The Clean Up Crew (Part 1)

## Summary

This side story takes place in the just recently reclaimed Mage Tower of the Amethyst Academy in Drakkenheim (for those intent on knowing the exact timeline it is somewhere between episode 30-40).

## Events

The story begins with Eldrick Runeweaver teleporting in 3 renown albeit bizarre mages into Drakkenheim's Amethyst Academy Mage Tower, our heroes Rufus Stonewall (played by Joe O'Gorman), Cogsworth B Copperpot (played by Kelly McLaughlin), and Nimble Quill (played by Jill Danaitis). Their mission being to discover and attune the tuning fork within the tower to allow teleportation to be much more stable. Any side quests include clearing out any remaining creatures that dwell within the tower, finding any of the higher mages staffs such as Modeira's and Probus Nestor's, seeking the fate of Yashara in the Alchemy Labs, and securing and retrieving any artifacts for the Academy.

The group decides to take the elevators up to a floor where the laboratories and summoning circles are located. Arriving in an atrium where all the elevators are located, Copperpot begins to cast Arcane Eye to scan the area, which begins to investigate this dripping goop to which he dips itself in and begins to duplicate into hundreds of eyes.

The glob of eyes turns their attention towards Rufus, biting him and engaging in combat.

They all take damage, but only from their own spells as when they miss it's reflected back upon themselves. The 3 separate blobs of Arcane Eyes are destroyed, one by each of the mages.

The trio make it to a couple of portcullises with levers. As Copperpot goes to inspect the levers Quill is attacked by a shrouded entity covered in darkness and wielding a great axe, heavily injuring him. Out of sheer luck, Copperpot manages to, surprising himself in the process, to cast Faerie Fire and dispel the darkness enveloping the entity, allowing Rufus to cast banishment out of annoyance so Copperpot can continue to inspect the levers.

Rufus being impatient, hastily begins pulling levers at random, opening the way to a circular room with a half-elven woman, Yashara within. She explains that she made a deal with a demon, describing the entity that attacked the mages earlier, trading her amulet for another thinking it would give her great arcane power, but only trapped her in that room, bound by some magic chains emanating from the demonic amulet.

Through some cryptic conversation, Monty takes a few jabs at the D&D rules about how the alignment chart system is flawed, and lists "A bat man creature" as an example, who is clearly Batman. A few jabs are also thrown in about contradicting events regarding the cosmology.

Leaving Yashara there, the group then heads off and sees an orb to which Copperpot deems to be a happy source of energy, dubbing the orb "Joy Orb".

The group also sees a similar sludge that created the blob eyes leaking along the group. Trying to move a wedge on top to cross with her mage hand, Quill accidentally slips the mage hand in and quickly dissipates the hand as it begins to convulse and transform.

Instead, the group heads towards the orb, where Copperpot touches it and remembers it to be a spell furnace, which when the corresponding lever is pulled towards the marked sigil, the spell can replace any spell they have stored.

They move from there to an alcove, in which they find a bunch of locked desks within a few smaller alcoves, as well as Probus's staff and a set of keys. The former Quill takes and Rufus the latter. Rufus then begins to unlock a desk after inspecting the labels to which is read Feywild (the place to which he wishes to retire), and finds the tuning fork. As he takes it, a skull begins to speak and reveals himself to be his friend, the Proctor Nestor.