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====== Session 6: The Trial and the Carnival of Masks ======

===== Rumor Recap =====
  * Skirmishes along the //**Regency/Marrow**// line.
  * //**Joyboy’s**// body is on the way to the //Peaks//.

===== The Trial =====
  * //**Solara**// pays an official to buy //**Jin**//.
  * //**The Trial**//:
    * //**Jin**// is hit with fabricated/exaggerated charges.
    * //**Solara**// speaks up to reduce the sentence, but //**Jin**// is found guilty.
    * //**Parsons**// is spotted smiling in the corner.
    * //**Jin**// is handed a death sentence.
    * Prisoners are dragged off; //**Jin**// is taken in a different direction.

===== The Rescue =====
  * //**Jin**// is dragged to an abandoned house; the party follows in secret.
  * One guard betrays the others, getting "stabby" to help //**Jin**//.
    * "What are you doing?" / "Helping a friend."
    * Revealed to be //**Solara's**// acquaintance ("booty call").
  * Guards are killed; //**Jin**// is acquired.
  * The party escapes in a carriage; //**Solara**// notices a pouch on //**Jin**// and gets her money back.

===== The Carnival of Masks =====
  * Stopped at //**Thrushwood**// (Trade Town).:
    * Thin fog on the ground.
    * No people in sight.
  * A //**Carnival of Masks**// flyer blows across the path.
  * Follow the music to a collapsed tent:
    * Faceless bodies and masks litter the ground.
    * Some masks resemble //**Vesper's**// mask.

===== Encounter: The Collector =====
  * Encounter a large clown surrounded by floating masks (//**The Collector**//).
  * //**The Collector**// gives //**Solara**// a beard (epic).
  * //**The Fight**//:
  * High stakes; many party members go down.
  * Masks approach, presumably to take faces.
  * //**The Collector**// removes //**Solara’s**// beard and calls her by name.
  * //**Jin**// is downed and dragged into a tent.

===== The Collector’s Tent =====
  * Inside the tent:
    * Glowing statues with masks and nameplates.
    * A glowing well (reminiscent of //*Vesper’s//* vision).
  * Both //**Moss**// and //**The Collector**// are defeated in the fray.
  * One of the statues is //**Moss**// wearing a frog mask.

===== The Soul Shard Puzzle =====
  * Each statue has a place for a shard.
  * //**The Mechanics**//:
    * 14 broken shards of masks with "soul whispers."
    * 2 shards for each mask (one True, one False).
    * Match the right shards to the right statue to release the soul.
    * The party takes psychic damage on a wrong answer.
  * //**Outcome**//:
    * //**Moss**// is revived after matching his mask correctly.
    * //**Jin**// bites the big one (RIP) after a wrong match. //Note: He had large hands.//
  * //**Conclusion**//:
    * The party matches all the masks.
    * The floor spins and opens; souls are released, the fog dissipates, and the hole vanishes.

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