Everyone Knows They Can't Take A Yolk

22nd Febuary 2023

The Adventurers Guild of Otha's Rest have been called upon to look into the strange goings on in Leodis. An odd spector has been seen berating people and it's really getting beyond a joke.

## Adventurers Attending

* Grrder
* Harbek Arnessen
* Seiche-Yumine
* Jam Jar
* Aldier

## Mission Notes

While the adventurers sat in the mostly empty guildhall, Beefington nailed a quest onto the quest board. Noticing some people just sat around Beefington asked if they work here before telling them to sort that out. The post stated that Lord Silverstone of Leodis had been getting harassed by a ghost and wanted it to stop. Heading out straight there, Aldier plays music all the way there over the course of 3 days which slowly grew to grate on their driver who dropped them off quite far from the gates.

Walking the rest of the way they meet a friendly guard at the gate who took an interest in what Grrder is. He took a shine to the group and pointed them in the right direction for finding Lord Silverstone. Getting to the house they are shown to the study by Jasper, Lord Silverstone's man servant.

Lord Silverstone explained how he had been getting haunted for the last week and a half by the spectator of an old acquaintance that went by the name Eggman. He had been appearing at midnight and bothering him for hours. No one had seen this as it was written off as Lord Silverstone's drunken outbursts.

Leaving to investigate, the gang heads over to Eggman's "Hot Aladrin Widow" in their Leodis manner. Getting to the get an annoying magic mouth appears on the gate saying "Oh no we don't want guests". After giving up on the nonsense of the main gate, the group headed around the surrounding wall till they found a service door. Meeting Geoffrey who informed them the lady of the manor wasn't taking visitors in this time of mourning. It had only been 13 months out of the traditional 18 months for Dwarven period of mourning. The group was informed it was in bad taste to come asking about the ghost of the recently deceased. Finding out the Eggman had very little to do with Lord Silverstone in life, they head off for more clues.

Heading to the tarven [[The King's Men that they spotted on the way into Uptown, they entered a deserted scene. An elven barman disinterested welcomes them. Offering them a bottle of Elverquisst it gets turned down for being a bit too rich at 2000 gold, then offering the cheapest drink on the menu at 120 gold. Seeing he isn't having any takers he keeps tight lipped after Jam Jar tried to sweeten him with a cash gift.

Heading back to Lord Silverstone and talking with his neighbors yielded no useful information; the group turned back to investigating the house to see if any reasons for this to be happening. Nothing came up, the party decided to retire for the evening until the usual time when the spector shows. Meeting in the study at midnight the spectral form of Eggman appears floating in the center of the study. Talking to Eggman he lets on that he has been haunting Lord Silverstone to get him to call the guild so he can get them to do something for him. Telling them to follow him he flys out the door and rushes to Hide Park district and flies through the door of the house.

Catching up to him the party checks out the house, upon finding it locked Harbex takes the time to effortlessly smash the door open with his warhammer. Once inside they find a rather modest living space before a disembodied voice from upstairs tells them to look "I'm here". Heading upstairs they come across a small workshop with a strange black box being worked on and arcane crystals that seem to be a powersource of sorts. Casting identify revealed there is a Magic Mouth and Programmed Illusion cast on them. Eggman’s voice shouts from downstairs “No I’m down here not there”. Harbex takes black box with them along with the strange crystals.

Heading through the door under the stairs leads them to a cellar that someone dug a hole into the wall and tunneled, going deeper down. Eventually coming across a more finished part of the construct it starts to be lined with tiles of red, yellow, magenta and blue. Walking through the door they come into an empty room lined with Yellow, red, blue and magenta tiles, with a door on the other side. Testing a hunch they hit a title which drops to shatter on spikes hidden beneath them. Testing further revealed the tiles to try out matched the colour patterns from the previous room.

On the other side they go to open the door to have a massive mouth appears on the door and utters

"It’s close to midnight

And something evil’s lurking in the dark

Under the moonlight"

Looking into the next room they see an almost complete room with two doorways and a few crates of varying sizes in the corner. One doorway is filled with a wall of dirt while the other one is shut, not showing off anything. Looking in the crates way too many bottles of different alcohol that looked like it could stock a whole bar. In the Larger crate a stone pillar going up to a point is covered in arcane runes. It's sussed out that it is used as a locking mechanism.

Going through the next door another mouth appears

"You see a sight that almost stops your heart

You try to scream

But terror takes the sound before you make it

You start to freeze"

Opening to reveal a short corridor ended with a door. Interacting with that door it creaks open as a funky beat starts playing, the final door say

"As horror looks you right between the eyes

You’re paralysed"

As the beat of the song kicks in it’s recognisable as the song Thriller by that well known elven bard Jackheal Micson. Zombies start dancing out from behind mirror ball curtains heading towards the party across the flashing coloured tiles of the dancefloor. Harbex, seeing the music coming from boxes that resemble the black box, drops it and charges in with the rest of his team. Getting swarmed, Harbex holds up his holy symbol to cause all the undead but one to run  back behind their curtains. Not before the group managed to stomp out a couple. Heading out to the corridor to decide what to do the music and lights stop as they close the door.

Deciding they should probably rest for a bit then leave a voice starts shouting at them to go back in and put an end to those foul creatures. After much back and forth with the group Jam Jar managed to strike a deal with Eggman who will provide them with a little extra incentive and promises to stop haunting Lord Silverstone. Harbex also picks up that Eggman isn’t being affected by the turn undead aurora and mentions he doesn’t really care that much for Moradin. Eggman wants the zombies “redead” to get back at someone called the Necrodancer who has been hitting on his wife. Coming up with a plan the group creates a bottleneck just outside the room and fights the zombies one at a time with Harbex at the front. Eventually Jam jar takes over as Harbex couldn’t take too much more.

Once leaving to head back for much needed rest Eggman mentions that the crystal they found earlier can be turned into earrings of messaging if they show it to the right person. After some sweet talking, Jam Jar gets Eggman to tell them who would be able to do it and pay for it. On the way out Eggman tries to get the party to trash the house by flipping the sofa or smashing things,the only thing that happened was a cushion was ruffled slightly.

## Loot

* Standard Gold and Experience
* Earring of Message x 4
* Bottles of Mead worth 10gp each - Jam Jar