Not Another D&D Podcast - Twilight Sanctorum - Ep. 1: The Family Business

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

Dungeon Docent Emily is joined by a family of Private Investigators - Frankie, Penny, and Mavid Vantasmo - as they look into the threatening letters of a dancer at the Jolly Jamboureen. Support us at Patreon.com/Naddpod to get access to the after-show and a bunch of other Naddpod content! Get tickets to our upcoming live shows at naddpod.com/live.Music / Sound Effects Include: "Twilight Sanctorum" by Emily Axford"Fia Boginya" by Emily Axford"Frankie Vantasmo" by Emily Axford"Bonkginya, Fia Bonkginya" by Emily Axford"Speak with Animals" by Emily Axford"Genevieve" by Emily Axford"A Knock at the Door" by Emily Axford"Cursed" by Emily Axford"What Cha Call 'Em Blues" by Small Jazz Band"Selfless" by Emily Axford"Too Many Eyes" by Emily Axford"The Purge" by Emily Axford"Angels and Devils" by Emily Axford"Demi-God" by Emily Axford"In the Dark of Dusk" by Emily Axford"When Eyes of Blue are Foolin' You" by Howard Lanin"Bloody Mural" by Emily Axford"The Pact" by Emily Axford"Haunting Visages" by Emily AxfordSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Not eating pumpkins, not drinking pumpkin spice. Like seeing them. Just seeing them. I love seeing them. You're a pumpkin paparazzi. Absolutely. I'm going pumpkin peepin. And I enjoy decorating my house with a festive gourd.

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She's a little different. He's a little different. Well, my favorite part of the spooky season is spooky music. So I've conceived of a little mystery two shot to give myself an excuse to write a bunch of spooky music. And I love playing grizzled guys. So here we are. Let's kick it off.

I'm your dungeon docent Emily Axford, by Brian Murphy, call well dinner, Jake Herwoods. You guys, you have an issue. Yeah, that's spooky. Oh, yeah, we're werewolves for this. Oh, I'm a crow. That's not true. No, no, no. Swolp bump bump, I'm a pumpkin.

Okay, everything that's been said is false. So you guys just want to say what your character's name is. Yeah, do you want to start? Okay, let's go into age descending order. Okay, do we say it is false. So you guys just wanna say what your character's name is. Yeah, do you wanna start? Okay, let's go into age descending order. Okay, do we wanna do name or do we, cause I gotta spiel. Do you want me? Save the spiel.

Okay, would you do me a favor and put a little music under this? Okay. All right, the name's Frankie Fantasma. Interesting. I'm a private investigator. We ain't no, we're not doing spiel, we're not doing spiel. I'm a private investigator. We know we're not there to feel that, we're not here to feel. I thought you said to do the deal.

Stop the deal. I thought you said to stop the deal. Stop the deal. Stop the deal. I thought you said to do it. I thought you wanted it. You just want my name? Going in.

All right. All right. Carwell. Hi, how's it going? My name's uh, uh, pin dark, uh, ventasma, but you can call me penny. Okay, Jake. And I'm maven, ventasma. And you can call me maven, ventasma. That's my boy. Okay. So without further ado, let's kick this off. Our little adventure will take place in twilight's Angtorum, a shadow crossing in a Bahumia of Yor. A way station between the material plane and shadow fell where those who travel and trade

between life and death have established a city of sin and debauchery. The city is home to vampires and ghouls, as well as those who prefer the dark, like drow elves and deep gnomes. It also attracts some fay, specifically the kind who stray from trickery in tamales. And any thrill seekers, charlatans, or oddballs who just kind of want to live on the fringes

of decency. But all is not dreariness and horror because Twilight's St. Torum boasts a vibrant nightlife with cabaret, puppet shows, speakeasies and midnight parades. The promenade is lined with lavish townhouses and carriages pulled by giant spiders. But that's not where we'll begin. We begin in a dilapidated carriage house on the outskirts of town. Oh yeah. A sign out front.

It's really in bad shape. Creaking under the weight of a perched raven. Reads. Ah! It's Merv bad shape. Creaking under the weight of a perched raven. Reads. Ah! It's Merf's work's character. I'm an Eric Akra. Get out of here. The sign out front reads,

Vantasmal and Sun, Private Investigation. The mail slot is jammed with overdue bills. Inside the ceiling leaks, and flies buzz around the fruit Which doesn't seem to stay fresh for more than a day This close to a shadow crossing At a rickety table Three men play cards

Three generations Grandfather, father, and son Murph, codwell and Jake, would you like to introduce your characters? Boy, yeah. And I'm spiel me daddy. As, as art the spiel, as the camera passes by Frankie, you see an old man, eyes kind of sunken in deep high bags, a very skinny, it's got like suspenders on and just an undershirt.

Still, where's like an old worn out wool cap? And you hear his voice over as he puffs on a pipe and he goes, my name's Frankie Fantasma. I'm a private investigator, 71 years fun. When it comes to shooting, I like to keep my cards close to my chest, but when it comes to cards, I got an itchy, trigger finger. And then he puts all of his chips in I'm all in oh thank god that I was really worried you were just silent for like two minutes straight there you okay I'm

thinking Ben okay just making sure called well would you like to introduce your character oh yeah gladly so next to Frankie you see a mid-40s gentleman wearing a dark beret and a vest, like a black vest full of pockets and a kind of tattered scarf. On a cooler person, this would look like a really sick outfit, but on me, it looks like what it is, which is the guy wearing a beret and a fishing vest. I really am trying to wrap my head around the cool version of it, I can't even picture that. Basically picture like somebody who's like a green brain, like a tactical vest, like

a real like stealth operator. I see, I see, but it hangs a little limply. Oh yeah. Like the dorky dad version of that, and that is what pin dark, pinny vent has most wearing. And you see that like as Frankie puts in all the chips, pinny gets an idea and uses his mage hand because he's an arcane trickster to try and push his in as well and definitely probably pushes them almost to the edge of the table. All right. No need for the the edge. What? It's magic. Give me a slight hand to see how swavly you execute this maneuver.

Here we go. Put it to the test. Oh, you gotta love it. It's a natural one. No. No. No. In the process of doing so, you reveal a full hand.

And you have to all reshuffle and deal a new hand to everyone. God. That was a really good hand. And you have to all reshuffle and deal a new hand to everyone. God, that was a really good hand. And finally, Jake, would you like to introduce your character? With love to narrow shoulder pot bellied, Mavid Van Tazmo is easily missed, which is exactly how he likes it. Mavid wears a high-collared faded black coat, warning leather boots, and a constant sneer. He's got a snaggle tooth and pinning hair, which he wears. I'm not playing a teenager.

I'm going bald very, very early. I am 22. Ha, ha, ha. Hey, ah. Maybe. Maybe. I have a crossbow at my side as well as a pouch full of peanuts, which maybe it is constantly chewing on nervously. He is shifty and distrustful, thinking everyone is out to get him, but that is just because he's trying to screw them over first, Mavid's inner monologue sounds like,

What? They're going all in? Why they going all in? Are they cheating? No, I'm cheating. What the fuck? Okay, I'm gonna call. I call. No, I fold. I fold. Are you cheating, Grandpa? Of course, I'm cheating. Mavid, you know what, whatever decision you make, that's the right one for you and I support it. I love you, my boy. Since we're all in, why don't we play a hand? Okay, great. So how this is gonna work?

You guys are playing a game that's sort of migrated here to this material shadow crossing from shadow fell called Gloom's Gambit. Mm-hmm. So you basically all roll five D6 poker rolls so you can get high number, pair, two pair, three of a kind, four of a kind, full house, five of a kind.

But since you're all rogues, if you want to cheat, just give me a slight of hand against each other's passive perception. Or one of you can choose not to cheat, and actively try to perceive other people cheating. I'm gonna try to perceive other people cheating. I know you, but you. Mavid is absolutely gonna cheat.

I use the message can trip to tell Mavid that I love him. Why, at that? You're too soft to have a hand with him. Okay, I also rolled a nat one on my deception 19 to see if anyone's cheating. Okay, you catch Maver in the act of trying to change out one of his cards. Cheat, how good how that get there. Well, I just fell on the floor. Did dad, were you cheating dad? Hey, dad, I think you dropped your ace. What do you believe that dirt on this guy, grandpa? That's my ace.

Frank so sorry. Frankie is gonna throw a dagger right into the card. Give me an attack roll. Hey, what's the big idea? 15. All right, you got it, you got it. It's the card. And I look at Mvid and I go hey mave if you get a cheat

Don't get caught We even have anything going on the game Try to teach you a good lesson mave you really you got to be quicker with the hands You know we've been working on this and all you want to come over maybe sometime and I can show you a couple of my tricks You guys do it me together. You cover it. Come over to my room. And you got to stop trying to fight people to your room. Okay hands out what you guys get. I got a perfect reflection of the scene three ones. Okay three of a kind. That got pretty good. Just two of a kind, two twos. Shout out to the two two crew. What about you, Mavid? I had two fives and two threes. I win. Three of a cup, it's two pair, right? Your patriarch wins. You win

all the time, Dad. You two ain't got a chip between you. As Frankie collects all of his children and grandchildren's money, You hear a knock at the door. Mayvet, be a be a deer and go grab that. Dad, Dad, get the door. Mayvet, you know what? We never get to talk to you. He just wants to do it. We'll have to be a little bit more. Hey, yelling.

Mayvet, you want someone to open the door? Why does it have to be me? Mayvet, be dead. Mayvet, what? Hey yelling Ross maverick you want someone to open the door? Why does it have to be me? I can't be dead. Maverick, what? Ben he used to get the door when he was a kid. All right, and you're not a kid, right? Yeah.

You're 22 years old. I'm 22 and I'm bald. Come on. Hey man. Hey tell me this, why do you guys still have hair? Let me let you in on a little secret, Maverick. Pull off my tweet hat and I'm bald David goes silence

Dance up and goes get together He'd get it from your grandfather. I didn't have the heart to tell him But there is so much magic going on to keep his hair on my head Like 12 concentration spells So maybe it walks over to the door, creaks it open, and standing in the shadows is a cloaked woman. Patun, may we come to set inside?

Yes, right this way. Welcome to Vantasma and Sun. Sorry, let's clear the table. May the clear the table. Come on, everybody clear the table, it'll happen a lot faster. All right, fine, Pat, and help him clear the table. I used my chin to help him clear it. It's a little after hours. It must be something important. Itis, she looks over her shoulder nervously. Vahe,si-ryus.

She enters, but she doesn't remove her hood. But you can see enough in the lamp light to see under her hood she is a sea elf woman. She's got long green banana curls and silken gloves which she fiddles with nervously. Frankie talks in his narration and goes, not normally when somebody's just nervous. They're either lying or they're telling you a hard truth. You do see that she is nervous. She's ringing her phone. I'd like to do an insight check on her.

Okay. She's kind of surveying your carriage house. Maybe with a bit of unease was expecting perhaps something more professional. She sees me. Dragging his feet to clear the table. Perhaps second guessing. 19 insight. 19 insight. This is genuine nerves. Okay. She's not being deceitful. She's genuinely scared. Got it. All right so Franky goes and helps clear the table. Go on go on take a take a seat miss. What's your name? Hey, you want to you want a glass of water? I'm supposed to offer everybody a glass of water, right? Yeah That's good. Maybe you don't have to tell people yeah

I'm supposed to get everyone some water when they don't say that you're supposed to get it You just go get it right? I would love you. I got issue to throw, my son. Maybe it gets lukewarm tap water in a dusty glass. Maybe it's, Frank goes, Frank goes and gets filtered water, brings it back, places it down in front of her. What's your name? Thank you. My name is Jenavife Safir. Jenavife, alright. I'm just gonna take notes if that's okay. Yeah, is that easy? It pulls out a big typewriter. Boys.

I actually would trust her. I choose to stop. Okay. Could you say that one more time? It's a very loud machine. Do you say that? You're embarrassing us. I'm taking notes. Pen? Use me my phone. Stayed in the corner please. You see that? She is very uncomfortable with the taking taking notes. Pen? Use me my phone. Stay in the corner please.

You see that? She is very uncomfortable with the taking of notes. She's clearly nervous to even say anything. Off the record. Off the record. You haven't officially hired us yet. What's going on? I have come to you because someone has been sending me threatening letters.

And she produces a letter that in a mysterious red ink says, get out of town and do it now. Can I inspect the letter, do an investigation check? Yeah. Yeah. Nat 20, make me a 30-like wall. Hey! Have we only rolled ones in 20 since we started our drive?

Here's what I'm gonna tell you. With a Nat 20, I'm gonna tell you something that she doesn't know. Okay. So first off, it's written in a hand that's very erratic, like someone trying to hide their own handwriting. And it is also written in, with a Nat 20, the mysterious red ink is stage blood.

Oh. You work for some kind of theater production? I am a dancer. Ah, beautiful. Wow. Which productions have you been in? I dance at C'est Jelle-Jean-Barrin. J'allais j'ai un bain. C'est caparet.

Dance down. You got anybody? Yeah. Any enemies? Anybody that want to hurt you for any reason? You got anybody? Yeah. Any enemies? Anybody that want to hurt you for any reason? She stiffens at this? I lived here a long time, so I have accumulated a role a text of unsafe, right, companionship. I was hoping if I could pay you enough,

perhaps I could keep my discretion. And at this, she holds out a spider silk coin purse with 30 platinum in it. Maybe it grabs it. It's not a big deal. I thought you were going to get it again. This is my last time. I thought you were going to get it again.

I tried to expect it. I did see that sliding hand. That's so impressive. Look at it. If right in front of everyone, right in front of everyone, Mavid and these are clients, all right? I was just accepting the payment. I show them off the skills that's important.

These are not this. You have too soft of a hand with them, pen. I don't know what you're talking about that. I turned to Genevieve. We'll take the job. I, after I said I did not intend to give you the entire coin today. Can I please have it back? I was sinking. I give you two platinum every week. And when you find who has been threatening me, you can have so rest.

Maybe give Genevieve back the platinum. Yeah, I wasn't going to do anything with it. You have to back. Count it. Count it. It's all there. You should actually count it She counts it. Is it all there? Yeah, I didn't steal it. Okay, okay Okay, well a quick look at this letter looks like somebody was trying to hide their penmanship so It must have been somebody you know Where did you find the letter?

Someone that's been leaving them in my dressing room. In fact, I am dancing tonight. She takes out a little flyer that says, the one the only misgenovive Sapphire with a picture of a gorgeous sea elf in a tasteless one piece draped in a huge martini glass. Maybe it holds up the paper and looks at her and looks back at the paper. It actually is. I will say that you do notice that she does look like she's aging. She's wearing almost fake lashes and a bit too much makeup to be feeling comfortable with where she's at.

Oh, okay. Compared to the picture. Would you be okay with us investigating your dressing room? Yes, you can come see Sresha. Okay, yeah. I was very curious about the large martini glass. I wanted to know if it actually works. If you're gonna fill that up, what do you mean, Penn?

I mean, if I actually was, I had, it's a receptacle. Back in my stage days in college, you know, we did some big production with a lot of set pieces and whatnot. Oh, here we go again with the college production. This is a fair question I dance in it. You dance.

You dance. It comes up onto the stage. You can come see. That's amazing. Do you want to come see it? Yeah. I can't believe I'm in it. You dance. It is real. It comes up onto the stage. You can come see. That's amazing. Do you want to come see? Yeah, I can believe You can see us. Great. Can I have a plus one? I'm so ditty. May have who you gonna bring. I don't know. Maybe I'll meet somebody. You can bring me. I'm telling me to meet somebody I'll go with you. We can sit together. It'll be nice. You can talk. You are already on the top. You're gonna be on the list. You ever bless one, yes. Right, but it would just be nice to be asked, I guess, is what I'm saying. We're talking right now, aren't we there?

She's the least. Pen, you couldn't be closer. You don't understand that. You just don't understand. I'm trying my best here. You're just a different breed of cat. She looks at you all slightly disappointed. I would say with the insight check you did earlier.

She came in and nervous about her own life. Now she's a bit nervous about the process of finding this out. She kind of turns on her heel and says, I have to go get ready. Before I go, she looks at you Frankie. Forgive me Ayah. I knew your wife. Ma? I'm so sorry, said she didn't work out for you and so far wild. I was rooting for her. If anyone was going to make it out of here, it would have been her. Yeah, thanks. No, she'd... She'd appreciate it, but uh...

You know, you make it until you don't. True, that way it's never spoken. And then she... exits... disappearing into the shadow, the only evidence she was ever there... sound of her heels walking away. Mavid marches on a peanut.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Somebody brings up your grandmother and you're just gonna eat fucking peanuts. What the fuck? What's the matter with that? Is this respectful, Mavid? I tolerate a lot, but the cheater woman was a saint man.

She was an angel. I did not say it, she wasn't. I can't eat and think about my grandma the same time. We just had a full dinner and you didn't have a bite of it, ma'am. Now you're over here. You know, you need to do. You need to do it. I wasn't hungry for the dinner. We made a full bowl of child on you don't have any of it. All right. Yeah. Well, maybe I'll have some later. Pan, he's 22. All right. Look, boys, we're dealing with an actor here or somebody involved in the dance hall because this is a stage blood. So it's either somebody with an in or, uh, yeah, he, uh, takes it and licks the blood.

Yeah. Minty. Yeah, it took a shot. Would have been like a real blood. I mean, it could have been poison, but okay. I mean, it could have been poisoned, but. Okay. With that, Nat 20, I'll also say that while she was rifling through the platinum to make sure it was all there, you noticed in one of her gloved hands, there was a large protrusion

underneath like a big rock. Oh, or a beetle. Could be a beetle, sure. Pen. Just so we live in, you know, this, we live in the twilight sanctum, there's all sorts of creepy crawlies. We ride spiders everywhere. It's a line of thought. I'm not going to argue with you.

I'm not going to do this now. I'm trying to make it any good influences in this life. You know when you're right, you're right. She did leave you with two platinum though. So you guys have two platinum warming up that pocket. We do live in a carry house. We don't hold on to the, I hold on to the money.

I do wanna, what else? Maybe I'll hold on to the money. Maybe I'll hold on to the money. You know, this is a good opportunity for him to prove that he's responsible. I will give you two silver mafe and you you may hold on to that and then you'll get your cut when we're done. You'll get your two platinum. You'll get more than that when all is said and done. Maven and Penny, give me a history check as Frankie sort of flashes

about these platinum. I have good history. 16, nine for me. Okay, David, you might not know this, but Penny, this is deeply personal to you. The platinum is pressed with the crest of a prominent vampire family. All the currency in Twilight Singtorm is kind of decentralized. There's basically like four super wealthy families and they all press their own coins and the values of those kind of fluctuate with their reputation. This particular one

bears a fanged skull with bat wings. It's the crest of the bow months. A wealthy vampire family. A powerful brother and sister by the name of Abigail and Atticus. It's personal to you because Penny after your wife left. Yeah. She took up with Atticus Beaumont. In fact, Mavid, they've even revamped, no pun intended, the basement. So if you want to start saying there you can, but you haven't taken them up yet. I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it deeply actually. It's a vampire mansion. You're not gonna like it there.

It's gonna be, it's gonna be spider webs everywhere. It's gonna be all dark all the time. It's gonna be spooky. You know my spooky stuff, man. That's good. That's good, nothing. It's gonna be cool. It'll be good for him.

All right, all right boy. Yes, you fact that I lived on my own. I want to live on my own with my mom and her new boyfriend. I can't even look at these bow bucks. I have to look at them. Everybody relax, all right? Put on your good pants. We're going out tonight.

I gotta go get my pants. Hold on. Put on some clean pants, please. He's one of the followers. They're full of gosh, to peanuts. Well, so all my other ones, geez, Louise. You know what, everyone, everyone give me a performance check for how good you look, leaving the carriage house.

And tell me what you think you're putting to go out for a night on the town at the cabaret. I got a seven, so I think, yeah, Frank goes up, thinks that he's got like a clean white shirt, looks through his closet, and sees that he hasn't been keeping up with the wash, and just has to like pull a stained crumpley one from a pile, and tries to flatten it out as best as he can. Iron doesn't work anymore, and then puts on a fresh pair of slacks. Okay, so you've got a really wrinkly shirt, but really unwrinkled slacks. There's something almost clashing, upsettingly clashing about how smooth the slacks are

compared to the shirt. I've just, I just got a perfect cleat in the middle. Let's go step in the shower, something. Let's's try and get rid of some of those wrinkles, huh? Yeah, we ain't winning any kind of contest, and in our business it's good to be underestimating. What about you, Penny? What do you think you're wearing? Unfortunately, I got an 18. Oh, yes, Penny!

Penny, you see the crest of the fucking man who took your woman, and you are like, no, no, no no no no Penny somehow is way overdressed he's got on like a tuxedo with tails and he looks really good but then he takes all of the gadgets that he uses for spycraft and detective work and shoves them in the pockets of his tuxedo so it just looks really lumpy I think because you rolled an 18 though instead of looking lumpy, it all falls perfectly into place

so that you look like ripped superhero at the opening of a movie. And he's just pen, you've been working out. You've been trying to open it in the cable machine, like non-stop, all right? And then I put on a black can goal cap where they're like, Jim's still in the front. Oh, I'm ready.

Looking good. And what about you, Mavid? I'm Mavid dives into a back room looking for a pair of pants that doesn't have peanut dust all over them, but he finds anything less dusty than what he's already wearing. So he just kind of beats the peanut dust out, spits into his hand, slicks his balding paint back. Uh, paint.

With a toothpick and a snaggle tooth and comes back out. Yeah, I guess I'm ready. Great. And before you guys leave the carriage house, any last things you want to do? Yeah, I'm going to have like a little bag with me and just have things that we can throw over ourselves or whatever to disguise like has necessary to be able to slip in Okay

And I want to set up a tiny little like maybe a string around the door knob and lock the door just just to make sure that nobody Anyone has broken in yeah, okay I watch Mavid do that and I say great works on amazing like you're really using everything I taught you and then I do cast snare so that it actually works. Okay So you guys secure the carriage house and you leave all right boys you enter the night Dusk is fading. There's a light drizzle and a cool wind and eerie shadow creeps through the alleyways like fog. You're in the outskirts of town, so it's particularly seedy here.

This is where the less socially acceptable creatures have been relocated ever since there's been a push to make Twilight Singtorum more of a tourist attraction. You see a few mind-flares who had been cut off from the elderbrain just digging through a dumpster looking for something upon. You see a pile of entrails left over from feasting ghouls staining the sidewalk. You pass the low-rent housing which is poorly guarded by rabid-looking gers, which are basically these little hovering floating creatures with stalks with eyes at the end. And businesses start popping up,

but they're predatory ones. There's haggs, huts, and pawn shops, and life brokers who bargain with desperate people to trade their remaining time for valuables. There's the mortuary where the ghouls operate out of where people can trade their future corpse for gold now. And then you finally enter the cabaret district. It's a lively thoroughfare lit up by lantern dragonets, which are a little pop-bellied

dragons flying about with glowing bellies, pixie lights lined with theaters, or with staccradic townhouses and kitschy boutiques, people wear masks and corsets and carry canes, everything smells like powdered sugar and buttered rum. Down the way you see the jolly jamboreen written in bulbs of continual flame like an old Hollywood marquee. Frankie feels a rush of what it was like to watch Lynette his wife dance back in the day and has a brief moment of wonder and then knocks it off his face. All right, boys, let's go.

Let's get a walk and drink at least, right? Come on. Would you like it? Yeah, you see some stands are selling, like I said, buttered rum or really anything that you can dream of. I just walk over and I give them the sign for three. Buttered rums? Three buttered?

Okay. Three buttered rums, why not? You walk over to the rum tender. Hi, a kiddo, are you all left to drink? Hi. He looks at you. He's going to be holding it. Yeah.

Sorry, it's on the house man. He can't see three buttered rums. Just feel like this is gonna make us a little sleepy, but okay. They're making us blend in. Yeah. Just feel like this is gonna make us a little sleepy, but okay They're making us blend in Yeah, and then yeah, I'll take the butter drum and Frankie does not drink it, but pretends to As we walk towards the Cabaret

As you're walking towards the Cabaret you're passing sort of people partying in the street down the alleys There's it almost looks like Christmas lights down in alley, but it's like spider webs with little nanorflies stuck in waiting for their fate in it. That's free. And you actually hear a familiar voice. Please don't act me, a big of you. I do an insight check to make sure we're not being tricked.

Yeah. 21. It is an imitation. Someone is imitating. Are you leaving? I'm going to look to Mavid and Penny. Don't let me. Please. look to, maven and penny. And motion for us all to move towards the voice, but

treading carefully. Okay. You hear the voice, you follow the voice, and you see a hobbled old woman bent over two week to even chew the raven off her shoulder, with silvery strings and a little puppet. Why, hello boys! Are you enjoying the show? She makes the puppet dance a little bit. I think it's in poor taste. Well, then I think you'll need to take it up with my co-star.

And she holds up the puppet. As she says this, the puppet who is this big bug-eyed, round-faced, gawking mouth puppet, cocks its head and says, I think you boys are in deeper than you wanna be. The puppets' bug-eyes begin to ooze out even further and pop like a lanced boil and its mouth unhinges revealing a limitless void. Silken strings project down try to drag you into a nightmare. Everybody give me an intelligent Huh, friend's sick, Frankie Gulp's dead. 25.

Ooh, not 20. Wow. OK. No, that's 20s. All of you feel these wet silky threads trying to drag you into this waking nightmare, but you shrug it off. And what you see is that the hobbled old woman stands up

and she's no longer a woman. She shakes off some sort of illusion and reveals a rotting zombie with long, yellow fingernails that curl as if even in undead, they haven't stopped growing. Stay away from that girl. This will be your last warning. Everyone roll initiative. You need to go home and change. This will be your last warning. Everyone roll initiative.

You need to go home and change. This place has a dress code, alright? Yeah. Hmm, 13 for me for initiative. 17. Ooh. 21. Okay, Penny, you are first to act.

What you see is basically this puppet just tried to drag you guys into basically another plane to scare the shit out of you. The hobbled old woman has stood up to reveal like a hulking zombie shadowmancer, and the raven that was sitting on her shoulder has now flown off and turned into sort of like a hybrid raven human with sparse feathers that looks like it's over-preened from stress I am very curious about the mechanisms of this puppet. It seems very cool. I do love gadgets I've you know got my own little basement where I've got a little toolkit and I like to think of what stuff So you train your eyes on this puppet whose eyes just popped and oozed down his face Puppet whose eyes just popped and oozed down his face

Puppets and in whose mouth is a portal to a nightmare void I know you're really in the puppeteering dad, but I think you got a fucking fight this thing Yeah, I think I'm gonna focus on actually know I'm gonna be chomps at you and says you want a piece of me I want all of the pieces of you. I want to take you apart and figure out how you work. But I'm gonna focus on this Raven for now. Okay. So I'm gonna, I pull out a gun that I've covered in runes and I'm gonna cast Firebolt.

Woo! Okay. Just in 11 though. 11 misses. Okay. So you shoot fire at this wear raven who dodges out of the way. You guys see around you,

everyone else is just kind of annoyed by this sort of like street rustle. Yeah, yeah, keep walking, keep walking. This is the reason the hospitality industry is suffering. Oh God. God damn it. Yeah, we'll go home tourists. Yeah.

Get out of here. That is your turn. Next up is the shadowmancer. The shadowmancer is going to look at you, Frankie, and say, you need to forget this ever happened. Give me a wisdom save. OK, I take it personally that I'm not being targeted, actually.

Dirty 20. Dirty 20 passes. You are steel of mind and heart. You feel this shadow mancer, try to modify your memory and you resist it. Ooh. That is the shadow mancer's turn. Next up is Mavid.

Leave my grandpa alone. Oh. Oh. Is he sweet if nothing matters? nice if you, Mavid. I charge forward with a rapier and I'm gonna stab at the puppet. The hot fish. He's gonna full ass sword. You guys do see that the bill on the head looks like it's gonna run away on its turn.

Not so bad. Okay, okay. That is a dirty 20 to hit. That hits. And that is seven damage to the puppet. What kind of damage is it? I believe it is piercing damage.

The puppet for some reason is resistant to piercing damage. It takes half of that. I guess it makes sense just poking out. You see a kind of like dances, even though it's like ripped itself from its own strings, it sort of dances away. Oh, ma'am. Look at that. It's got to be enchanted in some way.

Everybody wants a piece of me. I'm going to use my bonus action, fast hands for an object interaction, and chuck some ball bearings at the puppet so it can't get away. Okay. Nice, mate. How does this work? Are they all doing decks checks?

Because I'm assuming that ball bearings are gonna roll under all of them. Yes, oh, okay. So I can spill these tiny metal balls from a pouch to cover a level square that is ten feet on a side. The public see you and says, what are you at there? These are my balls! Who is this kid? So everybody moving through this area has to succeed on a DC-10 deck save or fall prone

and a creature moving through the area at half speed doesn't need to make the save. Mavid Estunis, you throw these balls, they all look a little bit like, this is not going according to plan. You guys were supposed to get sucked into this nightmare void, they were supposed to scare the shit out of you and get out of there, and now you guys are actually fighting them, and they're not looking happy about this.

Next up is the Weare Raven. The Weare Raven is gonna stick to the script. Mavid just did this, so I think he's gonna turn to Mavid with these talons that still have blood dried underneath them from presumably his last kill, and he's gonna look at you. This Raven with sparse feathers and this man with sparse hair.

And he's gonna say, you don't want the heat that girl brings and he's going to 21 to hit sorry that hits okay 21 to hit for the first attack and then 22 to hit for the second attack Both it maven What's the big idea He hits you for 12 piercing damage. How dare you? And he starts fiddling in his pocket for something. Next up is Frankie. Alright Frankie this wear raven is closing in on your grand child. This zombie shadow mancer just tried to clear your memory. This puppet is looking like he's gonna try and fucking run.

Okay, Frankie is not much for fighting these days. He is going to try something. So he's got his suspicions seeing these intelligent undead coming after us. Have I spent a minute speaking to Atticus Beaumont? I'm going to let you decide that. You guys live in the same town and conceivably even done jobs for the vampires because there isn't really a formal legal system here. So a lot of times people come to you to solve personal grudges, little petty crimes.

Right, right. So I think that reasonably you totally could. Okay. I'm gonna go ahead and Don, I think that Atticus speaks in like a sort of Southern accent. Yeah. I'm gonna go ahead and Don and accent. I have an ability where I can mimic anyone, the speech patterns, if I've heard them speak for at least a minute, and I can do a perfect mimic of their speech patterns. Okay. So I would like to go, all right, all right.

The jig is up. I know y'all are trying to be helpful, but we're trying to stay on the down low here. So if everyone could back off, the boss has a new plan. As you say this, you see the shadowmancer, the wear raven, the puppet look confused. Atticus, you're working with the boss? Yeah. That's right, y'all.

Yeah, y'all. Somebody owes me an apology. Atticus, last we heard the girl stole from you. Why would you try to protect her? I ain't trying to protect her. I'm pretending to be the private investigators that she hired so that I can take care of business myself, God damn it, because y'all have taken too long. Yeah, it's simple as a string bean in summer. Y'all pen.

Give me an insight check. 23. They look confused, but they are also afraid. Atticus Beaumont is one of the most powerful people in the city, so they're not going to talk back to him. So they just kind of throw their hands up. Okay, I guess we kind of overstepped our boundaries, huh? Yeah, yeah.

So, whoever was playing in on doing the job tonight, I'm stepping in. Alright, this is personal. They look at you, when you say job, they're a little confused. Job? Eh, we were just sent here to make sure she didn't spill anything. Like out of the giant martini glass? No. She assured us it was spill proof.

Eh, look. We're not that high ranking. We were just sent here to make sure she didn't spill anything sensitive. Alright. If you're not that high ranking, then how did you kick my ass so good? Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.

It gives you a handshake. Thank you. Honestly, the fall bearings were really amazing. Alright, well, I just want to know, I start collecting. You're going to get these back, actually. All right, look, apparently I have had too soft of a hand with you all, because I have no idea what's going on here. So why don't you tell me what you have been up to?

Because as far as I can see, you're just fucking around with puppets. Give me a deception check. Fuck! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, kind of slink back as they do, you do notice that all of them have this tattoo that looks like two dots next to each other, almost like a colon. Yeah. Or like a vampire bite. Or like a vampire bite. And then the wear raven is going to reach for the thing he was fumbling for in his pocket

and throw it. Everyone give me a constitution say, ah, throw a vile at your feet. 15, 15, five. Frankie, Penny, you see a powder erupts from this glass vile, the consistency of a cremated body fills the air. Mayvid starts choking and sneezing on the air. He is immediately passitated. And then you see the Raven flies away.

The Shadow Mancer teleports away. And the puppet bonus action disengages. I use my mage hand to grab at the puppet. That's all fast buckle. Why don't you do an arcana check against the puppet? Just a 10. Puppet also got a 10. That's a roll up.

Roll up again, roll up. Show back and forth. Just an 11. 13. Puppet slips out of your mage. Ah, all right, all right. You were trying to flip with puppets. Why don't we go ahead and-

And David is still choking and sleeping. Yeah. Incapacity. of your mage. Ah, alright alright. You were trapped with puppets. Why don't we go ahead and- And Mavid is still choking and sleeping. Yeah. Incompatible. I'm having a fuckin' puppet. I wish I was a puppet that maybe you cared about me too. You're more than a puppet. I would never try to control you Mavid.

I'm moving into the mom's basement. Oh, you warned me son. It's time I moved out of my own. I gotta grow up. What the hell did they do to you, Mavid? I inspect Mavid. Yeah, you look around and I think you've been around long enough to see this is the dust of sneezing and choking.

Probably given to them like if shit goes bad, throw this. God, okay. They stabbed me, they stabbed me too. Okay. I was also stabbed. You really got torn up there, are you okay? You all right, Mavid? I really don't have any way to kill you.

No. All right, all right. So the information that we got out of them by pretending to be Atticus. Yeah, so basically you pretended to be Atticus and it was clear that Atticus is high ranking enough and your deception was good enough that they believed, oh, maybe this is Atticus and disguise, but Atticus isn't their boss. Right.

But she stole money from Atticus at some point. Money or something? They referenced stealing something from Atticus. Okay. Of course, that guy's involved. Yeah. You see the way he goes around town? He's got that souped up spider he rides on.

He's just got to say, not as obsessed with this spider as you are, Pat. I've got a pretty cool spider. Yeah, really cool spider. If we pull up this job, I'm getting one. Let's be honest, spider has the problem. Is it? The spider is not the problem.

We live in a carat as we don't have a carriage. It's embarrassing, Pat. You can move out anytime you want, Pat. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, want, Ben. Yeah, maybe nobody get up. Nobody's going out, okay? All right. Maybe I'll stick around if you get a new spider. I'll be driving with the yelling. With the yelling.

All right. Okay, so what do we got here? We got people with vampire tattoos. They probably want to become vampires. Vampires are sexy and cool. Let's be honest. There's some people, I guess. There's some people.

Some people find them sexy and cool and she stole some things so Genevieve has maybe not been completely upfront with us about why somebody might be angry at her why don't we go ahead and go in and see if we can't get some more information let's try to visit a backstage it It's a great idea. So you walk towards the Jolly Jam Marine. Again, everyone is siding you, like you've created a street scuffle. Yeah.

What are you looking at? Just a street performance gone wrong, folks. Nothing to worry about. A couple people buy that. Oh, nice. So interesting. What about us? You guys don't like theater.

And you enter the Jolly Jambarine. As you enter, you are greeted by a young vampire in a little usher's vest and an usher's hat with a crooked bow tie and a pet squirrel. Tickets, y'all got tickets. We're on the list. We're actually on the guest list. Oh, you don't say.

And Mavit has a plus one. Oh shit. Okay, wait David runs out to the street. Oh, quick. Okay. What are you looking for? Who are you looking for? Okay, I'm looking for like I guess a bachelor at party Mavid with one person that maybe doesn't know everybody that well kind of Standing awkwardly in the back. Twilight Singh to him has not reached the level of tourism to have bachelor at parties, but you do see a woman standing out of buttered rum stand crying. Oh, all right, that's perfect.

Wow, he left me. He left me. He left me. What's the matter, what's the matter, man? He's all right. May boyfriend. He left me. Hey, hey, rum keep's the matter, man? He's alright. My boyfriend. He left me. Hey, hey, rum keep two rums, huh?

It's the same rum keep from the store. And he looks. He's again with me. We're good. Yeah, you're right. And please, on the house too. Oh, thank you so much. She was your name.

Uh, maybe. Maybe that's more. Maybe I knew I made it once. Oh yeah? Yeah. Was he as devilishly handsome as me? Maybe it weasers. Still choking a little bit from earlier.

He tricked me once in PE class. Oh yeah? I've got some wroth lettuces as well. I do a split. Give me a performance. He nuts break everywhere. Oh shit! That's a 15. Directly on the nut pouch. You land hard on your ballbearers. I've got balls and nuts on my first. You land on a pile of your own testicles, peanuts and ballbearers.

Okay. Jangles. Oh, that's pretty impressive. Let me more with that came from, hey, I got a plus one over the show. Okay, I'm in a really dark place and I might cry through the entire thing. Do you still want me to come?

Yeah, whatever. What's your name by the way? It's Trudy. Trudy. I like that. Maybe the Link's arms were terrible. The path. The path.

The heart is so limp and passive in yours. As Frank, he sees. Maybe adding baggy dirt is depend. I don't know what you did to that kid. What are you talking about? This is my dad. This is my grandpa. Oh, look at that. Hey.

Hey, maybe you got something here. Look at this. I'm Penny. It's very nice to meet you. This is Trudy. She's in a really dark place I truly really dark we're conducting another cover investigation we're all in a really dark place honestly I'm in such a dark place I mean kind of self-centered so I'm just

gonna tune out everything you say yeah yeah all right and you guys bring All right, all right, Judy come on. We're going backstage weird ass bless Actually if you try to go backstage you do hear that the show is starting Ah the little vampire usher is like it's so starting if you want to go inside All right, yeah, yeah, also I wouldn't recommend going back to miss Jen Veeb's dressing room because she had a history getting stage rise So it can be gross there gross Well, like she gets diarrhea before she goes out there. Oh, no I was like my new hall, but like she could get really nervous and nausea Yeah, okay, thanks for the information

And why don't you to go find your seats. I'm gonna, all this talk with Diary is made my stomach upset. So I'm gonna go to the bathroom and I'm gonna message them and say, I'm gonna disguise myself and try and sneak into a dressing room as a page boy. All right, all right, Penn. The Usher shows you your seats.

Who points to you where the bathroom is? Great, I take Mavid and go to the seats. And Trudy. Hey, I'm here to do this. Dad, make sure that Trudy is good enough for Mavid, okay? Pen, you used your investigation skills to see if you can see it. Go pretends to be a busboy. So, Trudy, what do you, what do a what a what a like some of your interests or whatever.

My ex-boyfriend. Oh. And anything he likes. What? Okay. What's his name? Trent. Trent. Cool. He's the in-trend. Who's too good to be true? Yeah. Mavit. Come on, man. I'm gonna look around and see if there's anybody with like a suspicious vantage point on the stage. If there's anybody who's being you know kind of creepy or you know just looks like they're like hiding away or something like

that and also looking for these tattoos that are like vampire. Okay that's great. So Frankie, Mavid, and unfortunately Trudy. And you see that the stages lit by more of these lanternet dragons and they are starting to dim as if the show's about to begin. Okay, I will let you do like an investigation. Mavid, do you mind helping out your grandpa?

Mavid peels his eyes away from true to just one second. Yeah, what's up? Alright, cool. Can I get a bit? I just can't be around him because I'm gonna fawn over him too much. So I just gotta give him some space. I got a 28. Ooh, baby.

So one thing that you notice in terms of vantage point, you do see that in the audience there are boxes for benefactors. And that is where someone who supports one of the dancers in one way or another might have a permanent seat there to go watch. However, you notice that there aren't any benefactors there right now. If you're looking for those tattoos, the two little dots, you actually see there's a dweurger jug band tuning their instruments on stage, getting ready for the show. You see two of the dwargers have the double dot tattoos. Interesting. All right. And then I do think that you're also with with that high of a perception check, I think you

also hear, maybe some gossip. You hear someone saying, like, I heard Miss Genevieve got worked on. And then someone else says, yeah, I mean, if you have a vampire benefactor, of course you can. And then you hear someone else say, I actually heard she's not with her benefactor anymore. In fact, I've heard that she's been hanging out with that artist collective. What is it called living in harmony?

Living in harmony. Has anybody saying anything about Trent? Ha ha ha. You hear someone saying a lot of stuff about Trent, about like what a good guy he is but also what a fuck he is and it's true. Cool. I have to, I'm gonna act interested.

Yeah, that's crazy. Hey. It's just like every day he's doing it on me and all he made me like a marr. Yeah, I got it. He sounds cool but not in the maze. You got it. You got it. Totally. Maybe I thought not in the face. You got it. You got it. Totally. Maybe I thought to you for a moment.

What's up? Maybe it, hey, so when you speak to somebody and they're talking all time about no relationship, right? Maybe it's looking down at the ground. Okay. All right. So that might feel good, right? Because they're giving you attention because they're talking to you. Yeah.

They're talking to you about someone else, right? Right. You're just kind of a sponge. Yeah, but like when you were dating grandma, did maybe with Rocky at first and does it? No, no, it was pretty good at the start. It started getting... Yeah, maybe grandma talked about some other guy

that she would get the whole entire time and then you come up later, like down the line. No, that's not what happened, mate. That's not what happened. Yeah. Trudy had a nice time. Yeah, you're right. I think, hey, May fit, you better, you better than a rebound, all right? Yeah, maybe. I don't know.

Maybe it can't stop dust. Yeah, you're, you're supposed to. Yeah, guess I don't know either. I like to put smoke in his sit down. Great, so we will cut over to Penny in a second, but first, you sit down. The lantern dragonets dim, the jug band starts to play. The room is sweaty with anticipation. It's a lively crowd, a crowd that's gonna heckle, a crowd that's gonna hoot and haul her. A figure enters stage left. The

dragon nuts swoop to illuminate her like a spotlight. An emcee and a sequined green suit, five feet tall with crystalline wings and an impish smile. Her voice booms with magic. Welcome, one and all, to the most delightful show in town. She pauses clearly relishing this moment. May I start by saying how delicious it is to have you all here tonight. She takes a deep breath, making eye contact with everyone in the audience. But you didn't come here to see me. You came here to be dazzled by my dancers.

So without further ado, let me introduce the crown jewel of my collection. introduce the crown jewel of my collection. Miss Genevieve Sapphire. She gestures backstage but no one emerges. Then a blood-curdling scream is heard. And now let's cut to what Penny's been up to. Okay. Penny, what's your game plan? So I'm going to cast the sky self. So that I go that I look. So you go to the bathroom. Yes, go to the bathroom. I think I probably ham it up a little bit. Again, you know, I did a little theater in college, so I've got a little experience.

Ha ha ha. Feels good to be in the stage. You're the stage. Electric. Yeah. So I go, oh, ah, my bowels, my colon. They're all, they're all in a standard disarray, just to really sell, like, a myself an alibi.

And then I cast a skyse self, and then I have basically the same outfit that the usher had on before. Okay. And then I kind of whistle as I make my way towards the dressing room. As you leave, give me a performance check against this other usher.

Great shit, better Whistler. That's a 24. Amazing. You walk past this other usher who just says, I don't know, we hired another usher. Is he your first night, man? Oh, yes. It's a very busy night.

I mean, everyone's a busy night. You never worked here before. Yes, it's very busy but tonight especially busy. Okay then. Well I just got you guys, it's gonna be nice to have some company here because I get really lonely. Oh, I would be happy to meet up with you backstage for a smoke. If that would appeal to you at some point later. I tried clean livin

So I actually don't smoke but yeah, we should do that later. What's your name man? Grandpa Your name is grandpa Grandpa Grandpa Grandpa What did you think I said? Oh, great and pop.. Okay, well, great to have you in the fold. And it can go familiarize yourself with the performers.

By all means. Oh, of course. Taking tickets, because I'm the ticket taker. Yes, best of luck to you and your little friend. Okay, thank you so much. And you successfully just walked past this. Does he have a set of keys? Oh, that's a four.

No. He has no authority here. He's just like just a little teenage vampire with a pet squirrel. Okay, good and talk. I head towards the dressing room. And as I do, I have an internal monologue of my own going. Ooh.

And I'm like really trying to be gruff and cool, but it's just not working. Most people are most comfortable being themselves but I find that backstage is where I thrive. Pretending to be someone I'm not slipping into another skin, looking in a mirror and seeing someone else. That's where I thrive baby. That's where Penny really flips. Okay, so Penny is strutting backstage. As you're strutting backstage, you do see a door open with curly-cute letters that say Miss Genevieve on it. It's open, light is pouring out, but there is a drow elf woman clutching her shoulders shaking

about to erupt into a scream. This is not Genevieve, this is someone else. This is someone that you've never seen before. In the dressing room? Standing at the open door of the dressing room and she lets out a blood curdling scream. Now we're going to cut back to the stage. Miss Genevieve Sapphire.

A blood-curdling scream is heard from backstage. The MC looks thrown by this. Then looks to the audience, tries to cover. Sorry, everyone. Genevieve is...she looks backstage, looks back to the audience. Three sheets to the wind. She mimes a little drunken, sloppy sip. The audience kind of laughs.

The joke diffusing some tension, like maybe this is all planned. I chuckle to Trudy. It's okay, it's okay. Trudy has left. Oh, she's the wheeze. She did leave her address though. I smiled to my grandpa and pocket it. All right, not bad.

The MC clearly shaken but trying to make this work says, you know what though, I'm still in the mood for a good stiff drink. A martini glass rises from beneath the stage. The dragonnet's fly to spell the name Ida Belvedere, and a frazzled-looking-well walks onto the stage looking quite upset. She limps onto the stage, her silver hair is all frazzled, and then she sees the audience. She straightens her corset and begins to dance. Backstage, Penny, you walk to the dressing room that this young drow elf just ran away from, and you see a body face down

wearing only a slip. Um, I blush. Ah, Mrs. Sapphire, was that you? I guess I'm going to slip in and close the door behind me, making sure not to touch anything. Okay. And I'm going to investigate. Okay, you slip into the dressing room, closing the door behind you. You see a window is open letting rain in. You see she still has one silk glove on, but the other has been taken off.

And she has necrotizing flesh sort of marbles her hand. And since she's a sea elf, it's sort of like, undeath cleansed her like rotting particles. since she's a C-elf, it's sort of like, undead clings to her like rotting particles. She dead, can I do it like a medicine check? Why don't you do a general investigation check, but yeah, you know she's dead. That's going to be a dirty 20.

With a dirty 20, you look and you see that, she's face down, but underneath her face is a pooling gray liquid. Well, that's not good. Um, uh, uh, uh, okay, I'm gonna try and get a little bit of that to sample. Okay. Um, I think I probably got a pair of gloves I put on, and I'll grab a little file of that because I don't think it's blood.

I don't know enough about CLs, but like a gray liquid does not seem like her blood, so I'm gonna, uh, put that in a little while. Back at the theater. When you guys see a different person take the stage, what do you do? I think as a cover, Frankie kind of throws up his hands as if to be like, we came to see Genevieve

and is going to slip back, pretending that he's leaving, but is going to slip back backstage. Okay, give leaving, but is going to slip back backstage. Okay, give me. Give me a, give me a, what's the big idea of watching something here on the list? Ha ha ha ha.

Give me a stealth check against the passive perception of this usher who. I actually have pretty bad stealth for a row. That's crazy. That's 20. There you go. That's 20. You, even though Mavid is being so obvious, you're able to muffle him enough to slide right past him.

I think Frankie does his best stuff talking. And it's just like, all right, Mavid, calm down. All right, we're getting you to the bathroom. We're getting you to the bathroom. I said like, I can't wait. When's in by making a scene? You say you don't have to go, but you gotta go.

I know you got to go. Bathers are right there. Yep. Thank you so much. And you guys can go backstage. Sweet sneak back and start to kind of like hurry towards where we are at the screen. So I think at this point now, you see outside the door,

there is a commotion of performers. Now this other woman is dancing on stage, but the MCS come backstage and she's saying, oh god, what has happened? This is all my fault. It's all my fault for having unseen servants as stage hands. Oh, there's no security in this place. Oh, we can't handle another scandal.

The theater is already barely afloat. Hey, we're off friends of Genevieve yeah no no guests past here I'm so sorry to say the show is on the stage not the backstage may I hear their voice yes can I we're on the list okay can I like I'm trying to figure out a way to pick her up and like beckon them in with her hand way to pick her up and like beckon them in with her hand. They're giving a scared look in real life, but I do not my character does not know what's going on. Okay. Tell me how you

want to do that. Okay, I guess I try and like pick her up and then I'll use my mage hand to like guide her hand specifically. It's invisible because I have the ledger main skill. I'm going to pick her up avoiding trying to get finger prints or the liquid on me. I'm going to just creak the door ever so slightly. You see her, but just see her hand and flick her wrist a little bit and then quickly shut the door again. I see you pick her up and her face lifts from the ground. You see this gray ooze is coming out of her emptied out ice. It's coming out of her nostrils. You see beneath her little pale green banana curls. Her ears have been cut off and it's dripping from her mouth.

Okay, all right. So maybe showing her face isn't going to be a good idea. Okay, alright, so maybe showing her face isn't gonna be a good idea. Um, can I try and do, I'm gonna like try and mimic her voice to the best of my ability to be like, is that you, Frankie? Give me a deception, check, with disadvantage. Frankie just looks, it's just dead eye to add everyone else. Yeah, I mean, he said he used to be a actor, but I don't see it. He just looks, it's just dead eye to add everyone else. Yeah, I mean, he said he used to be a actor, but I don't see it.

I am gonna cast disguise self one more time as my last spell slot, just to try and make it a little more convincing. I don't think it affects like voice, but like from the shadows, I'm hoping that like I can trick whoever sees me through the door. Pen, please don't be alone in a room with a dead body. don't be alone and I'm wrong with a dead body. Please don't be alone.

I'm in a room with a dead body. Disadvantage. Okay, okay. With disadvantage, it's gonna be a 13. This MC who has been ferry back stage being told something happened to Genevieve. Looks confused. Was that Genevieve?

She looks to... She sounded like her to me. Look, we're friends and we've been concerned about some of her behavior recently. Okay, because one of my performers just fucking panicked and said that she was fucking... She mimes dead. She might have looked like it. She, yo, she gets stage fright. Yes, she probably looked like death is all. That's yours over the stage fright.

Okay. She pales, but she reaches to open the door. And I'm gonna say you don't want her to walk in on Penny with a dead body, so roll initiate it. Oh no. I guess I'm also dressed like her now. No. Not what it looks like.

I'm rolling good. 22 for me for initiative. Wow. Okay. Everyone tell you me you're initiative because I rolled for the MC and she is reaching for the door. I got a 16. If we, do we know that this is Penny? Say, say in that.

It's your son of a fool. You hear, you hear someone pretending to be Genevieve and the MC was fooled by it because he did really, I got a 16, so I'm gonna be running towards the door. It's just being like, Genevieve, Genevieve. Yeah, that's a 22. I got a 12. Okay. I'm gonna leave it, get the door. The MC yeah, that's 22. I got a 12. Okay.

Maybe get the door. The MC. Why do I always have to get the door? Is everybody just a door? It's not that hard. Maverick, you go first. You see the MC reaching for the door. It's okay, I'll get the door.

My grandpa's always telling me that I'm supposed to get the door. I'll make it the door. We're trying. You don't have to worry about the door. I'll handle this after a while. I'm trying to teach him kindness and. I'll handle this after the door. I have to go for it. I'm trying to teach him kindness and I'm making a good impression on people.

I'm sorry, who are you all? I am Genevieve's father. No, I'm not. What? I'm not her father. This says what? You see, Frank leans over. I guess I'm like a surrogate father, but it's complicated.

Jennifer has danced for me for years and she's never spoken of a surrogate father. That's why it's complicated. Yeah, it was easy. You would've heard about him, right? Yeah. Give me a deception check. 24.

So you got an act 20 on her insight. Whoa. Cut the shit. What is going on? We were hired to protect Genevieve. All right. I'm a private investigator I show her the two silver that my grandma gave me Rub them together She did two silver Well, this represents more cash that she gave to my grandfather

Okay, well if she hired you to protect her then I think You need to come in here because apparently she's been injured or something. Yeah, I'm gonna go speak to my client. Her understudy just ran on the stage and fucking frenzy. Can I message them through the wall and be like, oh gosh, she is dead in here. She is extremely dead in here.

Do whatever you can to keep her from coming in here. Can messages, can you send back a message? I don't think so, no if you can, but I'll let you because you guys are family. You guys can have super message. Okay, I send back to Penn. Penn, do not be alone in the Scott Dam Room. Do you have invisibility?

I do not, but I'm pretty good at hiding. I'm also on high. I'm in disguise there. That doesn't matter. They're still going to think you did it. Oh, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. If you've ever been like, what's with the yelling in my head, Penn? I'm sorry, what is your name?

You've just gone silent. My name is Frankie Vantasmo. And I'm going to open this door and I'm hoping I see one person happy and healthy in there and I'm gonna open the door. Is there a closet or something I can hide in? Absolutely. Give me a stealth check. Actually, is there a vent?

There's an open window. Is there like a ledge on the window? Like it like hang out on? This is a first floor. So it would, it would, you can leap out the window into the alley. There is a closet you can hide in. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to go for a window.

Window seems safest. Okay. Aw, 14? Yeah. Yeah. You get out of window. You get out of window. You press your back to it so that you can't be seen. And the two of you enter with this MC. You enter to a grisly scene.

What was before a body face planted is now a body that looks like it's been tempered with. Oh, for fuck's sake. Oh, for fuck's sake. Yes. There is gray oozing liquid, pooling, but also rubbed all over her face. Eyes missing. Ears cut off.

Oh, gotta be stuck. Oh, this is too fucked up. I didn't cut a rear soft. That wasn't me. Pan, the yelling. I know. The MC stifles her own shriek and says, okay, what the fuck did she have you investigating?

Because clearly whatever the fuck just happened here. I mean, I'm not even trying to think about what's going to happen to my theater now, but whatever the fuck happened here, someone wanted all of her memories. I don't think this shit would happen to you goddamn theater. Alright, somebody's dead. And Frank gets serious and walks over. She's Genevieve lying there, kind of shakes his head. And, uh, I'm gonna look to see where a killer might've escaped to.

Did anybody see anybody suspicious running in and out of this room? Okay, yeah, what about the lady that shrieked before she... Yeah, well, now that you've seen anything... Somebody out on stage, did you see the show going? Yes. For fuck's sake. Look, the thing is that the theater doesn't make a lot of money. So we use unseen servants as sort of stage hands.

So I don't have too many sentient witnesses, but I can ask I have a good usher up front. Yeah. I'm going to go ahead. I want to do an insight check on her. Does seem like maybe she wouldn't want this heat on her. Actually, it did roll pretty bad. 13.

With 13 insight check, actually give me a history check. Okay. History's not great, but also 14. You've lived in this town, and it's probably one of the worst kept secrets that this MC who runs this cabaret is a joy thief. All the creatures from Shadow fell kind of feed on the living in their own way. She feeds on emotion, which is why she's run this cabaret to sort of create an excess of delight and skim off the top of it.

So it's, I mean, it's not out in the open, but you guys have lived here long enough that it's a, it's a pretty open secret. Okay. Can I investigate Genevieve? Yeah. Okay. This MC in video says, Okay, you all do whatever you need to do to make this go away. I'm gonna go talk to Ignatius.

I will try and find out if he saw anyone suspicious come in. Who's Ignatius? He's the usher. Have you met him? I think I was a squirrel. Can I shuffle back? Two Ignatius. I've got two big buttered rums.

Let me say. Hi Ignatius. I got you something because you looked like a little thirsty. Anyway, I'm not technically on Zip-Head Roll. So don't mention me. As you are doing this. I'm not technically on the payroll, so don't mention me. As you are doing this. I'm out of there. Me, this walking back.

I'm gone. Okay, okay. I'm gone. I mean, what's your name? In video, it's walking back. Hey, Maeve, Maeve, real quick. I pull Maeve it in, and I'm like, I need you to look around the room, see if there's anywhere that the killer may have run to, and I pulled Maverine close and I whisper,

all right, time to see if you actually got those fast hands. I want you to see if the MC's got anything on her. Okay, fine, yeah, geez, you got eyes, you can look around the room too. Yeah, I'm a little old, all right? I'm a little more crickety than you. Okay. So can I pick Pocket, the MC?

Yeah, the MC in video goes to leave and give me a slight of hand against her passive perception to try to pick something from these sequined suit pants. I'm gonna use my mastermind bonus action help to, I don't even need to be next to him to help so Excuse me sorry, I didn't realize you were going out the door. I was just going over here Oh wow That is a 30

That beats that beats a 15 passive perception what you'll take from her pocket is actually a What you do from her pocket is actually a crumpled piece of paper with the words Doc Kapo all-fine written on them. I pass it to my grandfather as I reach for more peanuts in my peanut punch And then what would you like to do Frankie? I guess I'll try to decode the message slash I also want to look at this body and I guess whatever this silver stuff is. Okay, so just give me an investigation check for this entire scene. 19.

Can we say that I've doubled back at this point? Do you want to crawl back in the window? Frankie and maybe do you want to alert a pen? Yeah, just be clear. Yeah, just be clear. And you see my head just appear by the window? No, not by the window where they would have run from

from the actual fucking door. Am I fine? Go back around. All right, I get rid of my disguise and just walk back in as myself. You tripled back. I'm fisterious, you tripled back. And you are now all in this room.

Penny, would you like to explore anything? Are you looking for anything in particular in this crime scene that you have also desiccrated? Yes. I think I will let my dad take the lead. Okay, so you're looking at the body. I'm looking at the body and the message. Let's start with the body.

The body you see that this gray liquid looks to be almost like liquefied brain. Like someone basically destroyed her brain inside and it's leaking out. Okay. Other things on her body you do see that this hand that is exposed, the one without a glove, has an energizing flesh on it. Any ring? There is a band of a ring, but it is missing a stone. There are prongs that a stone should be in, but they're not there. It almost looks as though the necrotic bloat of her finger kept the ring on there, and someone may be plucked the stone from it. May it be a tear and get the uh...

grab that for me if you don't mind. She's always asking me to do everything. Yeah, maybe it steps on her hand. You're more dexterous than me. That's not... Another thing that you notice is she does have... it looks like she has a scar from a vampire bite, but it's almost scabbed over. It almost looks like scarred over. And you also see that she does have the two dot tattoo. All right. And we heard rumors that she recently got a new patron or left her patron. Is there any more she joined

some kind of lovey-dovey group? What was the name of it? Living in harmony. Living in harmony. Any pamphlets or anything of living in harmony, any kind of... If you're looking for pieces of paper, you see a business card for a hag named Abel Miss Mabel who reads fortunes and does facials. Her tagline is, I'll make you young again for a price. You also see in the mirror of her dressing room taped to it, there's some rhyming stanzas. It says, no matter how far you stray, you'll always come back this way, because I will be here year after year, and the darkest of nights and day. So give me a second chance.

Give me another dance. We'll start a new, just me and you. Eternal is our romance. So like a carry under with Lyra or something? No. You also do find a note. If you're looking for papers too, like you can basically go through all of our stuff, you find a note that reads, I know what you stole and I will get it back.

This is a hell of a way to repay me. Atticus. Yeah. Oh. So scabbed over vampire bite. This ring is gone. I wonder if the ring was keeping her alive or keeping her from becoming a vampire. You also find a vile empty with a darkish liquid staining it. Do a little dab.

A little dab. It's a little dab. Do. Give me a hand. Give me a constitution safe. You always eat it. We dab will do. Give me a constitution safe. You always eat it every time. We have a lab, we can test this stuff. I don't know that we do. We don't have that. We have magic ability. Boys, we don't have the cash. 10. Okay, with just a little dab, as you put this, whatever is left left the remaining liquid to your tongue. For a second, your entire life starts to flash before your eyes. You remember meeting Lynette. You remember watching her dance. You remember

the two of you squirreling away enough money to get out of this fucking town. You remember her having your son. Penny. You remember finally the piggy bank is full enough to get out of here. You remember looking at houses in the bay wild. You remember buying that little plot of land. You remember going there and then Lynette getting sick almost immediately and then losing Lynette. And then it's just you and PENNY in this house that was supposed to be the three of you. And then moving back here to Twilight saying to her, um, this was actually the only home that you really had with the net. You didn't have enough time in the Feywild to make

it feel like home. Moving back into the old carriage house, the one that you worked so hard to escape. And then you snap out of it. What was in this vile is called little death. It's a drug that the ghoul steal. It causes your life to flash before your eyes, which could be pleasurable or a chance for clarity, but it also has very dangerous side effects. You're losing it all time, you was doing it now! Hey, I was like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

I was like grandpa, grandpa, haha, haha, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I was like grandpa grandpa Mavid I really respect your concern Maybe but you have to you have to be a little chintler, okay? This is me being firm son I don't like you. I'm gonna move in with mom and a boyfriend. Oh, no, no, no, sorry You know I'll buy you a spider, okay boys the yelling the yelling inside voices inside voices you okay? You got that look in your eye. Yeah, yeah, it's It's a drug the most dangerous kind nostalgia

No, it's not I guess that's what the interest is, but you know what I mean, you know how I talk I See you guys have this conversation But you know what I mean, you know how I talk. I see you guys have this conversation over your shoulder. You hear that in video the MC has come back and she sees something and she says, Oh, God, it's even worse than I thought. She's cool marked. And she points to a little barcode on Genevue's ankle. She's promised her corpse to the ghouls.

You guys gotta get out of here. They're gonna be here any minute. Before she can even finish that thought, the air fills with the smell of rotting flesh and a team of repo ghouls descends on you. And that's where we'll end part one. Whoa, hey! Don't you think we're doing it from the beginning like that?

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