Session X: The Shadow Mansion Job Get Hairy Report

General Summary

Through Grewarum's conversation, the ghost of Lady Nicola Marchmane and diffuses the battle with her willow-the-wisps. Heading up the stairs, the party navigate the rotten floors and ripped the barriers to a door leading down a hallway. Looking into the other rooms, Thaddeus finds a desk with expensive paper. On one sheet is the name Cecilia. Exploring another room, Thaddeus finds a large mirror that he believes is magical. Grewarum and Darius confirm that it is a mirror of life trapping. Thaddeus clears the room and speaks the name on the paper. Stepping out of the mirror is a little girl with brown hair and a doll. She tells the party that she is named Cecilia Benbow.
Cecilia tells them that she remembers her father told her to go into the room and then she remembers being surrounded in mist. She thinks her father was going to fight the mistress of the house who was going on a rampage. Cecilia strikes up a conversation with Dalvanak about her life, specifically her friends. Dalvanak learns that there are different types of friends and that the best one humans seem to have are friends that wish the good for them.
Opening another door, the party find a shadow mastiff with three shadows. Upon Darius striking the mastiff, it speaks with a voice that is not its own. It was a female voice, shrieking at the party for disturbing her hotel and that she would make them pay. After a few minutes, the party dispatched the shadows.
Grewarum search the surviving bookshelf for any information on the necronomicon and found Mistress Arcilina's diary. In it, she talks about how she wanted to be left alone by her enemies. She made a deal and received a gift from someone called the Man of Long Shadows. Grewarum asks the party if they knew who the Man of Long Shadows is and they recall the chain devil had mentioned him and taken the visage of his face. Garrakas recalls that the chain devil took the face of the Man of Long Shadows and it is the same person who put him in the sack.
Realizing that they are exhausted from the shadows, Garrakas mentions that the lobby is under some hallowing that prevents the shadows from touching them. While there, the party take a rest and recover from their wounds. 
Breaking down the door to the outside porch, Thaddeus find a path through the rotting wood of the porch to a ladder. Up above is a water tower with a ghostly woman surrounded by willow-the-wisps: Madama Arcilina. She screams at the party, telling them that her sanctum was her gift and she will defend it.

Rewards Granted

Darius found some valuable books and two scrolls.
Grewarum found Arcilina's diary where she talks about receiving a gift from the Man of Long Shadows, a being or person of great necromantic power.

Campaign

We Be Spelljamming Campaign

Protagonists

HighKey Foorty

Faddius Lurendi

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8 / 8 HP

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Grewarum The Outkast

Garlith

Report Date

27 Sep 2022

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