Velodrome

> "Of course I won't be harming you. There'd be no one to play games with if you died. The injuries just add to the excitement!"
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## Velodrome

### Affiliation

Chaotic Neutral

Velodrome is a insect-like fey that masquerades as Mr Hastings, owner of Mr Hastings Games Emporium. A fun loving but someone absentminded celestial, they find joy in creating games by warping the board and rules around mortals, and running the game as if nothing was amiss. Of course, they don't ever intend for anyone to die while playing, but that doesn't mean you won't be injured. In their eyes, injuries build character and excitement. If you win their games, they show admiration and respect for you playing and reward you handsomely. If you lose, they will mock you slightly, but there is always another game to play so the japery does not last.

Velodrome is also known to reward those who succeed in his games toys that function as weapons and magical items in their own right.

### Games Played:

#### Letter Panic (Quest: How Much Is 'Murder' Worth?)

Players: Trakzen, Bova, Sylvia, Atlas, Marley

Victors: Players

The players were invited in disguise, and shrunk down to the size of puzzle pieces, except for Bova (who the party had noted was the least intelligent member of their group within their minds). While Bova and Velodrome competed to create words from their own selection of letters, the rest of the party was forced to face several angry letter demons who attacked them while they were dodging the placed letters.

#### Ratattack (Quest: My Feyvourite Game)

Players: Krommak, Valshor, Sputch, Mordai, Levi

Victors: Players

The players were misdirected into the store, and the entire store was transformed to match the board. Additionally, every member of the party except for Sputch were turned into rat-like versions of themselves in different stages (Krommak mildly, Valshor and Levi moderately and Mordai majorly). The party was taken around the board in turns, hoping that their space did not leave them at the mercy of the strange otherworldly and overcomplicated machine in the centre of the room that seemed to react at random and do many things, ranging from creating chairs so comfy you couldn't get up, to inflicting your worst nightmares on you in the form of illusions and deception. Eventually, Levi collected the 6 cheese required to win, with Krommack, Mordai and Sputch tied for 2nd with 4 and Valshor with 2), only to have their collected cheese turn and attack them. Despite their enemies force-feeding them cheese multiple times, the group defeated the cheese monsters and Velodrome rewarded them for their efforts.

#### Retourship (Quest: Drowning Simulator 2022)

Players: Krommek, Wrath, Sputch, Victor, Gabriel, Felix, Frankie, Bova, Kregrus, Levi

Victors: Players

The session was broken into two parts: The first section involved a game of trivia, where the party (after being split into two teams, the first being Team Sick Of This Shit, comprised of Gabriel as team captain, along with Bova, Felix, Victor and Levi, and the other being Team Sputch, with Sputch as the team captain along with Frankie, Krommek, Wrath and Kregrus) were quizzed on their knowledge of Ferrenport and it's surrounds, with the former team coming out victorious 1214-286. However, after the competition, both teams were invited inside the store to test a prototype that Velodrome had been working on. Being led into the back room, the party was invited to enter a pool far bigger than the confines of the store should have allowed for. After entering in, the party was shocked to discover that the pool had transformed into an endless ocean with a massive wall. Mr Hastings/Velodrome explained that there were a number of ships on their side of the wall, and (after magically giving everyone a temporary blunderbuss) the party was challenged to attack the ships while they fired on the party despite not being able to see them. To add to the difficulty, a number of ships on their side of the wall sailed into view, and began attacking the party directly. Despite Bova, Kregrus and Levi going down and Levi's owl being dispelled, the party was eventually able to both defeat the ships on their side of the wall, and sink the ships on the other side, much to Velodrome's delight, who dispelled their own disguise to thank the party.

#### Battle Dungeon (Quest: INPERSON EVENT - Stop Voting For This!)

Players: Bova, Torrance, Choju, Marley

Victors: Players

Mr Hastings invited a number of members of town to test their new game, one they had yet to come up with a name for interestingly. The players had also noticed the present of an additional face, or lack thereof: the figure in question lacked facial features. They also refused to answer many of the player's questions, instead only giving their name as R. Mr Hastings informed the party that they had given them the idea for the game, and then invited the players to follow them into the backroom that some of them had already entered during the events of Drowning Simulator 2022. However, instead of encountering a pool, the party encountered a waiting room, where they were asked to fill in a form which involved their name and their worst fear. Once the party had filled in their form, the players were given a badge that informed them of their popularity, that they were informed they would have to keep up by doing well, and that the audience would be watching. After receiving little to no further clarification on where the audience is and how they will be watching, the players headed into the dungeon, and followed through 23 different rooms, slowly improving (or in the case of Bova, bleeding) popularity, and collecting a number of good and not so good items in order to alter their popularity numbers in their favour, leaving Torrance with 30 Popularity, Choju with 20, Marley with 10 and Bova sitting at -120 Popularity as they entered the final room. They were reintroduced to R, who gave their full name as Ryan, and initative begins. They show off their abilities with lightning as they attack the party, and the party just managed to sneak through. Velodrome, now in their true form, congratulated the party on a job well done, and rewarded them handsomely.

#### Ferrenport Feud 1/2 (Quest: Feud For Thought)

Players: Joe, Kregrus, Biggs, Bova, Choju, Vyrikos, Gabriel

Victors: Kregrus, Biggs, Vyrikos

Velodrome, in his Mr Hastings disguise, invited a number of adventurers to join him once again to determine how well the adventurers knew about the town and the people in it. After much debate and deliberation, Team THE BEARDS, comprised of Captain Kregrus, Biggs and Vyrikos, triumphed over Team YOUNG TARTS OLD FARTS, lead by Captain Joe, Gabriel, Bova and Choju. However, the latter team were quick to spot a figure watching the event from an opposite rooftop, referring to themselves only as “The Night” before siccing 3 creatures on the packed event, a Snooze (Snake/Ooze), a Sworm (Swarm of Worms) and a Unictopus (Unicorn/Octopus). In the middle of battle against the intruders, a very angered Velodrome blessed the party, urging them to defeat the party-crashers, which they did.

#### Ferrenport Feud 2/2: (Quest: Family Feud (1976) with secret backstage management issues recorded)

Players: Trill, Ghann, Barn, The Unnamed Warlock, Lycalroth, The Silent One, Cassius, Priscilla, Altos

Victors: Barn, Lycalroth, Priscilla, The Unnamed Warlock

Mr Hastings, still angry about the previous event being trashed, accepted a sponsorship from a local business, Dull Corporation, to rebuild the event, as well as speaking with the guard about increasing their presence. Undeterred, they ran the event again, inviting another batch of adventurers to test their knowledge of the town’s events. In a close competition, Team Fireball, with Captain Barn, The Unnamed Warlock, Priscilla and Lycalroth, edged out Team 1, with Captain Trill, Ghann, Cassius, The Silent One and Altos, by less than 100 points. After the event, Ghann and Altos both noticed J’ai and Anthony arguing in the crowd. Unable to control himself, J’ai turned back into his true form and attacked the party in anger. Midway through the combat, Mr Hastings, now angry at a second event in two days being derailed, blessed the party, promising a world of pain to J’ai at the end of all this. The party defeated J’ai and his co-workers, Cassius dying in the process, and Mr Hastings had to be dragged away from the event by the guard before he could get stuck into J’ai himself.

#### Fey-ted Revenge (Quest: jay fills the void for the game he can't have)

Players: Fejka, Priscilla, Anne, Brandon, Alurora

Victors: Players

The party is invited back to Mr Hastings Emporium, who was inspired after the two disastrous Ferrenport Feud events to create a game designed to be simple and straightforward. The party was given a simple looping board, which they quickly realised was a distraction to bring them into the world of the game: a turn-based strategy game split into 3 parts. The first part was a simple battle, but the party realised all of their abilities and attacks had been simplified down into 4 basic moves, and no other items were accessible. The party made do with their reduced moveset, and continued onto the second challenge, where Velodrome (now in his true form) challenged the party to get him across to the other side of the map without letting him die. They did so, and moved onto the last challenge, which was a battle against Velodrome themselves putting together everything that they had learnt, and they were able to defeat him and claim their prize from him, after he congratulated them on the completed playtest.