User:SunderedShor/sandbox

Name: Ancient and Revered Order of Merrymakers (Issue 6, page 21)

They are a branch of the Council of Musicians, Instrument-Makers and Choristers (Issue 6, page 21; Issue 7, page 17)

Membership: includes clowns, comedians, and jesters (Issue 6, page 20). Bazzle was their guildmaster (Issue 7, page 18)

Magic users have always formed the core elite of their organization. They altered the verbal components of their spells into joke lines. (Issue 6, page 23)

Myyrth was an infamous jester that had died sometime in the 1200's DR (Issue 5, page 5). Through Doofut, the Council of Musicians, Instrument-Makers and Choristers had the idea of reanimating Myyrth's remains proposed to the Ancient and Revered Order of Merrymakers, using it as an opportunity to either discredit the guild if they failed or enact their own bid for power over the city if they succeeded. (Issue 7, pages 15-17)

Sensing that someone was planning to rob his grave, Myyrth's ghost went in search of adventurers at Selune's Smile, where he encountered the group of Kyriani Agrivar, Onyx the Invincible, and Vajra Valmeyjar. (Issue 5, pages 2-4) They headed to the City of the Dead in search of his grave, only to find that they had been too late to prevent the graverobbing. (Issue 5, pages 10,14)

The order robbed the grave of Myyrth. (Issue 6, page 22)

Through a combination of spells they reanimated his skeleton and increased it to a gargantuan size, (Issue 6, pages 23-25) and imbued it with a number of spells including flame breath, frost breath, and withering gaze. (Issue 7, page 8 ) Each spell having been memorized by one of the members. (Issue 7, page 18)

The order set the skeleton loose to wreck havoc across the city until the Lords of Waterdeep yielded to their demand of being recognized as an official guild, (Issue 6, pages 21-25; Issue 7, page 9) particularly directing its ire towards Castle Waterdeep, (Issue 7, page 9) but the order quickly lost control of their undead creation and their guildmaster died trying to stop it. (Issue 7, pages 13-14,18). Many futilely tried to stop the skeleton, but ultimately the remaining members of the order put an end to the creature by reciting the memorized counters for each spell in a precise order (Issue 7, pages 18-22).

Onyx and Vajra lunged for the creature's shrunken skull, but were knocked unconscious by members of the Council of Musicians, Instrument-Makers and Choristers, who fled with the skull in hand (Issue 7, pages 22-25). Planning to use a cleric of Milil to cast speak with the dead on it to learn the secret of his killing joke (Issue 8, pages 4-5)