Tue 7th Oct 2025 08:43

Casino Arc 8

by Marilka The Enderseer

Day 13
 
1: Untold Fortunes
2: Slots
3: Novelties Counter
4:
 
1: Untold Fortunes
 
Toga wins the chip toss to get his fortune told this time.
 
"You seek a foe to challenge you, a warrior who's strong and tough. Fear not, I see, that you will find him. Your past is plenty strong enough."
 
2: Slots
 
Alloy pulls and gets a stampede. Then I get a go too. It seems dire at first, but I think Cedric did something, nd I got stampede too. Then Daeren goes, and he thinks about the ship in the bottle that he wants, and get's a 1.5 return. Then my goat Brilliance gets a roll and gets another STAAAAAAMPEDE. and now we have 41750
 
3: Novelties Counter
 
We go to buy the ship in the bottle. Daeren takes the bottle and attunes to the orb.
 
4: VIP Lounge
 
Ty is hanging out in the recess reading a book. WE ask him to fulfill his bet and he casts knock on the door for us. He casts knock at 2nd level, 3rd level, 4th level, 5th level, and finlly 6th level and the door blasts open.
 
We walk up the stairs... and walk up the stairs.... and walk up the stairs.
 
Daeren realizes that the a stair is added each time we take a step, so I start going two steps at a time and alter self to give myself longer legs to do so. Finally we get to a large wooden double door. Brilliance sends a message to Clay Steele to upload in order for us to tell which is his, and members of the party put on their gear from Cedric's bag of holding.
 
We open the doors and see an almost pitch black room. Brilliance casts light and we can see that it's an ancient lecture hall. Dangling from the ceiling is a wretched pale creature, thirty feet long with hollow eyes with stumps where more heads should be. It groans painfully. I've heard stories of a creature like this.
 
It's a hydra, brain dead.
 
I want to kill it. It's in pain. But I can't yet. We can't blow our cover.
 
then I find Clay's golem. I put Quasit on my back and hold the clay steel golem instead.
 
Brilliance messages Clay for him to disconnect. Then we unplug the golem. Cedric takes a few more including dirk Diamond, who is wearing a trillby.
 
Then we go back to the VIP lounge without trouble and sleep in the rooms there.
 
Day 14
 
1: Poker
We go to talk to clay steel and he says we need to make the exchange in a crowded area. We suggest the Surge. We also ask about the false hydra and Clay explains that the hydra is used as a security system. It's modified to enact command. Don Bomble moniters the casino from the top floor.
 
He explains that now that he has his own golem, he doesn't need to interface to maintain his personality. He also explains that he gets a shard a day of feenstein.
 
2: Meditation Room
WE meet two fish from Megacarpolis and learn to meditate, getting a +5 to wisdom.
 
3: Scavenger Hunt
 
Dirk Diamond is out of it. He sits blank faced in the middle of the room. Katya is there. We go to 'investigate' the crime scene of the vault break in, and narrowly get away with it. That is, from Johnny. Katy knew it was us immediately, with no small help from the bat foot marks all around the inside of the vault, nd the fact that i wear a bat cloak.
 
Katya and i distract Johnny while Brilli destroys evidence and Toga steals feenstein.
 
4: Theatre
 
Tilia grew a tree in the theatre and is a little hurt. brilli heals her and she tells us the list of roles for her next play. Alloy, Silver, and Aqua need to be cast.
I'll be Aqua, Silver is Daeren, Alloy will be played by Stain Pitt.
 
 
Day 15
Room
 
I ask alloy about Aqua. He tells us about how they went to a dragonborn country to liberate human slaves, and though they succeeded, Aqua died. Queen Titania revives her with the ever burning flame, but she's different, distant. he also mentions that Fafnir wanted to destroy the nine realms. Also aqua had past lives.
 
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