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Good Job, Dean.

We open our tale with four of our heroes, Arynn, Jakrin, Thava and Tulip, accompanied by Captain Laurel, as they stand gathered in Thava's room. Arynn just had her curse removed and the misfortune of regurgitating various liquids and thorny vines.

"Thanks Tulip! I never want to do that again..."- Arynn

After some speculation on multiple fronts, Arynn managed to deceive everyone about her having the rose; but as she turned to leave she felt an insatiable need to withdraw the rose from her bag. The compulsion took hold and she held out her palm to show a glowing rose.

A flash of light encompassed the small room and next thing, Tulip was standing there alone. With a shrug she got up on the hunt for a snack, surely that nice man in the galley named Toast would have snacks.

The other four though, they were not so lucky, you see. They landed in a grand room with multiple alcoves and statues, standing around a man dead on the rug in the middle of the room. After checking out his body, they found a note;

"I could not solve the paintings, I have let down Master Z."

Naturally, Arynn's quick thinking connected "Master Z" to "Z for Zendai"! The two current Zendai's in the room sarcastically congratulated her cunning but it was then assume it could be Zeltan... that bastard. So the paintings are the clues then.

The party splits up and works together to find and repair the missing paintings. There are 6 in total and on each they had a name on the front and a clue on the reverse.


 * The Old Lady: Deidre: "Only on her word can it ever begin"
 * The Armored Hound: Iron: "Must always sit at the feet of his master"
 * The Son: Arthur Rose: "The look of his father he cannot abide"
 * The Daughter: Mira Rose: "On sweet Mira he will always dote"
 * The Head of the House: Cecil Rose: "Always by his mother's side"

It was decided that the clues indicated in which order the paintings were hung in the alcoves. The Party moved them around and problem-solved efficiently, noting certain combinations made them glow. Arynn, having gotten bored and suspected the body was another piece of the puzzle took out her only diamond and Raised him. He told them that he was sent here by a rose, they were too. He was investigating some suspicions of vampires for his Master, who we learned was, indeed, Zeltan. Unfortunately, he didn't have much to go on, they had already bested his progress before he became a vampires meal.

Throughout this puzzle a clock would chime. First with three bells, then two...

And then, once the party was convinced they had gotten all the paintings in order, the third chime of the clock with a single bell sounds and they all sparked to life. Out walked four vampires, one armored dog, and a black void cat.

A battle ensues, we all agree Laurel is impressive. Dean? Well, he tries, gets a few hits in, we all congratulate him like he's a pet toddler and we've brought him to the fair, but eventually he goes down again. Great for causing a blood frenzied distraction. "Way to go, Dean. Keep it up."

Mittens deals a total of 1 point of damage to Thava but that just endears us to the adorable void even more.

Once all the vampires fall, the ticking commences again and a statue slides to the side revealing an exit. Jakrin grabs a copy of Tusk Love because he hadn't read it yet. On the otherside, the rose lay on the ground and he bade Arynn not touch it even though she really wanted to. Thava needed a place to put Twice-Dead Dean9she didn't want a dead guy in her room, which makes sense) so to the brig! Thava had a great idea about not having a vampire in the brig and Jakrin casts a spell to ward off Dean turning vampire.

After that, Laurel took a bottle of wine and went to bed.

Elenor came downstairs claiming the big guy was after interrogating her again as we'd been missing a few hours. Also, there was a skinny guy threatening Quinn with a knife.

Arynn was tasked with taking care of a rampaging Bhaus, Thava was off to save Quinn from Baz and Jakrin was off to find Wink because chances were, he was tearing the place apart looking for that book.

Morale of the story?

Don't let Arynn touch anything ever again

"Nooooo, the lesson was I should check out things before I steal them."- Arynn

On last time? "Good Job, Dean."