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Sat 16th May 2020 09:43

Play - A game ran by Dr Imp

by Aryn Kelpeth

While on patrol I heard rumours of trouble brewing in Orde, I decided it was best to follow the trail and it led me to a theatre. There I met James Hunter, an inquisitor, author and our new employer. A play was being performed on stage of the Kingvale incident, with the actors playing the heroes of Kalkatesh. Watching the play was also Skye Ventus (Arkay), Ker'arn (Jared), Uriel (GeneralGarchomp) and Kaero (Greg). After a pleasant first act there was a long pause, James smelled trouble brewing and we followed him backstage. We learned that the actors has walked out due to disagrements over their pay. We decided to take the role of the actors where we took on a magical costume of the heroes of Kalkatesh. Out on the stage something was wrong however. Shades appeared that we later learned was magically controlled dolls came on the stage and we had to defeat while staying in character, if we failed to stay in character we would receive some kind of shock to the mind. After defeating the shades a voice was heard throughout the theatre. The hag was commending us in our performance and that she wished to see us again. The crowd of the theatre seemed to have been under some kind of enchantment and remembered only seeing a good play.
 
The next day James had followed the trail to a underground tavern/club. A musical band had been hired to play there and this time we decided to go as the band. It was a tavern filled with warlocks and what we later learned to be changelings who owned the establishment. The changelings were spawn of the hag we were hunting. Eventually our cover was about to be blown and we had to take action. We had learned the masks of the warlocks kept them subjugated to the hag so that's what we did. We killed two of the three changelings and managed to knock out the last one. The Ordesean authorities came in to aid us and we rounded up all of the victims and perpetrators. Further inside the club was a hideout with dark rituals relating to nightmares and a map detailing different points of interest for the hag. With some investigation we found her lair and on our way there we found out that James had been captured by the hag.
 
Her lair was inside an old puppet shop, the basement of the shop contained a set of peculiar dolls. Dolls in likeness of ourselves that we could transfer our concious too. Inside the basement a puzzle was also awaiting us, a set of doors that could only be opened inside a tiny dark tunnel that our dolls could fit through. When a door opened a dark smokey creature appeared that Uriel dispatched with an area of holy light. We eventually made our way through and it was here that we finally came face to face with the hag, Camila Cruelnight the Disquietude. She was out seeking revenge for her fallen sisters and a hard fought battle ensued. It was a long and tiring battle but eventually we won. Skye Ventus had died but we managed to save him and bring him back in the nick of time through the use of Ker'arns diamond dust.
This battle taught me that I still have a long ways to go, once again I was left standing with my allies brought down to their knees. I need to grow stronger so that this doesn't happen again...