Malison on the Loose!
Plague / Epidemic
30/8
Khev learned of a Malison in the Bath House and gathered the Bog Bottom Boys. Once captured they met the owner of the Bath House, Crimson Masters -- the efreeti big boss of the Redbands, and his son Ignis. They then brought the Malison to the Temple of Trickery where Sonna taught them about the 5 types of Malisons. The Abomination remained at large. But that night the party discovered where it was hiding; in the undercroft of the downtown nightclub built out of an ancient temple, Club World Tree.
Khev saw people run screaming out of the Bath House, followed by an owlin attendant posting an urgent quest -- a Yuan-Ti went mad and shapeshifted into a Malison inside. He messaged the rest of the group over at the official Tort & Hare opening. They ran in together, calming the steam mephits that lived in the Bath House and splitting up to check the men's and women's baths. It was in the men's with its full snake penis hanging out. They defeated it and returned the mephits to their home in the steam room. Outside Gle'n, Hex, Kai, Khev, Mak, and Snell were greeted by a boisterous efreeti emerging from a familiar limosine with new tires. "Bog Bottom Boys!" He said. They didn't think they had settled on that name but it turned out Hex had been calling them that all week. The name stuck. He thanked them for their work but said he could not, or rather would not, pay them the rate they were promised on the quest posting. Kai, recognizing how powerful an effeeti like Crimson truly was, attempted to crush Ignis's hand in his palm. His soft, cuddly, bunny palm. The Bog Bottom Boys brought the Malison to the Temple of Trickery, where Sonna was being given the third degree by some other Acolytes. Where was her Cleric? Cleric Teoshi? She maintained he was out hunting the Abomination. The party discovered they had 5 total Malisons in custody now, and Sonna defined the 5 types.
- Type 1: Human body with snake head
- Type 2: Human head and body with snakes for arms
- Type 3: Human head and upper body with a serpentine lower body instead of legs
- Type 4: Human form with one or more serpentine tails
- Type 5: Human form covered in scales
