Portable Party

The **Portable Party** is a combination altar and DJ sound system. One was installed on Fire Island in the Temple of Boom, where it became tied to a collection of Woo Ghosts.

## Herstory

A portable party is a common kind of altar found throughout the realm. Arson Nicki was familiar with them from her life before arriving on Fire Island. It consists of a stone altar with metal rings on the side that could permit poles to be inserted to lift and transport the altar easier, despite its weight.

One such altar was installed in the Temple of Boom on the western side of Fire Island. DJ Cyberpreppy used it during his set at a Full Moon Party, until the guests were attacked by seaspawn. He and the guests were killed, and returned as ghosts who were tethered to the party. Weeks later, two dwarves, Coal and Shale, came to the Temple looking for its buffet, and were trapped by the ghosts. They were rescued by Bootie and the Hofish, including Arson, who tagged in with Cyberpreppy on the altar's 8 track system.

The queens decided to help the ghosts by taking them to the Golden Palace for the ultimate Full Moon's party, which wouldn't be for another ten days. With the help of their allies they carted the altar across the island, and thus the ghosts.

Over the next several days the altar would be moved around the casino as needed. It was set up by the standing stones on the bluff over the resort for a ceremony of closure and renewing hope, where Cyberpreppy played music. Later it was moved to Belfry Ramshackle's penthouse office so the DJ could be on call when the queens called in using the Hole of Glory. Here, Belfry's daughter Jo requested her favorite song, Baby Shark, over and over.

When the Queens learned that another item they had acquired, the Kracken Priest's Heart, was corrupting and influencing their allies, they decided to lock up the heart in the casino vault. To try and protect the heart further, they locked it up inside the altar inside the vault. However, as the Heart was previously connected to the Kracken via the Kracken Priest's altar, this created the scenario necessary for the Kracken Priest creation ritual.

Jo found the altar in the vault, and brought her friend Chaz to it where they had it play Baby Shark on loop. The altar began to summon sharks to the Golden Palace, as well as start to corrupt the casino with the Kracken's power.

Late that night, Bootie and the Hofish returned to the casino and located the altar and the children. They used a ghost light to repel the ghosts enough to give them access to the altar and get the children away. Unsure what to do, they accepted the advice of Barb, a devil who was allied with them. Unfortunately, Barb saw this as an opportunity to exploit a loophole in his contract to not harm anyone on the island. He used the altar, immune from the Kracken's power as a devil, to enact a ritual that used the island's standing stone power stations to open a portal to hell.

The queens eventually decided this was a bad plan and Londyn Bradshaw and Fraya Love used their combined spiritual powers to fight against Barb's control of the altar and steer the portal to a new location. They sent the island's inhabitants to the ethereal plane.

## Behind the Queens

DMs Matt and James have said that the altar becoming a major plot point in the Whispers of the Heart arc was not pre-planned, but grew organically out of the queens' decisions in earlier arcs.