Rhiannon

The Acquaintances With Weapons have to rescue Rhiannon from Mother's Mercy Asylum.

## Major Plot Points

* AWW arrived in the city of Nightveil, the capital of the Lazarus thalmont. The city was recovering from being conquered by Valindra and dealing with snow removal.
* Karen went to Filene's Basement Dwellings and purchased a grease grenade and improved her selfie stick with a flash feature.
* Peggy, Neuriel, and Sudsy went to Sinner Buns' Magic Shoppe. The group discovered the owner was cutting off appendages of local wildlife to create magical pastries like bear claws that would turn the consumer into a were-bear for one hour. Neuriel and Peggy fixed up Jean Clawed Bear Dam. Sudsy cut off the shopkeep's finger but Neuriel fixed it in exchange for the bear.
* Bigsby and Calypso went to the tavern where Bigsby ate fried batwings.
* Voloth traveled around the city streets and met a woman named Reggie (who was legal in terms of age and citizenship). She asked him if he was a member of the Acquaintances With Weapons. He was reluctant to talk at first but eventually confirmed his identity after hearing she needed help. The two went over to the Blood of the Vine tavern to talk.
* When the party reconvened at the tavern, Reggie said that Rhiannon was captured while investigating the whereabouts of Szass Tam's phylactery. The Covenant had intel that showed Rhiannon was being imprisoned in Mother's Mercy Asylum. Reggie told the group that dissidents and rebels were sent there for reeducation. Most don't survive, but those who do become red wizards.
* Calypso and Reggie watched over AWW's pets while the rest headed north to the asylum.
* At a gate with two guard posts, Neuriel cast silence around them. Sudsy used his squirting flower to kill one red wizard and Karen smothered the other with a bag full of sand.
* Karen cast scrying and saw Rhiannon in a surgical room with a doctor, nurse, and an old woman. The old woman reached out and destroyed Karen's sensor.
* In the asylum's cemetery, AWW met a friendly ghost of a former patient. He warned them to stay away from the garden. He also said there was an outhouse in the back with a line of asylum workers.
* Bigsby approached the line and convinced them all to have an orgy with him. Not wanting to wait for the bathroom now, the group went into the woods to relieve themselves. AWW ambushed them and stole their clothes.
* Sudsy sat on Bigsby's shoulders and posed as a doctor. Voloth and Neuriel posed as orderlies. Peggy posed as a sexy nurse. And Karen posed as a patient.
* They snuck passed the admissions desk and went into the main hall. They met Dr. Frank N. Stein and his creature, a humanoid made out of the hottest pieces of the hottest men he could find. Dr. Stein built the flesh golem as a potential lover for Szass Tam.
* Dr. Stein urged the group to send Karen to hydrotherapy. The party continued on and Karen burst into a surgical room. This scared the doctor and caused him to botch the surgery. He and the nurse were ready to let the group go until Bigsby (posing as Sudy's talking crotch) asked about Rhiannon. The doctor and nurse attacked but were killed by our heroes. Neuriel raised the nurse and patient as his ghoul minions.
* Inside the aromatherapy chamber, the group found four unconscious patients. The party resisted the plants' toxins and rescued the patients.
* In the electroshock therapy chamber, Karen discovered the correct switch to the electric chairs and rescued the four patients in there.
* In the hydrotherapy chamber, Neuriel use his shape water ability to empty the basins and free those four patients.
* In the kitchen, Bigsby found a male elf named Oleander preparing dinner. Oleander said he received a special vegan order for room 301 and assumed Rhiannon was in there.
* AWW quickly realized Sudsy never walked out of the immersion therapy room. Bigsby went in after him but didn't come out either. Karen went in next and resisted the red wizard's hypnosis. She used heat metal to make him drop his pendant and the four patients in there attacked him.
* The party burst into room 301 and found a doctor and nurse working on Rhiannon. The two were being monitored by Mother Mercy herself. Peggy fell under Mother Mercy's charms and walked over her and suffered a slash from her vicious claws. Sudsy scratched her with his own claws and proved immune to her vicious mockery. Voloth then hit her with his eldritch blasts and maul. Mother Mercy slashed at Sudsy. Peggy hit her with magic missiles and her chaotic magic made rain and autumn leaves fall from the sky. Mother Mercy viciously mocked Bigsby next. The bard retaliated with a finger of death. Neuriel's spiritual weapon killed the woman.
* The doctor and nurse pleaded for their lives. Karen branded LOSER on their foreheads and let them go. They were quickly killed by freed patients. Rhiannon came to and helped the party burn the asylum down.
* Wanting to make peace with Bigsby and prove her trustworthiness to the group at large, Rhiannon suggest the bard cast zone of truth on her. He obliged and questioned her. Rhiannon revealed that she was captured after sneaking into Szass Tam's palace in search of his phylactery. She didn't find it there but found proof it was in the Tomb of Doom. She didn't believe whatever Mother Mercy was trying to do worked as she felt fine. She's keeping it casual with Vulveeta and is open to something more. Rhiannon believes she's the "daughter of death" who is prophesied to save Thay since her mother died during childbirth.
* Bigsby was unimpressed with her answers and Rhiannon flew away as an owl. Sudsy mentioned Vulveeta as a candidate for the "daughter of death."