Session 38

2026-02-06 18:07

Characters attending: Ivy Beet Ellywick Fin

Starting Location: Motherhorn Castle, Candlegore Teeth

Recap

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.

Session 38 - 7.11.2025

We are now inside Motherhorn Castle

air inside smells rotten and sweet
looks manky

We need to steal The Harp and the Brine's Pickling Jar

Can hear laughter/sobbing further inside the castle - must be Aunty

Find arcane runes on the chandelier in hallway

"uninvited and unrehearsed" (only Ivy can read because they're in Elvish)
I roll a nat one and Ivy gets caught and trapped frozen in a beam of light
Monsters Booboo and Bubbles appear and attack

Ellywick smashes the chandelier and the monsters dissapear

however, Ivy takes 37 damage from the shards

We head into the Throne room

Aunty has scenes (images) of herself playing all the roles in a play
Ellywick drew moustaches on all her portraits
painted domed ceiling - Aunty in a white robe holding hands with her sisters <3
Brine and Yassandra's mouths are painted over with a smile

Swans on the arms of the throne

left swan's eyes seem magical?
- is a trap that opens treasure/secret room

Rachel

"It's because it's not used to naked bums on it"

Corridor 1 - faint warped whispers and melody from this corridor, from a stringer instrument (maybe The Harp?)
Corridor 2 - smell of roses, is where Ivy came from after sitting on the balcony with Aunty

We take corridor 1

find crinkled paper on floor, is from sheet music - all decaying
writing on the music: not a language we know, may share origin with elvish (maybe a Fey language?)

Reach a door, can hear a discordant harp through

Ivy and Ellywick sneak in
grand corridor, with wardrobes down each side - dresses + costumes here
clothes seem to be moving independently
Beet comes in to investigate a dress and gets pulled in and strangled - Ellywick and Fin save her

Find a way through a trapped door at the end of the corridor:

golden hall
feels like the inside of a music box
glittering gold dust everywhere on every surface
ceiling is made of gears rotating

Find The Harp that is as tall as a person

has veins of red on it
has gold strings leading off into the rafters
appears to be plucked by invisible hands
- is siphoning off its life essence
can hear a spider's heartbeat
looks like person made of crystal holding a harp

There is a lanky guy behind the harp - called The Conductor

conductors baton
other hand holding roiling air
has on a porcelain mask

Gold opens up to reveal cloaked figurines

COMBAT - lasts only 18 seconds - Beet healed the harp and it did massive damage to the enemies

Ivy reached out her mind to the harp and it was feeling: dread, scared and tired

In this room are components of an unfinished ritual - stone runes on the floor

We transformed The Harp back into a baby - is a spider baby, 8 legs and eyes

Beet's 8 eyed curse is removed

Summary

Head into Motherhorn Castle and find The Harp, being protected by The Conductor. We manage to defeat him and his minions by healing The Harp causing damage to them. All appears to happen inside a music box. We transform The Harp back into a little spider baby.
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