Hometown Glory

The Acolytes in Sexy Tights reacquaint themselves with Setessa, the capital of Theros.

## Major Plot Points

#### Welcome Home

* SBG3 welcomed his comrades home with a disgusting salad. He provided each Acolyte updates with what's been going on during the nine months they spent in the Feywild.
	+ Testicules Bottomborn, Dikarus Bottomborn's father, has taken over their family's estate. He's used their ill-gotten gains to fund a charity for needy bottoms.
	+ SBG3 bought the rights to Aryan Grande's music to ensure creative purity. Her music became very popular after her disappearance. This has made SBG3 (and theoretically Aryan) very wealthy.
	+ The Dong Island Medium has taken over Muchomucho M Amor's act at the Klothys Stage. She claims he provides her with visions from beyond.
	+ King Demetrius built a Lids for Kids water park in honor of Sybil Ringwell. The proceeds fund the Lids for Kids program.
	+ A tortle shell washed ashore on Setessa's beach. Many believe it was all that remains of Clows Kufas and that the wizard haunts it.
	+ Juxxtina's lover Jaime renounced Karametra after his love and unborn baby vanished. He joined a mysterious new monastery outside of town.
	+ Drizzly Thundersnatch, the father of Dewey Thundersnatch, came to Setessa to search for the Acolytes but has shifted his focus on a new cult in town.
	+ Ruthless Baddie Ginsburg, Barbara Duke's sister, declared Barb dead just two days after she went missing. RBG died a few months later and Antonin Scalea has taken over their many businesses. Barb is now penniless.
* During the conversation, it was discovered that SBG3 accidentally started the rumor that all the Acolytes were dead. After they didn't return, SBG3 assumed his friends abandoned him so he started telling people "They're dead...to me."

#### Exploring Setessa

* The Acolytes made their way to the Karametra Amphitheater where an Aryan Grande cover artist called Mighty Smalls played the hit song Gnome on the Range. After convincing security she was in fact the real gnome bard, Aryan signed their swords and made her way backstage. She met with Mighty Smalls and took over the show. The crowd went wild upon realizing Aryan was alive and back on stage.
* The party then went to investigate the haunted tortle shell. It shared the same coloration as Clows' but it's patterns and markings were clearly different. A disembodied voice warned Clows to stay away. Clows asked the ghost why he was pretending to be him. The spirit revealed himself to be Garthley Lomos, a renowned tortle scholar. He was killed by cultists in black and red robes who had a sigil of a flaming halo with a sword sticking through it. He believed they wanted his research into demiplanes and how Clows' shell contains one. When his shell washed up on the beach, people believed it was Clows' and started leaving offerings to him. Garthley pretended to be Clows to scare off onlookers. And this attention meant the cultists couldn't steal the contents of the shell. Clows agreed to watch over Garthley's research so he could move on.
* At the Lids for Kids waterpark, Sybil played a water gun game to blow up balloons of her mom's face. After she lost to an 8-year-old boy who shouted, "Take that, you ugly bitch!", Sybil cast Maze on the child. When he returned, he was clearly traumatized, She then modified his memory to make him forget the maze. Dewey and Dikarus were shocked at Sybil's reaction. Sybil mistakenly thought he was accosting her when he was really making fun of her mom.
* When the party went to the jumping lily pad ride, Muchomucho communicated with the lily pads and learned they wanted to be returned to the sea. Muchomucho and Dewey used their magic to transport them back to the beach. SBG3 built mechanical lily pads to replace them. The triton and elf shaped them to look like a tortle shell and placed them around Clows' shrine. Sybil ran into the boy from the park at the beach and the two shared a heartfelt moment. Beachgoers began to notice the Acolytes and word of their returned started to spread.
* With the water park temporarily closed to refill the water Dewey stole, the Acolytes headed Thundersnatch Investigations. Drizzly and Dewey shared a cold reunion where the hyper critical father seemed disappointed in Dewey's lack of pirate slaying. He said he came to Setessa to search for Dewey since this was where the Acolytes were from, but he quickly moved on to the new cult devoted to She Who Is Three. When Dewey asked if his mother Misty had returned from her academic pursuits, Drizzly said that was another reason he wanted to leave the house.
* SBG3 and Drizzly had become partners in their search for the Acolytes. Drizzly deputized SBG3 as his intern. After saying he wished Dewey had SBG3's spark, the construct tinkerer didn't understand the turn of phrase so he cast thunderwave to give Dewey a spark. This ruined Drizzly's office and hit Sybil and Juxxtina. Dewey lashed back out with lightning lure but missed SBG3. Before demanding the Acolytes leave his office, Drizzly complained his son couldn't hit a metal man with lightning. Clows clarified to SBG3 that thunder and lightning were different on the way out.
* When the water park reopened, the Acolytes decided to go down the lazy river. While going gently down the stream, they discovered a body floating up ahead. The corpse was branded with the flaming halo and sword sigil Drizzly mentioned. The Acolytes confronted some She Who Is Three cultists, but they refused to share information because they were too low in their cult's pyramid scheme to share or have such secrets. And the Acolytes certainly didn't have the proper paperwork, tithes, and ranks.
* The Acolytes then saw the Dong Island Medium performing at the Klothys Stage. She said Muchomucho M Amor was communicating to her from beyond the grave and giving her messages. She spoke to Sybil and shared harsh words from her mother. Sybil left the theater very upset and was comforted by her comrades. Muchomucho followed the Dong Island Medium backstage. He convinced her he was the true Muchomucho and realized She Who Is Three was posing as him to the psychic.

#### Welcome to Hell

* The Acolytes made their way to palace to visit King Demetrius. He and Oracle Morrigan and Archon Daenyra argued about what to do about the Oracle's visions of an imminent disaster. The king seemed confident Theros could handle anything. The regent was ecstatic to see his old friends return, and they only boosted his belief that Theros would be fine. After the Acolytes shared their info on She Who Is Three and the visions they saw of the future while in the Feywild, they thought they should head to Avernus to stop Dead Amy. When Sybil created a portal to the first circle of hell with her cubic gate, King Demetrius threw an obsidian rock through it. This expanded the portal and it enveloped the entire city. Setessa then start hurtling towards Avernus.