#rubymasquerade

[hellspathfinder]

Safe to Dance

The Silver Ravens return home after closing the Menador Gap. This decisive blow to Thrune interests in Kintargo will prevent any reinforcements by land, and so the Silver Ravens set about planning how to defeat Barzillai’s current compliment of Dottari and Devils.

Before they get very far in that planning process, they realize that someone is missing from their Silver Council meetings: Hetamon. He has not been seen for several days. The Ravens rest briefly, and suit up to find him. Searching all of the city with Location spells, tracking skills, and questioning any/all who know him, they learn some details of his tiefling heritage.

Hetamon was raised by his human father. He has never known his mother, but has learned enough about her through is father to know she is to be feared. A powerful demon called a Succubus, she possesses dangerous mind-control powers among a host of other spells and abilities. 

When the Silver Ravens catch up with her, she is in hiding in the ruins of the old Silver Star, Shensen’s instrument shop that burned to the ground on the Night of Ashes. The demon has defiled the former temple of Saranrae to her own purposes, and holds captive several clerics including her son.

They free Streya Vestori, a skilled rogue who fell victim to the Succubus’s powerful domination. She tells them that Natsiel is in the next room, performing a complicated ritual to turn the life force of the captured clerics into energies forming a powerful undead version of her hag servants. 

Gabriel, Caleb, Nigel, and Streya storm the former temple and slay the hags and Natsiel, freeing the clerics. Hetamon is overjoyed to see his rescuers, and introduces them to his fellow prisoners, Morfak, dwarven cleric of Torag, and Chucko, Tengu cleric of Erastil.

Morfak is a talented craftsman and Chuko runs a magic item shop and sparring arena in Northern Kintargo. Streya is a deadly rogue. All three gladly join the Silver Ravens. Rumor has spread through Kintargo of an upcoming event with a very exclusive guest list. The “Ruby Masquerade” will be the first ball held at the Kintargo Opera House since Barzillai Thrune took it as his home when he arrived in the city. It will feature many musical & dramatic performances, as well as a dance contest and of course a lavish spread of food and drink.

Invites are difficult to secure, and quickly a pattern emerges. Only Thrune supporters are invited, from Noble to Commoner alike. No Silver Ravens or those sympathetic to their cause have received invites to the event.

Through further investigation, the Silver Ravens learn that dozens of suits of armor have been commissioned, constructed, and purchased with a very similar look and style to theirs. 

They employ the greatest stealth and powerful magic to steal several invites and Caleb scouts the Opera House himself. There he sees fortifications on every exit, cages for Barzillai’s three pet Cockatrices with a release switch to turn them loose on the crowd in an instant, and most of the office and storage space has been converted to temporary barracks. 

The Silver Ravens theorize that Barzillai will impersonate them and murder civilians, even those loyal to him, to frame the Ravens for a heinous attack on the city. They gather all of their allies and hatch a plan to thwart the Lord Mayor.

They split into teams. Teams will communicate via the message spell, castable by Rexus, Caleb, and Nigel. One team will infiltrate the Opera house as guests, stashing or concealing whatever gear they need. Another will pose as Dottari. The Hellknights and other armor wearers will use waterbreathing spells to hide in the bottom of the pond in Aria Park, directly across the street from the Opera House.

Their ultimate plan is to breach the Opera House while Thrune forces are attempting their purge and rescue as many civilians as possible, but the Pond Team discovers something that alters their trajectory. 

Azwraith, trudging through pond-muck, trips over a wide, circular, metal panel. They examine it further and discern that it is a door to a secret, submerged tunnel into the Opera House basement. They message this to the rest of the team and open the door.

Through Morfak the dwarf’s stonecutting expertise and Caleb’s “locate secret opening” spell, they find more secret doors within, guarded by a large hellhound they quickly dispatch. 

They soon realize they are in an area of Kintargo that Barzillai himself has not found, the Silver Vault. A tomb and treasure trove of the original Ravens. They find tens of thousands of coin, several magic items, and a piece of their own history. They dub this area: the tunnel of wizard porn.

Once this area has been thoroughly searched and salvaged, they move on to the secret doors that exit into the Opera House basement. It is here that they stumble on Barzillai’s torture room. What once was a room full of finely made musical instruments is now filled with cages, shackles, and racks. Among the horrors they find a statue that seems a bit too lifelike. 

Remembering Femmik’s dream where he saw through Shensen’s eyes as she fought was captured by Barzillai Thrune, the Silver Ravens use a scroll of “Stone to Flesh” they found in the Silver Vault and Shensen is restored. She is weakened so that she can barely stand, but she urgently whispers a word over and over: “Suriel!”

Slowly she realizes she is free again, and she thanks them for saving her. She hungrily takes in recent events and their present situation, resolving to help in whatever ways she can.

As the music starts, the Ruby Masquerade begins. The inside team mingles and sneaks away from the party to investigate what lies in store for the guests. The pond-tunnel team prepares to fly into action literally from down in the orchestra pit!

[sarriane]

rubymasquerade replied to your post:there’s this really annoying guy in my german...

she was probably his only girlfriend tbh

"probably"

[marlocruz]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I HOPE YOUR DAY TREATS YOU WHALE.

MY DAY HAS BEEN VERY WHALE SO FAR THANK YOU

[yaoiforlife]

rubymasquerade replied to your post “rubymasquerade replied to your post:Is it wrong to be “talking” to...”

I mean god forbid you talk to people

But people are scary! 

[teamlockwood]

rubymasquerade replied to your post: So confused. I've been off tumblr for a few days. What is going on with the forwood tag. And what happened to the Originals last night. It wasn't on.

the cw was showing a lady gaga music thing during to’s time slot

Well there ya go lol.

[nerditoutwithbooks]

FEEL FREE TO BLACKLIST MY ANTI DESTIEL POSTS WITH 'DESTIEW' BECAUSE YOU LIKE IT AND I'M JUST NOT A FAN AFTER THE TWITTER THING AND THAT WAY YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEE THEM. friendly tip from mutual follower to mutual follower~

I am saddened to hear about that. All the drama in the fandom may be good but it's also too much. I hope you find hope in Dean and Cas again but I respect your decision. 

[sarriane]

so can we all just agree that ohio sucks?

[marlocruz]

HAPPY WHALETINE'S DAY

[yaoiforlife]

rubymasquerade replied to your post:Is it wrong to be “talking” to more then one...

what a whore

I was waiting for someone to say that to me

[sarriane]

rubymasquerade said: i got an original pretzel instead of a cinnamon pretzel once reinventweather said: its cuz they filmed the avengers in cleveland. thanks for your input guys. really.

[sarriane]

rubymasquerade replied to your post: rubymasquerade replied to your post: r...

tom hiddleston magicked into a female lobster while running from annoying anime fans? tom hiddleston’s magical adventure into that of lobsters

RULE 63 LOBSTER AU

The annoying anime fans knew what they wanted. Tom Hiddleston.

But Loki had other plans when he appeared from an alternate dimension and magicked Tom Hiddleston into a lobster to hide him from the annoying anime fans.

EXCEPT, Tom was turned into a female lobster. Now he must run from annoying anime fans while exploring the unfairness of gender roles as applied to lobsters. 

I WILL NOT UPDATE UNTIL I GET 10 REVIEWS!!1!!!!!

[sarriane]

rubymasquerade replied to your post: rubymasquerade replied to your post:ru...

nO BUT I SHOULD’VE BEEN omg. um he also doesn’t like…lobsters?

tom hiddleston

annoying anime fans

losing

vaginas

lobsters

this is the beginning of a beautiful story

yaoiforlife replied to your post: rubymasquerade replied to your post:ru...

And I didn’t want to say clitoris because I thought your mom was around! Your parents actually like me now.

sure. suuuuuure.

[sarriane]

rubymasquerade replied to your post:rubymasquerade replied to your post:what am i...

well, I only stole chips from Carson. You can just copy&paste the word vagina, he doesn’t like those

were you there yet the other day when he was like "it shouldn't be 'boom, ovaries, it should be boom *mumblemumble*"

and we were like "boom, what? you can say it. we're girls."

and he looked around and whispered, "boom, clitoris." 

yaoiforlife replied to your post:rubymasquerade replied to your post:what am i...

Annoying anime fans are the worst!

self-hatred will get you nowhere.

[sarriane]

rubymasquerade replied to your post:what am i going to write carson that’s 6,870 words...

I gave him some green chips so I only owe him like 3000 LOL. write hook&emma fic? he hates them

well, someone STOLE some of my chips. i've only watched once upon a time twice. :(

...what else does he hate? tom hiddleston? losing? annoying anime fans? this is hard.

[sarriane]

rubymasquerade replied to your post “rubymasquerade replied to your post: so at the end of the night i owe:...”

me either... parents? is your dad the type who would help you bury the body or yell at you?

so this is why megan was asking about hiding a body.

WE'VE COME FULL CIRCLE.

[sarriane]

rubymasquerade replied to your post: so at the end of the night i owe: cars...

somehow, carson left your house alive

i legit cannot figure out how that was allowed to happen.

yaoiforlife reblogged your post so at the end of the night i owe: cars... and added:

Hey, it could be worse.

yeah, you could be dead