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Content Warning: blood, burn victims, cutting, gore, goats, self-harm, teeth
This is a gruesome adventure which some players may find problematic. Please
consider your players’ preferences and triggers before running this adventure.

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Cover Art: Omercan Cirit @OmercanCirit https://www.artstation.com/sleepingrobot
Editor: Brent Sweany @brentsweany
Internal Art:
Luiz Prado @LuizPradoArt
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Playtesting: Curt Burgess, Jason Pole, Asher Pole, Ralph Stone
The Hopeless Nerds: Gaz Jones (DM), Jakub Šťastný, Jesper Jonsson, Natasha Neal,
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Annie Robinson, and Ashley Dean
Test Readers: Yagami Chris, Tay Michaels
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 Introduction
Welcome to Annalyse’s Revenge, a four to six-hour
adventure for 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons.
This adventure is designed for four to five 4th
through 8th level characters and is optimized for five
characters with an average party level (APL) of 6.
About the Writing
Average Party Level
The Average Party Level (APL) can be used to
calculate the appropriate challenge level for your
party. To calculate the APL, add the total levels of
all characters and divide the sum by the number of
characters (rounding up for .5 or greater).
Skill Checks and Saving Throws

Remley Farr and I have worked on several projects
together, many of which we split the writing, or I
add to his contribution. I want to mention that I
did little writing for this adventure. What Remley
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Specific DCs are written for each of the encounters.
You may wish to change these DCs based on the
APL of the adventuring party. We suggest the below
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turned in was excellent and I did not find I needed APL Check / Save DC
to add much to the story or his details.
1 thru 3rd
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Placing the Adventure 4th thru 6th 13
7th thru 9th 16
As with The Madhouse of Tasha’s Kiss and Happy
10th thru 12th 19
Jack’s Funhouse, we’ve written this adventure using
generic locations, allowing you to easily insert An- 13th thru 15th 22
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also be used in Curse of Strahd by using a generic
location, or a specific location you choose.

Using this Supplement

In addition, if you feel a skill check or saving throw
DC is too low or too high, feel free to adjust the DC
as you wish.

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Locations in this adventure may be changed as
needed to fit your campaign. Unless otherwise noted, for all maps:
1 square = 5 feet.
Text in these yellow boxes is to be read to players.
You Are the Dungeon Master
Text in gray boxes is for the DM only and should As mentioned above, you do not have to run this
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not be read to players. adventure as written. You are empowered to make

Most of the creatures in this adventure are found in
the 5th Edition Monster Manual. Page numbers have
been included for easy reference but depending on
the printing edition of your Monster Manual, they
may not match.
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changes as you wish – adjusting the encounters
as the game is played, if you like. If you think the
adventure is too big, cut out a room or two. If the
threats are too easy, give them additional hit points
or an extra attack.

In addition, several new creatures have been cre-

ated for this supplement. They are noted in BOLD
with no Monster Manual reference. You can find
these creature stat blocks at the end of the adven-
ture in Appendix: Monsters.

Unless otherwise noted, all NPCs have the stats of a

commoner.

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Adventure Primer
I am Wrath. I had neither father nor mother. I leapt
out of a lion’s mouth when I was scarce an hour
old and ever since have run up and down the world
with this case of rapiers, wounding myself when I
could get none to fight withal. I was born in hell;
and look to it, for some of you shall be my father.
—Christopher Marlowe
Adventure Background
She was abandoned—once by her mother, who left
her for a burial plot, and again by her father, who
couldn’t bear to see his wife’s eyes staring back
from his daughter’s gaze. A third time by her lover,
a magician misdirected by a tooth-grinned interlop-
er. And finally, by herself.
Annalyse Penn ended up on an orphanage door-
step at age four. Her mother’s death and her
father’s inability to accept such a death had already
rattled Annalyse’s psyche into a finale of parental
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neglect and trauma. Her ticks manifested with age:
raging outbursts, sociopathic moods, and other
negative aspects that smudged her pedigree for
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At age fifteen, Annalyse was adopted by rooftops,
chimneystacks, and crows—her teenage play-
ground. No longer begging for a family, she gave
herself to the urban sprawl. Urchins and beggars
clogged the streets but the upper levels were hers
to soar. She helped herself to the richer caste’s
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open windows and fourth-floor bedrooms—preying
on the false sense of security that came with living
above the groundling masses.
After two years of pinching roof-level jewelry boxes,
Annalyse found her heart pinched by a street-per-
former, von Zarovich the Magnificent: a grease-
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paint-masked clown conjuring forgotten arcane
arts. Along with his entourage was a crone of a
fortuneteller and a dancing monkey. “I want you
with us,” he said, pulling Annalyse close. “Or, well…
don’t tell the old bat with the monkey, but I want
you with me.”
“I think I’d like that, von Zarovich.” she said.
The clown smiled and said, “Call me Jack, my darling!”
But a distracted mage leads to an unfocused
routine. The crone, Reaver, couldn’t have von
Zarovich’s performances waning with the distrac-
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tions of a newfound love—no matter how large a
crowd the girl’s acrobatics and dancing skills could
pull in. Jack was supposed to be the star! So, the
crone sent Annalyse away to a theatrical school to
practice her circus skills, but the school was a ruse.
The crone had sent Annalyse to a hellish madhouse,
ruled by Tasha’s Kiss: a nightmarish harlequin prima
donna who kept an abyssal collection of horrors. Af-
ter having her very soul winnowed away by Tasha’s
Kiss’ minions, Annalyse fled with four demons—
the Quartet—who used her body as a conduit
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to escape Tasha’s Kiss and expand their demonic
debauchery within the Material plane.
Annalyse later learned that Jack, her lover, had
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been slain by a band of adventurers. In an instant,
the Quartet took advantage of her grief, leaving her
with only malcontent for the world—and a seed
of wrath to lay low the foes that took her precious
Jack away.
The Plot
For decades, the Lavolion Opera House has sold out
countless performances, from ballets as enchanting
as The Naid’s Dream to silver-piece comic schticks
like Blacker Pudding. But, for the last month, nobody
has been allowed entrance to the building. The last
time the theater let people in to see a show not a
single patron, employee, or performer returned.
This tragedy was the work of the Quartet, who
guided Annalyse to the Lavolion as a venue to stage
her revenge. She joined the theater as a dancer,
then slowly let the Quartet demons manipulate the
place, eventually twisting the world into creating a
dark reflection of the Lavolion that lurked in a paral-
lel Abyssal plane beneath the theater. When Annal-
yse and their demented planar theater were ready,
the Quartet advertised a show: Revenge, a Tragedy
in Two Acts, by Annalyse Penn. People came to see
the show, then never returned home.
With hundreds of people missing, the local militia
has quarantined the Lavolion for fear that whatever
danger claimed the patrons still resides in the build-
ing. An investigation team of eight people was sent
in the day after the incident, but the team hasn’t
returned. Fear has gripped the locals, and the con-
stable has posted a notice seeking adventurers to
explore the Lavolion and unearth the truth.
So what has happened?
The Quartet tore a hole in the Material Plane, cre-
ating an exact copy of the Lavolion. The duplicate
 Lavolion emerged during the most recent show
at the opera house, and the Quartet trapped the
patrons in this nightmare playground world based
on Annalyse’s grief. Annalyse is trapped as well, the
Quartet having used her to the point where they
consider her a discarded, broken toy.
The Hook
Whether the adventurers killed Jack in a previous
adventure (Happy Jack’s Funhouse) or not, Annal-
yse would consider them guilty by association—she
hates adventurers, and the Quartet stoked that
hatred to create a dungeon beneath the Lavolion
filled with heinous situations to string the adventur-
ers through a variety of nightmares.
Place the Lavolion in any town you see fit. The con-
stable is offering 250 gp to each party member, as
well as allowing them to keep any loot or treasure
they may find in the Lavolion. With so many people
missing or dead, he doesn’t care what happens to
the Lavolion—it’s not important; people’s lives are!
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• “Lucas Pavolli, the manager of the Lavolion,
is a bit of a jerk but knows a lot about the
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• “I’d say at least two hundred patrons and
twenty performers are in there… plus the
eight we sent in to scout the place out.”
• “This isn’t normal. Something’s happening
in there… something that chills my bones.”
• “There’s more than one entrance besides
the lobby. Hell, windows as well. Tear any
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of them down, break whatever you want. I
don’t care—we need to rescue the people.”
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Location and NPC Summary
The following NPCs and locations feature promi-
nently in this adventure:
Annalyse Penn: Having learned of Jack’s de-
mise, Annalyse plots revenge against those who
destroyed her beloved Jack, but the tables have
turned and Annalyse is now under the influence
of four powerful demons, the Quartet.
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Lucas Pavoli: Plump, baldheaded male human.
Owner of the Lavolion Opera House.
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The Quartet: Four demons: Soprano, Alto, Tenor,
and Bass.
Soprano: An obese demon in the form of a male
castrato singer wearing food-stained, aristocratic
clothes. Demanding, needy, disgusting--craves
entertainment.
Alto: A naked, red-skinned male demon with
horns. Quickly grows bored with his “playthings”
and torments people at his leisure.
Tenor: A multi-torso female demon with several
arms. Snake-like and destructive. Splits into au-
tonomous “segments” when attacked.
Bass: A female demon in the shape of a giant,
floating goat’s eye. Omnisciently able to create
demonic hellscapes. Possesses victims. Seeks
escape from the Abyss.
Adventure Overview
The adventure is broken down into two parts:
Part 1. The Lavolion Opera House (Material
Plane)—60 to 120 minutes. The characters ap-
proach and enter the Lavolion Opera House, finding
it empty and
Part 2. The Lavolion Opera House (Abyssal
Plane)—60 to 120 minutes. The adventures have
entered the Abyssal version of the Lavolion Opera
House where they encounter more of the demons
and have the chance to save Annalyse.
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 Lavolion Opera House
The now abandoned Lavolion, at least the parts of
it which still reside in the material plane, doesn’t
yield its secrets easily. Characters must explore
and investigate to discover the fate of the missing
patrons and Annalyse. The dark work of the Quar-
tet, the demons tormenting Annalyse, can be felt
through the presence of demonic, abyssal magic.
The characters may come upon evidence of such
magic in storage rooms filled with blood or perhaps
even the physical presence of one of the demons
of The Quartet, who arrived by using the Abyssal
portal in the trapdoor on the stage in Area 16:
Performance Hall or in the privy in Area 8: Star’s
Dressing Room.
General Layout
Description: An expensive, wooden performance
hall with a lobby, various dressing and stage
rooms, and a performance stage with rows of
seats. Ornate and decorative with massive glass
windows surrounding the lobby.
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Doors: All doors are made of wood unless stated
otherwise. There are large 30 ft. wide and 30 ft.
tall overhead sliding doors near the scene shop,
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which can be opened easily by grabbing and lift-
ing. They each have a cord to pull down on when
they need to be lowered.
Light: No torches or candles are burning. Aside
from sunlight spilling in from windows, The Lavo-
lion is dark inside unless otherwise noted.
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Walls: Thick wood. Exterior walls are at least
6-inches thick and painted bright pink with coal-
black trim. Interior walls are two inches thick and
covered in faded red and pink striped wallpaper.
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Alto: The Lavolion is two-stories tall, but it
doesn’t have two floors. The ceilings are quite
high, 20 feet tall in most areas, but 40 feet tall
in the Performance Hall (area 16) to account for
stage rigging.
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Part 1. The Lavolion Opera
House (Material Plane)
As the characters approach the theater, read or
summarize:
A two-story opera house looms over the hill, its
pine walls glistening in dark, heavy wood stain.
The most prominent feature is a glass window
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that wraps around the lobby entrance, a poster
for Revenge: A Tragedy in Two Acts, by Annalyse
Penn plastered against the windows every ten
feet.
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Posters
The posters are an advertisement for the opera,
Revenge: A Tragedy in Two Acts by Annalyse Penn.
The “stars” of the show advertised on each poster
are the names of the current party members.
Large, colorful posters hang from the windows.
Elegant words spell Revenge: A Tragedy in Two
Acts by Annalyse Penn.
Below, the main poster are individual posters
with headshots of each of the stars of the show,
the player characters.
Character Posters
The individual posters are headshots of the adven-
turing party members. If one of these posters is
removed, the image animates and screams in agony
and does not stop screaming until returned to the
window. If a poster is destroyed, the character
whose image is destroyed must succeed on a DC
15 Wisdom saving throw or suffer 7 (2d6) psychic
damage.
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 In addition, each of these entrances is secured with
Area 1: Lobby a glyph of warding (DC 15) which activates when
This large, carpeted area once catered to masses the doors are touched. The glyph releases a modi-
of patrons waiting to enter the theater, but now fied polymorph spell (DC 15), transforming the crea-
it’s abandoned. Posters for upcoming shows are ture who touched it into one of the below creatures
plastered against the large window that wraps for 15 minutes.
around the entrance of The Lavolion. Several signs
in Common script rest above various doorways. Character Creature
Level
4-5 Ape or Black Bear
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• Tasha’s Kiss Stand Up (CANCELLED) 6-8 Ettercap, Gargoyle, or Mummy
• To Be King by The Traveling Halflings
• For One and All: A Rock Opera by Meta-Lika Area 2: Concessions/Box Office
• Greed, I Want to Live Forever by Dem Liches

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A cash register and bundle of tickets sits near
• Tymora is Unlucky by Doubtful the Gnome
a window. A cast iron stove with a giant pot for
• Long Live Strahd: A Personal Reflection
popping corn kernels rests in the corner. A door
about Living in Barovia by Hemplsted the
on the northern side leads to a storage closet.
Mongrelfolk
• Do You Hear the People Scream by The
Miserable Contents. Placed tidily around the room characters
• Puppets & Marionettes a discussion by may find:
Blinsky of Barovia.
• Bundle of Tickets. Each ticket says, “ADMIT
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by Amara the Cultiste
Inheritance Rules and Laws by Hagard Toole
Tiamat Risen – The Story That Almost Was
ONE: REVENGE”
• Cast Iron Stove. The stove can be loaded
with popcorn kernels, then stocked with
wood or lit by magic or other means to
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heat up popcorn and pop it. One pound
DM Note: of kernels can be loaded and popped at a
The upcoming show signs are tied to the human- time, taking 5 minutes to pop if the fire is
oids in Area 17. Keep track of any upcoming show going.
signs that were removed or destroyed. • Cash Register. Searching the register pro-
duces 23 (3d8 + 10) gp.
Signs • Storage. Piled in the storage room are:
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Ornate, well-written signs label the following entry- • 10 sacks holding 1 lb. of popcorn ker-
ways and are easily visible from the lobby: nels each.
• A stack of firewood.
• Concessions/Box Office (Area 2) • A tinderbox.
• Storage (Area 3) • A crate with 250 paper popcorn bags.
• Manager (Area 4) • A box laden with 300 drinking steins.
• Women’s Restroom (Area 5)
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• Men’s Restroom (Area 6)

• Performance Hall (signs are posted on the
double doors for each entrance to Area 16)
• Staff Only (the double doors between
Areas 5 and 6)
Access to the Theater
Each of the doors leading from Area 1: Lobby to
Area 16: Performance Hall is locked with an arcane
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 Area 3: Beverage Storage
The door to this room is locked. It can be picked
with a successful DC 15 Dexterity check using
thieves’ tools or broken with a successful DC 20
Strength (Athletics) check. Inside is a modest sup-
ply of beverages.
Contents. Piled in the Beverage Storage are:
• 10 casks of Lavolion Ale (50 gp each)
• 30 bottles of Lavolion Burgundy wine (10 gp
each)
• 1 bottle of Gandy’s Hangover Cure, which
is a flask of true sight (see appendix: magic
items)
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Area 4: Manager’s Office
This room has a mahogany desk with an ostenta-
tious nameplate reading “LUCAS PAVOLI” sitting
on it. A burning candle on the desk illuminates the
room. Two filing cabinets rest in the corners, and
the dead corpse of a human man sits at the desk.
Desk. Searching the desk reveals a scholar’s pack
worth of supplies. If players notice the perfidy of Lu-
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cas Pavoli by investigating the statements in the filing
cabinets, they may also find a false bottom in a desk
drawer with 200 gp and a ledger showing a balance
of 500 gp with a note Stored in Treasure Chest.
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Treasure Chest
The treasure chest was transformed into a cat.
See Part 2: Treasure Chest
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 Filing Cabinets. Searching the filing cabinets reveals
the income and payment receipts of the opera
house. Spending 10 minutes going over the finances
shows the Lavolion pays its stars upward of 50 gp
per performance, and its chorus as low as 5 sp per
performance. The opera house takes in a net gain
of 500 gp per sold out show, though a DC 20 Intel-
ligence (Investigation) check or a character with
the Keen Mind or Observant feat notices that Lucas
Pavoli has been skimming off the top of the profits
for years There is also an acting resume for Annalyse
Area 5: Male Privies (Patrons)
Several privies are lined up in the common area of
this foul-smelling room. The excrement hasn’t been
emptied in weeks. There isn’t much in this room
aside from buzzing flies.
Area 6: Female Privies (Patrons)
Several privies are separated by stalls in this
foul-smelling room. Similarly, the excrement hasn’t

Penn, complete with a headshot and list of acrobatic
training received from Tasha’s Kiss. Players who see
this now know what Annalyse looks like and may
spot her out in the crowd of people in Area 30 if they
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been emptied in weeks. A character braving the
odor and succeeding on a DC 10 Intelligence (Inves-
tigation) check finds a small, silver snuff box stuck
to the floor inside one of the privies.

spend time searching people’s faces.
Candle. The candle is enchanted with a continual
flame spell.
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Silver Snuff Box. Worth 15 gp. Contains 6 oz. of my-
conid rapport spores (see Appendix: Magic Items)
in the form of a dust, which is an illegal substance.

Corpse. The dead body is Lucas Pavoli, the plump
and baldheaded manager of the Lavolion Opera
House. A quick glance shows that he bled out after
suffering a compound fracture in his leg. A success-
ful DC 10 Wisdom (Insight) check finds a correlation
Area 7: Costume Closet
An unclothed mannequin stands in the center of
this room. The closet also holds many makeup
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between his injury and the popular theater phrase,
“break a leg.” Looting his body shows he has the
following letter in his pocket written in Common
(Player Handout #1), which entails his sacking of
Costumes. If a player asks the Dungeon Master for
an outfit or an article of clothing, there is a 50%
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chance that the article is stashed somewhere with-
Annalyse from the opera house’s chorus line due to
in this closet’s racks, storage drawers, or bins.
the obscene nature of a stage play she wrote:
Disguise Kits. The room has enough makeup, wigs,
Ms. Annalyse Penn,
and costumes to create 30 disguise kits.
The Lavolion Opera House establishes itself as a
Mannequin. If any clothes are placed on the
venue of esteem and regality. Under no circum-
mannequin, the mannequin animates as though an
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stances do we tolerate the distribution of vile

animate objects spell has been cast on it (HP 40, AC
media. Your proposed stage play, Revenge:…, is
13, STR 10, DEX 12, +5 to hit, 8 (2d6 + 1) bludgeon-
preposterously out of touch with our clientele and
ing damage). The mannequin models and poses
production team. Performing such a show would
with the clothes until given a command to stop,
tarnish the Lavolion Opera House’s name.
and assumes a persona native to the clothes it is
After consulting other Lavolion Opera House em- wearing: if it’s wearing a princess’ outfit, it behaves
ployees and performers, I’ve determined that the astute and regal. If it is wearing a pirate outfit, it
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Lavolion Opera House no longer has needs of your sneaks and hobbles around. The mannequin can
service in the dance ensemble. You have until the follow the players around and obeys them accord-
end of the day to vacate your belongings and turn ing to the animate objects spell and makes slam
in any costumes, makeup, or accessories you may attacks with its fists in combat.
have been using. I never want to see another copy
of your Revenge script again.
I will also blacklist the Tasha’s Kiss Performing Com-
pany that you received your “training” from.
Regards,
Lucas Pavoli

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The star performer has their own dressing room.
Door. The door to this room has the name of the
“star” of the show emblazoned on it, which is a
randomly determined player character.
Dressing Room. The dressing room matches
whatever the character’s “closet” would look like.
A skulking rogue would have cloaks, thieves’ tools,
Area 10: Dressing Room (Male)
This room is full of mirrors, chairs, a wastebasket,
and counters arranged along the wall. Scratched
into the mirrors are various jokes and off-color
drawings, though on one of the mirrors is the
phrase, “ANNALYSE BROUGHT A BASSMENT.”
A successful DC 10 Wisdom (Insight) check deter-
mines that the word “bassment” is a play on “bass

or a weapons rack of daggers. A wizard would have
racks of books and maps. Let the player tell you
what their “dressing room” would look like, but
don’t allow items that would be too powerful (if
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(musical)” and “basement.”
Privy. The door to this privy has been smashed
open. The single privy in the back of this room

your wizard character says that their closet back
home has a spellbook of level 9 spells from Grand-
pappy Poof, feel free to draw the line).
Items. Items may be taken from this room. It is
suggested that you limit the number of magical
items—perhaps a potion and an uncommon item.
Privy. The privy contains a black and gray swirling
portal in the floor that connects with the privy in
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Area 23. The portal is a 5-foot diameter tunnel that
travels 40 feet down. It reeks of an otherworldly
stench. There is no gravity within the tunnel, so
characters travel by pushing along the walls.
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Planar Travel
These portals and tunnels are how characters tra-
verse between the Material and Abyssal planes,
moving from one version of the Lavolion Opera
House to another. Horizon Walker Rangers can
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reeks, having not been emptied in some time.
Scrawled into the wall in haggard writing from
a sharp instrument is “HELP THERE ARE OTHERS
THERE IS THE QUARTET ANNALYSE IS EVIL EVIL
EVIL AND SHE TOOK THEM BELOW HELP US OH
SAVE US THEY WILL FIND ME THEY WILL MAKE ME
A PROP LIKE THE OTHERS ANNALYSE PENN IS EVIL
ANNALYSE.” (Player Handout #2)
Area 11: Dressing Room (Female)
This room is full of mirrors, chairs, a wastebasket,
and counters arranged along the wall.
Wastebasket. Hidden in the wastebasket is the
missing script from the performance hall (see Area
16, Scripts subcategory).
Privy. This privy reeks, having not been emptied in
some time.

sense the portals lead to the Abyssal plane.

Area 9: Green Room

This room serves as a place of respite between
scenes when actors don’t need to perform. This
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relaxing room has two couches with a table in

between them stacked with fruit, cakes, pies, and
beverages of all kinds.

Table. The table is enchanted to cast purify food

and drink every 8 hours on whatever food or drink
is lying on it, keeping any food placed on it from
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Area 12: Scene Shop
A cold, hard, stone floor with bare wood walls
represents a carpenter and artist’s shop. Work-
benches, buckets of paint, and stacks of lumber
rest against the walls.
This is where the stagehands of the Lavolion build
and paint sets for the show. Bay doors rest on the
east and western walls, and shards of broken mir-
rors cover the ground.
Workbenches. Searching the workbenches finds the
following artisan’s tools:
• 2 sets of carpenter’s tools
• 1 set of leatherworker’s tools
• 2 sets of woodcarver’s tools (stained with
blood, a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Medi-
cine) or Intelligence (Investigation) check
reveals they were used on people.
Paint Buckets. Searching the paint buckets shows
that the paint is labelled in a variety of colors, but
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the actual paint inside is blood red.
Mirror Shards. Several small shards of mirror reflect
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check reveals that one 12-inch by 8-inch shard of
mirror doesn’t reflect like the others, because it is a
viewing mirror (see Appendix: Magic Items).
Stack of Lumber. About two hundred 2-inch by
4-inch, wooden planks are stacked neatly to the
side. Each are 5 feet long.
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Area 13: Shop Storage 1
A sign on the door leading into this room says
“CARE FOR A REFRESHMENT? REGARDS, ALTO” in
common.
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Opening this door causes the floor of this room to
open into a giant portal that links with the floor of
Area 28, causing the massive pool of blood and sev-
ered heads stored in Area 28 to wash into this room,
then spilling thousands of gallons of blood out the
door. The portal closes in 1 round, when all the blood
has transferred from Area 28 to this one, Area 13.
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Blood Fountain. When the blood and severed
heads spill out, any characters directly in front of
the door or within 5 feet must succeed on a DC
15 Strength saving throw or be swept up in the
blood, taking 13 (3d8) bludgeoning damage as they
are bashed around. The blood spreads across the
whole scene shop, wrecking and staining everything
and spilling into other rooms if doors are left open.
There is enough blood to create a 2-inch deep pool
over the whole opera house floor creating difficult
terrain if not allowed to drain outside (characters
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This storage room has a few planks of wood and
nails scattered around, but it is ultimately empty.
Area 15: Loading Bay
A wooden ramp sits outside the theater, allowing
carts and wagons to back into the scene shop to
unload supplies. The ramp is 5 feet high on the
westernmost end and ground level on the east-
ernmost end. A set of stairs leads up to it on the
southern end.
Area 16: Performance Hall
The performance hall is separated into two main
sections: The House and The Stage:
The House. Has several seats facing the stage, with
two “box seats” to the north and south ends that
have eight seats each. The ceiling is 40 feet high.
The Stage. A bare stage, with a proscenium setup
and a trap door in the center. A stack of scripts lies
at center stage.
Box Seats. Searching under one of the box seats
reveals a pouch containing 3 (1d4 + 1) doses of
rainbow powder (see Appendix: Magic Items).
Soprano. Sitting in the middle of the house, his bulk
covering multiple seats, is a bulbous, demon named
Soprano (Appendix: Monsters). Soprano takes the
form of an obese, castrato singer wearing fancy
clothing. Empty popcorn buckets and sticky, buttery
popcorn pieces cover him.
Scripts. The scripts are various scenes from Annal-
yse’s show that illustrate the trials Annalyse has
dealt with in her life. The players can gain insight
about her through the texts. Five different scenes
are available depending on how many characters
want to act out the scene (not every character may
 want to be on stage). Four of the five scenes are
available, as well as the “TITLE PAGE.” The missing
scene is in the trash can of the Women’s Dressing
Room (randomly determine which one is there).
Characters can also read the scripts to understand
Annalyse’s life. (Appendix: Scripts)
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Trap Door. A 5-foot-square door in the center of the
stage. It holds a portal that connects with the trap
door in Area 30. Opening the hatch reveals a tunnel
that leads 40-feet down. Gravity has no effect in the
tunnel, allowing people to easily navigate through.
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 Soprano’s Tactics
Soprano is getting bored of the Material plane—
he’s had his fun. But the arrival of the characters
means he can watch one last show! After all,
they’re the stars now, right? The moment Sopra-
no sees the characters, he shouts out in his high,
soprano voice “A show! A show! I’m here to see
a show!” He will point to the scripts on the stage
and say, “pick any one… or all of them!”
Performing for Soprano. The characters can grab
the scripts and pick a scene to do (provide them
the handouts from Appendix: Scripts). As they
act out a scene, Soprano heckles them. Players
who use magic, flair, music, or appropriate Perfor-
mance checks can make their scene come off as
more impressive. Once a scene is done, Soprano
either loves it or hates it. If he loves it, he claps
his hands together in applause, throws them a
rose of approval (Appendix: Magic Items), then
vanishes back to the hells while saying “What’s
another thousand years in hell anyway? Tata!
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There’s more entertainment down that trap
door!” If he hates the show, he curses at them.
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characters do in their performance based on their
roleplaying and their skills. Have them make a
group Charisma (Performance) skill check during
parts of their routine, setting a DC of 5 or 10 if
they’re doing well, but a DC of 15 or 20 if they’re
botching things up. Consider each “success” a
point for them, and each “failure” a point for So-
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prano. If Soprano has more points or is tied with
the party after performing a scene, the characters
may have to perform another scene to gain more
points than Soprano. Keep track of these points
secretly, and, if the characters are falling behind
say “Soprano isn’t impressed. He demands you
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perform again!” if the characters do too poorly,
Soprano attacks.
Fighting Soprano. If the characters perform too
terribly or choose to fight, Soprano uses his voice
to inflict psychic damage, engaging in melee
only if a character comes near him. If he dies, he
chuckles, shouting “Be careful around that trap
door!” before dissipating into ash.
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Part 2: The Lavolion
(Abyssal Plane)
The demon Bass has anchored herself into the
Lavolion, using her connection with the abstract
Abyss to duplicate the Lavolion into a “dark reflec-
tion” of its current self. Down here, her Quartet
siblings have shepherded the Lavolion patrons into
a series of twisted games and perverted art forms.
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The characters can access the Abyssal Plane version
of the Lavolion through two areas:
• A portal in a privy that connects Areas 8
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and 23.
• A portal in the stage trapdoor in Areas 16
and 30.
Appearance
The Lavolion on the Abyssal Plane “hovers” in noth-
ingness. Characters can tear up the floor, but all
they see is an inky red void dotted with goat eyes
(see Area 17). Flying around the Lavolion’s Abyssal
reflection shows that an infinite cosmos surrounds
this floating hellscape—not even the tunnels con-
taining the two portals are visible from below.
Treasure Chest
The Quartet decided to have a little fun with the
chest of 500 gp mentioned in Area 4: Manager’s
Office, dropping it into the Abyssal theater and
transforming it into an ugly, oily wrinkled cat that
wears a leather collar embossed with the words
Treasure Chest. The cat slinks around the theater,
letting out gravely meows.
Use Treasure Chest (see Appendix: Monsters) as
you like, placing her in the Abyssal theater and let-
ting her roam around. She may want to be caught,
or she may not. It is up to you to decide how you
use Treasure Chest.
If returned to the Material plane, Treasure Chest
immediately transforms into an unlocked wooden
chest containing 500 gp.
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 Area 17: Lobby (Abyssal)
This large, carpeted area is matted with chunks of
rotted meat and spackles of dried blood. Shards
of glass hint that a large, glass window once
wrapped around this open lobby.
Peering out the shattered windows shows a stark,
red nothingness littered with hundreds of blinking,
bright goat eyes, their horizontal slit pupils winking
out randomly as they blink. In the lobby, several
humanoids stand perfectly still and upright every 10
feet, staring straight out of the broken windows.
Blood and Meat. A successful DC 10 Intelligence
(Nature) or a Wisdom (Medicine) check reveals
these body parts are from goats.
Humanoids. 10 humanoid patrons are locked in a
temporal tie as one of Alto’s tricks. Each of them
is matched to one of the upcoming show signs
plastered to the glass window in the Lobby (Ma-
terial Area 1). The people can’t be moved, even
by magical means. If the floor beneath them is cut
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away, they don’t fall. They are frozen in time, aware
of their surroundings, but unable to respond until
Alto is defeated, which breaks their curse.
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(Material Area 1) were removed, destroyed, or
taken down, the temporal tie causes stress on the
humanoids. If a character rips a poster down, the
force snaps the neck of the patron that matches
its position. If a character peels a poster off the
window, it causes the face to peel off its matching
patron. Alto takes great delight in having innocent
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people do “terrible things” unknowingly. Chanc-
es are your characters will enter this room and, if
they’ve touched any of the posters in the Lobby
on the Material Plane they may have unknowingly
killed some of these people—Alto heckles them for
this if they encounter him in Area 27.
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Goat Eyes. The goat eyes represent Bass’ omni-
science in the Lavolion’s dark reflection. A success-
ful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check notices that
the yellow eyes’ pupils follow the characters around
in this room. Any attempts to attack or prod the
eyes prove fruitless—as close as they may seem,
they are an infinite distance away from the players.
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Area 18: Concessions and Box Office
(Abyssal)
A cash register and a bundle of tickets sit near
a window. An elderly woman wearing nobles’
clothes sits cross-legged in the corner.
Cash Register. Searching the cash register produces
23 (3d8 + 10) humanoid teeth. The tickets all say,
“ADMIT ONE: DON’T LET ME LEAVE.”
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Noble Woman. This woman is locked in a temporal
tie by Alto. She is linked to the cast iron stove in
Area 2: Concessions/Box Office. If the characters
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ignite the stove in Area 2, she burns to death.
Chances are that, if this happens, the characters
come across her smoky, charred remains.
Storage. Piled in the storage room are:
• 10 humanoid people temporally tied to
the 10 sacks of popcorn kernels in Area 2:
Concessions/Box Office. If the characters
removed kernels out of the bags, then the
matching person in this room is missing his
or her teeth. If the characters popped any
popcorn in the cast iron stove, then a pile
of blackened teeth is found in or around
the burnt body of the nearby noblewoman.
• A stack of clothes for a noblewoman.
• A crate with 250 goat jawbones.
• A box laden with 300 drinking horns har-
vested from various goats.
Area 19: Beverage Storage (Abyssal)
The door to this room is replaced by a human-
oid man with his arms and legs stretched out to
“block” the entrance. The place reeks of booze,
alcohol, and vomit.
Man. This man is temporally linked to the door in
the Area 3: Wine/Beer Storage. If the door in the
Material plane is open, then this man is moved to
the side and not blocking the way. If the door in the
Material plane has been broken down, this man is
dead on the ground.
Contents. Piled in the Beverage Storage (Abyssal)
area is:
• 30 empty casks Lavolion Ale.
• 30 busted bottles of Lavolion Burgundy
wine.
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is a flask of truth serum (see Appendix:
Magic Items).
Area 20: Manager’s Office (Abyssal)
This room stinks of rotten eggs and brimstone.
The room has an executive desk carved out of
pungent, jaundiced sulfur with an extremely elab-
orate nameplate reading “BASS” sitting on it. A
burning candle on the desk illuminates the room.
Two filing cabinets rest in the corners.
Desk. Searching the desk reveals a swarm of insects
that flutters out and attacks.
Filing Cabinets. Searching the filing cabinets reveals
nothing but files and folders with information about
the adventuring parties’ lives, as though every action
and thought they’ve had has been documented.
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information and find out secrets other characters
may have been keeping from them. If you allow
this, consider requiring a successful DC 15-20
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locate the information. Also consider discussing
this with your players beforehand.
You could also use this to develop your campaign
by adding a character’s lost memory to the files.
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Candle. The candle is enchanted with a continual
flame spell.
Pavoli’s Ghost. The ghost of Lucas Pavoli haunts
this room. He cannot leave. He exists in the Ethere-
al Plane and cannot enter the Material or Abyssal
Plane. He tries to use his possession ability on the
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first person attempting to leave the room. He is
confused, unaware that he is dead, but recoils in
fear at the mention of Annalyse’s name. He babbles
about “That Tasha’s Kiss quartet! Soprano, Alto,
Tenor, Bass… They’re the reason this is happen-
ing! She brought them here! We are ruined!” If
pressured too much, he uses his horrifying visage
ability, then disappears in a puff, shouting “They’re
using her! They’re using her! They’ve always been
using her!” as his spirit is sent to whatever heavens
or hells suit his life’s just desserts.
Area 21: Bathrooms (Patron) (Abyssal)
The walls separating the men and women’s rooms
in the Abyssal side have been destroyed, leaving
both open to the hallway. Fleshy, humanoid re-
mains are splattered across both bathrooms. Toilets
on both sides are festering with an acrid stench,
surrounded by dead flies.
Humanoid Remains. A successful DC 15 Intelli-
gence (Investigation) check or Wisdom (Medicine)
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check reveals that the body parts belong to two
separate people. Searching through their belong-
ings reveals that each was armed with a mechan-
ical, otherworldly gauntlet that is now destroyed
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(see blast glove in the Appendix: Magic Items).
These people were the victims of one of Alto’s
games, exactly like the people in the dressing rooms
(see MAGE’S BATTLE sidebar in Area 25: Dressing
Room (men). Their blast gloves activated, and they
fired upon each other.
Area 22: Costume Closet (Abyssal)
This room is lined with cross-cuts of leathered
humanoid skin dangling from clothes hangers.
Hacked up body parts litter the corners. In the
center where a dress mannequin should be
standing is a naked flesh golem stitched together
from the body parts of several humanoid patrons.
A sign hanging around the golem’s neck says,
“ALTO WANTS YOU TO MAKE ME PRETTY.”
Body Parts. A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Inves-
tigation) check yields a set of gold dentures (50 gp)
hidden among the body parts, as well as a diamond
ring (250 gp).
Flesh Golem. The flesh golem resembles an un-
dressed mannequin and doesn’t attack the party
unless they attack first. Instead, if the characters
drape any of the humanoid skin across it, it takes on
the personality of the person who once wore the
skin, then interacts with the party. The personalities
don’t know they are “dead” when the golem acts.
Humanoid Skin. Inspecting the skins show that they
have recently been cut from people and are “still
fresh” to the touch. Consult the chart below to see
a list of humanoid skins and their descriptions.
Note: If the humanoid skins are too graphic for
your players, you may change the skins to cloth-
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1 Young human male, loose and
flabby, bruised, stinks of garlic.
2 Young human female, dry and
powdered, layers of makeup, lilac
scented.
3 Young elf male, chiseled, tough,
stretchy, stage makeup on face.
Personality
Graham Daedly: heir to the Daedly Family Butchery, which sells the finest
cuts of meat in all the land. Secretly courting Emiliara Backwaithe behind
her father’s back. Longs for her touch.
Emiliara Backwaithe: The Lady of Backwaithe County. Extremely touchy-
feely and has zero regard for personal space. Flirts with any character with
a Charisma score greater than 12.
Lullo Grovelite: a pompous lead dancer for the Lavolion Opera House.
Famous for his 20-minute solo in The Naid’s Dream. Having an affair with
Emiliara Backwaithe.

4 Older human male, wrinkled, dry,
powerful cologne.
5 Young elf female, lithe, pale, ele-
gant, acrobatic.
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Pavlo Backwaithe: Count of Backwaithe County. Patron of the arts, col-
lector of wine, proud of his solid golden dentures, blatantly racist against
elves.
Yihara Grovelite: line dancer for the Lavolion Opera House. Always in her
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ballerina, so she spread false rumors about her such as:
• Annalyse is having an affair with Graham Daedly.
• Annalyse has been stealing from Lucas Pavoli, the manager of the
Lavolion Opera House.
• Annalyse doesn’t speak because she used her tongue as a
spellcasting reagent in a bargain with a demon to learn mediocre
dancing skills.
6 Middle-age male dwarf, stocky, Harlin Haylite: usher for the Lavolion Opera House. Written up twice for
plump, dirt-caked. peeking into the women’s dressing room.
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Older human female, tan, cal-
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Middle-age male human, dark,

Jessamine Jezalia: crone widow and patron of the Lavolion Opera House
for 50 years. Batty, uncouth, foulmouthed. Keeps a stash of rainbow dust
hidden under her box seat (see Box Seats, Area 16) to “make the shows
more entertaining for me!”
Andress Silas: farm worker who makes one trip to the Lavolion every year.
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soft, smells of apple-spice per- Stubborn worker with utilitarian views, but secretly a hopeless romantic.
fume. Wants to dance—asks any character with a Charisma score greater than 12
to dance with him.
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 Area 23: Star’s Dressing Room
(Abyssal)
Alto has vandalized this room into his personal vanity.
A mirror lacerated with repetitive “ALTO IS BEAU-
TIFUL” scrawling wraps around the whole room.
A stack of posters lies on the counter. A door to a
privy is attached to the south end.
Area 25: Male Dressing Room
(Abyssal)
Scrawled into the wood on this door is the label,
“COMBATANT #1: WITCH.”
This room is full of mirrors, chairs, a wastebasket,
and counters arranged along the wall. A noble
woman dressed in a gaudy witch’s outfit (pointy
hat, striped socks, fake nose) with a bizarre, oth-

Mirror. Any humanoids examining the mirror too
closely must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution
saving throw or take 7 (2d6) fire damage as a
mishmash of backwards, reflective lettering reading
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erworldly, metal contraption wrapped around her
hand stands in the center.
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“ALTO IS BEAUTIFUL” burns into their flesh, clothing, BATTLE (see sidebar).
armor, or shield.
Metal Contraption. This glove embedded in the
Posters. Alto’s blood-red face stretched in a delicate woman’s hand is a blast glove (see Appendix: Mag-
grin decorates these 200 posters, each one signed ic Items).
“TO MY GREATEST FAN, ALTO.” The posters, if exam-
ined carefully, create a “flip book,” where the letters Privy. This privy reeks, having not been emptied in
in “TO MY GREATEST FAN, ALTO” slowly rearrange some time.
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Privy. The privy is a swirling black and grey portal
tunnel that connects to Area 8. It is a 5-foot-di-
ameter tunnel that travels 40 feet down. It smells
of roasted cinnamon and cold butter. There is no
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gravity within the tunnel, so characters can travel
by pushing along the walls.

Area 24: Green Room (Abyssal)

This room has two couches with a table in be-
tween them that has a man tied to the corners by
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his limbs.

Man. This man has been locked in a temporal tie

by Alto. He’s connected with the replenishing fruit
on the table in Area 9: Green Room (Material). If
anyone ate any of the food from Area 9, pieces of
this man’s body are “scooped” out according to the
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type of food removed. Fruit berries are his toes,

pies are his organs, a centerpiece cake could be his
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 Mage’s Battle End of round 3: The wizard and witch activate
their blast gloves, blowing apart whatever is
Alto has paralyzed two people with temporal ties
directly in front of them, annihilating any walls
in Areas 25 and 26 and dressed them like a witch
and debris caught in the blasts. If still facing each
and a wizard. He’s rigged them to raise their blast
other, they’re both eradicated.
gloves and fire at each other through the walls of
their rooms, killing each other. This event triggers
Here are some ways the party can halt the effect:
when the door to either dressing room in the
Abyssal Lavolion is opened. When the door to
• The party can’t physically move the individ-
either room is opened, tell the players they hear

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uals, though they could cast spells (shield,
a “ticking sound,” then roll initiative.
anything providing temporary hit points,
etc.) that, at DM’s discretion, can negate
The party has three rounds to act, finding a way
the damage.
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the wizard and witch from killing each other. They
• Chopping off the hands with the blast
might not know what’s happening at the start, but
gloves, though brutal, stops the event.
entering into initiative should tip them off that
something heinous is at hand. The wizard and
• Ripping the blast gloves off causes the witch
witch take their actions at the end of each round.
or wizard to risk dying of blood loss through
death saves unless a spell that restores hit
End of round 1: The wizard and witch face each
points is cast on them or a character suc-
other (the witch in Area 25 faces south; the wiz-
ceeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check
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End of round 2: The wizard and witch raise their
hand with the blast glove and aim them in the
direction they’re facing.
to staunch the bleeding.

• The blast gloves deal 10 (3d6) fire damage,

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saves to resist the damage.

Area 26: Female Dressing Room Area 27: Scene Shop (Abyssal)
(Abyssal) Alto has reshaped this room to fit his macabre de-
Scrawled into the wood on this door is the label, signs. Instead of fashioning set pieces out of wood,
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“COMBATANT #2: WIZARD”

This room is full of mirrors, chairs, a wastebasket,
and counters arranged along the wall. A noble
man dressed in a goofy wizard’s outfit (pointy hat,
long robes, fake beard) with a bizarre, other-
worldly, metal contraption wrapped around his
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people. Sitting on a throne made of 8 guards frozen
in temporal stasis is Alto (Appendix: Monsters).
Piled along the north end, much like the lumber
in the material version of the Lavolion, is a stack
of severed humanoid legs. Saws, lathes, and oth-
er carpentry tools lay strewn with flecks of blood

hand stands in the center.

and skewers of bone.

Opening this door triggers the Mage Battle (see

sidebar). Severed Legs. These unused legs are from the tor-
sos used to create Tenor’s body.
Metal Contraption. This glove embedded in the
man’s hand is a blast glove (see Appendix: Magic Throne of People. This is made of the 8 search
Items). team members sent in to discover what happened
to the missing patrons. Alto used his temporal stasis
Privy. This privy stinks, having not been emptied in ability on them, then rearranged them into a chair.
some time. They are mostly unharmed, but posed in difficult,
contortionist positions.

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