Mushroom Kingdom
4/16/2021
Falling onto the ground after the portal from New New York, the group look up to find Beetle Bob, who greets them with a smile. After a lengthy discussion, Lucian Staleus and Aaron Urn convince him to guide them to the nearest city, as nobody knows where they are. He cheerily meanders through the woods, but Ste-Van notices that the woods aren't quite as they seem at first glance. The trees creek eerily and the fauna glow a strange green light. The wind blows, but something feels off about it. The group stops by a pond, and find four Fae gathered on a rock. Yahn waggu sneaks up and instantly kills one of them, which alerts the other three.
"The queen shall hear of this!", says one of the Fae as they scurry away. Another raises its hand and a fire elemental appears from a nearby fire pit, then the wind gathers and forms an air elemental, and finally the water ripples and spawns a water elemental. Barely surviving, the group managed to fight them off, with Lucian Staleus scared of the power of the magic needed to summon elementals of that size.
Continuing on, Beetle Bob takes the group to Castle Ghastwell, explaining how it used to belong to Freyglen but has since been lost. Ste-Van notices a strange light from above the castle, but otherwise lets it be. Roaming through the castle, Lucian Staleus finds two books documenting events from Freyglen's time in the Whistling Woods, along with a reference to Fae artifacts. However, at the top of the castle they encounter a Fae of blinding radiance, who proclaims that she has been watching them and that they should leave. Yahn waggu decides they should fight the Fae after detecting that it was evil, and they dispatched it after a quick fight.
The group asked Beetle Bob if he knew the Fae was there, but he insisted he knew nothing. He then pointed in the direction of the city he was guiding them to, and started walking forwards. Nearing the city, Yahn waggu got distracted by a shiny cave and dragged the group towards it. Inside, they found lots of valuable items, and ended up finding a lamp. Yahn waggu rubbed the lamp, and a creature appeared. He offered everyone a wish for anything they wanted, but everyone refused. Aaron Urn and Lucian Staleus then came up with the idea of gathering the demon's true name from its memories, and Aaron proceeded to cast a Share Memories scroll. Distracted by its conversation with Yahn waggu, possibly about Courier Lions, the demon couldn't resist the scroll, and from Aaron, Lucian managed to pull out the true name in Abyssal: Bobert. With one word, the demon was under Lucian's control, and reverted to its true form.
Beetle Bob.
He tried to feign surprise, but he was now fulfilling his purpose in life. Being Lucian's coffee maker.
