Once Upon a Witchlight | Ep. 6 | Guys' Night

**Mikey Gilder** (0:00)
Welcome to Legends of Avantris. I'm Mikey Gilder, and you're listening to Once Upon a Witchlight.
Here's what happened last time.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:09)
The members of Carnival accrue, Cremie, Gideon, Frost and Griggo, who set out to Agwe to make some coin. While there, they were accosted by Cremie's old boss, who let him know that he was in severe debt. In a foolish attempt to try and earn the money back quickly, they went to a job board and noticed a posting from one warlock looking for information on their archfey patron, Zabilna. They made their way into the swamps around Agwe to meet up with Madrick the warlock to find out if there was the potential of a mass amount of gold and treasure that they would be able to use to line their pockets. Maybe restart their carnival, as well as to pay off Remy Guru. They decided that this was a lucrative job. This led them directly to the Witchlight Carnival, where they were told the entrance to Prismir, a portion of the Feywild was located, and that it was through this carnival that they would be able to enter into Prismir, find out what's going on with Zabilna, and return back to Madrick with the information that was requested, thus securing their winnings. They have arrived at the Witchlight Carnival on its final night, the eighth night of the carnival, and we're told to enjoy it as much as they can. We'll also, a sleuthing to see what information they can gather, information about what is happening in Prismir, which has led them to information regarding a coven of hags known as the Hourglass Coven.
It is most recently that they have made it through the first four hours of the carnival, and they have just experienced one of the biggest spectacles the carnival has to offer, the Big Top Extravaganza. It is here where they finally have seen one half of the carnival owners in the flesh, a Mr. Light, who was the leader of the Big Top Extravaganza.
Towards the very end, he called out for participants to perform and potentially gain favor with the host in an attempt to buy them additional glory towards becoming the Witchlight Monarch, which happens at the very end of the carnival, and the good graces of both Mr. Witch and Mr. Light themselves. It was then that this group that you see before you, minus one random player sitting at the table being a mooch, just kidding, Andy. It is then that you see our four main characters here decide that they want to attempt to entertain the crowd, and they do, though Frost, overcome by some fey magics, puts himself in quite the pickle with Mr. Light when he begins to question him publicly in front of the entire audience about Mr. Light's most painful moment in his life. It was a tense moment, but the group was able to salvage it, and Mr. Light let his right-hand man, Burly the Bugbear, know to invite the group to a meeting with Mr. Witch and Mr. Light, which is exactly what they were hoping would happen. It is here that we start our session. You are standing in the Big Top. Burly the Bugbear is next to you. He's just informed you that you were to have a meeting with Mr. Witch and Mr. Light.
He rounds all of you up and takes you through the back entrance to the Big Top, and you begin to make your way through what appears to be an employee area. You see picnic tables lined with bits of food. You see Witchlight hands milling about on their breaks and enjoying some time off, or some of them working. Some of them are there helping the performers that you just saw change into their new outfits or round up the clowns and put them into their cages. I'm kidding, clowns don't go in cages. But the clowns are there milling about.
Honking each other's noses.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:33)
And pulling...

**SPEAKER_2** (4:45)
You see the performers milling about doing the things that need to get done after a performance as large and as grand as the Big Top Extravaganza. You wind your way through this area until you finally make your way to the very back of the carnival, right towards the edge of where the lake winds around in that figure-eight pattern around the carnival, and you see a beautiful caravan, extravagantly decorated, exactly what you would expect to carnival leaders to live in, in beautiful striped colors of red and white, silk streamers and tassels hanging this way and that, gilded and glorious.
In front of it, you see four benches as burly motions to you to sit down.