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Freaks & Facades: Session Three - The Misty Morning

Welcome back, my beloved readers and rapscallions. This is the recap of Session Three of Freaks & Facades. Our cast of beloved Freaks has had quite the night. Quite a dark, dark night indeed... Check out the past recaps collected on our Index, to learn what our party of Freaks has done to get to this point, (or find them linked at the bottom below the cut).

The Freaks’ time at the Ravens Loft Inn has come to a close, many questions left burning like the ashes of that mysterious tavern’s hearth. First impressions were made, masks held tight amongst the group of strangers. The Inn’s strange circumstances placed each of them in a bloodstained room during their stay, their futures read by a comatose Vistani seer. When night came they found a curtain of darkness and animated furniture attempt to swallow them up! Many were flung into the darkness unaware; while others struggled to hold the light. One of our Freaks discovered a new face to the Tavern’s keepers, and willingly chose the darkness! What does it all mean?

Warning: this is a horror campaign setting, so bear that in mind before reading. Possible triggers include: bones/bone manipulation, skeletal bodies, transformation body horror etc.

The Freaks are assembled. In the coming morning light they must decide to either stay together and face the unknown, or let their new situation split them apart! Let’s see if they survive this first day together in Ravenloft proper!

*starts projector*

Everyone’s sleep is of nothingness. A terrible blackness swaddling each and every one of them. They are startled awake all at once, several weakened by this unknowing descent through the Elemental Darkness! They are inside a cave, damp with the early morning Mist...

Fenri and Schrödinger each remember the Curtain of Feathers swallowing the inn! But their memories about what befell them all afterwards is unclear and foggy...

Someone notices the weapon Schrödinger has instinctively drawn and alerts the others. A dagger made from his own bones, extruding from his palm! Solange instinctively rolls away, fearing the Lamordian is actually an undead--and collides in the stomach with a stalagmite. Fenri is also a bit startled, as she is a priestess who has faced many undead in the past...

Schrödinger reveals this is his Science, his life’s work: to utilize the body’s skeletal structure beyond simply as a biological framework to build upon.

Channa has no qualms. She has used blood in her elemental magecraft in the past, why not use the body’s elements for something new? Despite their misgivings, Solange and Fenri decide to be open-minded (but keeping an eye on the lordling all the same).

Pryrrish is entirely unaware of this briefly tense situation, too focused on her Tome’s current location to care. Reassuringly, it is still beside her despite this change in scenery... She has no qualms about Schrödinger’s abilities--she isn’t one who can judge easily. She uses her swirling eyes to look about the cave.

Fenri goes outside to pray in the dawn’s gentle light! Solange steps outside as well, keeping the halfling and the rest of the party all within sight. Pryrrish, Channa and Schrödinger examine the cave they woke up in... There’s signs of an unhoused person having slept here recently. The cave is within a small plateau beside a forested country road; the trees and their autumn foliage are quite familiar to those Solange knows, so they may be in Dementlieu still. Perhaps merely a single night has passed since she was lost in the Catacombs?

The cavern’s walls are all painted in extremely old squiggles and symbols, depicting tides of Mist, the jagged mountains between and shadowy wolves skulking the woods.... At the center of the ceiling, between the stalactites, is a vaguely prehistoric image of a gray figure dressed in robes. Holding a shield and a sprig of flowers...

Pryrrish peeks into her Tome, revealing this must be a figure of Ezra, the Guardian in the Mists, the unknown protector goddess of this realm... A god unknown to all but Solange and Schrödinger (but neither are religious for reasons of fashion and rationality).

Channa discovers there’s an ancient set of stairs carved into the back, going up to the top of the plateau... But Schrödinger begins to talk about witnessing the Matron and Maiden of the Inn revealing themselves as horrible wraiths; and the group is distracted from further investigation by this news...

Fenri gathers her daily reservoir of divine magic, but Pelor is still so far away in her heart. The Sun above is not the shining hope of the Dawn Father, but an eerie ball of sustaining light and warmth that makes the priestess feel nothing. Solange watches the priestess’s devotions, bemused.

Schrödinger, after learning of this place’s connection to the Guardian in the Mists, recalls the Mists that swallowed him in the alleys of Ludendorf. He goes around asking everyone if they also encountered banks of misty clouds. In truth, they all affirm his suspicions--they were brought together by this unknown force of Mist!

Fenri actively tells of her fiery experience in her homeland, and everyone is quite shocked at how calm and sunny the halfling is about their traumatic experience! Channa is especially touched, but she hides her emotions from being so open.

Fenri tells Schrödinger she prayed about how to handle his Science, and she’s concluded he’s not a bad person. She gives him a hug--awkward because he’s nearly three times her size, as well as it’s exceedingly intimate for a Lamordian to be hugged!

The group hears a wagon approach, and Solange replaces her disguising veil. It’s a halfling man driving a large wagon of milk jugs and hay. He greets the group in low Mordentish, and Fenri in their shared racial language; introducing himself as Terrii of the Jollydell Clan. Terrii sees the group is quite out of sorts, so he offers to take them on a ride into the nearby town of Campanula--far to the north in Dementlieu. Terrii Jollydell’s sons pop out from the hay bales in the wagon back, having hidden with crossbows in case the group were bandits. Fenri makes friends with them, even giving Terrii a Pelorian prayer to help his ailing wife on their homestead.

The halfling boys excitedly talk about local vigilante, named Night’s Vengeance! A masked rake and friendly scoundrel who has humiliated the local nobility, riding on a pitch black steed through the deep forest roads uncaught for weeks. He’s crashed noble soirees on horseback, as well as stolen the clothes of an entire noble entourage for the local baron’s son!

For the latter, Night’s Vengeance unhorsed the carriage, stole Baron Montagne’s son’s infamously bejeweled cloak and abandoned the boy naked in his horseless carriage--in the middle of the woods at night! The rake then rode through town, standing on the horses laughing and throwing the cloak’s jewels in the central water fountain of Campanula’s central square.

Campanula is a town surrounded by thick forests, and supposedly wolves prowl the dense foliage and mountains. The group does some shopping for supplies and getting their bearings.

Solange recognizes they are on near the northern border between Dementlieu and Lamordia. She’s never been away from Port-a-Lucine in all her life, but thankfully it seems no time has passed since her experience in the Catacombs...

Pryrrish (with her swirling sight invocations) helps Schrödinger translate the signs of a halfling greengrocer and helps him pay for apples--he’s never had to buy sundry goods on his own before. Pryrrish garners some attention for being an elf, and Schrodinger begins to be protective of her.

They barter at a local stable for a pair of horses and a wagon, meeting a noble’s stableman Vincente Quint. Vincente is quite average but happily helps negotiate a fair deal with them and the local horsemaster.

The group goes to the town hall to exchange their coins for Dementlieu currency. Upon approach, they see servants of House Montagne wading through the square’s fountain for any remaining jewels of the baron’s sons. And speaking of, Lord Isaac Montagne II (Baron Montagne’s son) appears from town hall and immediately insults them as peasants for not moving out of “their better’s way”. Channa despises nobles but is convinced to step back.

Inside Campanula town hall, they encounter Baron Montagne leaving after speaking with the local magistrate. A hunting dog perfectly follows him after. Fenri can sense the baron’s disdain behind his placid, confident smile. (And she gets the awful thought that as he passed the group, he was learning their scent... Like the dog obediently beside him would...)

Schrödinger, as a noble scion of Lamordia, is easily able to procure a bank note to exchange his golden gluttons for Dementlieu’s corona gold coins. But Channa and Pryrrish, who have pooled their Eberronian gold together, are outright rejected by the magistrate for some reason.

While Pryrrish accompanies Schrödinger in obtaining his money at the bank, Solange, Channa and Fenri head to the local watering hole. The Howling Wolf Alehouse.

The Howling Wolf is a raucous but warm peasant’s tavern. Solange, in her dour mourning veils (her hatpin of disguise hiding her caliban nature), gets a large table for the whole party.

Before the bread basket is even brought out, Fenri sneaks away to the alleyway outside, hoping to pray to Pelor again now that it’s about noontime. Channa volunteers to find their sunny companion, and the two bond over the strangeness of this land. Channa hesitantly accepts Fenri’s hug of appreciation. (She has never been one for many friends before. Especially not after he vanished...)

Meanwhile, Solange awkwardly sits at the big table. She overhears the sounds of carousing on the upper floor of the tavern. According to hearsay, they are The Flying Wolves: a group of ex-Falkovnian refugees hired by Baron Montagne to capture Night’s Vengeance. They are led by the infamous half-elven spearwoman, the Falconeater...

Pryrrish and Schrödinger easily obtain the Dementlieuse currency. They have a similar matter-of-factness to the way they talk. Pryrrish is reminded of her older brother, sadly.

After an exceedingly good meal at the Alehouse--with Schrödinger taking half a dozen rolls with them--the group obtains their wagon and horses. They decide to camp somewhere for the night, as the journey to Port-a-Lucine will take at least three days! And the night is dangerous so far from civilization.

At a small well-used campsite beside a mountain stream, the group prepares to bed down for the night. It seems the horses instinctually dislike lord Schrödinger, so it takes Solange and Fenri to direct and care for the animals.

Solange, upon dusk breaking, uses her gravedigger deathchatter ability to send messages at night, to alert any fellow gravedigger or death cleric of her position. She hopes they will pass the message along to the Order of the Moonlight Vigil...

Just after they prepare their campfire, the sound of beating hooves alerts the party! Fenri grabs her sling-staff and clutches her holy symbol. Pryrrish grabs the large Tome at her side, shadowy wisps emerging from its pages about her fingertips. Channa unwinds her spiked chain and has Iggy the earth familiar burrow underground. Solange lights her lantern-staff and peers into the darkness of the road. And Schrödinger twists his bones into a rapier-like weapon, thrumming with green electricity!

A figure in a mask, standing in the saddle and wielding a hand crossbow and rapier, rides out from the darkness and into the moonlight! The horse he rides is a majestic stallion of pure ebony, breathing heavily as its powerful hooves beat the earth!

The figure is Night’s Vengeance, though not as cartoonishly evil in his depictions on the many wanted posters in town! He begs the group to distract those following him! He rides east, throwing a bag of coins towards them for their trouble!

A group of riders in wolf pelts and swords comes down from the direction the vigilante came. The Flying Wolves on the hunt! And leading the pack is the Falconeater, with her spearhead glistening in the moonlight! A Wolf notices the bag of coins on the ground and the hunters give chase, ignoring the group’s attempt to point them in the wrong direction.

Suddenly, the noble Schrödinger causes his entire body to emerge in a necromantic suit of spiky bone armor! This upsets Channa and Pryrrish, the latter of whom was right beside him when his transformation occurred!

Solange creates a magical area of briars upon the road, slowing and harming the horses of the Flying Wolves! Combat has begun for this group!

Freaks & Facades will continue in Session Four - Perilous Roads! Click here to read on! [WIP]

Thanks for reading! We hope you love our friendly freaks as much as we do!

Parts: Zero/Cast, One P1, One P2, Two, Three, Four [WIP]

- Aboleth Eye, 08/06/2023!

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caribbeanvibesblog · 2 years

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For those asking, my Eid menu included:

Pumpkin

Channa/Aloo

Curry Goat

Stew Chicken

Roti (didn’t make this)

Noodles

Rice

Baked Chicken

Pepper Shrimp

Prepped and seasoned the meat the day before Eid and it took about 3 hours to cook everything the following day.

#eid #eid2022 #food #menu #eidmenu #stew #curry #baked #homemade #homecooking #Trinidad #celebrations #caribbean #jennagthehijabitt

#repost #eid #pepper shrimp #baked chicken #rice #noodles #roti #stewed chicken #curry goat #pumpkin #channa #aloo #chick peas #potatoes

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Fakta Unik tentang Ikan Gabus

Ikan gabus, atau yang dikenal juga dengan nama ikan toman, merupakan salah satu jenis ikan air tawar yang memiliki banyak fakta unik yang menarik untuk dipelajari. Meskipun mungkin terlihat biasa bagi beberapa orang, ikan gabus memiliki sejumlah karakteristik yang membuatnya menonjol di antara ikan air tawar lainnya. Dalam artikel ini, kita akan mengeksplorasi beberapa fakta menarik tentang ikan gabus.

Baca juga: Panduan Budidaya Praktis dan Informatif

Pemangsa Tangguh: Salah satu fakta paling mencolok tentang ikan gabus adalah keahliannya sebagai pemangsa tangguh. Ikan gabus adalah predator yang kuat di air tawar. Dengan tubuh yang ramping dan gigi yang tajam, ikan gabus mampu memangsa mangsanya dengan cepat dan efisien. Mereka sering memakan ikan kecil, katak, serangga air, dan bahkan burung kecil yang terjatuh ke dalam air.

Bertahan Hidup di Lingkungan Ekstrem: Ikan gabus memiliki kemampuan adaptasi yang luar biasa, yang memungkinkannya bertahan hidup di lingkungan ekstrem. Mereka dapat hidup di air yang rendah oksigen, air yang tercemar, dan bahkan di rawa-rawa yang kering. Kemampuan ini membuat ikan gabus menjadi salah satu ikan yang paling tahan terhadap perubahan lingkungan.

Periode Pembiakan yang Panjang: Ikan gabus memiliki periode pembiakan yang panjang, yang membuatnya mampu berkembang biak dengan cepat dalam populasi yang besar. Seekor ikan gabus betina dapat menghasilkan ribuan telur dalam satu kali pemijahan. Telur-telur ini kemudian menetas menjadi larva yang mudah bertahan hidup, memastikan kelangsungan hidup spesies ini.

Bersifat Karnivora: Ikan gabus adalah ikan karnivora, yang berarti mereka memakan daging sebagai makanan utama mereka. Meskipun mereka biasanya memangsa mangsa hidup, ikan gabus juga akan memakan bangkai dan sisa-sisa organik lainnya yang mereka temukan di lingkungan mereka.

Mengandung Nutrisi Tinggi: Selain fakta-fakta tentang perilaku dan adaptasi fisik, ikan gabus juga memiliki nilai gizi yang tinggi. Daging ikan gabus mengandung protein tinggi, rendah lemak, dan kaya akan asam lemak omega-3, yang penting untuk kesehatan jantung dan otak manusia.

Dianggap sebagai Ikan Air Tawar Terbesar: Ikan gabus dapat tumbuh menjadi sangat besar, dengan beberapa spesimen dapat mencapai panjang lebih dari satu meter dan berat lebih dari 20 kilogram. Ukurannya yang besar membuatnya menjadi target utama bagi para pemancing yang mencari pengalaman menantang.

Budaya dan Mitos: Di beberapa budaya, ikan gabus dianggap memiliki makna khusus. Misalnya, di beberapa daerah di Asia Tenggara, ikan gabus dianggap membawa keberuntungan dan kekayaan. Di sisi lain, dalam mitologi Jawa, ikan gabus dipercaya memiliki kekuatan mistis dan dihormati sebagai simbol kekuatan dan keberanian.

Dari kekuatan predatornya hingga kemampuannya bertahan hidup di lingkungan yang ekstrem, ikan gabus adalah salah satu ikan air tawar yang paling menarik untuk dipelajari. Kombinasi antara perilaku unik dan nilai gizi tinggi membuatnya menjadi subjek yang menarik bagi para ilmuwan, pemancing, dan pecinta alam. Dengan terus mempelajari dan memahami ikan gabus, kita dapat lebih menghargai peran pentingnya dalam ekosistem air tawar dan menjaga keberlangsungan hidup spesies ini di masa depan.

Budidaya Ikan Gabus di Indonesia

Budidaya ikan gabus di Indonesia telah menjadi kegiatan yang semakin populer dalam beberapa tahun terakhir. Hal ini tidaklah mengherankan mengingat potensi besar yang dimiliki oleh ikan gabus baik sebagai sumber pangan maupun sebagai komoditas bisnis. Berikut adalah beberapa hal yang perlu diketahui tentang budidaya ikan gabus di Indonesia:

Kondisi Lingkungan yang Mendukung: Indonesia memiliki kondisi lingkungan yang mendukung untuk budidaya ikan gabus. Iklim tropis dengan suhu yang hangat sepanjang tahun serta banyaknya sumber air tawar seperti sungai, danau, dan rawa membuat Indonesia menjadi tempat yang ideal untuk budidaya ikan gabus.

Teknik Budidaya yang Berkembang: Teknik budidaya ikan gabus terus berkembang di Indonesia. Petani ikan gabus menggunakan berbagai metode seperti budidaya dalam kolam terpal, kolam tanah, atau bahkan sistem akuaponik yang menggabungkan budidaya ikan dengan tanaman air. Penggunaan teknologi modern seperti aerasi, pemberian pakan berkualitas, dan pengendalian kualitas air juga semakin umum digunakan untuk meningkatkan produktivitas budidaya.

Permintaan Pasar yang Tinggi: Permintaan pasar akan daging ikan gabus terus meningkat di Indonesia. Daging ikan gabus yang memiliki tekstur yang lembut dan rasanya yang enak membuatnya menjadi favorit di pasar lokal. Selain itu, permintaan dari pasar internasional juga semakin meningkat, terutama dari negara-negara Asia Tenggara dan Timur.

Pentingnya Manajemen Budidaya yang Baik: Meskipun budidaya ikan gabus memiliki potensi yang besar, namun manajemen budidaya yang baik sangatlah penting untuk mencapai keberhasilan yang optimal. Hal ini termasuk pemilihan bibit yang berkualitas, pengelolaan pakan yang tepat, pengendalian penyakit dan hama, serta manajemen keberlanjutan lingkungan.

Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Lokal: Budidaya ikan gabus juga dapat menjadi sumber penghidupan yang penting bagi masyarakat lokal, terutama di daerah pedesaan. Melalui pelatihan dan pendampingan, petani ikan gabus dapat meningkatkan keterampilan mereka dalam budidaya ikan dan meningkatkan pendapatan mereka.

Dengan potensi pasar yang besar dan kondisi lingkungan yang mendukung, budidaya ikan gabus memiliki prospek yang cerah di Indonesia. Dengan pengelolaan yang baik dan pendekatan yang berkelanjutan, budidaya ikan gabus dapat memberikan manfaat ekonomi yang signifikan bagi petani lokal serta kontribusi yang positif terhadap ketahanan pangan negara.

#ikan gabus #channa #ikan channa #ikan toman

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tobeavirginian · 3 months

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Sprouted Kala Channa Kurma

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Sprouted Kala Channa Kurma

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Channa Dal And Snake Gourd Curry

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Channa Fry

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freaks-and-facades-ravenloft · 11 months

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Freaks & Facades: Session Two - The Ravens Loft Inn

Welcome all those who have crawled out of the Mists tonight! This is the recap of Session Two of Freaks & Facades, all about our players coming together under the roof of the mysterious Ravens Loft Inn!

Our five strangers each escaped their little brush with horror, and all are now being catered to by the mysterious Innkeepers--the Matron, the Maiden, the Raven and lastly the Madame. Where this mysterious inn lies is unknown. Why these five have been brought here by their misadventures, also unknown. But the winds outside the Ravens Loft Inn are howling, a gathering of energies watching our beloved Freaks. Let us see what happens as the Freaks begin to mingle!

Warning: this is a horror campaign setting, so bear that in mind before reading. Possible triggers include: blood and gore, moving shadows/darkness, malevolent dead and dark spirits, bones/bone manipulation, etc.

Now, pull up a chair, fill up your plate and let us feast upon the story starting with our beloved Freaks! It’s quite a long one, so be prepared!

*starts projector*

We find the five strangers, our beloved Freaks, pulled in to the mysterious Ravens Loft Inn through unusual circumstances. Pryrrish searching. Schrödinger fleeing. Fenri panicking. Channa sacrificing. Solange pursuing.

The Matron and the Maiden welcome the five strangers. All who find there way to this mysterious inn are to be given food, drink and board for one night. And according to their rules, each guest must have their tarokka read by the mysterious Madame Xenia--the withered unblinking crone by the fireplace. Their reading will determine which room and floor each guest shall stay in. Apparently they don’t have guests often... When asked where the inn is physically located, the Matron and Maiden are quite vague.

The strangers mingle. Here’s a brief overview of the Freaks intermingling:

Schrödinger is enthralled by the sight of Pryrrish! He has never seen an elf before! What’s her bone structure like?

Pryrrish and Channa recognize they’re both from Eberron. They even speak Mordentish (Common) with the same idioms and cultural references.

Solange tries to help clean up the dust from her coming through the ceiling, the Matron refutes all help. So Solange goes to the bar. Solange’s hatpin of disguise falters a bit and some of the others recognize her inhuman nature. But they’re fine with her being a caliban? Huh.

Fenri heals Channa’s ritual wound, but her connection to Pelor feels off... Distant...

Channa tries to figure out how they all got there, the Matron and Maiden are vague about the inn’s exact location. There’s obviously some planar travel going on.

Fenri and Schrödinger chat--healing magic is an unknown science to him, and halflings are also quite rare in Lamordia! At first he thought Fenri was a child in armor. He asks to examine her bones but she refuses. Her sunny smile starts to slip a bit.

Channa joins Solange at the bar, each receiving a unique local beverage to their homelands. Solange and Channa have an understanding about the their mutual want of understanding.

The others pile up food on their plates, with Fenri being ecstatic to feast. Every table has delicacies from different worlds and domains...

The strangers at the Inn are making a good first impression, despite their strange circumstances and secrets.

After drinks and plates have been served out, the Matron requests each step before the mysterious Madame Xenia. The Madame is the true hostess of the Ravens Loft Inn. Apparently accommodations are given out depending on what the Madame draws from her deck. Schrodinger and Solange recognize the women of the Inn appear to be Vistani, their tasque unknown.

The deck of cards before the withered crone appears to be a special tarokka deck. The deck of archetypes and symbols used by the Vistani to divine the future for others... Though this deck appears unique--with a golden skull staring facelessly on the card backs.

The Matron has the group line up before the old woman, and helps the Madame from beneath her heavy covers. The Madame, exerting great will just to lift her one free hand, telekinetically lifts a card for each of the travelers. Upon each card’s face being revealed, the Raven then shouts out its meaning. Lastly, as the Matron shuffles the deck between patrons, the Maiden at the bar gives out a specific room key for each patron’s read fate.

First is Solange, who knows of the Vistani but never had a chance to meet one in her childhood. The telekinetically flipped card reveals the Three of Glyphs, the Healer. The reliever of affliction and curses... Her room is on the Fifth Floor, according to the Maiden.

Second, bemused by this peasant divination, Schrödinger stands before the crone. He receives the Five of Stars, the Elementalist. Supposedly it signifies a mastery of the physical world. His room is on the Fourth Floor.

Thirdly, the first outlander, Pryrrish, steps up shyly. The card she receives is the Ten of Swords, the Master of Swords--forger of alliances amongst bloodshed and violence! Second Floor room.

Next, nudged out of some pondering by the halfling, Channa moves forward. The card revealed is the Eight of Glyphs, the Hierophant, master of schemes and plots. Fifth Floor room, like Solange’s.

Lastly, and very worried about the old woman’s declining energies, Fenri’s fate is read. Hers is the Seven of Coins, the Thief. A sign that something of value has been lost or stolen... Her room is on the Third Floor.

As soon as the last card is read, the Raven causes a ruckus, demanding the patrons head up to their rooms right away! The Matron shoos the naughty bird away, revealing it is the Madame’s ancient familiar. She sees the concern for the old crone and says not to worry for the Madame--the tarokka has great power for the Vistani, and the body of Raunie Xenia of the Ravens Loft Inn cannot weather it as gracefully as she once did...

Fenri noticed that as the Madame revealed card after card, anticipation built higher and higher. Only to come crashing down at Fenri’s last card. (Does the old woman seek a specific card?)

The visitors start to head upstairs, except for Fenri who decides to have a second trip at the buffet... The Second Floor has ten doors with different numbers of Swords upon them. Each floor above is similar--Third has Coins, Fourth has Stars, Fifth has Glyphs. But above that lie two more floors, which Schrödinger investigates...

Pryrrish enters her Second Floor Swords room. There is an enormous pool of blood staining the wooden floor! But the star elf (who has seen far too much in her journey) merely closes the door behind her, places a chair to block it from opening, and falls asleep on the bed...

Channa enters her Fifth Floor Glyphs room. Uh oh! Everything in the room is covered in a fine bloodspatter stain! Her exhaustion kicks in, and she sits on the bed talking to Iggy her elemental familiar.

Solange waits on the Fifth Floor for Schrödinger to investigate the upper floors.

Schrödinger sees the Sixth Floor has twelve doors, each adorned with a unique symbol or archetype...

The scientist then reaches the Seventh Floor, the top floor. Only two doors here--a Sun and a Beast doors, staring across the room from one another. And a large window on the long wall, overlooking a vista that cannot be: an autumnal field outside of a pastoral village, sheep grazing among several of their own lying dead...

He goes down a floor, finding the Maiden sweeping. She says his room is on a different floor and politely sweeps him downstairs. Solange did not see the Maiden pass her by to get there... Wasn’t she on the first floor at the bar?

Schrödinger goes to his Fourth Floor room, finding bloodspatter everywhere! He gets excited and starts investigating with his personal stash of mortician’s tools. Whomever left all this blood was given hundreds of small wounds all at once, but where’s the body? He wants to find it!

Solange enters her Fifth Floor room. The sight of fresh bloodspatter concerns her, and she rushes downstairs! She checks up on the others in their rooms. She passes by Schrödinger on his hands and knees excitedly examining the blood. Channa through the door says her room is bloody. Pryrrish doesn’t respond!

Fenri is enjoying her second tuck in at the buffet, while the innkeepers begin to tidy up. The Maiden cleans glasses. The Matron begins to put up the chairs. On the mantle, the Raven tips over its cup, blood dripping down to the floor. And the Madame, in her swaddle of blankets once more, wheezes in her blank, heated exhaustion.

Without warning, Solange runs from the upstairs! All the rooms have blood in them! The innkeepers are shocked, as is Fenri. Solange looks into the Matron’s eyes and believes her when she says she’s never seen bloodshed in the inn since she began working here...

The Matron heads upstairs with Fenri and Solange to see. Pryrrish keeps her door closed, reading her Tome on the bed and starting to nod off. They come to Schrödinger’s open room on the third floor. Schrödinger turns around to their confusion, turning back the room is ordinary and clean of all blood...

Solange takes the Matron to her room on the fourth floor; it’s clean as well. Channa opens her door and turns around, showing the room clean in surprise as well. The Matron worries over her guests. They must have had a rough time of their journey...

They’ll have to worry in the morning about it. They’re all so tired...

Fenri offers to stay the night in Solange’s room regardless.

With the guests upstairs in their rooms (or that of a new friend’s), the Ravens Loft Inn starts to finally close down for the night. The Maiden and Matron start to blow out the lights, one candle at a time. The Madame squirms in her armchair...

The first light is blown out. Unbeknownst to the guests, on the top Seventh Floor with the two rooms and the window to another world, a curtain of pitch black feathers begins to descend from the ceiling--swallowing the floor entirely!

In each room, as the lights below turn down, the patrons in their tired states start to be ensnared by the animated bedsheets. Even Channa’s elemental is bagged up!

Only Fenri and Schrodinger of the unbeknownst party are conscious of this surreptitious, serpentine binding. Both struggling hard against the restraint!

Another light blown out downstairs. The curtain of Dark Feathers swallows the strange rooms on the Sixth Floor!

Using his abilities in boneshaping, Schrödinger extrudes his phalangeal arm bones from his wrist. Instinctually and unnaturally, he twists them into a small dagger that crackles with innate electricity! He struggles to cut out of his bindings!

Fenri breaks free of her bonds in Solange’s room on the Fifth Floor! Pelor’s strength must still be within her!

The Maiden blows out another light. The two active innkeepers are starting to head towards the Matron and Raven at the fireplace.

Fenri is the only witness of the Fifth Floor being swallowed by the Dark Feathers! The room loses all shape in the dark and she tumbles endlessly! Through it all, she evokes a consecration ritual to hopefully protect herself and Solange in the darkness!

Using his abilities in boneshaping, Schrödinger extrudes his phalangeal arm bones and twists them into a rapier that crackles with unnatural electric current! He struggles to cut out of his bindings.

The Matron snuffs a candle. The Curtain descends.

Iggy the earth familiar struggles to waken Channa or escape the bedsheets that bagged it up! The Fourth Floor and its occupants is swallowed by the Dark Feathers.

Desperately, Schrödinger cuts through the sheets and leaps out of his Third Floor Room! Just as the curtain of feathery darkness starts to seep in through the ceiling! He runs downstairs!

The Maiden finishes cleaning the bar’s cups and takes a candle to the fireplace. Shadows have grown in the tavern room with every light gone. She smiles at the roaring fireplace, her lips suddenly pale and cracking like a salt flat.

The Dark Feathers swallow the Third Floor! Pryrrish is swallowed by the darkness, meditating and bound, unaware in her trance. The Tome in her lap squirms like a leathery reptile, as if sensing a change in air temperature.

Schrödinger dashes through, fleeing from the irrational, terrifying phenomenon! His bone dagger stretches and twists into a full rapier from his wrists! He may have to puncture his way out of this!

The Matron struts towards the fireplace. She puts down her broom and blows out a table candle. She grasps the back of the Madame’s armchair, which shivers from its occupant... Her voice whispers in the old woman’s ear, all bereft of its husky joviality.

Schrödinger leaps down the stairwell, leaving the Second Floor to be consumed! Fenri’s unused room vanishes into the feathery shadow!

The tavern First Floor is all shadows, stretching from the flickering light of the roaring fire. The Raven watches the nightly event with its fathomless red eyes...

Interrupting the final moments, Schrödinger leaps and lands down at the bottom of the stairs. He calls for aid, only to find horror before him!

The Maiden and Matron are not as they once appeared. They are spectral, withered, malevolent! Lifeless, soulless husks with black and yellow glowing eyes! Their fingers ending in mere wisps of smoke, like their lower halves of their fleshly bodies have become!

The Raven flaps its wings and caws out for him to flee for his life! This all would have been done with so much the quicker if he’d simply stayed in bed!

Utterly alone and frightened before the spectral innkeepers, Schrödinger chooses to instead rush back up the stairs. Straight into the descending Dark Feather curtain!

The wraith Matron takes the old Madame’s pathetically weak hand in her dead one. She calls back to the fleeing Schrödinger, hoping he enjoyed his stay... The Madame’s pitiful weeping was never heard by any of the latest patrons of her prison...

The Maiden, gleefully horrible with her cracking smile, leans forward and blows out the fireplace. In a single, chilling breath. And the curtain descends.

The Ravens Loft Inn and all those within. Swallowed. Shrouded in soft, impenetrable darkness!

The Freaks, both conscious and not, fall through the darkness. All solid ground vanished, nothing but a memory as they spin and tumble in unconscious nightmare and conscious fear! Even Fenri’s radiant consecrating light does not penetrate this darkness!

Darkness....

Endless....

Fathomless.

Forevermore...

When suddenly, the Darkness itself retracts. Only Schrödinger and Fenri conscious to see the horror that pulls in its limitless dark wings and raise its horrible head!

They will wish they hadn’t bore witness to such a thing... In time...

A Dark Raven, greater in size than a single horizon could contain, extends its wings and opens its red eyes. From its titanic throat comes out a silent but bonerattling call!

The dreamers feel this horrific sound in their dreams, each swallowed by darkness and feelings of helplessness!

The Freaks are pulled into this red maw of dark, unending hunger! Down the throat of this thing greater and older than any god or demon! And all goes dark! Minds conscious and unconscious shut down upon the great entity’s beak snapping shut upon them!

Freaks & Facades will continue in Session Three - The Misty Morning! Click here to read on!

Thanks for reading! We hope you love our friendly freaks as much as we do!

Parts: Zero/Cast, One P1, One P2, Two, Three, Four [tbd]

- Aboleth Eye, 06/16/2023!

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