Game title: Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety-jig The group secures the mirror on-board the Gleaming Endeavor and send forth Malar, Minni, and Andor to tell the council of the events that happened in Ravenna. They then all pass through the mirror into 'Mushroomlandia'. As they enter the mirror only Talia sees the world clearly as she lands in a deep mushroom forest with a small keep about 10 miles into the distance. She sees five lights descend into the keep the same time she lands so she decides that must be her friends and starts sneaking along to reach the keep. She passes several huge 12 foot tall creature in her trip to the keep. Meanwhile Malaya wakes up in her old bed in Aston Manor her mother gently shakes her to wake up. Malaya sees her mother, but this cannot be but to hell with can or can't, Malaya hugs her mother. Megera pokes her head in the room and Malaya sees not the vampire born of the horrors done to her but a young and beautiful Megera. Malaya is late for Andor's 13th Birthday party, an event she remembers from her past. Malaya draws this fresh world to her like a warm blanket even though she knows it is not real hugging her mother, father and Megera several times. Fizzlebang wakes to hear his brother's music box playing, he sees his sister who also explains he is late for the party that is going to be held soon for Andor Berk. Fenthwick also holds his siblings close but the nagging within him causes him to still doubt what is going on around him. The Gleaming Endeavor sets down and the 3 gnomes climb aboard. Elly wakes to her father, a man she has only heard about gently shaking her. She takes everything in and finds that she is living in the town of Oslo with her mother and father and still has a relationship with uncle Oslo. She is wearing the cast she recalls from braking her hands about 3 years ago. She is also running late for the party and her mother help her pick out a princess dress for the party and they all board the airship when it arrives. Trelic wakes in his old room familiar pictures line the wall and his father a man he has not seen in almost 4 years knocks on the door to make sure he is up. Trelic sees both his mother and father and Betsy sitting down eating. The girl he lost years and years ago, the girl he always felt he failed was sitting before him eating breakfast with his parents. 'Hey Stinky,' ahh now he recalls how she would tease him for the one time he slipped and fell on the cow pie in the field. Trelic and his parents also board the airship. The Professor wakes in a strange bed in a strange room to his daughter jumping on the bed. He sits up without question and embraces his daughter. After a few moments his daughter tells him that mother is in the next room eating breakfast and getting ready for the party. The professor enters the room to see his beloved his soulmate, wearing beautiful clothing and smiling at him, a smile he has missed for all too long. The professor also pulls this world around him, no mutations, and his family is well this most be paradise. Elly, Fenthwick and Trelic and their families are all on the airship where they trade awkward glances and question what is going on. The airship touches down and the group is greeted by two identical young women that the group places as Mal and Meg. Elly is very happy to see everyone and hugs them. They all attend the party everyone soaking into their new perfect lives, Trelic and Elly are soon convinced this is how it has always been and both release the past and embrace the present. The Professor and Fenthwick discuss what is happening and the Professor offers up many possibilities before he also is overcome with this perfect world. Malaya still holds a piece of the old world in her mind but she is all too willing for this to be real. Fenthwick hears a whispering to him telling him to accept this world as his own and that if he does not he will ruin it for everyone. He and Malaya talk but before he can talk her into believing Malaya chooses to make this world hers. Fenthwick is given a moment by the whispering voice that he believes is Yishana with each person impacted her and they get to tell him if they want to go or stay. Malaya and the Professor but tell him they wish to stay, Trelic and Elly want to return home, but the demon whispering to Trelic does not want Fizzlebang to leave yet so both Megera and his sister beg to stay. In the end the gnome chooses to go... He wakes bound in a blue crystal where he sees the others all sealed within the same, he tries his magics but to no effect as he cannot move. Just then Talia, currently a woman with two minds due to the ring that houses the Viceroy's mind walks in. Everyone is freed including Prince Draxx and now the party has to deal with the Professor a little as Sym Oleander step forth to make some comments using the Professor. Much talk shoots around the room and it is finally Fenthwick that learns the being within the Professor is a being named Demon Slayer. I really enjoyed that game and even though there was little combat the team came out of a very appealing trap and as such receives XP to get them 1/2 way to next level.
