Get No Trouble From Us

**"Get No Trouble From Us"** is the twenty-fifth episode of *Mountain of Mystery*, airing on September 19, 2023.

The session was DMed by TanisJr93 and hosted on his channel on Twitch.

## Summary

*...continued from session twenty-four*
Having teleported from the capital city of Rexxentrum, the party finds themselves near a river in a stretch of the Pearlbow Wilderness at the foot of the Dunrock Mountains. The group follows Caleb through the forest for several hours as he explains that the route he used to escape the asylum included a bladed sewer system designed to destroy the bodies of the hospital's victims, and night falls as they approach the dark and ominous structure of the Vergesson Sanatorium.

Discussing the possibility of a surreptitious entry, Trouble mentions her ability to cast a spell to create 24-hour globes filled with fresh air around the heads of everyone in the party, suggesting that one person could carry Kahlan's Bag of Holding while the rest of the group hides inside it, and Cash explains that, as an Air Genasi, he can hold his breath for an hour on his own. Sado volunteers to carry the Bag, and Lazarus gives him the Cloak of Elvenkind, which the Monk attunes to as the group reaches the border of the property.

Caleb apologizes for his inability to accompany the party inside, and retreats to the treeline to begin preparing an incantation as Trouble *Druidcraft*s a sprig of edelweiss into the wizard's hair before casting *Air Bubble* on herself, Prints, Kahlan, and Lazarus; Kahlan then instructs Mazikeen to keep watch over the Sanatorium during the infiltration before casting *Invisibility* on Sado, and Lazarus secretly establishes a telepathic connection with Caleb before the party climbs into the Bag of Holding, which vanishes as the invisible Monk holds it.

Sado briefly considers the subterranean entrance before climbing the fifteen-foot-tall gate and approaching the front of the building to find two guards stationed at the latched front doors; he nimbly climbs a tree near the entryway and leaps to a balcony on the second floor, finding a glass-pane door through which he spots a half-orc and a halfling who in animated conversation. Waiting for the argument to increase, the Monk silently opens the door and slips inside; one of the men insists that they need another week, while the other insists that they have three days, and Sado recognizes torture implements next to a chair with restraints.

He crosses the office to a staircase that leads back down to an unnervingly quiet room on the ground floor; moments later, a guard enters from an adjacent hallway and sits at a desk, and Sado realizes that he has reached a cellblock. He moves to the far end of the hall and places a tinderbox on the floor, tapping on a metal door to draw lure the guard away from the desk; Sado then passes the guard and approaches the door beside the desk, smears grease on its hinges, and summons Lazarus out of the Bag of Holding. The Rogue quickly picks the lock and returns to the Bag as Sado passes through the door into another hallway.

He moves to the eastern end of the corridor and passes through an unlocked door into a room that he realized is staged lounge room; he spots a man in red robes filling out paperwork through a window into an adjacent room, and crosses the lounge as the door he entered through opens and a man steps inside and enters the adjacent room. Sado passes through another unlocked door just moments before another guard enters the room immediately nearby, and the Monk traverse another hallway to another locked door, summoning Lazarus from the Bag again; the Rogue quickly picks the lock and passes through the door with Sado into another hallway where they find one more locked door that Lazarus expertly picks. The two enter entering a small room with a table, and follow Caleb's map to a small closet where they find a trap door in the floor, opening it to discover a dark spiral staircase leading downward.

Lazarus returns to the Bag, and Sado descends the staircase to an underground level where he hears the clanking of metal, the hissing of steam, and the cackling of unseen inmates. Finding a pair of large double doors and two smaller doors, the Monk opens an unlocked door to the left and enters a stone hallway that leads to a corridor with windowless steel doors marked SUBJECT 4, SUBJECT 3, SUBJECT 2, SUBJECT 1, and SUBJECT 0. He summons Kahlan, Prints, and Lazarus from the Bag, and while the Rogue sees no way to open the doors, the Tabaxi discovers a panel near the entrance with five unlabeled buttons; Lazarus suggests attempting to verbally confirm the identities of the inmates without opening any doors, while Prints suggests opening all of the doors and collecting the people they came for while allowing the rest to attack the guards.

Kahlan, Prints, and Lazarus then return to the Bag as Sado taps on Subject 1's door without receiving a response; he then presses the button to open Subject 1's door, finding a Tiefling woman with vibrant blue hair and pure white eyes sitting crosslegged on a cot. He manages to close the door before the prisoner can escape, then presses the button to open Subject 2's door, finding a gaunt Kenku man inside tattered rags; he summons Trouble from the Bag, and she immediately recognizes her father. As she confirms his identity, he reacts to the sound of her voice by asking: "Elowynn?" He smiles briefly before lashing out and grabbing Trouble by the throat, draining a bit of her strength; the Druid responds by successfully casting *Hold Person* on her father and instructing Sado to close the door, after which she binds her father.

Sado summons Cash from the Bag before opening Subject 3's door, and the Cleric finds a human woman wearing a mask and holding a sharped piece of broken metal; she remains suspicious of the two until Sado summons Prints and Lazarus from the Bag, and the Aasimar telepathically connects with the woman to confirm that she works for the Gentleman. Prints casts *Air Bubble* on Reign, who climbs into the Bag as Lazarus tells Sado to summon him if the situation goes entirely awry. Before he, Prints, or Cash can return to the Bag, however, they all hear a echoing voice say: "Well, well, well. Today got quite interesting, didn't it?" Lazarus immediately recognizes the voice as belonging to Syndock Truscan, who he last encountered at the Court of the King, and the man demands to know why the party has infiltrated the Sanatorium.

Lazarus suggests collecting the last of the prisoners they came for and getting everyone back into the Bag, and Sado opens the doors marked Subject 2 and Subject 4; he and Cash place Trouble's father in the Bag as Lazarus spots a pale woman in the fourth cell immediately before she cackles, inflicting psychic damage on everyone in the hallway. Sado closes Subject 4's door and opens Subject 0's door to find a lycanthropic man sitting on his cot; the man does not react, and Sado closes his door as the door he entered through and the double doors open. Prints suggests that Truscan knows they've come for Elowynn and therefore has the Cleric's mother with him, and Truscan confirms it, inviting the party to the central laboratory.

Inside the Bag of Holding, Kahlan draws her scimitar as Reign appears inside with her, demanding to know the woman's name; Reign initially refuses, accusing Kahlan of being "willing to kill [her] own Guild members," but the Tiefling assures her that the Gentleman did not send the party to kill her, and the woman confirms her identity. Kahlan then sheaths her scimitar, though Reign does not lower her improvised weapon as Trouble's father appears inside the Bag with them.

In the cellblock, Cash tells Sado to find his mother and then returns to the Bag, after which Trouble wildshapes into a spider, and Sado, Prints, and Lazarus resolve to confront Truscan; they exit the corridor and pass through the double doors into a wide room with six tanks of green gas in a hexagonal formation around a pool of arcane liquid in the center of which they find Syndock Truscan and Elowynn standing. He chastizes the group for attempting to liberate his "hard-earned subjects," and claims to have been waiting for some time; Lazarus claims that the party is merely conducting "a prisoner transfer," and Truscan responds by threatening to make them all "permanent guests" of the Sanatorium. He then addresses Trouble, asking if she feels the power of the multiversal monstrosity, admiring the fact that the entity has not yet overtaken her, claiming that Dyamak has a bet regarding how long the Druid can maintain control.

Elowynn remains unreactive when Truscan asks if she'd like to leave with the party, claiming that she would not, and both Sado and Prints sense that the Cleric's mother is not charmed or possessed. Truscan then offers to allow the party to leave with everyone they have in the Bag if Trouble agrees to stay, but Lazarus refuses, and Prints instead threatens to kill Truscan, which he agrees that he'd stand no chance against them; as he steps toward the group, Trouble transforms back into her Halfling form and furtively casts *Water Walk* on Sado, who then surreptitiously approaches Elowynn. Truscan insists that the Druid is more special than she knows, but as Sado steps on the surface of the liquid, each of the six tanks begins releasing gas into the room, and Lazarus responds by conjuring a psychic dagger and stabbing Truscan in the throat.

The blade passes through the man, who promptly vanishes, and Lazarus instructs everyone to get into the Bag moments before the doors to the laboratory seal shut and Elowynn shifts into a monstrosity of fluid shadows. Prints casts *Cure Wounds* on Trouble, who casts *Hunter's Mark* on the creature that she knows to be Elowynn and begs the woman to leave with them; Sado attempts to physically coerce Elowynn into the Bag, only to discover that she is impossible to grasp, and he responds by assuming a Patient Defense as the creature lashes out at him with its shadowy tendrils and misses; Lazarus activates his Radiant Soul and his Celestial Intensity, flying to Elowynn and pleads with her to let the group help her. Prints considers casting *Warding Wind*, but yells at Elowynn in frustration instead, and Trouble sees confusion in the creature's face as it reacts to the word "mother."

As the gas continues to expand into the chamber, the Druid passionately appeals to Elowynn as Sado summons Cash from the Bag of Holding, and Truscan's voice tells them: "Oh. This is not going exactly how I'd hoped. Let's make things a little more interesting." A pulse ricochets through the room, and Elowynn transforms back into her natural elven form, Trouble and Prints's *Air Bubbles* vanish, and Lazarus's wings begin to flicker. The Aasimar orders everyone to get into the Bag, only to discover that it has become an ordinary satchel with no extradimensional space inside, and Truscan's voice tells them: "There we are. Let's see how we handle *this*."

The gas expands further as Lazarus draws Elowynn's attention to Cash, who she recognizes with some confusion, and the Rogue flies back to the door they entered through, attempt to break it open and jostling it, after which Prints smashes though it with a swirling surge of wild magic; Trouble then wildshapes into a warhorse and charges at the second door, smashing through it as well. Cash carries Elowynn as the party rushes from the laboratory back into the vestibule where Lazarus casts *Light* to confirm that they have escaped the anti-magic field, and Sado tests the Bag of Holding to find the portal to its extradimensional space restored.

Prints casts *Warding Wind* to push back the gas and Trouble casts *Air Bubble* on Prints and Elowynn as the four climb into the Bag along with the rest of the group, leaving Sado and Lazarus in the vestibule. They then hear a scream as the doors in the cellblock open and the voice of Truscan tells them: "Don't think getting away is going to be *that* easy."

*...continued in session twenty-six*
## Notes

* The events of the session occurred on the evening of 8 Duscar 839 PD.
* Alternate titles for the session include, but are not limited to:
	+ "Sneaking and Entering"

## Quotes

* "Prints gets chatspiration!" – Capwithoutacountry
"What!? Oh my god! Thank you! Probably need it!" – N3rdyTeacher
"I was gonna say..." – Capwithoutacountry
"If it's Prints, is it *cat*spiration?" – TanisJr93
"No. Fuck off." – N3rdyTeacher
"Get out." – Megquins
"Love ya, Tiff." – TanisJr93
"Ngh!" – N3rdyTeacher
"Is it Tabaxpiration?" – Capwithoutacountry
"That was worse." – Megquins
"Yeah: that one should take– that one should take Tabaxi-t, okay?" – TanisJr93
* "That joke was not too tabby." – Megquins
* "I take it as a compliment that you think that that we look like a group that has a plan." – Fresh Prints
* "Honestly, I feel worse about offending the cat than I do about the guy." – Lazarus Oldman
"You should. The cat is legendary." – Trouble
* "Are you really asking me to play Pokémon right now?" – Jinma
* "Have I ever told you how much I don't like tight spaces?" – Kahlan Karsus
* "I'm trying to be Batman." – Jinma
"We're the things on his utility belt!" – Capwithoutacountry
"Is that why you're summoning– that why you're summoning Robin, Batgirl, and Cat– and Catwoman?" – TanisJr93
"Yep." – Jinma
* "You don't look like you're from around here." – Reign Kavala
"I could say the same to you." – Cash Goldcrest
"Hm. Who sent you?" – Reign Kavala
"We kinda sent ourselves a little bit." – Cash Goldcrest
"We're looking for two individuals. We found one. We are not here to hurt you." – Sado Thuliaga
"Well, clearly: two big strong, muscly men, definitely not here to hurt me at all. Where the fuck is that voice coming from?" – Reign Kavala
* "🎶This is where it's a terrible idea!🎶" – Capwithoutacountry
* "Is *Shatter* considered talking?" – Zack
* "Well, now, Syndock: we're just here conducting a prisoner transfer. And we answer to a power much higher than you." – Lazarus Oldman
* "I don't have friends; I just have accomplices." – Lazarus Oldman
* "There is no Trouble here. Only spider." – Trouble
* "🎶With my Plus-Zero to Wisdom.🎶" – Capwithoutacountry
* "You'll get no Trouble from us." – Lazarus Oldman
* "I see you standing out there in the center, talking to us as if you're omniscient. Standing there as if you could walk on water." – Trouble
* "We don't want to harm you! We've never wanted to harm you! Come with us; we can help! Please! Elowynn!" – Trouble
* "The best that I can do is to ask you, Elowynn Goldcrest; please, let us help you. If you get in the Bag, we can all get out of here, and we can deal with *all* of this later." – Lazarus Oldman
* "You're being a real *bitch* of a mother! I'm just saying! You know, get&nadsh; just– come with us!" – Fresh Prints
* "Elowynn! Remember! Remember a little blue boy who you care enough about to leave! To protect! An remember... a little black bird who you found! They care for you! They miss you! They dragged their asses all the way up to *this* fucking loony-bin that we *all* could stand in forever *for you!* First and foremost: for you! You're not alone! And trust me when I say: I *know* what it is to be alone! And you could *never* be. Not here; not now. Now while they draw breath." – Trouble
* "Cash: this is your mother. She turned into a blob. We're trying to get her out of here. She's on the fence about it. Can you get her into the Bag? I don't know: chase you or something?" – Sado Thuliaga
* "Uh, well: I think you'd probably make a better father-figure than my actual father..." – Cash Goldcrest
* "Oh. This is not going exactly how I'd hoped. Let's make things a little more interesting." – Syndock Truscan
"Fuck off!" – Fresh Prints

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