By Dante's Name

By Dante's Name was started on the 1 year anniversary of Beneath the Green Tent, and serves as a sequel of sorts to it, expanding the story by delving deeper into their stories and showing more of the weirdness that is the Feywild. It also features some a few new player characters among the returning faces.

## Plot

The originally hired crew are doing their usual performances, and in the crowd a lepido named Lovie is being bombarded with information by a drow named Acumen. At some point Gwenyth notices them and tells them to get on stage and not slack off, despite both assuring her that they don't work there. Lilith and Noir come by after their performances and Acumen gets interested in Noir, paying to be allowed to observe his runes and try to research them, and also gives Noir some info on his findings. Soon Ringmaster calls upon the current crew to do a job in the Court of Horrors for a man named Jack. They head off along with the two newcomers.

They go through the feydark along the way, and soon get lost. A nearby scarecrow helps point them to where they're heading but seems too nervous to properly cross the boundary into the pumpkin patch. The group make it into a shack within the patch and it seems far bigger than the outside, as well as sounding like the ocean. Arioch and Ramonett run into them, and Arioch explains that they came by earlier but got lost in the house, finding a room with their body and got to the others when they touched it. They all press on together and get chased by imps, and have a run in with some more in a warehouse-type area.

There was a dagger that looked like Noir's, and when he touched it they seemed to have been teleported elsewhere. Gwenyth recognizes the place from her past. They split up to explore two different rooms, looking for a way out. Both show more glimpses of events and people from Gwenyth's past, showing she used to be apart of a cult and was considered a messiah of some kind. Sadly, they don't have exits so they all go together into the final room, where they see a young Gwenyth going through a ritual that gave her the prophetic powers she now has. They get warned to stay away from Jack by her god, who is possesing young-her's body.

When she touches the mask, they appear in a forest and Lilith recognizes a tower nearby as her childhood home. They go in and explore, learning about what her parents were researching and what exactly they did to her. Lilith also finds Patches, her stuffed rabbit <3. Turns out they were trying to see if you could make someone immortal by fusing them with their shadow (a doppelganger of sorts that comes from the Shadowfell), and used Lilith as a test subject. They eventually find what seems to be her shadow, locked up and dying. This is very distressing for Lilith, honestly all of it was.

When she touches a wooden heart that stayed around once the figure turned to dust, they seemed to be back in the shack with a man laughing. Turns out it's Jack. Jack wants to steal all the cool stuff the group has going for them, so the group decides they want none of this and run when mini Ringmaster (don't ask) gets himself deep in Jack's mouth (also don't ask). Jack tries to trap them in a hedge maze, and they start running away but Noir stabs himself with his dagger and turns into a beast, repeatedly killing Jack. Once Jack gives up he runs at the others and then turns into a hotter man. They decide that's enough for the day and go back.

At the carnival, Ringmaster gathers the group and apologizes for getting them into that situation. He also explains a whole situation with the Archfey, and says he's looking for a successor for himself. He asks Lilith to be it, and she accepts. Around a month passes and she is inaugurated as Lilith the Spectacular of the Court of Wonder.

OH WAIT THE BABY. I FORGOT ABOUT THE BABY. The group found this baby that was an Archfey while in Gwenyth's past and took it along with them. His name is Dante and apparently him being a baby was not normal and was actually really dangerous so he got shipped off to ~~Peru~~ Panderia and is apparently taken care of by Kijoi.