Where Is My Mind?

The Acquaintances With Weapons try and fail to free New Mezro from Krang.

## Major Plot Points

* Voloth, Neuriel, Bigsby, and Dinah left the sewers after a long rest and found Kataro, an eladrin elf druid adventuring through the Astral Plane. He’s from the Fey Wild dimension and offered to help the party in their quest.
* The group went to the squid temple. It’s only obvious entrance was a stone beak but it was protected by stone tentacles. Kataro asked an astral bird to fly around the temple to do recon, however, one of the tentacles killed it mid-flight. One of the tentacles grabbed Bigsby who tried to sneak by it. Neuriel threw his turtle shell shield to distract the rest of the tentacles and Kataro cast pass without a trace to help everyone sneak through. Bigsby then squeezed out of his stone tentacle.
* The door demanded the party solve a riddle before opening, “What’s another name for romance magic?” Bigsby answered correctly with, “love craft.”
* Once inside, two small squid-like creatures attempted to attach themselves to our heroes’ faces. One successfully latched onto Kataro who was forced to attack Neuriel. Dinah’s siren song failed to overcome the squid’s control. Voloth was able to eldritch blast it off.
* In the next chamber, the party found a mind flayer with a githyanki soldier watching a dozen Mezroan slaves paint the walls and ceiling to look like the night sky. The githyanki soldier severed Voloth’s and Neuriel’s cords, trapping them in the Astral Plane. The party killed the mind flayer, freeing the githyanki warrior, who was a big fan of Bigsby’s. He escorted the other slaves out of the temple.
* AWW then entered the dungeon’s aquarium. The chamber’s walls were magical and bubble-like. Inside the tank were giant sharks, a kraken, and a large treasure chest. Voloth, using Neuriel’s turtle shell shield and water breathing key, passed through the bubble and into the tank to fetch the chest. Neuriel used his magic to manipulate the water to slow the kraken down before it could strike the goliath bloodhunter. Voloth then used misty step to teleport closer to the bubble barrier and Neuriel called back the shield, flinging Voloth back into the chamber. However, the chest was a mimic and it attacked the party. Dinah’s sword unhinged its jaws and ripped it in half.
* The next room was a laboratory. There were jars filled with eyes, ears, wings, claws, feet, and brains suspended in strange liquids. Neuriel found a book called Beyond Body Modification. There was also a metal table stained with blood next to a smaller table covered in surgical tools. Kataro used speak with dead to talk to an aarakocra corpse whose wings, eyes, and brains were removed. He said that the mind flayers were experimenting on the githyanki, trying to see how they could manipulate their biology.
* Bigsby asked the aarakocra if he could have his wings. The bird folk agreed but only if the other organs were destroyed or donated to those who need it. Neuriel collected the biological materials. Kataro and Neuriel attempted to add the wings to Bigsby but the surgery proved difficult and Bigby’s body rejected them, dealing him a lot of damage in the process.
* The party then found a library that canceled out any sound. Everything in it was immaculate except for a shelf that’s books were strewn over the floor. Bigsby realized the titles all had to do with numbers and the party put them back in the numerical order (Out of Many, We are One, Everybody Poops, Love Triangles and Other Sex Positions, Quad Goals: Exercising Your Friendship Muscles, Pentagrams for Beginning Satanists, Brady Bunch Classics, Deadly Sins), revealing two secret doors.
* Inside a dining room, the party killed two mind flayers feasting on the brains of dead Mezroans.
* AWW found a prison cell filled with 12 catatonic slaves chained to the walls. Voloth’s remove curse awoke an elderly woman who couldn’t recall anything after the mind flayers attacked Mezro. Unable to wake the rest, the party left after the elderly woman peaced out.
* The group entered the temple’s museum next. Inside was a pixie trapped in a glass case, a genie bottle, a beholder skeleton, a taxidermied unicorn, and a frozen water elemental. After trying to free the pixie, the room filled with poisonous gas. Bigsby summoned a whirlwind to dissipate the gas. The group freed the pixie, albeit after talking about whether or not they could take her wings and put them on Bigsby, and summoned the genie. They lost one wish after Bigsby wished for more wishes. She granted Voloth’s wish of wanting another spell slot by allowing him to access one he previously used that day.
* AWW then found a small chamber with four pedestals. Atop the pedestal sat a blue orb, a red orb, a yellow orb, and a black orb. Neuriel discovered the orbs had runes carved into them. Kataro deduced they meant frost, flame, shock, and death. After activating the orbs by performing the corresponding spells, a portal appeared.
* Our heroes tried to enjoy a short rest before entering the gateway but were attacked by a mind flayer and a githyanki warrior who came through the portal. AWW killed the mind flayer and Bigsby went off with the hot githyanki.
* Once through the blackhole, the party found an elder brain named Krang, a githyanki supreme leader, and a mind flayer. Kataro summoned a fire storm that engulfed the enemies. Krang’s tentacles entangled Voloth and Neuriel. The mind flayer used a psychic shock to attack AWW. Dinah unleashed her sonic scream, killing the mind flayer. The Githyanki leader attacked the party’s grappled tanks. With Neuriel near death, Voloth almost unconscious, and Kataro now entangled, Krang offered the party a deal. He’d spare their lives and give them Vardina, Artus Cimber’s wife, in exchange for a favor. The group agreed. Vardina appeared and Krang put a psychic stone on Vardina’s forehead. If the group fails to pay their debt, Vardina’s stone will explode.
* Vardina reconnected Voloth and Neuriel to their bodies. She and AWW were then sent back to the material realm where Artus Cimber’s ghost waited with Calypso. The couple reunited and Artus was brought back to life by his wife. Vardina teleported Helena, Barbara, and Jaiden back to the Dragon’s Of Prey clocktower and healed their wounds. Artus apologized to the group for the harm he caused, saying love and the ring of winter drove him insane.