Session 37

2026-02-06 22:31

Characters attending: Ivy Beet Ellywick Fin

Recap

We leave the tavern and head along the longer route (The Hallows) underground through a cave. We meet Uni and find mnemosyne stones with some of Aunty's memories. Uni gives us the horn from his 2nd mate, and in exchange for his protection, Ivy gives him memories of the forest Athelthorne so that he can go there to live safely. We emerge from the cave to find a circus wagon with marionettes of us, that disappears when we touch them.

Session 37 - 15.10.2025

We found some memories of Brine from the caves:

Aunty in boudoir
Brine telling off Aunty
Aunty and young Yassandra (same time period as the Uni memory)

Memory 3

Found Baba Yaga's spellbook - "The flesh remembers the shape of love"

she read about Yassandra's surgeries
"Beauty is freedom"
"The gift of perfection demands the gift of blood" - Yassandra will offer up her own future child to Aunty in exchange for help perfecting herself
"Make the stars clap for her"
^Memory3

We go to Ellywick's treehouse (unobservable pocket dimension) to see the other memories in safety - is just a wooden platform, no walls

Memory 1

(I rolled 32 on insight)
Aunty is swinging between self love and self loathing
"I love me so much" - desperate to believe this
"Why don't my sisters love me?"
She is "mother's joke" - bitter that Baba Yaga has always let her down
^Memory1

Memory 2

(rolled 32 insight again)
70-100 years ago (around the time of Uni)
Aunty is young, giddy and playful - a bit embarrassed when Brine appears

Brine turns down a beauty makeover - though turns out (unknown to Aunty) that she enjoys spending time with her
Brine says she wants to wreck Baba Yaga
^Memory2

Ellywick composes a diss tack for Aunty - includes a slow, insightful and devastating section

Meet some fairies:

Get given 5 vials of LSD type potion?

Maybe we can give these to Aunty?

They are holding crystals - spotlights on a cutout mattress

Satyr and another in silk robes

Goblin with a clipboard calls for quiet on set

Cue cards at the sides

IT'S A PORN SET!

Ivy does not realise this and takes the pizza box, and nearly ends up in the porn film - other help put a stop to this

Instead ask to get taken to the Skystage - Aunty is on a balcony of Motherhorn Castle

Ivy turns celestial and flies up there to join her - Ogre Biter gives me a directors' chair to sit on
Ellywick is getting ready to take to the stage with her diss track - steals Penelope's (stage manager) earpiece
Beet locks Penelope into a chest and casts hold person, then impersonates her voice over the speaking system - calls to bring a drink for Aunty (so Ivy can poison it)
Fin recruits more people (or Ismore??) to join
Salma is prepping cue cards for the audience to shout

Ellywick performs with backup performers, and does a caricature performance as Aunty

She is devastated! - her makeup and outfit are deteriorating before our eyes

The lighting is no longer playful, is lightning everywhere

2nd song:

The skin under Aunty's gloves has started to wrinkle
Her eyes are turning red
Hunched and seems older

Ivy puts a vial of the LSD potion into her whisky hip flask

Aunty seems suspicious, so Ivy takes the first sip
Aunty then drinks the rest
I roll 2 on constitution and fall off my chair, and am very high

Salma hold up a cue card for the audience to shout saying

UNLOVEABLE NONCE

(Aunty is now very upset and drinks another drink laced with LSD)

Ivy says she has a vision of the balcony falling

Aunty laughs desperately
Ivy denounces her and Aunty loses her hair
Ivy snatches off her turban so the crowd can see she is now hairless
Aunty is really upset at the mention of Baba Yaga

Ivy trips over Aunty on her way off the balcony - glitter is pouring out of cracks on her face

Ivy crawls down the stairs

The weather suddenly turns awful

Can see power coming from:

The Horary - mapping solars systems, space and planes (magic comes from here`)
The Chorus Tower - think The Harp is here?
The Primadonna Perch (the tower where Ivy is currently)

Inside Motherhorn Castle:

mildew
props got shittier
worn castle
all seem to be the result of Aunty's emotional state

Summary

The party interprets some of Aunty's memories from the cave. Using this we are able to work out a strategy to destroy Aunty's confidence, which we do in a big performance on the Skystage about how awful and unloved she is. The world and Motherhorn Castle appears to be collapsing around them.
^summary