Casino of Repeated Undeath

 

This Week's Team Members

• Nimrod Crowguile, esquire. 
• a Corporate Lawyer (i.e. fixer and aspiring consigliere) of Kas Enterprises, 
• a charismatic male Variant Human ("vuman") warlock of Kas the Bloody Handed
• a proud graduate of Kas Enterprise's evil law school.  He has a doctorate specializing in Evil Law because he was thoroughly indoctrinated in spite of some Fey influences in his earlier life

• Nimbat: Nimrod's bat familiar and confidant
• Nimwit #1: Nimrod's primary unseen servant. Nimwit fetches things and such. Nimrod tries to resummon Nimwit every hour as opportunity allows.
• Dormin: Nimrod's shadow, whom Nimrod can summon for 10 minutes once per day using the Wand of Shadows
• Jax the Dhampir Investigative Rogue, a proud graduate of Murder School

• Devora: the she/her Gem Dragonborn student intern swords bard
• Hootie Hoo: Devora's owl familiar
• Chumbawumba: the team's trusty female Dire Wolf
  
  
• Gaffy: a War Forged protector paladin

This Week's Adventure: Casino of Repeated Undeath

The team followed the wisps of acrid carcinogenic tobacco smoke into the dark cave's entry chamber from the court yard. All but Devora and the familiars were protected by an invisibility spell Nimrod had cast. Devora had cast her own invisibility spell.

In the dimly lit chamber, an eerie sight awaited them. Undead zombies and ogres, their faces eternally frozen in grimaces of death, moved with a strange synchrony. These soul-less wasted creatures shuffled aimlessly around the chamber, their emaciated forms clutching cheap cigarettes, the glowing embers dangling ominously from their cold, lifeless fingers.

For a moment, the undead broke their deathly ballet and converged on a peculiar sight in the far corner of the chamber—a slot machine?. With mechanical precision, they pulled the lever and watched as the reels spun, a discordant symphony of clinking chains and gears echoing through the chamber. Then, as quickly as they had gathered, the undead dispersed and resumed their monotonous activities.

Nimrod and his invisible companions exchanged puzzled glances. It was clear that something unnatural was at play in this chamber, something that defied the laws of both the living and the dead. With their invisibility spells still in effect, the party surmised they had freedom to explore and if a fight broke out they would have the element of surprise on their side. But what other mysteries awaited them in this dark, foreboding cave?