Episode 9: Everyone Dies at the Costume Ball

Tonight! Four undercover agents must unmask a traitor in their midst. Can they discover the truth before a greater evil destroys them all? No.

DM, Matriarch, A.A.A., Libra Halo, Dyrrn - John Ciccolini
Bigum Battleaxe (Goliath Barbarian) - David Dastmalchian
Bixby Silver (Human Mage) - Matthew Lillard
Epiphany Spontaneya (Kalashtar Cleric) - Noura Ibrahim
Ivan the Invincible (Mountain Dwarf Paladin) - Steve Agee

The setting is Eberron, the continent of Khorvaire, the city of Sharn. Sharn is the City of Towers and Shar, over the eons, has not been able to grow out, so it has grown up. Thus the “City of Towers”, a huge metropolis of towers where the poor and desolate live mostly at the base of the city, and the rich and the elite live up at the top. The top is where you find yourselves, standing on an airship platform at the top of Platinum Heights (one of the nicest areas in all of Sharn).
You’ve all been hired as an inquisitive team, a team of investigators, by House Lyrandar. This is the house that commands a lot of the airships. They have an annual masquerade gala aboard this massive ship tonight. You’ve been hired to go to this gala and figure out which of the matriarch’s three advisors is the traitor in their midst.
You stand before this great airship that you need to board. The airship has its name printed on the front of it.

Reginald Butterbottom XVII

As you’re approaching, the matriarch’s valet approaches you and says:
“Before you may enter, you must entertain the matriarch. She wants to make sure all her guests are entertaining before they may board.”
As you look at this looming ship, you see at the front of it the matriarch herself with her high hair and her long nose peering down at you.
You step before the matriarch and you are told that you must act out a scene from the famous play Theater of Pain.
Once you enter the airship, before you is a scene of decadence. This is where the elite have come to meet and party. Everybody is in a masquerade costume.
As you look around and mingle you feel the ship take off and you can tell now that you are up in the air over the city of Sharn.
You see a gnome. You know from your dossier, that this Gnome is Alistair Alinga Apastifah. The next name in your dossier is another Kalashtar named Libra Halo, and she is standing on a raised platform next to the matriarch.
Standing in the corner away from everybody, with his back to everyone, you see Tok the Warforged.

04:17 “So, this is pre Sk8-Tv.” (Matthew Lillard used to host a Nickelodeon skateboarding show called Sk8Tv)