44 - Drugs, Love & Party Hard

We all observe the ice block who crushed Reylynn.

Persy casts [Shatter] on the ice block, which explodes and reveals the crushed corpse of Reylynn.

[Medicine] After looking at Reylynn's remains, Axel realizes they know a lot about living entities, but after looking at the body, they start to realize that the way the body is crushed, it doesn't makes sense: none of her organs are in the proper place, and they're not anatomically correct, almost as if someone doodled the organs when studying.
When looking closer, Axel gets a bit of blood on their hands, and they taste it, giving a sweet taste with a hint of cacao, which makes it strange to be blood.
Balnorin does the same and tastes the blood.

Axel pauses for a moment.

Axel points to themselves then Persy, then points towards the organs and show how wrong they are, to prove their point.

Axel stares at the organs, and has a urge to bite in them, that even the party notices.

[WIS Save - Fail ❌] The party members have to pull out Axel to stop them to eat the corpse.
There's a weird meaty taste in Axel's mouth, and they freak out a bit realizing what they've been doing.

Reylynn's body starts to crack and raises into the air, and she emerges back to life as her new hair color is blonde-gray, and wakes up.

She looks around, then stops for a bit towards Persy

And she casts [Summon Fey], which a wisp in a tuxedo appears, and shoves Persy out of the ship, which starts to fly using his boots, and Sabine went to save him and brings him back using their ribbons. Persy puts the Circlet of Human Mediocrity before getting back.

Axel summons their gun in Dottie's face

Axel pulls the trigger (hits thrice and kills Dottie Lombardo 💀)

[Perception - Pass ✔] We all see (except Persy) this black splat appearing on the boat and starts blinking
↪[DEX Save] That black thing explodes, and the ship nose dives through the ground and Persy and Balnorin fell off the ship. Nesvalyn manages to catch Dottie Lombardo's corpse

The ship keeps crashing, and before it crashs, Sabine makes a ball with her ribbons, and reduces the crash's impact.

Senri raised from Dottie Lombardo's corpse.
When looking around, we notice mostly the smell. We're standing in a huge sewer, and it's expanding on both sides for a really long way.

And we see them, the Black Slime, observing ahead of us, on a higher ground.

The Black Slime slips down and reaches Axel.

They look up in the sky, and we all a see a black spot shining in the sky.

After our eyes adjust, we see them running up the walls and disappearing in the shadows.

Senri gives a nod, or at least we think she did as she's mostly hidden by the wreck.

By investigating, the engine can be repaired in 8 hours. We're in the Sewer district.

It's the poorest district of the city.
It's mostly used as an horror story for the children, and ignored by the rest of the city.

Persy casts [Invisibility] on himself, then puts the Circlet of Human Mediocrity again and talks to Senri again.

Senri nods, and Persy goes to see Sabine while wearing the Circlet.

Even in the early afternoon, it's still dark down here.
For the ones who slept, we dreamt we were in full darkness with a constant dripping noise.
After the ship is fully repaired, the engine restarts and we can get back on our way. We're still going to the Bovsea district.
On reaching the address, even while in the residential district, this place seems a bit sketchy compared to rest, as it seems to be partially in ruins.

There's one strange metal box, with some wires pulled out.

And we start to discuss and plan the approach, with Axel wanting to scout, but Persy doesn't trust enough Axel to go alone to scout.
After arguing for a while, we trust Axel to go lance, Persy casts [Invisibility] on Axel.
Nesvalyn enables the [Psychic Whispers] with the party for 10 hours.

We notice that Axel is leaving watery steps while being invisible, but the rest of the party doesn't leave any steps.
[Stealth] Upon going though the arch, there's a locked door.
Axel uses the broom to scout more the building.
Axel tries to reach out the bars to open a window...
↪ [Sleight of Hand - Pass ✔] Axel manages to open one, then tries to squeeze through it...
↪[DEX Save - Pass ✔] Just as Axel starts to squeeze through, they hear people speaking, and sees a zombie woman complaining about a ghost opening the window, and slams the window to close it, but Axel manages to escape unharmed.
Axel starts to peek in the rooms through windows, and notices different setups, from casual life chores to weird behaviors.

We regroup and we get to the front door.
[Sleight of Hand - Unlocked 🔓] Nesvalyn unlocks the door.
Nesvalyn peeks and sees an ethereal guardian, which looks back.

She takes the 200 credits.

We all get in. When we quickly check the registry, it's either not filled, or filled with trolly names.
We're heading to Skeezy's place, and the closer we are, the more ridiculous and smelly it is. When reaching the apartment 690, Donna Maria is standing there.

She knocks and the door opens up.

Persy buys some Robotic Adderall for 500 credits, and gives a big bag, and it's filled with little floppy disks.
Balnorin buys 280 credits worth of Morphine (but basically obtains Heroin).
Senri asks for a free sample of a drug...
↪ [CON Save] Senri has advantage on Initiative and DEX Saves, but disadvantage on WIS checks
...then trades her Spyglass to have 8g of Buzz
Axel buys through someone else to get Wizard Weed.

We're making our way downstairs, and when we're reaching the 3rd floor, between the apartment 313 and us are four doors open, like a party is happening in between the apartments. We'll have to get across 20ft of intense party within the halls.
Persy tried to dash though, but is blocked by the people as he's kinda killing the vibe.
Nesvalyn throws a dagger and teleports to the other side.
[Performance or Acrobatics] Persy and Balnorin are killing a bit the vibe and are not accepted. Senri boogies down and even manages to do some crowd surf. Axel manages to goo their way through.
[Performance] Balnorin manages to get through the crowd. Persy is still stuck.
[Performance - Pass ✔] Senri sways to open the way for Persy and he manages to get through it. He bumps into a girl, then bumps into Gecko Girl.

And he spins around her, and finally we all regroup in front of the apartment. We knock, but no one answers.
[Perception] We do hear of softer music coming from the apartment, with a breeze from outside blowing in.
[Sleight of Hand - Unlocked 🔓] Nesvalyn opened the door.
When getting in, it's a small shitty place, with a strong smell of drugs. Laying on the couch, is a young elven girl, on the coffee tray next to it, but she's swirling her finger, conjuring a fan above her to do some breeze. She hasn't noticed us yet. We hear the shower running.
We decide that we shouldn't all enter in, and Nesvalyn and Balnorin gets in, and the nature ceiling disappears.

The shower stops at this moment.

We hear coming out from the shower another alive woman, covered in tattoos. She's wiping her arm from towel and forms a shadowy snake on her arm.

[Persuasion - Pass ✔] She lowers her arm.

Hearing that line, there's a quick discussion mentally on how to process, but Nesvalyn suggests it's best to be honest and upfront with them.

The rest of team are showing their heads through the door.

[Insight] They're not going to the move anytime soon.
We're paying her debt and buying her dose for 3500 credits. We're making our way back down to the girls, when suddenly we hear water dripping.
The stairwell fills with water suddenly, and landing with it is the Drown Bassist, and when she hits the water, she disappears. We're all submerged.

All that's left of Shime is her Jellyfish Dress and an undead hand.
Nesvalyn manages to get back to the team after a moment.

Next session: 45 - Holding Out for a Hero