Let's Face the Music and Dance

The Acolytes in Sexy Tights kill Phaenax and help a new god ascend.

## Major Plot Points

* The Acolytes attended the Festival of Life being held in Setessa to celebrate the defeat of Queen Nekros and The Returned. They knew the festival created the perfect backdrop to summon Phaenax so they could kill him for Erebos and have one of their members ascend to godhood.
* Holy Lady Labya approached Courser Britney Spurs in hopes she could make the beholder worship her as a goddess. Britney politely declined. SBG3 spoke to Moira Rosé during her violin performance. Sybil Ringwell admired the new Lids for Kids installation in the town square. She then asked Oracle Morrigan Ambrose and Archon Daenyra Drakos where King Demetrius Heliodson was. They told him that he was still in the palace and told them and the guards to leave without him. Muchomucho M Amor asked the oracle how to summon gods and she shared with him the great lengths one must go through to summon a deity.
* Muchomucho pitched that the group should try to summon all of Theros' gods and goddesses. He believed this would make Phaenax less suspicious. He also threw out the idea that they could kill them all and the party could ascend together. Unfortunately, his arcana check revealed the godkiller potion was just enough to kill one god. He discovered the potion wouldn't kill a god outright, it'd simply remove their immortality and resistance to magic.
* Barbara Duke, as a devout follower of Klothys and Kruphix, was disgusted by Muchomucho's idea to upset the cosmic balance. SBG3 didn't like the idea of committing a celestial genocide. The Acolytes stuck to their plan to summon and kill Phaenax.
* Aryan Grande performed at the festival to get the people dancing and singing.
* Sybil, SBG3, Muchomucho, Labya, Clows Kufas, and Juxxtina went to the palace to find the king. They found him in his study writing his abdication. He provided the group royal pardons for any crimes committed since they started their journey. Demetrius felt the throne was cursed and he wanted to be as happy as he was when he was simply hanging out with the Acolytes and adventuring. SBG3 tried and failed to talk him into staying on the throne. Sybil used her magic to modify his memory so he thought SBG3 gave a rousing speech, which convinced Demetrius to keep wearing the crown. They used this opportunity to tell Demetrius that his mother was Queen Nekros. The young king now sees his reign as a way to redeem his family.
* Barb, Muchomucho, and Dikarus Bottombane went to the tavern that served the best wine. In exchange for making their wine called Rouge the official royal wine, Taverness gave Barb a few barrels of her best vintage. Spyral was there as well and he gave the group some of his stardust, which Barb used to lace the wine. She inspired Spyral to put stardust in Setessa's water supply. Festival goers became very drunk and high after all of this.
* With the party atmosphere set, the group needed to sacrifice something meaningful to them. Layla sacrificed her exhaust pipe. Sybil went to a nearby hospice run by the Karametra temple. She used her illusion magic to distract the medical staff so she could sneak in and sacrifice 10 patients.
* In the local cemetery, SBG3 crafted a Phaenax trinket and placed it in the magical circle surrounded by Muchomucho, Sybil, Clows, Juxxtina, and Labya. The spellcasters' incantation worked and the Phaenax trinket transformed into the real Phaenax.
* Phaenax came ready to party. He fondled an angel statue, dug up a corpse to call it gross, and created air horn sound effects by snapping his fingers.
* SBG3 asked the party if they should kill Erebos instead with Phaenax's help. Disgusted by his broey behavior, the party decided to kill Phaenax for that alone. Barb convinced the god of theater and undeath to drink the godkiller potion. He downed the shot quickly. Dikarus showed off the Armor of Attraction and SBG3 and Muchomucho help trick Phaenax into putting it on.
* Phaenax started to feel sick and his godly aura dissipated. He then threw up. When he finished retching, he rose to fight the Acolytes. Spyral was drunkenly walking around the cemetery and Phaenax turned his son into a deva to fight by his side. Dikarus fired his goddess bow at the weakened god. Muchomucho launched meteors at Phaenax. SBG3 fired scorching rays at the satyr god. Phaenax used his legendary resistances twice against Barb's phantasmal killer and once against Sybil's blight spell. Clows encased himself in a chilly magical armor. Spyral flew towards Labya. Juxxtina summoned a celestial angel of her own to fight with the party. Her angel Celeste critically hit Phaenax with an arrow.
* Using his legendary action, Phaenax struck Barb with a radiant bolt, which caused her to cast hellish rebuke. Phaenax then cast synaptic static on Muchomucho, Juuxxtina, Labya, and Clows. Seeing that Juxxtina and Labya kept healing the party, he focused his legendary radiant bolts on them. Muchomucho fired scorching rays at the theatrical god. Clows landed a critical blow with his dancing sword. Spyral bludgeoned Labya with his mace. Sybil summoned a fire elemental that burned Phaenax and set him on fire. Barb's phantasmal killer finally inflicted pain onto Phaenax and made him afraid. Knowing he was afraid of ghosts, Clows used his magical tattoo to become incorporeal and walked through him, dealing more psychic damage. Spyral knocked Labya out with more strikes from his mace.
* Dikarus landed another arrow in Phaenax's torso. Near the true death, Phaenax unleashed a shatter spell that knocked out Juxxtina, Clows, Muchomucho, and nearly killed Labya outright. Seeing half of her friends down, Sybil raced over and hit Phaenax with the whip created by Erebos. Her whip wrapped around his neck and she sent him back to the Underworld when she slammed him to the ground. Spyral shifted back to his satyr-self and lost the will to fight after seeing his father die.
* All of Phaenax's stardust hovered over the spot where he died. The party tended to their wounded and got to work with the ascension. SBG3 nominated Layla to ascend to godhood. His argument convinced Juxxtina to not nominate herself and she voted for Layla. Labya pleaded her case for godhood and voted for herself. The rest of the party abstained and Dikarus voted for Layla. An enraged Labya cast dawn, which burned her fellow party members and destroyed Layla's construct body. Her ghost then possessed Labya's and she snorted the stardust. The two ascended as sister goddesses called Timeless Beauty (Layla) and Grandfather Clock (Labya).
* Timeless Beauty's first act of godhood was to sever SBG3's connection to Hadar.