S06E12: The Gang Invents Kanban-ye

## Previously on MCVFD

The gang made some more sculptor friends.

Nissa broke her brain.

Kanye got naked with a spider.

## Session

This was definitely more of a blood sacrifice temple than a love and worship temple.  It’s been converted into a science space.  Evidence of human sacrifice.  The walls are bare or have simple murals, except in the far back corner.  There’s an out of place tapestry. Um lifts the tapestry and discovers a secret door!

There’s a doorway leading to a side hall. Sorith goes down the corridor… seems like a devotionary room.  Nothing.  Or is there? He feels a presence and sees someone kneeling.  Sorith says “what are you doing?” it stands, turns around, and glares at him. “You shouldn’t be here”.  Sorith walks away.

Um carefully points out the door to Kanye.  Can he kick it? Yes he can.  He oils himself up as a warmup…. But Sorith walks up and just opens it.  Not to be outdone, Kanye decides to try and squeeze past him.  He’s a half-orc.  He can’t get by.  And isn’t quiet about it.  But maybe no one’s in this hallway to listen? We sneak down the hallway with the help of Um’s Sneaky Fucker bracer power.  Another door!

Hey Gearbox, where’s the treasure? …. Vaguely northward.

Um peeks through the door. Bored guards, playing cards.Shamans, wearing robes, no weapons.

Lizards.  Turns out (thanks Nissa) you can inspect a lizard’s vents to find out what gender they are.  We can’t tell from here.  Kanye’s plan to lure the lizards into the hallway won’t work then…. Or will it?

> **DM**: You’re already naked and you’re already greased up, you might as well go for it.
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Kanye wonders if Um can make a trap.He’s got caltrops, which are a trap.  We could also rig the jar of bees to crack open when the doors open.  Or grease the floor?

No, wait.  Kanye has the perfect idea and disappears into the pocket workshop.  He returns after an hour with…. a rake. Brilliant.  With a little more inspiration and some good espresso, he rallies the gang to make artisan rakes.  While looking for the most effective way for his team to work, he invents Kanban-ye.  The increased efficiency got us five rakes!

The gang booby-traps the hallway with bees, caltrops, greased marbles, then rakes.  We leave a message asking them whether they want more?

Kanye sits down with Gearbox for a nice chat.  What’s his oldest memory? Waking up in Kwalish’s lab.  Does he dream? He doesn’t sleep.  He can close his eyes.  What does he see? Darkness.  Kanye: Interesting, we’ll circle back around to that later.

Nissa asks if the gems are part of the Infernal Machine.  No… Yes… he doesn’t know?

Kanye examines the Rubies.  Real, giant, with metal attached.

Um prepares to try and touch a ruby with his left hand.  Kanye has his hand on Gearbox in case something bad happens…. But nothing bad happens.

Upon closer inspection, there are wires on the rubies that were added later.  The gang can follow the wires! …. They go into the stone wall Averlyth made.  Oops.

Nissa goes looking for the ghost at the end of the hallway.  The ghost is not looking at her kindly. GET OUT OR YOU WILL BE REMOVED.

Nissa asks whether it’s her specifically or…?

Nope.  Nonbelievers. Of the archdemon Molach. Nissa tries to talk to it.  The ghost flies angrily down the hallway.  Kanye hits the rewind button on Gearbox.

Nissa is at the end of the hallways but (rolls a 1) and sees nothing.  What ghost?

Kanye asks Gearbox if he knows what the button did.  Gearbox says this time, it seems like it just rewound time.

Nissa thinks whether she can recall the Molach pamphlets she read while she was in town.  She remembers a passage by Mordecai.  Not only gods can bind souls, archdemons can too for their cultists.  A type of undead called an Idolon, that is a ghost of fanatical devotion, that can inhabit a statue. Nissa tries to whisper a quick warning into the farty-talkie but Kanye’s is turned up to 11 and the ghost hears farts echo off the hallways.

Sorith uses water whip and damages the ghost, because *his fists are magic weapons ooooo.*

Kanye races the ghost to the statue and climbs the statue and tries to remove a ruby.  He yanked one eye out. The ghost flies into the statue, and to our horror, joins with the statue.  The statue stands up.

Roll initiative.