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2023-02-18

Finding themselves facing the Rainbow Worm, which turned out to be more like the Rainbow Collection of Colored Discs, most of the PCs snuck under it. Awnzo, however, needed to find out more about it for science (and perhaps commerce), so he threw a coin near it, but unfortunately threw the coin so near it that it actually hit an orange disc which transformed into an orange ray that struck Awnzo.

The saving throw was as unkind as his regular throw, right past unconsciousness and into death he went. Fortunately, Awnzo is able to work a hustle even in the realm of death. He made a deal with the Black Squirrel, which allowed him to return to the plane of the living, but permanently in Wraithform, where he began to learn how to cope with incorporeality.

Fortunately, the Worst Party corporeal body count was maintained by the addition of underground itinerant Omom. He joined and participated in party traditions like pushing over large objects, putting random objects in various places to see if good or bad things will happen, and investigative biting. Also, Eunice misgendered him, but he didn't really care about much else other than food, so I guess it worked out OK.

Mostly things didn't happen! Until they did.

Some, but not all of the PCs, found themselves by a large boulder which had a skeletal arm protruding from it. Oika put a bone in the hand, and crude laughter ensued.

Nettie considered using her zither to displace the boulder but then declined to do so. She also thought about using her Wind Fan to clear out a cloud of poison gas, but declined to do that, probably because she learned from her years on the road that sometimes it's about the notes you *don't* play.

Meanwhile, after getting on Beffa's shoulders to touch a sunken relief of a hand in a ceiling, Omom found himself in the Elemental Plane of Water. It was quite full of water! But there was also a bunch of fish and in the distance, a fading hand-shaped exit back to the regular plane.

Omom, despite hating water, kept it together and grabbed onto a manta ray, and rode it toward the exit. He wasn't able to swim the rest of the way there, and he was running out of breath. And so, the Worst Rescue Team went into action.

Beffa tried chain whipping through the ceiling entryway into the plane of water, but that didn't work. Then, ghostly Awnzo went in and cast Rope Trick to create a pocket dimension in which Omom entered to breath the air therein.

As for the problem of the fading connection between the regular world and the plane of water, they also solved this with rope. Oika went in with rope, a Ring of Water-Breathing, and the ability to swim and pulled everyone out. The hand-shaped connection to the plane of Water closed with everyone on the correct side.

And then came the orbs. A collection of translucent orbs floated to the part of the party that wasn't split off Detecting Magic and wearing underwater breathing helmets. It stated that it was here to recover Dr. Frackenstein, a female gnome. The PCs found out it was willing to accept multiple answers for the question “Who is Dr. Frackenstein, the female gnome?”

So, Awnzo illusioned Oika into a halfling, and Nettie took out a Hat of Disguise and disguised herself as Eunice. Beffa gave some Gnomejago books with pictures of female gnomes in them. Satisfied that it had found all of the Dr. Frackensteins in the room, the collection orbs floated away.

But the danger wasn't over! Eunice noticed that Nettie had her Hat of Disguise and stabbed at Nettie. She couldn't be held back! But she couldn't land the dagger, either. Once Nettie felt she was safe enough from the orbs, she gave the hat back.

Also at some point Awnzo cast Wraithform while he was Wraithformed. And this took him to the Ethereal Plane, where he floated to a castle on an island and made a deal with a wizard named Wourcas. He got a mechanical grabbing claw that A) Awnzo could manipulate in his wraithly form and B) could affect things in the material plane (the regular physical world). In exchange, Awnzo agreed to deliver four (4) neutral souls (bargained down from two good souls).

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