Marilka The Enderseer

It hadn't seemed dark in the casino, but the blinding light of the day upon the sea made me suddenly aware of my body's complete lack of acclimation to the day. There hadn't been windows inside. Ronnie was asleep in my lap, clearly it hadn't been any better for them on the ship, so bad that Viktor abandoned Ronnie the moment he was free. I didn't have any experience with the sort of trauma that Ronnie experienced, but I knew from my closest approximations that Ronnie would never be the same.   Back inside the Casino, crowds of people were recuperating from the battle. Some of them had been in the casino for longer than they'd lived outside of it. I watched from the White Hawk as a constant stream of prisoners ran out of the door; they trampled each other in a desperate instinct to leave, even thought they'd be stuck on the docks until one of the recent arrivals let them onto a ship.   Several people rushed towards the ship, one of them climbed over the edge and yelled that he was taking the ship. In an instinctual split second, I eldritch blasted him and pushed him off the edge and into the water. I yelled across the the crowd that the white hawk was not for the taking, but we would be recruiting sailors.   Oshiro and his crew decide to hitch a ride with us for 200 gold, so we're gonna take them to Yud'dha. In the distance, a ship starts to leave. In a terrible instant, the maw of a great sea rose up from the ocean and trapped that escaping ship.   We took the oppurtunity

Day 18   1: Untold 2: Lobby 3: 4:  

Day 15   after talking to alloy....   1: Untold Fortunes 2: Oberon Theater 3: 4:     1: Untold Fortunes   Brilliance wins the coin toss and gets his second fortune told. "A light will guide you from destruction, fear not the ever burning flame. The tricksters tell the truth about you, seek the knowledge of the Fey."   2: Oberon Theater   Brilliance and Alloy work together at the ticket booth. Hallucinatory Terrain makes it look like night. Mayor Chanel returns to his role as the Jester nd introduces Alloy as portrayed by Stain Pits. It portrays Alloy and Silver razing the Fae wilds, Aqua getting revived, then her stopping them. They team up to go to the steely court and meet Titania. Cliffhanger ending.   meanwhile, Cedric and Toga go into the break room with Clay Steel in order to exchange the golem, some Feinstein, and get information from Clay. He explained that the ship is docked in a demiplane, that we can only access via a 'demiplane generator' in don bombles office. They then start a fire in dirk diamonds office, after stealing much of his feensteen.   After the play, Brilliance, Daeren, and Marilka talk with Alloy about the next play and remember to message ronnie again. Ronnie is terrified and starving and still fails to update us on Viktor.   We all meet back up and realize we need to act quickly, for our sake and for ronnie and Viktor.   3: VIP Lounge   We walk and talk. We wonder if ty can open the demiplane.   We meet Ty in the VIP lounge and he has a spark of recognition when he sees Cedrics Cloak of Stars. He gets a nosebleed and looks a little shook. We ask him to open the staff door again and he does, nd then starts having a seizure. Whoops. We help him on to his side and move on.   4: We Split up   I go to the sauna to recruit Oshiro and co. Cedrica and Daeren goes to library. Brillio goes lots of places. Toga goes Pool.   WE recruit Oshiro & co., cypress, Hoe Punch, Wipe Ass, Katya, and Tilia.   In the room, we work together to plan the coup.   Day 16  

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.   1: 2: 3: 4:

Day 11 pt.2   3: Vault 4: Rooms   We turn off the light in the lobby and I turn into a bat. With the rest of the party in cedrics bag of holding, I follow the mgidrones down into the bilge and eavesdrop as Captain Andrew Mason drops off the feenstein instead of Whitworth, who's occupied at an all hands meeting to deal with a new pirate king in Yud'ha. We get into the vault and I let everyone out to get their stuff. Cedric finds the manifest and gets a lot of cool stuff.   James Pond gets his slug gun and blows the vault door open. He injures the guards in the explosion then Toga takes them down in one fell swoop. Cedric makes me invisible and everyone gets into the bag of holding again. I sneak back into Alloy's room and we all decompress.   Clay Steel knocks on the door and tells us that we need to get into the VIP lounge to get Clay's golem out of a staff area only accessible with a PPE magidrone vest.   Day 12   1: Untold Fortunes 2: 3: 4:   1: Untold Fortunes   Tarius reads Daerens fortune "Across the world eight stones await you, your goal to be their combination. Be wary of their reunion, you know not what you awaken"   WE show him the earmuffs and he becomes woke   2: Poker   We go to Clay Steel to not gain or lose any money at all. and ask him about Magidrone.   3: Novelty Counter   We go to buy the VIP ticket. There are also magical weapons   3.5: VIP Lounge   Art Deco room with lavish gold adornments. Oshiro and Ty are playing billiards. and a magidrone lounge singer. Ty tells us about hamburgers and the magidrone who goes through the staff only door daily. Ty says he can go inside, but they get angry at him if he does, so he doesn't. We ask him to *for us* and end up making a bet with him.   4: Musical Chaireoke   Toga asks Baby Grok what song he should sing, but only Cedric and Toga are able to hear the answer. We all give a great performance and Toga wins! Those who lost are dropped into a pit when they're eliminated and we take a bunch of damage. After Toga wins, we get put back on stage and the crowd decides our fate gladiator style. Daeran is dropped back into the pit.  

Day 10   1: Untold Fortunes 2: Blackjack 3: Weaverly Place 4: Oberon Theatre   1: Untold Fortunes   We need to wait one more room to get the gamgee fiber from the closet, so we go to get Cedrics fortune told.   "You seek to go beyond what your pithy body allows, a mind omnipotent, a strength unmatched. If you continue as you are, your ambition will lead to you to what you seek. The price of which will spell the end of Cedric Cadaver."   2: Blackjack   We go to blackjack not in character   2.5: We check on the Gamgee Fiber   3: Weaverly Place   We go to Weaverly place to present the gamgee fiber to Heidi, and she gives me a Cloak of the Bat, which lets me turn into a bat. Heidi is still angry at Twilliam but she agrees to make the earmuffs. It will still take time though.   4: Oberon Theatre The crew makes posters to advertise the play and then Brilliance does the ticket booth and we sell a bunch of tickets. Toga gives out hot coals for people to throw at Oshiro.   > The revenge of Fafnir is Fae history adapted into a stage play by Ptelea Amaryllis. It tells the story of King Fafnir of Andvaranut, who was cursed by Titania, queen of the Feywild for meddling in the affairs of the Elves. Her curse transformed him into a monster resembling the enemy of his people. Unaware of his transformation, and hearing a monstrous roar from his quarters, those closest to him went to investigate. Finding a monster where their leader once rested, they raised arms against it. Shocked and confused as the monstrous bloodlust clouded his mind, the cursed King retaliated, slaying his friends and family with his own claws. When he awoke from this fog, he was horrified by what he had done, weeping and cradling the bodies he had torn through. He swore revenge on the Queen of the Fae. Weeks passed as he acquired interplanar travel and weapons that could fell gods, his rage persisting all the while. He teleported himself into the castle of the Fae Queen and snuck into her chambers. With a mighty roar, he struck her down, fatally tearing through her with his claws. Before he could finish her off though, Queen Titania used the last of her strength to banish the twisted King from her realm, barring all travel to the Feywild, and chaining him to his precious capital city. She then fell into a deep restorative sleep, where she spent the next 480 years recovering.   Tilia thanks us for the help and gives us 2k on top of the 4.5k we got from ticket sales. We give 1k to Oshiro for his part. and plan a booth selling hot coals for the next play.   In Alloy's room, i got Cedric to help me make pins   Day 11   1: Slot 2: Weaverly Place 3: 4:     1: Slots WE get up to 40k!!! Everyone gets a spin.   2: Weaverly Place   We go back to Weaverly Place to finish the earmuffs. Daeren and Brilliance go into the bag of holding to complete the final steps and then Heidi fashions them into eight earmuffs.   We put them on and see what Twilliam has been seeing this whole time. They're small white humanoid creatures with a pulsing cyst where the head should be. It reminds me of the caves, not the present, but during the sickness. The years Marilka slept.   I receded into my mind and saw visions of the crew in the casino. The surge, winning darts, stealing the voice box, pitching Musical Chaireoke. Then our first night, playing roulette. The spinning black and red wheel filled my vision. Red as shimmering blood, Black as a cloudless night.

Day 8:   objectives:

help ryan

make gamgee fiber

Before the day officially starts, we use shocking grasp to make Sodium Hydroxide and put one of our two batches in the janitorial closet.   1: Room Service 2: Watcihn 3: Library 4: Garden Tour   We asked the front desk what happens to dead bodies and they said that they're thrown into the sea. This gave me the idea that one of us could pretend to be dead to leave the casino. Brilli can learn Feign death, so we brainstormed this idea, but it's super risky.   Then we think about what happens to the trash, so we order a huge feast of Louisiana boil and a luau pig. Then the quasit hides in the trash to see where it goes. The magidrones took everything to the garden tour and fed all of the trash and dishes to Oberon. Killing the quasit. Whoops.   3: Library   We go to the library to find something to heal Ryan. Brilli finds a potion recipe book which contains a potion of greater restoration. The ingredients are pale flesh, fae hair, a diamond and fresh human blood. Katya does not know what pale flesh is.   4: Garden Tour   We go to ask Oberon what Pale Flesh is.   At the end of the day, we check on the sodium Hydroxide in the janitors closet. The pulp and sodium hydroxide has combined into carbon disulfide   The next step needs coals.   Day 9   1: Sauna 2: Magidrinks and eats 3: Untold fortunes 4: Theater   1: Sauna   We go past Oshiro's fight pit to grab coals. Brilliance grabs a bunch and puts them in his pockets, and the Quasit takes one to eat.   Toga throws a coal at Oshiro and causes him to lose his match, and he sees Toga immediately. Oshiro is already in rage, and attacks Toga. Oshiro grapples Toga and threatens him to get the 1k he lost from the fight. Toga runs away, but is able to convince Oshiro that he's pay him back tomorrow.   Meanwhile, I talk to Mina and apologize for our fight.   2: Magidrinks and Eats Lewizz Eeanne boil is now available on the menu   Cedric asks the magidrone waiter about Pale Flesh. Brilliance and Daeren both try to sneak into the kitchen but fail. I shadow step in, but I get caught and shadow step back out before they actually find me.   toga split up with us to slot (and took 1k) but he lost 500. Then he bets it all again and gains the 500 back.   Cedric disguises himself as Johnny Gold to go into the kitchen himself. Cedric crits on performance. He tells the magidrone he's investigating the spell that I casted in the kitchen and quickly fins the pale flesh with the help of his trusty magnifying glass.   3: Untold Fortunes Cedric gets his fortune told   "You are a man who has forsaken his past life, your family... an afterthought, mere figures in the biography of Cedric Cadaver. An unmatched ambition stirs within you, to shape the world. In your image"   4: Theater   The theater is on fire. Brilliance summons water and Daeren uses wind to pread it around and we get the fire out. The playwrite tells us about her next play, and we need to get actors for it. Then we get fae hair from her.   We go to cypresses room, make the potion and heal Ryan. As a favor back to us, Cypress agrees to be an actor in the play.   Day 9:   1: Garden Tour 2: surge 3: library 4: sauna   First, we put An airbubbled Brilli into the bag of holding the burn the coals in an air free enviroment.   We go to oberon and ask about what happens to dead people. We also give him the potion of greater restoration. He feels much better after the potion and gives cedric the apricot of oberon. Which we can ask questions.   +5 to int   we also get a second fun fact from Oberon, and we ask him about Ty. He tells us that Tyler is an ancient wizard who founded the school that later became the casino and that he used the clone spell to make himself immortal.   Brillinace comes back and we tell him everything, and he gives us the coke (fuel) that we need to make the next step in gamgee fiber.   The next step: We use the coke and sulfur to turn the mixture with the grass into Sodium Cellulose Xanthate   1.5: Theater   We ask about Fafnir. dick head king of some old place called Advarnaut. And he hates the fae (faecist). he was cursed by titania long ago that made him the enemy of his own people.   We talk about captain alloy and The satyr is shocked to hear about him.   2: The Surge   It's couples night at the surge. We ask alloy about the play. and Recruit chanel to   3: Library Katya is there reading "Fuck that bird that copies me" She agrees to be queen titania   4: Sauna

Day 7 1: Darts 2: Untold Fortunes 3: break room 4:     Before going to any room, we meet up in Alloy's room to talk game plan. In the demiplane, we can think and say anything without magical interference   Brilli casts Message to Ronnie asking how he is. Ronnie respond and seems fine, but clearly worried.   to twilliam: this is brilliance, we're trying to find you, per your moms request. any hint to your location would be good. you have 25 words.   HEIDI'S HERE??? who's brilliance. how are you messaging me in my head. meet me in two days. I'm busy right now.   message 2 to twilliam: me again. i use magic to message you. we cant wait to meet you. is there any way we can meet. thank you lots   response: just meet me later today at the break room. tell my mom leave   1: Darts rectangular room. wooden floor coated in scratches. arm rests cupholder with various alchol drinks. a few teams with jerseys compete.   we are approached by a guy who's teaching people darts Cypress is there and liked darts   We try to play and nail it first try, so bet 10k on the competition. Brilliance blesses us, and cedric enhances ability we score 69, but the other teams also do super well, maybe darts is just easy. the other team gets a 64 so we win back our bet. another 10k!!!   Cypress agrees to meet us in the break room   2: Untold Fortune   Brilliance feels really lucky when he walks in.   *You spent your life in study and worship, but know not for whom you slave. Naivete will be your downfall, like a moth into a flame.*   3: Break Room We talk to Oshiro outside of the breakroom, who's broing out with Toga and Alloy. Brilliance notices a magidrone acting suspicious. So we follow him and meet in the janitors closet.   Twilliam emerges from the magidrone shell and shows us his earmuffs, which prevent him from hearing some spell in the casino. Because he's deaf, he can't fall under the spell, and he sees these hideous creatures that are controlling people. We need to create gamgee thread, which Cedric is very familar with and resolves to create as soon as possible.     3.5: Janitors closet   4: Garden Tour

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.  

| Transaction | Reason | Total | | --- | --- | --- | | +1040 | Start of Session | 1o40 | | -60 | buy in | 980 | | - xx | bets | 820 | | +290 | winnings (brilliance - flush) | 1110 | | + | winnings | 1270 | + 1000 | payment from Clay Steal | 2270 | | +2500 | payment for play | 4770 | *chips converted to next tens place | +1000 | winnings against oshiro | 5770 |     Day 3 cont.   3: Poker Lounge - in the poker lounge we notice someone at an empty table wearing an odd cloak. his mechanical eyes (he's a magidrone) peer at us from across the room. He looks different from the other drones.  

I suggest that we go to the 20 chip table and no one objects. We go there with Dave and Katya and a guy who didn't talk. Neither did the dealer. I asked Dave what his deal wasa , or whater, but he stayed silent. Instead, Katya explained that he was navy. She could tell based on the way he rolled up his sleaves. Same with Cedric, cause he used to be navy too.

I had a lot of fun playing poker, but I don't think I understood the rules really that well. My ancestors didn't really know either. I got this really good hand for one time, then I got a really simliar hand so Trillby told me to go all in but I don't think I knew what that was, so I bet a bunch of my money.   Turns out, this hand wasn't tht good. Also Katya told me that I was smiling really big and I think she was TRICKEd by my enthusiasm. So everyne spent all their money and Brilliance won all of it cause he's got the luck of the flame or something. Maybe I should be concerned.   Then we went over to the table with the weird magidrone. He had a buy in of 1000 but Cedric didn't let me join it. Instead we just talked to him at the table. He told us that he would pay us handsomely if we got something for him, from the janitorial closet. We'd already been there and found some weird box and turns out that what he was looking for. So we gave it to him and he gave us 1000.   Don Bomble likes cowboys. That's why Clay Steel is a cowboy, even though Clay doesn't know what a cowboy is. All of the magidrones are part of a hivemind underneath Don Bomble, so Clay is Don Bombles idea of what a cowboy is.   Trillby explains what a cowboy is: someone half cow, half boy. a minitour it's sometimes called. And it's trapped in a labyrinth to keep the king safe.   Clay mentions his friend, but says he can't say who it is, but we'll kn0w it when we see it. Clay's off the blockchain.   we need to get 40k to get to the VIP where his friend is. Glim bibble was here??!?!! I mention him cause I thought that Clay said hall of goblins (it was hall of golems) and clay told me not to say anymore. So Glim Bibble has something to do with this place.   Then I explain the story of Glim Bibble. No one asks me why I left the mountain.  

Oberon Theater

This is a huge open air theater. In the center, a staff projects hallucinatory terrain which makes it look open air, cause it's still inside. there's a wide stage where magidrones are dressed like cowboys. A satyr with dark skin and a black trunkhose is directing the magidrones as they attempt to act out a scene. It's awful and we talk to the satyr after. I offer to him do the play so we can get more chips. The human characters are the evil headmaster, the brave cowboy, and the child sorcerer. Cedric gives a few lines as the headmaster, cause I said he could do that one well. He tries to do the lines the first time, but it sucks. The second time he NAILS it.   The play is about the founding of the Casino, it's called Don Bomble's rebellion. The headmaster is trapping the students to drain the of their power. All the students get their own golems to carry their books and help them do stuff. One kid gets his golem, and that one's fully sentiant, which isn't nromal. That magidrone singlehandedly defeats the headmaster with the help of the child sorcerer and the brave cowboy.   The play is 100% about Glim Bibble, even though no one seems to know who he is.   Day 4  

The Play

the young sorcerer creates the Dom Bomble with his magic. it's me bomble, the ultimate form with the power of the cowboy and the young sorcerer, with the power of the bomble they awaken the rest of the golems and fight through the magical college up to Hamull. (played by Ced) Hamur has the abilty to change reality with Global theatre. The cowboy bard steals global theater and uses it as it owns. Don bomble says "now with the power of my friends we shall vanquish you" young sorcer and bard turn the tide o the fight glim says his iconic line: gifts are meant to commemorate celebration and I am that celebration then Don Bomble blomble-blasts the headmaster. Don Bomble blasts a full actual lightning bolt at Cedric.  

Gym

We pay 10 chips for siege training and get +5 to strength  

Sauna

since we have the money and the strength boost, we go to the sauna to fight oshiro. He gets out of his suit to don his assless chaps. and we bet 1000 chips   As the fight starts, Brilliance Daerren and I realize that there are spells being cast on Oshiro-- Enhance ability and Guidance. I teleport to the halfing casting one of the spells and attempt to scare her, but it doesnt' work. So we end up in a small fist fight, which I get a hit in for, but still can't break concentration. Daeren attacks the other guy, so Oshiro loses guidance. Somehow, Toga succeeds. He wins 2000 and we dcide to go to  

Untold Fortunes

Marilka gets to get her fortune read this time.   I step into his tent and he starts to float with his orb   a great darkness dwells within you... etc  

Begin writing your story here...

Upon entering the casino, we were forced to surrender our clothing and weapons. In exchange, they gave us new clothes and a promise we wouldn't be attacked. I don't believe that, but I don't need a dagger to take blood.   Day 1:

Roulette: lost 22 chips, not good at this

The Contagion:

The dive bar swirled with color as blaring punk music filled the air. We found Alloy again (he'd disappeared in the lobby) and he'd won 200 chips playing beer pong and other drinking games. While there, we spend 50 chips to enter a drinking competition (toga is our champ) and he wins even more chips.

Untold Fortune: Toga won the rock-paper-scissors, so he got his fortune told. His creation was a mistake. whatever that means

Sauna:

Found Captain Oshiro doing sumo wrestling, but weren't able to challenge him bc papa don't play for less than a rack. Instead we relax and Brilli and I detox from the Don's Delight   At the end of the day, we go to our rooms. Alloy and I get a double room, and the quasit gets a bed made by all the robots. We also realize there's no mention of check out   Afterwards, Day 2:  

garden tour

a magidrone leads us around the greenhouse and tells us about the plants. grass, tree, cockroach.. he's not very knowledgeable. This was originally an outdoor area, but it was put indoors when the building transported realms. A spell is used to make it seems like sunlight is streaming through the glass walls and ceiling, but it's literally indoors. The grass speaks "i am the enchanted grass of siddvari. I am not at liberty to say more" I try to ask it more questions, or get it to repeat itself, but it only moves around. Cedric tells me not to waste my detect thoughts on it, he thinks it only knows how to say those two things. There's also a tree with a face on it, "I am Oberon, ask me a question. "That grass is,,, grass. long ago a student of siddvari played a prank on the freshman and made the grass speak."   +5 to int checks  

trivia night

wooden picnic tables all around the room, magidrone at a podium. 100 chips to enter as a team, we got all the answers right since we had that +5, then answered an arcana trivia question. We win 400 chips.  

the surge

nightclub on the third floor of the casino. we hear from a random person that alloy is there. ceiling is lit by magic staves that are casting faerie fire and dancing lights. it's JAM PACKED with guests. In the center of a dance circle is a fishman and alloy going crazy on it. The crowd chants their names: Alloy and James.  

the perfect pitch

the whole ceiling is an aquarium and in the middle of the room is a row of four seats. a human, a gnome, and two magidrones sit there. a magidrone called barry booze is on stage introing the Perfect pitch, which seems to be a televised shark tank dupe. The human judge is Mark Cuban. We pitch Musical Chaireoke and the judges lovve it. Mark Cuban explains what equity is, and wins the deal, giving us 600 chips, 75% equity, and an annual profit of 400. I accepted the deal and Mark Cuban makes eye contact and I watch as a strange metal carriage crashed through the door and hits Mark Cuban-- killing him instantly.   We go back to the rooms and get a family style feast of ohio food: skyline chilli, deviled eggs, and buckeyes. which gives us +5 to con for the rest of the day.   day 3:   We talked the night before about cashing out, and why we didn't have to pay to get here. It seems really implausible that this business runs at all, but we can't figure it out. We ask about cashing out at the front desk in the morning, but they say we can spend the chips at the novelty counter.  

novelty counter

a bunch of prizes all around the room. a ship in a bottle with a blue orb as a cork for 40k. a 40k ticket to VIP. bag of holding. I recieve a vision^1 he tells us we can cash out at the armory.   we leave the novelty counter and i ask Daeren privately if he knows the imagery from the vision, but he doesn't so I explain it to everyone. No one knows.  

Janitorial closet

theres a sign that says don't go in, but we knock and no one answers so we go in. There's mostly just cleaning supplies and perfumes. Cedric finds a trap door and pulls out something weird. it's like a magidrone part. he says that when he casted see invisibitity, something was there. I feel like... something is muddled in my brain. Like static ringing after an explosion. We all feel like something is wrong... missing from our perception. We try out alter self and it works. We walk out. I look like Mark Cuban and Cedric looks like Don BOmble. but a magidrone comes to us and asks Cedric (as don bomble) to connect to the system and Cedric gets caught impersonated him. Cedric turns into James Pond and gives the 220 fee for impersonating Don Bomble.  

Book Club:

A magidrone in the center of the room with a bingo tumbler. it's got a bunch of chairs and table. the floor creaks as we walk over it, which is on purpose. there's also drinks on a table and a tapestry that depicts a girl reading a book. Beneath the tapestry, a book club discusses a book (Kelvin 270) and the weird ending. a foreign man escapes the flash freezing of a city and a gathering of worshippers of the flame accept them as their own. Katya Gatnem, head of the book club, announces the next book is a detective novel. this is the bookish woman I tried to rob in the contagion on the first day. She isn't the lady on the tapestry. The new book is called *A Night in Megacarpolis*. She's been on the boat for six months. She came to the casino to learn how to play poker, just like her favorite spy James Pond. Now, she's super good at playing poker. We ask about history, and she says that the Oberon theater is working on a pay about the history of this place. We also look around the bookshelves. Cedric finds some books. Toga and I want to help, so he puts me on his shoulders and I find a book that looks relevent. It's a students guide to Siddvari.   We decide to go play poker with Katya. also Toga rolls a 54 on luck (idk wht that do)