Warehouse 49 - A Magic Competition

The Myste-Hass Calender

17/08/2023

The group spends two weeks preparing for the magic competition. They advertise, perform music, put up potions and negotiate the prizes. Every legitimate entrance gets a free drink. 1st prize is 75gp, 2nd prize is a healing potion and 3rd prize is 25gp & choice of bottled spirit.

A young child, dishevelled and grime covered turns up at the door, with writing implements. He wants to enter the magic competition. He says he does drawings. Lazarus feeds the lad and tests him drawing a frog.

A tiny goblin who works for Lahoto turns up keen to enter the competition.

They allow the boy to stay in return for pot washing.

The next day, the competition begins. There is a crowd outside the doors. Most of the people have come to watch the performance.

Eleven contestants turn up, including the kid, Dustin and the goblin, Grimer.

Harmony gets everyone to fill in their details and surveys their possessions for potential magical items. Grimer has a lot of magical items. Dustin's sketchpad has drawings layered all over the top of each other. Servaf Vask just has a bag. Alda has a bag with her. Kiara, Elamir, Benny and Jemalia have nothing. Helger is a tiefling, and Grasino is the most handsome man I've every looked at. Freddy is the last to sign up.

Harmony calls for introductions. Grimer does a magic trick. Dustin comes up next and draws a large frog, smudged and ill-coloured. However, it's massively out of proportion. It's leaps from the page and starts jumping around. Alda casts mage hand and juggles fire. Kiara casts dancing lights. Elamir does a card trick. Benny does a card trick as well. Jemalia comes up and changes the flavour of someones drink, but the audience is not impressed. Helgar the tiefling gets out a coil of rope and makes it raise up like a snake. Grasino steps up gracefully, he's tall and slender. He summons a bow, a smokey arrow flies towards Baum then dissipates. Freddy isn't there. Firiash competes instead, turning the room to darkness.

The first proper round is the combat challenge.