It’s Liar’s Night in Phandalin. And someone is about to make a terrible mistake.

You’re enjoying a quiet drink at the Stonehill Inn when a stranger collapses at your feet, bloodied and desperate. Pressing a strange, charred wooden chest into your hands, they gasp a final warning before their eyes go cold.

Inside beats a heart that shouldn’t be alive. 

As midnight approaches, the boundary between truth and deception thins. Friends become foes, cultists become confused, and a eccentric wizard with delusions of grandeur is racing to perform a ritual that could tear reality apart.

For character creation please follow the following rules:

• I prefer D&D 2014 rules
• No homebrew
• No Unearth Arcana
• For ability score use Standard Array, Point Buy
• Use average HP

Beaware, I will run the same story for the Halloween table on the 31st.

Once every eight years the fantastic Witchlight Carnival touches down on your world, bringing joy to one settlement after the next. It’s owners, Mister Witch and Mister Light, know how to put on a good show. But there’s more to this magical extravaganza than meets the eye!

Mordenheim Kinetics -- Classified

Observation Log #008-F

Location: Tuning Department. Facility Status: Operational. Supervising Director: Rudolph Von Aubrecker

It is with great pleasure that I announce that we have some new volunteers at our department. While these figures have yet to formally consent to our procedures, their presence indicates a clear willingness to contribute to our scientific procedures. 
Previous calibration exercises have resulted in a 94% termination rate. However, early findings have found that the remaining 6% produced exceptionally valuable neuroprints. Should our newest volunteers fall under said 6%, they will be granted the extraordinarily rare opportunity to meet me. 

End of Log

Character creation

• Use dnd 2024 rules when creating your lvl 5 character
• All official DND books are allowed, no homebrew or unearthed Arcana.
• You have 700 gold pieces to buy your starting equipment.