Dungeons & Dragons – War of the Triplets, Chapter 8: The Masquerade

Having retrieved the soul of the evil bandit captain Larsen Qu from Avernus, the party arrived knackered back in Lyrayara late at night.

Exhausted the party withdrew to their chambers and fell asleep.

A few days later they woke up in unknown surroundings in The Masquerade and was taken before the Shadow Queen as her guests. Here they handed over the scroll containing Larsen Qu’s soul for extraction.

As this process took some time, the party went shopping in the home of the most ancient and secretive of all criminal organisation. Here the individual party members had mini adventures in the amazing market 99 Fingers

Our Tabaxi Cleric met an old Tabaxi Cleric of the same faith. She mentally transferred a sacred prayer before turning to dust.
Our Dwarf Barbarian met a crying Ogre who turned out to be a dwarf tossing champion, who had lost his dwarf partner. Our Barbarian offered to help and with won the tournament in style. As reward he got an unmovable stone with some extra features.
Our Drow Rogue found a dubious surgeon who replaced his eyes (with whose eyes??) and in doing so lost 3 DEX but also lost his sunlight sensitivity.
Our Dragonborn Sorcerer found a new friend: A Pseudo Dragon Familiar at the cost of one of her LVL1 spells
Our Highelf Ranger meet a great great great grand mother who gave her the Twilight Lodge, a pocket dimension shaped as a small hunters lodge accessed by turning a magical handel.

The party’s shopping was cut short and they where shooed away by their chaperone Derek DimpleWittle under the excuse that Trueborn were attacking.

This turned out not to be true and the party found themselves lured into the gladiator arena known as Circus Massacro.

Here the party faced waves after waves of foes (Rogues, Wererats, Stich Golems, Harlequin Assassin and the Shadow Queen herself) and emerged victorious.

(I must admit I expected the party to escape through the doors, the drains, climbing the walls, whatever. I didn’t expect them to keep fighting on and even win! In fact, only one party member got knocked out and that was to the end when facing the Shadow Queen.)

The Shadow Queen had a spendid time not having had to step into the arena herself for ages and she gave them the information the party was looking for: The location of Fortress Fata Morgana where the final daughter of the Unseeing Eye resides.