The Dragonmages had some concerns about involving the young Detectives in this mystery. Sending children to do adult work is problematic -- and if we look too closely at this, the whole game falls to pieces, so we'll just say that Rebecca had her reservations. Madame Drak, the Soothsayer, weighed in with her opinion, but the whole debate was settled when a couple of demons kidnapped Rebecca and Max. There was no one left but our young Detectives, so they set about solving the mystery.
The first set of clues led to a painting at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The Nine Dragon Scroll by Chen Rong was involved in some magical shenanigans that required a closer look by our team. The bad guys weren't the only ones performing shenanigans. Several of our heroes decided that invisibility spells were a wise move while purchasing tickets--and the whole crew landed in trouble with security.
Fortunately, they had a friend on the inside. She showed the Detectives the strange writings that had appeared on the now-moving scroll. I shall not say more on this topic, for fear of giving away major secrets, but the discovery sent our team back to the 13th century of the Southern Song Dynasty to visit Chen Rong, the painter and government official.
Ignore the rumors of a visit to Bob Ross. They are merely rumors planted by a certain cartoonist whose shadow undoubtedly contains a red star or two ...
The stories about a chaos demon and and order demon working together, however, are perfectly true. A very rare pairing that had its explanation in a part of the story which I cannot reveal here. Let's just say that they were not happy to be working together. And let's just say that placing them in the same cage together is not a great idea ... tick, tick, tick, tick, tick...
Somehow, our Detectives managed to survive every disaster headed their way. Well, except for that one little problem where the Empress of Chaos pretended to be Rebecca and they nearly believed here except someone remembered to check her shadow. Yeah. Billions and billions of red stars are not a good sign in a Dragonmage.
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| Drawing of Empress of Chaos as Shadowmouse O. Van Soest, 2016 |
Fortunately, all's well that ends well. Unless of course you are the two culprits who nearly pulled all of this off like a couple of pros. They're not so happy, now that they're scrubbing floors and polishing brass fixings. They'll be at it for a while!
Thank you to Lou Ensel and son for a fine appearance! You can see them in action in the photos on our Facebook page and view the beautiful Dragonscrolls created by the Detectives for their entries into "The Book of Dragons."
