Session 103: Cheech Session (March 12, 2026)

You both awake in your respective rooms. You look out the window. The fake sun is missing from the indoor courtyard. Instead, your wakefulness is met with a smudgy haze, which stings your eyes and fills the air with the weight of dusk. The smell that reaches your nose isn’t altogether unpleasant, although it carries with it the skunkiness of damp basements and late dormitory carousal. You struggle to hold your minds from returning to the dreaminess of sleep. Your senses feel dull and any ambulatory force within your person pulls against a treacle lethargy. Still, something is wrong, and you must investigate.

Maho & Eden wake to some smoke in their rooms.
Eden rings a bell on her nightstand, then waits, expecting servants to arrive.
Maho gets up and opens her door. She sees the hallway filled with smoke.
Maho walks around the corner to Eden’s room and barges in (Eden isn’t happy about this).
Eden opens a window and casts Gust to funnel the smoke out into the outside room, but the outside room fills with smoke and the hallway looks no different.
Maho takes Eden through the window, saying they need to get outside if there’s a fire.
Eden ritual casts Detect Magic. The smoke is some sort of illusion magic. Eden takes a deep breath, then starts coughing.
Maho and Eden make their way through the hallway and toward the pool room.
They find a bustling restaurant, and Morty is eating a sandwich.
Maho sees that this view of Morty is an illusion, and that the real Mort is underneath, unconscious on the chair, with the Toke of Kush in his hand emitting all the smoke
Morty tells Maho and Eden to leave him alone, and that he doesn’t have the money.
He says that he owes some bookies, and that he got a job through Mona escorting cheese from Mavern in a few days to help pay it off
Eden’s Detect Magic tells her that they are seeing Morty’s memories.
Eden offers to help Morty with his cheese delivery job for the restaurant.
Mort relents and tell them to go see Mona in the kitchen
They enter the kitchen and see 5 giant cockroaches terrorizing Mona.
Eden kills one with a Sorcerous Burst.
Maho quickly dispatches the rest. Maho avoids spraying Mona with cockroach guts by redirecting the spray towards Eden.
Eden manages to dodge the spray.
Mona bashes one of the dead cockroaches. She thanks Eden & Maho as Eden cleans her a bit with Prestidigitation.
There’s cockroach juice on the counters and walls and in the food, everywhere
They hear customers come to check things out. If they see the cockroaches, the restaurant is in danger of being closed.
Maho runs to the door and tries to convince the customers that nothing is wrong. She says that some salami and other ingredients spilled in the kitchen, and that her axe is to cut the very tough salami.
Eden casts Seeming to make the dead cockroaches look like the spilled salami and other ingredients that Maho mentioned.
The customers are convinced, and they look past Maho to see Eden (Seeming-ed into a gnome woman) mopping the floor.
Maho and Eden see Mort smiling. Maho can tell that years ago in real life shit went bad in Mona’s restaurant, possibly causing it to be closed.
We flash forward and see the restaurant continue to be successful.
Wheels of Swiss cheese are being safely delivered to the restaurant, and Morty is able to pay off his debts.

Reality sets in, and the restaurant changes to being closed down due to the cockroach incident.
The smoke swirls as the bad memory settles in.
Eden sneezes and Wild Magic teleports 60 feet back, landing on her head down an alley.
When she gets back, a nearby giant cockroach takes some necrotic damage from more Wild Magic.
Maho calls out to Morty, who notices them.
Eden sneezes and teleports into the Astral Plane. [wait Ava you didn’t say that’s what happened]
Morty accuses Maho of causing the cockroach situation, but Maho dissuades him.
Morty says Mona has had to bribe the health inspectors in the past.
Eden sneezes and teleports into the restaurant, then Dimension Doors back out.
Morty asks if Eden is a wizard too. Eden says she’s actually a sorcerer. Morty, annoyed, tells her to “fuck off” and Eden is heartbroken.
Morty wishes Mona was here so he could have another Reuben sandwich. He doesn’t know where Mona is.
Everyone looks for a way in. Eden realizes this is just a memory and Fireballs the door.
Eden asks how Morty feels about Mona. Morty says she’s just a work acquaintance. Eden discerns (with a 29 Insight roll) that Morty “is in romantic love with Mona’s Reuben sandwiches”, but has no interest in Mona herself.
Maho thinks he’s in love with Mona
Eden touches Morty’s arm, then promises that she will get him another Reuben sandwich very soon. Morty has a single tear.
The three of them enter the restaurant.
They call out for Mona, but there’s no response.
They enter the kitchen, and the dead cockroaches are still there.
Eden Prestidigitations a pleasant smell to cover the stench of decaying cockroach.
They enter the office, and it’s untidy.
Eden and Maho start to investigate, but they both get distracted by desk toys.
Morty finds a note on the desk, and announces “she went to Wyrm Ridge.” He holds the paper up, and we can see it says “I went to Wyrm Ridge. — Mona”
Eden promises to make Morty a Reuben sandwich before they head out to find Mona.
She sneezes, teleporting into the kitchen.
Maho and Eden work together to make a bastardized Reuben sandwich. Wheat bread, corned beef, mustard, and carrots, cooked in a panini press.
Morty looks unhappy, but goes to take a bite.
Eden’s Ring of the Grammarian sparkles as she casts Taste on the Reuben sandwich.
Morty starts eating, and is pleasantly surprised.
“This isn’t Mona’s Reuben, but its good!”
They all head out to find Mona.

Smoke swirls again as they travel across the desert.
“Miss Maho, I think we’re in a montage!”
We see Morty traveling through the desert on his own, unmotivated, having not eaten Eden and Maho’s Reuben sandwich before his trek.
We see Morty alone, sheltered in some ruins as a sandstorm passes. Then we see Morty with Eden & Maho happily sharing stories in the same ruins.
We arrive at the foothills of Wyrm Ridge, tired but hopeful.
Morty remembers that Mona was interested in the food of this area. He mentions the dwarves of this area make delicacies such as “meat on a skewer”.
Eden spots smoke from a fire, and the group follows it to a rock wall with an alcove in it.
Maho tries to use the sipping bird desk toy (which she inexplicably kept) to try to open a hidden doorway or something.
Eden spots a dragon carving, and the alcove is in it’s stomach. There is a hole in the dragons mouth that seems to lead to a hole in it’s stomach alcove. There is a yellow gem in front of the mouth. Three other gems (1 ruby, 1 emerald, and 1 sapphire) on a brass plate on a platform under the carving. There is text that Eden can’t read on the wall.
Eden casts Comprehend Languages. The script is Dwarvish (a language which Maho speaks, though she is still distracted).
The text reads: “Truth is what warms us. It is only together that we can light our way.”
Eden picks up all the gems from the plate and holds them against the yellow gem. Nothing happens.
Eden jams the ruby into the stomach hole. There’s room for another gem, and Maho suggests adding the emerald. Nothing happens.
Eden blasts the ground with some lightning for some reason.
Eden blows into the stomach hole, and Maho feels her breath coming out the mouth hole.
Eden lights Maho’s torch with Prestidigitation.
Eden suggests telling truths and seeing what happens when she speaks a truth.
“Miss Maho, I find it intimidating how tall you are.”
Eden is holding the ruby and emerald, and they both grow somewhat warmer.
“I think Heph is overreacting to what happened with Hooded Beth.”
“Miss Maho, I don’t like it when we talk about Mr. Heph while he’s not here.”
“I killed the two women whose nametags we used at Hexicon.”
Eden is dumbfounded.
Maho’s sapphire grows painfully hot. She puts it in the alcove, blue fire shoots out of it, and the fire gets sucked into the hole, and bathing the yellow gem in front of the dragon’s mouth.
They attempt to ask each other more questions to reveal truths, slightly increasing the gems’ heat
Eden gives Maho the emerald.
Maho is somewhat resentful of her mother for not leaving with her “I want to give her a piece of my mind.”
Eden used to want to turn Maho and Heph in, but not anymore
The two gems heat up and they place them in the dragon’s stomach
The red and green flame merges into yellow and bathes the yellow gem, causing a door to open in the rock wall
Morty: “You both have some shit to work out, don’t you?”
Eden: “Oh sorry, why are we on this journey again?”
Morty sniffs the air and says, “she’s here,” and enters the door.
Maho: “So you still think we’re criminals.”
Eden does, but she also thinks they’re doing it to help people, and that maybe they shouldn’t be punished for that.
Inside the cavern, there are dwarves with cowboy hats and vests. They look impressed that the group was able to enter.
They arrive at a settlement named Hamariv.
All the dwarves here are dressed like cow folk
They find Morty and Mona sitting at a table in a studio-sized apartment.
Morty is begging Mona to keep making Reuben sandwiches.
Eden wonders if they should interrupt, since it seems like a private conversation. Maho suggests it would be nice if we still needed to warm the gems, since a lot is coming out.
Maho asks what Mona’s plans are in Hamariv.
Mona says she wants out of the game
She can’t keep running anymore after her delis get closed down, and she thinks that improving her sanitary practices will negatively affect the food
Eden negotiates a partnership where Morty handles Mona’s pest problem, and Morty gets paid in sandwiches. They agree.

Divine Intervention

“Before me I have two souls whom destiny is threatening to rend apart.”
With a roll of 10 on a d100 (not needing Eden’s Bardic Inspiration or Bend Luck, even though they were a 6 on a d6 and a 4 on a d4), Divine Intervention succeeds
Morty and Mona are bound together through divine intervention and their Predator handshake. In the real world, their paths are now forever entwined. The quest that Morty has been on to regain the Reuben sandwiches is yet alive in the present day.
We see Mona rebuilding her deli in Hamariv, adding new ingredients, and becoming an instant hit.
Morty grinds on the pests, growing from level 6 up to a level 20 wizard, and his platonic, sandwich-based relationship with Mona grows ever stronger.
We see Morty join with Sasha, Barb the Prick, Sacha with a “ch”, and Nightmare Jill going on adventures. We see scenes of them fighting a dragon which emerges from a volcano, torching the fertile fields below. They travel to a cobwebbed dungeon somewhere deep in the Feywild, where Nightmare Jill tearfully hands a sealed envelope to a pale man whose eyes look directly into your soul. They run across what Maho would recognize as the Astral Plane, chasing an armored man carrying a lantern while the whole of Perrinor is visible directly below you.
In a kitchen apartment, Morty sits alone, no longer with his adventuring party. He conjures a Reuben sandwich with magic day after day. Eventually, he tries to summon the sandwich but the magic fizzles. He looks around, sees that he’s sitting alone, and cries.
Maho has heard stories of the spell he was casting. He was casting Wish to make the Reuben sandwich, but eventually he cast it too many times and can never cast Wish again.
In the dream world (“through the smoke of the toke”), and Eden and Maho are present with Morty as he had just cast his last Wish spell.
Maho and Eden try to persuade Mort to find Mona, but he is resistant.
Eden: “Mort, you are the most powerful wizard I’ve ever known. If anyone can find her, it’s you.”
roll: 18 + persuasion bonus: 10 + divine intervention: 10 + other bonuses from making the memories positive: 9 = 47
“I’m goddamn Mortimer Slaan. I’m going to find Mona and eat her sandwiches every day for the rest of my life.”

We pull back into the mansion, the smoke clears, and the Toke of Kush goes out with a final puff.
The clock chimes at 4:20.
Mort: “You both better get some rest. We’ve got a big day tomorrow.”