Casino Arc 3/?: The Investigation

Day 5:
We have 5770 chips
(Luck stat: 98)
 
We woke up in the morning determined to win big and learn more.
 
1. Garden Tour
We walk through the garden and listen to the terrible tour guide. Midway through, we notice a teenage boy lost in the nature. He looks at the tree with longing.
 
"I am longing," he says to no one in particular.
 
We go to Oberon and ask him 'Where is the hardest to find item inn the scavenger hunt?'. His old man face emerges
 
2: Scavenger Hunt
on the fifth floor. A classroom with a white board that reads "SCAVENGER HUNT". Two magidrones, one with a trench coat, and one with a belt and tie. Johnny Gold and Dirk Diamond. The one is trench coat is narrating the scene psychically to us all. He's doing it with Feensteen, which he smokes as a cigarette. He tells us to go to Untold Fortunes.
 
The fortune room is ransacked, and the fortune teller is away (apparently in the slots room). I looked around the room and saw boot prints on the shelf portion of the desk, which... is weird. There's a page on the desk that's been torn up, only the spell "Message" remains. The boot prints belong to a smaller race, or perhaps a child. The spellbook it belonged to is gone. This is clearly the book that we're meant to look for.
 
The magidrone seems... sus. also gay.
 
According the the map, there are a few places you could cast a spell without the magidrones knowing. The breakroom on the third floor is a likely suspect. However, it's a magidrone only room. Toga asks Dirk Diamond to go in and check for us. Cedric tries to follow him into the room, but he stops us. I send the quasit (invisible)
 
It's a club where all the magidrones are partying. Smashing their heads together, doing lines of feensteen, They look... hype. Dirk walks to the back into a hallway, backrooms style. Florescent lines on the ceiling. This is where the magidrones must live. He goes to his room, a dimly lit office with a dingy cot. He has stacks of files, but theyre either empty pages or scribbles. He leaves then goes to Johnny's room. It's way nicer. He turns around again.
 
We go back to the scavenger room and I ask johnny if there are any wizards that are small. He knows of the woman who hangs around Oshiro, a boy at bingo. I tried to get 15k instead of 1.5k, but the magidrone saw through my deception, even though I'm sooo good at lying.
 
3: Bingo
 
I suggest we go to Bingo. There's a bulletin board with ads for different rooms in the casino. This room used to be a library. We're all handed Bingo sheets, and the magidrones signals for us to sit down in the room past the desk. There's a huge rectangular room with a loft. Sitting alone, there's a little boy. He salutes us casually when we walk in. He's trying to act nonchalant. He's like 15-16. We see a woman with a really close to winning, so I send my quasit over to steal it, and WIN IMMIDIEATLY.
 
+500 = 7770
 
He tells about about a dwarven woman who works in Weaverly place. She doesn't cast spells though. There's also a dwarf at poker. there's also the woman who works with
 
3.5: Weaverly Place
 
Ty gets interrogated by the other spellcasters in the party, and then convinced to teleport the group. Heidi clearly dislikes Ty. I ask her about the Red Scarf , and she says that her son has it. He stopped sending her letters one day, and she tracked him to the casino and has been searching for him for months.
 
4: Slots
Ty says that someone who knows Twillian, Heidi's son, is in Slots. So we go there.
 
Toga goes slots
new total: 11,280
 
Ty points out the guy who knows Twilliam. There's a dwarven man, short even for a dwarf. He's at the book themed slot machine. His crew (all dwarves) surround him. He gets a big win and his crew chants "small small small small".
 
Day 6:
 
We get a newly updated pamphlet. The only difference, a new FAQ entry
 
Q: How do I cash out?
A: You can cash out at the Magidrinks and Eats or the Novelty's counter
 
1: Untold Fortunes
Daeran gets his fortune told
 
Your blood holds a world of wonders and powers held in great demand. But this may well be your downfall, such power does not come from man.
 
ps. fortune teller is caucasian
 
2: Armory
It's not a room we can enter, but rather a large vault door guarded by two armored magidrones. they stand guard with halberts, which appear to be immovable rods with paper mache blades attached to the top end. One of the magidrones goes to check on something, and as he turns the oversized crank, Daeren notices it is both physically locked and magically locked. It's bigger on the inside and filled to the gills with an unbelievable amount of weapons, armor, and crates. The crew shields Cedric from view and he attempts to stealthily cast invisibility on one of his rings. One of the guards hears it, and confronts us, but gets verbally outplayed, seeing as no one is invisible. The ring turns into an invisible snake and drops from Cedrics hand to the ground, slithering towards the still open vault door. As the door closes, the snake homunculus gets right through. The armory is a pocket room, like our bedrooms. Some of the crates have the Atraxian Navy sigil (a dove with a olive branch in it's claws). The snake slithers into of the the crates to discover it's full of feensteen. Chock full.
 
Cedric, being a bad father, decides to leave the homunculus inside the vault. The homocuus, int he meantime, is instructed to find the crew's weapons.
 
3: Zumba
Zumba is a large pink room, very barbie dream house. Rows of people dance in time following the instructions of a magidrone instructer in the middle of the room. "Work those glutes, Ladies" he yells.
 
We all do our best, failing miserably. Brilliance trips on his own feet and is carried to the pile of fallen dancers against the wall. We all get a +5 to dexterity checks and saving throws.
 

10 chips

4: Pool
We go to the locker room. A fish man does a trick and dries off and talks some buff men. the handsome one is Stain Pit. Stain is an actor. He brags about his summer hit: Top Buns. tag line: you gotta let the yeast rise before you cook it. Don't wanna hurt the yeast.
 
I'm.... eluded by the idea of a celebrity without feats. Stain Pitt is very jacked and in shape, but he doesn't seem like he could hold up in a fight.
 
We talk to Mayor Chanel. He's the Mayor of an underwater city called Megacarpolis. this city was founded very recently, and has even more recently began doing deals with the Atraxian Navy. Cedric talks to him about politics and meanwhile, Daeren pushes me into the pool. I nearly drown and the Mayor dives in to retrieve me.
 
We ask Chanel to meet us tomorrow morning in the Surge.
 
Day 7:
1: Surge
2: Scavenger
3: Slots
4: Arcade
 
While in our rooms, Brilli sends a message to Ronnie Heart, who is still on the Boat. Ronnie says it's been weeks and he sounds very scared for us. We work together trying to reason how time works here. Daeran says the Astendar disappeared 20 years ago, and we try to remember news about the notable residents but we can't reason out how long they've been in the casino.
 
1: Surge
The crew meets Mayor Chanel outside of the surge. Brilli explains that we've been experiencing time differently from the outside and suggest that we and all residents of the casino...... but as he says it, the words fade away. Chanel spots James Pond at the bar and it ends the conversation.
 
James pond: (in fish) I'm so sorry, chanel. I cam here to get you, where have you been
Chanel: i've been,, y'know,, the pool
J: What? It's been years. We need you in Megacarpolis. There's a new mayor... My apologies for the incoherent babbling. Even in my native language it was babble. Allow me to intro myself: I am James Pond, head of the CIA. As i told your lovely captain, I came here to get Mayor Chanel. [...] wont lie, I was tweaking. Chanel, you seem way too chill.
c: I may be tripping as well
j: I don't understand we need to....
 
He trailed off, unable to complete the sentence.
 
James Pond gives us 3.5k to thank us for helping him find Mayor Chanel.
 
2: Scavenger Hunt
For the next case, I mean thing to find, scavenger hunt. Someone's been murdered in slots.
We go to slots and see the dismembered corpse of a Magidrone. Next to the body, a page of the spell book which teaches Detect Magic. The cause of death: nonmagical slashing damage.
 
Clay Steel is at the crime scene, and says some ominous stuff. He says something has happened at the front desk, but he'll need to show us to really explain. Two magidrones wearing PPE go into a hidden doorway behind the front desk, so I send my pseaudodragon down to spy. I see through my dragon and witness Commodore Whitworth, who was at Veltia, give the magidrones a shipment of Feensteen. We then follow those drones to the amory and see them deposit the shipment where we saw the rest of the feensteen. this also consumes our third room.
 
4: Arcade
 
There's a boy with a propeller hat and a comically large lollipop in front of the ski ball machines. He's going down the whole roll of machines hitting the highest hole each time. A small crowd watches enraptured.
 
The teenager we saw at the garden tour is also there. He's going HAM on the whack-a-mole. His reflexes are so fast it seems like he knows the pattern, but it's just his reaction speed. the ski ball kid goes over to him and tugs at his shirt. The younger boy shows the teenager his tickets and signs "I beat you" to him. To settle the bet, the teen gives ski ball kid 20 chips.
 
Cedric tries the ski ball and throws it like a baseball into the top corner hole, nailed it.
 
This guys mom is Juniper, who wrote a textbook Cedric read when he was in university. She was one of the professors at alexandria Academy. One of the leading minds of Biology (was?)
 
This teenager is named Cyprus, age 16. Been here all his life.
 
His mom wanted to revive plant life that got destroyed post flood. Unfortunately, he's never been outside of the casino so he doesn't know much about her work. His dad basically just ignored he and his brother (ryan) after finding out his younger son was deaf.