Chaos in the Collection

**Chaos in the Collection** is a campaign that is currently running in the spring of 2022. It is DMed by Emma Rose.

## Player characters

* Suaskyi, played by Lola Johnson
* Ballow Brand, played by Jonny Hadley
* Soleil, played by Krissy
* Gemma, played by Vee
* Skitter of Stones, played by Natalie Winter

## Plot

The team are hired by Crerr Stoneywing to assist when his collection of magic items begin to come alive at night. After a quick hiring process at the Yawning Portal, they spend the night at Will the Sausage King's mansion, where the collection is housed, and barely fend off the items as they fight, including a terrifying beholder crown with disintegration rays! Taking refuge in a storeroom, Gemma uses some purloined marvellous pigments from the collection to paint a two-way mirror, and Soleil found her mother's panpipes and an animate saxophone that explained the situation: the previous owners of the items, if deceased, were reanimating as ghosts and using the items to fight each other - which they couldn't explain.

In the morning, the team relayed this to Crerr - who also couldn't explain it. However, the same effect was reported at a nearby noble's house, and the party went to investigate - and discovered that Crerr had also touched the item that was itself coming to life. Before they could relay this to Crerr, they were attack by the Doom Raiders, and barely escaped with their lives as the City Watch arrived to arrest them. The guard captain revealed that their fines will be paid by the morning, and that the Watch daren't cross them - they are known to be very powerful and important members of the Black Network.

Returning to Crerr, he revealed that he'd been working with the Doom Raiders and their leader, Davil, to collect the artefacts, and that they had had a disagreement over the beholder crown. The team work out that a recently acquired ring of Crerr's is cursed to make the artefacts come to life, and that the Doom Raiders were going to use the curse to convince Crerr to hire them back - then steal the crown. With the Watch, the team hatch a sting operation, have a (very convincing) argument in the Yawning Portal, and let Crerr hire the Doom Raiders back, looking to catch them stealing the crown that evening.

Despite the team's best-laid plans, the Doom Raiders looked like they were going to get away scot-free - so they attacked, using items from the collection to empower themselves. Skeemo, the Doom Raider's alchemist, managed to dimension door away with the crown - but Gemma had had the foresight to make a fake with the marvellous pigments! Using the black dragon mask from the Mask of the Dragon Queen, Skitter held their own in the fight, and the Doom Raiders fled - but not before Davil got captured in a mirror of life trapping.

With the team recovering and thinking about future plans, we see Skeemo giving the crown to a mysterious figure, who realises it's a fake...

## Trivia

* The titular magic artefact collection is funded by Willie the Sausage King, a Waterdhavian minotaur noble who first appeared in Windfall in Waterdeep.
* Guck, a bugbear who is released from a magic mirror, is canonically (according to Talk Together) still spider-climbing his way across Faerun.
* Fans have conjectured that the mysterious figure Skeemo gave the fake crown to is a clone of Manshoon, due to their association in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist and a described fake hand.

## Twitch Clip Archive

* So talented
* Artistic criticism
* Just Ouch
* Interesting doll...
* Fun with sausages
* If you hum a few bars...
* Inspiring
* Libated?
* Details are important

## Media

Chaos in the Collection - IntroThe title sequence for Chaos in the Collection.