The Hag of the Evermarsh Part 1

## Episode 50 - The FeyWild West

The Reaper, The Wanderer in White, Captain James Wilde, and Harmon have visited the Hag of the Evermarsh in the feywilds and have been tasked with finding an egg her house laid. The Hag starts rifling through a pile of skulls and provides one as a guide. The skull forms the body of a half-elf in medieval servant’s livery and muddled shades of brown and green. The half-elf stands at attention with giant bags of exhaustion under his eyes. Simon is to help guide them away from some of the more dangerous rooms that the Hag experimented with like the one with the singularity in it. They follow Talia's nose to the balcony of a library. The library is so massive that it is akin to looking out over Airpike from on top of the mesa. They take the staircase down to another balcony and exit the Library. Time in the feywild is also affecting Harmon's internal gears. Talia almost loses the scent through the overpowering smells of bread and beer as they enter the kitchen. It is a large medieval-style kitchen with a giant brick kiln-like oven with several massive barrels of ale. A smaller cask of ale is walking around on twisted barrel rings with a dwarven face and constantly cursing in dwarvish. It gurgles, swallows, burps, and continues on slightly more drunkenly. Simon explains Mr. Stillman was an innkeeper and brewer who is often drunk on his own supply. This is his punishment for having poor manners when the Hag visited his inn. The hallways that they've been in so far look like they're made of twisted wooden planks. The library has been made of fine mahogany planks and the brewery is made of large fitted stones. The doorways in the hallway are all made of different shapes and sizes. Some of the rooms are the hangman's room, the planetarium, and the observatory. The scent leads them into the animal pen. Inside the animal pen room looks like outside with grass, a sky, and a stone path. Looking up behind the blue of the sky is a ceiling. Some trees here are blue or pink and some trees are growing upside down. Further in there are enclosures fenced-in some with pits and floating globes of water, one containing a giant squid. They follow a path to a wall that is painted to look like the scene continues. Harmon goes through the wall and appears that becomes part of the painting on the wall continuing down the path. Everyone else continues through into another hallway. The door is here doesn't match anything they have previously seen. A small room at the end of the hallway appears to be another sitting room with overstuffed chairs and a fireplace made out of white skulls bookshelves and knickknacks all around. On closer inspection, the chairs appear to be made out of human flesh. On the other side of the room, there is a large iron door with a big sign that says do not enter. Simon Says the singularity is in that room. When Talia picks up the scent again, they move on to a mirror room. In some of the mirrors, Talia looks not like the wolf form that she is now but her human form. Seline in some of the mirrors looks like the Queen of Night and Magic. Harmon looks like Harmon in any of the mirrors. In some of them, James looks like his slight infernal features are gone and in others, his Venassi tattoos are back. Simon has no reflection. He explains this is the room of reflection. One can come to look at oneself, one's inner self, past self, and possible future self all in one place. Simon is a service to his mistress so he has no reflection. With bardic inspiration from Harmon, Talia realizes this is a funhouse mirror maze with a path through. They continue to see images of themselves as they make their way through the room. One image is that of a small darker skin girl with matted hair wearing tattered rags and ferocious yellow eyes. One of Seline's reflections is holding a cane, has silvery gray hair, a kind smile, and eyes that hold an endless depth of knowledge and wisdom with a flicker of a mischievous grin as the image glances back at them. For James, a young kid in very fine clothes like an upscale schoolboy uniform. In another, he's heavily scarred one ear is gone with a haunted expression to his eyes and he's less than 10 years older. For Talia, Talia almost doesn't recognize herself she's gained a bit more weight and is a bit heavy set and there is no sign of any weapons on her. The barbed wire tattoos are still there but have faded as she walks along with a walking stick carrying a basket of fresh vegetables. Another flickers back and forth with this one. It is Talia in the black cloak and hat that was gifted to her. The cloak has several bullet holes in it and a section of it is torn by a blade. The look in this Talia's eyes though is like James’s saying that she'd seen more than she intended. Also like James in this reflection, she's not that much older 10 years at most. James looks between his future reflection and Talia's younger reflection. Seline's reflection of the Queen of Night and Magic is her face with raven black hair a dress made of night and starlight. They come to a hallway that separates into three separate directions. One is of the same twisted wood, one is made out of stone and the last is made out of damp earth. Following the scent down the stone pathway, they arrived at a music room. It has a stage in the center of it the rest of it is a well-maintained oak wood floor and wall tapestries. On the stage, a harp, a mandolin, and a grand piano. The harp looks like it's carved out of obsidian with the skull at the top. A spine is carved in the black obsidian from the bottom of the skull down the curve of the harp. There are carved faces of screaming people into the shaft and base of it. The grand piano looks like it's made out of a dragon's skull. The mandolin looks like it's made out of a rib cage with various bones to make up the rest of it. Sitting in the center of the stage is an egg. However, this egg smells a little rotten like sulfur. Noticing the smell, Talia starts to growl. When she does red light starts to suffuse the three instruments.

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent-Grey
* Talia Argent-Grey

### NPCs

* Jareth Argent-Grey
* Adrienne Argent-Grey
* Harmon
* Captain James Wilde
* Hag of the Evermarsh
* Simon