Blood

The Acolytes in Sexy Tights arrive in Lucarda to find Melf's magic mirror and investigate Mayor Trumble's dealings with the Raven Queen.

## Major Plot Points

#### Lucarda's Mushroom Forest

* The party arrived in Lucarda, a small village under Xanthoria's domain with a large mushroom forest.. They quickly discovered that the sign advertising the town's population could be edited to kill citizens or cause random births. Muchomucho M Amor took the sign and chalk for safekeeping.
* Juxxtina wanted to eat some wild mushrooms so Aryan Grande tried to help her find some safe for consumption. Unfortunately, Aryan couldn't ID these Feywild mushrooms. Juxxtina bit a large one and became temporarily imbued with radiant fire magic. Juggs bit a large hole into a pixie's mushroom home. Dewey Thundersnatch mended the damage.
* Bromo really wanted to check out the local tavern, but instead went into Lucarda's mushroom forest with the rest of the Acolytes as they followed drag marks in the ground. While making their way through, a group of humanoid bats flew passed them, bumping and scratching the Acolytes.
* Clows Kufas took a bite of another large mushroom and became covered in flames. Muchomucho attempted to commune with the mushroom, but he sensed an intrusion into his brain and a brief sense of connectedness. He traced this back to Xanthoria, Archfey of Autumn and Decay and member of the Grim Court.
* Bromo knocked on a random door and a sprite answered. He welcomed the fairy barbarian and Sybil Ringwell inside. The sprite charmed Sybil and coaxed her into his study where he tried to suck her blood. Upon tasting werewolf blood, he spat it out and demanded Sybil leave. Realizing the sprite was a vampire, the Acolytes attempted to stop him. Dewey mended the hole in his wall while he tried to flee in his mist form. The hole closed around him, cutting off his foot. Sybil was unable to track him after this. She then used her fire magic to burn his mushroom down.
* Clows lost the trail of the drag marks so the party decided to head back towards town.

#### Vampire Bar

* The Acolytes went to the tavern in Lucarda and discovered the Raven Queen smoking at a private table. Bromo went over to her, but she failed to recognize him. When Sybil asked her about Mayor Trumble, the Raven Queen admitted to providing him with the pumpkin curse. Bromo was saddened to hear his mother could do such a thing. Despite this, he hugged her tightly, which knocked her necklace off and ended the illusion spell. This "Raven Queen" was actually McSpanky, the Archfey of Comedy and Treasure. McSpanky was just pretending to be the Raven Queen as a joke. He booped Juxxtina's nose, which made her drunk. After McSpanky tried to get people to reach into his pot of gold, which was positioned weirdly on his lap, Muchomucho cast heat metal on it. McSpanky loved Muchomucho's prank and enjoyed Bromo's vibe. He high-fived them and teleport away with a fart.
* Sybil cast detect thoughts on the bartender, confirming the group' suspicions that this town was populated with vampires. Sybil also learned that the tavern kept 4 elves trapped in the basement. Dewey went outside and discovered a storm door to the building's cellar. Dikarus Bottombane's impressive lock picking couldn't open the door. Aryan fired a chaos bolt, which damaged it, but the chaos magic made a tree grow from it. Aryan then started pounding on a drum set away from the tavern to cover the noise of Bromo chopping the tree down.
* Dikarus and Aryan snuck inside and found the elves tied to a machine that bled them. Muchomucho joined them and added two good berries to several bottles of blood wine. The group them used a combination of their minor illusions to cover up the break-in.
* The party waited and then heard the unmistakable pop of exploding vampires. Aryan used her giant spider mount to web up the sole survivor - the bartender. Dikarus went downstairs and freed the captives. The bartender said that weird noises had been coming from Milf Manor despite Melf not being home. He theorized whatever was in there was the cause of the recent uptick in cattle disappearances. After sharing all of his valuable intel, Sybil banished him back to his home dimension (though banishment sent Gregggg to the Plane of Acid so who knows where he ended up).
* The Acolytes rifled through anything the exploded vampires left behind.
	+ Dewey found an immortal rose with 6 petals. When Dewey drops to 0 HP, a petal falls off and restores 1 HP.
	+ Bromo found a bat-shaped seal and red wax. The text of a document sealed with this wax becomes invisible to anyone but the author and the intended recipient.
	+ Muchomucho grabbed the Raven Queen pendant and the blood frenzy whip.
	+ Clows found an intact vampire heart.
	+ Juxxtina found an endless blood goblet.
	+ Aryan found a crimson gem. When broken, it summons a random spirit or a spirit of Aryan's choice.
	+ Sybil found a vampiric dagger.
	+ Dikarus found a Cloak of the Bat.

#### Milf Manor

* The Acolytes arrived at Melf's home. Muchomucho successfully removed the enchantments from the door and windows. The party entered the home and discovered a bloody and ruined foyer. Bromo immediately threw the ugly rug out of the house - only to realize after it was a flying carpet as it went into the sky. When Bromo threw a piece of a broken statue into a lit brazier, a dark smoke rose from it and filled the room. The magical darkness even blinded those with dark vision. When it dissipated, Dikarus was gone.
* Dewey used Dikarus' personal sock (somehow in Juxxtina's possession) to scry for him in Tasha's Cauldron. All he could see was darkness but he could hear a heartbeat slowing down.
* Sybil used her magical gaze to peer into the other rooms. In the south room, she found an unconscious man on a couch in a study. To the east, she saw a bloodied hall with archer statues. Up the stairs, a bright light shined into her eyes and prevented her from seeing through the doors.
* The group went into the study where Dewey checked on the unconscious man. The man was actually a vampire and attacked Dewey. He would eventually fall to Muchomucho's fire bolt.
* Bromo went over to a table with a built in mirror and tried to clean the blood off of it. The blood soaked his shirt and then traveled to his hand, enveloping it. He dunked his bloody hand in Juxxtina's endless blood goblet, but that just made the blood go further up his arm. Dewey tried to heal him, but it just hurt Bromo's infected arm.
* When he looked into the mirror again, he saw a woman covered in blood. She came out of the glass trying to bite and scratch him. She relentlessly continued even after her sneak attack. Bromo hit her with his dead axe, but its necrotic energy healed her, Aryan cast synaptic static on her. Sybil cast magic jar and made herself unconscious. Muchomucho severely injured Bloody Mary with a sunbeam spell. In retaliation, Bloody Mary used her blood boil ability to burn her enemies from the inside. Dewey unleashed a destructive wave on her. Bromo swung his frost brand. Aryan fired her giant slayer crossbow. Bloody Mary used her blood bending magic to make Muchomucho attack his friends with his scythe, but he missed. Clows cast mind sliver on the blood witch. Bromo offered himself as a host for Bloody Mary so her blood-self encased him, forcing Bromo to swing his cold sword at his friends. Aryan fired her icicle rifle. Bloody Mary overcame Sybil's magic jar spell. Muchomucho cast Melf's Minute Meteor, which became empowered thanks to her home's magic, annihilating the Blood Witch.
* A very dirty and pale Dikarus entered the study and said, "Guys, I don't feel so good..."