Session 23

Salix, having spent her morning praying for guidance, researching the Feywild, check in with the people of Grassgrave, and on a lovely date with Sentinel, returns to her room to find Kendell, admiring his new bow. The two of them catch up, and talk about the upcoming trip to the Feywild.

Everyone reunites, and Dev quickly gets together a bag of holding and some money to send back home to their family. As they head upstairs to plane-shift, Sentinel tells Salix that he won't be able to join them for the trip. The rest join hands and Kyuu bamfs them to the Feywild.

They open their eyes in a forest of mushrooms, clearly nothing like they've ever seen before. Kyuu tells them they are just a few miles outside of Serene. After about 30 minutes, they arrive at the city. She tells them this is one of the homes of the Summer Court, and Salix reminds Kendell that their grove is connected to this court.

As they get their first glimpse of the city, they see wisps of smoke rising from the castle in the middle. Entering, the city is much quieter than they would expect, and no guards are at the gate. They soon begin seeing people, frozen in place, seemingly stopped in time.

They rush toward the castle, glancing over people along the way, all frozen under some magical effect. They begin hearing crashes from inside the castle, and they can see that the smoke is coming from in there now. As they rush in, they see Kyrie approaching them, telling them they shouldn't be here. They whistle, and several more Kyries approach too.

Several of the Kyries clearly seem like they're looting things from the castle. The Kyrie that approaches them tell them they didn't expect to see them again. They use a charming effect on Salex, Kendell, and Dev, successfully affecting Dev. They tell the group that there's a lot going on that they don't know about. Kendell quickly recognizes that this is not the real Kyrie.

Kendell fires an arrow at Kyrie, but Dev quickly uses their circle of blasting to kick up a bunch of dust to obscure the area around the group. Kyrie takes off running, and the group tries to follow, with Salix shifting into wolf form to catch their real scent. The group hears shouting that "Ambrose is awake". They follow Salix up a grand staircase, and find a set of doors chained with cold iron chains.

Opening the doors, they find an ornate room with Kyrie, sitting with a beautiful woman, both frozen in place. Salix touches Kyrie, in wolf form, breaking them from their frozen state. Kyrie, in turn shakes Pax out of her state, too. They quickly catch Kyrie up, and they introduce Pax to their friends. Pax seems particularly fixated on Salix, telling the group not to let anyone touch Salix, that she is more important than any of the rest of them. She also says she can't be seen here, though, and leaps out the window.

Going into the hallway, they spot an Unseelie archfey, holding Kyrie's brother, Ambrose. The Archfey recognizes Kyrie, telling the group that he will take them instead of Ambrose. The group takes this challenge and springs into action. During the course of the fight, Salix' wolf form drops, and the Archfey sees her, telling her she's "the one", and he shouldn't have come here. The Archfey flees, leaving behind the dead body of Ambrose in his wake.

Kendell says a prayer to the Raven Queen over Ambrose's body. Kyuu tells Kyrie that there's someone that can fix this - Agatha, a hag. Salix takes the body, and Zephyr arrives. Kyrie catches her up on events, and she says demands to know where Ambrose's body is. She says they have 24 hours, and Kyrie says they will get it done.

Kyrie walks to the throne room, taking the moonblade off the wall. House Amaranth is going to war.