Velvet rules, sweeter air. The Elysian looks harmless until the seams show—ledgers that outlive their guests, a ceiling you can’t fly past, a chalice that bubbles with habit. Promises are weighed against price, tempers spark, and a certain automacart decides the front doors are optional.Sunlight hits different outside. The calendar jumps, the inn sheds its glamour, and the square erupts—goblins, hostages, a wolf-rider chief grinning under drawn bows. Straps cinch, blessings rise, and steel answers noon.

Music: Vecna's Grasp - Cave of Shattered Reflection by Supernova Collective https://supernovacollective.bandcamp.comLicensed under Scrybe Quill Context Licensehttps://www.scrybequill.com/license

Tonight’s opener: why the stream hard-failed twice and why we’re shelving 4K for crisp, reliable 1080p—less glitter, more live. Then it’s back to the story: Menest’s ever-present hum, “Mark” who flips from harmless to horrifying, and an inn that isn’t an inn at all. One bad gulp later, the party wakes in a stomach-lake… just in time for a storm-armored orc to step through the dark without a word.

I lay out how we do ability scores so no one “loses” at Session Zero: shared-pool rolling (18s stay, 3s don’t), a simple swap for concept fit, and the promise that I tune DCs/ACs later—not mid-fight—if the numbers run hot. Fast, fair, and fun: the dice keep their sparkle, and the world still bites back.

Velvet doors, sweeter air. Hawk Tua’s Elysian Inn promises delight without consequence—weapons sheathed, smiles a little too practiced, pink flower-sweets on silver trays. Grendwynn’s instincts prickle; the hosts are charming, the rules are gentle, and somewhere under the music a fiendish heartbeat keeps time.

Night fractures into temptations and tells: a ceiling that won’t be flown past, a chalice that bubbles behind glass, confessions traded in warm water and low light. By last call, allies tighten their circle—and the bill isn’t coin. It’s breath, resolve, and what you’re willing to leave on the pillow when the candles go out.

Music: Greyhawk - Tomb of Wayward Souls Ambience by Supernova Collective https://supernovacollective.bandcamp.comLicensed under Scrybe Quill Context Licensehttps://www.scrybequill.com/license