Bad Moon Rising

The Acolytes in Sexy Tights visit the Feywild moon and discover the secret history of Muchomucho M Amor.

## Major Plot Points

#### Crash

* While sleeping in the Upfall palace, the party and village were woken up by a bright flash in the sky and a loud crash. A pillar of smoke rose in the distance. Queen of the Frogs Aryan Grande gathered the Acolytes and they took off to investigate the crash site.
* When they arrived, they found a moth-like ship in a large crater. Dewey Thundersnatch, Clows Kufas, and Muchomucho M Amor used their magic to put out the fire. Dewey realized the ship was made up of both organic and inorganic materials.
* Captain Phoebe Shimmer escaped from the wreckage. She told the Acolytes she was fleeing the Feywild moon because citizens were falling into comas for no discernible reason. A drunk white tiefling collided her hot air balloon into Phoebe's craft and caused her to crash.
* Dewey used his healing magic to restore the ship's organic components while Shimmer repaired the mechanical parts. In exchange for fixing her ship, she flew them to the moon but refused to enter the city of Selene. En route, an asteroid nearly hit their vessel. Clows used his gravity magic to deflect the large rock and accidentally gave the Feywild a second moon.

#### Selene

* The Acolytes entered Selene, the sole city on the Feywild moon and built into its largest crater. They discovered a shrine in the town square dedicated to a mystic named The Magnificent Mooncho. The Acolytes questioned Muchomucho if he knew this person. Mucho denied having any knowledge of the lost seer.
* Inside Club Craterlicious, Bromo stormed the stage and started dancing for the adoring crowd. When asked about Mooncho, the club patrons espoused his great prophetic abilities and explained he died during the war between Baba Yaga and Queen Titania.
* A drunk gnome named Stardust kept talking to himself about hearing strange scratching sounds. Sybil Ringwell read his mind and saw that he believed he was speaking the truth. The club owner Stellanus offered the party her famous moonshine. It made several Acolytes drowsy. They soon discovered a secret door behind the slot machines. When questioned, Stellanus admitted to renting the basement out and spiking her moonshine drink to make people fall asleep at the behest of the renter.

#### Hidden Temple

* The party descended down the secret staircase to find a sleeping giant all snuggled up in a bed. Sybil used her soul jar spell to transfer her soul into the giant. She then placed her original body in the giant's pocket.
* The next hall was made of organic material that pulsed. Tendrils lashed out at Clows, Muchomucho, Bromo, and Dewey. Barbara Duke used her x-ray glasses to see what was behind some of the doors.
* There was a museum full of taxidermic creatures. Dewey discovered they all had their brains violently removed.
* Giant Sybil broke through the south wall and into the neighboring laboratory where a girallon held a brain in a jar, which commanded the four-armed gorilla. Barb killed both when she fired a crossbow through the brain and into the girallon's heart. They discovered the brain worked for a mindflayer named Neura who wanted to devour brains not just for sustenance but to gain all of her victims' knowledge and skills.
* Dewey cast entangle in the tendril hall to neutralize the tentacle trap. With the path clear, the Acolytes made their way into a bloody dining hall. A gnome squidling named Squiddo was busy trying to clean all the gore. Seeing him as no threat, the party left Squiddo to his work.
* In another laboratory, the Acolytes discovered the chamber used to transform victims into mindflayers. They rescued three of the prisoners, but one was too far gone in the transformation process.
* In the final chamber, the party found Neura overseeing a group of gnome ceremorphs in the middle of a ritual to hatch the moon and release the dragon hidden within. Neura wanted to transform the dragon into a draconic mindflayer. Sybil cast chain lightning and killed the gnome ceremorphs performing the ritual. Barb was able to talk Neura's mercenary body guard to abandon his post in exchange for a much higher sum. Neura attacked Giant Sybil with her tentacles but wasn't able to land a hit. Muchomucho used his dragon orb to released the dragon in the moon. The moonstone dragon recognized Muchomucho as Mooncho and was delighted to see him again. He destroyed Neura with his moonlight breath.

#### Revelations

* The dragon said that Mooncho fought against Baba Yaga's forces when they attacked Selene during the Witch Queen's war against Queen Titania. Everyone believed Mooncho died in the war. The moonstone dragon went into hibernation because of the loss of Mooncho. He promised to fight Baba Yaga alongside the Acolytes after stretching his wings and reacquainting himself with the world.
* With this new intel, the party met with Celestia, the Archfey of Dreams and Prophecy, while she oversaw the care for the comatose patients. The coma victims were all starting to stabilize and wake up. Celestia tried to rush the Acolytes out of her temple, but she was eventually persuaded to tell them the truth. Muchomucho was indeed Mooncho. He was a student of Celestia's who became a close advisor. During the war, Mooncho killed Baba Yaga's familiar. When Baba Yaga and Queen Titania dictated the terms of their tenuous peace, Baba Yaga demanded Mooncho be executed. Celestia told the queens she'd kill him herself as he was her charge. The Archfey of Dreams and Prophecy instead turned Mooncho into a high elf - a joke as the two often got high together - and erased his memories. She then sent him to Theros where her godly allies on the material plane, Kruphix and Klothys, promised to watch over him. Celestia gave Muchomucho the ability to recall his memories when he wanted to so as not to overwhelm his psyche. Celestia then gave Muchomucho the crescent scythe to kill Baba Yaga.