Session 4

After restocking on their supplies, the party took the night off to rest in preparation for their busy day ahead. Yipyip stayed up the whole night to make the group servants' costumes so that they could infiltrate Medusina Gray's manor through the servants' tunnels.

Caeli, Travis, Jasper, Mavka, and Gossamer set out in the afternoon. When they arrived at the entrance, one of the head housemaids was asking the other servants for some kind of passcode, which Travis solved, saving the party in the nick of time. Gossamer procured a sack of apples for everyone so that they could look like they were being productive.

Once everyone was inside, the party began exploring while Travis stood guard to make sure nobody was coming. Yipyip disappeared, as he does. Caeli and Mavka swapped their sacks of apples for feather-dusters in the pantry while Jasper and Gossamer investigated rooms on the main floor of the manor. Eventually Caeli and Mavka found Jasper and Gossamer in the library, puzzling over a book. When Gossamer picked it up, it triggered some kind of trap, activating a stone statue in the room and bringing it to life.

When Caeli touched it, she became petrified, like a statue herself. In an effort to find information that would help her, Jasper and Mavka continued searching. Jasper ascended the staircase to the second floor, whilst Mavka listened at the bottom, unable to make it past the gargoyle guardians positioned on the staircase. When she heard a commotion, she ran to get help from the others, and found Gossamer attempting card tricks for Yipyip. She asked Yipyip to help, so he went with her.

They made it past the gargoyles and into a private armory, where Jasper was battling an animated suit of armor. Yipyip threw an apple at its head, sending the suit of armor clattering to the floor. Mavka healed Jasper to the best of her abilities, then grabbed the best and brightest sword in the armory only to come to the realization that it was cursed and she couldn't let go of it. She also took some arrows.

The three of them began combing the second floor for information about the weeping angel statue that was plaguing Caeli and Gossamer. Yipyip found some papers about how to create them that also mentioned how to defeat them; the angels could only be defeated by each other.

Jasper went back into the ballroom and touched the book on the pedestal there, then lured the awakened angel toward the library where Gossamer was. After a couple close calls, Jasper and Gossamer were back to back. On the count of three, they both dived out of the way. The angels' eyes went black, and with a horrendous shreiking sound, they ripped each other into dust. This released Caeli from the trance she had been put into.

The group went upstairs. Jasper, Caeli, and Gossamer climbed a rope up the banister to avoid the gargoyles. Mavka, with one hand still cursed to grip the sword she'd found, was unable to do so. With a shearing sound of hot metal through stone, she cut off the arm of one of the gargoyles, stunning it long enough to slip past.

On the second floor, in addition to the armory, there were also a couple spare rooms and a study. There, Gossamer found several documents and what appeared to be a journal of Medusina Gray herself. There was one more flight of stairs, leading up to the third floor, which the party went up to.

The third floor was Medusina Gray's personal abode. Here, Gossamer found more relevant documents, which she pocketed. Upon examination, there appeared to be an attic; the ceiling on this floor seemed much lower than the others, and it sounded hollow. Caeli found a key that opened a secret door in one of the walls, and the group decided to enter it.

They immediately fell into darkness. Landing on a floor not far below, they found Medusina Gray cackling in a room empty besides a table with a skull on it, a purple sunburst glowing from within it. Medusina taunted Gossamer about her father, then turned on Jasper.

The party was transported to a battle-field. The sky was darkended, red with rage and fire and magic. Corpses littered the earth for as far as the eye could see, and all of them wore Jasper's face. The four party members weren't themselves either; they were all Jasper. Some of them were overcome by an unseen force, and they began to fight the others. Two of the Jaspers went down but were healed by either Gossamer or Mavka. Caeli meditated in the midst of the battle, and disappeared. The others got out after they answered a riddle, each with the answer of "a mirror".

The party found themselves back in the darkened room, Medusina Gray still cackling. She appeared shockingly frail at this point. Mavka, the weakest member of the group, attempted to restrain her, and when she did so she heard some of Medusina's bones snap. Medusina wasn't trying to fight the party, she was just trying to prevent them from reaching the skull on the table. Caeli eventually reached it, smashing it to pieces.

Medusina collapsed at this point. It appeared that she had been possessed. She told the party that the skull was the symbol of Cyric, a deity of lies. She said that her competitors from school had been killed so that she would be the only suitable vessel for Cyric, but she was on the verge of death from the toll the possession had exerted on her body. Even Mavka's healing was to no avail.

Caeli suggested summoning Navis Pubella. Mavka was nervous about this, especially after burning down his forest, but she relented. Caeli lit some incense. The instant she said the name Navis, he appeared, made of wood and stone, what the building was made of. Unsurprisingly, he was not happy to see Mavka, and demanded a soul in recompense for the destruction of his forest. She was willing to give hers, but Medusina Gray offered in her stead. Caeli somehow convinced Navis to put Medusina's soul into the suit of armor that had nearly killed Jasper earlier. Before she died, she told the party to burn everything down. They took that literally; Caeli and Gossamer lit the place up while Mavka rushed off to grab some books she had seen earlier.

One way or another, through all the chaos, everyone ended up back at The Naughty Nymph. When they went to go back to the Ruby Ring's headquarters through the mirror, they found it was shattered.