Scooby Doo But Without A Dog

# Medusa’s House Needs a Couple Carpenters and Zookeepers

* Starts chars are Eman [Cleric] (Benny), Elestrum [Warlock] (Nathan), Varo [Ranger] (Ravi), Akki [Fighter] (Myron), Ferrous [Fighter] (Corey), Duana [Bard] (Miriam)
* Hear loud screech go check it out
* Man wearing common clothes dead

* Name : Jerry?
* Keeper of a local pub
* Ghostly woman has been killing people for 2 years
* jerry’s wife stopped being seen 20 years ago

“I've read the bible and that's BULLSHIT” - miriam, ooc

* Can go to graveyard or to mansion (going to mansion first)
* Dr getting alone with Enam and vice versa

* Mansion, many rich people live there
	+ Sigils around walls- Norman Crowell in all languages
* Owl fucking exploded when it went through threshold of door
* Lamp knocked over inside of house with scuff marks on the floor sc if something was dragged. signs of struggle.
	+ Stuff around the house seems out of place
	+ Everything including stuff is out of place is just covered
	+ Room with headless body (recently killed) filled with real skulls mostly humanoid however one of them is canine
		- Are labeled, three in this room are labeled ‘tabaxi’, ‘elf’, and ‘half-orc’
* Body has an incision at the nape of the neck that goes all the down under the clothes
* Body pretty much glowing with prismatic light due to concentration of magic visible through detect magic
* 7 scorpions emerge from the incision
* After scorpions are defeated there's nothing left inside of him
	+ Body has normal proportions however s pretty
	+ 1.5 inches of meat barrier in neck to prevent looking inside of the body
	+ Pretty much just vertebrae/spine (looks like ribs never existed)
	+ Unreadable sigils on spine
	+ Body wearing regal clothing (pockets filled with a handle full of colorful owl feathers like the feathers our owl, small carved statue of a worm, one nail (wrought iron nail), freshly sliced piece of peach
		- Bodies name is Norman (the same Norman Crowell owns the house and put a bunch of sigils up with his name on them)
* So so so many books in this room, mythologies of far off lands and gods
	+ Nathan's character getting emotional because books are talking about his home land
	+ Miriam's Character looks to see if theres book about how to kill something that might be impartial (ie fae)
		- Find books about witches (powerful powerful magicians trapped their souls in people, artifacts, objects, etc)
		- Book not on bookshelves, on a travelers briefcase. It says “how to become a god”
		- She picks it up and we all hear “nice work with those scorpions, you guys seem like you know what you’re doing” the bag is talking, doesn't like being picked up.
	+ I find books on the abyssal
	+ Find out about the fight
	+ Briefcase work up and normal was fighting with something cloaked in a brilliant white cloak, shining over everything in the room and then killed him
	+ Dr gets the briefcase to help us figure out what killed norman
	+ Dr calls the case “Elvis Bagular”
	+ Elvis is a normal briefcase
		- Leather laptop like briefcase
		- Doesn't like having stuff in him
	+ Dr has a phd in some sort of science thing, agricultural studies
	+ DR: “bagular… sweetie. Look, i- i- i don't wanna be that guy. I really don't, but, what can you do? You’re a bag and you can't hold anything” BAG: “...i got feelings.”
	+ Elvis has SOME sort of connection to norman
	+ Elvis has heard noises from the basement
* House is extremely old and decayed, just about everything destroyed (even tho norman just died) [Average wizard behavior]
* We go into a sideroom as directed by Elvis to where the basement should be. Everything in the house seems to value vanity except for this heavy ass trap door
* Ferrous jumps into trap door (climbs down the ladder)
	+ Takes three minutes to get all the way to be bottom
	+ Just see what looks like almost an aquarium, an above ground pool with glass sides. Kind of dingy [We goin to seaworld boys] its empty, something is missing from it
	+ Good layer of dust on everything except wrapping around the tank in the shape of chains
	+ So many doorways, there’s so much that looks like you could get lost in it for hours
* Theres a model city (like scooby doo godzilla model city) filled with blood and covered in scratches
	+ The tank and city sare obviously habitats for Something
	+ Dr tests the water, it’s “very familiar” and he goes pale- he says “chuj ci w dupe” hes terrified
	+ “I really don't want to contact my patron”
	+ Eman calms dr down (4 6 7)
		- Dr comes from this village around this lake, and this water is from that lake. Its “her” water (Dr. Elestrum the sexual deviant fucked lakes in his prime.) charlie day voice: DR, DID YOU FUCK THE LAKE GODDESS? (the answer will surprise you! It’s ”no”)
		- Distinct smell to water, its “her”
	+ The statues in the garden look like children, covered in blood
	+ Duana and Varo “know about this” and varo covers his eyes
		- Slashes like in the cityscape cover one of the astute of a little girl
		- Screaming coming from the town (fog obscuring vision)
		- Hear other people screaming
		- Elvis says “they're there again. You guys should-- this has been happening as long as I've been alive. That could be him. Yeah can we-- can we get him.”
		- Apparently “getting him” will help the town
			* Would bring justice to a terrible sorcerer
		- There's a tulip in the house that the doctor takes (asks bagular if he can to which he says he doesn't really care)
		- Weird that it's alive because everything is kind of decrepit
		- Doctor grabs the plant and a steam happens. Helmets go. Touch it again. Nothing happens
	+ Another dead body, torn to ribbons
		- Different ghost of a women
		- Wailing at the body
		- Duana gets dragged to an alley, original woman at the end of the alley
		- Doctor asks her where she wants to take us
		- Shesays “right here” and talks about how she needs to stop it because it's coming back
		- We’re back in the jerry alleyway (It’s jerry, it's always been jerry, its jerry all the way down)
		- Ghost lady says “It's coming back, I have to stop it” and looks at the front of the alley.
		- There is shadow demon on all 4’s
		- Duana does a Duana and tries to touch the demon.
		- Rolls a natural 20 against opposing 11 and 13.
		- Gets close to demon
			* Horse-like demon standing on its two hind legs with leathery wings
			* It’s new jersey come to kick our asses

TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR OUR FIGHT WITH JERSEY DEVIL

# We go to New Jersey. The Devils are Pretty Scary.

* jersey devil starts to escape into the sky but dr holds it back
* duana attacks devil with fire poker taken from the house and it (the fire poker) shatters
* Jersey devil is destroyed and dissipates into embers and ashes, flying through the air
	+ Bagular delivers a prophecy (punch prophecy)
		- “In a village so peaceful, and a land so bright, Lurks an evil so wicked, that shatters the night, A monster in disguise, with a smile so wide, Bringing fear and destruction, to all that reside. Oh adventurers listen well to save this village from an insufferable hell heed my words and listen well for if you cant stop him nothing shall, there is only one evil and he is a blight so when the time comes you must fight carry your sword and muster your might but remember that nothing is just quite right His name is known by many, but feared by all, His deeds are so wicked, that his legend will fall, For he brings chaos and pain, wherever he goes, And the villagers cower, beneath his cruel blows.”
	+ Bagular is taken out and the ashes fly directly towards him, he opens and they enter the innards of the bag
	+ Ravi’s character tries to stab Bagular, we stop him
		- He says he feels good for the first time in like. Ever.
		- “....like emotionally or physically?” “physically” (enam and elvis exchange)
		- “Just call me elvis”
		- Elvis says he “gets rid of things”
		- He’s eaten ashes before “from failed experiments”
		- Enam tells duana NOT to open the bag and “hurt herself AGAIN” dr nods, she concedes”
		- This is kind of “what [he does]”
		- when “mr crowell messes up an experiment or has notes he wants to get rid of”
		- Functionally like a shredder
		- Not the first Bagular (improved model)
		- Crowell fed the old ones to elvis.
			* Somehow absorbed
		- crowell worked on creating new types of creatures to work the lands, brought back extinct flora and fauna,a new technologies, made the world better
			* Nathans theory is that he doesn't age property
			* Duana asks if Crowell was trying to become a god elvis says “i think so" .as he says this he comes inanimate once again. He fades out. He goes still. He does not respond to external stimuli.
			* Duana expresses the theory that Crowell may have potentially put a magical ban to stop him from talking about his endgame (becoming immortal, becoming all powerful, becoming a god?)
	+ Enam suggests a short est to recuperate and process, dr offers his house-- duana starts to entertain the idea of a friendship with the doctor
	+ We go to dr’s beachside hut (ferrous and varo had a room at the inn but uh. Owner of the inn is completely dead.)
	+ A wave of destruction lays in the wake of the day and night's events. People mourn their dead and sob over the bodies of their lost family members. A teen approaches the group and asks “what did you bring here” dr grimly speaks back in foreign language (insult?)
	+ Random townsperson approaches Ferrous and asks what happened “is it over now?” dr says there was a demon, it's gone now, we will explain in the morning. “Well make a statement in the morning”
	+ Duana is afraid of water, dr gives her ear plugs so she doesn't have to listen to water (+ friendship points)
	+ Dr steps out and looks out at the water
		- Enam follows and asks if he's okay
		- He says he's fine. Clearly lying. He continues to sit in the shallow water and doesn't even look to enam when talking.
		- Enam gives a speech about asking for help. Dr cries but enam doesn't see because he hasn't looked away from the water yet. Dr says enam is a good kid, enam goes back to get some rest (as suggested by the dr)
	+ Varo and Akki awakes in the middle of the night to the sound of hacking (like someone/something coughing something up)
		- Head towards the sound. It’s coming from eman’s bag (where bagular is).
		- Akki shakes dr elestrum, who makes old man groaning sounds which wakes everyone up. They take bagular out of enams bag,akki pats elvis on the “back” and a little bit of ash and embers comes out of him. He keeps coughing and 150 gold pieces come spilling out
			* duana reaches for the hold and dr uses mage hand  get it out of her reach and splits it up evenly among the members
			* Enam tries to ask bagular if he's okay but he doesn't respond
			* Coins extremely dusty and warm to the touch. Enam asks “did he MAKE these out of the devil??”
			* Dr tells everyone to go the fuck to sleep and not wake him up if something happens
		- Ferrous goes to talk to duana, she tries to convince him to go to sleep but it DOES NOT WORK. (NAT 20)
			* Duana says she's going for a walk. ferrous points out the logical fallacy. Duana waits until dawn and leaves.
			* Duana goes out and learns information-- talks to the mayor
		- The group awakes one by one and discuss what we do from here on out
			* Varo wants to abandon the group and “search for something” which it seems like he and ferrous have been looking for for a while. ferrous doesn't seem sure and varo says “i only follow my family, which is you”
				+ The group convinces ferrous and varo to stay, it’s safer to stay as a group and we may even be able to help
				+ They are looking for a town thy do not know the name of, nor do they know it’s residents
				+ Group has a varied history in many places and may even be able to help
		- The group decides to go to Brighten (town)
			* Denizens of Surrey are abandoning it, checking to see if curse follows the denizens or stays in the same location, almost everyone
		- Dr pulls the hut into the ocean via tendril of the deep, Duana plays a sorrowful tune </3
		- Duana takes out the earplugs and puts them in her bag as we get out of earshot of the ocean
		- Dr does keep alcohol in his hut tho
		- “YOU THINK OLD MEN ARE EXEMPT FROM FELONIES?!” “\*\*I KNOW THEY ARE\*\*”
		- The group starts to search for transportation
			* Duana gets into an argument with the caravan driver but eventually we all pay and get on
			* The mood is dreary, most everyone in the caravan is sobbing and doing Bad.
			* Eman tries to calm the girl next to him, does not work
			* Duana plays a song which lifts spirits a little
			* For three hours dr talks about his past to annoy the cab driver
				+ Grew up in a small village
				+ Very cold
				+ Near water
				+ Came from a large family
			* Group gets to know each other a little better :-)