Eighteenth Session – We investigate the Black Manse and our new personas.
There are a lot of tapestries in here, which causes Hemp to cry out “Behind the arras! A rat, a rat!” way too many times for the rest of the party members. Some contain clues as to what’s going on, some “a chick thwarted Mammon and it went as well as you’d expect” kind of thing.
We have a lively fight with three undead women whose heads fly around and try to attach themselves to party members’ spines. Like most aunties they are tougher than they look and we come out of it with some pretty good wounds to show for our trouble.
We then find a super trapped sarcophagus that clearly holds Mammon’s would-be bride, “a corpse wrapped in linen and sealed with eleven lead bands, each stamped with a separate holy symbol. The body lies upon a bed of salt.” We figure we should totally interact with it. Before you know it spectral revelers and wedding parties are in full swing in the manor.
Creepy ghosts and skeletons and supernatural shit ensues. Luckily glowering at it using our golden Leddy family masks and/or smartly messing with little occult puzzles makes it mostly nonviolent going. Hemp even gets a hand of glory out of the deal.
Well, finally we get to Mammon and a wedding. He doesn’t want to marry the corpse (pickier than most demons I know) so Hemp is impressed into service and is told he has to put on the wedding ring. It has all kinds of tasty powers.
Well, that’s a tempting dilemma. But Hemp the Weaver is not ready to become a devil’s booty buddy so he tricks Mammon with the classic “fake hand trick” by sticking the hand of glory out of his sleeve. When the ring goes on and he lets it drop, all hell breaks loose and we barely escape demonic bridesmaids (you know, like Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy) as the whole house gets dragged to Hell.
The characters flee right ahead of the fireball, Michael Bay style.
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In the background, the Black Manse collapses into a pile of foully burned ash.
Hemp slaps Gallfred on the back, “Nice place you got there!”
Actually it was “Nice place you got here, lots of space!” because I always look for any opportunity to use a quote from the Joker, and had indeed used it at least twice while we were rummaging through the place to get Gallfred’s goat.
Some research indicates this was DCC82 “Bride of the Black Manse!” (Paul never tells us, now only as I’m posting these am I Googling likely terms like “DCC Black Manse” to figure out what we played through).
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