Talkin Bout a Revolution

The Acquaintances With Weapons storm the emperor's palace.

## Major Plot Points

* The party arrives at Necropolis, Thay's capital, to finally end Szass Tam's reign. Bigsby talked the city guard into letting the party through the gates.
* Once inside, Sudsy wanted to rummage through the houses and businesses. He chose a house at random and broke through their window. The family inside was understandably frightened and upset. They said the citizens of Necropolis don't necessarily love the emperor. The outskirts of the city are the poor neighborhoods and the inner part is dedicated to the wealthy citizens. Sudsy convinced them to leave town and took their turkey dinner.
* In the streets of the city, AWW found Covenant agents helping citizens flee Necropolis. Sora approached the party asking them to look out for Rhiannon. She missed her hourly check in call. Calypso stayed behind to help the Covenant agents free citizens.
* The group then went to the palace. Fern stepped onto the courtyard lawn and suffered necrotic damage from the dead grass. Olivia used her magic to grow living grass over the dead lawn.
* Fern found a storm cellar door. Sudsy and Bigsby tried to pick the locks but failed. The group used the front door when Voloth solved its riddle.
* Bigsby rushed through the palace halls smelling delicious food. He triggered a trap that fired poisoned darts at him.
* The party found the memorial hall for Sirgay Von Astra. Bigsby unlocked the emperor consort's ceremonial armor by rubbing the Sirgay statue's crotch. Olivia took the armor. Fern found a secret safe behind a Sirgay portrait. His skull was kept inside of it. Bigsby pocketed it.
* Following the smell of food, the group went into the kitchen next. Voloth, Sudsy, and Bisby couldn't resist and ate the poisoned food. They then saw a hunchbacked dwarf cooking a live grung. Sudsy rescued him and then boiled the dwarf alive.
* AWW went through a hidden door in the pantry. Neuriel knew at first glance a rug in hallway was a mimic and cast stone shape to knock statues on top of it.
* In the wine cellar, Sudsy drank poisoned wine. Bigsby cast shatter to destroy all of the bottles.
* The group entered the palace's mortuary where Fern accidentally awakened a zombie. Neuriel cast turn undead to eliminate the zombies in there. Bigsby dragged the body of Szass Tam's father with the group.
* In the dungeon, they heard the unmistakable cries of Fumphy Cave Princess. Bigsby swam through the flooded dungeon and unlocked her cell.
* The group found a secret door to the dining hall. When they entered the room, the doors locked around them and the organ played a haunting tone. The room filled with poisonous gas. Flumphy Cave Princess succumbed to the gas and perished. Bigsby used his magic to revive her.
* The party went upstairs to the second level. They found themselves in a hall of spiderwebs. Olivia used her flaming arrows to destroy the webs and injure the spiders living in here. Dani killed two spiders with her lightning bolt. Sudsy killed another with his claws. Peggy's magic missiles nearly killed one and her wild magic made her hair fall out. Voloth destroyed the final spider with his eldritch blasts.
* In a chamber labeled Hall of Heroes, AWW discovered possessed statues of Szass Tam's relatives. They told the party that Szass Tam trapped their souls in these statues to serve as unwilling advisors. Olivia cast remove curse on them to free their spirits.
* In an abandoned dining hall, the party found Szass and Sigray's wedding cake. The spirit of Sirgay appeared to the group, telling them he was freed when the phylactery was destroyed. However, he can't yet move on. He asked AWW to kill his husband mercifully. He gifted Voloth with the glass candle. If a person of pure heart lights it, it will eliminate all of the low level undead in the region. Sirgay then took possession of his skull.
* AWW found Szass' magical laboratory where a brain in a jar was working on finding a way to make the emperor immortal again. Fern cast resurrection on the brain to give him his body back. Now in his sexy doctor body, he told Fern he'd wait for her.
* In the Hall of Bones, AWW found a bone devil and Rhiannon. Voloth deduced Rhiannon was under the spell of a mind control gem. Fern encircled the two in poisonous spores. Dani stopped time with her magic and shot the devil with a disintegration ray. Olivia activated her radiant soul and killed the devil. Sudsy then ripped the control gem off of Rhiannon.
* Bigsby and Sudsy tricked Rhiannon into thinking she slept with the half tiefling gnome. She agreed to accompany the party to fight the emperor.
* You're all level 19!