A Puzzling Puzzle (Puzzle Master

A Puzzling Puzzle (Puzzle Master #2)
Date	3/11/2024
Storyteller	Doug
Tier	Expert-/Trainee+
Player Characters	Lucky, Boophis Bright-Eyed, Takamono, Jovial Guts, Victoria Honeystride, Bonko
Rewards	250 xp, 60 gold each, Scholarly Journal - Dictionary of 5 Letter Words
Result	Success
Author	Victoria
Downtime	7

I received word of a dangerous entity known as the Puzzle Master who had been sending us mysterious puzzles that send people to a bizarre pocket-dimension. Since an associate had died in the last encounter with him, I decided it was in the best interests of both Desperate Hope and Onadbyr to investigate and possibly neutralize this threat. When I got to the council room, I found out that Boophis had been reincarnated as a human since the incident with the Mangler, and that Lucky is a kitsune. Councilman Gregorios came by to deliver the puzzle, a sliding puzzle with an image of a cog on it. I wasted no time in solving it, and we were all transported to the pocket dimension, where the insides took the form of a similar sliding puzzle. The tiles were colored green, purple, and blue, and we had to make sure to keep moving as we moved the tiles, or else we would take a pretty brutal explosion, and on top of that, there were constructs trying to grab people and keep them on the most dangerous tiles. It was just as dangerous as the last log made it sound, but we managed to solve the puzzle, and afterwords, we got the Puzzle Master to appear before us, taking the form of a strange masked creature. I tried to arrest him, but I could not manage to grab him. He said he would be back later, with some sort of word puzzle called "Wordle", and gave us a dictionary of five-letter words, which Lucky held on to. I succeeded in keeping everyone alive, and the threats were neutralized. All in all, I consider this to be a success.