One-Shot: Ghostbusters

## Player Characters

* Andicus the Erudite (no you may NOT call vir Andy) is a bookish sort. Literally. Large spectacles constantly being pushed up vir nose, ve can be compared to Alexander Hamilton from the musical. Also, ve's followed around by a really annoying flying spellbook, a large tome that flaps and flutters as it floats around. Andicus is mostly human but has a slightly larger cranium for vir big powerful brain.
* Avanus the Sundial is as beautiful as an angel, but there are no wings. They have what was once a halo but is now just a floating part of the halo hovering towards the back right of their head. Their skin shimmers in light and darkness, changing slightly depending on which, but you can tell they were once some angle of honor or sun, or something high and mighty, but the scar on their left side of the face that partially covers their eye is dark and wispy. They wear a greek toga, but it is torn and it shows their abs. they wear black baggy pants and shoes. With thigh highs of gold on one leg and black on the other.
* Aelx the Dishonored has uh... short-ish, brown hair that's kept in a very short ponytail at the nape of his neck, wears uhhhh a bandana around his eyes so people think he's blind but trust me he's not, uhhhh often wearing his armour or his padded underclothes, uhhh and *always* accompanied by his... pet??? companion??? helper??? It's Spots, who's white with black spots and is shaped kinda like a uhh.... welll, it's like some sort offff goat thing? But it more resembles a sheep. But it has great horns that it bashes into things and people but Spot's favourite things to do are go on long beach walks chasing a ball like a dog and curling up in people's laps like a cat except she's waaaay too big for it.

## Recap

In the Feyron Hills Daybreak Hold, Eilris the mage has called the adventurers to exorcise a demon possessing the hold's head mage. They seem wildly incompetent but Eilris has no better options so he sends them in. They sneak inside (poorly) and find a heavily-armored man in the Armory. When Andicus' spell to end any curse on him fails, they resort to violence. Avanus remembers that the easiest way to exorcise a demon is to bring its vessel to the point of death, so they start attacking. Their allies - Spots, Suhpel Buk, and Eclipse - do amazing damage alongside their mortals (mainly Avanus). With the armored mage near-dead, they decide to talk to him and learn he's not actually the possessed one. With some light mind-reading, Andicus discovers the head mage is in the library; also, that she's new and has been acting very odd since someone died.

In the library, they discover some interesting bits of worldbuilding from the guest Keeper: plastic exists in the form of exploding confetti bombs, this Daybreak Mage Guild's head mage status was inherited from the young girl's dead father, and Aelx's eldritch patron is entirely petty and wants him to destroy the lemonades Avanus just got and was enjoying. Meanwhile, Andra, the young girl promoted to head mage, is fighting back a demon with the grief she feels over her father's death. The very valiant heroes bravely battle this vicious demonic force (read: they kill a child) until the demon is exorcised and the kid is leftover, alive but weak.

Andicus promises to get in touch with some Daybreak higher-ups - ve's in good standing with the head mage of the Corodun Daybreak Hold - to get someone to resurrect the girl's father, since that's kinda the Daybreaks' whole thing. The three are offered a permanent position with the Daybreaks but they decline, choosing to instead stay as freelancers.

## Trivia

* This was the second Meracynthian story GMed by someone other than Loxley. Props to Haven AKA hbxplain for this one!