Artists of Torin (Campaign)

Hook
Hey, it’s me, Sparky! Now that you’ve made it off the train I get to let you in on the top sneaky mission I’ve got y’all on. You’re gonna travel to Torin City, about a half day’s walk from the station. The Torin region has recently come under… let’s say, new ownership, and that new owner is a bit of a dick. He’s mandated that all arts and cultural endeavors in the whole region have to be passed by him before they’re revealed to the public. Naturally, this made Torin’s Art Guild pretty pissy. So he ordered them all to be executed. They’re currently hiding in an old monastery north of the city, and they’ve rigged it with all kinds of traps. Your job is to get them safely out of the country and back to this station, where you’ll get to meet an old friend of mine. She’ll take it from there. Good luck, and have fun!

Events

 * The Dungeon Crawlies depart for Torin's Diastic temple. At its entrance, they find a number of Torin guards, waiting for the artists to starve or exit the temple.
 * The party enters the temple and encounter its first trap-- a number of numeric runes cover the ceiling, and a big red button sits on a pedestal in the center of the room.
 * Dilies pushes the button, causing iron gates to descend over the exit to the outside. The runes slowly start to fade, until Kristini pushes the button a second time in a panic. The runes reappear, and begin to fade again.
 * This continues for several rounds, until the party lets the runes fully fade, and the gates over the entrance and exit are lifted.
 * In the next room, the party is confronted by three pairs of statues of angels and demons, with abyssal code scrawled over the floor. Dilies throws a rock across the room, which causes the first pair of statues to attack and shatter the rock.
 * Deciphering the abyssal code reveals the names of the statue pairs, which disable the enchantments and allows the party to pass unharmed.
 * The third room contains nine numbered doors, each oozing with black fog. On the ceiling is a fresco of the Celestial Plane, and on the floor is a fresco of the Abyssal Plane. Both highlight the infinite nature of the planes, creating optical illusions that they stretch on forever. Attempting to pass through the doors results in significant necrotic damage.
 * The party discovers that the numbers labeling the doors are attacked to the wall with a single nail, allowing them to be rotated around their center. Dilies turns the number 8 into the infinity symbol(∞), allowing passage through that door to the next room.
 * The next room resembles a stage, with plain black walls and a section of raised floor in the back. From the next room, Dilies has a conversation with Misbelle, leader of the Torin Arts Guild. Misbelle informs the party that in order to gain the Guild's trust, they will have to demonstrate their creativity.
 * Dilies produces her violin, playing a rendition of Havana by Fantasy Camila Cabello. The other party members join in with acapella support for her performance.
 * The Arts Guild, impressed by the performance, opens the door and joins the party. Dilies succeeds on her instant attempt to seduce Misbelle.
 * The party leaves the temple with the Guild in tow, to find that the Torin guards have abandoned their posts.
 * The party is ambushed by former captain Podreg, who curses them for abandoning him to drown at the Virric Wedding incident.
 * The Dungeon Crawlies defeat Podreg, and Kristini delivers the final blow with the Lazarus Blade.
 * The Arts Guild is escorted across the border into Mach without further incident, and at the station the party is approached by an elderly Aarakocra woman.
 * She introduces herself as Alanar, and reveals that she is Sparky's contact in Mach. She also reveals that she knows about the party's murder of Lily Virric, something the party had not revealed to Sparky or even Blue.
 * She leads them south of Mach Academy to the small village of Refuge. She reveals that Sparky set up the village for political refugees that couldn't be safely kept at Bouldertips, and that the Guild would be able to stay there in exchange for giving Bouldertips new decorations.
 * Dilies and Misbelle retreat to an unoccupied cabin. Misbelle thanks Dilies for rescuing the Guild, and gifts her The Song of the Stars.