Continuing from last week’s adventure, Jinnis, Toryn, Helios, Velcro, and I set out to thwart the hag coven’s plans with the help of Elsie and Nowak, the criminals we convinced (forced) to help us. We had to find the huge shipment of Nadai that the hags stole from us, after we stole it from them first. Not cool >:( Unfortunately, the hags do not appreciate being betrayed- they activated the kill-switches in the brands on our new buddies’ necks. Elsie managed to escape into her magic cane focus, but Nowak’s neck got twisted around like a washcloth. Sorry Nowak, RIP to a real one 🙁

We followed Elsie’s magic necklace back to The Mistress of Maelstroms, the sketchy tourist-trap-slash-extremely-obvious-front we found her at last week. It had been foreclosed and pillaged, and the one employee left there was SUPER not alive when we found her. Somebody filled her with locusts and stuffed a magic medallion in her mouth. Very unpleasant, but at least the medallion led us to the hags’ real hideout.

In the hideout, we found some kind of weird padded cell with a bunch of crazy-person scribbles all over the wall. Apparently the guy who lived here was really into scrying? We also found a glass bottle production forge powered by two VERY bitchy fae. We let them free, and they told us how to work the magic portal statue to get into the secret rooms, but only after they were like really rude about it.

The portal statue first sent us to… a very nice cabin filled with normal, not creepy children? Turns out they were all missing children lured in by a nice lady named “Gigi,” and thought they’d only been gone for a few hours… Apparently hags like to feast on the despair children feel when they realize they’ve been gone for a hundred years and their whole family is dead. Oof.

We next found a maze of pipes leading us to the missing shipment of Nadai! The pipes were actually the air conditioning system for the cogs, and the hags were about to spread it through the whole city with the vents.

Good news: Jinnis the genius (hehe) managed to reverse the pipes to stop the dosing before it happened!

Bad News: THE HAGS KNOW WE’RE HERE OH NO RUN

We grab the children and haul ass out of there immediately, sealing the door shut behind us. It’s been a long day, and after handing the children over to the Keepers to be reunited with their families, we are all ready to go home and sleep it off… until suddenly, storm clouds gather and some guy’s giant be-tentacled face appears?! He’s saying some shit about mountains and shells, but I don’t really understand…wait, why are the civilians acting so weird?

Uh oh.