September 07, 2025

Hook

Night at the Museaum? I [Dirge from the Depths Intro] (Ailwen, Geleia, Jearn)

Plot Synopsis

The party shows up to the hirer’s house after. Ingrid, the curator of the museum, is greeting them one by one, as they arrive (or the one that is earlier). The interview process is ongoing in her house. Ingrid offered tea, and raw meat on demand for Morta. A majority of the party succeeds in the check to tell that she’s worried about thieves. Tom Brady shows up, throws a football at two people, which Jacklyn fails to catch. Enraged, she attacks Tom, who takes 5 fall damage from Jacklyn (tearing his ACL in the process), then Thomas stabs him through the chest. Morta then proceeds to make him a zombie, Zombrady. (See PvZ football player.) Amir kicks down the closed door, sending Tanri into the ground. After negotiating their payment, (50 gp before and after the job,) the party makes their way over to the museum.
Once they arrive, Ingrid tells them to wait outside while she goes in and readies the museum for the party. Tanri flies up during this to spy on her through the window, seeing her light candles and go into a back room for a few minutes before emerging and locking it. During this, Amir and Eriling head out into the woods in search of Rob Gronkowski to start Amir’s undead army. On the way over, they find a rock (googly eyes attached) that is able to speak immortuli. After they make their way back, Ingrid shows them around the exhibits before heading out to head to bed. A few hours into their watch, they hear a knock on the door from Ben, a nightguard for a store down the street. He helps the party break into the gift shop and its back room, where they discover extra stock for the gift shop, some appraisal tools, a chest of gold to pay for the artifacts on loan, and a false bottom on a crate hiding a note. Amir sneaks away from the rest of the party and reads the note, which details that the party has been tricked into protecting the sword from “bandits,” but the real plan is set to start at sunrise.
As party is arguing about who should get the gold or whether they should steal it, the whole museum is covered in a thin haze of ash, as four bandits sneak their way in through a window and engage in combat with party. The bandits attempt to make it off with the sword, but are stopped by the party (who manage to roll 4 natural crits in 2 rounds of combat.) The bandits mostly get their asses handed to them and surrender. Right as their leader, a fire mage by the name of Elturel Blumenoft, is making a final stand, he reels back a bolt of fiery energy, accidentally letting go prematurely in a state of immense pain. The fire hits a tarp covering a large statue in the back of the room, revealing a large marble T-rex, that exposed to the light, begins to twitch.

Reward summary: 5,200 EXP (for really good rp/a long session,) and 50 gp from their hirer.

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