To Kirby121

The maid catches you and gives you a letter of invitation. When you arrive, you see massive palace doors made of iron. You see no wood, since it's getting progressively rarer to find trees. 2 guards look at your letter of invitation and open the doors. Where a garden once was, there is now dry dirt, but everything else looks nice. The book opens up while you walk and a piece of sheet music appears with lyrics to sing. The king's father sang this to him as a boy. I was there. I am everywhere that music lies.

To EmileTherese

You seem to vanish out of thin air, so fast that he doesn't notice you. When I say he, I mean the enraged glass figure standing over the trapdoor.

Whisper freezes, studying this new threat. Perception: 22

To EmileTherese

It's the human sized, weakened body of the Glass Dao, fuming over the faintly echoing yells that his body has been destroyed. He marches down the steps and draws a sword, which begins crackling with energy.

Whisper hurriedly backs up further into the shadows, ducking into the first side passageway she finds to avoid the glass dao and the light from his crackling sword. She does not want to get by it, she knows that much for sure. Stealth: 12

To EmileTherese

"WHERE ARE THEY! TELL ME SOMETHING, COWARDS!!!" Perception 22

To EmileTherese

The Glass Dao turns and looks you straight in the eyes. "If I was at full power, you'd be a puddle." Initiative: 20. If he goes first, Shortsword 16 to hit and 10 piercing + 4 lightning damage.

"So you aren't, then...? What a relief!" Initiative: 10

To EmileTherese

"Does that make me seem weak?" The Glass Dao motions towards his sword. "I'm learning more magic every day." [Using his attack from the previous post.]

Whisper lets out a cry as the electrified sword slashes her, doing her best to keep her head clear and hold on to hope despite the pain.

Action: Disengage, using her Halfling Nimbleness to slip past the glass dao and head towards the exit desperately. (She gets 10 ft extra movement on her first turn in combat due to dread ambusher, so can move 35 ft this turn.

Bonus action: use hunter's mark on glass dao

To EmileTherese

The Glass Dao does not follow immediately, instead rushing toward the room to see his body. [It's your turn again before he goes back to follow]

Whisper wastes no time fleeing the tunnels.

Action: dash

Reaching the surface, she gets behind any cover she can find.

To EmileTherese

The Glass Dao immerges, doesn't see you, and goes back inside, replacing the trapdoor. You are in an open field of crops, currently where corn is being planted, and back south is the village.

Whisper nearly weeps with relief as the Dao gives up and heads back underground. She may feel a connection to specters, but doesn't want to end up as one. She casts cure wounds on herself, restoring 15 hp, and starts heading for the village.

To EmileTherese

The townspeople can obviously see your distress, and they ask you to explain. A small crowd has gathered, including a few specters.

Clapper straightens his outfit and follows directions that he asked the guards for.

To Kirby121

You are guided inside, where the king is sitting at a table eating with several nobles. There are several entertainers trying to please the king, but he's getting bored of the normal. Play the song from his childhood, and watch your throne above all other entertainers. Once you get him in a mood, he's interested enough to hear whatever you play. If anyone asks, you knew the previous king.

Clapper pulls out his lute, pulls up a stool, and promptly starts the song. He starts of quietly, and gradually gets louder until hopefully the other musicians stop. I did lute in case he is supposed to be singing.
performance: 15.

Whisper forces a grin, though it doesn’t quite reach her eyes. "Well," she begins, her voice wavering only slightly, "I found what's making the fields strange. There are tunnels underneath it, a cult. I, uh…found a statue they were making. Seemed like they were trying to...recreate a Dao out of clay and rock. I destroyed it..." She rubs the back of her neck, her smile faltering as her mind flashes back to the moment the Glass Dao struck her. "But as I was leaving, I ran into something. A Dao…a  human-sized glass one, or at least what’s left of him. He had a magic sword...hit me pretty hard." She exhales sharply, her voice softening as the weight of it all finally catches up to her. "I barely made it out."

To Kirby121

The performance isn't spectacular and doesn't get a lot of attention, but the King quiets every down to hear better. "Wait, quiet down, I want to hear this. I remember this song." Everyone stops at the kings command as they hear you play.