[DnD 5e] Playthings in an Interplanar Dollhouse- A Path of the Planebreaker Adventure

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The Mountainside


While her servitors descend the mountain on the thin goat paths to clean up and prepare the gorelings for reinvigoration, the Magus descends on her staff and begins the process of searching the dead. It seems the pirate travelled light. Upon removing the canvas mask from the corpse, she finds that the planar pirate is of human origin. Male, with curious tattoos running up the left arm and onto the neck. His head is shaved bald and he has a prodigious moustache with two small gold rings hanging from the corners. In his pockets you find a small handful of coins, several precious stones, and a hefty bronze medallion on a string around his neck that appears to be made of geometric lines meeting a moon-shaped crescent of dull, white gem.

Spoiler: OOC

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4 Gold, 12 Silver, and 23 copper for your troubles. Four small gemstones worth 15 gp apiece to the right buyer. And a strange medallion/coin that the Magus isn't sure about. Oh, and the mask is non-magical.

Spoiler: Arcana DC 13

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The medallion vibrates slightly as you run your thumb across it, indicating some hint of magic.

Spoiler: Arcana DC 16

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Holding the medallion up on it's ribbonlike cord allows it to swing free. When the Magus does this, the medallion swerves slightly towards the rogue crimson moon passing through her world's sky like a behemoth creature, similar to how a lodestone or compass turns towards a source of iron.

The Princess' Quarters

The party follows the sound of spellcasting and violence towards the Princess' chambers. A thick, smoky air remains, but the worst of the spores have dissipated, leaving a wing full of moaning people holding their heads as the aftereffects of the aggravating mushroom take hold. Any attempts to gather information are met with vague pointing in the direction of the royal family's suites.

Following the directions, the party finds themselves meeting Hylusi in the hall outside the ransacked Princess' chamber just as the larger doors down the hallway burst open. A flurry of elvish guards stream out, fanning down the hallway and "encouraging" all they find to hold their position. After a few moments of hubbub an elegantly dressed woman who appears to be in her mid thirties leaves the royal suite, who Doredan (and surely some of the others assembled) know to be the Queen of Everarbor, Felisenai Varn'allow. She moves with supreme control, her dress shimmering with a combination of fresh water pearls and silver leaves. "What is the meaning of this commotion? What has happened?" Her voice is calm and cold, but carries an authority of command and an underlying tone of suppressed outrage.