Episode 11: Everyone Dies Getting Their Wish

Tonight, wishes do come true, but not always in the way we expect. Will our adventurers realize their hearts’ desires?
No.

I believe it was the great poet, Walt Whitman, who said,
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”

DM - Justice Ramin Arman
A.K. Rowdy (Human Druid) - River Butcher
Bard (Gnome Barbarian) - Khary Payton
Dr. Gene “Gene 17” Splicer (Harengon Artificer) - Gabriel Hicks
Nachasha (Yuan-Ti Monk) - Elisa Teague
The Portal - Matthew Lillard

A host of strange phenomena have begun plaguing a city in Calimshan (which is located in west Faerun). Citizens’ wildest dreams have become true overnight. Paupers turned to princes gaining fortunes in an instant. Unlikely pairs falling head over heels in love. Elderly locals made young again and children walking around with unimaginable beasts as their pets. You all have been summoned to the court of Bacrom (a dignitary in Calimshan) to address this threat.
You arrive in a palatial court that is aptly named as a congress of birds. You pass hawk-like guards, their beaks as pointed as daggers. It has vaulted ceilings supported by mosaiced columns. Seated on a throne amid them is a blue-feathered aarakocra (a bird folk that looks somewhat like a peacock). His plumage is draped over his own shoulders, creating a royal coat, and his eyelashes are beautiful and outlined with green feathers themselves. A female warrior with russet brown skin, bronze armor, and a tall spear, as well as a scar over her left eye, stands beside him. On the other side stands a genasi, a mage with white hair that seems to blow in the wind at every moment.
When you arrive, the warrior stamps their spear, prompting you to introduce yourself.
The dignitary looks over each of you and says,
“Ah, this will be a great group of adventurers to take care of this threat.
Have they told you what’s going on?
Bring in the baby!” says this peacock and claps his hands and in marches a palanquin carrying a small baby bird. You just see the top of it coming out of the palanquin.
“That was my uncle yesterday. He was 103 years old. Does this seem acceptable to you? We just tucked him in last night. Things are getting out of control. I believe there’s an evil mage to blame, a saucy sorceror that lurks in these lands named Bill the Bold. Our economy runs rampantly uncontrolled. I have reason to believe there are certain legends in these lands of powerful genies that have the power to grant wishes in an instant. I believe that this mage has bound one of these creatures and I need you to rescue it, to take out this mage, and to stop these phenomena from plaguing our land. Free this noble genie. Would you do this thing for me?”

Highlights

• 10:28 The Cauldron of Wishes
• 36:00 Flashdance
• 37:45 “Yuan-Ti Sha-sha”