30 MASTER OF PUPPETS. The door to this room is capable of being
locked, but is not. This was the bedroom and work shop of Jacopo
Triskelion, the famous puppeteer.
A
huge wooden puppet stage dominates the room. Three rows of wooden
benches are placed before the stage. When the adventurers enter, a
puppet show will start. It is a romantic comedy titled “The Leper
Princess” and features the afflicted princess, Alabelle, and her
true love, a goatherd named Giton. During the course of the story
Giton must fight a giant wolf, a griffon, and a dragon in order to
reach Alabelle. He defeats all his enemies but loses a body part to
each one (a foot, a hand, and an eye). Giton worries that his true
love will reject him because of his deformities. Finally he reaches
Alabelle, who because of her disease, has lost those very same body
parts and the story ends happily. When the play has ended, or if it
is interrupted by the adventurers, they will not find anyone behind
the stage. The five puppets (Alabelle, Giton, the dragon, the
griffin, and the wolf) are exquisite and each worth 81-100 (1d20+80)
gold crescents to a serious collector.
The
walls have been painted white and splashed with primary colors to
create an odd but festive effect. There are two large stained glass
windows in the west wall along with a fireplace. One window depicts a
giant with a backwards facing head (you can tell he is a giant
because he is taller than the trees in the picture), the other
depicts an upside-down dog. A wardrobe holds odd frilled and spotted
clothing used by Jacopo for performances and a few somber black
outfits for practicing mime. Four huge candelabras are present, they
are already lit when the adventure's enter. Indeed, like in Room 22,
the candelabra's are always lit and shed light, not exhausting their
wax. If they are taken from the room they will immediately
extinguish, but will glow merrily if returned.
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