Disturbia

The Acquaintances With Weapons try and fail to free New Mezro from Krang.

## Major Plot Points

* A couple days later, the Acquaintances With Weapons hung around the Dragons of Prey clocktower. Stzu San and Bigsby crashed Vardina and Artus’ brunch. Calypso meditated with Helena. Kataro kept to himself. Neuriel helped Barbara with research into the Mind Flayers. Voloth used the bathroom. Dinah, her mom DD, and Jaiden sparred.
* Neuriel’s research found that tinfoil helms could provide psychic resistance and block out telepathic intrusions.
* A Mind Flayer teleported in, ordering them to fetch a book the colony left behind in an nearby stronghold they had to abandon.
* The group got together to debate what they should do next and came up with a plan to free the Mezroans and Githyanki.
* Stzu San, Voloth, Bigsby, Kataro, Neuriel, and Dinah went to the Mind Flayer’s old base to get the book.
* Helena, Jaiden, Artus, and DD went to find the materials to make the tinfoil helms.
* Barbara, Calypso, and Vardina stayed at the penthouse to create the curses for the book and craft the tinfoil helmets.
* The group went to the location they were given to find the book, but there was just a rocky mountainside in front of them. The group shouted, “Orlando Bloom!” the dwarvish word for friend, which did nothing. A nearby dwarf came over and shared that there are tales that mind flayers once lived in this mountain and that it still rumbles with life today. He then shared a common dwarvish saying, “If at first you don't see the door, perceive harder.” Stzu San then found the secret door.
* After a small earthquake, a ceiling collapse in the entrance tunnel hurt Neuriel and Kataro.
* In the main cavern, the party found a black pudding blocking the next path. Voloth’s fire made it move out of the way.
* Inside an old library, the party found a glass orb. Stzu San touched it and discovered it allowed her to telepathically talk to anyone she knew on the same plane of existence. She used it to check in with Calypso. Bigsby used it to talk to the friendly dwarf and then Vulveeta, telling her to be nice to him. Stzu San pocketed it.
* In a dining room, the party found mushrooms growing out dead mind flayers and humanoids with severe cranial injuries. Neuriel was burned by red mushroom spores. Bigsby summoned a whirlwind to blow the remaining spores away.
* Voloth heard a woman screaming out for help down a new tunnel. The group decided to help her and found a flumph named Flumfy Cave Princess trapped in an iron cage. She was exploring and saw gold in the cage, but she got trapped after the door closed and locked behind her. Bigsby freed her and the two became BFFs.
* In that same chamber was a dead aboleth and an underground lake. Kataro cast speak with dead to communicate with it. The aboleth explained his kind and the mind flayers are natural enemies. He attacked their colony here and took it over. He explained that Mind Flayers are just tadpoles at the beginning of their life cycle. Adult Mind Flayers then infect other humanoids with these tadpoles to turn them into Mind Flayers. One tadpole survived Abbey’s assault and grew into a monstrous snake-like creature without its colony. The neolithid murdered Abbey.
* The group then went into the dungeon’s vault where four minotaurs were raiding the gold. After an argument the groups attacked one another and AWW killed three minotaurs after two gored Neuriel and Voloth. Bigsby polymorphed the last one into a sexy minnow with red lipsticks and fishnets. The bard threw him in Abbey’s lake where he mated with all the other minnows.
* Inside an old museum, our heroes found the book they were looking for. Voloth read from it, suffering necrotic damage. The neolithid then burst from the ground. It unleashed its acid breath on the group. Dinah screamed at the beast. Stzu San struck with her shadow blade and dragon fang dagger. Voloth swung his warhammer and cast poison spray. Bigsby shot it with a moon beam. Kataro created a firestorm. Neuriel summoned his spiritual guardians.
* Stzu San landed the killing blow. Kataro and Neuriel were able to get a flask full of its acid and gave that flask to Bigsby. Stzu San kept the head as a trophy.
	+ Ranged weapon attack (proficiency+dex to hit). Deals 35 acid damage.
* The party went back to the clocktower where Barbara gave them their tinfoil helms and cursed the book with Calypso and Vardina. Barbara’s curse unleashed fire energy. Calypso’s curse unleashed cold energy. And Vardina’s curse unleashed force energy. To activate the curses, someone had to say, “Krang Sucks.”
* AWW went to the sewers of New Mezro to recruit allies - the three Githyanki soldiers they freed and two Mezroan mages joined the fight after Bigsby’s rallying call. Bigsby ordered them to strike when they heard an explosion.
* Inside the Mind Flayer temple, Voloth gave the book to Krang and Stzu San shouted “Krang sucks!” The book exploded with fire, cold, and force energy, killing two Mind Flayers and severely injuring a Githyanki guard and Krang.
* Krang entangled Stzu San in a tentacle and then hit everyone with a psychic blast. Dinah slashed Krang with her sword. Neuriel hit him with his spiritual weapon. Voloth used shatter on the Githyanki and Krang. Bigsby then used moonbeam to finish the Elder Brain.
* Upstairs, the party’s allies battled the other Mind Flayer forces. Once the Elder Brain was killed all the Mind Flayers collapsed as their shared consciousness was destroyed.
* Crowds of cheering Githyanki and Mezroans greeted the party when they left the temple. However, Good Boy Malcolm was fatally wounded. He reached out for Bigsby and said, “you made me a better person,” before dying. Bigsby used his resurrection spell to bring him back to life. The two shared a passionate kiss before parting ways.
* You’re all level 14 now!