Spiders

The Acolytes in Sexy Tights lose some of their members to Melf's magic mirror and must find a way to free them.

## Major Plot Points

#### Dikarus, Interrupted

* After defeating Bloody Mary in battle, the magic mirror came to life and sucked her back into it. Unfortunately, the mirror also absorbed Bromo, Muchomucho M Amor, Juxxtina, and Sybil Ringwell.
* The remaining Acolytes decided to search Milf Manor in hopes of finding a way to help their trapped friends and a seemingly dead Dikarus Bottombane.
* Clows Kufas magically shrunk the mirror to store it in Barbara Duke's purse of holding.
* Dewey Thundersnatch examined Dikarus and discovered bites marks in his neck. The rogue had lost most of his blood and his heart wasn't beating. This didn't stop Dikarus from talking and moving though. He complained about a painful hunger and a splitting headache.
* Barb slipped a tacky silver ring on Dikarus' pinky and it slightly burned his skin. When they tried to feed him blood from the ground, Dikarus spat it out. Aryan Grande put the silver ring in the blood and realized they tried to feed him vampire blood. Dikarus tried drinking from the chalice of endless blood, but he spat that out too.
* Dikarus locked eyes with Clows and the elf's pupils dilated and glowed purple. Clows was able to resist the attack, but he could feel Dikarus trying to feed off his psychic energy. Dikarus apologized profusely for losing control and trying to hurt Clows.
* Dewey correctly surmised that Bloody Mary tried turning Dikarus into a vampire, but her death interrupted the ritual. Dikarus is now psychic dhampir.

### Investigating Milf Manor

* Dikarus realized he could smell emotions and smelled fear coming from deeper inside Milf Manor. In a hallway lined with statues of elven archers, Dewey found a pressure plate that would cause them to fire their arrows.
* In the kitchen, The party found a pixie maid cleaning a bunch of bloodied dishes and cooking very raw, humanoid-looking meats. She hummed happily as she did her work. They snuck by her and went into the dining room. Aryan collected a spider just in case.
* Four dead elves sat at the dining table. They had been drained of blood. Dikarus pointed to a wooden door and said the fear was coming from behind it. Barb created an illusion to look and sound like Melf and called to the person behind the door. The man was elated to hear Melf's voice as the gimp thought his mistress had finally come to remove his binds, which he'd been stuck in since the real Melf left to kill Juxxtina. Dewey used his water magic to clean him up. When he was released, he freaked out at the sight of the dead elves in the dining hall. Barb was able to calm his nerves and asked for his consent to have Dikarus feed off of him. The gimp obliged and Dikarus fed on his psychic energy, relieving him of his hunger and headache. The party debated inviting the gimp along, but they decided to leave him in the BDSM dungeon with food and water.
* Bromo then arrived saying he found a way out of the mirror thanks to spending so much time in the hall of mirrors at the Witchlight Carnival. Aryan took Barb's silver ring and applied it to his bloody arm. The silver burned away the infestation.
* The Acolytes went back to the kitchen to check on the pixie maid. Dewey broke the charm on Fayetta, making her realize she wasn't cleaning up after one of Melf's parties, but rather the horror of Bloody Mary. Fayetta told the group the last thing she remembered was Bloody Mary coming out of the mirror (roughly around the same time as when Melf died) and charming her. Barb as Melf assured Fayetta she wasn't fired and everything will be fine. Fayetta said maybe something in the tower Melf found the magic mirror in could help control her again. The Acolytes took Melf's map to Bloody Mary's tower.
* Inside Melf's lab, Aryan looked inside a telescope and saw The Lord of Bats holding court in the Shadowfell. She told the group she saw some gay guy on a throne. Aryan also found the seal of the Raven Queen on the telescope.
* Dewey and Clows crafted a cabbage potion and an arrow fear potion in Melf's cauldron.
* Bromo knocked over the bookcase out of boredom. Luckily, a book he kicked was Melf's journal. Barb tried to open it, but its eyes hit her with fiery beams. Dikarus tried and failed to pick its lock. Barb picked the lock and opened it. A demonic hand reached out and tried to choke Barb. Dewey cast command on the book, allowing him to read it. The triton learned Melf stole the Raven Queen's telescope from her home in Slushy Slopes. Melf also copied pages of the Raven Queen's own journal. They contained love poems and letters dedicated to the Lord of Bats.

#### Bloody Mary's Tower

* The Acolytes followed Melf's map to Bloody Mary's tower. All that remained of it though was a single story stone structure. Madame GooGoo, a satyr bard, was performing inside. Her fellow satyr revelers danced around a fire, throwing offerings like flowers and poems into it. Dewey recognize GooGoo's performance as a general summoning ritual to welcome any kind of deity. GooGoo believed this building housed a unique power and she wanted to bring it out. The smoke from the fire traveled unnaturally to a set of curtains behind the bar.
* Barb wanted to see what was behind the curtains. She asked the bartender to personally deliver the most expensive liquor he had to GooGoo and say it was from a secret admirer. When he was sufficiently distracted, she and the Acolytes found a large hole behind the curtain. They descended down and found themselves in a chamber. The group realized the tower somehow became inverted and was embedded upside down into the earth. Clows rotated two statues so they wouldn't face the wooden door on the far side of the room. When he rotated them, their eyes changed from red to blue. He threw a rock towards them and shot fired ice at it. He rotated them again so they faced the wall.
* The door led to the tower's library. Books were spilled all over the floor with a bunch of rubble. Dewey found a book called The Origins of the Archfey. It said the Raven Queen became the first Archfey after building something called the Mythalar. She then used it to create more Archfey. Eventually, talented enough beings could build their own and make themselves Archfey.
* When they entered a ruined potion storage room, the Acolytes were attacked by a dragon blood ooze. Barb cast phantasmal killer on it, hurting the gooey dragon and making it afraid of her. Aryan shot it with her chaos bolt. Her wild magic summoned a demonic ape that is loyal to Aryan. Clows used Bigby's Hand to catch the ooze. The ooze was hurt by its grasp but was able to liquify and slip out of its grip. It then fired acidic and burning goop at the demonic ape and Barbara Duke. Bromo struck the ooze with his axe. Dikarus fired an arrow at it. Dewey's destructive wave was enough to destroy it.
* In the final chamber, the party found a large spider woman among its debris. Aryan's spider crawled out of her pocket and bowed to her. Lolth, the Archfey of Conspiracies and the goddess worshiped by evil drow, had been summoned by Madame GooGoo's performance - she came to violently tell her to shut the hell up.
* Lolth sniffed at Bromo and said she could smell he is the Raven Queen's kin. When Bromo asked about his mother and father, Lolth said they're apart but still alive. She explained that Baba Yaga had a vision that the Raven Queen's son with the Lord of Bats would be The Destroyer. Baba Yaga shared this with Titania so the two conspired to eliminate the Raven Queen and hide Bromo away.
* Lolth is angry with both Baba Yaga and Queen Titania and wants to see the Raven Queen restored. Queen Titania is holding her beloved Arachnea prisoner in hopes she can exchange her for Princess Keira's remains. Baba Yaga will not accept these terms.
* The Acolytes decided they'd kill Queen Titania socially by exposing her plans to use necromancy to revive her daughter. If Bromo can convince Prince Keeryn to marry him, then the prince marrying The Destroyer would solidify her political death.
* The Acolytes committed to killing Baba Yaga the old fashioned way with Prince Keeryn's intel.
* Lolth told the party the Raven Queen is being held on the island of Avros. She provided them with a list of magic items the Acolytes will need to awaken her. Depending on how cool she is, they may help her ascend to the Feywild throne.
	+ Essence of Genie
	+ Kraken Ink
	+ Water from the Fountain of Youth
	+ Sword of an Angel
* To solidify their alliance with Lolth, Aryan sent her demonic ape to kill Madame GooGoo and her revelers.