episode 7.5: 2 Tails and a Lie

"2 Tails and a Lie" is a short between sessions 7 and 8.

 

The Reavers get creative when faced with a particularly interesting room in the crypt.

 

It was played on February 3, 2024.

The date in-game is the 13th day of Fall DST.

Synopsis

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Plot

  • Lya sits in front of Meph while she cries
  • Quill is looking at the statues, they are still our party and they aren’t moving with hostility and not moving even if you move away from them
  • There is light coming through the door
    • In the other side is a square chamber with crystal sconces with a door at the other end and a statue in the middle, it is of the person who is important
    • There is a depiction on the walls
      • A writing over the door on the other end of the other wall
      • There are also a series of depictions on the walls, of standing inside a clearing in a meadow, Quill doesn’t recognize the trees, there are no other figure depicted
      • The center of the room is a depiction of the individual holding his hands out to his side, his tail is coiled up probably comfortably
      • There is a circle twisting around the statue with like twisting magic lines
  • Short rest is happening
    • We hear the same slight rumblings in the distance like we have been in the past
    • In the right wall, a flash of light flickers and a gem sconce pops on and then another joins it a little after. The lights are tinted yellow
  • Dorian is sort of off in a corner with his statue and he is sitting, he has a ticking always but it becomes louder when he is thinking more, he is sitting and staring and fiddling with his wedding ring
  • Meph becomes aware of Lya
    • Comforting(?) ensues
    • Lya is confused
    • Daisy Daisy thumbs up
    • “I am feeling better, let’s get on with life… please”
  • Short rest over
  • Maeve detects magic
    • A lot of transmutation and conjuration, some evocation and divination
    • Ambient magic in room, enchantment and illusion, it is a very stagnant effect
    • Statue is not uniquely magical
  • Lya throws a ball bearing into the room (999 left)
    • It hits the statue and it bounces off and doesn’t change anything
  • Lya casts mage hand to scutter along the floor like Thing
    • It also doesn’t interact with the magic
  • Daisy Daisy enters the room
    • She hears a present buzzing in her ear then their brain tunes it out, it is still there, they try to find it but it doesn’t change
    • They take 2 pts of psychic damage, there is a sharp spike in the magic around them, almost like lightning in a cloud
  • It seems like DD said something intelligible then got damaged
  • Quill, Lya, Maeve, and Meph enter the room and Mariana translates the writing above the door
    • “Speak to leave
    • I have two tails”
  • When in the room you can hear that others speak, its just unintelligible
  • DD and Lya are investigating
    • There is nothing that is to be interacted with
  • Quill is investigating the floor and Aster arcana’s it
    • It is similar to a spell circle but it is not a valid casting, it is almost intentionally drawn to not have power with it
    • Its essentially magic gibberish
    • It is painted, it doesn’t even have texture, makes it seem like it is a later installation to the space, not necessarily natural to the space 
  • Lya high fives the statue
  • We don't recognize the tree depictions, 
  • Dorian gets a migraine
  • Dorian and Lya mess around with using coins and putting them on the statue and saying “i have two tails”
  • People walk in with coins tail face up and say “I have two tails”
    • Its a zone of truth essentially and you can only say the pass phrase
  • Everyone disappears when they say the phrase (illusion)
  • We are in a room, the door to it reveals itself when we say the phrase and makes us disappear to everyone else

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