I Put a Spell on You

The Acquaintances With Weapons arrive in Azura, the capital of the Manipular Thalmont. They must helped the subjugated dwarven citizens and defeat Magister Abnegazar Falzor to claim the region.

## Major Plot Points

* The party arrived in Azura and spent their first day exploring the city. Calypso, Fern, and Sudsy went to the Nowhere Tavern. Unable to decide what to order, Sudsy used new book that allows him to commune with demons and devils. The imp he summoned suggested he get the onion soup. In exchange for this suggestion, he was ordered to destroy the Willy's Wings food cart.
* Peggy and Bigsby went to Willy's Wings food cart. Willy offered a wide selection of wings including baby dragon, flying monkey, dodo, and locusts. The two ate their orders at a picnic table under a tree.
* Sudsy approached and lit the greasy food cart and Willy on fire. The explosion blew Willy right into the picnic table Peggy and Bigsby were sitting.
* Bigsby revived Willy and then went back to his place along with Elfy Highman.
* Stzu San and Voloth went to Cosmo's Cauldron and purchased pixie dust, a banana peel of slipperiness, and sleeping powder.
* The next morning, the group saw red wizards escorting dwarves to the local mine. Fern asked Bertha, the owner of Nowhere, what was going on. Bertha explained that Magister Abnegazar Falzor had been conscripting dwarves to work the mine. Many had gone in over the last few months and few had returned.
* Magnus pleaded with the red wizards to know where his mother, Magda, was. When questioned by AWW, he said she was conscripted but hadn't returned from the mine.
* The Acquaintances went to the mine to investigate. Fern shape shifted into a canary and flew inside. Stzu San blew the group's cover and forced a fight with two mind controlled dwarven guards. The rest of the party then met Fern inside the mine.
* In the first chamber they investigated, the Acquaintances found Abnegazar's bed chambers. Bigsby looked into his crystal ball and saw that it was like a diary. The halfling relived moments of Abnegazor's life.
	+ He saw Abnegazar as a young boy secretly studying magic despite it being banned in his colony.
	+ He saw Abnegazar's sister be ritualistically sacrificed to Cerebra, their elder brain master.
	+ He then saw an adult Abnegazar meet Emperor Szass Tam. The emperor explained he was going to attempt to do something many would consider unnatural. He said he sensed great magic in Abnegazar and said he'd be free to practice his craft with him. The two then killed Cerebra and the rest of the mind flayer colony.
* The next chamber was full of bunk beds for the mentally enslaved dwarven miners. Each bed had a comatose miner in it. Bigsby put the good boy collar on one and he shared that they're mining lyrium, a potent mineral that amplifies magical abilities.
* Sudsy was shocked to see the good boy collar's magic. He wrestled with himself whether to wear it or not so he could be "normal." AWW consoled him that it was up to him to be who he is or magically changed. Sudsy grabbed the collar and put it on, putting Willy's son back in a coma. Sudsy then became lawful good.
* The next room was a magically cold room where dead dwarves were hung on meat hooks. All had their brains removed and most had their flesh stripped off. Sudsy, seeing the horror, decided to put the good boy collar back on Willy's son so he could escape. Voloth unhooked the corpses and Bigsby played them a traditional dwarven funeral song.
* The party entered a dirty kitchen next and found five dwarves mindlessly eating the flesh of their kind. Sudsy, having returned to his normal chaotic evil state, tried dwarf bacon.
* AWW then entered the main chamber of the lyrium mine. Several dwarves pickaxed the ground and walls of the chamber. A minotaur skeleton with lyrium embedded into its bones and flaming skull attacked the party. It was able to slash Stzu San with its great axe but missed several of its other attacks. It did prove hardy against the group's necrotic, fire, and poison damage. However, the minotaur proved no match for our heroes.
* After the mining and battle had stopped, the party heard, "Oh my blob! Get me out of here." Stzu San discovered a secret door and found a magical library behind it. Flumphy Cave Princess was trapped inside a cage in the library. Bigsby freed her and the flumph explained how she was exploring Thay's "underground scene" when Abnegazor found her and trapped her. She said he got super pissed that she touched a glass tentacle on his desk. After examining it, Fern and Bigsby saw spirits trapped inside of it. They deduced it must be Abnegazar's phylactery. Bigsby then turned it into a necklace.
* Abnegazar along with a mind controlled Magda confronted AWW. Bigsby attempted to talk him down. The bard almost got through to him by convincing him that he had become like his elder brain master Cerebra and that Szass Tam didn't care about him. Abnegazaor released the dwarves and said he'd defect from the emperor. Communication broke down when Bigsby tried to make Abnegazar give up the souls in his phylactery, thus ending his immortality. The lich refused to give up his life's work. Bigsby destroyed the phylactery, causing a fight between the magister and the Acquaintances. Abnegazor struck Stzu San with his tentacles. The lich blighted Bigsby. The evil wizard then gave Fern the finger of death. To protect himself, he created illusionary duplicates. Voloth burned away a couple of the copies and struck the mind flayer with his hammer. Peggy and Sudsy helped the miners escape the fray. Fern struck the lich with lightning. Bigsby moonbeamed him. Calypso trapped him in a whirlwind. Stzu San beheaded Abnegazor and collected a lyrium warhammer left behind by Magda.