Morgan Darillium's Missions

Baalphas, a fiend Librarian, Morgan Darillium, an Illusionist, and Olivette Bouchard, a Gunslinger, teleport to the Far Lands, a bright, depthless expanse filled with impossible objects and warped gravity, prominently including a flowing river inexplicably suspended in the air. Morgan immediately tests the realm’s reality-bending rules by wishing for hipster craft beer, which appears exactly as he vaguely imagined it. Baalphas studies the disordered environment, noticing a crude cinderblock shack nearby. With no other apparent destinations, the squad heads there. On the way, a gigantic black king chess piece appears in the distance and crashes down, sending shockwaves across the ground. Morgan commands it to rise and fall again, which it does. The shockwaves pass over the agents without doing them harm, but briefly disassemble the shack’s bricks, giving them a glimpse of a seated man with a chessboard inside.

After Morgan’s attempt at wishing away the door fails to get rid of it when another, stronger door appears in its place, Olivette visualises this one as a push door and pushes it open, allowing everyone to enter. Inside, the tiny shack becomes an impossibly long, torchlit corridor. Olivette walks forward while playing an encouraging song on her keytar, and the architecture responds to the music, the hallway swaying, floors bouncing, and additional musical accompaniment joining the song from somewhere. Doors materialise along the walls, which Olivette checks as they’re passing them, abruptly ending her performance before a door labelled “Holland Baker’s Private Hell.”

The squad debates how to prevent their target from speaking, since the Enclave has warned them that his statements made in this place will immediately become true. Before they settle on a plan, Holland Baker opens the door and greets them. Baalphas passes him a notebook with which to test whether they can communicate in writing, but when a controlled experiment turns the walls royal purple, this makes it clear that writing is no safer than speaking. The agents next attempt to occupy him with a beer and a book, to keep him quiet, but the man proves utterly incapable of shutting up for even the tiniest amount of time. He makes an offhand comment about being a fast reader, then proceeds to speed-read entire chapters with a single glance, and when Olivette advises that he take his time and immerse himself in the book, he mumbles “immerse myself” then proceeds to start drowning when a sphere of water forms around him.

Olivette quickly uses another song to dispel the water and impose silence on the room, literally preventing any of them from speaking. Mr Baker tries to say something about not wanting it to be so quiet, though none of them are good enough at lip reading to catch the exact words. Either way, that does the trick, and the silence ends. The squad decide to give up on the planning they’d been attempting and they just tell Mr Baker that his punishment has ended, so he’s now free to go. Unfortunately, he refuses to leave while his sentencing document remains valid. Morgan tries to alter the paper through song (with a musical accompaniment provided by Olivette, since Morgan doesn’t have his own guitar with him on this mission), yet a couple seconds later, Holland accidently restores its original wording. Baalphas examines it next and identifies suspicious replacement text imposing exile in this private cell for a period of thirty days.

Speaking with scholarly authority, he declares it an illegitimate document, then stamps it “VOID.” The stamp compels Mr Baker to treat the sentence as non-binding. Relieved, Holland agrees to follow the agents, although his aphantasia complicates the journey home, as he’s unable to picture the front door to his house. Still, they eventually manage to explain that he can make the cell door lead back to his home, so he reaches out to open the door… but as he’s doing that, Morgan decides to “help” by using his power to make illusions physically tangible, which has the effect of creating a solid—yet still very much fake—instance of Mr Baker’s home, including a replica of his wife, Bonnie, which seems realistic at first, but after Morgan realises that something is amiss and successfully wishes into existence another beer, to test whether they’re still in the Far Lands, the replica transforms into an inanimate mannequin.

Then the solid illusion shatters, revealing a dark void, in which a toddler with a sinister voice meets the agents and insists that Baker cannot leave. He makes some comment about Baker getting what he deserves for the great crime he committed (which was stealing a single cookie) and three gigantic cookies appear overhead and begin falling, looking like they’re about to crush Holland… until Baalphas catalogues them, visualising a giant jar into existence and sorting them away neatly. The toddler is annoyed by this effortless deflection of his attack, but then Olivette adds insult to injury by using the dark void to her advantage; since this place has no texture, it appears to have no depth, so she simply reaches out to the jar, imagining that it’s a nearby, normal-sized jar rather than a distant, giant-sized jar. Opening the jar, she takes out a cookie and eats it.

This mockery of its power makes the toddler throw a tantrum, dropping them all into a bottomless hole, falling down into the endless darkness and terrifying Mr Baker… but given that they were already in a dark void, and there was no visible floor beforehand, not much has actually changed visually, it’s just that there’s now a feeling of weightlessness and rushing wind. Viewed objectively, this might actually be even less intimidating than the falling cookies. Olivette just pictures herself standing on the same dark surface from before, and instantly is back to normal. The others still appear to be falling, but they remain level with her as she stands still. Realising the trick to it, Baalphas and Morgan quickly follow suit, with even Holland soon catching on.

Unfortunately, Mr Baker lands with some of the momentum from his fall maintained, so gets banged up a little, and needs a bit of healing from Baalphas. The toddler next conjures a couple of aeroplanes to try and threaten the squad, but tiring of these antics, Olivette sings a song which berates the kid for acting like he owns the place, with its chorus repeating the phrase “know your place!” and in the process, this transports them all into a memory of sorts, depicting the toddler’s bedroom, back when he was just a normal kid. A dark mass reaches out from a closet and attaches itself to the child’s arm, quickly corrupting him until Olivette’s magically-empowered song halts it in place. Morgan takes advantage of this opening to convince the child that the dark mass is just his imagination and offers him a cookie.

Their combined efforts rewrite the moment in time, separating the boy from a floating, tentacled brain that seems to be a visual representation of that dark mass. However, splitting the two is far from enough to defeat the eldritch horror, so it seems that the agents are about to have a long and grueling, imaginary battle on their hands… right up until Baalphas spots an opportunity. Rather than attacking, he hands the tentacle monster a travel pamphlet about the hells he calls home and makes it a job offer, pointing out that it seems like a being which would feel right at home in a place devoted to tormenting sinners.

After thinking it over for a bit, the disembodied brain agrees, imagines a portal to the hells, which appears, then floats through. With it no longer causing problems, the agents are able to coach Mr Baker through the process of opening another door, this time without any illusionary assistance from Morgan, and he makes it home to his actual wife this time. After a test by Baalphas verifies that reality no longer bends beyond this door, with their badges pinging, the agents congratulate one another on a successful mission, then each pingout in turn. Morgan is the last to leave, but before doing so, he takes advantage of the Far Lands one last time, summoning a Cold One™ branded beer and downing it prior to his departure.

The Agents, Eina the Spectral Thane, Tel the Postman the Wanderer, and Bellatrix the Brainiac ported into the border fortress of Al Basalem. Meeting up with their mercenary escort led by Soraya Barzikani, Zahak's twin sister, they made the ten mile journey on horseback to Sarayadin arriving relatively quickly (Bellatrix was NOT happy riding her horse, especially since the Ancaryon horses set aside for the agents are among the fastest throughout the Khaganate. After a rather surprising encounter with a Storm Giant outside the gates, Morgan the Illusionist ported to their location as they entered the ruins of the former floating city. As they made their way to the large temple in the heart of the city, Eina heard an echo of a past battle fought within the streets of the city. The magical energy around Sarayadin seemed to have an additional effect on her due to her status as a spirit. As the agents entered the temple with Soraya and some of her people, they began searching for the missing students. Following footsteps spotted by Tel, the agents arrived in what appeared to be a ruined library. Searching the remnants of the bookshelves, Morgan came across a magic tome that more or less turned out to be a copy of a teacher's version of a textbook.

While flipping through the pages, the agents found themselves seeing an echo of the students travelling through the rooms of this library and followed them down the paths marked by their footprints. In one of the rooms, they all saw a vision from the past after spotting a damaged portrait of the patron deity of this city. It showed the battle that caused the city to fall, with the draconic looking deity taken out in a single blast by an avian- like creature. Coming across what looked like a journal in the next room, the agents saw it had a list of the students' names amongst its pages. The magical energy of the temple showed a vision of what happened: the students were ambushed within the temple. The guards escorting them were wiped out by a well-armed group of what appeared to be slavers. They witnessed the student who sent out the telepathic message, Mori, blast several of them with what appeared to be either magic or telekinetic power while calling for the last uncaptured student to run. As the vision faded away, the agents read a familiar name in the journal: Aurora Barzikani. Soraya confirmed that Aurora was their youngest sibling. Suddenly, a hidden pathway was revealed as a group of mercenaries came pouring out led by a man who demanded to know where Mori was.

Recognizing the leader as her cousin Levan Anchabadze, Soraya managed to calm both sides down and avoid unnecessary combat. Realizing they're both searching for the same people, the two groups agreed to share information and join forces while they continued their search. Tel's scanning of the book found a location where the students may have been taken, a location far away across the sea from Malastan. (and on a completely different subcontinent to boot) Turning the pages of the book also resulted in a folded piece of paper falling out of the middle, being used as a bookmark. Opening it, Soraya and Levan both recognized it bearing the seal of Levan's father, the Khan of Abkhazia. As they were agreeing to leave and take the information on the missing students to a safe location, Tel and Morgan both heard before the others the sounds of large footsteps approaching them, while a large group of small reptilian creatures fled past them in complete terror. While Bellatrix suggested it may not be so big, it could just partially be an echo, the source of the footsteps revealed itself. A vraal, a massive dinosaur-dragon looking creature (think Indominus Rex from Jurassic World, but bigger and even worse attitude) came around the corner and began approaching the party. Morgan managed to make it flee with a combination of Glitter Bombs, Morgan's Songbook, his Portable Amp, and using his Persona Mask to disguise himself as the avian creature from the previous vision. The flash from the Glitter Bombs triggered the vraal's extreme sensitivity to bright lights and caused it to fall back. The combined groups decided to leave the subterranean portions of the temple after finding footprint evidence that there was more than one of those things down there.

Upon their reemergence into Sarayadin, they found a massive battle raging between their escorts and an army from the slavers' homeland. With the Emir of Malastan and his army coming to their aid, the agents were eventually convinced to make their escape from the city and back across the Gandharan border with their information before Abkhazian forces surrounded the place. As they made their escape through the desert, they eventually found themselves being pursued by the vraal from the temple, it having escaped and bringing its six friends along to hunt them down. Morgan managed to blind the vraals by using Phantasm to summon a miniature sun, causing one of them to run right off the edge of the nearby cliff, and temporarily taking a few others out of the fight. Bellatrix used her Gantry arms to punch one of the vraals to distract it from a fallen ally, unfortunately, all that did was piss off the beast. Despite heavy losses from their escorts, the agents managed to make it to a safe spot to teleport away, but they were still being pursued by the remaining six vraals.

With a sudden appearance of Khan Xasayar Barzikani, he covered their escape into the teleportation spot, which deposited them into the middle of Zahak's throne room in his capital. As the agents began sharing the information they discovered with him, Khan Okhropir Anchabadze of Abkhazia stormed into the throne room with his entourage demanding to speak with his nephew. While trading insults with the agents, (and dismissing Eina altogether due to her being a spirit) he was confronted with the information along with the evidence of his involvement with the slavers. As he arrogantly denied his involvement and the allegations, he was eventually ordered out of the palace by Zahak, who also electrocuted one of his own cousins after one too many insults against Zahak's friends and family. When Okhropir threatened war against his nephew, the Thunder Lord of Gandhara gladly declared war on Abkhazia and blasted the Abkhazians out of his palace with a massive Thunderclap after Eina's spectral horse trampled the arrogant Khan. Morgan confirmed before the Thunderclap that Okhropir knew about the missing students, but he arrogantly refused to reveal anything.

The agents finally had their conversation with Zahak, and he summoned his old combat master, Paimon to answer some questions as well. Everyone was a little surprised due to Paimon being the same avian creature that took out a dragon god in one attack in the earlier vision. The agents discovered that the location listed in the journal from earlier was within the Sultanate of Afrikia to the south. Paimon reactivated the Enclave badges so the agents could ping out (they were probably pinging for quite some time, but that moment was the first time the agents could feel it.) Zahak gifted the agents with emblem pins to mark them as honored guests if they return to aid in finding the missing students. While Morgan, Eina and Tel pinged out, Bellatrix elected to remain behind while preparations were made to gather a fleet to sail to Afrikia to track down the missing students.

Mission Success

Next time, the search continues in the south.

Pending, will update with YT

Agents, Morgan the Illusionist, Baalphas the Librarian, and Rod the Gunslinger, arrived at the mansion. They were greeted by Enoch, who led them up to his evil stepmother's office. There the agents did some sleuthing and found some clues that she may have had the mother killed. They then went downstairs and eventually proceeded into the garden maze. At the heart of the maze, they found the mother still stuck in tree form, and managed to free her with magic. She was still holding the original marriage certificate.

Badges pinged.

(by Reece)

Lor, an Aspiring Fascinator, Morgan Darillium, an Illusionist, Wolfgang Stormgard, a Thunderbird, and Zahak, another Thunderbird, port-in to a strange candy realm upon a hilly plain lush with greenery made up entirely of candyfloss. Huge chocolate buttons are scattered across the field, and are being harvested by faceless workers resembling golems made from oversized, red-and-white peppermints. Wolfgang taste-tests the candy floss, confirming that it’s minty, then the agents debate whether to first investigate the factory in the nearby town where the chocolate buttons are being delivered, or confront the CEO whose recent recipe change is likely connected to some cases of food poisoning in town.

Agents, Morgan the Illusionist, Phoenix the Gunslinger, Miss Evans the Librarian, Gig the Wanderer, and Talon the Freerunner arrived near a temple and a forest.

Morgan, Miss Evans, and Talon went to the temple, which was in the midst of festivities. Morgan got caught up in said festivities, getting quite drunk in the process, while Talon and Miss Evans ventured further into the temple. Morgan found a strange device under construction but was ushered away, subsequently causing quite the scene with a performance that was a far cry from his best. Meanwhile, the two in the palace found artwork and blueprints referencing the gate, and discovered that its power was sourced from the spirits in the forest.

Meanwhile, Gig and Phoenix ventured into the forest, encountering a strange spirit with a gong. It pleaded for their assistance, claiming a foul invention was harming the denizens of the forest. Venturing further in, they found a snake woman bound by magic. Suspicious of the happenings at the palace, they found a convenient route back to the palace and reconvened with the other agents.

Cleaning up the ruckuss Morgan was causing with his show, the agents went to the device, which turned out to be some kind of magical transport gaateway that was being swarmed by a crowd of partygoers. Putting their heads together, the agents decided the best course of action was to blast the device, causing it to partially implode. Out of the device emerged a vengeful spirit that appeared as a half-deer, half-eel. Morgan flew up in the air to the stage, donning the visage of an moose (he was slightly confused) and convinced the deer to get drunk. Meanwhile, the other agents succeeded in destroying the gate fully.

Badges Pinged.

(by Reece)

Morgan Darillium, an Illusionist, Antonio “Tony” Cavallo, a Charlatan, Penn Gwynn, a Thane, and Cordelia Maris Undine, an Oceanographer, arrive on a bleak, rainy, windswept island, containing just a handful of houses. The only other land in sight is a distant cluster of jagged outcroppings, beyond which lies nothing but an endless void. Atop a cliff on one side of the island stands a massive satellite dish—its surface encrusted with gleaming crystals—from the centre of which a cascade of tiny, rainbow‑coloured cubes pour down into the sea below. Lightning stikes the dish periodically, each bolt spawning another wave of cubes. A dense mass of them float in a broad patch of water between the island and the world’s edge.

The Agents, Morgan the Illusionist, Gertrude the Witchfinder, and Pyros the Pyroclast arrived in the town square to find a large gathering of townsfolk dancing. They all seemed contained within a large circle of powder. Townsfolk told agents that anyone who had entered the circle had been dancing for hours in a courtship dance, including those already in committed relationships. After some initial scouting, they found the circle to be centered around a pretty woman named Maera.

Morgan decided that he wanted to make a circle of his own! He created one with an illusion but it did not seem nearly as effective as the existing one, even with Pyros's assistance. Gertrude did some sleuthing and discovered that the circle generated by Maera had potent binding magic. Even more potent was the binding magic within the drinks that were being served.

Eventually Pyros went in after Maera but was caught up in the dancing spirit. Morgan eventually ended his circle and followed after Pyros, who was brawling with some of the possesed people in the inner circle. Gertrude let out a suspicious cloud that pissed everybody off, especially Morgan who got into such a deranged state that he turned into a firefly.

Gertrude tried her best, firing upon Maera, but she managed to escape into a tunnel below, and amidst all the chaos, Gertrude lost her eye.

Badges Pinged, Mission Failiure.

I deleted old write up bcuz I’m an idiot. We got out but we probably deserved to fail bcuz we avoided using the scary app at all and thus sidesteppped most danger

The agents arrived on the submarine sphere which was slowly descending into a web of seemingly endless kelp. As the agents went further down, they encountered gigantic spider-crab esque creatures that formed air pockets and attempted to ensnare the submarine. Only with the cunning of the four illusionists were the creatures able to be kept at bay. After a spectacular illusory Titanic to distract a leviathan-sized creature at the bottom, the submarine managed to break through into the skies below. This mission was an especially notable achievement for Dr. Thadeus Kane, who upon its completion received his certification as a level 10 Enclave agent.

Agents arrived at a castle gate where they were met by guards, refusing their entry. Tensions were immediately brought to a boil as the agents got into an aggressive altercation with the guards, leaving one dead. Amidst the chaos, they were able to forge documentation and were allowed entry.

In the courtyard, it was clear that some strange magic was afoot. Some people's shadows were behaving quite strangely, and gigantic shadowy rats were roaming about the courtyard, and were compelled to dance as Magpie and Morgan played a lively jig. A squire came to greet the agents, and they followed, leading the dancing rats in a procession towards the Earl's keep, but were forced to disband them for the sake of decorum. The rats disappeared into the shadows.

Meeting with Earl Guzman, in a room marked with a strange sigil, the agents were tasked with investigating the castle's library, where a suspicious wizard dwelled. The squire returned with beverages, which were poisoned, as the Earl and Ivor found out too late. Upon leaving, at least a dozen guards were strewn dead upon the stone floor.

The agents shared a toast of unpoisoned libations as they ventured towards the library. Upon arriving, they found a model replica of the castle, also emblazoned with the same sigil from earlier. Upon messing with this, the sigil broke and the room was filled with rats, who attacked agents' shadows. The agents fended off the rats, and in the confusion discovered that the wizard had been killed and the squire was behind the foul magic. Together, the agents enthralled the rats in song and killed the suspicious squire.

That was not the end of the trouble, however. The shadow magic seemed to persist and find new hosts when its current one was slain-- it was revealed to agents in a vision that the origin of this shadow may be related to a Lion-headed enclave associate. The shadow of a dragon came upon the castle, and Golden Cloak used an ability to render a physical dragon that could be slain in its stead. The agents with courage, steady aim, and a bit of help from the dancing rats, managed to slay the dragon.

The earl, haggard from the poison, thanked the agents for their help in solving the problem at hand, but lamented that there was still magic afoot that was not yet understood. A shadowy figure popped up and taunted the agents, and even as they shot him, the shadow dissipated to haunt another day.

Agents arrived at a temple at the monastery and met the shrine maiden who told them of a foul miasma that had recently surfaced. The agents cast some wards around the shrine then did some preliminary scouting with their avian companions. Upon seeing a disturbance in some buildings towards the Golden pavillion, they ventured in that direction.

Agents encountered six initiates at an encampment. They attempted to quell the fight by using a magic candle, which calmed them slightly, but ended up opting for retreat onwards towards the pavillion. Both avian companions were injured by laser beams shot by the initiates.

Upon arriving at the pavillion, the initiate guards were distracted and the agents slipped in. They discovered that the magic seemed stronger here, and was making all the occupants act out of a single-minded desire to achieve their goals, to an alarming extent. Climbing the tower, the agents warded off an enchanted origami, forging their way to the top of the pavillion.

Atop, they faced with walls imbued with 50 golden throwing stars, which seemed to have magical properties. One in particular stood out, taking aggressive action against the agents. With effort, they shattered the star and released the monastery from its curse! Leadership of the monastery was transferred to a certain initiate with a head trained for high-impact tasks.

The game functioned like a point-control video game map with four objectives: The Library, the school, the stadium, and the ferris wheel, the last two being worth double the points. As the game began, all players on Cexl's team boarded the Kei van and made for the stadium, driven by Rene's trusty Handycat, a mini-chimera. Upon arriving, they encountered the enemy team and combat ensued. Morgan cast a veneer upon the bus, making it appear as the "Catmobile," a giant fearsome facsimile of the Handycat. In the Catmobile.

Rene and Morgan drove off with a couple teammates towards the ferris wheel while Mr. X fought and held control of the stadium, notably facing a fearsome cyborg foe who moved with astonishing speed. Upon reaching the Ferris wheel, the catmobile crashed into two enemies and Rene set to work doing construction things that eventually resulted in the ferris wheel rolling down the hill and crashing into the stadium, even as it was hit by opposing artillery fire.

The team now had a "double objective" to defend that, if held, would secure more than enough points for a victory. The ferris wheel was filled in with concrete, creating a solid fortification, which also provided a cushion that dampened incoming artillery fire. Rene commandeered an artillery cannon and rained fire with reckless abandon upon the enemy team, causing much chaos.

As the cyborg arrived, Morgan made a final stand, casting a delayed spell before being cut down. Upon death, he disconnected from the game and made for the control room. Mr. X and the cyborg engaged in an intense battle as Morgan made it to the sound console and blasted an artillery sound into everyone's headphones. As this happened, Mr. X triggered the spell, causing the sun to turn into a Giant version of the catmobile and begin raining down artillery fire (all illusions). Amongst this, Mr. X was able to gain a decisive advantage over the cyborg and cut him down. At that point, our team had amassed enough points that a win was guaranteed, as glitter rained from the heavens.

Agents arrived and were informed of a mysterious signal that was clearly causing great distress and incapacitation to local adults and animals. They traced it to below a condemned building. Venturing deep below, they encountered a large cryptid, a mysterious generator and an army of posessed children. Posing as "The Mushroom Man," Morgan led the children out into the sunlight, Violet and Crane wrangled and slew the fearsome cryptid, and Christina disabled the generator that was producing the pesky signal.

Agents arrived and investigated the pizzeria. They found some mysterious coins with temporal properties, and upon interviewing the patrons discovered that they had prolonged their lives with some shady time magic. Eventually, the Chronites showed up, and after a variety of antics and schemes, the contract was eventually resolved, and the curse upon the pizzeria was lifted.

We traveled to the tavern and met a drunk captain and stole his coin. Then we went to a lighthouse and found another coin, those together had us travel backwards in time. We met the captain again and learned of his scheme to sink his own ship for his own profit. We successfully got his coin from him and found the fourth under a floorboard. Placing them back in the lighthouse, the anomalies were addressed.

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