April 15

**Location**: The Feywild

**New Characters**:

Mysterious Minotaur man

**Notable items/knowledge :**

Roverrandom gained a spell slot

You have to be invited in to enter through doorways

Most guests were drunk on the night of the ball

The room was a secret study

**Notes**:

Dircc found a mystery book, *Dancy New and the Phantom Steed* (in a small retcon to TACOSE)*.* We teleported instantly to the Castle to begin our investigation. Bea tells everyone to be wary of gifts and pointedly tells Champ to not eat anything. She tells 42 "I'll tell you the destination of my gravesite if you tell me your name."

We go looking for Frank Sahwit (57 year old human man, gopher), and a pixie opens the door for us. They say they'll let us in for 5 coins, 42 gives it to them. Champ rolls a 29 to steal the pouch from the pixie. He lets one rip so foul it takes half of the pixie's HP. Bea prestidigitates a bubble to keep the smell in so no one else takes the damage. Step one of our plan: gas a pixie. The pouch is a mini bag of holding, Champ manages to get 5 gold out of there. We find Frank in the room eating some bread - he tell us she's a middle man gopher for the palace. He years for death, and when Champ pulls a knife on him, he leans into it. We apologize for the boy and say he's our TA, Training Attorney. We learn he was working the ball on the night of the incident. He was filling wine glasses and noticed a table height man on his status leaving the area and going up the stairs towards the royal chambers. Frank let a guard know and snitched on the guy. He also admitted to being drunk (a 7 out of 10 where zero is sober and 3 is tipsy). He was then promoted for his actions and now directly serves the Queen. We have to work together to get Papa off.

Next we go outside to visit Luke Atmey (292 years old, Court of Light, Sun Elf, Party Guest). He's on the lawn in a banana hammock in a hammock. He tells us the Ball celebrated the anniversary of the Great Triumph over the Court of Shadows, and anyone who's anyone was there. Gen decides to intimidate him, and it's successful. Luke was upstairs on the night of the Ball for personal reasons and abandoned whoever he was with to investigate the sound down the hall. He saw the Queen's door open, and instead of calling the guards, stood there peering in. He also saw a table height man and hung around to be nosy. Luke tells us he no longer has a room on the floor, whoever he was with kicked him out. He asks if we're single.

Champ decides to wander off and enter their tent, he rolls a nat 20 for investigation and traps. He enters the tent and learns it's a records room, he also turns into a purple squirrel. Dircc notices Champ is gone and sends Roverrandom after him. The boy sees a fancy looking scroll on a pedestal and bites it. Roverrandom enters the tent and loses all his hair. He is now a bald weasel. Champ gets dealt 9 points of electric damage, and gets knocked unconscious, and he's no longer a squirrel. Dircc, seeing this happen through Roverrandom's eyes, casts Mislead and goes tot he tent. He instructs Roverrandom to tie his whip around Champ, and drags Champ out of there. They Weekend at Bernie's it and they rejoin the group. Luke tells us he snorted the concept of time a the party and was fairly high off of miscellaneous drugs the entire night. Bea says he can look us up in our home realm if he ever needs anything (he was pretty hot). We wrap up our questioning and Gen cures Champ's wounds bringing him back to consciousness.

We decide to investigate the Queen's chambers/find out whose room Luke was visiting that night, but the two guards in front of the stairwell aren't letting us through. Gen starts "testing" the barrier by putting her arm through and then taking it out as Bea spiderclimbs up the wall, onto the ceiling, and past the guards. 42 psssts her, and she mouths "be cool". As soon as she passes through the barrier, she forgets who she is, what she's doing, and is confused for the next hour. Gen also goes past the barrier and turns into a gas cloud. The guards bottle her up in a bubble and hold her. Bea drops to the floor behind the guards and stares at 42 before deciding to wander up the stairs. Champ starts dancing, and Dircc rolls a nat 20 with advantage as an actor to copy his dance. The guards are confused but distracted. Dircc telepathically talks to Bea, out loud Bea says "hello?" Dircc promises the guards he's in pursuit of the truth and the guards let everyone through. It was that easy. "You broke a rule so we should be arresting you, so let's just be chill."

Champ gives Bea a yo-yo, she's very good at playing with it. We have an entire discussion about vaping Gen in her gas cloud form. Can a gas cloud see? Why would it be able to? Gen is still blind, even more so without a connection to the ground. We begin climbing 20 stories of stairs to get to the Court of Wonder's quarters. Dircc gets a point of exhaustion and Bea starts scatting. Dircc talks to Gen telepathically, and it works which is nice. Champ tells Bea his entire backstory and how we're looking for Papa. Dircc talks to Bea and figures out something is wrong with her, he ties his lasso around her waist and she plays with her Vex doll. We approach the first door and 42 prevents Champ from picking the lock, but lets him knock and he earns a Goodberry. An old woman answers and Dircc disguises himself as a guard. She doesn't tell us much, but points us in the direction of the room Luke was in.

We arrive at the room and Bea knocks (with flair), no one answers. Dircc kicks in the door and the alarm goes off. Bea hates the sound and dispels magic, but the wild magic stays up. Dircc, disguised as a guard, gives us permission to enter the room. He sends Roverrandom in to see if it worked, and we don't notice anything different. Roverrandom gained a spell slot. Bea walks in because that's what we want, right? Nothing happens to her, but everyone else turned invisible. Champ thinks he's a ghost and immediately walks into a wall. He has very low HP. 42 spikes Gen the gas ball into the room and she also forgets who she is and becomes confused. All Gen had left was her sense of self, is she still a person? The group has to close the door because guards are coming, it's up to Bea, Roverrandom the hairless invisible weasel, and Gen the invisible, amnesiac gas cloud to investigate the room and report back. Bea knows the bubble is a friend and shakes it.

Champ starts doing cartwheels as the guards approach, they notice. He chugs a juice (superior health potion) and runs. The guards cast detect magic and dispel his invisibility. Dircc shows up disguised as a guard (doing magic cancels invisibility), and successfully talks the guards down from throwing their spears at the child. He tells them to split up and search the rest of the tower, and they hand him child sized handcuffs. He takes Champ back to the room and reunites with 42. Back in the room, Bea's dispel magic revealed a secret study with a locked door instead of a bedroom, and pockets some royal correspondence she found on the desk while looking for the key. She hands it to the rest of the group when they open the door again, and manages to pick the lock of a door in the back. Inside the room, there's a huge bed (it's mostly a bed), and a Minotaur with reading glasses and a circlet enjoying a book. Bea asks him "Do you live here?" He says "Yes." She says "It's a nice room."