Bring U Down

The party meets with the Philosopher's Star, the ruling council of Meletis, to gain their support against Queen Nekros. They discover a changeling named Lux is posing as the city's oracle.

## Major Plot Points

* While eating brunch at the Symposia, the party saw a man dressed in just a loincloth eating breakfast spaghetti. Muchomucho M. Amor offered to oil up a spot he missed. Sprocket "Ballsy" Gnoman III used some of his excess oil to fix a squeak in one of his inventions. Jerkules told the party he was training to take part in the Iroan Games happening in the city of Akros in a few weeks. Competitions in the games include wrestling, boxing, gymnastics, javelin throwing, discus, and racing.
* Juxxtina saw her crush Jaime, the man who led her to Karametra. She was very awkward around him. Dikarus attempted to tell Juxxtina she needed to be more direct but she found his advice sinful.
* The party went back to the Observatory as the view to the lands of the gods were much improved this morning.
	+ Aryan Grande used a telescope to see Mogis. He warned her about snakes in the grass and that two wars were coming - one with a visible enemy and one with an invisible one. He tried and failed in explaining that not whole groups of people were bad.
	+ Juxxtina used a telescope to commune with Karametra. She warned the tiefling that the balance of life and death was tipping.
	+ Sybil Ringwell used a telescope to see Pharika. The goddess of affliction told the wizard she should experiment on Queen Nekros and her undead soldiers as the world needs to learn much about them.
	+ Muchomucho spoke with Klothys who advised him to restore order to the world, but first he must restore order in Meletis. Kruphix shared that he sometimes felt fat in his robe.
	+ Sprocket communed with Purphoros who told the inventor that one of his inventions will come back to haunt him and he must set things right.
	+ Dikarus communed with Kruphix but didn't share their conversation with the rest of the party.
* Later at the chamber of the Philosopher's Star, the party tried to convince the leaders of Meletis to send their arcane knights to fight Queen Nekros. Oracle Oleandra Drach said the party spoke falsehoods and that they and the king hallucinated the attack at the ancient Heliod temple. She argued her visions of a minotaur threat were far more important and credible.
* Muchomucho was then very rude to her. Ultimately, Oleandra convinced Phallos and Aristitle of the council to vote with her and they ended the meeting. Cokratese and Gayto voted in favor of the party.
* Cokratese subtly asked the party to go to the temple of Klothys and investigate the oracle as her demeanor had been off for awhile.
* In the Klothys chapel, Sybil conjured the image of a minotaur. A priestesses immediately attacked it. Rory Sharptooth and Sprocket questioned the priestess. She shared that Oracle Oleandra had the priests and priestesses training to fight minotaurs.
* In the library, Rory swiped a map of the temple from a few acolytes who were studying to join the temple's staff.
* The temple had a salon to honor Klothys' hair - each strand represents a Therosian humanoid. Sprocket volunteered to be a centaur hairstylist's first customer. She shaved his hair off and caused slashing damage to his head. Rory intimidated her to give him a free wig. Aryan then knocked over her wig displays, which were swept up with the rest of the hair on the ground.
* In the Lady Luck Casino of the temple, the group lost a game of Fuck Chuck. Rory successfully got Chuck's number though. They noticed a satyr who was winning round after round. Sprocket then saw magical contacts in his eyes. Thanks to Sybil's charm spell, the group convinced the satyr to share his winnings and let Sprocket study his contacts to build them their own pair. Thanks to their cheating, they now have 1,187 gold. Juxxtina called the party sinners.
* The group then went into the oracle's chambers. They found Oleandra with her guard and faerie dragon familiar. Oleandra knocked Sprocket out with her phantasmal killer spell. Rory avenged his fallen friend by cleaving her in half with his halberd. Juxxtina's guiding bolt cut down the oracle's guard.
* When the oracle fell, she shapeshifter back into her original form - that of a changeling.
* Rory found a letter addressed to a person named Lux that read, "You’ve done the Spellfire Club proud as our new Marble Bishop. Spread the seeds of war and watch our profits grow. - The Silver Queen."
* Dikarus said he'd heard of the Silver Queen from his days as a criminal. There's a conspiracy theory that a woman called the Silver Queen secretly took over criminal organizations and families all over Faerun. If this were true, she'd control most of the continent's organized crime.
* Sprocket was able to claim Faerie Fire for himself. The faerie dragon opened a secret vault for his new friends. Inside the vault was a pile of gold and a scrying pool that could be used to spy on people. A statue of a woman was close to it, holding a jug that poured water into the fountain. Sybil deduced the statue was the true oracle.
* Rory used a remove curse spell scroll and liberated the real Oracle Oleandra. They discovered she'd been petrified for three months. Rory stole her diary. Oracle Oleandra quickly left to undo the damage caused by her imposter.
* Each player gained 1 Klothys piety point for restoring order in the temple.
* You're all Level Three now!