A wish is a dream
(Your heart makes)
Bianca Mancini wishes to freely love Adonis Accardi, her personal knight. Her father, however, wishes to marry her off to the ruling house of D’Roccamo, in hopes of further expanding their influences.
Thus, she employs Hue Ang, a close friend of the Mancini family, to steal the wishing rose during the yearly house festival, and with her in hiding Bianca is sure that her father will cave, especially if Adonis is the one to save her.
The plan goes that Adonis is meant to run across the gardens and get his fellow guards away, and Hue sets magic down so when the party all steps on their specific areas, the lights go off, and he and takes the wishing rose while Bianca hides out in Hue’s room under her bed. This doesn’t work, as Azalea uses her magic corrupting influence and Adonis reverts back into a dragon. Hue immediately notices the commotion and becomes injured trying to wrangle Adonis back to normal.
The clues the party may find:
The courtyard
Queen of Diamonds - found discarded on the floor, in a state. Half of the card is missing, and scorch marks appear to show the cause of the damage. The card can be found in the grass by a pillar.
Secret Passage- On the same side of the courtyard is the secret passage entrance that Hue fled through, with three marks on the stone wall: a heart (Adonis has a key on a necklace); a book (Hue keeps a key in one of the books in Bianca’s room); and a bottle (Bianca keeps one in the library hidden in plain sight as a decoration). The secret passage has a small hole in a carving of an eye that the key can be inserted into.
Dragon scale- Lodged into the roof is something shiny, which when retrieved is shown to be a hard and shiny yellow scale. Dropped when Adonis finally became human again and fell toward the ground. There is a cracked pattern on the glass like two feet suddenly came into a lot of force (Hue caught Adonis and almost fell through the roof.)
Bianca’s room
Hue and Adonis - during breakfast, lunch and dinner, Adonis is supposedly seen going back into this room. He claims that it’s the only place he can feel safe eating at the moment.
Bed sheets - Bianca never went to sleep that night, or to her room at all according to guards. If the players move the bed, they can see a wooden plank is lightly uprooted, and under it is Hue’s hideout.
Black leather book - left open upon Bianca’s desk, where the window is still open and curtains are billowing. The book seems in contrast to all of the folders in the room and is in different handwriting, and seems to portray lots of different magical items and how they work (with some notes and back and forth from Hue. This is Ivo’s book). Adonis searched through it after taking them both back here to see if it helped him understand what had happened. The ring / necklace is in a page of this book and explains how it “traps the form of a creature” basically.
The kitchen
Enzo’s testimony - He saw nothing, but would be able to tell the party from the ashes that this isn’t “magic” fire that’s definitely fire from one of the war dragons; but they shouldn’t be around this area. He can say that Adonis has been taking way more than usual food, and stuff he DEFINITELY doesn’t like. Enzo remembers everyone’s favourite foods and what they order when feeling certain things.
The staff room
Fortunata’s testimony - she came up to the balcony to find Jean just as the massive fire breath weapon went off. She saw something in the corner of her eye, but can’t describe anything other than it being a large-ish blob that disappeared out of the balcony (Hue using magic to stop the first wave setting the mansion on fire, then disappearing as a bat to nip at dragon Adonis).
Severiano’s testimony - was out in the courtyard because Guertenna had just reprimanded him. He remembers that the guards weren’t worried. They were staring up, scared, but one of the higher ups must have said something and they began to turn around and head to the ballroom.
The library
The books - give them generally whatever they want, but there’s a book open and it’s the tale of The Shepherd and the Wolf-Sheep.
The key - Bianca’s key is hanging by the study. It’s too high up to just reach up and get.
The roof
Bat - flies off with Hues key, the dragon scale and bat claw are found up here also btw