let's slip some of the difficulties she's been having in leaving the Feywilds before passing out. Talia also collects the children for bed. While she is picking up the dinner plates, Talia and James talk about the children. James also says because the DMP Strike Team was at their trial, the team was aware of the Venassi and what they mean for the district. Talia is not happy that they weren't able to capture Brown and the majority of the base was evacuated. Captain Wilde says doesn't really matter, the bigger blow was exposing the Venassi and showing the district with monsters they really are. Talia thanks him and offers him the couch but he stays to keep an eye out. Checking on the kids, Talia finds Adrienne awake. When Adrienne says it's loud outside, Talia lets her know whenever she's feeling overwhelmed she'd be happy to bring her inside the estate. Adrienne tells Talia about Seline's dreams and entering the feywild before trying to go to sleep. In the morning, Talia and Seline talk about the things Seline and Adrienne said the night before and the Crystal. Seline says the Crystal turned into a gate and all it would have taken would have been a push to open the gates wide and let the feywild in.

Despite feeling that more bad things like Longfellow, Tina, and the Broker might come through it was still a struggle not to push and throw open the gates. Seline sad and regretful that she did not push and embrace the feywild. Talia suggests that Seline doesn't have to open the door that they could walk to Airpike but Seline insists. Talia leave Seline to get dressed while she checks on the Strike Team. They're already up and getting their stuff together. However one of them ventured into the dormitories in the night and was strangled by a bear rug.

> [Talia finds Seline staring at the mirror in their room.]**Seline Argent-Grey**Do you think I could just walk right through it?**DM Molly**As you look at the mirror staring at it. this is before Talia even comes up. You realize that what you're looking at isn't even a reflection of the room. It's a trick of the light that made you think that it was because that patch of wild mushrooms falls along the ground in the shape of your dress. That yellow crown of daisies falling right where your hair would be and just every other little thing in the room is just tricks of perspective. And you're not looking in mirror you're just looking at an empty frame...[Seline reaches out to touch it.]**DM Molly**Touch just like along the edge of the frame, moving your hand over and... This is just as you reach her... your hand, Seline, comes over just to where the mirror should be, there's nothing there. Talia, you watch as she drags her hand across the mirrors surface and it ripples like water.**Seline Argent-Grey**I could walk right through it.[Talia grabs her wrist, pulls her back and smashes the mirror with the butt of Death's Whisper.]**Seline Argent-Grey**What, Talia what?**DM Molly**Seline, actually all of a sudden there's this clear sudden bell-like tone as the mirror smashes and this haze that had been on you just lifts.

Seline is a little confused and Talia is worried but Seline insists on opening the door to Airpike so they can chase down Brown. When Talia checks on the children before they leave, Jareth is still asleep but Adrienne is nearby. She says she heard the bells and doesn't want to go to where the bells are. Talia warns her about the glass in their room. Seline opens the door to Airpike and a bedraggled DMP Strike Team step out into Chief Constable Sarah Cremihn's office. Talia lets the team out of the office and tell the Chief Cremihn the Venassi base is cleared out but Brown wasn't there. Chief says that he left on foot in a southwesterly direction. She also said their reward is ready although there was some discussion about them picking up their reward. In fact, the new wanted poster for Brown doesn't include a stated amount, only the promise of a reward. They're presented with several steamer trunks with 50,000 Platinum inside which they put inside their estate for safekeeping. From there, they go to Felicia Firehawk's home where they are greeted by her goliath butler, Hallar. Once inside, Seline and Talia find that her house is modeled similarly to the Death House and Greshan family houses. In Felicia's Tea Room there are several paintings one is at the Battle of Airpike, one is of Lord Galen Vanalden giving a speech and there are others. Captain Wilde comments that it was a very common architecture before the Expansion. When Felicia arrives Talia lets her know they wanted to pay her and asks for a wall. Felicia takes down the painting of Lord Vanalden. Talia gets the 25000 Platinum from the estate while Seline casts minor illusion on the painting. Felicia puts the painting back but doesn't initially notice everyone in the painting staring at her... until she sits down and spits tea all over herself coughing. Seline quickly dismisses the illusion. When Seline comments on the painting lifelike appearance, Felicia says her grandfather did all of the paintings in the room and several others and was quite the artist in his day. James also helps Felicia find some of the cases like the Argent-Grey's. Before Talia and Seline leave, so in here's the tinkling of bells and what sounds like the front door opening and closing. After Hallar checks, he says no one man is must have been a prankster before seeing the Argent-Grey's out. Seline tries to Detect Good and Evil and senses herself, Talia, and Felicia but nothing else. The bells,  they heard were not from the front door for the door opening and closing was definitely the butler with the front door. With the spell still up, Seline aware of an instability around her a thinness specifically around her.

## Location

* Duskdown
* Airpike

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent-Grey
* Talia Argent-Grey

### NPCs

* Captain James Wilde
* Slog and Bramble
* Khauri
* Emmett Ironspine (DMP)
* Rhenalle
* Adrienne Argent-Grey
* Jareth Argent-Grey
* Chief Constable Sarah Cremihn
* Felicia Firehawk
* Hallar