Summary: Session A059

Session A59 took place on 5/14/2021 and was attended by Brittany, Dylan, Joe, Katrina, and Mandie. It was the 61st session overall to take place.

This session takes place in-game for the Main Party on July 19th, 1766 and ends on an unknown date.

## The Party

* Brittany as Lusine Vavrad as "Sparrow"
* Dylan as Tholgar Ironfoe as "Braum"
* Joe as Saber as "Crow", and Kapa
* Katrina as Claudia Bastille as "Saphira"
* Mandie as Aislinn Nolani as "Onyx", and Bubbles

## NPCs

* Celeste Veranova as "Violet Scarf"
* Braynt as "Crimson Ascot"
* Nikoli Veranova as "Blue Tie"
* Von Dral as "Blue Moon Mask"
* Haley Dastmon as "Bat Mask"
* Basere Truen as "Bear Mask"
* Raimy Feighlas as "Tiger Mask"
* Tad as "Gold Dragon Mask"
* Cred Junst as "Black Dragon Mask"
* Ben as "Blue Scarf"
* Varkson Sokolov as "Orange Ascot"
* Tali Conrt as "Pink Dress"
* Cas Veranova as "Purple Flower Mask"
* Jeb Sokolov as "Red Plume"
* Uphir Hasade as "Yellow Plume"
* Mary Sokolov as "Jade Brooch"
* Von Delimar as "Wolf Mask"
* Gul Tun Dar as "Wolf Fur Coat"
* Astral Deva as "Feathered Wings"
* Adult Green Chromatic Dragon as "Draconic Wings"
* Pit Fiend as "Demonic Wings"
* Aldritch Thryst as "Mustached Mask"
* Belle Caderna as "Flaming Hair"
* Alister

## Events

* Claudia asks Ben about the Library. He elaborates on nigh-unsurvivable ways to go there, as well as layers to the underdark: The under-dark, the middle-dark, and the abyss. The abyss contains a jungle, in the middle of which is an entrance to the library. Ben elaborates the jungle is surrounded by a black forest, and notes there are many volcanos that surprisingly do not light the area up. "Deep woods. Deeper secrets."
* Claudia asks about the Floating City. Ben says the best way to get there would be to shoot oneself up there using a very large cannon with a very large payload.
* Celeste summons Lusine to the dungeons, where it is revealed that her dead husband and child have been resurrected. Lusine vows to take the time to catch up with them after the end of the masquerade.
* Celeste appears before the court unmasked, and encourages everyone else to follow along. Everyone unmasks one-by-one, except for an absent Blue Tie and Blue Moon Mask.
* Blue Moon Mask appears and unmasks himself, revealing himself to be Von Dral.
* Blue Tie shows up and unmasks himself, revealing himself to be none other than Nikoli Veranova. He is carried by servants of the Cult of the Rift atop a throne. The rest of the party prepares for combat; Saber takes a shot of drow absinthe, enlarges himself, and resummons Kapa to his side. Nikoli draws his weapons - notably including Envy of the Red Sin Series - and charges the party, only to be promptly met with Saber's fist to his face.
* The party engages Nikoli and the cult members accompanying him while other guests deal with each other. Gul Tun Dar fights with Von Dral; Aldritch Thryst fights with Von Delimar; Mary Sokolov and Cas Veranova make out as the masquerade goes to hell around them.
* Lusine delivers the finishing blow to Nikoli Veranova with the Greater Undead-Slaying Arrow, destroying him beyond any hope of regeneration. His equipment, including Envy, falls to the ground.
* The cult is not finished yet. Alister appears on the ballroom floor with more servants of the cult, and calls out a large floodslain orc wielding the same butchering axe once held by the Bandit Lord Nawu, last seen when it was given to the Healer's Guild in Jormundar.
* More cult members come out, one brandishing a runic staff with some sort of unusual fragment stuck into it. Claudia identifies this as a so-called Fragment of Space, and the cult member with the staff impales it into the ground. He is joined by others who hold the staff and begin chanting.
* The party is distracted by the large orc, whom lands a blow on Saber that appears decisively fatal. However, Saber is only rendered unconscious. The party's combined efforts allow them to defeat the orc, but despite their best efforts, they are unable to disrupt the activities of the cultists chanting around the staff. Reality becomes heavily distorted as the party is once again pulled through rifts that threaten to separate them from their equipment and each other. Each person only has time to grab one thing.
	+ Aislinn takes Bubbles.
	+ Claudia takes her fireball gun.
	+ Lusine takes her holy dagger, Moon's Revenge.
	+ Saber, barely clinging on to life-let alone consciousness-reaches out and takes Envy instead of his signature Estoc.
	+ Tholgar takes one of his shields.
* The party advances to Level 10. Everyone hangs on for dear life as they are once again transported somewhere against their wills, and all goes dark as the Lon Masquerade concludes.