The Mage lady got a message in her head from Avarice wanting to meet. Sammy got a message, too, asking him to help kill the Mage lady, but I tell him not to because Avarice is bad and a coward. Doc and I will go with her, and the rest will hold back unless we need them.

But first, they want to go deal with the Hags. That means they want to kill them, which is still a dumb idea, so Doc, the Mage lady, and I go off to explore a big building. Turns out to be a prison. It’s pretty empty, till we find a medical room. It has an invisible person strapped to a table. We unstrap him, but he doesn’t move. Mage lady says it’s powerful staying magic. We find a book that says it’s a doppleganger who murdered somebody. We wrap him up and put him in my bag, maybe the Queen can sort him out. I also find a couple potions, and the Mage lady says they’ll change our skin color, so Doc and I drink them. But it doesn’t really work on me. Doc’s now yellow!

As we head out, Sammy whispers that Doc and I need to come talk to the hags about a scroll they want and not to tell Saalym what the scroll is. WHAT?? They Talked to Them? Without US?!?! UGH! We don’t have time, though, it’s time to go see the coward lady.

Avarice shows up with a couple gargoyles to chat with Mage lady. She’s really mean and wants us all to leave or she’ll kill us. Mage lady says no and threatens her right back. So Avarice leaves, like always. Doc and I follow her, to catch her, but we hit her a little too hard and she turns into a pile of snow. The gargoyles fly away after that. We catch up with everyone and try to figure out where she went.

Eggy sees movement over across the city, so we go there, But it’s just bad men, goats, and more gargoyles. We have to fight them though, cuz they won’t leave us alone. They don’t have much on them, but we get another floating light and bodies to burn for the key into the tower.

Doc and I go back to the hags to make a deal. They want a summoning scroll and we all promise no hostilities after it is delivered. They say to do the ritual by one of the bridges, like the one by the prison we were at earlier, or by the big crystal. And they give us the last part of the ritual, too. We have to light a fire in our hands.

We’re still missing the final word, so we head to the eyeball tower. Saalym asks the orb of eyes what the last word is and finds out it’s poison we have to consume. So, then we go to the greenhouse and Eggy makes up some mild poison for everyone. Then back to the prison gate to try it all out.

Leshy does all the things. Put the wand in front of her heart, lights her hand on fire, tells us a secret, gets Eggy to tell us a secret, and then puts his hand out. Makes a circle of the dead guys’ ashes, looks up to the ceiling, and then drinks the poison. But nothing happens.

Sammy says there’s something wrong with the “show your face to the sky” part. We talk about how to get the sky down here, or send a copy up to the sky with the floaty room place. Then we remember the laughter at the tower with the mist. It must have been a wrong clue. So, we go back there. It’s really hard, we can’t see anything to do! Sammy flies up to the ceiling and says the words feel different. Leshy finally makes the magic go away, so Mage lady can see what it says. We have to hide our face behind a mask not look at the sky.

Back we go to the tower and everybody does the ritual and gets through the forcefield, sharing lots of secrets. It’s really fun! Even if some of the secrets are really sad. We’ve gotta go get Sammy’s family out of Hell and bring all three of them to the Feywild. I think he’d like it there.