AWR Session 6

-9pm, 9th Highsun

-Luau cover of Thriller playing (FORESHADOWING?!)

-Whoops Captain has a trident. Also is a shark person. However, doesn't know who the Daughters of the Wave are

-Callus unwraps head. Valie doesn't look, but 4 beats down door and does. Is afeared

-Callus misdials call in to Traveler, gets evil support instead

-Witchbolt rules. Prone rules. Is dead. Back to being the captain's body

-Valie searches desk. Mysterious flask and money. Go find Lucian and Mei

-In kitchen, Mei says try not to hurt the staff. Goes about as expected

-Lucian is wielding a mop and a trash can lid. Also, is a ninja

-Fuck this halfling is strong. Also, he's stunned now. And now he's super dead. Staff is still advancing after that, so they have to kill them. Staff is not bleeding, but life essence is being sucked from their bodies into Lucien's....mop?

-Upstairs, old people be dropping like it's hot

-Lucian announces to dining room "THERE APPEARS TO BE AN ISSUE IN THE KITCHEN" people stop eating, Lucien and Mei are bussing tables when the rest of the party arrives.

-Valie puts a pink purse over Callus' head. Valie disguised as staff, elven woman with white hair and amethyst eyes

-On Giuseppe: money, cooking knife, leather case of cooking tools

-Valie goes to make sure the ship is still being steered. Alone.

-Everyone else goes to round up crew and find the person pretending to be Valcray.

-Find purple poison on one plate, put evidence in a bag and then into bag of holding

-With Valie: captain's body is stuck between being a shark and a person again? In the trunk, money and a skin suit of the captain

-Valie cuts off the shark person's head with a dagger for 45 minutes

-Discovers ship is steering itself

-Down below, group finds a room piled with skinsuits of old people, entrails piled in a corner, slit all the way up the back of the body

-Some are older, some are still warm

-Proceed to flip out and threaten to stab all the corpses upstairs just in case

-First go to crew quarters, which have been completely cleaned out. Crates are unhelpful. One is emptied and has the red and blue liquids mixing at the bottom to make a FAMILIAR PURPLE HEY

-Trail of purple ichor and blood on ceiling leading up the stairs through the mess. Follow to executive suites.

-Valie searches shark. Finds pink ring and trident

-Blood trail leads to door w/ rabbit head knocker, Callus kicks it down. Huge suite, trail leads off the balcony. Come back inside to search.

-Callus suggests trail was going the other way. Get ready to run out, but then Lucien opens the wardrobe

-Full of skinsuits on hangars. Asoka, Matteo, Valcray, and Britannia are all there. More freaking out ensues.

-Chase trail the other way. puddle of blood on ceiling. Callus hits a monkey, Mei throws two daggers up and hears something cry out. Lucian breaks the floor. A body falls through. Callus hits it again. But it's the Empress. Oops.

-There's a crawlspace between floors. Mei climbs up, the others heal the empress. Then poison hits. Valie and Mei go rigid and pass out. Lucian revives Mei with 1 point of exhaustion, Callus and 4 run to get Valie, Lucian off behind them.

-Empress and Mei hang, Mei gives her potions, Empress is missing horns and crystals. Find out that Matteo took Empress to fey wild to chop off parts of her and beat her up. Mei remembers Feral Crawlers/The Escaped, which are Eldritch-Horror-Adjacent mistakes created during the creation of a plane meant to contain the horrors who wear people's bodies to spread/feed on terror. Empress says there was more than one person there torturing her.

-Rest of party finds Valie unmoving, Cast a bunch of things, nothing is working. A ring appears on her, has a purple glowing brain gem. Each call on respective deities to help. 4 calls his "Dad". All of them (both of Callus', Lucian's "Lady of Loss", and RoboDaddy) turn their backs on them)

-Bring body back below deck, show Mei the ring, Mei has an idea but needs a body. Go off to get the Drow but she is missing. Lucian gets her skinsuit, also finds out that Matteo's skinsuit is gone. Callus gets corpse of an old person, both come back. Putting the ring on the corpse does nothing. Boys suggest smashing it, so Mei puts it on her own finger to make sure that does not happen.

-Bring Empress to Mollie's room. Short rest. Callus and 4 are in their own heads, Lucian is pacing and uncomfortable, bringing back thoughts of "post life" ?????

-Valie can speak to Mei through the ring, the ring camouflages to Mei's skin. Valie warns not to go through her stuff. Can be brought back with a True Resurrection spell, according to Valie's god. Does not want to be on anyone else's finger, but will go to Lucian if Mei dies.

-Lore Dump: Founding 9 made by the old gods to oversee creation of earth. Conversely, 5 evil Eldritch horrors made. To contain them, one of the F9 "Oh" offered to oversee it and made the scary containment plane. During creation process, accidentally made "The Escaped."

-Oh shit are these things collecting the parts they need to summon one of the horrors

-TAE IS SMILING

-What if we put all the evidence into the bag of holding and blew it up to send a message to the Dunes? Lucien smartly points out we have the empress and also a way to call Alenora. Oh yeah.

-We try a long rest because we're all hella beat up. 4 offers to keep watch since he just plugs into his charger or whatever. Mei creates a mindlink for first 3 hours, unless being inside 4's head is whackadoo and then she will drop it

-Mei is also trying to lull herself to sleep by reading the children's book featuring the mop that is not a mop.

-Plan is to try to rest before getting into the crawl space, except Lucian doesn't want to go in the crawlspace.